Masterpiece

Gavin really likes to draw nowadays, he can sit down to draw for a long time and his favourites are cars and figures. One thing that I really fancy his drawing is he likes to draw me, haha!
Gavin started his school break on last friday and he has been spending his morning time at drawing while sitting on his potty for big business before I went to work. When I returned home after a late dinner the same night, I was so surprised to see that my fridge has been fully covered with new 'images'....My son's masterpieces being presented in Gavin Q's style! cool?! let's take a look...



Gavin chooses to pin his drawings on the fridge!



Acoording to Gavin, this is Higgly's town hero...look a like?



And this is me with the hand holding a cane!?



Gavin said this is Brandon because his brother has big eyes!

I love to ask him about his drawings, his answers and explanation are always full of surprises!!

Brandon is walking!!

Now, I'm sitting in front of my laptop and decided to update the second post in my blog immediately after such a long period of M-I-A because today (actually was yersteday night - 23th May 2007), Brandon started to walk finally after our long waited of 13 months 3 weeks and 4 days!
Eventually, he dare to move his first step independently and he is very daring as compared to Gavin although Gavin started to walk at 12 months+ because Brandon is not afraid of falling at all and he can actually continue the attempt to walk several times even he's not very steady yet and keep falling after walking a few steps.
Anyway, Bravo to you, Brandon! And mummy is very happy today and is certainly going to enjoy the freedom of not carrying you in my arm too long anymore!!

I'm lousy in blogging!

I started to blog after reading many mommies interesting blogs and feel very excited about the idea. So I created this blog for the purpose of recording the wonderful and precious moments of my two boys' growing stories hoping that this will be a great present for them in future so that they can recall all their old stories when they have grown up later...but being a lazy mum of me and also always been so busy at work, I didnt manage to maintain and update the special stories of my boys onto my blog and have been feeling bad of not being able to persist in my initial intention...I missed to update Brandon's first teething, first birthday, Gavin's first mother's day card to me etc etc...
Today, I have a good mood to re-start my blogging engine, let me pray hard that I can really keep this blogging mood going on so that I wont miss to update any special stories of my boys too much and at the same time also hoping that I can update some important stories as backdated posts as soon as possible!
My boys, I hope that in future when both of you are reading this blog, you guys will really appreciate the effort that mummy is dying hard to keep up, ok?!

大妈

一月十五日，我与Raymond接到一个坏消息，洁儿说大妈快不行了要我们尽快赶到医院去。在未接到坏消息前，我们原本就打算当天要去探望大妈，因为我们已经有一星期没见大妈了，但是我们万万都没料到她的健康状况会骤然恶化，大妈体内的癌细胞扩散得太快了。
当我们到了医院，看到了家婆与洁儿眼红红的坐在房外；再往房里面走，看到Ah Boy, Ah Nee, June 和两个外甥围在床边伤心的哭着，而大妈就躺在床上以她那所剩无几的力气努力的维持着呼吸。见到大妈那奄奄一息的情况，我的心都已经碎了，心想为什么事情会突然间变成这样呢？大妈是一个大好人，为何这样的事情会发生呢？我当时唯有不知所措的哭着望着大妈，好后悔没早点来探望大妈多几次也好自责来不及实现买有机粥给大妈享用的承诺，真的觉得自己好没用！当Simon及大嫂一赶到，没多久后，大妈也渐渐的停止了呼吸，她真的走了！
大妈离开了，理所当然的大家都很伤心及不舍得，但是很欣慰的六个孩子们都非常的合作及团结，完全没有分辨过当中三个孩子不是大妈亲身的，大家就在举殡的三天内很和睦及团结的为大妈妥当的办理身后事。
时至今日，每次回忆起大妈的时候，我都觉得她很美，是由内至外的美，因为大妈确实是个心地善良的大好人，自从Raymond的父亲去世后，大妈就从不计较也不偏心的从小照顾Raymond两兄弟直到长大。大妈那么无私的大爱，很可惜的在她生前，我们没尽量的好好报答她，而今我与Raymond唯有警惕自己要常在祷告中纪念她，就当着是我们对她永远的报答也是我们唯一可以及应该办的。大妈，你一路走好，愿神与你同在！

Gavin's drawing

Gavin really loves to sing, read and draw nowadays and I was surprise to see one of his drawing (actually its just a scribble) on the coffee table coincidence a few days back.
He drew a boy, according to his explanation and this is how it looks like as below.....

