Can you give me a bowl of black rice porridge?

Noteworthy anecdote:

At our weekly family dinner in a hidden-away restaurant, us adults were almost near end of course but still eating. Suddenly, Little Boy surprised all of us by returning to the table from fish-watching with a bowl of black rice porridge.

Me and hubby thought our aunt, who was fish-watching with him, had helped him get the dessert. But no no, Little Boy had asked a waitress all by himself, with no spurring from any adult.

Apparently as the waitress walked past him, he suddenly piped asked, “可以给我一个orh bee ber (黑米粥／black rice porridge) 吗？＂
＂你再大声说一次吗？＂she said
＂可以给我一个orh bee ber吗？＂he repeated louder.

And so she did give him.

Me was very happy and so was the hubby, and we spurred him on to ask for another bowl from the same waitress for Lixing, his little cousin.

He did and was rewarded

This is one big feat for our introverted friend, who’s crazy like a dragon in familiar company but shy like a worm in even slightly foreign environments when eyes are on him.

You are growing up, boy! Ask well and you will get…

You can place all our food orders next time…

Enjoying the orh bee ber!

Avenger date!

First movie date in ages. Thanks HDB, for the impetus.

Avengers, 3d. Here we come!

Predator vs. Prey

Anyone who has hung out with Little Boy knows he loves animals. He’d probably choose animals over cars and trains (although he told me “我要全部” when I asked him to choose one) and pretty much goes around every where with some toy animal in his hands.

He can differentiate many animals, and knows the names in English and Chinese. Do you know sealion is 海狮? He even knows warthogs (that’s a level 2 pig to me!).

I am a warthog! (with my biscuits hehe)

Also watches enough Animal Planet, National Geographic to know the concept of eat and be eaten:

• ”狮子不吃草，是吃斑马的“
• “豹吃鹿”
• “狮子追牛，追elephant,追giraffe”

Just the other day, he got a little bored playing with his animals, mass grouping them migration-style, and set to work at this:

Watch me classify my animals! Train tracks are the grasslands...

He clearly knows who the predators and prey are: -

Mummy, look LOOK! 里面是草原，外面的动物不可以进来！(Animals outside cannot come in to eat the animals inside!)

And himself? With the prey! HAHAHA.

我要在里面！

By the way, the photos don’t do credit to his animal collection. He has way MORE. Courtesy of mummy (I bought him his first animals, that’s all), paternal grandies (countless of animal sets from the neighbourhood stores), maternal grandies (most memorable for Little Boy is his first set of Lego animals), daddy (second set of Lego animals) and most recently, 姨姨 (third set of Lego animals, from Japan this time).

Let’s see how big his zoo/ animal farm grow.

The WHY series – of tigers and ears

一晚，在床上：

(看着我）妈妈 唱两只老虎给我听

两只老虎 两只老虎
跑得快 跑得快
一只没有眼睛 一只没有耳朵。。。

mummy，为什么，为什么一只没有耳朵？为什么呢？

(愣！）哦… 因为… 因为它放在家里忘记带出来！（说后自己觉得答案好烂！）

为什么它没有带出门呢？为什么呢？（一脸困惑）

(愣！）哦… 因为… 因为它没吃饭 没吃菜 记忆不好… （palm to face T.T)

(伤心脸）为什么记忆不好？为什么呢？为什么没有耳朵呢？为什么…. (翻过身）为什么呢… 为什么…

(努力想个合理的理由…) 啊… 因为它们用手遮住耳朵遮住 所以没有眼睛没有耳朵

(翻身望我一眼）… (再翻身）ｚｚｚｚｚ

枉了我的心思！

Home

On Sep 2008, two of us took a one-way flight to post-Olympics Beijing.

Although Little Boy and I have been home in Singapore since last christmas, it feels like we’ve never left. Now that the hubby is homeward-bound on SQ too, the unit is complete.

Fast forward 3 years 7 months, three of us are back. For good.

Home

On Sep 2008, two of us took a one-way flight to post-Olympics Beijing.

Although Little Boy and I have been home in Singapore since last christmas, it feels like we’ve never left. Now that the hubby is homeward-bound on SQ too, the unit is complete.

Fast forward 3 years 7 months, three of us are back. For good.

Day 1 on my own

Dominic, my littlest nephew, braved his first day without mummy and daddy who were on a well-deserved holiday to view Sakura.

My, is he a trooper. He whined less, slept a lot (pretty much like hibernation, and it’s summer!), didn’t struggle much to go to bed. And best of all – he slept through the night under the watchful eyes of popo. First time! No crying for milk!

Afternoon play after milk-

Bin bin, you aced it! Thank for being an angel (and you too, jingheng) yesterday so I could rush a report without worry.

Another 6 days to go!