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Lolly hop

Lila keeps saying lolly hop instead of lolly pop no matter how many times i've tried to correct her. Aga's response: it's ok, mommy. When she grow up she WILL say it the right way.

Potty training is going well. She actually does it everytime i ask her to go potty, unlike last time when i had to sit patiently for an hour next to her waiting for the inspiration (read: wee) to come.

ICT Sweet

Agastya: We went to ICT sweet (=suite) yesterday and today.
Me: (although I already knew) What is an ICT sweet?
Agastya: Uh oh there's no sweet in ICT sweet mommy. There are only hundreds and thousands of computers.
Me: So what do you do in this ICT suite?
Agastya: You play games in the computer, and click it when you get it right. You also help other kids that don't know how to do it. I helped Ryan yesterday. Today I helped Thomas.

I kept smirking thinking how disappointed he must have been the first time they all went to this ICT suite. NO SWEET?!!! Oh that's so misleading! :D

Things he learns from school

Madagascar theme is on this week apparently. He's in Melman team. With Georgia and Ryan. Nuno is in Gloria team. Digi is in Marty team. It's something to do with tidying up. The best team get points. Or something. But he didn't win, because there were soooo many papers on the table.

When he wanted to write 'careful' he asked me if the kuh (c sound) is the curly kuh or the kicking kuh. What? Did he say kicking kuh? Turns out curly kuh is c, kicking kuh is k. Make sense huh?

Randomness this week in January

1. Agastya: mommy, some people don't have kids.
Me: that's right. Some people don't.
Agastya: but you have two. And daddy has two.

2. Nagi was reading a book to Agastya. It has the word 'palace' in it so Nagi asked if he knows what it means.
Aga: yeah it's the one that looks like a castle. Where the king and queen and princess work.
Nagi: dunno about work, but yeah that's right.

3. I have a habit of saying 'is it?' to comment on what others say, including him. I mean to say 'is that so?' but most of the time i say 'is it'.
Aga: look mommy. There's a difference. If i say 'the tv is on', u say 'is it?'. But if i say 'i went to school yesterday', you say 'did you?'. You don't say 'is it?'. Because it just doesn't make any sense.
Me: is it? *smirks*
Agastya: mommy!

Haha.. Yeah he's now correcting my grammar. I better not show him this blog because he'll start checkspelling it too.

A letter to Santa

Dear Santa.

This is from Agastya. I promise I did not help even a bit. Just provided the pencil and paper. Thank you for taking your time off to read this letter, I know you're awfully busy with the gift-giving season and snow-induced chaos in traffic. I pray that your reindeers don't get affected by it.

Monica. (Agastya's Mom - in case you're confused)
PS: Please remember that I've been a very good girl too.
PPS: Please tell your impostor from Spain that his Swarte Piet used to scare the crap (excuse my language) out of me.




For those who are confused about the PPS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas - this is the version of Santa I grew up with. He's from Spain, not from North Pole. He's always flanked by these terrifying bodyguards called Swarte Piet.

Read the Swarte Piet part. It's scary I kid you not.

Sinterklaas and his Black Petes usually carry a bag, which contains candy for nice children and a "roe," a bunch of willow branches used to spank naughty children; in actuality a chimneysweep's broom. Some of the older Sinterklaas songs make mention of naughty children being put in the bag and being taken back to Spain.

Trust me. Spain was never in my list of holiday destinations until recently. Going to Spain means a punishment from Santa. Come to think of it now, ugh why was I never a naughty girl??? I'd love to go to Spain!

Cat dump's heaven

My back garden is like the neighbour cats' place to relieve themselves. It's the cat dump's heaven. I bet it came with a flashing neon sign viewable only by cat eyes saying 'Toilet' with arrow pointing down at my grass. Maybe it also comes with a voucher to introduce a friend and get your poo session free. Poo lover card holder gets free dump after stamping 5 paws.

This morning it's like there was a line. One after another in a span of 3 hours. One even looked like it has constipation. Poor cat. So long as it's not diarrhoea. Eew.

I want to be a cat! Oh but cats don't get presents from Santa!...

Lila's 2.5 year review today. Weight 12 kgs (I'm very happy with this!), height 92 cms (tall!).