My pen can write on anything

In the car on the way to grocery shopping...
Liem: My pen can write on anything...
Mummy and Daddy: (Uh oh)
On arriving at the car park, Liem emerges from the car with pen marks on his face, hands and shirt...

Mummy, I love you

Liem: Mummy, I love you.
Mummy: (Aw, how sweet...)
Liem: I love you the best because your pajamas are very soft...
Mummy: (What the...???)

New friend

Liem has a new friend. She's a new neighbour that moved in a few months ago. Reena and Liem can play for hours together. And a collective sigh of relief has been heard from the four parents. No more "What should I play now?" from Liem, no more "Boring!" from Reena. They occupy themselves, and only one parent is needed to keep an ear out. Liem runs to Reena's house to find out if she can play with him, Reena runs to our house (several times sometimes in the one day) to find out when he's back from day care. They play outside with balls, sometimes with "guns", lately they've been indoors playing that they have babies (the soft toys are their babies, they change nappies, push them in a pram to day care, punish them mercilessly if they've been naughty (where did they get that from?)). Today, they are giants, very hungry giants, that are eating everything around them. Now that daylight savings has started, there will be light in the evenings after dinner and you can be sure Liem will be trotting, by himself, over to Reena's house to ask her to play. He's really growing up!!!

Joint birthday party

Another joint birthday party. The kids are going to school next year. They are no longer babies or toddlers, they are little children. How time flies...

Blue Indian

Liem came home wearing this "crown" made at day care. I thought he looked like a Red Indian and told him so. He said, "I'm a BLUE Indian" because of the blue clothes he was wearing. Had to show him pictures of Red Indians on the internet later. What did we use to do before the internet?

More artwork

More artwork, this time a bit more cryptic... If you were in the know, that Liem really enjoyed his trip to Genting Highlands with Ah Kong especially the bumper cars, you would be able to work out that he's drawn a picture of bumper cars.

Art work

It's amazing what artwork comes home with Liem these days....look at these! You can actually work out what they are!!! Usually I have to guess wildly when I see the pictures.
Mummy: Oh, that's nice, Liem. It's a building.
Liem: Nooooooo....it's a MACHINE!
(Next day)
Mummy: Ahh...that must be a machine.
Liem: NOOOO, it's a playground! With train tracks next to it!

Right! So much for guessing. This time I (and everyone else) can work out that Liem has drawn boats. And dinosaurs. I did actually see the book that the dinosaur pictures were copied from and it was meant for teaching kids to draw dinosaurs. I was so surprised to see these pictures that I just had to take photos of them to share them. Hahaha...

Having lunch in Hyde Park

Here are the three kids having lunch at Hyde Park after a trip to the museum. They thoroughly enjoyed looking at the dinosaur exhibits. Liem "dug" for dinosaur bones and all three kids had a great time at the play area.

Bad example

We are still getting plaintive comments like, "I wish I had a gun I didn't have to make". Everything turns into guns - pull wings off an aeroplane and it turns into a gun. A remote controller for a train set turns into a gun. In these pictures, Liem is using a boom gate from his Thomas train set as a gun. He is, in fact, a bad example, because he has corrupted his friend Grace into using her My Little Pony as a gun. They are both shooting cars that drive past. Lachlan is watching all this carefully, so that one day, he too will be able to make his own guns.

Very belated birthday photos

Yes, I admit freely, I have been extremely slack with blog posts lately. Too many things going on, especially on weekends, weekdays are full...plus I had a stack of books to get through. It's been wonderful getting a chance to read books again instead of having to constantly entertain a certain young man.

Anyway, these are photos from a birthday celebration with Grandma and Grandpa....Liem received a stack of aeroplanes, helicopters, gliders etc. Grandma really knows what Liem likes...