Reuel, Kaien, Zayden
Reuel: I cannot keep saying “Happy New Year” else I will be tired.
Guan: Just shake people’s hands then.
Reuel: (shakes hands with others) I cannot keep saying “Happy New Year” else I will be tired.
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Boys on CNY
Category: Kids
I Spy
For lunch today, Guan and I brought all three kids to meet up with the 7ners to celebrate Jo’s birthday. (I’ll do a separate post for this.)
On the drive home, Zayden wanted to play “I Spy”. What inspired this post was Reuel. He didn’t quite understand how the game is played.
Reuel: I spy with my eye… something red! No–purple! (short pause) It’s prune!
Me: Reuel, you have to choose something that we can see. Where’s the prune?
Reuel: Er–I don’t know?
Reuel: I spy with my eye… something blue! It’s my Crocs!
Me: (chuckles) You’re suppose to let everyone else guess first, Reuel!
Reuel: I spy with my eye… er, something orange!
Me: The ball!
Reuel: Nope! It’s orange!
Guan: Where’s the orange, Reuel?
Reuel: Er–at home!
Haiyo! This boy ah… -.- ^_^
Morning Walks
I’m not a morning person. But I love to observe how the world wakes up.
I used to do that back in the days where I stayed out all night. It’s subtle, but it starts around after 5 in the morning. People start waking up, start leaving for work/school. The surroundings shift from the quiet night to the bustle of morning busy-ness. The air, so fresh and cool–it just rejuvenates me.
I like walking through the neighbourhoods and the heartlands experiencing how it all starts coming alive.
I’ve been taking the boys to school and I enjoy our walks because they will chatter away–usually comment about the vehicles that pass us by as we walk along the road.
Reuel: 222! Kor kor! Your favourite bus! But not double decker though.
Zayden: Yeah.
Or,
Reuel: 28 double decker! My favourite!
And this:
Both: Papa watch this show!
Anyway, earlier this morning, Reuel spotted Bus 14 and he went, “Forty-one!”
“The other way, Reuel,” I gently told him.
“ONETY-FOUR!”
-.- ^_^
Reuel’s Antics
When Reuel began speaking, my sister wondered why he sounded strange. We then realize it was because he had a slightly monotonous way of talking. Now he has his injections of tone when trying to express vocally but I feel that it’s just his personality.
He was always observant–even as a baby. He would sit quietly and look, absorbing his surroundings. Sometimes he has this poker or deadpan face when talking. Like sometimes I’ll ask him: “Reuel, did you have fun at Grandma’s today?” “Yes,” he would reply me in a flat voice -.-
As I picked him up from school this week, Mrs Yang (the school admin), mistook Reuel for Zayden and she was telling me how he tugged at his name tag and told her, “See? My name is here! It’s not Zayden!” 😆
He is so much like me–not a morning person. He doesn’t jump out of bed like Zayden, all hyped up for school. Instead, he will mumble that he’s tired and would much rather prefer to head back to bed. I would usually wake the boys between 6.40 to 7.00 in the morning and make their breakfast drink of milk and Milo. After two weeks of school and early risings, he came into my room at 6.45 a.m. and before he could speak, I whispered that he shouldn’t talk so loudly lest he wakes Kaien. He said softly, “Mommy, I want my Milo.” -.-
I sleepily brought him back to bed and told him to head back to bed since it was a Saturday 😛
Anyway, I wanted to write this post because what happened at breakfast made me laugh out loud.
Reuel (spots the gems on MIL): Ah Ma! What is that?
MIL: Diamonds.
Reuel: Why you wear diamonds?
MIL: Ah Ma likes diamonds.
Reuel: Why you like diamonds?
MIL: I like diamonds. Do you like diamonds?
Reuel: No. I like circle.
😆 😆 😆
(If you still don’t get it, feel free to ask 😀 )
Backside
I have NO IDEA why Zayden likes to say anything that relates with the bottom–backside, poot, poop, da bian (passing motion in Chinese) are some examples. Of course, Reuel will follow his big brother in learning all the wrong things and have been saying the above words more often than I would like them to -.- And they both like to giggle over those words like it’s the funniest thing on earth. (Is it a boys’ thing? :/ )
Kaien is a funny baby (I know he’s a toddler now but he’s still the baby of the family 😀 ) and expert at picking up two syllable words. His first word was flower and was followed by thank you. We tried teaching him to say light, fan and please but he rather say cupcake, apple and nana (banana).
Anyway, MIL was bathing the boys last night when Zayden yelled out, “Backside!”
No points for guessing what happened next.
“Backside!” Kaien echoed -.-
Hair Cut
Last week, I decided it was time for Reuel to finally have his first hair cut. It was sort of a big deal because I have never sent my boys to the hair salon until it was time for nursery. I usually trim their fringes to keep their hair from poking into their eyes. And, I tend to have many older folks “nagging” at me about letting Reuel keep his hair, that he looks like a girl or he’s suffering due to the hot and humid weather -.-
He is such a sweet lad. Whenever strangers mistake him for a girl and calls him “mei mei”, he would tell them in that innocently surprised voice: “But I’m a boy!” It really melts my heart ^_^
Before shots:
A front shot
Look at Reuel’s waves
Reuel was eager and volunteered to have his turn first. When Zayden was his age, I had to “bribe” him with candy and a short play time at the playground after his hair cut -.- I’m pretty glad I don’t need to struggle for future trips to the hair salon! 😀
Fresh faces
Lookalikes from the back
The problem with them having the same hairstyle is that we tend to call Reuel “Zayden” instead. It’s really uncanny how alike they are (from the back). I feel that Reuel looks better with long hair! 🙁 I will most certainly miss his old look.
On Saturday, we had free entry to the zoo thanks to Guan’s cousin-in-law. Personally, animal captivity makes me really sad (now that I’m older) but it brings so much excitement to the kids for them to have a chance to see animals closer without having to go all out into the wild. I didn’t take much photos because we had four kids under 6 years of age–one couldn’t walk, one was learning how to walk and two who only knew how to run -.-
But here’s picture of Kaien 😀
Just woke up from his nap