A marriage proposal first kisses

Isaac received a marriage proposal - from his best friend Patrick!

In the car on one of our many family outings over the weekend, Isaac announced that Patrick his buddy in school had suggested that their friendship could be further cemented into family ties by Isaac marrying either Patrick's sister or his cousin. And from Isaac's tone, he didn't think the idea half bad too! When I demanded: why can't Patrick just marry one of YOUR sisters (you have three for him to choose from!) instead of you marrying his sister, the disloyal boy protested vehemently: What! Gillian is too old and baby is too young and that leaves Ning-Ning! Hah!! No Way!!

To which his usual no-nonsense younger sister said: Hah! Better not! You think I want to marry him ah? I'll kick his butt if he tries to be funny with me!

Yes, the Ning-ster as I call her, can be quite the fierce, aggressive I-Am-Woman-Hear-Me-Roar type. KH and I think she's the supermodel sort - tall, thin and all arms and legs. And very sassy.

But I digress. The conversation was steered to first kisses. The Fishball was kissed by a P4 girl during Children's Liturgy at mass. One of Gillian's friends, the girl had apparently taken him under her wing during Liturgy and found him so cute and irresistable, had kissed him soundly on the cheek - to his horror! But this curly-haired little boy does have this effect on girls. Teen girls and aunties alike have been known to coo at him and exclaim: SO cute!!!

So there went his 'first' kiss. Gillian's first kiss was in the plaza in front of Milan's great cathedral. She was 15 months old, standing in the sprawling plaza as we gazed up at the cathedral facade when an Italian boy came wheeling by on his tricycle (must have been about four or five years old), stopped, went over to hug her and kiss her! What a memorable setting!

Isaac's first kiss was given by a little girl neighbour around his age. The toddlers who were around 2years old then, used to hang out at each other's homes and on one of those occasions, she just leant over and kissed him on the cheek.

Ning asked wistfully if she had had a first kiss and I said, so that she would not feel left out, yes of course! The very first kiss you had was when you were just born.

Even when I was wet and with blood everywhere? she asked eagerly. Even then, I nodded, we were so happy when you were born.

She was pleased to hear that.