An energetic little boy

Today we went to Queensbay Mall again. Quite boring for us but it was fun for our son as he can release his young accumulated energy by walking all around the mall. Ethan tends to be quite independent and does not like people to hold his hand when walking. If you try to hold his hands, he would quickly squat down on the floor. Once released his hand, he will sprint out and rush out of your hold. The way he walks is also quite unstable and he is like half running and rushing as he walks. Today, he stumbled for quite a few times at Borders bookstore. Luckily Borders' flooring is all carpeted. However, even though Ethan did not suffer any wound, he is also quite painful each time he fell. He would point to his knee and indicated "pain pain".

Initially we wanted to buy the Japanese flashcard for Ethan but at last we decided not to. Need to think twice as the cards are not cheap. The flashcard is quite good actually and both mummy and Ethan could learn the language - daddy thinks so! The card comes with the word in front and then follow by some examples of the use of the words. Behind the card there are English description explaining the words. We should buy it but mummy, the financial controller does not approved. :-(

Queensbay Mall starts to have Chinese New Year decoration in preparation for the festive season. Both daddy and Ethan took some photos in front of the decorations.


We had our lunch at "Sushi Kin". After eating Ethan developed some rashes on his stomach. Mummy thinks that it might be caused by allergy to light soya beans source in the Japanese noodle. He started to scratch his belly. We were amazed that the rashes developed so fast. Need to be careful in future. Other than this, Ethan's appetite is as usual very good. He finished the 2 pieces egg mayo sushi, some portion of daddy's Japanese noodle soup, 1 whole Yakult and some Chawan Mushi (which is mummy's favorite). Mummy order the Saba set thinking that Ethan could eat the fish. However, when it came we found that it was drenched and served in Thai chilli source. It is a no touch for Ethan. Also the Saba fish has quite a lot of fish bones unlike fish served in Japan normally do not have bones. I guess local Japanese food can get away with fish bones. Daddy missed the real Japanese foods from his day in Japan.

At Jusco toy section we bought something for Ethan which is an education toy game. What mummy likes about this toy is that it teaches math.

After walking for few hours in mall, Ethan felt really tired. He quickly fall in deep sleep after reaching home. He broke his own record by taking the nap for 4 hour.

Opposite flashcard and parent dream

Recently mummy is quite lazy and does not spend much time making the education materials for Ethan. Mummy promised few weeks ago to make the opposite flashcards but until now only a few cards were finished.

Today we didn't go out in the morning, we just stayed at home relaxed and drank coconut water. Grandpa had bought a lot of fresh coconuts from Guar.

Mummy missed the last trip to Japan when that time the sakura was blooming. Hope that one day we will be able to bring Ethan together to Hokkaido and Tokyo Disneyland as Ethan loves Mickey Mouse.

Even mummy have dream of going to Holland to see the tulips but luckily last year in Japan we managed to see it. It was a unplanned trip as we just changed our schedule the last after seeing the advertisement paper near the train station while we were in Japan.

Back to us alone...

These few days because of daddy's business trip, grandma had to accompany mummy in Penang. Today grandma had gone back To Kedah. Left mummy and Ethan alone in the house while daddy was working. Seems like Ethan misses his grandma and grandpa. He always call "婆婆" (not so accurate pronunciations sometime if you do not pay attention, you would thought that he is saying papa) and hand sign "No"

Ethan asking mummy to put all his "bear bear" hanging on the knob of the cabinet door. Seeing him kissing his bear.

Missed my blocks, it had been long time I didn't play with these blocks

Chinese New Year stuff????

This morning we went to the market. While grandma was buying the vegetables, what have Ethan done? He had arranged the carrot nicely in the bucket. Mummy found out that Ethan likes to arrange the things nicely like clothes hanger, crayon etc.

Only a few weeks left to Chinese New Year, what is the new year stuffs that we have bought so far for Ethan. Well, mummy already bought one red T-shirt for Ethan. What is still lacking? For mummy, one new clothes is enough but for some parents they will buy a lot of clothes for their kid. Remember back a few years ago, seems like mummy does not really buy a new clothes for Ethan. Like the first year that Ethan celebrated the CNY, he was still 2 month + and that time he did not really get new clothes. Last year's CNY Ethan was already 14months + the clothes was bought when he was small (6 month +) when daddy was in Taiwan for Computex. Terrible things was his face got a lot of mosquito bite when we woke up in the morning of 1st day CNY. Poor little things.

