Ching Ming Day

Today is Chinese Ching Ming Day, a day to remember the ancestors. Grandma was busy preparing the food.

Our naughty boy saw on the table so many dishes, he stole some of the food on the table. We had to stop him. However, he still attempted few times when we were not monitoring him. The worst part was he even wanted to sit on the chair and eat.

Guess daddy was a bit concern about his actions after mummy told him about Ethan's naughty action. Daddy said that Ethan is already a baptized Catholic. Ya! ya..... So when we relocate to Shanghai, first things is to find a church to attend to every week as what daddy hope to bring Ethan up in a Christian environment. hihi

Name the flowers

Ethan like to touch the flowers in grandpa's garden. He will name those flowers as orange flower, red flower, purple flower etc.. whenever he see them. Well, we cannot blame him for not knowing the actual name of the flower as some of them even mummy does not know. HA!! Shame on mummy.

Reading the "Peter and Jane"

Tonight seems like Ethan was jealous and would not let mummy help Yi Yi comfort baby, Wan Ting so mother had no choice but to entertain him by accompanying him. Mother took this opportunity to teach him some simple maths of addition and some sentences. He sat beside mummy and concentrated on listening to what mother has thought him.

After that mother thought that it has been quite some time that mother didn't read the "Peter and Jane" with him. So tonight mummy just let him read to mummy instead of mummy reading to him. Surprisingly, Ethan managed to read the book. He read more than 10 pages to mummy. Some of words like Peter, station, and police, his pronunciation was no accurate but he still tried hard to read them aloud. Well, mother was so happy with his progress but unfortunately did not manage to capture video to let daddy see. Maybe next time there might be a chance.

Weird ! He can say seventeen but not seven

My son is extremely weird. We still have hard time teaching him how to say correctly the number one and seven. We don't know why, he can say the number seventeen correctly but still cannot say proper seven. His seven is pronounced as "Saaa". His one is "none". We kept on correcting him but he still insisted to pronounce it wrongly. He even becomes angry when we corrected him. Aiyooo. Don't know how to ....

Exercise - I love ball

Since mummy brought Ethan back to Kedah, he had developed a habit of exercising in morning and evening time. Everyday he wants to go to garden to kick the ball. When the time comes, he will take his ball and asks people to open the door for him to go out to the garden.

He likes to run all around the garden, kicking the ball. Sometimes the ball fall inside the drain, he will not let go of the opportunity to kick the ball inside the drain.(See the photo). Every day he will exercise at least 30min and above. He sweats a lot and both his cheeks become red. The bad thing is that this exercise makes him sweat a lot then the sweat was very salty and this made his skin itchy. He scratches around his neck and made his neck reddish. We sometime have to clean his body and put some powder to prevent him from scratching.

Haaa.. So thirsty after lots of exercise. Excuse me! Let me drink water first...

Well, good things about the exercise is that Ethan can sleep without us having to tuck him in bed. Guess he was very tired. Hihiiiii

Photo with Baby Wan Ting

Finally mummy managed to take photo of Ethan with his new cousin.

When mummy was holding the baby for the first time after going back to Kedah, Ethan was pulling mummy's hand and not allowed mummy to hold the baby. But after that he just forget about his jealousy as there were other interested things that attracted him. So mummy thought that Ethan can finally accept the baby. However, things cannot last long as after a few days I guess Ethan was feeling threatened as mummy kept on holding the baby. He wanted to claim back his territory. So he was always looking for mummy when mummy was not in his view. He kept on finding mother the whole day and pulled mummy out of the baby's room.

My son, it was "COCONUT"

Evening time, we let Ethan do some exercise in the garden since he had eaten a lot here. Mother wanted to see the dragon fruit's flower blossom that grandma told her. We tried to show Ethan the flower but he was not interested at all and only wanted to run around. He loved to run all over the garden. Well, grandpa's house really got a big space for him to do just that!

Later daddy saw a lot of coconuts hanging in the tree so he decided to pick them down. However, mummy told him that the tree was too high. Daddy didn't give up the idea of wanting to pick and drink the coconut. So daddy took the long bamboo stick and tried to twist the coconut down. Well, our kpc son saw this, and sure enough he wanted to take a part too. So both of them tried hard to pick at the coconut.

Yup, mummy took this opportunity to tell Ethan that he was picking the coconut. In the end, the bamboo stick broken down into two. The coconuts are still intact on the tree. Ethan picked the shorter one up and tried to mimic his father's action. Daddy only manage to pull down one old coconut which later become football for both daddy and son. They challenged each other with old coconut kicking game.

Ethan picked up the coconut, threw and kicked it. They really have fun. Of course Ethan also done lots of exercise by bending down his body to pick the coconut and thrown it around. Ran here and there to pick and kick. After having his fun with the coconut. Our son now knew that the object he was playing with is a coconut. He learned the new word very fast by always repeating :" Coconut". Before that mother only shown him picture of coconut in the book. He could not really remembered it back then.