In a last bid to spend more time with my family, I headed over to my sis’ place yesterday to play with the little ones. I arrived, had lunch and all the while with Kirsten trying to get my attention when I was chatting to my sis. That little girl made me feel so loved! According to sis, she was happier than her usual cos of my presence. *triumphant grin*
Sis ‘fainted’ on the floor and asked ‘Dr Kirsten’ to treat her with her medical kit but fussy ‘Dr Kirsten’ insisted my sis to ‘faint’ on the day bed instead. Such exasperation with the doc! Seth was just happy in his little yellow rubber chair (forgot the name for it!)
We proceeded to make white milk bread (or rather my sis’ helper did) with their new breadmaker. Kirsten and I were both thoroughly intrigued and I carried her to look through the little window on the breakmaker every five minutes cos I was equally curious. The bread was so cute and round at some points that I was tempted to open the breadmaker to pat on the roundness of the bread and Sis had to warn me not to cos of the yeast. BAH!
Then Sis suddenly said the magic words, “Who wanna go swimming…” softly but somehow, Kirsten’s ears must be tuned to the magic of the word ‘swimming’ and she immediately looked up at Sis earnestly, imploring her to say the magical words again. When Sis said louder this time round, Kirsten jumped and said, “Me!” and immediately pulled me to her room, in search of her wet suit and then to the storeroom for her float.
She was so over the moon that it was really hilarious to watch. According to Sis, the poor girl hadn’t swam for nearly 6 months, since Seth came around. And we also brought Seth down for his first swim!
These are Kiks’ (the nickname my dear pals gave her. But more on that later.) “Cheese!’” expressions. She literally say ‘cheese’ out loud.
I had hardly seen Kirsten this happy – such a funny sight! At some point, that ambitious girl wanted to go without her float and I was holding her and she tried to push my hands away. I did let go and she swallowed a fair bit of chlorine (and maybe some pee too…) water. hahahaha! Sorry, evil aunt alert.
Seth took to the water surprisingly well. He made some faces in the beginning when Sis put him slowly into the float he inherited from Kirsten. The float was a gift from me when Kirsten was Seth’s age. Isn’t the sun shade hilarious?! After a while, he just got bored and plonked his head on the float while Sis pushed him around.
Who’s the duckie!
I saw this duckie towel Sis passed me and I couldn’t stop laughing for a full minute. It’s so funnnnyyyyy!!! It’s from Aussino and she told me there’s a frog one as well. I wanna buy that for Kiks too!
Sis brought Seth up for a bath first and 20 minutes later, Kiks and I followed suit. I made her wear the duckie towel and all the aunties around the pool couldn’t stop laughing when they saw her and you should see that proud face on Kiks’ face.
During dinnertime, Seth turned a little spas and started doing these jerks with his head. I’ve got it down on video. See the post above!
Matt came by after work and having not seen Kiks during the weekend, he must be damn enthu to be willing to pay that $26.30 for that bloody cab ride! He was happy to spend that bit of time playing with her and with the fresh loaf of bread, we headed home at 9pm, all ready to hit the sack.
Damn, Sis and her family is gonna move near home by the end of the year and I’m moving away to HK. :(
ilikeribena said,
July 29, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
kiks looks super funny in the duckie robe!! omg!
and i can see the top of her head in the elevator shot!
and i so want a breakmaker!!! :(
psst, your sis is damn “miao-tiao” for a mummy that gave birth 6 mths ago!!!
ngyilian said,
July 29, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
i know right!! she’s soooo funnyyyy
aiya, the family genes mah. thanks mum (not you. my real mum. hahahaa)!!!
reader said,
July 30, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
wow your sis is still so slim despite giving birth to 2 kids! Enjoyed reading your entries :)
ngyilian said,
July 31, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
Haha, yeah she is. She only complains about the tummy but other than that, she pretty much regained her pre-pregnancy figure. She’s lucky it runs in the family! Aw, thanks for that! :)
Failed swimming lesson « Yi Lian finds her way in Hong Kong said,
August 15, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
[...] August 15, 2008, 1:55 pm Filed under: family, love | Tags: family, love After learning of my previous swim with Kirsten and Seth, Matt got jealous and wanted to swim with the kids too. He wanted to teach [...]