This Is What Happens If She Skips Her Afternoon Nap…

Pix taken on 2 different days.

She would sit at the dining table daydreaming, with a deadpan face… even when I threaten her with the cane, she will have no reaction or feelings….

… coz she is already half way slipping into slumberland…

… and minutes later, she dozed off with food in her mouth!

2 days ago, she really made me burst out in a loud guffaw again. When she strongly protested taking her nap in the afternoon saying that she wasn’t tired or sleepy at all, I warned her that she was so going to get whacked by me if she dozed off at the dining table during dinner. She promised me that she would be good and finish all her food. As expected during dinner, the same thing happened again. In her half-way snooze mode, she tried really hard to open her eyes and smile. And she kept saying this over and over again with her mouth full of food, as if in a trance : “who closed my eyes, I want to open my eyes, somebody closed my eyes,  I want the fan turned higher, I am so hot, my hands are so itchy (all these were excuses to buy time to avoid eating), my head is so itchy (and scratches her head with both her oily hands as if there were lice on her head LOL!)”…. and finally her battery went dead flat. My maid was seated next to her trying to keep her awake but it was useless coz her battery konked off and she was just going deeper and deeper into la la land.  Finally, I told my maid to throw the food away, quickly shower Sher and send her off to bed!

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Sherilyn Oh Sherilyn….

We received a call from the girls’ koo por (grand aunt) last Saturday afternoon. She had invited us for dinner. Upon hearing that, Sherilyn was all excited. She quickly took her shower while singing on top of her voice (she always sings and dances in the bathroom… and jiggles her butt really cute too!) and then later, all was silent. Silence is often an indication that TROUBLE is brewing, 9 out of 10 times… in Sher’s case! I quietly went to her bedroom and saw her on her bed, with her wet hair uncombed. She was arranging the outing clothes for the night’s dinner – which she had chosen for herself as well as her jie jie.

I wanted to burst out in a loud guffaw – first at what I saw on the bed – her choice of clothes for herself and for her jie jie, which was their ‘twin sisters’ t-shirt from HK Disneyland.  She had even chosen the panty to wear for the night, both for herself and for Alycia LOL!  And to tickle my funny bone further, she had even taken out her lilac color Paris Hilton sunnies and my her diamond-studded headband to place on the bed!


All set out nicely and raring to go out to ‘wet’ muahahahaha….

Seeing what Sher had worn tickled me deeper.  This brat is so into wearing a mini skirt on top of a pair of 3/4 pants lately.  She seems to know that this is the in-thing to wear!  Sherilyn oh Sherilyn, you are really, really vain and funny!  Check out the out-of-sync colors – pink, blue and yellow, how gordy and eye-catching, muahahahahah!

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Of Sherilyn And Her Wacky Fashion Sense… Again

I had a good belly laugh when I saw rascal #2 in this hilarious hip hop fashion:For a moment, I was trying to think hard what on earth was over her pants. Then I realized it’s the bottom from her 2-piece swimsuit which she hardly wears.And I really think she has high potential to be a super star, muahahahaha….. That’s why she loves wearing this Bossini t-shirt with the word ‘Super Star’ imprinted on it!And she can even perform a hip hop dance wearing that silly suit, HAHAHA…..Now you know why she wants to wear this bottom coz it looks too sexy and hip hop, haimai? Even I am tempted to squeeze into it muahahahahaha….. FAT hopes!

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My Little Vain Pot Who Wants To Be Hip Hop

Each Saturday after her ballet class, Sherilyn will amuse me with her dress sense when she steps into the house. Though there are clothes that I’ve already packed for her in her bag for her to change after class, she will be up to all sorts of fanciful fashion ideas like wearing a t-shirt on top of her ballet costume (with tutu and stockings still on) or changing into a spaghetti strap top while her tutu and stockings are still on, wearing a 3/4 pants over her stockings and tutu or wearing a skirt over her tutu like this:

Sherilyn oh Sherilyn…. never a sei pan pan strictly-by-the-book person! Check out the bunch of colorful plastic bangles on both her hands *rolls eyeballs* She secretly put those bangles into her bag when I wasn’t looking and wore them when her ballet class was over!

