How to eat a cupcake the Ayana way. Follow these 3 easy steps.
STEP 1:
Using your pointer finger, jab with all your might, creating holes on the cupcake surface with the frosting/topping, like this:
The cupcake should look like this after all the jabbing you did.
STEP 2 :
Then you need to use your whole hand and mash the cupcake. Mash it, mash it.
STEP 3 :
Only then can you eat it. Yum!
My baby Ayana Rhys have this weird thing with toilet and food. She likes to eat her biscuit or any food inside the toilet/comfort room.
Well not really all the time, but when it happens she has something in her hands when it’s time for a bath, then she definitely will want to have that food with her inside the comfort room.
Arguing or persuading her otherwise will result to an all out scream “NOOOO!”
My sweet-tempered little angel transformed into this little creature straight from the Gremlin’s movie.
Still, when for some reasons I get to wrestle her of the “food”, I count and savor all these precious triumphs over her baby steps to independence.
Toddlers and their efforts for autonomy.
Ayana Rhys and the Coco Krunch
Last night I was setting up my new Globe Prepaid Tattoo. This is my second tattoo stick. We didn’t know that Michael will be sent to Melbourne for a month to support Ford T6 program again, so I gave my “parked with an already unusable sim” Globe Tattoo USB stick, to Michael 2, he bought another tattoo sim for the stick.
(side note : my husband is Michael 1, there are acutally 3 of them since they are triplets and their names are conveniently Michael 1, Michael 2 and Michael 3, though in Roman numerals, I will refer to Michael I, as dear husband DH, he is also “Amay” to family and relatives, II is known as “Ayek” or “Import” and III is “Boyax” or “Boy-boy”)
While setting up, Mikaela and Ayana were watching DORA the Explorer, episode, Egg Hunt.
They were watching it from a portable DVD player bought by Uncle Ayek (he is an Electrician/Seaman and currently on vacation), from China and of course all the buttons and the remote are in Chinese characters. Needless to say, we figured it out by trial and error.
Back to the my 2 angels.
Mikaela can almost follow the dialogue line by line while Ayana not to be outdone was interacting and reacting her cute enthusiastic way. And this is the conversation I overheard:
DORA: Do you see an egg?
AYANA: O! (meaning “yes” in English)
I chuckled. And then another one,
BOOTS: Say map! Say map!
AYANA: Ha? (translates to “huh?”)
By this time I already hugged her tight and smothered her with my kiss! 
And proceeded to give the same hug and kiss to Ate Mikaela. The two became very fierce in competing for my attention now that Michael dear husband is not around.
Yes, one thing, Ayana became known as “fishy titi gi!” baby to her cousins (Michael’s side). Apparently, she says these words often around her cousins.
I’ve yet to hear her say these infamous words.
I admire toddlers who are really good in speaking the English language and mostly their parents or whoever is training them to speak the language. I’ve dreamed of having my 2 kids speak English at an early age but alas, my children are Bisdak through and through.
But it makes me sad that some parents equate their self-esteem with that of the abilities of their children. We have to realize that our children are unique in their own rights. And that we must love our children despite or regardless of their innate skills or abilities. Let’s celebrate their individuality, their uniqueness and love them unconditionally. =)
