Fighter planes

Liem also loves fighter planes...he gets this from Daddy... He talks about Corsairs and Beaufighters and KI-67s. He makes bombers with Lego.

He also loves Star Wars and is making recon droids and figures with light sabres. The figures are often cutting off heads and legs and jabbing body parts....SIGH... Liem would like Darth Vader's tie-fighter with the curved wings and he loves the Empire because they have Storm troopers. "Where have we gone wrong?", sighs Daddy...

Moomin book

Liem loves reading the Moomin comic book that Daddy bought for him from Finland. He finds it very funny and there's lots of jokes in it, as he tells me. He's even writing about it in his daily diary at school. Poor Mrs Arnold, she must be wondering what sort of books we are letting Liem read at home...

Liem's space picture

Liem loves space. He loves reading about it and also drawing pictures about it. Here's one picture that he drew at Kiran's during the last school holidays. I love the "Murcrey" (Liem is sitting beside me at the moment telling me, "That's not how you spell Mercury...it's M-E-R-C-U-R-Y").

Recently he had to give a speech at school as part of the English curriculum. He chose to talk about the planets in the solar system. And he got chosen to represent his class at the school finals. He came away with a Certificate of Participation, not a trophy as he would like. Well, he'll just have to try harder next time!