Intro to the foos (胡)family.

KiFoo is 20 month old as of this article.
Full name: Kieran Foo Xiang Yu.(翔 宇).
Meaning: To have a flying free spirit in this world.
He has 2 hobbies, eating and crying.
He eats non-stop and cries when you try to stop him from eating.
This little fat boy constantly drives MaFoo crazy with his endless request of “mummum” which means eating.

Height: 61cm
Top speed: 8 steps in 10 seconds




KaFoo is 4 years and 6 months old.
Kayzia Foo Xin Yu.( 心 宇)
Meaning: To have a heart as big as the universe.
She loves to dance and act as a TBDAM sensor. (Tension Between Daddy and Mummy)
When Mel and I have disagreements, (of course not in front of her) she can sense it from miles away.
She makes sure we both hold hands and will says “you must love one another, you know”.
Once she told Mel this: “Mummy, you have to forgive daddy, the bible wants us to forgive each other. Daddy was late because he was reaching out to his friends to bring them to church”
Hm… kind of humbling for adults to hear this.

Height: 1.1meter.
Top speed: 10 words in 5 sec.





MaFoo, never reveal a woman age.(at least not intentionally)
Melanie Tan Mei Ling. (陳 美 琳)
Meaning: Beautiful jade, gem.
Nurse at work and home.
Loves the husband and the 2 kids.
Often mistaken as teenage mum or maid due to her young looks and tan complexion.
In the clinic, doctor: “Er, sorry to inform you that you are pregnant(with Kayzia), you have to inform your mother, girl”
My wife went: “that’s wonderful, I will inform my husband now!”
At our home void deck, someone asked “this boy (KiFoo) so cute. Where is the mother? Out so early with the maid?” I replied, “We don’t have maid and she is the mother.”

Height: much taller than the 2 kids.
Top speed: like all mothers, can do 5 things at the same time.





PaFoo, 32, 2 years older than MaFoo.
Frank Foo Sze Ling. (石 林)
Meaning: Stone forest?????
Yes, I know it sounds very girly, Sze Ling.
What to do, it was given to me by my late grandfather.
Basically, he wanted me to be strong as the stone and to have a heart as big as the forest.
As the years passed, I think my heart is becoming like the stone and my house is like the forest, especially if you have 2 kids.

Height: 1.7m
Top speed: can fall asleep in 10 seconds. (Especially in car)

Knocks and not everyone is Peter Parker

Kayzia knocked her head yesterday in the childcare. Nope, not in the playground, but while she was sleeping! At the stroke of midnight, she complaints of pain near her left temple. As she did not vomit or faint the whole day, both Mel and I thought she just needed the doctor's assurance. Well, we were right, the doctor gave her some medicine and advises us to ice it down.

No, that’s not all.
Kieran also had a knocked on wed, in the library. He wanted to be like Peter Parker, guess he is not ready for the responsibility that comes with great powers. Anyway, that fall was nasty one, a 0.5cm cut, hm… Where can this cut be? That can really make it bad. Let try the eye lip then. Blood was everywhere. The poor boy was wailing big time. Took him to the new clinic at the Simei MRT. The doctor was calm, he gave him this gel to patch up the cut and observed him for about 30 mins. By then our boy was all fine. Especially when daddy and friends (CheeWan and Stephen happened to be nearby visiting their friend at Changi General Hospital) had DESSERT beside the clinic. "Mummum" with that big smile, he is back!
The funny thing is during the whole time while he was in pain, he was calling for Kayzia, "jia jia.....jia jia" ~ big sister in Chinese. I am glad these two "foos" are close to each other.

Weekend is here. All I need now is a knock-out sleep tonight.....