Lucas's first school day - follow up

We talked with a teacher through phone this afternoon.

She said Lucas was actually doing fine.  He had a tearful moment but not the whole day, he was observing and loved story telling time.

She suggested us not to keep asking him about his school day.  Keep drilling him or force him for discussion would only make him stress out.

The evening when we arrived home, he avoided my eye contact but I knew he wanted to smile.  After a while, we cuddled and sang song and he praised my new dress.

Lucas's mind is quite complex but after all he is still a baby boy.

Lucas's first school day

Lucas has had his first school day finally.

He had cried since he stepped into the school bus.

When he returned home, he didn't talk to anyone.

He hadn't drunk water in school, the same amount of water left as he left home.

It is heartbroken but at least he made the first step.

This is a big fear to leave parents and familiar faces and go to an unknown land with strangers.

Hope he would get used of and enjoyed the school life soon.

Lucas, you are a brave kid!

超級撒亞人~袁路加

撒亞人 生於這個地方稱呼叫Lucas....反地心吸力,厲害呀!

立立鐘意的事物.

1.媽咪-媽咪放工返到屋企會"嘩"一聲撲去媽咪到.

2.長cushion- 睡覺必備,平時下摟都好開心.試過唔覺意比佢偷偷地攞咗出街

3.玩具-一定係哥哥玩梗果件玩具,坐梗張椅,食梗果件餅,飲梗果支水.......

4.米餅-最鐘意食

5.行路-唔單止鐘意行,依家開始鐘意拂開你自己行.

6.節奏強勁的音樂 - 只要聽到,就算細細聲,都會un下un下.

cont..

小朋友唔讚得?!

小朋友真係唔讚得,睇吓下邊兩篇post就知點解.

Linus is sick

Linus is having sore throat and running nose. I transmitted the virus to him...

Sigh....

Hope he will get well soon.

Strong boys

Lucas weights 31.5 pounds, Linus is 22 pounds.

Lucas is slender but he is tall. Linus, simply look at his belly and you can tell how chubby he is.

Hurray!!!!

Globe

Lucas loves learning.

Since he was very small we taught him about our Earth. We said to him we are living in a big planet called the Earth. There was a map hanged at his room (but we threw it when moving to the new home, because the wet weather made it wrinkled and old).

Several days ago, we brought the babies to a bookstore. Lucas picked a small plastic globe and asked us to buy for him. He liked the globe a lot and even slept next to it at night.

Lucas loves to spin the Earth and asks us the name of the oceans and the continents. Last time I mentioned to him I had sponsored a baby in Africa, he called the boy “Africa Baby”, and asked me where the kid is on the globe.

Then I pointed him other places on the Earth – Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Middle East, America, Europe, North Pole and South Pole. He also wanted to know where the Philippines is, a country where our domestic helper from.

I am so happy he is interested in the planet we are living. I talked to him that the Earth is very big, there are many places worth to go. When he grows big one day, he can travel to other countries, to experience different kind of life and culture.

When Linus gets bigger, I will also teach him to read map. =)

Linus's new word

The first two-syllables we hear from Linus is....

BISCUIT

Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve

We went to Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve yesterday for hiking. Four of us (Jeff, Lucas, Linus and me) walked for around two hours.

There was something funny (yet a bit dangerous) happened. When I was swinging hands with Lucas and walked up the path, something from the top fell down, the first thing was a piece of bark. Then when we walked closely, more pieces of barks came off, then followed by two big pieces of logs. When I looked up, it was a MONKEY!!! I told Lucas there was a naughty monkey above us and wanted to bully mamei. We ran away from that monkey but Lucas seemed to miss it a lot, he kept singing, “Monkey is naughty, he wanna play with mamei and Long Long”.

We walked further into the area and reached a “park”, there was a wooden slide, the babies ran up and down it without a stop. The passer-by joked that they were very happy but I should be very exhausted. (I brought Linus up and down the slide; it was just like having weight-lifting exercise, with a 30 pounds dumbbell)…
What a happy morning, all of us love hiking.

New Sofa

We bought a 2-seat sofa for double "L"s, you can tell they like it a lot.

