Just Us Two Again

Grandma & Poppy have left Bali yesterday after almost 3 weeks with us. Michael is back at work and now it's just Ayisha & me again during the day.

It felt really quick tho. The first week we went to Gili Meno, the 2nd week we had Ayisha's party and she's all sick. The last week we did a bit of shopping and also spent a few nights in Ubud. On the last night, we took them to the famous seafood dinner at Jimbaran Bay. We had an absolutely amazing time going around Bali and spending time with them. 

Every now and then Michael would ask how Im doing having the inlaws around bla bla. And in all honestly, I didn't mind it at all. (my FIL reads my blog :p) Seriously, it was not a painful time or difficult thing for me to do. The language thing may still be a bit of a barrier to me because I sometimes couldn't understand when they talk too fast and I think sometimes they couldn't understand my Manglish too (plus, my FIL a lil bit deaf, even after taking him to the ear candle thingy here hehe). But I do love having them around. I love seeing Michael and Squeaky with them and they're just simply some of the nicest, generous, loving people I know. (did I mention my FIL reads my blog?)

Quite sad to see them go as we're just getting used to having them around all the time. Ayisha was even a little bit clingy to them on the last day - 'Ma, Py, Ha,...Ma, Py, Ha'. She even thought she's gonna go on the plane to see Baby Jack & cousin Abbey!

It's all so quiet now. We've had some really wonderful memories with them while they're here and I am so happy that Ayisha got to spend this time with them at this stage of her life. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Last one at the airport

But no time to be sad for too long as tomorrow morning we'll be flying to Malaysia to see Ayisha's other grandparents - Tok & Jiddah!

It'll only be just Ayisha and me. It will be the 1st flight with just us two and also the first flight that she's gonna get her own seat (read: pay full price) as she is no longer an infant.

Now that she's 2, she's starting to seem a whole lot bigger to me. She's got a whole lot of attitude too.

The terrible two's are so terrible, EW EW EW! After being all sick, she's gotten more and more clingy and very demanding too. The clingy part, I don't really mind except when I'm PMS'ing or when I need to do poo-poo so badly she'd cling to me like I'm gonna leave her forever. The demanding part is another story. Trying to be consistent is pretty hard ie. no means no, but I remembered my sister telling me this is super important. When she's screaming so loudly and no other distractions work, you just felt like giving in. It helps having Michael around a lot this past few weeks. He's pretty strict with her, I sometimes felt like crying when he said NO firmly to her. She listens tho, then goes 'MUMMMMY!!!!!!' hoping to be rescued. I have to be stronger.

I don't know what it is about turning two but she calls me 'Mummy' now instead of 'mum' and she calls Michael 'Daddy' instead of 'dad'. She's talking talking talking and 80% of the time now, I do understand what she's trying to say (that's what I think anyway!) :p

The other day, she was trying to say something but I couldn't figure out what it is. She goes 'Pi,Pi'. And I'd do the normal guessing game 'Nappy? Strawberry? Wee wee? Gigi? Baskin robbins?' This went on for a while until she got all frustrated, shook her head, sighed and gave me this giving up 'urgh, forget it mummy' look and continued about doing her business. Pity her! Sorry lah mummy don't understand!

One conversation that will always yield the same answer from her goes as below:

Me: Ayisha sayang mummy tak? (do you love mummy)

A: No (without even looking at me)

Me: Sayang daddy tak? (do you love daddy)

A: Yes (cheekily beaming)

Chet...

She's singing too. Not just every last words but more and more words now although 'Are you sleeping' is still 'ha hu heeping' but she gets the melody right, high pitched and all. hehehe. It's just so funny.

She plays independently a lot now. She loves going on the swing & slide that we bought for her birthday. Few times she was on the slide all by herself while poppy & grandma were here. She also made sure all her dollies had their turn, taking the steps and slide all the way down.

She likes pretend cooking with the new kitchen set that grandma got her. She also does a LOT of coloring and drawing.

One thing that we do need to do now that she's 2 is to stop breastfeeding. Urgh. I really don't know where to start and how we're going to cope but I hope we'll be ok!!!

Come back soon! We miss u already..