"I like peaches, I think it is nice."

"But the ones that you bought this morning (any day before the day itself is 'this morning') is sour."

"Sour is not tasty, mummy, is there a lemon inside?"

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Obsession No.1 – Make Tight!

K has this extremely irritating habit to want his watch to be worn tightly on his wrist. It has to be of a specific tightness, tilted at an certain angle. Without that, he will be annoying me with his, "Make tight! Not tight enough…it is not the right way." I have been on the verge of throwing away his watch countless times.

The other 'Make Tight' obsession is with his sports shoes, he will always insist that the velcro buckle on his shoe to be pulled and attached very tightly. It's evil but I sometimes hope that that he will get to experience some cramps on his feet and realise that it is not wise to do that with his shoe. No amount of nagging works, so sometimes it is best that he learns the hard way.

Obsession No.2 – The GPS

DH recently got a GPS unit for the car and K is thoroughly obsessed with it. He wants the GPS to be used regardless where we are driving to. Even familiar places like his school, home, Nana's place. It doesn't matter even if we are familiar with the route to the location, he needs to see where the car is heading to on the map. 

I thought it was all for the novelty of having a technology item to play with in the car, but a recent experience made me realise that this bossy little guy is pretty serious when it comes to using the GPS.

We were heading home one afternoon after lunch when we were approaching the usual expressway exit that we usually take that leads us back home. The GPS system often has recommended routes to take, and it did not go with the expressway exit that we took that afternoon. It listed Exit 4 Bukit Panjang, while I took the Exit 3 Dairy Farm. When I turned into Exit 3, K exclaimed really loudly, "Mummy, why you turn into Exit 3, it is Exit 4!" My jaw dropped when I heard that remark from him. 

When we made the exit and approached the junction for us to turn right into our estate, the GPS system showed that we had to make a U-turn to re-route to the expressway to take Exit 4. He looked at the GPS and said, "There is a U-turn on the GPS." Then I asked him, "Do we need to make a U-Turn?" He answered, "No need, turn right." Looks like we will rarely get confused with navigating around Singapore with my GPS 'assistant' in the car!

But I still blame the gene pool for his obsessive traits, since we have some OCD individuals in the family.

"I want a beard, because I am going to be adult already!"

I had to remind him that even if he is a big boy now, he will have to grow into a bigger boy, then a teenager, before becoming an adult.

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