Ayub: Oh my God Sulaiman your head is oval!
Sulaiman: Nooooo!
Ayub: Yeah, your head! It’s so oval!! Hahahahaha!
Sulaiman: NOOOOO!!
Ayub: Mama, look at Sulaiman’s head! It’s OVAL!
Sulaiman: It’s NOT oval!
Me: Oh? What shape is your head then?
Sulaiman: Circle.
The kids spent their 2-day school holiday at their grandparents because Mr Ninja and I couldn’t take leave from work…
Me: Ayub, Sulaiman… Time to get ready, we’re meeting Amah and Atuk for lunch.
Sulaiman: Amah and Atuk agaaaain?!
Me: Yup. They want to have lunch with us.
Sulaiman: Oh man. I don’t want.
Me: Don’t say that…
Sulaiman: I want Mama, Ayah and Sulaiman have lunch only.
Me: What about Ayub?
Sulaiman: Ayub can have lunch with Amah and Atuk. I don’t want Ayub.
Me: OW!
Ayub: What happened Mama?! Is it the baby?? Are you going to poop the baby?!
Me: No no…
Ayub: AYAH! AYAH! HELP!
Me: Noooo… Baby is fine. My back hurts, that’s all…
Ayub: You’re not going to poop the baby?
Me: Not yet.
Ayub: Oh. (Big sigh). So slow.
Ayub: What’s that yellow man name his hands like this? (Makes his hand look like the letter C)
Me: Whut.
Ayub: The yellow man. What’s his name?
Me: Who?
Ayub: His hands like this? (Waves C-shaped hand in my face)
Me: I don’t know what you’re talking about. Is this a real person?
Ayub: Noooooo… Yellow man, the yellow man!
Me: Whaaaa… Is this a cartoon?
Ayub: Nooooooo… His name, what’s his name?!
Me: Ayah help!
Mr Ninja: Uh?
Ayub: Yellow man with hands like this (C-shaped hand claw thing), what’s his name?
Mr Ninja: Lego?
Ayub: Yeah!
Mr Ninja: Emmet.
Ayub: Yeah, Emmet!!!
Me: Wha– How..?!
Mr Ninja: It’s obvious.
Sulaiman: Mama is the cutest!
Me: Awww! Thank you.
Sulaiman: Ayah is the smartest!
Me: I don’t know about that…
Sulaiman: And Sulaiman is the smallest!
Me: Yes you are. What about Ayub?
Sulaiman: Ayub?!
Me: Yeah, what’s Ayub?
Sulaiman: Ayub is the… schmmmellest.
Me: Smelliest?
Sulaiman: No. Schmmmellest.
Me: That’s not a real word.
Sulaiman: Yeah that’s Ayub. Schmmmellest.