I think she’s influenced by the group of hip hop girls from Hi-5 or the bevy of fashionistas from High School Musical!  If you’ve been following my earlier posts, there was a period of time early last year when she would always pull one side of her sleeveless blouse/singlet down, just so she could look like one of the girls from Hi-5 in a one-sided shoulder sexy top!  Up until today, she still does that whenever she’s in a mood to look sexy! A few days ago, she made me ROTFL when she wore something that made her look really hip hop, yet hilarious. I shall post about it next. She really has a knack for fashion and style. I think she’ll excel in this arena in future, apart from being in the hair salon business LOL!!

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My Little Rascal Who Amuses Me Non-Stop

One afternoon, as usual, the ever hyper-active rascal #2 just didn’t want to take her afternoon nap despite umpteen threats and nagging from me.  And she was disturbing Baby coz I was trying to put Baby to sleep.  She kept telling me that she’s not sleepy and walked up and down the house and self entertained herself.  Alycia was fast asleep in the bedroom.  When she got bored, she fished out the playpen mozzie nets from the playpen pocket and then did this:


She tucked both the mozzie nets at the waist band of her skirt and then danced and pranced…..

She then told me that she wanted to get married and hummed the ‘Bridal March’ tune….. and twirled and turned round and round in the living room till she got dizzy and then walked like a drunkard lol…..

… and wore her yellow duckie bathroom slippers which she had already outgrown, muahahaha!  Later she put the mozzie net over her head, as if it were a wedding veil, LOL!  I must give her a 10/10 rating for her creativity!

For the past few days, she kept telling me that she wanted to be an astronaut when she grows up!  I think she will be a future promising cheerleader or a dancer, a singer perhaps(she loves music and singing), a hairdresser, a salesperson who can really yak and yak and sweet-talk a cow up the boat (LOL!) or a wedding planner, hahahahahaha!   Any job that can capitalize on her gift of gab, I think this rascal will excel in!

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I Am Like Cinderella

When Sherilyn dropped chocolate bits all over the floor yesterday, I made her clean up the mess. She used  some toilet papers dabbed with water to clean up the mess. But the wet toilet papers clumped up and tore into pieces, leaving the papers scattered everywhere on the floor. I then made her pick up the bits and pieces of toilet papers too. As she knelt on all fours on the floor cleaning the floor and picking up the papers, she said to herself “I am like Cinderella” muahahahaha…… this really made me chuckle to myself!  This rascal has been watching Cinderella VCD and reading the Cinderella tale (which is her favorite) on her Leap Frog quite a bit lately.   All the anger inside me doused off instantly with her witty remark!

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Things That Sher Brings To School And Her Quirks

For the umpteenth time, I have been getting surprises each time I open up Sher’s stuffed to the brim school bag, which always looks like a huge ‘hum yoke coong’ (rice dumpling)! So stuffed was the school bag that the zip looked like it would snap anytime! Here are some of the things that she stuffed into her school bag on 2 occasions:

A Transformer toy (which she ‘stole’ from Alycia and all hell broke loose when Alycia found out that the Transformer toy was in Sher’s school bag), a cello tape dispenser, a bag of color pencils, an empty Calcium tabs bottle, her Disney Chip n Dale wallet with money inside, a Princess notebook, a storybook, some pens, mechanical pencil, pencils and some band aids.

A few days later when I searched her bag, these things greeted me:

An old nursery rhyme book, a pack of Disney Math flashcards, a yellow color magic color with the cap missing, some papers, a pencil with the lead missing and a measurement tape! I bet she wanted to entertain her friends with all these stuff. By all these stuff were confiscated by mummy!

This little brat sure is entertaining and amuses me everyday with the things that she does. She always asks me if she could bring stickers and sweets to give her friends both at pre-school and at the ballet school! Every Saturday, she would insist on wearing her colorful, clanging bangles whenever she attended ballet class! She would also be insistant on wearing her Zara sweater (with the excuse of being cold in the air-cond room) over her ballet costume! After ballet class last Saturday, she removed her ballet costume, then wore a t-shirt afterwhich she wore the ballet costume over the t-shirt, with the tutu and stockings on!! Sometimes she would insist on bringing her Paris Hilton purple color sunnies to class to wear! She really wants to stand out from the crowd by always doing extraordinary things.

