All About Your Child

Nope!

Not my boys.

But for my two nieces! Yeah! *clap clap clap*

My MIL wanted to check out our temporary home and so they came in the afternoon. My nieces loved the place so much, they wanted to spend the night over here!

MIL kept finding excuses NOT to grant them their first sleepover, “Didn’t bring clothes, what are you going to wear?” “No toothbrush, how?” “Not enough pillows, what are you going to sleep on?”

Guess what?

I HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS TO THOSE!!!

*laugh*

But my words were still not powerful enough to make the old lady nod her head. *pout*

It took lots of persuasion from THIS PERSON before my MIL and BIL said “YES” to my nieces first sleepover.

Guess who was the one who did all the persuasion and negotiation successfully?

It was KEATKEAT!!! *laugh*

He was so good with coming up with all the reasoning and assuring words, before Binbin joined in to give the final push. *laugh* It was so funny to watch.

Having 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls, have ALWAYS been my wish. But ever since I passed my 32nd birthday, I decided to close the production line and am happy with just two boys.

Right after dinner, we went shopping, came home and bathed. But feeling great to be a ‘mother of 4′, we decided to bring them out for a ‘supper adventure’ later. Whoo-hoo!

Hey! Exams are officially over for the 4 of them after yesterday, what better way to celebrate than making this sleepover super fun?!! *clap clap clap*

Usually when Allan and I had to run some errands during our Sunday visit to my in-law’s place, my nieces would want to come along and my nephew would always shake his head.

Today, for the very first time my nephew wanted to follow and my nieces did not. What a change! Probably because it was drizzling. *shrugged*

So Binbin, with overflowing brotherly love for W.D., kept holding W.D.’s hand, shuffling W.D.’s hair, patting W.D.’s head and constantly reminding him to be careful not to slip and fall or step on puddles of water. It was such a heartwarming moment to watch.

*smile*

Keatkeat, you make Mummy so proud….

Yesterday, Keatkeat with his friend were doing a demonstration infront of a small crowd. I was not there. Only Binbin was with him.

The audience were already booing and saying nasty things like (according to Keatkeat and Binbin), “They are cheating. This is not real.” BEFORE Keatkeat and his friend even started doing anything.

The teacher said, “Can we discuss this later? Let the kids finish what they need to do first?”

Keatkeat was still pissed when we went to fetch them. After talking about what happened for about 10mins in the car ride, he ended with this sentence, “I want to be happy. I shall not be bothered by them. Just let them say what they want.”

*clap clap clap*

Isn’t it amazing when such sentences come out from a 9 year old boy?

Allan and I kept giving him hugs. In times like these, hugs speak louder than words of praise.

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10.45pm After Keatkeat was asleep, I chatted with Binbin…

Binbin said, “GorGor frowned angrily at the audience. He was 100% times 100% times 100% pissed off with them.”

Me: “Did Gorgor scold them?”

Binbin said, “Cannot lah! How can children scold adult?!” He paused for awhile and then continued, “But because they kept saying all the nasty things, Gorgor lost concentration and did not do something correctly and they booed him.”

Me: “Then how did Gorgor react?”

Binbin said, “He take deep breaths and do it again lor. Then do correctly the second time.”

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Keatkeat, till this day, is still a challenge for me. His personality, his character, his attitude, his mannerism, etc, it is just so NOT in-line with the rest of the family.

Yet, on rare occasions, like this, he still proves that he is still a Warrior!

Children can Handle Critics Better than Adults

Yes! I dare say after this day, we are half way through.

The things yet to pack are those that we still need during our daily life. So they will be left untouched till the last couple of days before we move out of this house.

This will be our LAST removal before our next pack up next month.

So what did we remove this time? My bed frame.

This is the second time we are dismantling it and third time fixing it. First time was when I moved out of my in-law’s place, almost 7 years ago.

All the knockings and screwing have worn out some part of the wood. So we will be saying goodbye to our wedding bed and getting a new bed as our 13th Wedding Anniversary (in May) gift for the two of us.

So till the new bed arrives, we are sleeping on the floor. Not literally of ‘cos! On our mattress placed on the floor. *giggle*

Keatkeat was a great helper and he is my little Macho ‘Man’.

No one taught him to carry the planks in that position. Personally, I was pleasantly surprised that he was so smart to use his back to lift the planks off from the ground. *Super thumbs up*

Some of my long time blogger friends has become my hubby’s online friend over the years of blogging. All thanks to Facebook online games.

But I think non of them know that Allan was in his school’s elite soccer team. His school friends gave him a nickname “Allan Shearer” (sound just like the famous England soccer player, Alan Shearer.)

Even after graduation, he still plays soccer with his friends on weekends but was forced to stop after a leg injury and a stern warning from the doctor.

Allan became worried when he knew that Binbin and Keatkeat had been playing soccer in school during recess every single day. He was worried that they would hurt their joints because they do not have the basics yet.

So yesterday, 24th March, Saturday, he bought them a kids-size soccer ball, pumped it up and went ahead with the very first professional soccer training.

As usual, Binbin, the fast learner, had no problem getting the kick right after two or three tries.

While Keatkeat, the full of imagination and aspiration fellow, only kept mimicking the stunts he saw on the cartoon “Super Striker” *faint*
So Mr Coach had to keep correcting him, thus giving Binbin lots of rest time.

“You can tell who is gifted in the sport straight away.” Allan said after spending alot of time on Keatkeat and he still could not get one kick right. “Somethings are like that, its either you have the talent or you don’t. Not something that can be taught.”

Coach Allan noticed that Binbin was feeling bored, so he asked Keatkeat to take a break, while he taught Binbin how to stop the ball with his body.

Look at how PRO Binbin was!!!!

Allan THREW the ball towards Binbin

and Binbin could HOLD the ball in that position for 1 second when it landed on him!

Isn’t he cool?!

Allan said, “Its a shame that Singapore soccer player’s salary cannot justify for the risks that this sport brings, otherwise I will let Binbin join. He is really good at it.”

Actually, to me, Binbin is good at almost everything that involves motor skills.
*Grin*

Those ‘sparkling pearls’ all over his face tells how hard he trained…