Anya : 3.5 years old
Just like any other preschoolers whose language skills are already quite developed by now, she too expresses her wants very clearly nowadays.
Like just these past few weeks, we get to hear countless “No, I don’t want to’ and ‘Now!’
At times she prefers to not share any of her things with anyone else. And at other times, she shares everything with everyone.
When she throws a tantrum, it ranges from an ‘easy to soothe’ kind, to a ‘full-blown-far-from-rational-and-fully-emotional’ type.
Overall though, she’s still a cheerful type of kid.
She loves to laugh out loud, hops around and plays silly games.
She looks forward to spending time with Daddy just before bedtime. From playing ‘horse riding’ and going ‘upside-down’, to quieter sorts like reading and saying her nighttime prayers.
She can sit on our sofa just with her books for a very long time.
And her memory skill, it’s often beyond what we can ever imagine.
Other than the alphabets, numbers, songs or car models (she tells us what the car is by looking at the car’s ‘logo’), she can recall stuff like where we last sat and dined when we enter a restaurant, and even minor incidents that happened one or two years ago.
She too remembers the names of people who gave us stuff. She’d say things like, ‘Oh, can I play with the sticker book given by Auntie Andrea … you know, the one that she gave to me as a birthday present when I was two years old!’
Ah kids.
Though I’m often exhausted by them, I still do feel privileged for having been given the opportunity to see them grow up, be with them throughout their early years, guide and teach them and share my tears and laughters with them.
And I’ve got to say, such moments can never be repeated nor exchanged with anything.
