Hubby sleeps on a
mattress on the floor coz the girls share the family bed with me. One weekend morning, when the girls
were up, hubby lie down beside me and hugged me from behind. Seeing that, Yiu Yiu said, “Papa, if you want
to hug mummy, you better brush your teeth and make yourself handsome
first.” We burst out laughing! This girl knows a thing or two about the art
of courting J
I was shooing the
girls upstairs to get ready for bed when the little one refused to go up, but
stood at the built-in cabinet that divides the living and
dining areas where we keep the girls’ bags, accessories, some small toys, etc. She kept saying what sounded to me like “Koo, koo”. Typically when I couldn’t comprehend what
she’s trying to say, I’ll turn to her jie-jie who normally could decipher her
language. However in this instance, even
jie-jie didn’t know what she wanted. And
I went,
Mummy: What do you
want mei-mei?
Yan Yan: My koo, my
koo
Mummy (thinking that
she wanted her jie-jie’s bedroom slippers): Your shoe?
Yan Yan: No, my koo!
Mummy: Is it your
spoon? (she sometimes play with spoons)
Yan Yan (in an
exasperated tone): No, my koo!
Mummy: Your phone? (she has a toy mobile phone)
Yan Yan (getting
increasingly exasperated): No, my koo!
Jie-jie eventually
managed to distract her with something else and she abandoned the cabinet and
followed us up. Once in the room, her
eyes lit up when she spotted her “Koo” and promptly slung it over her
back. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is
her precious “Koo”.
Her jie-jie's old school bag