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One weekend, DH suddenly had the mood to make something fun for the kids. He took out a cardboard and transformed it into 2 masks: Ultraman for Ian and Doraemon for Isabel.

Ian so funny, he put the Ultraman mask onto his best friend Babun’s face:

And after seeing Ian did that, Isabel also followed and put her Doraemon mask onto her Julia’s face:

Hahahaha! My kids really had a great fun with their homemade masks. BTW, did you notice that Ian carefully placed the eye-holes on Babun’s face, so that his ‘best friend’ could ’see’ also?

Lately, Isabel is getting more and more difficult. I think the terrible 2 is here…

This happened just a few weeks ago, when DH was in HK for business meeting…

First, when I gave her a cup of water, she took a very long time to drink. When I turned around, entered the kitchen, she poured the whole cup of water onto the marble floor!

I was so furious and was also thankful that it was just plain water (can you imagine if it was milk or juice?).

I put her down on the floor, gave her a piece of cloth and insisted that she wiped them. Initially she didn’t follow my instruction. She stood there cried, forcing herself to vomit. Nothing came out coz she hasn’t had her lunch yet. She continued crying, and I continued to ignore her. After a while, she came to me, asking me to help her wipe the floor. Finally she wiped the floor.

And then, during dinner time, I gave her a bowl of macaroni, which she enjoyed eating for a while. Then, I went into the kitchen to prepare some fruit smoothies for them, she poured the macaroni onto the marble floor AGAIN!

I was furious, and did the same thing again: put her on the floor, gave her a bowl, and insisted that she clean the floor by picking up all the macaroni into the bowl. She cried and refused at first. After ignoring her for a while, she started picking them up finally.

You see, if I clean up for her, or let the maid clean up, she would never know what trouble she put on others. Only when she cleans it up herself, she would know it is not something others like. Hopefully she learnt her lesson and won’t repeat this in the future!

Not sure if this is a girl’s thing, Isabel likes to keep her stuff neat and would put all her toys and all stuff nicely before leaving the ‘crime scene’.

This is what she likes to do with her own shoes… On the shoes cabinet, she must be thinking that her shoes are small, and found it neat and nice to put it this way:

… one pair on top of her dad’s shoes, and another pai INSIDE her dad’s. Hahahaha! Very cute. And when I asked her not to do so, she’d claim that it is the RIGHT place to put!!

This never happened to our first child, Ian, perhaps because he is a boy. Girl is really different. Isabel is only 2 years old and already know what is ‘mei-mei’ (beautiful) and would request us to dress her up and to make her looks good.

For example, after watching Barbie in Rappunzel animation, every morning she would request us to make her Rappunzel, i.e. to tie her hair nicely!

2 weeks ago, she was supposed to go into the room to get her bike out… As I was wondering what took her so long, she came out happily shouting to her dad: “DADDY! You see, I mei-mei (beautiful)”

Guess what? She took my lipliner and drew on her face!

Can’t believe it! 2 years old only, and already wants cosmetics! LOL! I can foresee more to come. Have to watch out my eye shadows, lipsticks, perfumes, etc.

I went to Jakarta last week to run 3 workshops. I arrived earlier on Wed and then followed my colleague to Bandung to do ‘market visit’ (that is to check out local stores and talk to our outlets’ owners etc, like a mini in-depth-interview cum observation study without any research objectives, LOL!).

Well, actually our main agenda is the factory outlets there. I have long heard about the factory outlets and this is only the first time I was brought there to shop. In preparation for that, but not to be seen too eagle (ahem!), I brought just 1 medium ROOTOTE shopping bag that I bought from TinyTapir.

The first shop was glad with my request not to use their plastic bag. However, the second shop rejected it. They said I MUST use their plastic bag. There goes, 2 plastic bags wasted, straight away thrown away the moment I reached my hotel room!

They just don’t understand the concept!

Anyway, my colleague said my bag very nice looking & fashionable ler - at first she thought the first shop gave me that bag and she was so excited wanted to go back to buy from that outlet. LOL!

This is the print of my medium ROO (but pic took from a small size ROO). Rootote is a Japanese brand and made in Japanese, so it is more expensive than Envirosax.

Talking about shopping in Bandung, the things there is not like China, where products are fake. Here, they are genuine branded goods, but being sold there cheaply due to various reasons: out of seasons, limited size, limited quantity, etc.

I bought a sweater for Isabel since she needed one just the next day after I return (we went to Genting Highland!). It costs around RM30, but very VERY nice. I am happy!

And when Isabel saw her sweater, she was so, so, so happy. She walked to me and said, “Mama, this is for me? THANK YOU MAMA!”

Then, I found a set of Disney shirt & jeans, and another set of 3-pcs dress, only RM15 per set! It was on sales, and each has only 1 pc (no wonder on sales). Bought those for Isabel too.

I couldn’t find things for Ian though, coz the boys’ are only T-shirts, which I don’t get excited at all (like what happened in Manila and Bangkok previously). To avoid conflicts, I bought him a set of 3 briefs - with Transformer prints. Wow! He was so excited! We have a habit of washing the clothes before using. He kept on checking the briefs and asked if they are dry enough for him to wear immediately. So cute!

The most happy moment after returning is to see our kids happy face. Isabel is not used to me buying things for her from overseas trips yet, but I think Ian is a bit immuned to it. :p

p/s: The cutest part about Isabel, is her disbelieve look!