My sis and her crew used to only come home fortnightly but in recent months, it’s been on a weekly basis and though that means I can’t make any plans other than staying in on Sundays, I don’t really mind it cos the babies are really such joy to be around.
Well, not when Kirsten is sick and grouchy though. When that unfortunate situation arises when that little girl starts throwing tantrums and hissy fits, it could get so bad that it seriously makes me rethink my own procreating plans… But when that girl is a darling, she’s really a darling.
Last Sunday, she was, as usual, snooping around my room. Matt was ironing his upcoming week of work shirts and pants at the entrance of the room but that didn’t hinder Kirsten’s entry. She would pull the iron’s cable above her and bend down a little to pass. Or she would just crawl through.
Once, she got up from her crawling position and the top of her head hit the underside of the ironing board. She immediately looked up at Matt and smiled, said in her sweet sing-song voice, “Sorry…” and walked away. We couldn’t comprehend why she apologised but it was just such a sweet sight!
Kirsten and Matt and their usual silly games.
And earlier on when I was doing my usual vanity stuff in the corner of my room, I could see Kirsten fussing around my room, especially near my stereo and TV. I was blind as a bat so I couldn’t see exactly what she was doing. I gave her my Anna Sui handheld mirror before that and thought she was toying around with it.
After a couple of minutes, I finally put on my glasses to see what that girl was up to. Her little arm was stuck between a speaker and my TV and I was laughing (sorry, I can be a mean aunt sometimes) loudly as I asked her, “Is your arm stuck, Kirsten?” She looked at me embarrassingly and said softly, “Yes…”
I went over to try to pull her arm out but the little girl said softly again (she’s usually a really loud girl. She only goes soft when she’s embarrassed), “Ouch Yi Yi…” I didn’t want to try pulling again so I pushed the TV away and Kirsten was soon happy and said politely, “Thank you Yi Yi.”
And the week before, Kirsten met Waffle (Sue’s westie) for the first time and she was enthralled. She followed him everywhere he went (sounds like Kirsten has became the pet, not the other way round) and when Raymond asked Kirsten whether she had a tail like Waffle, she said yes and told us her tail is red, not white like Waffle’s, cos she was wearing a pair of red shorts…
My dad’s portraits of the babies.
Kirsten while she was watching Hi-5 intently on the TV and Seth while he was watching the world went by. Seth’s half illustration looks like a character from the Chinese cartoon Dragonball…
