Category: Ayub & Sulaiman

How to Use Sibling Rivalry to Your Advantage

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Me: Ayub… Sulaiman… Time to sleep. Go get ready for bed.

Ayub & Sulaiman: (speaking on top of each other, not in unison) Noooo… Don’t want bed. I want to play. Don’t want Mama…

Me: Go and shishi, brush teeth and change into your pajamas please…

Ayub & Sulaiman: I don’t want. No. Don’t want to brush teeth and sleep. Don’t want (etc etc)

Me: Wow! Who’s going to get ready first? Who’s going to be the winner?

(Ayub and Sulaiman jump up and sprint to the bathroom before I can finish my sentence)

Ayub: Me! Me! I’m the winner!

Sulaiman: No! Sulaiman the winner! Sulaiman is faster!

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How To Use Farts To Diffuse Any Situation

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With so many kids sleeping over, I decided to bathe the younger boys together to save time. Naked and splashing water in the bathroom are Ayub (6), Idriss (5), Shuibb (4) and Sulaiman (3).

 

Ayub: (pointing at Idriss’ boy bits) Hey, your pepet is big!

Idriss: (looking down at his boy bits) Yeah! Hahahahaha…

Ayub: Me too. I big too.

Idriss: No! Mine is bigger!

Ayub: No! Mine bigger!

Sulaiman: Mine is small.

(The three boys start arguing over size when suddenly…)

Ayub: I FARTED!

(Boys burst into laughter. Crisis averted.)

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My Son And I Are Sisters

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My niece (Tasneem, 9) and her three brothers (Yusuff, 8/Idriss, 5/Shuibb, 4) slept over on the weekend. The boys slept on mattresses on the floor in the living room, Tasneem wanted to sleep on the sofa by herself. 

Me: Tasneem can do whatever she wants because she’s my princess.

Tasneem: Yay!

Ayub: What’s a princess? Why Tasneem princess, Mama?

Me: Because she’s a girl.

Tasneem: What are you Ayub? Are you a princess?

Ayub: I’m a King! A King that sleep on the floor.

Tasneem: What about you Sulaiman? Are you a prince?

Sulaiman: No. I’m Elsa.

Me: Elsa is a queen…

Sulaiman: Yah. I am Elsa. Mama, you are Anna.

Me: Yay!

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What Happens When You Grow Up?

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We’re in the car, on the way home from an adventure. The boys sing a bunch of songs really badly. Sulaiman tries to teach Mr Ninja and I how to speak Mandarin. Ayub talks about trains and buildings and construction. This information is not relevant to the following conversation. But I just wanted to add it because I had such a lovely adventure with my three boys, I want to remember it later 🙂

 

Ayub: Ayub become the baby then become a boy.

Me: Yeah, you were born a baby boy. Now you’re a big boy.

Ayub: Later Ayub become a man like Ayah. Ayah is a man.

Mr Ninja: Later you’ll become an Ayah like Ayah.

Ayub: What?!

Me: When you’re a man, one day you’ll have babies and you’ll be the Ayah.

Ayub: Yeaaaah… Ayub become the Ayah.

Sulaiman: And Sulaiman become the Mama!

Me: Noooo… Sulaiman also become an Ayah. Sulaiman will grow up and become a man. And you’ll be an Ayah.

Sulaiman: No. Sulaiman is the Mama!

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It’s Not Nice to Call People Monkeys..!

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In the backseat of the car, Sulaiman punches Ayub.

Ayub: Hey! Mama, Sulaiman punch me!

Me: Sulaiman… Why’d you punch Ayub?

Sulaiman: I don’t want Ayub!

Ayub: Cannot punch!

Me: Yes, no punching, no fighting.

Ayub: Why Sulaiman do that Mama?

Me: Because Sulaiman is a cheeky monkey.

Sulaiman: NO! Sulaiman not a monkey! Cannot call Sulaiman monkey Mama!

Me: You’re right, I’m sorry. You’re not a monkey–

Sulaiman: I’m a banana!

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