I noticed that just the past 1 week, Zoe has added quite a number of words in her vocabulary. She probably pick it up from school or our conversation. It’s really funny the way she talk as it is not that clear sometimes but somehow, I know what she is talking…amazing huh!
These are some of the things I just recalled…
I have been sorta forced to toilet train her as she refuse to wear diapers or diaper pants very often. She can pull out the diaper herself now and also put on her pants and shirts herself. But, she sometimes have difficulties pulling up the pants at the buttock. She came to me the other day and said to me while holding her pants, "Help me!….Mommy…" LOL! (I must be ignoring her too often glueing myself to the tv watching american idol lah)
I was having my dinner late one nite and Daddy was sorta telling me that Zoe was crying when he pick her up from school today. Apparently, the teacher told him that Zoe refuse to share her toys with others but was saying "Share..Share" to others but it meant sharing to herself only. Upon hearing Daddy, Zoe dashed over to me from watching her tv and quickly said this, "Daddy no!…Mommy…boy cry, kor kor cry, che che cry…no share…play..play…"…then she went on and on about she needed to play and the rest got to share with her.
She is actually trying to stop Daddy from telling me her story. She want to tell it herself. When I asked her did she cried. She shook her head and said "No!" She is only 2 years old, but wanna save her face already. I cannot imagine when she is 20…yikes!
We were celebrating youngest SIL’s Birthday and Zoe was having a blast playing with her 2 cousin brother. When one of the cousin climbed up to the slide and stayed on top of the slide for a while, Zoe shouted "You get down!!"…"Share Share!"
Zoe told me, "Mommy…I (want) shee shee". So, I quickly prop her up on the toilet bowl on her toddler seat. After she finish, she said, "Ngg..ngg", so I waited and made some ngg..ngg sound in hope to fasten the process. Then, I heard a fart and she quickly said, "I poot, poot!..hahaha" Thou its smelly but I can’t help to laugh out loud with her…she can be really silly sometimes..
I asked her to clean up her toys after playing. She went around the house calling…"Isa….where (are) you…" or "Dola…where (are) you…" These are characters from Dora the Explorer that comes with her mega blocks. As if they went hiding and she need to look for them…LOL!
She found ants on the floor and she went, "Ant! Ant!"…later.."beat ant..beat ant!"
She found a dead bug on the floor and she went, "Ka Ka!…oh uh…come..see.." (Ka Ka in hokkien literally means bite bite, usually used to refer to something that bites like a bug)
I asked her to wash her hands, she pulled out the step stool, got on top, open the water pipe and start washing, halfway she asked for "soap?"…I put some for her and she continue to wash and said, "Rub, rub, rub…wash hand.." and she will progress to playing with water if I do not stop her.
Recently, I was quite amazed that she can take instructions very well from me. I speak my level of language but she still manage to get the things done right. Maybe being in school makes the difference.
I shall remember to talk more grown up language with her and hope that she can reply me in fuller sentence soon 
Just for the ribs, I think we will be back for sure. I also heard that they serve pork ribs (same cooking style) in other countries like Singapore. We will definitely try that porky ribs if we ever head over to Singapore…mmm…mmm….
