{"id":13738,"date":"2011-05-30T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2011-05-30T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:28:40","slug":"holidays-at-home-masak-masak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/05\/30\/holidays-at-home-masak-masak\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays at Home: Masak-Masak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our girl is demanding more and more of our attention whenever she’s at home. She often wants me to sit down to play cards or read a book to her. In order to keep her occupied while I cook or clean, I have to come up with things for her to do.<\/p>\n

Today’s day 1 of school holidays. I went digging in the kitchen and brought out bowls, spoons, a mini sieve, a mini Vietnamese coffee maker (a gift), garlic cloves, colourful pasta pieces, macaroni and black beans and showed her how to play masak-masak (‘pretend to cook’ in Malay). To my amusement, she was totally engrossed in ‘cooking’. However, my terror began when she wanted to have her bowl of pasta-macaroni-black beans everywhere she went! Sigh, she made quite a din when I told her that playtime was over. *headache* I just finished my act entitled ‘Mommy is angry with you throwing a tantrum’ while putting her down for her routine afternoon nap. Thank God that she fell into a deep slumber in a matter of minutes. Probably worn out crying and resisting mommy.<\/p>\n

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These days, Hannah would burst into tears if she couldn’t have her way. Yang and I discovered that whenever we offer her a piece of tissue paper in the midst of her sobbing, she would automatically take it to blow her nose and then walk to a dustbin to dispose it. Sometimes we would give her a few more pieces of tissue if her outburst was of a grand scale. The process of wiping her nose and tears helped to calm her down and stop all the crying and wailing.<\/p>\n

Okay, more photos of her doing masak-masak!<\/p>\n

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Our girl is demanding more and more of our attention whenever she’s at home. She often wants me to sit down to play cards or read a book to her. In order to keep her occupied while I cook or<\/p>\n

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