Give me a Kiss !

I always ask little rascal to give me a kiss everyday without fail. 

Yup, I admit, I'm addicted.

The way I asked him is always like this

"Baby, kiss mommy." 

Rascal will kiss me on my lips and smile sheepishly.

Yesterday, while I was playing with him, I told rascal

"Baby, give mommy a kiss."

But little rascal just walked away to the table to hand me a bunch of KEYS! 

I was puzzled.

Hahaha... I then realised he has mistaken my command as "give mommy keys".

Silly boy

Zoo

The much anticipated zoo trip started out with a rainy morning. 

My spirit was dampened when I looked out the window and saw the rain. Nevertheless, we still got everything ready, put on rascal's cap and off we go.

When we reached school, rascal joined the other kids for breakfast and waited for the coach. By 8.40am , we left school and headed to the zoo. Fortunately, on the way there, the rain finally stopped.

Rain rain please go away

When we reached the zoo, the entrance was cramped with kids. Tiny kids just like rascal. There were a few schools there so you can imagine how noisy they were.

Ok, let's see where to start off first

Hmm... any pretty gals around?

 

Oh, another coach coming...

Well, we didn't get to see many animals due to the slow pace the kids took but still managed to see the monkeys, white tigers, polar bears, hippo and 2 shows. Rascal was so thrilled when we saw the 2 monkeys making noises up the trees near the entrance. The noises were loud but didn't scare rascal off (which I'm quite amazed). Instead, he was so happy and bubbling something to me too.

 

 

 

The famous white tigers

At the splash show... very interesting

Due to the cloudy sky and that stubborn rascal, who refused to look at the camera most of the time, these are the miserable few to share.

Over The Moon

Rascal made my day.

Ok, it all started last Sunday when hubby mentioned that he wish rascal could be potty trained asap so he can save on pampers. Then my dad seconded him and started to advise us on the types of potty to use. 

So, we went to Mothercare and got rascal a Baby Bjorn potty. The potty sits on the playmat for a few days and has become rascal's new toy. See, I'm a lazy mom. In fact, I wanted to wait till he knows how to speak and communicates with us. But due to the circumstances given, I am given with no choice but to start the training. 

I told rascal the other day that if he wants to poo poo, he needs to come and tell me or maid so that we can take out the potty for him. Never did I anticipate this, halfway through his dinner yesterday, he told the maid and me that he wanted to poo poo. We quickly took out the potty and asked him to sit on it. Then there came my neighbour, curry aunty, popping by to see rascal poo. 

Suddenly rascal felt so stressed that he cried out loud pitifully. Well, as expected, there was no sight of poo in his potty. The poor fellow went on to his dinner and later pooped in his diaper. 

Then, today, while maid was playing with rascal, she caught him going to poo. We were so thrilled, waiting anxiously for rascal to poo. Hahaha...after a minute or so, rascal finally poo-ed in his potty.

Lalalala....

I'm so excited !

Little rascal is going to the ZOO tomorrow !!!

This is his very first trip to go with school. And, I get to sign the consent form. Hahaha...

Well, I'm also going with him too since he is just  a 21 mth old fellow. To mark this memorable trip, I'll try to take as many photographs as possible so I can show them to him when grows up. 

You know, I was thinking hard last night on what to bring for snack. Remembered last time when I was young, always got myself a luncheon meat bun whenever I went on an excursion with schools. I have already planned to go to a bakery tonight to get rascal a bun but who knows, rascal brought back 2 muffins from school today. He made the muffins with teacher this morning! Well, I can't even make muffin myself ! Hahaha...

 

See, they look so yummy!

So, to save all efforts, I'm going to bring the muffins and banana tomorrow.

 

Hmmm... gotta pack everything neatly by tonight. 

Things to pack:

1) Muffins and banana

2) Water bottle (for rascal and me)

3) Umbrella

4) Caps ( for rascal and me)

5) Anti-mosquitoes patch

6) Pampers bag (pampers,wet wipes, cream)

What else? Did I miss out anything? *thinking hard*

Moon?

No. 

Please don't mistaken the SUN as a moon.

This was taken this morning (not me) when the solar eclipse happened in China. 

Beautiful, isn't it?

I was watching tv from 8am - 11am to catch the whole process. It's amazing, I tell you, especially the part when the total eclipse took place. I was so touched at that very moment. The universe is just so full of mystery. How coincidence can it be that the earth, moon and sun are so in lined with each other and the distance that the moon happens to be just big enough to cover the sun?

So sweet....

Not candy ok? !

It's my little rascal !!

His English teacher, Ms Bi, told hubby that little rascal was so sweet in school. There was this little girl who cried pitifully in class. And guess what, I would never have anticipated, little rascal went to get a tissue and gave it to her. 

Wow, boy, you are so sweet!

You are just 20 months old !!

Beware ladies, a future lady killer in the making...

Hiaks hiaks hiaks...

Finally !

Yeah, I've completed all the researching and planning of my Taiwan trip!

Yippee yippee hooray !!

It wasn't easy as I've to plan out the full 15 days itinerary... accomodations, bus routes and train routes to the places of interests.  

I want to eat lots and lots of food. I so like the food in Taiwan. They are just so delicious. Oh not forgetting the pearl milk tea. Hubby and my favorites !! 

We can drink and drink without getting sick of it. There's this particular stall near the library that we used to patronize. We go there so frequent that even the sales staff start preparing the milk tea when she sees us approaching the counter; milk tea with double pearls.

Ok, back to the trip.

I've planned to stay in taipei for a week and another week to Alishan, Qingcing, Hehuan shan and then Taroko at Hualien. I was contemplating to rent a car or take public transport but hubby prefers public transports as driving itself will kill us. It's those long distance driving, say like 5-6hrs. Moreover, it's mostly highways and mountain roads. Well, not so much of the highways, it's the mountain roads that put us off. I've read that it's misty and dangerous. So, in the end, we settled for public transports. But it'll be more time consuming. 

Arrgghhh .....but I prefer driving as it's more convenience.  So contradicting !!!