The Little Garden Lover Has Spoken

The Little Garden Lover Has Spoken
Today, mommy and daddy went to work, as usual, but they came back at noon. Once in two weeks time, they will come back at noon. And the day after that, they don’t go to work. Mommy said it was Saturday.

When they picked me up, they went to kedai mamak and daddy ordered mamak fried me. Mommy, while waiting for the food, took me for a walk along the sidewalk at that kedai mamak’s shop. Everybody who came across me smiled and patted my bald head. It wasn’t my fault to be that charming!!

When we got home, we tossed around the bed for almost one hour or so. Mommy was trying to get me to nap but I was too busy playing with daddy and tickling mommy’s tummy. Then mommy said to daddy that it was time to do up the garden. Mommy went down and daddy attended me poo-poo, then we laid down some more in bed. Mommy shouted many times from downstairs, asking us to go down but I was having too much fun with daddy. Mommy, can you just leave us alone?

But I’m glad she didn’t. I never thought that the gardening could be so much fun. First, daddy put my shoes on. Then I saw mommy and daddy squatting, pulling some green things (which they called weeds and rumput jahat) from the other green things (which they called their every precious pearl grass). I wanted to help but the hose kept me busy. I thought water was supposed to come out from the hose, but nothing come out. So, I kept poking the end of the hose.

Then daddy said it was time to chop down some helicornia plants at the far end of the garden for they were growing wild. Mommy went straight to squatting, took the cutter and chopped the plants down until she got tired. Then she asked daddy to take over. Daddy, being Daddy, stood around the helicornia, analyzing on either the way he should sit or how best should he chop the plants or how many of plants he should chopped. I heard him asked some questions to Mommy but at the end, Mommy yelped, “Just chop them off!”. I guess there’s nothing wrong about analyzing but I think Mommy was getting tired answering Daddy’s questions. Hmm I wonder how can she stand it when the time came for me to start speaking and asking questions!!

Then Mommy said something about re-arranging the pots. She asked Daddy to move all the tall plants (mine! They are taller than me!) at one corner of the garden and then she’ll relocate all the small ones around the tall ones. Daddy, then, stood at one spot of the garden, looking at all the plants then started doing that analyzing thingy. He was afraid that the corner is not big enough to cater all the plants. Mommy, looking at daddy helplessly, asked whether he wanted to go inside and draw the way he planned to do that pots placement or just move the all the tall plants to that side. She moved all the small pots so that daddy could see clearly and stop analyzing.

They are so busy (talking, working and quarrelling) and I thought I could be a help. I carefully stepped on the wet grass, squatted and pulled some grass. Mommy turned to me and was surprised that her son is the kind who will just squat and do, instead of analyzing. But she didn’t know that I have done more than analyzing from far! She sweetly said, “Good boy, so smart!”. Then my head and forehead started feeling itchy, I scratched them, leaving mud and pieces of grass on my head. I then decided to be me again and explore the taste of grass plus mud, when Daddy saw and screamed. He then turned the water one and shove the hose into my mouth to clean away the mud and the grass out from my tongue and throat. I was by then wet all over my body, but I love being wet!

I was about to shout, c’mon daddy, spray some water on me when daddy decided to take me inside. He then looked at mommy to find out what was the final chore. Mommy said he has to sweep the mud off the tiles and she will spray the water to help him. They quickly worked that out with mommy secretly sprayed some water to me! I loved it! Mommy then sprayed some water to Daddy too but he doesn’t love water as much as we do. At her third spray, Daddy swooped me and took me in, after undressing me at the lawn. Hey look people, I am in diaper at my lawn! Look at my body, people! I wished they could take my diaper off too, there are things too to show.

Daddy and I had shower together then they dressed me up with the new attire Uncle Kannan gave. I thought the day will end there but then they took me to Subang Parade. Daddy saw his friend, Nazrin, who is in Pop Shuvit, playing there. Then he stopped by at Hyundai sales spot while Mommy pushed the stroller around the temporary stalls (who sells some baju kurung mommy was eyeing on and hinting daddy). When I have finally slept, they went and had dinner at Chicken Rice Shop. I woke up when they finally got to the car, dozing on and off on the way home until mommy changed me to pyjamas, drank some milk and tossed around the bed like always. I then chose to sleep under mommy’s armpit because it simply smelt good!

Daddy said it was a tiring chore but I, after much analysis done, decided that I love gardening and it’s been a spectacular day!