I’m not capturing much of what Zara said these days because she’s speaking longer sentences, and I have a hard time memorising these. I’m however, started to capture the more interesting things she said using my phone Note Apps. Even she’s telling me, “Ma, are you recording what I’m saying?” 😛

This girl is getting extremely good with articulating her thoughts or getting her message across.

She’s very good with giving a punch line, or being creative with names calling.

For example, when she’s upset with Daddy, she’ll say something like “Excuse me, Daddy Raddy, …..” or “I’m dissapointed with you Bow Daddy.”
(Daddy Raddy or Bow Daddy terms she made up along the conversation).

She’s good in talking back to Daddy; like telling Daddy, “You don’t have a brain, you just have a butt.”

One day, the two girls were playing in the car, shouting, laughing, making so much noise. Daddy told them to be quiet, and then he started talking to me. Zara said sulkily, “The one who asked me to be quiet can’t keep quiet himself.” o.O”

Another day, Zara stepped on Daddy’s tripod, and Daddy scolded Zara, “Told you how many times not to step on my things! Come! Let me step on your head and see.” (oh, all the photography gear to him is soooooo precious)
Zara started crying and told him, “My head is more important or your thing is more important? My head right? Why did you say you want to step on it?” o.O”

Yesterday, on the rare occasion where I turned on the TV, I saw an interesting TVB drama on NTV7 (I think that’s the channel). The TV was left turned on while we were having dinner. When I saw Zaria was not eating her meal but kept looking at the TV, I turned it off.
Zara said, “Just now you were not my real mummy. Now you are my real mummy.” I asked her why did she say that, and she replied, “Real mummies won’t teach their children bad habbits by having bad habbits themselves.” (bad habbit == watching TV while eating) o.O”

She did very well in her Chinese reading homework and also piano practice (normally, both of us end up being angry with each other because I get angry with her not paying attention, and she gets angry with me loosing my patience), so I told her, “You did so well today for your reading and your piano playing, and I’m so proud of you.”
She replied, “Ma, I did well to impress you.” o.O”

This girl, if she’s going to a English medium school, will sure not have problem. But.. this is Malaysia, and I cannot afford to send her to international school. 🙁