Fun filled Saturday

I thought that poor Bryan will be confined to our house when daddy is away. Coz daddy is the one that normally takes him kai-kai in the weekend.

But, no. First weekend that daddy is away, mummy got an invitation from his favorite auntie to go swimming. At 5 Star hotel sommo leh. Sommo this auntie volunteered to drive us there. Such good auntie, where to find eh?

So 4 of us mommies with our lil tots met up for some swimming fun. I thought that Bryan would be ecstatic when he sees the pool. He wasn’t. He was afraid of the water. He diden want to go in. And when he finally did, he diden want to let go.

I am utterly puzzled by this behavior because this boy LOVES to swim. My guess is he is unfamiliar with that pool and that right now he is dealing with security issues due to the recent changes around his life.

While his friends are all busy playing or tasting pool water, he clung to me tightly. Even WX who was usually afraid of water was very adventurous on that day.

It was only when we are about to leave for lunch that he warmed up and was willing to let go of me. But we can’t play anymore cause the mommies’ tummies are hungry and we had made arrangements for a Japanese buffet.

Initially, I was worried that having 4 kids at lunch would be unmanageable. But it was not. It was rather pleasant. I still get to eat everything that I wanted, and Bryan did not go wandering around during lunch as well. Of course, it helped tremendously that auntie HL brought some crayons and papers to keep them entertained.

Before we went home, the kids enjoyed themselves at the koi pond.

I was so afraid that Bryan will spot the pond before we went for lunch. If he did, I would have a hard time taking him into the restaurant. Or he would be demanding to see the koi fishes all through lunch.

It was certainly a wonderful way to spend our Saturday afternoon. Have to thank HL for organizing it.

Dylan @ 3 month

How time flies.. Dylan is now 3 months old

• Weighs 5.4kg
• More sociable than last month. Definitely more “talkative.”
• Head is more steady now. Can hold his head up by himself for longer period now.
• Usually poo only once a day in the morning. Sometimes one more time in the evening. This one i very happy coz i have less bum-bum and nappies to clean.

I wish i could snap photos/ video of him laughing, but when i have the camera, he won’t smile or the photos come out dark. Haiya..hopefully better luck next month.

No Apple please

Mummy: Bryan, do you want to eat apple
Bryan: No no, pu yau pu yau
Mummy: Apple si sen mo lai te? (What is apple ?)
Bryan : Eeeezard
Mummy: Huh? Dessert ah?
Bryan: Eeeezard

Apple is not dessert.

Apple is the lizard. It’s the new pet at his playschool. And though he loves to see it, he is scared to hold it and is scared when his teacher takes it out from it’s aquarium.

And it is the teacher’s tool to get him to stop crying at school – Because Apple loves to go near crying children (muahahaha). And if he cries non-stop, Apple will go to him. That’s what the teacher told him.

A few nights ago, after dinner, he was drawing on his doodle board with his daddy

Bryan: Daddy draw Apple
Daddy: *blur* blur* drew Apple – the fruit!*
Bryan: Pu yau pu yau, wo pu yau apple. Wo yau Apple, EEEZARD, EEEZARD, EEEZARD!!!!
Daddy: *Looks even more blur….*
Mummy: Lizard la! The new pet at school.
Daddy: Aiya say la lizard, eezard pulak. *and drew a lizard*
Bryan: *happy with the lizard drawing* eezard pah pah pah (lizard crawl crawl crawl) *starts moving the doodle board about*

And yesterday to add to the “Apple terror” Bryan watched the DVD Snow White. And he was so scared when the evil step mother gave the apple to Snow White and she fell to her deathly sleep. He was crying, “Pu yau chi apple, Pai Syue Kong Chu pu yau chi apple” (Snow white don’t eat apple). Tell u ah..he was really scared of that scene la, so funny to see him.

So I think Bryan will be staying away from apples for some time. Hmm..gotta try give him apples this weekend and see how…hehe

P/s: One of his school teacher remarked that the lizard should be named Mcdonald or KFC..that will probably keep the school kids from asking for these fast food. Good idea eh!

Days of the week in Mandarin

My mom hang a traditional Chinese calendar next to the bed at the room downstairs where Dylan naps during the day.Last month, hubb, Bryan, Dylan and I were all lazing in that room and Bryan stood up on the bed and start reading the day of the week (mon, tues, wed, etc) that the calendar is showing in Mandarin. At first, we thought he was just lucky, but when we randomly flip to another day, he got it correct too.

Yesterday, he did it again and I asked him to repeat it to my mom. He got all the days below correct.

Except for these

But I don’t blame him as there are some similarity between “zi” (sun) and “si” (four).

We never formally taught him how to read those characters but my mom remembered that one of the education VCDs that he owned did have a lesson on days of the week. That must be where he had picked it up. But he had not watched the VCDs in a looong time.

I am not really surprised that he knows this as we had noticed that he seemed to have a photographic memory. He remembers road directions pretty well, could tell us where this or that road will lead to, or which advertising bill board is coming up.

