Daddy spotted your school sock on the floor next to the dining table.
Daddy: Evelyn! Are your socks going to walk to the back on it's own?
Evelyn: Give it some time, it will go to the back.
I couldn't stop myself from laughing. Mr Sarcastic has met his match!
This were the faces you showed me when I tried to take photos of you eating the ice-cream in Family Mart while we waited for daddy and Ko-ko to clean out his room in Waterfront Residences.
Spoke too highly of you yesterday. Today.. the SECOND day of school (actually it's just orientation) and you overslept. I was in an early morning meeting and daddy was biting his nails as he was messaging and calling you non-stop without getting any responses from you.
You finally woke up and dressed up to go to college. Took a Grab there and you later told us, you walked into the room to laughter from your coursemates!
So... daddy has discovered another function of the "Find my iPhone". It is to "Play Sound". We tested it on our phone, and it will ring even when the phone is on silent mode.
Haihh.. my boy... it's only day 2. But I assume this shock should keep you on your toes for a while to ensure you wake up when your alarm rings. (*Then again, you claim that you did not even hear it ring!!)
I need to keep a record of this conversation which happened one of the evenings during dinner.
Daddy: My God! Evan, why is your toe nails so long.
Evan: *no response*
Daddy: Do you need long toenails to play the guitar too?
Evan: *no response*
Mummy: *Laughing hysterically*
A few days later..
Mummy: Evelyn! Please cut your toenails. Why are they so long?
Daddy: Don't tell me you need them long to play the guitar too???
Poor daddy got jolted awake as I had exclaimed "Again??"
As it wasn't too wet, I just put a small towel on the bed and told you to continue sleeping in your bed.
This is the second time within a month of this happening. Aiyo.. The earlier time was a big pee.. so I had to put a towel to dry it up and have you squeeze in between us on the bed.
Funnier still was what you whispered to me the next day "Mummy, it felt so satisfying when I let go.. until I realised I was on my bed!" And we always dream of doing a pee when we really need to go! It also happens to me, of course I do not pee on my bed.
Daddy called you a "Wee wee monster" the next day which got you really angry.
As a child you both had different behaviours while in the car.
For Evan, you'd fall asleep easily the moment we got into the car. For Evelyn, you'd not fall asleep easily, so it was always a struggle in the car as you were a wriggle worm.
Then Mei-mei seems to be falling asleep easily while in the car. You'd even fall asleep on the way to school. Ko-ko on the other hand rarely sleeps in the car, even on long rides. Maybe it's the fear of another round of "vomit shampoo" from Mei-mei!!
Here's how we found you sleeping on the way back from seeing Dr. Mary on Sunday:
Waaay before your EYE, you brought back a form, for permission to join the school excursion. For the last 2 years you all did not get to have an excursion due to Covid. This year, it was a trip to Taiping Zoo and Perak Museum. Well, as I wanted you to bring back your books from the locker, I had to tell you to bring them back OR ELSE, you would not get to go on the excursion.
And at long last, you came back with your books (took you a few days!) and you got your permission slip signed.
On the morning of your excursion you woke up early and we also left home a little earlier as you had asked to arrive in school earlier. You had breakfast at home and again in school before hopping onto the bus for the drive to Taiping Zoo. It was raining here in Penang, and you later told me it rained occasionally in the zoo also. Luckily I had given you an umbrella on top of the cap you brought along. So you knew to use the cap if it was sunny (you initially planned to use the umbrella to shade yourself from the sun) and the umbrella only if it rains.
I received some pictures and updates from parents as some of your friends had their phones with them. Lunch was packed fried rice which you all ate at the zoo.
Well when you got back, I discovered that you had spent RM18 of the RM20 that you were given. But even more surprised that you had thought of getting ME a gift too. I'm proud of you for not spending all the money and having thoughts of others too. This is what I got:
On a side note, I asked a (not too intelligent) question: Is this like "student leaders" or "to help students with problems"?
To which you exclaimed that you would not be so helpful to be a listening ear.
And now as I type this, I realised I was a "sotong". Because that would be a Student Counsellor. Wrong spelling... luckily you didn't catch my mistake too! Bwahahaha...
Since the school canteen started to sell things, we decided that I'll start giving you some spending money on top of your monthly allowance. So I told you that I'd give you RM5 a week and you can budget your spending accordingly. This what what I had practiced with Ko-ko when he was in Kwang Hwa too.
This morning, you told me that the minimum for everything is RM2. So I agreed to give increase to RM6 and that I'd top up RM1 for you. But in our rush, I'd forgotten to give you the extra ringgit. This is our conversation as you rushed to the car:
Evelyn : Mummy, you forgot to give me RM1!
Mummy : Oh, get it from daddy.
Evelyn : Then you will return the RM1 to daddy? It's his money.
Mummy : Oi!! Daddy's money is also my money!
Wah.. you don't hesitate to take money from me, but you worry about RM1 which you will take from daddy?
This was what daddy said transpired in the car later on.
Evelyn : Daddy, do you have RM1?
Daddy : Oh, I'm not sure. Let me check.
Evelyn : No need then.
Daddy : I never said I don't have. Let me check.
Evelyn : No need.
.. a while later..
Evelyn : Daddy, where is the RM1?
Evan : Oi! You said no need what??!!
This was a conversation we had a long time back. I think I had forgotten to record this down in our blog.
Evelyn: Mummy, do you know there is someone who is in quarantine longer than us?
Mummy: Who would that be?
Evelyn: Rapunzel
That is so true. It's interesting how you can come up with such observations.
And I guess if she could last so long in quarantine with not much complain, who are we to complain. Time to reevaluate our lives..
Evelyn came home from school with a glum expression:
Mei-mei: I'm so sad.
Mummy: Why? What happened?
Mei-mei: Someone stole my daddy and he's in Johor.
Mummy:....
Mei-mei: But that means I have the iPad all to myself *happy expression*
Ahaha.. she was happy about the iPad within a split second of saying how say she was!!
This happened on the very day that daddy went to Johor for his golfing trip and to meet up with Uncle Hun Kheng.
I'm only posting this at a later date (after he returns or else he'd be having a hard time enjoying his trip, since I know he stalks this blog very often).
Update on 10-Dec: Thank goodness I had this posted after daddy got back. His flight on Saturday for rescheduled to a later time and he was very upset about it as we had plans for Saturday's dinner. He had even wanted to cut short and leave JB on Friday!!
As usual, everyone wants a chance to blow out the candle... and these are the pictures I got:
Of course, Ko-ko kept reminding daddy that he had dropped RM20 on the floor.. and what a waste that was. Rascal son of ours!!
A few weeks back when Ah Kong brought us out to buy lunch and milk, he suddenly asked while driving:
Ah Kong: Did you all buy dried scallops?
Mummy: What scallops?
Ah Kong: On the counter.
Me: No. Did mummy (Ah Ma) buy them?
Ah Kong: She said she didn't.
Me:... thinking..... Aiyo!!! They are not scallops! It's fudge!!!
*Laugh out loud!! (I think Ah Kong wasn't sure what we'd bought)
Here's the "scallops" we bought:
The old batch of alphabet pasta had grown bugs. So I bought a new pack, which were larger sized alphabets.
So this was what you had today for lunch:
Your reaction was hilarious:
Just two minutes before your English lesson started, you decided that you needed to answer the call of nature.
And of course, you were smart enough to bring the iPad along. So since we still have the stool, this was your temporary study area! Gosh a new way of attending classes!
Luckily it as English lesson and Miss Joanne would start the class with some riddles.
Sigh, please have a new practice cleaning the system at a fixed time so avoid this happening again!
