One of the luckiest things about being a parent is listening to the maturity and development of our children's conversational skills as they grow older. Especially when there are 2 vivacious and talkative girls at hand! These days, Hubby and I found it difficult to chat between the 2 of us, what with 2 girls yakking incessantly wherever we are :)
I thought of listing down a couple of funny conversations I had with the girls this past week:
Big Bee (one night at bedtime)
Big Bee: Mummy...
Me: Yes?
Big Bee: Do you think we will all still be alive after a million days?
Me (tired out yet still had to do some quick mental calculations): Hmmm, I think we will all not be around anymore.
Big Bee (getting excited, which was the last thing I wanted for her just before her bedtime!): OH REALLY!? You mean we will all be DEAD!? (She is at this stage where she is constantly fascinated by morbidity)
Me (struggling to keep awake): Yes, if we assume all of us live up to 100 years old, which is already a grand old age, and each year has 365 days, then we would live an average of 36,500 days (*I did not include in leap years in my calculation!*)
Big Bee: Oh. Is that a lot of days?
Me (pausing to ruminate): Hm...no, not really. 36,500 days are really not many days...which goes to show we should appreciate every single day of our lives, as our lives are so short!
Big Bee (probably wondering what Mummy was going on about regarding the brevity of life): Oh. Ok.
Thanks, Big Bee, for showing Mummy how precious life is, and how we really should live life to the very fullest :)
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Little Bee (this is more of a trend this past week, rather than a conversation)
Little Bee (in her usual cloyingly sweet pleading tone): Mummmmmyyyyy...
Me: Yes?
Little Bee: Can I call you Mum?
Me: Sure! You can call me anything you want.
Little Bee (in a calm, matured, adultish tone): Mum...
Me (feeling a wee bit strange at hearing this from Little Bee): Yes?
Little Bee: Can I call you Mama?
Me: Sure!
Since then, this experimental girl had been calling me 3 variations of "Mummy", "Mum" and "Mama" on different occasions daily.
Whatever our labels are, we will endeavour to be there for our children any time as parents (same goes to our hubbies as wives too, and vice versa!)
Children do have an uncanny way to let us see life from another angle indeed.
4 comments:
Oh man. They are such gems, aren't they? Funny ones haha!
viv: Yes, so funny indeed - these 2 conversations were kind of indelible in my mind, so I thought of blogging them so they can read these in future! Happy New Year, babe :)
Thanks for sharing this. It's very precious. I am glad to be able to live vicariously through you :)
Jeanne: My pleasure. This reminder had since taken up much of Hubby's and my conversations, and we kept reminding each other that we must enjoy every single moment because we have less than 15,000 days left (assuming we live to 75). Very sobering thought, isn't it?
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