Yesterday afternoon, D comes over to the kitchen to ask me, "mommy, why do you always ask me to stop singing, "let it go" loudly? She hasn't sung it in weeks, so this question was so out of the blue!!Me: Because it's loud and it disturbs me and possibly our neighbors. And when you sing it multiple times it gets tiring ( Read more... )

Franchises, you love them and you hate them. Someone in the school gym was asking other moms/nannies what franchises their kids are following. She obviously meant cartoons-disney stuff ( Read more... )

These past few days, D has been building some forts/buildings/schools with her lego blocks. And then she will request me to tell her a story about it! I tell her I would love to do that but would love to hear her story about it since she built it ( Read more... )

This morning while getting dressed,

D: Mommy, when will I be 4.5 years old?
Me: in two months.
D: And then when will I be 5, and after that how old will I be?

So, we counted till we got to 30, when she stops and asks,D: so, then I will have to be in a different house! I will be too big for this apartment ( Read more... )

As we were saying goodbyes, my aunt asked D if she could come to her school. D promptly refused saying it's only for children and you have to be 4 years old. She then asked if her friend, her grandson could come to Arlington and go to her school. She thought about and said no! She thought some more and told her, "no, he can't come! Because my mom ( Read more... )

N and I pack our lunches everyday in plastic Tupperware. We heat up our food in the microwave at work before consuming lunch. One day when N was about to do that at his office pantry microwave one of his colleagues came running across the room saying, "don't do that!" She stopped him from putting the Tupperware into the microwave, showed that the ( Read more... )

But before I go.... a funny incident ( Read more... )