My 6 year old. Heh.

We spend a lot of time on T1’s queen sized bed, the 3 of us, because that’s where their library is, beside her bed. One day, whilst the 3 of us were on the bed, reading, chatting, laughing as we usually do, T1 says to me matter of factly,

“Mom, next time when you have a baby, you should think of what name goes with Aunty first before you name your baby.”

“Huh?” I had NO IDEA where she was coming from.

“Yeah, because Aunty Tessa sounds terrible. I don’t like being called Aunty Tessa. It doesn’t sound nice at all. Make sure you think what name goes with Aunty first before you choose your next baby’s name.”

Needless to say, guffaws of laughter ensued and then she continues,

“Aunty Jamie, Aunty May, Aunty Christine…..they all sound OK, but not Aunty Tessa.”

Why in the world is she thinking of such things??? Aunties??? WTF? Anyway, my answer to that was, “Well, I’m not having any more babies. So there.”

And do you know what the bugger said with that cheeky glint in her eye, nodding her head? “You never know….you never know……”

Not that she really knows where babies come from or anything. Or does she?

Hell, I totally know. I am NOT having another baby. Not ever. EVER!

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Because I spend all my time attending to T2 (whom I define as a demanding baby, not as demanding as some, but demanding enough for me to define her as demanding *evil grin*), T1 is always neglected. I always try to counteract this by telling T1 how lucky she is because she is the first born, and that she is even luckier than T2 simply because she gets all her stuff brand new and T2 gets only hand-me-downs! Plus, T1 had 5 years of both her parents ALL to herself whereas T2 has to SHARE her parents. Now, isn’t that LUCKY????

On one ocassion where I reminded her of her luck being better than her sister (this month to be exact when my brother just returned from Melbourne after graduation), she said to me a couple of hours later obviously after much pondering, “Now I know why Uncle Justin wants to stay in Australia and not here.”

Again, “HUH?”

T1 has this knack of surprising me with totally out of the blue comments. It really intrigues me why she would suddenly think of her Uncle whom she hardly knows or has much contact with, as opposed to her Uncle Ben….

She got it totally sussed out.

“Uncle Justin wants to stay in Australia because he’s the youngest and you and Uncle Ben are older, so Uncle Justin is always the unluckiest one. He gets all the hand-me-downs. If he’s in Australia, he can buy his own stuff…..”

I found it seriously funny. So Uncle Justin wants to stay away from his elder siblings? ROTFL – Candice, are you reading this? You bear absolutely no weight in Justin’s affinity to Melbourne.

And the last time I checked, Uncle Justin had way nicer stuff than Uncle Ben and I put together!!! So who’s the lucky one now??? (if we’re comparing stuff, that is)

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Due to Tok-Tok’s very busy schedule, he sometimes misses family dinners and it is annoying, because it all boils down to priorities, doesn’t it? Well, it’s really not as easy as that. Many things are grey…..it’s just like my friend’s husband who has to leave them in the middle of a holiday to attend to business (how can your Dad or hubby leave you with an hour’s notice when you’re all on a nice, planned long holiday together??? Believe me, it happens….), and can even miss his wife’s birthday some years for business. I would never stand for it but who knows, I might change my mind if I was really in their shoes.

Anyway, one night during one of our family dinners with Tok-Tok absent, we were groaning about his busy schedule and Nana said, as punishment, Tok-Tok will buy our dinner tonight. T1 immediately looked up, obviously very confused.

“But Tok-Tok’s not here! How can he buy us dinner?! Where is Tok-Tok???”

Ohhhh…..how she hasn’t learnt the wonders a little piece of plastic can do!

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One day, some friends and I were organising a Mommy and Kid sleepover and whilst in conversation, the topic of hiring a male stripper came up. The plan was to tire the kids out as much as possible during the day and make them pass out as early as possible after which we ladies would have our own fun. *wink*

As the story goes, my daughter has ears sharper than elves that are always perked towards the ceiling.

Later that night, she asked, “What’s a stripper?” knowing full well that she’d heard that Mommy was planning to order one for our sleepover.

CRAP

“OH! Uh…a stripper is a type of clown.”

“We’re going to have a clown at the sleepover??” Her eyes lighted up with eager. Then she frowned, “What kind of clown?”

“OH! Uh…a clown with stripes! Yeah! The clown has stripes so we call him a stripper!”

She was just happy that there was going to be a stripy clown at the sleepover.

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