Box of Fun

Old photos here. This is the time when hubby received his plastic punching bag. Drakey made use of the box. Then he wanted me to airpump his face and his ears cause it made him laugh. When I finished pumping the punching bag, we forgot to fill up the bottom part of the punching bag with water. Duhhh!!! I gave up afterwards and hubby squeezed the punching bag till it was out of air, put the water inside and repumped it again.

In the end, he joined the gym and now it's standing there by the bathroom like a big blue genital :P lol.

Doing the Awesome

You know how toddlers move so fast? This is the best picture I could take of Drakey doing the split. I said awesome too many times when he did it and now he calls it doing the awesome and repeats, "Awesome, awesome!" and starts doing the splits.

His left finger tu tengah tunjuk he's doing the "awesome". :D

I Love Drawing

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Drakey is in love with all of his coloring markers and papers. He would draw all day long. It just started this week. First two days he would only draw lines. He drew lines after lines on top of other lines.

After that he drew circles and more circles, big small. Suddenly he said," Eeee... Butut, butuuuut." Can you believe it? Once in a while he would take a break drawing butts!! But of course drawing circle's are more fun cause he would only draw 1 or 2 butt's and continue with his circle. Immersed in his own imagination.

I think I'm running out of papers. I kept a stack of empty papers since before Drakey even was born. Currently I'm using any recycled papers. I totally forgot to buy him sketching pads.

Kenduri at Ampang

Today we went to Ampang for a kenduri. Baby Noah(hubby's cousin's 1st son) with a very mancung nose was sleeping all the way when the men where reading Quranic verses. He also slept through all the way when we where there. Such a sound sleeper. But Noah's mom said he waked up at night. Ayoo... :)

Sa'eed and family was there too. Sa'eed didn't wanted to go into the house so while we sat there, the two toddlers and the two father's went at the back... main bola sepak. Sempat ba kan. Well, at least they didn't saw the trampoline and swing sets!!

After habis baca doa we ate and MashaAllah, the food is soooo delicious! The mommy had a second serving and also 2 servings of kuih dipped in coconut milk, finger lickin' gooood. Drakey was busy playing with some toys. I was happy I didn't have to run around after him so much now that he's much more interested in playing with his cousin and toys of course.

Talking and Reading

Drakey has a new ability. He can make simple sentences and usually his favorite time to tell short stories to me is during his bedtime at night after singing some songs of course. I think it's all thanks to Blue's Clues lah. Sad as it may sound but yes that's the truth. It's hard to get away from kid's shows these days! :P

I've downloaded a couple of episodes and been having him repeating those episodes within a week. When out of no where he asks me," Mommy, where's Joe's blanket?" Turned his head left and right and began blanket hunting... "Over here... no no!! Hah! Over there!" he would say while hunting for his blanket which he pretended it's Joe's(Blue's Clues host) blanket. It's such a surprise to me because he usually has the same predictable sentences but just after a week his stories are so unpredictable that it surprises me sometimes.

The other night he was telling me about Blue's Clues again before he slept because he's loves Blues Clues so much and in the end he said to me," Good night Blue's Clues... pow pow pow... and then..." So I asked him, "and then what?" .... Silence... "And then what? Come on, finish your story." Tgk2 this eyes where layu already and he fell asleep shortly after that. Oh great.. I told myself. Now my heart's going to itch cause I'll never know the ending of his story lol.

Although still not that terrer telling stories like his cousin Gib but oh yeah ... now I got one talking toddler who likes to talk all the time. The more he knows how to talk, the more demands he has on what he likes and doesn't like and negotiating with a talking toddler doesn't make it easier... dulu I thought if he knows how to talk senang siiikit tapi mcm sama jak... tambah pening sikit pun ada jugak hehe. Don't get this wrong Drakey... joke jak bah. Mommy really loves you, you know ^_^

As for his alphabets, I taught him for 2 weeks or so. One week for small letters and one week for big letters. I've made my own colorful ABC's flash cards on an A4 paper cut in two and asked him to guess and read out the letters when possible. I've downloaded those cute Sesame Street's ABC song on youtube, put it in my VLC player playlist and loop it. The same thing goes with his numbers. Although he messes his alphabets sometimes but 99% of the time he gets it right and now I'm thinking how in the world am I going to teach him how to read?!

Currently I'm repeating on the same sets of words with a picture behind or some other sliding flashcards with the words outside and the pictures inside. Using my index finger to go through the words. It's still going very slow since he refuses to read because he starts singing ABC after reading the 5th flash card. Hehehehehe... My geram sometimes can become a huge laughter these days. Dunno why :D

Like I said, when he was younger and was so innocent... less cheekier lol, there wasn't any fuss and he follows what word was taught. Ikut bulat bulat... Like tiger, cat, gorilla, elephant, bike, car, rhino, ear, toes, eyes, mouth, sit, wave, baby... If not reading it, he would show it to me what it is but now it's a whole different way to teach him and am still pening.

Probably he's not ready? Probably I need a different method? Probably I'm pushing him too much. I don't know. I have a feeling my dull flashcards bore him. I probably should get one of those Ladybug book series. I've seen many home schooled kids use them. Thinking out loud, I should probably browse blogs on homeschooling. Haven't done that yet. Currently using my own technique. The mommy needs some inspiration!