I wonder what else he knows that I don’t know yet.

Ferry ride

It’s Labour day and it’s holiday. Bryan is especially happy when mommy and daddy don’t have to go to work. He knows that it is a non working day because we will laze around the house in the morning.

He will happily exclaim

“Mommy daddy mei you chuok kong” (mommy daddy not working)
“Pu yong chu Tumbletots” (No need to go to Tumbletots/ School)

Since it is a public holiday, we decided to do something special for Bryan – by taking him for his first ferry ride.

He has been asking us to take him to sit in boat and the ferry is the easiest thing to do.

So in the morning, after he had his drink of Horlicks + milk, we left for breakfast at hubb’s favourite nasi kandar shop for roti canai. Bryan had roti sardin and he loved it.

Then we left for the ferry ride. Being a non-working day, the queue at the ferry terminal was not long and soon we were on the ferry.

Bryan was a bit confused when we told him that he is already inside a “boat.” He kept saying “Chu chuo chuan” (go ride boat). It was only when the ferry was in the middle of the sea that he realized that he was indeed INSIDE a boat!

The ferry ride seemed shorter than I remembered. Maybe it was because Dylan did a major poop and i had to change him in the car. It was really difficult cause we had 2 baby chairs so we do not have much space in the car to begin with. THen we cannot open the door all the way because the cars are all parked tightly like sardins in the ferry.

When it was time to get off the ferry, Bryan was of course upset. The ride was too short for him. So we told him that we will go shopping and then come back for the ferry ride again.

We went to Sunway Carnival mall to shop. It wasn’t much there and we were still quite full from breakfast. So we just walked around, and before we left, we bought a peanut butter + butter waffle for Bryan because he had been asking for one. He had a photo of waffle in one of his books and he kept asking me if he can “eat” one. He loved it and finished almost the entire waffle.

The ferry ride home was much nicer as we got to drive to the upper deck of the ferry so the view was much nicer. Bryan enjoyed it tremendously.

Again, he did not want to get off the ferry. Protests and wail again!

It has been a long day for him and not long after we left the ferry, he fell asleep…

Bryan: Playschool update

Bryan was doing great at the half day program. But when I had to return to work early this month, we switched him to full day.

And just as Audrey had expected, he will protest at the long hours. He began to reject school again. He would whine and ask for mommy constantly. He wouldn’t really be crying but would be whining off and on.

What does he whine about at school…

“Mommy mommy, wo yau mommy” (I want mommy)
“Teacher teacher, chiau mommy lai” (Teacher ask mommy to come)
“Teacher, teacher, ta tien hua kei mommy” (Teacher, telephone mummy)

And how do I know? Because Bryan tells me when he comes home. He will play pretend and show me his sad face and whine when I asked him what did he tell teacher.

It breaks my heart to see him. But what to do? I can’t take care of him full time at home and unfortunately neither can my parents. He is too active and noisy at home, so Dylan could hardly sleep for long hours when he is around. Bryan loves being around Dylan now and would constantly cuddle him whenever he sees him. So sometimes as Dylan is falling asleep in our arms, Bryan would wake him up again.

On the other hand, he is learning so much at school.

• His coloring skills has improved and he is able to color at the area where the graphic is instead of all over the entire page.

• He is speaking more English to me when previously he absolutely refused to speak. He answers me in simple “Yes, No, Don’t want” when I asked him in English.Last weekend, at his grandma’s place, he told me in full sentence, “I want to go home”

Today, after a long weekend break. He again refuses to go to school. He doesn’t want to wear his school T-shirt so we just let him wear his own shirt.

Hubb sent him to school this morning, and he was whining and crying as he went up the stairs to his school.

But as he was climbing the stairs, he said,
“Pu yau ku” (Don’t cry) and he wiped his tears dry.
Then he stopped crying as he enters the school door.

He is really growing up and I am missing him so much!

Dylan is soooo cute

He’s my son, of course he is cute! (to me)

Big koko update

I really thank all the kind comments that I have received from all you mummies regarding Bryan & Dylan’s relationship.

Things really have improved a lot since I brought Dylan back.

We can now see that Bryan has grown to love Dylan more and more each day.

• Bryan will get upset when Dylan cries for long period. He will repeating ask Dylan not to cry. If Dylan still did not stop crying, he will start crying himself.
• Even when he is engrossed in his TV or in some game, when he sees Dylan, he will immediately come to give Dylan a kiss.
• He will occasionally shower Dylan with kisses non stop.
• He only gives wet kisses to Dylan. For the rest of us, his kisses are usually a cheek to cheek contact with a “kiss” sound.
• He will offer his toy, his favourite pillow and his food to Dylan.

Sure, he still does get the jealousy pang once in a while. Usually it is when I am bfg Dylan. When that happens, he does not hit Dylan but instead asked me to stop and put Dylan to sleep in his cot.

I can’t wait for Dylan to grow up and for both of them to play together. I know both of them are just gonna have a terrific relationship as brothers.