Zara is very clingy to me, especially when she knows it’s a weekend, or it’s after working hours (I normally declare by shouting “DING DONG“ to the girls to indicate I’d finished work), and I’m supposed to be the one who ‘jaga’ (Malay : Take care of) her.

I tried training her to sleep on her own by giving her milk, wait for her to finish, and then conning telling her I need to take my shower first, before I join her in bed.

If she’s willing, she’ll agree, and will tell me, “Mummy, you take bath, but don’t close the door ok?”
Most of the time when I’m done showering, she would have fallen asleep.

There are times when she’s not willing to sleep first, and she’ll say “pat pat me first” or “You sleep with me first, then only take bath.” At times like this, when I insisted that I needed a bath, she would say she’ll join me in the bath.

What she’ll do is, she’ll pull a stool and place it outside of the shower cubicle, and then watch me shower; after that, she’ll pull the stool and place it near the sink and watch me brush my teeth.

Yesterday, I wanted to use the toilet and she told me she wanted to come with me.
So I told her, “Mummy want to poo poo la.”
She insisted, “But I want to come!”
“Very smelly la. You don’t follow me.”
Her response, “Never mind. I stay in the toilet and do like this..” And she pinched her nose.

o.O”