Ace Art Class: Crayon Drawings

Sadly, this is Ace's last art lesson.. at least for the time being due to relocation of the art school... this time round, the theme is pastle crayon art... so Ace did two drawings.. one of a night scene and another is a very creative one 3 bears taking a lift to watch a movie..


I am happy to note that he actually does apply whatever he has learnt in art classes and tends to recreate the drawings in his scribblings...

He also likes to draw in school and always brings back scraps of paper with drawings on them.. the above are a mouse, a wolf and the last one without colour is according to Ace, "Star wars the clone wars.." I think he is trying to either draw R2D2 or the soldiers inside it...

Well, will post more of his art work when I get him started on art lessons again...

Previous Post: Ace Helps Himself

Ace Helps Himself

Ace is a hungry hippo...

After every one or two hours, he would claim he wants to eat "something" (meaning it is not a normal meal like breakfast, lunch or dinner) or want to drink "something" (Plain water is not considered something..only special water like honey water or pipagao, ribena are considered 'something').


He is now independent enough, tall enough and strong enough to help himself to all these 'somethings'.


The other day.. a mere one hour after dinner, he suddenly declared that he is hungry and wanted to eat something. Because he did not bug me, I stayed in the room and continued to check email on the PC.. then suddenly, my dad called out to me, "Look at your son.. see what he is doing..."


I went out of the living room and found that he helped himself to everything in the fridge.. he took a butter knife, a plate, his favourite nutella and a slice of bread..


In the next few days, I also discovered that he can now switch on the lights by himself when he needs to use the toilets...

He knows where to find and take the biscuits that he wants to eat...


He can even make honey drink all by himself!


He has grown up indeed!


Previous Post: Daddy Take Aeroplane Loh

Daddy Take Aeroplane Loh

The other day, we woke up really early in the morning to send Max off to dubai. This time round, it is really a teary goodbye.. cos I was not sure when I would next be able to see and hold Max... Ace however seemed oblivious.. and even told me happily "Oh, Daddy going to take aeroplane to dubai lor.." and seemed really upbeat and happy.

I was wondering how come he was not feeling the same feelings as me... and come night time, while I was outside, my father called me and said Ace is looking for me...

When he passed the phone to him though, Ace was just crying very sadly... as if both his parents have died... and no matter what I said to him, all he did was cry and cry.. it sounded exactly the way I think I sounded on D Day!

Later, my dad took over the phone and said that Ace started crying when he found out I was not coming home to eat dinner with him.. and then he started asking for his daddy... so I asked my dad to ask my pass him the phone and I reassured him that Daddy will check his sked and let us know when he can visit us again and I will for sure come home to sleep with him..

When I finally reached home at 11pm, he was already fast asleep though.. apparently frightened by a cockroach in the kitchen, he gave a scream and ran to my mum's lap, lie down there and did not move while my mum was talking on the phone. By the time my mum finished her call, he was already asleep...

The next morning, he woke up in very good mood though and for the next few days, he was happy, courteous and mischievious again.. back to his usual self:)

PS: The only thing that is somewhat unusual about Ace is tat he will cry over little things like.. eg when he asked to eat prata and I told him the prata man went home and so there is no prata... he immediately started to cry very sadly... or when he lost his bolster when he kicked it off the bed in the middle of the night, he woke up, tried to find it, couldnt.. and started cry....

PS: While I was posting this, Ace was sitting with me.. he can recognize the words: Ace, mum, up, in, that, what, my, Max, happy, good. Daddy...

Previous Post: Fine Dining At Private Restaurant

Fine Dining At Private Restaurant

When Max was in dubai, he complained that the only vegeterian food there is usually indian.. and so one of our very dear friends who is a good vegeterian cook offered to cook a nice meal for him when he is back..

Because there were only a few of us who could make it.. she made it a healthy vegeterian SI FANG CAI.. fine dining style and so Ace had his first taste of fine dining...

We reached there early and so Ace was trying to be policeman and playing with his new handcuffs and his new walkie talkies....

And the meal was really fantastic lor!

Instead of wine, we drank enzyme... and to our surprise, Ace loved the enzymed and kept saying, "Yummy! Can i have more?"

Thanks Mag for the wonderful meal!


Previous Post: Win Win Situations

Win Win Situations

What is a win win situation?

According to Ace Dictionary.. it means that when mummy has a competition to see who can finish the liang teh (chinese one this time) faster, if he wins, he plays toys with mummy, if mummy wins, mummy has to play mahjong with him.."But only play for fun type of mahjong.." he repeatedly assures mummy...

Or, alternatively, it is when we play scissors paper stone and the following rules apply...

Ace: If I win, you buy transformer for me...
Mummy: If you win, I give you a hug lah.. we win things not related to money lah...
Ace: No lah, if you win, I buy you a Superman pants.
Mummy: But I don't need superman pants. I have alot of pants..
Ace: (thinks for 5 seconds).. you only got two nice bags right? If you win, I buy you a bag lah...
Mummy: Erm.... (really tempted... amused and touched that he noticed)
Ace: How about I buy you a really sexy bag?
Mummy: Why cannot give me a big big kiss?
Ace: Okie lah, I buy you a Hello Kitty Towel! How about that? Set!? Set ok?
Mummy: (seeing that he tried so hard) Okie lah okie lah...


And we played scissors paper stone and I won..."Ok, where is my hello kitty towel?" I teased Ace...

