Once upon a time, she designed buildings and interiors of corporate offices and on the rare occasion, homes. Now, she cleans poop and is student of a patience management course. From the drawing board as a London Architect to the realities of Motherhood, she has certainly learned many lessons in humility. And then others.....
To succeed in the corporate world, first succeed with your kid as the happy boss. Seriously.
This blog is about Mamapumpkin: A crazy, demented Mom who cares full time, alone, without any help, for an even crazier preschooler AND a baby with a boob addiction problem.
She writes anything that comes out of her head, mostly without thinking first, which almost always gets her into trouble (according to her husband, whom she considers the love of her life.......on a good day).
Her 2 pet monkeys drive her towards challenge after challenge, 24/7. Day after Day.....and by the way, her parents are Muslim, her in-laws Buddhist, she's Catholic and her Hubs, an Atheist. She's thinking her kids should be Hindu, just to complete the rainbow religion cycle.
Gotta love it.
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If there is one toy I would strongly recommend to all 4 year olds, it is this.
It is an intelligent toy with many levels starting with easy where you have to follow a picture card to arrange your cars in a particular fashion. Then, you need to move your cars around, backward or forward, in order to let your ice-cream truck escape out of the grid from the traffic jam.
It is a game of elimination, fore-thought, planning and most of all, fun and a great confidence booster.
Tee loves it, especially when she can get onto the next level.
You can buy this game from Popular Book Store, the National Science Centre, Mr DIY and Toys ‘R’ Us except that depending on where you buy it from, the price ranges from about RM25 to RM90 per set. No kidding!
I’m sure this is all influence from the boys at school but Tee conned her Nana into getting her her first Transformer last week, Bumble Bee, her favourite Transformer, after watching the movie. I’ll tell you something strange. One night at 4am, she awoke crying. Jolted out of bed, I asked her in a very concerned manner what the matter was. Her reply?
“I miss my Transformers…..” as more tears streamed onto her already wet yellow bumble bee pillow.
*Mamapumpkin rolls eyeballs AND head 360 degrees a few times*
Did I do this? “OK, go back to sleep now.” as I turned over to face the other side with a pillow on my head.
Or this? “Awww……you’ll see it tomorrow, ok? You can watch the movie on DVD again? Don’t worry, everything will be OK tomorrow.” with lots of kisses and cuddles.
The good thing about the toy is that it forces her to think and figure out how to transform the damn thing and back again. And just to boost my pregnant ego, I was better at it than the Hubs was *grins*
Remember Tee and her love for LEGO? I tell everyone that she built the house and she keeps telling everyone, “No!! I just gave ALL the ideas and told Daddy where to put the pieces. I put some pieces but Daddy was the contractor!!”
“But I thought you did it yourself? Wasn’t Daddy busy working?”
“Yes, but I kept asking him to help stick the pieces where I wanted it.”
These two lego vehicles were built by Tee entirely on her own, no Daddy’s help at all. She had the instructions manual (all pictures) and she patiently constructed them all by herself. We weren’t watching her but we were pretty impressed. It means she knows how to follow instructions.
Last Sunday, Tee forced her Dad to play Jengga with her. It is a game where you pile a whole load of blocks into a tower and then remove individual pieces one by one from beneath to be placed at the top deck. The first person who accidentally topples the Jengga tower loses. It is a game of physics and engineering and I must say that Tee was quite good at it.
Until I saw the monkey cheating! The tower had gotten quite unstably high and at one point, she looked at her Daddy, who was not concentrating and looking elsewhere, when she quickly held down the tower with her left hand at the top for balance and quickly pushed a piece out with her right hand!!!
Oh my!!! Where did she learn to cheat like that??? I watched her all this while without saying a word and at the next round, she told her Daddy that she really gave up. She’d much rather give up than make a false move and experience the big crash of Jengga pieces.
Of late, my little Tee has been obsessed with LEGO. I am terrified that she has an overdose of architectural genes from her parents and seriously pray that she does NOT end up an architect. But her incredible creativity and imagination tells us time and again that she truly is a cut above the rest when it comes to creative talent.
Today, she kept herself occupied with building a house whilst Mommy and Daddy were both busy with our own thing. She did it very quietly and gave me a BIG surprise when she was done with it. She brought it behind my chair, hid with her model and shouted out “SURPRISE!!!”
It sure got ME jumped off my chair!
Tee proudly showing off her creation. This set has nothing to do with a house. It is a set for making vehicles but she used the parts to create a house.
Showing off her house from the sky view. For some reason, her houses always has ONE solitary tree. Even when she draws a house, it is always accompanied with one SOLITARY tree.
She even knows how to pose with her eyes looking through the holes in the house. Preschool fenestration?
It took her 20 minutes to explain her house to me in a long-winded manner. The first thing she showed me were the CCTV cameras shining from her house. We have them all over our condo, which is where she probably picked up the idea. I honestly wonder what they were in the vehicle lego set and must go check them out (those little grey pieces that really look like CCTV cameras) if they really are meant to be CCTV cameras. But why would a vehicle have a CCTV camera?
More CCTV cameras and the swimming pool within barricaded with that black gate on the white bench. Can you see the black windmill looking fan on the red and white tower? That’s apparently a windmill that gets the pool water recycled into the house for usage and drinking (something like that) – I asked her where she learnt the word recycle from and seriously expected it to be from school but she said it was from Playhouse Disney! *faint*
Another view of her solitary tree….the tall grey aerial on the left on top of the red roof is for lots of TV – her all time addiction!!! And she said it is better than Astro because when it rains, Astro always fails her. Astro is lousy, she says.
The double red sirens on top of the house serves 2 purposes – one is for fire (if there is a fire within the house, the siren will go off) and the other is for robbers should there be a robbery, the siren will call the police.
Where the hell does she get all this stuff from?! Too much TV.
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