The Taiwan sausages and the yummy food didn't do our physical well-being too much good. The whole family including Popo (and except Lil Isaac) brought home extra kgs not only in terms of luggage. Lil Shauna’s little tummy looked a little bulgy. Daddy Lim and mine double her size. Sob. Lil Isaac is the only one who didn't look like he gained a single gram. Then again, with the amount of movements that he made every single second, I wouldn't be too surprised to know that he burnt away every single calorie. In times like these, we should learn how to move it, move it like him.
It has been more than one week since we came back. I have been trying hard to diet and had finally lost the 0.5kg that I brought home from Taiwan. Unfortunately, I already put on weight before we headed to Taiwan. So, it will be hard work for the coming weeks and of course, losing weight will appear on my resolution list for 2015. It appeared too on my 2014 list and of course I didn't achieve it as I was hoping to. Bleh.
Even Daddy Lim is disgusted by how big and round his tummy is. Lol. On Monday evening, he made the entire family go for a short evening run. The kids were ecstatic to get out of the house for whatsoever. The run turned out quite funny. I was doing brisk walking and the last woman for fear of aggravating my poor right knee. Daddy Lim was in the lead, followed by Lil Shauna and Lil Isaac. Before long, Lil Isaac lagged from Daddy Lim and jiejie. Throughout the run, I kept hearing him yelling for them to wait for him. He caught up, they started running, he either grew tired and stopped or got distracted by whatever and started yelling for them to wait again. I think he spent more energy yelling than jogging. Lol. We did one tiny round around our estate and decided to stop. The track wasn't conducive for the little kids, it was dark and there were plenty of cyclists on pavement. We ended up climbing stairs back home. Daddy Lim and Lil Shauna completed all 18 floors. Mummy and Lil Isaac took lift on the 12th floor – the little boy was nursing a chesty cough and my poor right knee was starting to disagree with me. Nevertheless, I think it was a good workout and we all enjoyed family time together.
Back home, we prepared for bed and read story books – a routine that we tried to cultivate with the kids. Lil Shauna can read now and she enjoys reading. We only have to read to the little boy. However, given how bad her mandarin is, I have started loaning Chinese story books from the library, intending to start reading to and eventually with her and hoping that this will help brush up her Chinese.
Lil Shauna was totally uninterested and she made no effort to conceal how uninterested she was while her poor mummy tried as best to be as animated as possible to make the story sound interesting. Win already. I intentionally loaned a book about a girl the size of the thumb, which I thought was a common story and she should have heard about it. Alas, it didn't help. Zzzzz. Most of the time, she appeared to have no idea what I was rattling about in Chinese. When I asked her what certain vocab means, she gave me blank looks. It does look like we have a long way to go.
Mummy Lim
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