Bullied?

Today's the Valentine's Day and it's also Renee's cousin(daddy's side), Xuan Le mei mei's birthday. We had always thought that XL is only about 2 weeks younger but with this birthdate clarification, we all realised that she's actually >3 weeks younger than Renee(yet she's taller, hahaha).

Renee has been looking forward to this celebration/gathering and had been asking me almost everyday if it's already Saturday, hahaha. At their home, we had steam boat dinner instead of the usual buffet spread and some of the gifts were opened even before the cake cutting session, :D. 1 of the gifts, was a clay ice-cream making set and the children, including the 2 older male cousins, all hid inside 1 of the rooms to play with it.

A while later, Min Ni came down and informed me that Renee's crying and on my way up to check on her, I saw her already climbing down the stairs to look for me... Upon query, she said it's because XL mei mei(whom likes to and always claimed that she's a jie jie, :>) and Yu jie jie had not let her join in the 'play' 'cos they both claimed to be jie jies and the game is for older children, kekeke. Seconds later, Min Ni brought her back up...

Another while later, Renee came down looking super angry and on the verge of breaking into tears, she said that her 'ice-cream' went missing. I went up with her this time and Min Min made her another. However, her small happiness didn't last and minutes later, she came down crying with anger again. This time round, 'dua mmm' offered to go up and make her another but it was without the pink dough and realising that there aren't any pink dough anymore, she cried silently...

Ye Ye(grandpa) asked her : "why are you always being bullied?", hahaha. On the way home, I told daddy about this comment and that Renee seems to be too soft, even at school. She does assert herself at times but I noticed that most of the times, she's the one who 'let go' of what she had wanted or taken possessession of. Daddy said that it's not a bad thing and we shouldn't see it as being 'bullied' - holding on to something too strongly and being too assertive is hardly a very good characteristic...

Later we learnt from her(on our way home) that actually, the 2 older boys had tricked her : "I don't want to play with the boys anymore. They asked me to look somewhere and suddenly my ice-cream is gone!", I was actually amused by the narrated scenario but was also surprised that Renee knows how to use the word 'suddenly' though daddy said that she had knew it long ago(oh man, how can I not know it when I'm her main caregiver?).

It's so much easier for me now that Renee's self-taught herself on how to write, I can pass this 'writing' job to her hahaha

Can u see Renee with the saxophone? lol

Anyway, for those whom are concerned, need not worry, it's just part and parcel of growing up, we'll try our best to guide her on the correct values of life on the way... and Yes, she still had a good time there, :D. This time round, she stucked to Yu jie jie(a half-japanese and local girl, whom had only recently 'opened' up to the group of cousins despite having met up a few times) and even told her to 'choto matte' after calling out to her a few times to wait up, lolz.