{"id":189,"date":"2006-02-23T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-02-23T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T21:37:00","slug":"mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Mummy"},"content":{"rendered":"

After waiting for 14months, I finally heard Zara uttered her first “Mummy”<\/span>. Once she started using Mummy instead of Ah Meen, she calls me more often, and with a more tender tone. The wait was well rewarded.<\/p>\n

Every morning when she wakes up and opens her eyes, her first word would be “Mummy”<\/span>. When she spots me, she would be giving me this big big smile while stretching.<\/p>\n

If she woke up in the middle of the night, she would sit up and call “Mummy”<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Every day when I returned home after work, she’ll be greeting me with outstretched arms calling, “Mummy! Mummy!”
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\nIf she cried or feeling down, she would be calling “Mummy”<\/span> even though I may not be around (Tuyam would normally call my mobile and have me speak to her or calm her).<\/p>\n

When she’s alone with me, if I was taking a bath, she will just stand behind the shower screen, peeping in and calling “Mummy! Mummy!”<\/span> until I finish my shower.
\nIf I was using the toilet (be it for a pee or a poo), she would stand beside me, grin at me, calling “Mummy Mummy”<\/span> (it can be very tough doing your ‘business’ with a grinning toddler watching you). She always waits for me to finish, helps me to flush, and then follows me out.<\/p>\n

In our long car ride home, sometimes she’ll just reach her hand out to the driver seat, and calling, “Mummy, Mummy”<\/span>. Normally I’ll explain to her I’m driving, can’t hug her or give her milk.
\nSometimes it goes :
\n“Mummy”
\n<\/span>“Yes Zara?”
\n<\/span>“Mummy”
\n<\/span>“Yes Zara?”
\n<\/span>We can go on repeating like this for a while.<\/p>\n

However, when I ask her to “call me”<\/span> (address me), she would say “Ah Tum”<\/span> (Ah Kim, Hokkien: Mum’s Brother’s Wife). Thanks to King’s Wife, always saying “call me, call me” to Zara and only satisfied while Zara says “Ah Tum”<\/span>. Now Zara links the words ‘Call Me’ to ‘Ah Tum’.<\/p>\n

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