Yx hits double digits

Happy 10th, dearest Yx has reached double digits! Yx has been forming deeper friendships and coping conscientiously with an increase in school commitment and her sister's incessant demands to play together 😂 

Last pic - Yx's wish for her birthday was to have a swim party with her besties from school, A and E (there was another girl L in the initial plans but she chose not to attend as she preferred watching TV (???)). Yx planned it as early as a few months ago, discussing details with her friends and us on the logistics (if their parents are coming, mode of transport). She didn't enjoy swimming this year before she started Swim Safer, and now she does (although she isn't still quite good at it), and I'm really glad of that!

Yx, here's wishing you happiness always and confidence and courage as you learn along (aka be more assertive!). 

Korea

SO SURREAL! HERE WE GOOO!!!

Wye drawing

Mad Unicorn

Just done binge watching this.

Papa time

Today was Sunday. I slept on the master bed on my own whilst wifey slept in the other with the kids, as we usually do on weekends. Ye woke up earliest amongst us as usual, she entered my room this morning and bugged at me to wake up. She clambered onto bed and under the blanket with me. I woke up eventually and prepped her breakfast (kaya bread at her request) and we chatted. (Yx didn't wake up until much later btw)

During dinner, Ye said to me she wants Sat and Sundays to be the same as today, so that she can have "papa time". Awww 🥰 sweet moments like this remind me that I'm doing all right as a parent! :)

She's turning 6 in a day's time!

moments like this

My skin uncomfortable in the humidity whilst doing my job: throwing and picking up shuttlecocks from the ground, repeatedly. Told myself to look at this scene in another perspective, in admiration: sisters playing with each other, giggling, one creating magical bubbles and the other bursting them, their characters poles apart yet also so alike. Will I miss moments like this, I ask myself. Will I miss them bugging me, holding my hands, their silly faces grinning at me. 

Without a doubt.

Ye's favourite vegetable

Wye announced that her all time favourite veg is the stir fry baby kailan we had during our recent staycay, ordered via Grab from a random zhichar stall.

Lol cute girl she loves her vegetables, she even enjoys stalks unlike her sis.