Sulaiman: Mama, your bumbum is so big!
Me: No, your bumbum is big.
Sulaiman: Nooooo… Sulaiman bumbum is small, Ayub bumbum is medium and Mama bumbum is LARGE!
Me: What about Ayah?
Sulaiman: Ayah got no bumbum. Ayah got pepet only.
Category: Just Sulaiman
Nobody Eats Vediballs Except Me
Sulaiman: Mama, I don’t want vediballs!
Me: What’s that?
Sulaiman: I said, no vediballs ok? I don’t want. Mama do.
Me: Mama do what? What are vediballs?
Sulaiman: No. No vediballs.
Me: Ok. Whatever.
Sulaiman: I want rice and chicken and egg and crispy ONLY. No vediballs.
Banana Moon
At kindergarten, the kids who do well or get answers correct or whatever get little pictures drawn on their hands as a reward. Sulaiman regularly comes home with stars, flowers and smiley faces on his hand.
Me: Ooooh… What’s that on your hand?
Sulaiman: A star! And a banana!
Me: Haha. I think that’s supposed to be a moon.
Sulaiman: What?! A banana moon?!
Me: It looks like a banana, but it’s called a crescent moon.
Sulaiman: Cressy moon?! Cressy moon?! No, it’s a banana.
Schooled by a 3-yr old
Sulaiman takes Mandarin as a third language at his kindergarten. We’re coloring in his coloring book.
Sulaiman: Here Mama, you take hong se.
Me: What’s that?!
Sulaiman: Hong se Mama. Red color.
Me: Oh. Ok. Hong se.
Sulaiman: I take fenhong se.
Me: Wahong se.
Sulaiman: (laughing) What Mama?! Not wahong se. Fenhong se.
Me: Fahong se.
Sulaiman: Fen-hong-se.
Me: I don’t know.
Sulaiman: You so cute Mama. You just take hong se only.
The Friendly Baby Lizard that wanted to eat Sulaiman
Sulaiman: Mama… There’s a lizard in my room in our house!
Me: Oh yeah. He won’t hurt you, don’t worry.
Sulaiman: He want to eat Sulaiman!
Me: Noooo… He’s so small. Sulaiman is SOOOOO big. The lizard only eats mosquitoes.
Sulaiman: The lizard got no papa and no mama and no brother.
Me: Yeah, he’s all alone.
Sulaiman: The lizard is a baby.
Me: He is.
Sulaiman: The lizard is my friend.