Active Linus

Linus is now walking well and becomes more and more active. As he looks very sweet and cute, I am not aware he can be a little monster sometimes.

Last weekend I had been ‘attacked’ twice.

On Saturday evening, Linus was moody and threw toys everywhere. Daddy lectured him then he started to cry. I went to him, looked closely to him and asked him what happened gently, and then he slapped his metal train to my forehead with all his strength…. I was bleeding and crying instantly. Lucas then came to me and touched my head gently, and Jeff punished Linus.

On Sunday afternoon, we went to a supermarket. Linus was sitting on the baby seat on a trolley, which was right above the wheels.
When we passed by the racks with seasonings, Linus suddenly pulled out a bottle of vinegar from the lower rack. The bottle fell onto my leg foot and smashed…. The glass bounced all over the place and my foot was soaked in vinegar… Jeff helped me to clear the glasses on my foot, and thanks the staff who helped us to clean the mess. I had some little wounds on my foot but which were not serious. It seemed Linus had no idea that he created a big mess, because he kept laughing and yelling….

Early babies eat bread

Lucas and Linus know what “Dolce Vita” is.

Every morning after milk, the two babies would sit on (sometimes fight for) their little sofa together, to enjoy their second breakfast, usually bread or toast.

Their pose is just like a boss in the office, sometime they put their legs up and lean backward, to rest in a very laid-back position, and watching Disney Channel, smiling with Little Einsteins or Noddy or Handy Manny.

Mommy and Daddy will work hard to win you bread!

Linus and "Ball-E"

Do you think they look like each others?

Linus's excellent progress

Last week I received a video call from Jeff. He was at home with the babies, telling me with great excitement that Linus could walk several steps.

In the tiny screen, I witnessed Linus’s wobbly steps; he was looking at his feet and moved prudently. What a precious moment.

Wow, this is a scene that mobile phone or telecommunication companies would like to capture in order to promote the video conferencing function.

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Linus is also learning how to speak; he always mimics what we say. Yesterday when I brought him to wash hands, I told him it was water from the tap, he then said “Wada” in a low sexy voice.

What a lovely baby.

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten

Today is the open day of the kindergarten that Lucas is going to attend. Jeff and me went with him to have a "preview" of school life.

It is an international school and its education mission meets ours. Right next to the entrance, there is a poster called "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten":

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.These are the things I learned:

• Share everything.
  
• Play fair.
  
• Don't hit people.
  
• Put things back where you found them.
  
• Clean up your own mess.
  
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
  
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
  
• Wash your hands before you eat.
  
• Flush.
  
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
  
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
  
• Take a nap every afternoon.
  
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
  
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
  
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
  
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
  

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

It is written by Robert Fulghum http://www.robertfulghum.com/. I love it a lot. It reminds the basic things of the most of us had already learned since the elementary school.

I am pleased to send my babyto such a liberal school with the right mind to do education. I don't care whether my kids can recognize 2000 words in two years old or not, I just want them to learn the beauty of life.

Lucas starts asking why

Lucas is a smart baby, he is now entering the “what” stage.

He is curious of everything and wants to know the name of everything, including a black spot on a pavement, sometimes I can hardly find a name of some objects.

Anyway, this is a wonderful stage. We can chat with Lucas now, he only how to reply us even for some complex concept verbally.

This is exciting, I can’t wait to discuss with him what is the meaning of life, or his view on global warming etc.

Linus's one year old birthday gift

Linus loves his birthday toy a lot, he always push this cart and run everywhere in home.  He can control it very well, I bet he is a inborn sport man!!

立立生日快樂

立立你一歲啦!
Daddy Mami 見到你今日剛剛可以站立起來,很好啊!
比心機, 你好快就識行嫁啦!

Organic skincare

The rashes on Linus’s face was getting worse, due to the dry and cold weather in the past two weeks. I am sourcing skin care product for him, but there is lack of sophisticated brand which provide choices that are really good for baby delicate skin.

Yesterday I picked Kielh’s baby cream, it was expensive, last year it cost HKD150 but now it is HKD200, 33% price increase.

I am looking for those made by natural ingredients or organic materials. I will keep searching.