Walkies Galore!

Dearest Skyler,

You’ve been waking up very early again these days – you wake Mama up by 7 a.m. almost every day, Lil’ One. Hmmm… We wish you could sleep in a bit more. Oh well…

Popo was supposed to have come to visit today but as she had gone on a trip over the weekend and had only come back last night, she was not up to traveling all the way to where we are, Lil’ One. So sorry about that – Popo won’t be bringing you downstairs to walk around. Never mind, she’ll come another day, okay?

In the afternoon, Mama brought you to the zoo once again. Being a weekday, you both enjoyed complimentary trips on the tram service and you both had nice train stamps on your arms. :D At the zoo, you saw the new-born pygmy hippo! It was so tiny and cute! :D You also saw something that looked like a pangolin at the Elephant enclosure and Mama wanted to take a photo of it to show Papa but a family there was surprised by it and they tried to chase it away because of their shock and it scampered off.

At the zoo, there were also some (probably) zoo people who took photos of you both and tried to charge money for the photos. Mama wasn’t sure what this was about but as they were dressed in zoo T-shirts, Mama thought it was okay for them to take the photos. However, after that, when Mama was considering whether to buy the photos, she was shocked at how much they were asking for them. It was way too expensive and they didn’t even state what the money was for unlike the other money generating ventures in the zoo. Thus, Mama didn’t get the photos. We didn’t need those photos anyway as you both brought your own camera and had a similar photo taken!

You both then had your customary Milo drink before leaving the zoo and coming to pick Papa up from work. :D

We went straight home as Mama had prepared dinner beforehand. Yummy! Papa loves the food Mama prepares!

After dinner, Papa brought you downstairs with your trike to make up for Popo not having come today. Papa had promised you yesterday that Popo would come to bring you downstairs and since she couldn’t, Papa decided to do it instead.

As it was quite late, Papa didn’t bring you very far – just the area downstairs. Once again, Papa is so glad that we stay where we do as we have so much space for you to explore and play. This area is just so good for you to grow up in.

After moving around our estate for a while, you wanted to play at the playground and Papa brought you there. Actually, Papa was quite reluctant to let you play there as it is quite well-used and probably quite dirty, you wanted to go onto the structures so Papa allowed you to. After climbing up the structure, you wanted to go down the slide! As Papa was alone and you are still too young and small to go down the slide on your own, Papa had to hold onto you and go down the slide with you! :P Thank goodness there were two slides with one being bigger. This was the one that Papa brought you down – three times! The other was just too narrow for Papa to fit! :D

We then went back upstairs to rest. A while later, we set off downstairs again! We had not got breakfast for tomorrow and Papa had to go out to the shops to get something. Thus, Papa brought you along once more. Wow! The shops there really close very late, Lil’ One. It was already close to 10 pm and the shop operators looked like they were nowhere near closing.

As you wanted to walk, Papa allowed you to walk back all the way – even across the road – as the roads were more deserted by then. But Papa kept a hold of your little hand for dear life! Thankfully you were a good lil’ girl and gave no problems at all.

You had lots of walkies today, Lil’ One! Hope you enjoyed yourself.

Oh! Tua-pek and family came back today and Che-che Reika tried to speak to you over the phone but other than saying ‘hello’, you didn’t say anything else to her. :D

Darling, you are really such a god-send! You are so cute! You’ve come to say ‘Uh-oh’ in such a super sweet way when you do something you know is wrong or by accident. You usually say that when you drop something and you know that we will chide you for it. When you do it, we are always so amused that it is difficult to really be unhappy with you as we will struggle to keep the smiles off our faces. :D

We love you, Lil’ One!

Papa and Mama