A - Two eyes
B - Two ears
C - Two hands
D - Two legs
E - 'One' (??) hair
F - One mouth

When I ask him where's the nose then he went 'oops, sorry!' and he added.....

G - One nose

When I ask him again about the two 'out-of-topic' items, he explained......

H - Smoke
I - Orange

I laughed like mad after listening to his explanation, he's really creative and truly have a sense of funny imagination! LOL!

Whenever I recall this piece of drawing, it really keep me smiling away, so innocent!

But I just cant make out why is the smoke and orange got to do with a boy, LOL!

p/s - Luckily I snapped this piece of 'masterpiece' using my camera before I lost it, I should have scanned the drawing earlier, sigh!

Glutton Gavin

Eversince Gavin started his preschool last month, I found that he is quite a big eater nowadays.
Everyday before leaving for school, I will normally prepare him a lunchbox with some breakfast snacks like french toast, cheese/peanut butter sandwich etc for him to eat during his morning snack time at school although the school will provide morning snack too because I thought that the home prepared snack can be a stand-by meal if he does not like the snack prepared by the school since he only take 1 bottle of milk without any breakfast before leaving the house. And, most of the time, he will finish all his home prepared snack as well as the school one, so I thought, he is taking a good portion of breakfast and certainly that's a good sign.

When comes to lunch time, the school will also prepare lunch for the students, and Gavin will take his lunch at school before leaving for home. Sometimes he might not finish the portion when comes to not-so-favourite dish but if he is offered his favourite dish like western food or fry noodle, he will ask for more, sometimes taking up to 3 portions! So I guess the school might worry of 'rugi' (making a lost) because Gavin's consumption is huge, haha!

And when Gavin reach home after school, he will request for somemore food again when he see us ( my mom and myself) having our lunch and he will definitely finish his new portion of lunch with a big 'burp'!

Next, when comes to naptime, he surely wants another bottle of milk and this time is only 1-2 hours apart from the lunch he took earlier. This will last until dinner time.

After finishing his dinner, he will start to hunt for food again and normally this time he will be hunting in the fridge and the pursuading process will happen as below….

Gavin : ‘Let’s see what kind of snack is in the fridge.’

Once he spotted his prey like chocolates, vitagen, cakes, jelly, fresh milk, cornflakes, biscuits etc, he will go….

Gavin : ‘Mummy do u like to have some xxx?’

Eve : ‘No, I don’t like.’

Gavin : ‘Y you don’t like, mummy? Its very nice wor, very nice.’

Before I can comment anything, he will be starting to eat the snack already.
After having his favourite snack, he will take some fruits too until bedtime, he will need the last bottle of milk of the day before he sleeps.

Sometimes I'm worrying that Gavin might throw up one day because he might over eaten too much but maybe he is having his growth spurt so I think as long as he is happy and enjoy his food then i should not be worrying too much.
I love to look at Gavin whenever he is enjoying his food because he looked very contented and satisfied with his lovely meal, he is cute indeed!

A GIft From Ivan 'Gu'

My cousin, Ivan who is also the uncle ( 'Gu' in Teochew dialect) to Gavin return from USA to Malaysia for his holiday and he had bought a gift for Gavin-a series of educational CD.Gavin was so excited about the gift he received and i immediately loaded the CD in hubby's laptop. The CD is actually catered for kids of age 6-12 so it is a bit too deep for Gavin now but anyhow, I still let Gavin explored on the programs.
After the I got the program loaded, Gavin was so excited while he got hooked on the program and he can managed to read quite a number of words and some short sentences from the laptop screen while the program runs and he enjoyed playing the 'click and paste' game very much.
This is the first time I allowed him to use the laptop and to my surprise, he knew that he can move the cursor by using the touch pad beside using a mouse, without me demonstrating him directly and all by just one observation!
I really think that the kids in the new era are far more advance and this set of CD is certainly a very suitable and meaningful gift for Gavin to enlighten his exploration of knowledge eternally!