Does your kid bring stuff from home to pre-school too?

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Punished Again

When rascal #2 spilled her cup of lemon juice with Manuka honey all over the table, our books, her clothes, the chair and on the floor, I punished her and made her finish her dinner by sitting in the bathroom.

Sher had requested to drink lemon juice with honey, so I made her a cup on condition that she quickly gulped it down. But Sherilyn being Sherilyn, she kept fidgeting and played with her cup of juice and dang, dang, dang….. SPLASH….! This happens every single day!! I hope my blood vessel does not give way and burst soon!

Too embarrassed to look at mummy…

And she did finish her dinner an hour later, very painfully though…. with rice dropped everywhere on the bathroom floor.

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Terrorizer At Home

Guess who tore the canvass sheat beneath that dining table chair and yanked off the leg of the green Ikea stool?  No prize for guessing it right though hehehe!  That expensive dining table chair is only 9 months old and is already in this condition! 

By the way, as regards the fried vermicelli soaked in tomato ketchup, Sherilyn did NOT finish the plate of noodles!  I think she felt squeamish and she was in a hurry to go for her ballet class, so everything went into the bin. 

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Sherilyn’s Tomato Sauce Fried Noodles

This is Sherilyn’s plate of fried vermicelli, soaked in 1/4 bottle of tomato sauce, which she poured onto the plate of noodles herself. She has a habit of getting sauces (and snacks) from the fridge and pour them herself without asking me, though she gets reprimanded umpteen times for doing that. When I reprimanded her, she adamantly told me that she would finish the plate of noodles and did she? You guess?

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Getting Sherilyn To Clean Up The Mess She Makes

Not a single day passes by that Sherilyn does not spill drinks or drops food everywhere. I have been nagging her every day on end not to be so clumsy and to stop fidgeting and moving her entire body like an octopus when she eats or drinks so that drinks will not be spilled and food will not be scattered on the floor from the dining area to the bedrooms. When she dropped seaweed and noodles everywhere on the floor the other day, I made her clean up the mess. And she didn’t think that sweeping the floor was a chore. She actually found it fun, like some kind of new entertainment and was happily sweeping the food on the floor with the broom into the dustpan.

I think kids can be trained to lend a helping hand in doing simple household chores like sweeping and moping the floor, washing toilets, folding laundry, wiping tables and chairs and changing bedsheets and all….. but don’t set too high an expectation from them. Reward them with things they like to do or food they like to eat after chores are done. I’ll definitely rope them in to help with the chores when our maid’s contract expires early next year. I will try to live without a live-in maid next year. Who knows, I will be happier and will have less stress.

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Sherilyn’s Latest Boo Boos… All Done In A Day

This is a continuation from my post yesterday. Over the weekend, my visiting sil from Saipan had bought some stickers for the bathroom cabinet. The stickers are like jelly or gel-filled and are sticky all over.  They feel really squeezy and anyone would love to pinch and squeeze the stickers.

My sil then put up the stickers on our bathroom cabinet doors…

And rascal #2 attacked the stickers in the shape of a dog the next day ….

She peeled the stickers and then tossed them up…. and the stickers got stuck on the ceiling…

The next day, we noticed that half the dog’s body was missing. We knew who the culprit was but could not find the dog’s missing body parts. When my sil asked Alycia where the stickers were, she pointed to the ceiling and said “look up. Kay Yi threw them up”……

Did rascal #2 get any whipping for her mischief? Nope, coz I think it was too hilarious but through suppressing my laughter, I reprimanded her.

On the same day that rascal #2 tossed the stickers up the bathroom ceiling, she poured my can of Crabtree and Evelyn talcum powder all over the bathroom that night.  After her bath, this vain pot went to the bathroom to get the can of talcum to dust on her body. I could only guess that she tried to open the can and being a clumsy pot, she accidentally yanked off the cap and all the powder gushed out and not only was the entire bathroom covered with talcum, rascal #2’s face and hair were WHITE too muahahahah!  Too bad I was in the other bathroom and didn’t see that pathetic and guilty face of hers, all in white. All of us had the same feeling – we wanted to burst out in a loud guffaw and ROTFL but had to act angry and chided her off a little.

The can of talcum powder that my rascal poured away.

