A visit to Botanic Gardens

I've been finding it hard to photograph Angel lately. When I'm out with her, she'll either command me continuously - "daddy come!", "daddy climb!", "daddy no sit down, stand up!", or she'll fiercely tell me "daddy no picture!!".

So on a public holiday, I suggested we head to Botanic Gardens and let Angel run around the parks. It was a pretty hot day but there are plenty of trees around, so we found a shade and settled there. The plan worked quite well, I was able to take pictures of Angel without her sticking to me, and I can see her and mummy enjoying themselves at the park.

We should do this more often.

Her first time baking cookies

Learning from a 3-year-old

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Angel will grow up, she will go into society and she will face tough times along the way. And when she does, I want tell her to look back and learn from her 3-year-old self.

This is what I will want to tell her:

Don't be afraid of failures
Everyday you make mistakes, you do the wrong things, hurt yourself, and get scolded. You keep saying "umbrella" wrongly, we have to repeat it about five times. But each time we correct you, you repeat after us immediately without any sense of embarrassment, until you get it right.

Always step forward
Sometimes you get sad and you cry, but you can turn it into laughter in a matter of seconds, as though the sad thing never happened at all. This is incredible.

I hope she will always remember this.

For now though, I think it's me that need to learn from Angel...

My everyday mission

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Is to make Angel laugh.

One way is to copy everything that she does. Be it talking, singing, dancing, or just just some simple hand gestures, it never fails to get a laughter out of her.

But more often than not, Angel likes to bully me. She likes to order me around, pull my hand, make me carry her, make me go her direction, rub her hands on my face, kick me, pull my hair, slide down my legs, make me piggyback her, put toys on my head while I sleep, and push me down the bed, repeatedly.

That's ok though. If there's only one person in this world that Angel can bully to make her laugh, I'd gladly be the one.