One last note on the almost 4 YO...

Cheeks at almost 4:

loves to say:

• I want to go home right straightaway!
• it's not fair! (nothing ever is, kiddo)
• it's really, absolutely the last one/story
  
• that's not nice!
• 'vehicle', 'fabulous', 'pronounce', 'operatic voice'
  
• mummy, I love you ever so much
• 可口可樂
• please, Mummy? Please please, can I?
• When I'm big...
• it's morning time!
• (on the phone) Hello, Papa? Where are you? I want you to come home now.
  

loves to:

• wait for me to begin reading a story before she eats
• race
• tell people what they should or should not do (eg he should not stand so close to the road, she shouldn't litter)
• huff and fold her arms in displeasure
  
• make up silly songs
• sing
  
• pretend she's in a cocoon when she's all wrapped up right after a bath
• drink pink milk (a Lola trait)
• scan items at the supermarket self-checkout stations
• sit on the counter whenever I pay for something
• get my card, cash, receipt at the ATM
  
• charm the pants off commuters in the Tube or on the bus
• get her own vitamin in the morning, pour her own milk
• cover her nose before digging for 'treasure'
• have me run my fingers up and down her arm, her back
• give me hugs, for no reason at all (very manjah)
• drink Milo! Hahahahahaa...
• point out graffitti
  

abhors:

• baths
• going into boutiques (it's boooorrrring, she wails)
• going out!?
• peas, in fact most veggies
• blackcurrent jam
  
• lessons
• going to bed
• the dark
• dogs (loves cats. I wonder why? :P)
• not being able to get a word in