Sweet Miracles

A handful of little boy moments that i want to record down before the memories fade away…

* I was nursing little boy and my stomach was growling rather loudly. Little boy paused from his nursing just enough to say, “airplane!”, and pointed his finger towards the window without even raising his head, then immediately went back to nursing, while my whole body shook with laughter.

* Before bedtime, when Mr Gua Gua was trying to get little boy to kiss him, he pushed his face away and pointed at me, saying Mummy… kiss! I asked him, Mummy kiss who? Again, Mummy… kiss! Finally he completed his sentence and said, Mummy kiss Papa. After we obliged and gave each other a smooch, little boy kissed us each on our cheeks, and grinned widely as we both returned the favour to him, one on each cheek, at the same time.

* Little boy has learnt to say wait, which i suppose was rather inevitable as it was one of the words i often used with him. Whenever Mr Gua Gua and I are having one of our louder “discussions”, little boy would tell us, wait wait! Sometimes, this alone manages to make me lose focus on whatever i was trying to make a point abt and the tension is successfully broken up. I wonder if little boy was trying to distract us on purpose. However, sometimes, i ignore his request for us to “wait” and little boy would try his wait wait protest a few more times. If it’s still to no avail, out of the corner of my eye, i would notice him seemingly sigh and go about his own business, as if giving up on us. But he would grumble to himself, as if complaining about how silly his parents are to get angry over stuff that are prob quite trivial… and he’s prob right!

* I have been waking up early to do my chanting, instead of doing it late at night when i would already be feeling tired. Unfortunately little boy tends to wake up earlier if i’m not by his side, so for the past couple mornings, i had him around while i was chanting. Surprisingly he was happy to just sit with me and fiddle around with Mr Gua Gua’s incense and other altar stuff while i chanted. Today, he suddenly took 2 lighters (locked!) in his hands and waved them up and down. It was so abrupt and funny that i couldn’t help but giggle in the midst of my chanting. He deliberately repeated this action a few more times cos he knew i found it funny…. so i kept laughing and in the end had to give him a squeeze and a kiss cos he was such a funny little dear, and i was also amazed that he was able to sit throughout my entire chanting. Perhaps going to the om retreat while pregnant with him did have its effects on him after all.

* Little boy has been picking up words at lightning speed these few weeks. After just hearing the word once or twice, he would be able to echo it with close to perfect pronunciation. My mum proudly told me that he was able to call all the relatives on my mum’s side today, and not only that, he would actually shout the last syllable of each name with great emphasis… wonder if he’s trying to be a clown again, cos it is really funny the way he does it. Po-TOH (my grandma), Ah BOH, Mai POH, etc…

* Ever since his series of accidents at the start of CNY, he has become hyper aware of the concept of pain. Now, whenever he spots a blemish on anybody’s body, be it a pimple, mole, scratch, etc, he would point to it sympathetically and say, pain. Sometimes he would even look for the Zam-buk and help to apply on the person. Once i had an itchy spot on my cheek. The moment he saw it, he got up and ran to get Zam-buk, and minutes later, i got my entire cheek covered with Zam-buk! Seems like his run with bruises and burns have helped him become a more compassionate person.

* His love for doing chores have extended to helping to scrub the dishes with soap and mopping the floor. he has also gotten very good at getting down on his knees to wipe spills and messes with a towel. Once i didn’t even have to clean up much after him, he did such a great job! My mum reported to me that during one of his recent visits to my grandma’s place that i wasn’t around, he actually swept the entire house, 2 storeys! Hehe… my little boy, the little cleaner!

* One of my best tricks that has been working wonders with little boy is my little bedtime ditty, where i march to bed and chant this sentence, march to bed, march march march! 9 out of 10 times, little boy would respond to this call and come marching right after me, also chanting mar-mar-marCH! Recently, he took one of his fave bears, and got it to march on the floor too, himself squatting on the floor and walking like a duck as he got the bear to march. Cute cute cute!

Will end this entry off with another video taken by Mr Gua Gua’s sister of little boy jumping up and down, basically being very happy.

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Btw, i have finally uploaded my CNY photos to little boy’s online photo album. You are welcome to check them out at http://ianpang.myphotoalbum.com!