Moments in My Life

I am becoming insane more and more everyday.  All because of my son.  Everything I tell him to do, his answer is, “No!”  Then he kept repeatingly asking the same ‘why’ questions over and over again.  I told him the answers gazillion times, he still asks me.  *pulling hair* 

And the worst is whenever I sense that he needs to go to the bathroom, he always says, “NO!”  But I always bring him to the toilet and he would be so rush and sometimes wet his pant before I pull down his pants.  Why can’t you just tell me that you need to go to the bathroom???  And he has been wetting his bed quite frequently now at night.  At least once a week. 

Brandon: Mommy help me take this toy outside.

Mommy: OK OK.

Brandon: Ehh ehh … Mommy don’t touch my toys!!!!

OK, how do you want me to move your toy outside if you don’t let me touch your toys?! O_o

Mommy: Brandon, don’t ‘kacau‘ (disturb) Mommy lar. Go play with your own toys.

Brandon: Mommy, ‘ngor mo‘ (I don’t have) toys.

Mommy: What? You got so many toys lar. See here, this one, nah, this another one nah. *showing him all his toys*

But I could see he wasn’t interested in those.

We set out his toys in the bins on a shelf. We have books, trains & train tracks, big & small cars & all kind of vehicles, helicopters, animals, buildings, blocks, tools, xylophone, doctor kit and a few more others. I didn’t think about it until a friend enlightened me, “… may be he is bored with his toys?”

Actually, I didn’t think about that. Because a child can be creative and play with the same type of toys for very long. But not my boy. Then I thought about some older toys in a toy chest which I put away because they were no longer in his age range. This morning, I opened it up and asked him to play with them. He had fun with them, but he still played with a few of his favorites. I can see he is getting bored with them already as he has been asking me to clean up the toys back into the toy chest. Oh well … it worked for almost half a day.

Here is a picture of him playing with the old toys in his bedroom.

Sites I found interesting and would like to keep them available for future use:

Moms Like Me Los Angeles

Dynamic Learning & Listening Center

Just for Kids Catering

Piccolo Chef (Kids Cooking Classes)

The Kids Cooking Place

Horipro Music Academy

Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy

Thing that happened when he didn’t listen.

Scenario 1
When giving him a bath and washing his hair, I asked him to tilt his head backward so the water will not drip towards his face. I know that his neck may be tired so I support his head with one of my hand while running down the water with the other hand. He pushed my hand away, I was fine, but his head kept moving back in front, thus the water dripped towards his eyes and he cried and screamed. If he would have listened and let me hold his head he wouldn’t have water running into his eyes.

Scenario 2
I told him to walk. He didn’t listen, he ran and he fell. He cried. If he would have listened to me.

Scenario 3
I can tell his cue for bathroom. I tell him is time to go to the bathroom but he said no. A minute or two later, he said that he wet his pants a little. If he would have listened to me earlier then his pants would not be wet.

We are going to have a lot of rain this week.  It has been raining probably since very early in the morning today.  I love the rain but unfortunately living in sunny Southern California, we don’t get much rain and most of the places only have outdoor parkings.  So I had to cancel my plan to do grocery shopping this morning due to the heavy rain.  I was planning to make pot roast for dinner, but missing a few ingredients and since I couldn’t go out, I have to postpone our pot roast dinner.  Now I have to think of another dish to make for dinner.

I wish I weigh less than 50kg, but that is not what I am going to talk about.  I am actually counting the days to our new year - 2010!  Yes, believe it or not, we are less than 50 days away from the new year of 2010.  Actually, it will also be our 10th wedding anniversary on the new year eve.  Can’t believe we’ve been married for almost 10 years.  I don’t feel it as long. 

Anyway, it will be busy for us from now till the early Jan 2010.  We have Thanksgiving coming up next week.  Brandon will have no school the whole week and I have to plan something to keep him busy and out of the house.  Then on Friday after Thanksgiving will be the big shopping day for us.  

Brandon’s last day at the preschool will be on Dec 2nd.  They do not begin another term until mid of January.  It will be a long holiday for them and again, I have to put together a new schedule for him.  I might sign him up for other class (music/gym?) if it is available. 

Then we have the Christmas week.  Hubby has the whole week off and we may visit Las Vegas again this year, but I haven’t made any booking yet because he still not sure which day he will need to be back at work for one day.  Oh ya, almost forgot, my dentist appointment should be in that week as well.  We are going to be very busy! 

I am not really ready for 2010 yet … are you?  

SIL came over to our house one evening. Brandon was very excited to see her.

Mommy: Brandon, ah-gee (goo-jeh) is here. Tell her what you want for Christmas.

Brandon: Ehh ehh … ehh I want I want …

Ah Gee: Brandon, come tell ah-gee what you want for Christmas. Helicopters? Cars?

Brandon: … I want … I want …. something special.

SIL was laughing … she asked Brandon what something special he wants, but he kept repeating something special something special. Oh well … SIL has to figure out herself what to get Brandon.

I met up with several other mommies for lunch today at Pat & Oscar’s Restaurant at Del Amo Mall.  It was a nice get together.  It has been a while since I saw their kids.  We actually met during the Adult School Parenting Class with Mrs. Harris, may be more than 2 years ago.  Even though we don’t have the same class now, but we still meet up for Mommy’s Night out and sometimes lunch or park date together.  And this time was at Pat & Oscar’s.

We were lucky as I received a coupon for Free Kids Meal (with minimum of $5 purchase) from Pat & Oscar’s this morning and able to print them out before I left home.  Yup, our kids had free meals!

After lunch, we stopped at a nearby pumpkin patch.  This is actually the first time Brandon has visted one.  He didn’t want to go but I told him we had to because I had promised to meet the other mommies there and at least let us stop by to say bye to them.  We didn’t stay too long as it was a bit late and we needed to head home for his nap time.  But for the short moment there we took many pictures.  And here is one to share.

Happy Halloween everyone. Stay safe while trick and treating!!

I was on the phone with my sister in Adelaide and found out my son will start school nine months later than the kids in Malaysia.  He doesn’t start kindy until September 2011.  I think most kids his age in Malaysia begin class in January.  Oh boy … now I really have to think if I should be going back to Malaysia for his study.  LOL!  Crazy thought but … it would be nice … for me!