Today daddy back from his business trip, but no gift ...... Seems like nothing much to buy in Shanghai.

It was extremely cold in Shanghai with temperature of 1 deg Celsius. Daddy took some photos in Shanghai with his handphone.

This is in front of a mall. There are some Chinese New Year decorations.

This is a photo taken at the Bund 上海滩.

It has been more than 10 years since daddy been to the Bund. There are a lot of progress since those days but the sphere shape landmark building is still there. I guess that does not change. This was daddy's 3rd trip to Shanghai. Good to be back in Shanghai. Brings back a lot of sweet memory of my days when I was still working with Hitachi.

Red berry picker???

Today, grandma moved one of the plants from the backyard into garden, the tree got a lot of red hanging berries (seed of the tree). Well, mummy doesn't know what is the English name of this tree but the Chinese name is 七厘香, it smells good when the flowers were blooming especially in the morning. Ethan saw the red berry and without the second thought quickly went to take his garden tools and started to pick them down.

Later, all the red berry at the bottom part of the tree were picked by Ethan, the higher part luckily escaped from Ethan's hand.

Itchy hand and wash the teeth

This morning as usual mummy let Ethan scribbled all over with his crayon while mummy and grandma were busy with the garden work. Later when we packed up the stuffs, we noticed that all the fence and beams in the garden have got Ethan's artistic work. His itchy hand are really terrible.

In order to prevent tooth decay, lately mummy washed Ethan teeth every night before he goes to sleep. Well, some people may say why not teach him how to brush his teeth? For me, children at this age are too small to handle the toothbrush, surely they will bite and suck the water from bristle instead of brushing their teeth. I used the method recommended by daddy's cousin who is a dentist. He said when Ethan is 3 years old, he will teach Ethan how to brush his teeth. I guessed now Ethan is already used to this routine schedule as every time after he drank his milk and a bit water he will take off his bottle and let mummy wash his teeth.

Missed papa ?? Reduce diaper and more words

This morning when mummy drove the car we could hear Ethan calling his "Papa". I guessed Ethan tried to remind mummy that his daddy still not in the car. Daddy is on 4 days business trip to oversea Shanghai.

Since mummy bought the cloth diaper few day ago, today she let Ethan wore its during his nap time. Well, this was part of mummy's new year plan to reduce Ethan use of disposable diaper. Before that mummy had already successfully reduced the usage to 2 disposable diapers per day (exceptional case was when we go out in weekend as mummy still not yet dare to take the risk of diaper free for Ethan). With this cloth diaper, today's usage was only one disposable diaper. This morning after Ethan drank his morning session of milk and before he fallen asleep again he informed mummy that he wanted to pee. Well this is good sign right? So this morning mummy found out that Ethan's diaper was quite dry even throughout the whole night. Guessed his just pee one time in the diaper.

Few months back mummy made some mistakes when Ethan showed the sign to mummy that he wanted to pee. But sometimes mummy was too lazy to take off his diaper so just asked Ethan to pee on his diaper. Therefore later Ethan totally doesn't want to show the sign again. That's why mummy failed. So starting from this new year mummy insists to let Ethan diaper free during the daytime. After few weeks of "gambatte", mummy finally seen some results as Ethan started to show mummy the sign again. This time when he showed the sign, mummy insists to take off the diaper even at 5 something morning or at night before he fell asleep. Mummy had learned her lesson and will not make the same mistake twice.

Seeing Ethan happily playing the "pee ka boo" with the grandma. Grandma was hiding behind the sliding door.

Tonight when grandma walked inside the bedroom, Ethan quickly called "papa". I guessed he thought that it was his daddy who had entered the room. At tonight when mummy was reading Peter and Jane to him again, suddenly Ethan grabbed mummy finger and pointed to the picture and said, "baby". Only then did mummy realized that Ethan knows how to pronounce this word. This morning when mummy drove daddy to airport, he pointed to the traffic light and said red . Then when the light turn to green, he said "green". We only realized that he also know how to differentiate between red and green. Maybe this was because every time when he sees the traffic light he wants mummy to tell him. Today Ethan pronounced a lot of new words ie milk, red, green, baby etc. Guessed today he also tried to form a couplet as when he was walking around daddy's car, he said :" Papa car".