Daddy wiping everything that was covered with talcum powder inside the cabinet. You like his new body tattoo? iLike it!

With a daughter like Sherilyn, life is never a dull moment – she does things that drive you to the madhouse and cause your blood pressure to shoot sky high everyday but on the other hand, she has that special ‘charm’ that can make you burst out laughing with all her antics that I think no one else could possibly think of.

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More Antics From Princess Wannabe

Not only does #2 go under the table to do her homework, she even eats under her bed. She had asked me if she could eat a small packet of fish muruku. I told her that if she finished her lunch, she could have it. Now, this fler needs a little reward like this all the time in order to motivate her to finish her food. So after gobbling down her lunch, she happily claimed her packet of fish muruku from me and wandered off. As usual, I was too busy feeding Baby. When I realized that the house was unusually quiet, I searched for her high and low and then, I just had a hunch that she would be under something and true to my instinct, I found her happily munching her packet of fish muruku in her room under the bed!

I shooed her off from under the bed but minutes later when I stepped out to the dining area, I saw her lying tummy down on top of the dining table as she continued munching on her fish muruku *shakes head in disbelief*!

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Another Big Boo Boo

If you are having your meal now, please don’t read on. This post may turn you off and nauseate you. See this toilet bowl brush? Want to know what’s sitting under the brush?

Sherilyn the menace was doing her poopie business in the throne, just after lunch the other day. I suspected that she’s probably up to some monkey business as usual, so I asked her what she was doing. Her reply was “I don’t want anyone to hear me pooping!” I didn’t quite believe what she said knowing that the words were from my ever cheeky and sneaky Sherilyn. Anyway, I was busy feeding Baby porridge and didn’t bother to keep checking on Sherilyn. After she was done pooping half an hour later, I showered her.

Later in the evening, the gals went swimming. After swimming, both Alycia and Sherilyn dashed into the bathroom to shower. After they were done, I went in to give them a final rinse AND also to check the bathroom. When I saw the toilet bowl brush, I just had a hunch that something wasn’t quite right. I went closer to take a look, lifted the brush up and dang, dang, dang….. I almost wanted to puke. That naughty Sherilyn had scooped her poop up from the toilet bowl and into the container holding the toilet bowl brush!!! Eeewwwwwww!!!! Gee, I was enraged! I could feel hot steam slowly shooting up from my head.  Sherilyn oh why Sherilyn must you be so so so so naughty?  I think she’s full of curiousity and wants to know the consequences and all the ‘what happens if I do this’. Anyway, it was dinner time and I had to feed Baby her antibiotics, so I didn’t have the time to cane Sherilyn. Plus, I was also too tired of canning her all the time. I quickly put that revolting stuff into a plastic bag and asked my maid to put it in the refuse room outside. I also quickly washed the toilet and the floor. I kept scolding Sher and warned her never ever to try doing that again. Do you have a child as naughty and as curious as my #2? Even Sher’s teachers are complaining to me about her mischief in pre-school and she got punished several times.

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Hairdresser Wannabe

Sherilyn is obsessed with not only her hair but everyone else’s hair too, lol! Whenever she gets the chance to lay her hands on my hair, she will comb, brush and pull my precious locks till I scream torture and murder. Just the other day, she gave Baby a good hair combing session and surprisingly, Baby seemed to enjoy it…. though she’s super sensitive to her hair being pulled or combed when her hair gets entangled (she’ll yell abuse when her entangled hair gets pulled slightly!).


Playing hairdresser and customer.

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I Can Feed Myself Medicine

Sher was ransacking the kitchen drawer for junk food after her lunch a few days ago. She had just recovered from a throat infection. I threatened her that if she ate any junk food and gets another throat infection, I would not care for her and would not feed her medicine. Guess what her reply was? “I can feed myself medicine!” And she said that smugly too *slaps forehead*


Here she is feeding herself medicine… which was Duphalax syrup for her constipation / bloated tummy. I was too busy to feed Sher and told her to eat the meds herself after I had poured the meds out for her, which she happily did! I’m glad that my 2 older gals are now pretty independent and they are enjoying their independence too, prefering to do everything themselves. If only Sher would eat her rice and dishes on her own too without asking us to feed her at every meal.

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HEALTH FREAK MOMMY