I remember some time back I used to laugh at Busy Bee when she told me that she won’t wear a dress that she likes because her Ryan told her she didn’t look nice in it. I didn’t think I’d take my Ryan’s opinion about how I looked to outdo me into wearing something that I like.

But last night, something similar happened to me. We were preparing to go out for dinner and I thought my skin was a bit dry. I found a pack of body care products that I was given as a gift set, with some body and acne lotion. I decided to try out the body lotion for the first time. It smelled kinda sweet.

I walked towards Ryan right after I’ve applied it and he looked at me one kind and said “What’s that smell?” I thought he smelled something foul so I said nothing. Then when I got nearer to him, he backed away from me and that was when I realised he was referring to the smell of the lotion! He thought it smelled bad!

Next thing I did was to fish out a couple of other lotions and asked him which one smelled good. I then tried to cover up the sweet smelling one with the one he picked. Haha. Silly right? Obviously it didn’t work…

See, I too succumb to what my kid thinks…so I shouldn’t laugh at other parents, huh?

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Ryan loves to sing. And he’s a good singer. He carries a tune better than me, that’s for sure. And his talent of singing doesn’t come from me. That’s for sure too!

About a week ago we were at a mall and he was having fun playing with sand art. The kind owners of the stall were talking to us and they also operated one of those twist-balloon stall.

As we spoke, they persuaded him to sing a song but he didn’t really want to. But then he was “bribed” with a prize if he sings a tune for them and he happily did so. He sang Michael Jackson’s Heal The World. Apart from receiving claps, he also got his prize, which is this funky bike:

I thought this is really cool. My 2-year old can learn to sing for a living! Today he sang his way to a Sugus sweet. Not much of a prize compared to the balloon bike, but hey, it was a treat for him because he doesn’t get to eat much sweets.

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Yes, that’s how Ryan gets my attention sometimes. I don’t know where he learned the term “son” from. He knows “sun” because of the Golden Sun song from his Barney shows, but I didn’t know he understood what a “son” is. In any case, it’s been very entertaining since he learned how to use it. One minute it’s “Mummy, what’s your son doing?” and another minute it’s “Mummy, your son wants to kick the ball!”. I get thrilled each time he speaks like that. Well, maybe for now.

He’s also getting more and more independent. Sometimes up to the point that he cries and insists on doing something himself. He even refuses help from us in any way, until he really can’t do what he thought he could. I don’t get it. Is this a phase they go through to make a point to us that they’re growing up? It seems like just yesterday that he was a helpless little baby!

But in any case, I do think it’s good development that he learns to do things for himself. Maybe I’ve been too protective and always think that he’s not capable yet to do this and that. But children these days tend to prove us wrong by being independent earlier and are also smarter compared to our time, don’t you think so?

The fact that he’s growing so fast has reinforced in me that I’ve made the right decision to bring forward the plan to be a work from home mum (read my previous post here). At least I will have some flexibility of time to watch his growing years. I don’t want to look back years from now and say “My God, my son now has his own road tax and car insurance! Wasn’t he just a baby who can’t even crawl, let alone drive now?!”

I’m sure you cherish those years watching your children grow too. Wonderful times, yes?

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Ryan has turned two about a month ago. He’s been an angel all these while (ok, maybe just to us, other people may see him as naughty whilst we are blinded by love!) but suddenly over the last week or so he’s been acting unlike his usual character. I was recently just talking about how pleased I am that he’s learning good manners and all but suddenly he’s not so generous with his manners anymore at times.

Then someone said “He’s two already. Enjoy the Terrible-Twos. They don’t call it the Terrible-Twos for no reason!”. That got me thinking, how terrible can it be? Any parents care to share? Is this when they really try your patience and test your limits?

He’s been purposely spitting out water and he thinks it’s funny. He refuses to sleep these days until threatened to be left alone in the room, playing with saliva – lots of it and a couple more stubborness here and there. It is rather unlike him.

He’s also recently loved to run about a lot and when I was out shopping yesterday, he was running the grounds like it was his home. He refuses to be stopped too, and I can’t imagine what would come if we did force him to stop.  I think other parents who saw me browsing the aisle looking for some acne treatment products at the pharmacy with an active son dashing to and fro and saying funny words must’ve looked at me with emphatatic eyes! No wonder the breakout, they might think! Haha.

I guess this is the start of the Terrible-Twos, no doubt…and we’ve just got to bear with this stage and educate him of our limits, and of his too. So when does it end, huh? I’m quite anxious for this to be over already!

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Ryan is an early bird who catches the worms…he wakes up before any of us and definitely before our alarm clocks are set to ring in the mornings. Whether it’s a work day or a weekend, he wakes up at the same time. When he’s up, he starts playing. Of course, what else would you expect a child his age to do, right?

This morning he was up at his usual hour and he went about playing on his own while we half-consciously tried to watch him with sleepy eyes and trying to keep the ears open to listen out for what he’s doing.

Then I heard his final wake up call for me…”Mummy, wake up. Sit here play with boy boy” and my reply was “Ohh….” but I didn’t get up.

All was quite after that and he didn’t come back to bug me to wake up. After a while I thought it was quite unusual. He would normally come bug me until one of us wake up and play with him. So I got up to see what Ryan was up to.

Guess what he was doing…

This is my colourful and transparent sticky strips…

…which I use to mark pages to KIV in books

Ryan used them as stickers to stick all over his colouring book!

He would’ve gone on to peel each and every piece of those sticky strips out had I not woken up to stop him. So the next time he wakes me up to play and I doze off again, I better be prepared for a very colourful room when I wake up! This time it could be the easy to remove stickers, next time it could be his colour pencils on the walls!

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