Calista’s cuteness

Calista is cute in an infinite number of ways and it is close to impossible to make a comprehensive list to illustrate her cuteness at this stage.

Nonetheless, I feel an impulse to record what I can, if only to look back later and laugh at these sweet days (this might be of greatest comfort when she turns into a grief-inducing teenager).

1) So..I’ve recently taken to pulling her nose. My mum used to do the same to me, saying my nose was too flat and needed some lifting. I know pinching doesn’t help, but still I do it lightly, out of affection,

She refused to let me pull/pinch the first time i tried, until i told her “Let mama help you…such a flat nose..you want to be pretty?” She immediately paused in mid-air, gave a look of stoicism and let me do as I pleased. Two pinches of her nose later, she pulled away and pronounced herself “peety already, peety.ta-daaaa!” I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

She made me laugh again last night, when I lay close to her, and we were face to face. She proceeded to pinch my nose, saying in her still-babyish voice “Come mama, come I help you..” and all business-like after 5 secs of tugging at my nose bridge and making her way down to my nostrils “Now mama peety!!”

2) She lURVEs noodles (beehoon, soba, ramen, spaghetti) and has taken to calling them “woondle”. “I eat woondle!” was the first thing she said to me when I got home from work today. She had her beloved noodles for dinner.

3) Today I was horsing around with her before putting her to bed. I pretended to want to chomp down on her tummy after she made up a story of how she ate a bird and it’s now in her stomach. She squealed in protest, then offered her toes instead. I asked to chew on her buttocks instead and she cleverly pointed that she is now sitting down so I can’t reach it. I tricked her into lying down before making a big show of chomping. She matter-of-factly said “Come. Now spit out the bones. Spit. Ok? I throw away.” *pretends to throw something onto her bolster* “See i throw into dustbin already. Don’t touch ok, wet wet..”

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4) Whenever I snap at her and tell her brusquely to go to sleep, she will pull my hand, kiss my palm and say “I love you,mama…” until I respond to her tenderly. –_- Girls are such emotional manipulators..