Auntie Alison

Auntie Alison came to visit this weekend..for the weekend! We had a lovely, if brief time, and Rosie loved having her Auntie here. A new friend to help feed the fish in the mornings caused great excitement.

Someone to help tidy KLCC gardens, leaf by leaf was also very welcome.

Time spent between leaf clearing was an opportunity for sharing gossip and cooling down.

Although Auntie needed to cool down more than Rosie…

It’s not often we get visitors from Europe for the weekend. Especially ones who will sit and watch the world go by with their tiny niece for the afternoon….

…and then hang out in the Fish and Chips restaurant and show such deep interest in the babbling and ranting of an insane mouse for the evening. Good old Auntie Alison!

 

Sunday pool time

Last Sunday at the pool. Beats going to KLCC for the thousandth time any day!

A lovely time for all of us. Rosie found a new hobby in gardening. 45 minutes picking up leaves and putting them in the bin. Or stuffing them into my face.

Of course, there was plenty of time for her other hobby…eating.

And plenty of time for sharing important information with Mummy. Somebody today suggested she is speaking Korean. It might as well be.

School!

Rosie started school this week. ‘They grow up too fast’ is an understatement. Here she is, ready for the off on a Monday morning….her first day. I think it was far more traumatic for Mummy than Rosie to be honest. It is only two hours a day, twice a week, but it is the longest that Rosie and her Mum have been apart for almost two years. Needless to say, tears were shed.

Here she is, setting off on the 200 yard trek to school. Emergency provisions in her rucksack, lest she should be overcome with hunger on the way.

She made it 100 yards, but then needed a snack. Well done Rosie, and welcome to the world of doing things you don’t particularly want to do. Possibly 90 years of it lie ahead for you.

Cool

One of the latest words that Rosie is playing with is ‘cool’

Whilst she didn’t actually use it to describe herself in my hat, she clearly thought she was.

Good for her. Not so good for me, as she insisted on wearing it all the way back from KLCC on the train this afternoon. This caused much hilarity amongst fellow commuters, which I think she took as verification of how cool she looked. At least she didn’t have her finger up her nose on the train.

Another year older for Mummy!

Just to ensure that my passing years are not the only ones documented on the blog, here is Katrin’s birthday meal at the Fish and Chip shop last week. T bone for Mama, Barramundi for Dada and bubble and squeak for squeaker. Lovely. Happy Birthday from us both Mama! xx

Rosie’s in the house

Rosie has taken to hanging out in her house quite a bit lately. Of course, we are always invited in, but 35 degrees inside a plastic house with no circulating air has limited appeal for an adult. Rosie emerges every now and then, dripping with sweat but clearly delighted to be a homeowner.

Baby Brasil

Very little of merit to purchase in downtown Port Dickson. I did, however, happen across a Brazil kit in the perfect size for Pipkin. The colours look wonderful on her. So the decision is made. She is a Brazil fan. Could be worse…

By the way…the chair is from the same shop. Football kits and tiny chairs under one roof!

Signs of excellence

Rosie is learning fast from her Mum. Hearty congratulations are in order for her new sweeping skills. Training for pre two year olds is as follows:

Stage 1) Give her the tools of the trade

Stage 2) Allow her time to figure out how it works

Stage 3) Sit back and relax

Stage 4) With enough encouragement, she might even clean the fans and ceiling.

YouTube

Mama and Rosie like to watch a little YouTube before bath time. At least we have moved on from ‘Rain, rain go away..’ Her current favourite is Glee, which at least makes it slightly more interesting for Mama.

Fish watching

Rosie in her cool pink rash suit. She was delighted to discover tiny fish in a water feature at the Yacht club.

She clearly felt that I should be equally excited by the discovery.

It took a LONG time for her to tire of fish watching. In my dreams, we have a budding marine biologist, who will work on wonderful and exotic reefs around the world…we will see.

Peaceful

Rosie likes dinner time. She seems to get quite chilled at 5ish, when she knows dinner is on the way. Some lovely dinner time pictures that Katrin took in the Royal Port Dickson Yacht Club.

 

We had temporary membership over Christmas, and Rosie spent much of her time either eating or playing in the pool. She seemed to enjoy yacht club membership. She certainly enjoyed junior fries or Chinese fried rice with chicken nuggets.

Christmas day 2010

Piles of presents greeted mousedeer when she arose at 7am. An appropriate gasp was the initial reaction. This was followed by some rapid unwrapping….What did Santa bring??? Hurry and unwrap it Mummy!!

How on earth did Santa know! It’s Lotso! He even smells of strawberries!

Dad cooked Turkey and all the trimmings. Seriously delicious. Well done Dad (and thank heavens for Tesco Seramban.)

The beach

Not the most glamorous beach destination in Malaysia, but Rosie loved a trip to the seaside in Port Dixon. Can’t quite see it in the picture above, but Indonesia is 16 kilometres away.

We paddled, picked up shells, and Rosie tried very hard to convince me that wading out towards Indonesia was a good idea.