Happy Reading

Supposed to go with daddy to the office as agents/staffs are to be there but seeing that my cough has worsened(all thks to his mee goreng dinner the other day, :>), he told me to stay home which turned out to be a good idea as I've felt lousy the whole day...

I remembered falling into a short nap and Renee, knowing that I wasn't well, left me lying on the sofa whilst she went about playing on her own. Shortly, I opened my eyes('cos I've not planned to nap and a light sleeeper by nature, I tend to wake up easily) and when she saw that, she quickly showed me a tiny elephant which she had moulded with my bluetac(she must have stripped some off from the paintwork corner)! I must say that I was very impressed with that as I've never seen her done an animal in clay-form art nor drew one before! Sadly, daddy hadn't got the chance to see it nor did I get the opportunity to take a photo of it to show you guys here 'cos by the time I remembered it when we got home just now, she's already cushed it away(to make other things)..., :(.

Daddy had wanted to go to Tony Romas(actually, it was prompted by his darling daughter) for our dinner but I wasn't feeling quite up to it to go that far(to him, it's near now that we can get there in 15mins), so we ended up at Cafe Cartel @ Hougang Mall. We went over to Popular bookstore after our dinner(where we had quite a big share of their freshly baked baguette - wonderful! Even Renee ate quite a few slices, on top of half of her dinner. Should hv seen her tummy! hahaha) and whilst daddy was getting more stationaries for his office, I went to the children books section, hoping to find some short version fairytale storybooks. I thought about the books that Eileen had passed to us which, with her permission, we've donated some(though old but well-kept but being of papre nature- they've turned very yellow and tend to have 'paper-insect'? Plus the content might no longer be suitable now) to charitable organisations - well, it's still being put to good use anyway.

I was still contemplating if I should get one of those '300+ fairy tales' story books, but whilst scanning through the books, I recalled that I seem to have kept this(but I guess she can only read it much later...too long for me to read to her lah, this one abv already contains pages n pages of each story) from the stash books Eileen had given us,

and unable to find those really short ones, I made my selection with these(below pic). I only grabbed the one titled 'In or On?' last minute 'cos Renee seem to be confused about her 'In(s) and On(s)' as she likes to say : "at/on the room...". Hopefully, this book will help

Renee was very excited about the books('cos daddy had told her about them when she wanted him to get her the books she'd found at the store, hahaha) and couldn't wait til we got home - she took hold of the small book(the ugly duckling) and tried to read in the car when daddy drove over to meet someone but I forbid her to.