{"id":2759,"date":"2010-11-12T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2013-05-03T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:35:13","slug":"sensible-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"Sensible Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having sensible kids is like having something precious stacked some where, which will occasionally bring a smile to your face. Do you agree?<\/p>\n

Zara is turning 6 next week, besides still being rough when playing (the shouting, the shoving when she doesn’t get her way) and doing occasional crazy stunts (riding her new bike down a slope in full speed), she’s growing up to be rather sensible.<\/p>\n

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We asked her how she wanted to celebrate her 6th birthday.
\nShe said she wanted to have it in Jungle Gym.
\nI told her Jungle Gym is very expensive, we cannot afford to hold a party for her there.
\nShe asked how come Zaria can celebrate her birthdays there<\/a>?
\nI told her, that’s because Zaria only invited one guest, Tasha (my niece).
\nShe asked how many guest she’s allowed if she wanted a party in Jungle Gym?
\nI said the most is 3.
\nSo, she said for her birthday, she will invite only Tasha, Chloe and Chiyi (kids from the neighbourhood), that’s all.
\nThen I asked her, what should we have for lunch before playing.
\nShe said she wanted to go to Grand Imperial which is also in BSC.
\nI told her that’s a very expensive restaurant.
\nSo she said, “Then, you just cook a big pot of nasi lemak and bring there, and we can have nasi lemak for lunch.”<\/span> O.O”
\nGood idea!
\nI’m actually trying to check out if Jungle Gym allows outside food to be brought in, so I can order pizza (her favourite food) for her friends before the play. I’d been trying to call Jungle Gym but no one picked up the published phone number (can’t you beat that?). So if any of you know the answer, please let me know.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I was just complaining before bed time, “So long I didn’t do my exercise. Aigh.. You girls never remind me also.”<\/span>
\nZara answered, “Well (this seems to be her favourite word before a start of answer nowadays)…. this is not daddy’s (body), this is not your daughters’ (body), this is yours, so you must remember yourself.”<\/span>
\nO.o”<\/p>\n

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Daddy spend 30 minutes to 1hr coaching Zara on her Bahasa Malaysia everynight. Zara doesn’t appreciate the language, and always trying to avoid Bahasa Revision time.
\nShe negotiated with Daddy. Daddy will spend half the time with her on Bahasa, and she will spend half the time coaching Daddy with Chinese.
\nAnd Yes, she’s more comfortable with Chinese now, and can write a few words confidently, so in her ‘class’, she’ll ask Daddy to translate what she wrote into English, of give Daddy \u542c\u5199 (Chinese spelling).
\nOne particular day, we only had 30mins before bed time, and she told Daddy they should do Chinese instead of Bahasa.
\nDaddy told her, “It’s more imporant for you to learn Bahasa than for Daddy to learn Chinese.”<\/span>
\nShe replied, “It’s important for you to learn Chinese. If you don’t know Chinese, when you go to China (for work) what are you going to do?”<\/span> o.O”<\/p>\n

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And here is the Ms-Coming-To-6-Year-Old frying an egg. I just started letting the girls do some egg frying for their own lunches recently.<\/p>\n

\"Zara<\/p>\n

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