7月靖恒开始放假。乘靖恺睡午觉的时间，我尝试教他写英文字母，念唐诗（为了让他说华语），真是考尽我的耐性！
the night I disturbed my sleeping brother:
the day we fought over the car (after posing for the camera):
the day we read on the bed:
what I must do everyday, more than once - rummage books:
the day I played hide-and-seek:
the day I stared - as my brother ate - beyond my reach:
say 'cheese'!
the night I was on my brother's bed:
the lure of the blue light:
I don't say 'cheese':
the day they made cookies (without me!):
"I am not showing you my asymmetrically-grown teeth!"
the day when it's all about trees (TreeFest 18-19 Jul 09 at Inverleith Park):
"I... shall... sur...mount... you!"
the days we looked good together:
Lorien's birthday party at Gorgie City Farm (they made the card without me! I would love to make a card too. It must be very delicious.):
my brother, His Royal Highness (I don't care, I am busy):
the evening of the tractor pedalling:
the day my brother sucked lollipop in front of me (so I did too, I think):
the evening my brother demonstrated teeth brushing to me (seems like it's going to be my turn soon):
the - no, MY - car gym:
on my brother's bed again:
the day my brother went to the National Museum of Scotland, where there were a Garden Detectives exhibition and some rocket stuff (without me again!):
the day my daddy's tummy became my drum:
the day my brother posed (and I didn't):
Don't think Jethro will start walking by one year old. He's barely trying to stand on his own now. Perhaps because I clapped my hands when I was encouraging him to stand on his own, he likes to clap his hands when he managed to stand for about 3 seconds. He's also got this cheeky smile which he flashed at you just before he was about to embark on something of a disapproving nature, like pulling the wires, touching the computer etc.
Ethan, into his second month of summer break, almost daily spent the couple of hours when Jethro was asleep slogging with me on ABCs writing and Chinese poems recitation (with no greater ambition than to get him to speak some Mandarin). I conclude that academic teaching is best left to the teachers. Such sessions with him always left me rather spent at the end, reminding how I have long ago learnt that teaching is not a job for me (my sis will undoubtedly attest to that).
Recorded below are some amusing things said by Ethan:
(suddenly, from the toilet where he was making big business)
"I was in your stomach with Jethro playing together."
(while chit chatting during tea time)
"I cannot see the round earth, I can only see the flat earth."
"Who taught you that?"
"Nobody did."
"Really? Not Daddy? Or your teachers?"
"No. 'Coz some of the things you don't need people to teach you, some of the things you need."
(in the morning - I am not sure what he was trying to say, but it was just after he had a bout of stomachaches a day or two ago)
"My stomach wants to sleep but the morning wake up me so my stomach is grumbling."
(referring to Jethro, after chiding him for not eating properly - "You must eat like me." I have even more question marks about this mysterious remark.)
"He's a question mark baby."
(from the nursery)
"You must try and learn and practise."
"Twinkle, twinkle, traffic lights,
Down by station shining lights.
Red means stop, green means go,
Amber means very slow.
Twinkle, twinkle, chocolate bar,
My dad has a rusty car."
6 comments:
No fear, my first one also didn't walk until after 1 yr old and he is still a clumsy fellow!
Keep up the manadarin. Think the poems are a bit too difficult, so perheps can try songs. We also purposely speak to Joshua in two languages and refuse to answer when he speaks to us in the wrong language.
the two of them are so cute.. from the photos, seems like they are enjoying each other company..
jethro so chubby.. want to pinch his cheek.. hehe..
as for the teaching mah... erm, jia you la.. haha..
haaaa love ur captions, so creative! upload on FB la, so many nice pics!
esp liked the pic w the both of them w the wawa hairstyle and smiling at the camera, super cute!!! who cut for them ar? looks quite pro worr
E is like a xiao-da-ren, mkg so much 'sense' in his conversations HEHEE thk he has a v vivid imagination (esp liked the stomach sleeping but morning wake up one HAHAHHAA)
Lionel: I guess when the baby starts to walk doesn't determine if he will be clumsy or not then! Ethan started at 11 months, but he's also a very clumsy person!
I mainly wanted to teach him pronunciation, if it's song, cannot really know. Maybe we should be more strict about speaking two languages to him too. It's just that before 3 years old, he was quite ok in both languages, then he goes to the Scottish nursery, and things changed...
Rb: Erm, you'll notice that there are less and less pics of them together liao. Becoz nowadays it's more likely squabble over toys than not... hmm, jia you? jia you?! want to vomit blood!
xy: sigh, upload onto blog already heh heh heh liao...
cut hair - J hasn't had any hair cut yet, except for a snip at the sides and the front which made him looked rather dumb for a few days. As for Ethan, yeah, thanks for the compliment. I cut his hair, but it's been more than a month (means it prob got more presentable as it grows longer). May need to do that again next month. Boys, what to do...
Hey, that's another common observation of one of my frens. Both parents are from China and they even send back the kid for baby sitting when young.
However, when 3-4yr goes to nursery in angmo country, the language battle is automatically 'lost'. Their kid now refuses to use manadarin much to their dismay.
The impact of the nursery is very great if u think abt it even from hrs perspective. So have to choose wisely (i knw u don't have a choice) but try to get one with program that reinforces the ideas/points u and jm want to emphases.
That's exactly what happened to Ethan! No more Mandarin and if he ever does speak it, very ang moh-ish.
We had 2 choices of nursery and we didn't see much of a difference in both. Took us some time to finally settle on the one he's going now. We don't know what special points or values we want of the nursery either. To us, they look generally alright. Taught Ethan about recycling, got him interested in painting, encourages outdoor play, and we also find the children there rather polite. So Ethan's sometimes unruly behaviour or disobedience could be due to the influence of the kids at school, or just us. :]
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