Ethan's house

Ethan requested his mother to take his photo with his wooden block. He claimed that these are the houses that he built...

Can travel soon?

Today, daddy was bugging mother about his expiring mileage in the Singapore airline. Daddy said that it will expire about 20k miles in coming July and more in September month. Mother told Daddy that there would be a two weeks school holiday in beginning of June. Now where should we bring Ethan to travel? In mother's mind got three places i.e. Hong Kong, Perth and Japan. Which place is suitable still under consideration. We will consider the weather and the transport since we are bringing Ethan along.

Cheap sticker book

Guessed most of the kids like sticker including Ethan. Recently mummy get to know that 姨姨 can buy the cheapo sticker in the market. Mummy quickly asked 姨姨's help to buy those stickers. The stickers are those famous cartoon character like Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Ben 10 and etc. Cheap thing normally come with some imperfection. This book's sticker was a bit hard to pull out of the book because it has some uncut areas, it will be torn off so need to be careful . Besides that some of the pages are repeated. BUT what do you expect? The end objective is for Ethan to have fun and it fits the purpose nicely.

Talk a lot of this sticker book and can you guess how much mummy pay for one sticker book?
Only MYR1 per book. Is it cheap?

Do you know what is this plant?

Do you know what is this plant? We don't know and we just called it "Hot Dog"plant. Since the shape looks like a hot dog....

Curious about the plant?

Let talk about 三字经 Three-word chant

Mother never thought of teaching him the "Three word Chant" at his age even knowing some of the parents already start teaching their kids at very young age. But recently mother did and this is not because of "kiasu". The learning of the "Three -word Chant" was requested by Ethan himself. How can it happened?

Is story time again. It happened when we went to "Popular Bookstore" last Friday. Daddy said he was quite interested at one of the counter selling education CD like those 三字经, 唐诗,乘法表 and etc. The TV was on to promote the product and Ethan was hooked on it. We really have hard time to persuade Ethan to walk away but he did after the ending of the CD. Back at home, mother tried to find 三字经 in the internet and we let Ethan listens to it. Later, he requested us to teach him. (Most funny part was he even create his own 三字经 before he goes to sleep and we cannot stop laughing at his action). Mother was thinking that just listen to the CD may not know the words and meaning. Searching in the internet and copied out the words and explanation of 三字经 is mother's job again.

Finally mother finished custom made part of the 三字经 for Ethan. The word is big and no other fancy fancy thing beside it. Will introduce the later part to him when he finished the first part. We only plan to teach him on the way we bring him to and back from the kindergarten.

Am or Are?

Tonight, mother simply wanted to know how far Ethan knows English grammar.
So mother played a game with him. Mother asked him to choose between the two questions and tell mother which one is the correct answer.
i) I am a boy or I are a boy?
ii) You are a girl or you am a girl?

He had given it a thought for a while and then he answered correctly. Why mother wants to know this is because we seldom talk to him in English. Now his Chinese is more fluent than his English. However at least now mother knows that he knows some of the pattern of the sentences in English.

Now only daddy knows

Ethan loves to listen to the story book. He can be up to the case that he will leave his toy even though he is in the middle of playing it. Mother did a few tests before. When mother picked up a book and read aloud, Ethan will stop his mother and say that he is playing with his toys. Then mother will reply him that mother is reading to herself and he can continue to play and mother can continue to read. Then what he does, he will just leave his toy and climb up to the bed and sit beside mother. If mother already read a few pages, he will request to start again from the cover.

Daddy did not know it until today when he witnessed by his own eyes. Daddy picked up one of the story book beside the bed and started to read. Then Ethan immediately stood up and ran over beside his daddy and listen to the story. Then daddy purposely stop in the half way so Ethan went back to play with his toy. When daddy picks the book again to continue the story book he just ran over and continue to listen to the story.

Daddy said wow he really likes to listen to the story book. Mother took this opportunity to ask daddy not to limit the budget of buying books for him since daddy always complain why mother keep on buying books for Ethan.

Yes, successfully bargained for unlimited book budget!!!