Bibou's waking up much better in the morning these days (touch wood) ... not too much whinging! In fact, some mornin
gs, she would wake up, stretch, throw off her own covers, run to turn on her own lights (she has this thing with lights, she loves to turn them on and off all the time - I guess she feels like she's all grown up, 'coz she's able to reach the lights), run to the other end of the room to turn off her 
air purifier and take out her night light. Once 
she's done all that, she'd come into our room and climb into bed with us. She'd first give soft kisses, but then not too subtely, she'd very loudly demand to go 'downstairs' to Daddy. If Daddy doesn't move quick enough, she'd get off the bed, and turn on our lights! The other morning, whilst Daddy was in the bathroom after getting up, she looked at 
me, pointed to the phone and said "call mahmah now?' Wow, almost a whole sentence. She then went to the phone, took it off the cradle and handed it to me, looked me quick firmly and said "call mahmah now'. Okayyyy. I guess we're calling Mahm
ah now. So dialed the phone and Mahmah picked up and she chatted away with Mahmah (though poor mahmah still doesn't quite know how to understand her chatter yet). After a while, she passed the phone back to me so I chatted with Mom. Was telling her how independant Bibou was becoming, and started telling her how strong willed she is. Like if she wanted s
omething or do something like peel an orange herself,.... Mom then continued, "you cannot do it for her, 'coz if you do, she'd throw it away and rather not eat it". I went, "how did you kn
ow????". Mom said (a tad bit too smugly) " JUST LIKE YOU, lor"! (Oh Boy, Mama Karma!)I saw first hand Bibou's 'character' at her nannys. We'd arrived at tatas, and E
mma (another little girl who's a good 6 months older than Bibou, but way smaller than she is) was there already. Tata was on the floor speaking to Bibou and trying to get her to take her coat, hat and shoes off. Emma decided that she wanted to cuddle with Tata and got onto one of Tata's lap. Ooooh boy! I literally saw red-horns grow out from Bibou's head. Without a word, she walked up to
Emma and said "No', and then tried to pull her off Tata's lap. She kept pulling and shoving, ignoring Emma's cries and Tata and my 'scoldings' of "No Bibou. Stop Bibou". She had this look of determination in her eyes and 
nothing was going to stop her. Then, when she realized that it was futile as Tata was holding onto Emma, she turned and got a toy and offered it to Emma, who got off Tata's lap to play with it. Bibou immediately jumped onto Tata's lap! And then smiled VERY sweetly to Emma who was pouting when she realized that she was tricked. Bibou then patted Tata's other lap and said to Emma "comeon" (in French)... offerin
g Emma the other lap all very innocently and sweet! I was globbesmacked!The weather has been really yucky lately. After a beautiful 2 weeks of sunshine, gorgeous temperatures (up to 17 degrees! some days), where the trees started budding, the tulips and dafidals were all sprouting out, it turned cold, and wet wet wet. We even had a couple of snow flurries! Our poor flowers, just didn't know quite what to do I'm sure. They can't possibly 
shrink back into the comfort of the soil now can they??!! We hope they don't freeze. Anyway, so yesterday, it was wet again, so we decided to go to anoth
er huge indoor 'jungle gym', not unlike Bibou's favorite place Ludimax. This place had the ths same kind of layout, multi-storied padded structure where the kids can climb, slide, roll, pull, push and just do everything they can to exhuast themselves. This p
lace, called Kooney Planet, had bouncy castles and even better, a large area of 6 trampolines! You should have seen the look on Bibou's place as soon as she got through the entrance. She was actually a little bit grouchy and whinny as she'd just woken up from a very short nap... but immediately all that was gone. She couldn't wait to pull her jacket and hat and stuff off. She plonked herself on the floor and pulled her shoes off, impatiently waking for me to put her slippers on and off she ran. She
was soo happy exploring first the little structure th
at was meant for kids below 3 years old. Up and down she went, diving into the pool of balls, sliding down the mini slide. But soon, she got bored, and wanted to get onto the big structure, which was actually meant for kids above 3 years old. But did she care? Nooooo.... plus she's been on the big structure at Ludimax, so she headed off. The climbing entrance 'steps' were actually quite large, but gosh was she determined to get on. She'd pulled herself and climb and twist and turn until she got on. And into the 'jungle' she went. She was undaunted at how large nor 'difficult' each activity w
as. She was having a blast of a time. She even came down the big slide (she had been afraid the last few time
s at Ludimax). After a while, we brought her to the trampoline area. Boy was she in 7th heaven! Especially when Daddy bounced alongside her. She couldn't stop giggling! She wasn't too happy about having to leave I tell ya! It was still pouring, and so we brought out the umbrella and she insisted on holding it herself. It was too cute for words!
shrink back into the comfort of the soil now can they??!! We hope they don't freeze. Anyway, so yesterday, it was wet again, so we decided to go to anoth
er huge indoor 'jungle gym', not unlike Bibou's favorite place Ludimax. This place had the ths same kind of layout, multi-storied padded structure where the kids can climb, slide, roll, pull, push and just do everything they can to exhuast themselves. This p
lace, called Kooney Planet, had bouncy castles and even better, a large area of 6 trampolines! You should have seen the look on Bibou's place as soon as she got through the entrance. She was actually a little bit grouchy and whinny as she'd just woken up from a very short nap... but immediately all that was gone. She couldn't wait to pull her jacket and hat and stuff off. She plonked herself on the floor and pulled her shoes off, impatiently waking for me to put her slippers on and off she ran. She
was soo happy exploring first the little structure th
at was meant for kids below 3 years old. Up and down she went, diving into the pool of balls, sliding down the mini slide. But soon, she got bored, and wanted to get onto the big structure, which was actually meant for kids above 3 years old. But did she care? Nooooo.... plus she's been on the big structure at Ludimax, so she headed off. The climbing entrance 'steps' were actually quite large, but gosh was she determined to get on. She'd pulled herself and climb and twist and turn until she got on. And into the 'jungle' she went. She was undaunted at how large nor 'difficult' each activity w
as. She was having a blast of a time. She even came down the big slide (she had been afraid the last few time
s at Ludimax). After a while, we brought her to the trampoline area. Boy was she in 7th heaven! Especially when Daddy bounced alongside her. She couldn't stop giggling! She wasn't too happy about having to leave I tell ya! It was still pouring, and so we brought out the umbrella and she insisted on holding it herself. It was too cute for words!
2 comments:
Who had more fun : daddy or Bibou?
She's indeed quite a character your Jo. Which is just as well, this will stand her in good stead. We don't like wishy-washy girls, do we?
LOL! That's what someone said to us. Better to have kids with character then one without any character at all!
Daddy always have fun. He's a big kid himself. But that's the wonderful thing about him. And also why he's great with kids.
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