There is a Reason for Those Tears

When asked why she is often caught crying over everything, Elaina explained to her aunt the other day (in her exact own words) that "When you need something, you need to do something."

5 Years of Motherhood

On 1 July 2010, I celebrated my successful completion of five years of motherhood. The first two years were tough with the night feeding, sleepless nights, terrible-two stage, tantrum throwing and the list goes on filled with things that I do not wish to go through again. Thankfully the last three years were much more enjoyable and I can finally feel that I am getting a grip on parenting.

Matty is now a sensible and well-mannered boy (on most days, except that he enjoys provoking Elaina… which is probably a boy’s thing) and well-liked at home and at school. I don’t think I can ask for anything more from a five years old.

As usual, we had the three-cake repertoire again. The only spoiler is the rain that came untimely and messed up our plan for a zoo trip that afternoon. This is our second failed attempt for a zoo trip, the first being a weekend of a school holiday and the carpark was so full that if we were to park along the road, it would take us a good twenty minutes walk to get in.

We ended up in a supermarket for some grocery shopping. I think I was more disappointed that the kids for some reason. They didn’t fuss about it and seemed fine just to stay in and dabble with the new toys. Matty has however decided that it will be a good idea for us to try the zoo again on my birthday which is coming this Friday, even though I would have preferred to just do nothing, laze around at home by myself and catch up on my sleep. He must have sensed my disappoint that day. I don’t think I have the heart to turn down his kind thoughts provided if the weather holds up this Friday.

And yes… his photo got selected for the Playhouse Disney birthday book this year. I found out that it was on a first come first serve basis (because this year they had indicated that on the website but not last year) and mailed out the photo in early May.