Innocence is Bliss

Some interesting happenings during the past weeks which really amused me:

One day whilst Bernice and i were waiting for a cab to go to grandma's house, i noticed the little girl actually raised one arm as if she was trying to flag down every single cab that passed by (maybe she is able to differentiate between a car and a cab just short of not knowing the differences of what the green and red sign on top of the cab means.) Well, we have been travelling in a cab each time we went out, maybe that explains why as she observes and imitates my actions each time round. Can u picture that? So after we entered the cab and the cab cruised for about 5 minutes when suddenly the liitle girl whispered "neh neh." Huh? My fear came, before i can react to anything, she said it in a much louder tone, "NEH NEH!!" with an accusing finger pointing at the cab driver who is none other than an old indian man. The cab driver must have found it amusing as he turned around and gave a wide smile.

(=_=")

On many other occasions, the little girl seems to be able to recognize our different races. Whenever we walked past an indian man, woman or even a child, she will inevitably utter "neh neh" either audible enough just for my ears or exclaim loud enough for people within earshot.

There was once when we were in a lift. The inside of the lift door is in the form of a mirror. All were silent. She restlessly looked around her and quickly captured the reflection of an indian man standing beside me. As expected, she pointed at the man and shouted, "NEH NEH!"
Immediately, you will noticed some people hiding their smiles in the reflection. Well, at least the word "neh neh" is not something offensive, rather it is a meaning of "brother", so not yet a situation whereby i need to dig a hole in the ground and hide there.

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One day i decided to train Bernice to throw unwanted stuff into the dustbin. So after a few pieces of waste paper was delightfully torn by her, i said: " Now throw all the papers into the dustbin." She turned around to look at me once, her eyes lighted up and in a second, she scooted off with one waste paper to throw into the dustbin. Then she clapped her hands telling me in a way that she has done a good job. I was immediately beaming inside me and proud of myself that i had achieved my purpose effortlessly. Soon, after all the pieces of papers on the floor were religiously thrown by her, she came back to the same spot and realised that there was no more for her. Then she waved her hand and said, "no more..." I said to her as i bend to tidy up some toys on the floor, "Ok, before we go to bed, we need to....." Before i could finish my sentence, she picked up one of her toys on the floor and proceed to throw into the dustbin! To and fro, she repeated this despite me stopping her and seeing me taking back every single toy that she threw. Poooof, I decided to put an end to my exhaustion by putting an end to this. I held her up and proceeded to the bedroom. It is bedtime!

Such acts would have gone undetected or mean nothing for some people, but they greatly perked up a dull day of mine:)