"You wait, I go get it from the cupboard for you.." and he ran to the cupboard and took out the towel that he brought to school.

Hilarious!

Previous Post: Police And Thief!

Police And Thief!

Ace has just furthur expanded his POLICEMAN SET.

First, he got a NYPD policeman blue shirt... and Daddy also bought him some spy walkie talkies...and also a new set of handcuffs and the father and son team had a great time playing Police And Thief:)

Thank god this new handcuff has got some sort of safety release so it is ok even if we loves the keys. Anyway, since he got it, he has been wanting to handcuff us to the chairs, tables, and anything he can see... because of the safety release, we can escape easily:)

Previous Post: I Go Dubai

I Go Dubai

Max bought a cabin luggage the other day and once it got home, it became Ace's toy. He started putting his stuff into the luggage and lugging it around the house and he told me, "I going to Dubai now..."

After 30 min and 10 round around the living room, he is finally in Dubai.. but he is still walking around with the luggage... so I asked him why he is doing that.. "I want to be like daddy..." Hahahaha...

Anyway, the other day, we were talking about what would happen if we visit Daddy in Dubai... and Ace said, "We will be so happy.. when we go Dubai and daddy goes to work, then we can watch Tom and Jerry at home on TV and then we can go swimming..."

Wait a minute, that sounds like what we did DURING THE BALI TRIP!

So I guess Ace thinks watching Tom and Jerry and going swimming are typical leisure activities you do when you are overseas and his thinking of us going there is just to have fun!



Previous Post: The Barber Is Back!

The Barber Is Back!

The barber is back! hahahaha...


After a month long departure, Max is finally back to help Ace cut his hair....

As usual, after his hair cut, his grandparents started to ask, "Why is his hair so short?" Let's see who will cut Ace's hair for him next month.. and whether Ace will still have "bali paddy fields" at the back of his head. ;)

Previous Post: Otah Bread

Otah Bread

When Max was travelling, I was happily baking bread with Ace.. so max requested that I also made some bread for him when he came back.. so when Max was back, I kept my promise and baked him some Otah bread....

I baked one batch for him, one batch for mother's day and one batch for a gathering at Mag's place... (each batch can only make 6) so that Karen ganma can try too.. cos she has always been baking and cooking for me.....

I had Ace help me combine the flour and the other materials... and got him to help knead it.. but it was a little bit difficult for him to roll the dough into a long stick so that he can wrap it around the otah... in the end, there was flour and dough all over my kitchen cos he was using it like a playdoh! Hahahaaha...

Anyway, feedback was good! I shall bake more if I can find the vegeterian otah again...:) Yes, LM, Veron... will keep your shares in mind:) Hahahaha....

Previous Post: Happy Mothers' Day

Happy Mothers' Day

Since about a few weeks ago, Ace kept talking to me and telling me about some family day that they are going to have in school.. sometimes he says it is a party, sometimes he says it is a celebration.. once he mentioned the word "mummy" so I guess he meant Mother's Day and was quite surprised that his school intended to celebrate Mother's Day.. but since I did not receive any letters, I just forgot about it...

And then, 3 days before mother's day, when i went to pick Ace up from school, the moment he saw me, he said to me, "Happy birthday, mummy..." and then he quickly took something out from his bag and passed to me.. it was a cookie and a card and flower that he made all by himself... I think he actually meant Happy Mother's Day...

It was such a sweet gesture and his flowers were really nice too:) They are made from egg trays and he proudly told me that he coloured and pasted the shiny stuff all by himself.

Anyway, for our mother's both me and Ace made some Otah Bread together and gave to them as Mother's Day present:)


Here's a big thank you to mummy, popo, ah ma, mama.... to all you wonderful women.. thank you for all your contributions to the family.. thank you for your unconditional love and everything you have done for us.. I love you!

Previous Post: I Want To Exercise

I Want To Exercise

Everyweek when I am bringing him to the swimming pool, we will pass by this exercise place and he would say that he wants to go over and exericise....

I would tell him we would go another day cos we alre always in a hurry to get to the pool.. or that area will always be too crowded...

The other day, after art class, we happened to pass by the exercise place while walking back... so I told him he can go exercise now and in the hot midday sun... Ace started running around and "exercising"..

Thankfully, after 3 min.. he got tired of it and was happy to go home.. hahaha

Previous Post: Swimming Class Again

Swimming Class Again

It has become a norm for Ace to bring his water gun along.. he would play with it before his swimming teacher appears, pass to me when his lessons start and play with it again with it again after his lessons...



Now that he is more confident and comfortable in the swimming pool, he would go to the medium pool to play instead of the baby pool... and he would even hold on to his swimming board and kick happily away by himself without support from anyone...



Let's hope he will one day be able to do it without his board:) hehehe...



Previous Post: Thank You Ace

Thank You Ace

In the past month, Ace has been great company for me.. doing silly things and making me smile when I am down and keeping me company when I am feeling lonely....

For example, when i was telling him about the places that Daddy has travelled to, he would find names like Aman really funny and spend like half an hour laughing over it and his laugh is indeed infectious made me happy too....

So the other day, I told him, "Ace, thank you for your company, for making me laugh and for all your love..." Somehow, I think he understood my gratitude.. without me saying anything, he smiled and hugged me for a long time after that....

The next two days, he was in a very happy mood and actually stopped checking on me and asking me when i am coming home when i am out at night. hahahahaha:)

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