My last weekday with 小雨 before she starts attending preschool next week. I think I'm going to suffer from separation anxiety. Seriously, not her but me.

Bathtime. We played with some heart-shaped alphabet stickers I stuck to her bathtub, to teach her words like "S-H-O-W-E-R" and "C-L-O-T-H".

Walked with her to the MRT station, which will mean a long and slow stroll, of intermittent stopovers to check out a fallen leaf, a tweeting bird, the gushing waters at the small waterfall...

While it would have been much easier to bring her out in the Ergo baby carrier, I know she prefers to trek on her own. There wouldn't be much opportunity to bring her for such strolls anymore, from next week on. So I cast away the carrier and joined her in dawdling.

We had late tea at Toastbox, before Kirin joined us for dinner, then Yoguru yoghurt. We all love yoghurt. It's our little sweet indulgence after dinner. We usually dig into Marigold low fat natural yoghurt at home though, in which we could get creative and toss in as much variety of toppings as we like. Erm, actually it's just Yang who gets excited about this. Kirin and 小雨 generally take whatever Yang prepares.

Read that canola oil is of high smoking point, more suited for high-heat cooking (like stir-frying) than olive oil.

Ok... my Kelloggs gonna expire on 12 Jun, 8.39am. Noted in my iPhone calendar...

I'm throwing away the bulky box ok, it's taking up storage space in the fridge.

Brought 小雨 for her preschool orientation today.

And guess what? While we were waiting for Kirin to meet us somewhere near the preschool, we bumped into MediaCorp actress Rui En!

She was wandering around and looking bored. Since 小雨 and I were bored too, I approached her and asked for a selfie together! Two selfies actually, one with my glasses on, one without. Hahaa... That's so random and fun!（≧∇≦）

Kirin, who arrived just minutes later, pouted his lips and said " 哎呀！差一点！"
While we don't idolise her or any other MediaCorp artiste (we have well past that age), she's the kind of 性格 superstar where we'll feel "why not?", if there's a chance for a selfie with her and we do have some time to spare.

小雨 loves to smell and drape mom's clothes over herself, then wanders around the house ...

Sometimes, when she needs a cuddle from me but I'm busy, tossing to her one of my clothes does magic and triggers her chuckles.

Off to JCube again... (still waiting for reunion with 阿福)

Tried caffe americano at Starbucks for the first time and I liked it! It's the café coffee equivalent of my Nescafe intense 3-in-1 premix coffee at home. 

Bought a Yamazaki white forest cake (they had the black forest one but I thought that's rather boring) and had an early birthday celebration for my dear twin siblings before Mom and Dad goes off to Japan for a holiday trip.

I recall feeling neglected when you two were surrounded by red hard-boiled eggs, a plate of chicken wings, a big saucepan of fried bee hoon, and of course a lovely birthday cake with a burning candle that lit up your faces. Those were the days, when childish me thought I had lost mom's and dad's love to you two. And today, I'm singing the birthday song with my heart, with a birthday cake I bought for you.

Not quite innovative with birthday greetings so I decided to skip those. I'll just say I hope to be singing birthday songs for you two, for as long as I could, together with new people who love you even more, as you form your own heartwarming families one day...

***********************************************************************************************************小雨 holds my hand and walks me to and fro the bedroom and living room these days. She loves to bring me to the side platform of our bed where we sit and read her ABC board book together. I'll point to the pictures while she pronounces the new nouns in her small, but growing vocabulary bank, enthusiastically.

She's been saying the word "Ye-llow!" but I think she doesn't know what it means yet.

Homemade chicken stock simmering in the kitchen, after two weeks of break...

Good Friday. Holiday!

"What's that?" 小雨 adds two more words after "Oh no!" these days. She picks the line from one of her favourite Super Simple Songs - ♪ Walking in the Jungle ♪.

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Walking in the Jungle, Super Simple Songs

Walking in the jungle. Walking in the jungle.
We're not afraid. We're not afraid. 
Walking in the jungle. Walking in the jungle.
We're not afraid. We're not afraid.

One step. Two steps. Three steps forward. 
One step. Two steps. Three steps back. 
Stop. 
Listen. 
What's that? 
It's a frog!
We're not afraid!

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We had signature hand-stretched pizzas from Pizza Hut for lunch and I'm loving it!

Life without 阿福 (our car is in the repair shop now, after a car bumped into us on the night before our Hong Kong trip) - walking to the MRT station, taking the train to the shopping mall nearby and cabbing back with groceries.

小雨 fed herself to some red velvet cake with mama and papa at Coffee Bean after dinner. Red and messy, but Happy!