Little 时旭

School teacher feedback to me ,when she touched on the topic of occupation and asked the children talk about the work of their parents ,Shi Xu said his mummy is a nurse !

Well, the reason behind he said so is due to our flash cards and pretend play .
Few months back , I did flash cards on the topic of occupation and we also had pretend play of it after that .
He likes to be a doctor and always ask me to be his nurse and patient.Sometimes he pretends he is pilot and ask me to be stewardness to serve him drinks in "plane' .
we do enjoy our pretend play .
and now school touch on this topic again , that's the reason why he said his mummy is a nurse .(but I wonder why he never say his mummy is stewardness :P)

**Shi Xu @ 33 months old

27 April marked the 10th anniversary of our courtship.How time flies , we have been in love for a decade !

Needless to say , we celebrated this special day togather with our lovely boy for sure.In fact ,we did not go anywhere as daddy has exam on next day .(we postpone our day out to coming weekend ) .nonetheless , we still have a decent meal out at Marina Mandarin Hotel .

Daddy ate his favourite oysters to his heart's content (Gee...he ate >18 oysters ! )

Shi Xu enjoyed his chocolate

Do we look cool with our personalized family tee ?(Prince Shi Xu ,Daddy and Mummy)hehe ....

My little camera man was busy shooting photo everywhere (I pass on my old Canon IXUS camera to him .He was so happy and excited that he tried out different shots with it ) . He was indeed helpful to daddy and me when we need a camera man to take photo for us .Others found him hilarious when they saw a small toddler trying to be our camera man busy taking photo at hotel lobby and restaurant .

These are some of the photos taken by Shi Xu .Hey, his shots were surprisingly not bad (I mean he still managed to capture our faces but not floor or table only :P)

** Shi Xu @ 33 months old

Shi Xu start loving lego and never get tired of having fun at it .He is getting more creative now . Couple of days ago , I gave him a "base " and pieces of lego and i off to take my shower .

I notice that he starts understanding the concept of symmetry as well .( look at the orange color headlights on both sides , the dark blue and white color on both side of his car and the 2 black color backlights ) .That's amazing !

The other days , he made a gun by himself as well .

It doesn't stop here ,daddy had made 2 nice robots and this inspired him to make a robot by himself.It’s always interesting to see how far their imagination can soar.

This is Shi Xu's robot ..

and these are daddy's robot

whose robot is nicer and more creative ?

**Shi Xu @ 33 months old

Shi Xu :"mummy , i tell u a SECRET "
Mummy : "OK "
Shi Xu :(he whispered in my ear) " I put the goldfish in tank ,Clore feed the goldfish , BUT the fish never eat ,MAYBE the fish will die "
** is this a secret ??

Shi Xu : "I am very strong "
Mummy : "Why ? "
Shi XU : "BECAUSE i eat rice ! "

I was eating biscuit on sofa ....
Shi Xu : "Mummy , you can not eat biscuit on sofa ,later sofa dirty ,eat on floor . "
Mummy : "ok ! "
**I feel like i am his little gal .haha ...

It is fun to hear a 2.75 years old todder using conjunction like "maybe " , "because/因为" , "but " ,and "如果 " (I can't remember what he said using 如果 ).
How time flies , my baby has grown up to be a little boy who always talks as an adult !

I like to use various activities/objects to teach Shi Xu the concept of opposite/comparison and he enjoy learning them .

By now he know far/near , long/short , tall/short , clean/dirty , big/small , up/down , left/right , more/less , cold/hot , day/night , happy/sad , fast/slow , heavy/light ,wet/dry ,narrow/wide etc .

Sometimes I am glad to see him exercises with opposites in his daily activities .

"papa is TALL , Shi Xu is SHORT " ,
" mummy is BIG , Shi Xu is SMALL " ,
" i am FAR away , you can not reach me " or " I am NEAR now , you can reach me " ,
"this is HAPPY face " ( he makes a happy face ) , " this is SAD face " ( makes sad face ) ,
"this dudu (pacifier ) is DIRTY " ,after i clean it , he will say "my dudu is CLEAN now " ,
"papa' hand is LONG , Shi Xu's hand is SHORT"
When we are cycling , he will say " I am FAST , mummy is SLOW " ,
and the list goes on ,we make learning opposites easy and fun !

**Shi Xu @ 2.75 years old

Some weeks back , the father and son were pretty busy with their new "lego project" . They could occupy themselves with hours fixing up the lego pieces .Shi Xu loves vehicles , so they fixed up quite number of vehicles .
Here are some of them : farm tractor , helicopter ,ferry , fire engine .

And here is another farm tractor

Shi Xu likes this car most . The car doors can even be opened ! That is cool !

At the beginning , Shi Xu was just an "assistant" of daddy ,by now he can fix some small parts like wheels ,steering wheel , change the car's bumper and bodykit according to his favor .

The other day , i gave Shu Xu a lesson for his misbehavior and he was very unhappy with it .

Shi Xu : Stupid !
Daddy : Can not say mummy stupid !
Shi Xu : Mummy is butterfly, butterfly is stupid .
mummy & daddy : ..........

hmm .. he is using Algebra !
A(mummy)=B(butterfly) ,
B(butterfly)=C(stupid) ,hence
A(mummy)=C(stupid)

I was really impressed with his "algebra rule " ,but i was also quite disturbed by his rude manners .

**Shi Xu @ 32 months old

I just love these images of him ..

Adorable and infectious :

Bob the builder :

Fireman :

Yoda? :

Naive look :

Moto-racing driver:

**Shi Xu @ 32 months old

I have been doing flash card with Shi Xu for months and still keep it as our routine ( at least 2-3 times per week ) .Our flash card routine is not smooth sailing , he attention span is pretty short ,he usually get bored very quickly ,so this does not come easily for me.Often at time ,I have to take times to coax him to sit down and listen to me .

Some weeks back ,his mood crept up .He started to make sentences when i was flashing the set of cards " building and places "

Mummy:office !
(he stopped me proceeding to the next card ,to my surprise ,he wanted to make sentence for each card)
Shi Xu : mummy go to office work work
Mummy: School !
Shi Xu : Shi Xu go to school study
Mummy :Castle !
Shi Xu : Disneyland has castle
Mummy :Airport terminal !
Shi Xu : We go to airport terminal (see) aeroplane
Mummy : Post office !
Shi Xu : Aunty post (he meant aunty go to post office post letter )
Mummy: Playground!
Shi Xu : I want to play see saw (missing the word" at playground" )

The list goes on ...
I was glad that he could enjoy the flash card session with me and able to express what relates to the topic.I truly enjoy this bonding/learning time .It’s such a lovely day.

** Shi Xu @ 32 months old