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This school holidays, Mama had been taking me to the supermarket more often and I insist on helping her with the grocery basket when she has no suitable coin for the trolley. At the checkout counter, I would put the items on the conveyor belt and helped Mama pay for them by passing the cash or atm card alongside with Papa's NTUC link card to the cashier aunty.

Mama thinks I am really a good little helper in this way although I almost walked out of the NTUC with her grocery items without paying for them yesterday afternoon. :D

Baby

2 days ago, on Tuesday, I accompanied Mama toAunty Huishan's place to visit Aunty Huishan who is on maternity leave after giving birth to Baby Nathaniel. Aunty Huishan is Mama's secondary schoolmate and they used to be in NPCC together.

Baby Nathaniel is Aunty Huishan's second child. Her firstborn, Esther jie jie was born 2 days before me. Mama's water bag burst on the evening after she visited Aunty Huishan and Esther jie jie in the hospital when Esther jie jie was born. It was joked among Mama's friends that I was eager to come out after seeing Esther jie jie... haha...

The pictures you are about to see are actually pictures of a baby....

That's right! It's me! And I was holding Baby Nathaniel's tutu in my right hand!

After lunching at Aunty Huishan's place, Mama was trying to get me to nap at Aunty Huishan's place so that she and Aunty Huishan can have a long chat. Aunty Huishan had kindly set up a huge mattress for me in Esther jie jie's room. Mama had let me try sleeping in various parts of the house from the platform in her living room, her sofa, to the mattress in Esther jie jie's room but I simply refused to sleep though I was really tired.

After lying down for a few seconds, I would get up and walked about. It didn't help that Mama did not have a bottle of milk for me as she had not planned to let me nap at Aunty Huishan's place. Though Aunty Huishan offered to make me a bottle of milk, Mama did not accept the offer. Then, Mama thought she will let me try Esther jie jie's sarong cradle at Aunty Huishan's suggestion.

It was my first time in a sarong cradle and I was really scared! ;p

In the end, Mama took me home in a taxi and I napped from $7.70 to $15.80. Well, Mama did not take note of the time when I dozed off in the taxi but she looked at the fare meter when I slept and $15.80 was the fare she paid when we reached home. I soon woke up when Mama tried to carry me from the taxi to go back home. By the time we were in the lift, I was awake and remained so until night time. What a tiring day for me.

A Drum Set

This is Daniel the drummer, playing the full set of drums for the very first time!! *drum roll*

Esther jie jie's grandfather bought her this set of drums and I got to play with it when I went to Aunty Huishan's place yesterday. I love it! I could even play softly at Mama's instruction. Aunty Huishan says even her own nephews who are 5 and 7 years old still love to play with this drum set when they are at her house.

Mama's mind went something, " You mean one never outgrow that phase of hitting and banging?"as in, "Daniel will still be banging away at an older age?"

An interesting thing that Mama wanted to note was that the drum set actually came with a small black stool that the drummer could sit on but I kind of fell off it when I first tried to sit on it and so, Aunty Huishan let me sit on a chair from Esther jie jie's study table set.

What happened to the stool then? Well, if you look very carefully, you may just discovered that I had turned it into part of the drum set. See the picture above? The black stool is on my left hand side, near to the wall and just below the drum. I hit on it just like I would do for any of the drums in the set.

Well, Mama is now considering whether to get me a similar set for Christmas.. should she or should she not.....

Spice Soup

Last week, Mama made some instant kimchi soup using a concentrated kimchi soup stock and real kimchi. She thought the soup will be too spicy for me but surprisingly, I like the taste. Even though she told me the soup is spicy, it did not stop me and I call it spice soup. There are just too many syllabus in the phrase "Spicy soup" and so we shortened it to spice soup.

Mama thinks I had inherited this preference from Papa who takes to spicy food better than her. She only started eating spicy stuff at a later age, say around her teens and even then, she takes spicy food selectively.

The End of A Week of Surprises!

This week that just passed, I gave Mama some surprises.

1) I asked for a haircut.

2) I asked to play Whack A Mole.

And to end it off, on Friday, I took my sandals from the shoe rack, put them on by myself and waited for Mama while she washed her hands in the kitchen. Imagine her pleasant surprise to see me in my sandals. :D

Self-Initiated Haircut

Mama and I walked by a hair salon yesterday and I said,"Hair cut, haircut". Mama thought I was just commenting someone was having a haircut in the salon. She tried to bring me to the foodcourt for lunch but I refused to walk on and continued saying "haircut".

Mama was a little surprised that I seemed to be asking for a haircut and she asked if I wanted to have a haircut and I indicated yes. She asked if I was sure that I really wanted a haircut and I confirmed my answer with her. Seeing that my hair is a little long, touching my ears a little, she agreed to it, thinking she will spank me and scold me if I want out in the middle of my hair cut.

So here I am, in the salon, waiting to get a trim.

Oops, what am I getting myself into, really?

Actually, it's not too bad a deal. I even got sweets to eat. The hairdresser gave me 2 sweets.

She asked me to close my eyes too. Was she going to give me a surprise? ;p

After some time, tada!!! The final look! Don't you think I simply look good?!

Whack a Mole!

Today, Mama brought me to Lot 1 to check out the playground there but I was not too keen to stay there. On our way walking around in the mall, I saw this Whack A Mole machine which costs $1 and I asked for a coin from Mama. Mama was a little surprised that I actually know this game when I held up the toy hammer. I had never played this game before, as far as she knows.

Initially, Mama wanted to save the dollar for a kiddy ride but when I asked her again and she made me confirm that I really want to play, she decided to give me the dollar, thinking the game will be good for me hand-eye coordination.

At the end of the game, Mama found out there will be 99 chances for me whack the mole. So how did I fare?

Initally, I was a little slow, and missed the moles. Mama helped me by hitting the moles with her palm and I soon tried to do likewise. As time goes by, I got better and could hit a few moles. See the video below for a demonstration. :D

So, how did Mama and I fare? Well, we scored a 24 out of 99 possible hits! Certainly more room for improvement! We will be back, just wait for us, you 99 moles! :D