Clap Clap Clap

It is amusing and delightful to see a child enjoying a simple act such as clapping. Hughie loves to learn new things, recently it is clapping. He will squeal in joy when he hears his own hands clapping. Sometimes he misses the target and he will try over and over again until he hears the soft clap. As parents we try to encourage them in everything, so hubby and I always end up clapping like sea lions the whole day. When he is sick of clapping, he will start his crazy frog (Red Indian) tune.

I am now teaching him to "fly kiss". He can wave "bye bye" when he feels like it but he is not into this "bye bye bye" thing. Can’t blame him. The simple joys in life. I love every moment of this!!

Weirdness

Can someone think, type, sing and flip through their working papers at the same time?

I find it OBVIOUSLY very irritating when some colleagues sing, type and flip the pages at the same time – silently, I don’t mind but when they sing out loud while listening to their headphone, that is when it gets irritatingly painful.

This has been on-going for the entire afternoon and all I can do it listen to her and not doing my work. It gets distracting when you need to think programming language. To top it off, this is open office concept so you can imagine the noise pollution level. To my right, I can hear the coffee machine and photocopyer doing it’s routine cycle, to my left the colleagues are singing, talking, typing without filtration, to my front .. a few burly men talking on the phone as if everyone else here is deaf. Along the entire corridor, I can hear footsteps on CARPET floor, I can hear hammer hammering on top of me .. some reno works on the 3rd floor, I hear someone blowing their nose (eeeww) – yes, the toilet is also nearby! All unimaginable noises you can’t think off in an office, it’s all happening here.

If I have a noise detector to see the pollution, it will definately show unhealthy environment for a sane person to work. Am I the only one irritated by such noise in an office?! Maybe, no one else have colleagues like mine who likes nothing but to talk from 7am-4pm non stop.

Recent Snapshots

Nun or not, I am not liking this.

New haircut – can you tell?

Mummy is insane! I am sad and she’s taking a picture of me!?! Daddyyyy!!!!

Peeeeeekkkkaaaabooooooo…….. good morning all!

I love my colourful mat!

hahahahah …. daddy just told me a joke! …

Don’t you just love my new haircut?!

 

Nightmare

Do you believe that children can see or feel the "unusual"? Let me tell you what happened and you try to conclude it.

Yesterday, Hughie and I were walking up to our apartment (after fetching him from the sitter) and just before reaching our apartment door, he began feeling uncomfortable and began to sob. When we entered the house, he cried. At that moment, I knew something was wrong but I didn’t really say anything. I just told him there’s nothing to worry and carried him to see the picture of Jesus and Our Lady. All went well after that.

He was edgy the entire night – thought he was just sleepy. Bedtime came and after a few minutes, he woke up screaming and crying non-stop. That scared us because he seldom does that. Took awhile to calm him down though. Settling down, I knew something was terribly wrong so I did everything. Prayed, bless the room, the toilet .. basically the entire house. Hubby went to pluck some leaves – traditional plant believed to be cleansing to casts away evil spirits (I planted this plant for backup!).

Now, what say you?

My Experiment

Last weekend I had some fondant left so I decided to experiment. Everything is pink because that was what I had left! Lazy to make a new batch so.. the result was too pink. Decided to stick a balloon on it!

Probably this weekend I am going to experiment on more figurines with different sets of colours. I need to master the skill of piping icing too! Gosh … I am out of time!