All About Your Child

Keatkeat has been saying “die” in almost everything we talked about lately.

An ambulanced was driving past our van with its siren on.
Keatkeat:”Oh no, somebody die” he is still not very good at past-tenses
Me:”No, its just a sick person, he may not die.”
Keatkeat:”But the ambulance is driving so fast, so dangerous, sure die.”

We were at the doorstep of the supermarket. I squart down and looked at my boys with a serious face:”Now, we are going into the supermarket, what must you do?”
Boys:”Keep my hands to myself.”
Me:”Good! If not, the uncle in the supermarket will throw us out.”
Keatkeat:”Throw us out!” with eyes wide opened. “Is the uncle very strong? He can carry all 3 of us and throw us out together?”
Me:”Mm! So do you want that to happen?”
Keatkeat:”No. If you fall on me I will die!”

Keatkeat was trying to negotiate to skip brushing his teeth.
Keatkeat:”Why Binbin never use toothpaste?”
Me:”Because he still doesn’t know how to spit it out. What will happen if he swallow the toothpaste?”
Keatkeat:”He will die!”

In these days its quite hard to find a pet shop that sells birds. Today we were lucky, we saw a pet shop that sells almost 50 over birds. They were cheeping away and the sound caught the attention of my boys.
Keatkeat:”I want to go see birds.”
Me:”Ok, so can you touch the bird cage?”
Boys:”No!”
Me:”What will happen if you touch it?”
Keatkeat:”I will die!”
Me:”No! The birds may think that you are a piece of food and they may bite your finger. What will happen when the birds bite your finger?”
Keatkeat:”(yes, you guess it!) I will die!”

Sigh…..

Ever since the children went to IMM they have been asking me to put up a Christmas Tree at home. They never knew that there is one sitting in the storeroom unmoved for years.

Ever since my dad pass away, I have not touched that box.

So I told the boys that if they could draw me a Christmas Tree, I will grant them their wish. And so they drew this!

The green marker did not leave its tracks on the paper alone, but on their faces….Binbin wasn’t in the mood for photo shoot today, so its just Keatkeat and his Green Tears…..

and hands….

Keatkeat loved his new Green Look, so he continued to strike poses…..

“*Roar* I am the Green Monster”

So should I let them have their wish come true? Well although the picture is no unlike any of the Christmas Tree I have seen in my life, but at least they got the colour right – GREEN!

So we hook our pinky fingers and made a pact to put up the tree by this week.

I can’t wait till the day when Keatkeat can draw a an actual figure instead of such abstract art. Many of his classmate can draw a human-liked figure, but Keatkeat still couldn’t. “he’s a year-end baby, so naturally slower than others who are born in Jan or March…” That’s how I excused him of his ability.

Well, remember my blog post on Stick Man, so it doesn’t really matter that much, afterall…

Does your 4-year-old know how to draw a ‘non-abstract’ picture?