Phone Calls

En really enjoys making calls to the favourite people in his life. These people include: Xiao Gu (my husband's sister), his grandparents (grandpa and grandma), pa pa and ma ma. Once or twice a week, I will dial my parents (partly to occupy En's boundless energy) for En to talk to them. He will hold the handset and look quite serious. He will nod his head from time to time, say "yes" and gesture a little with his hands. I am not too sure what grandma asks him each time they converse. However, there is bound to be the following responses from En that seem to inevitably pop up again and again. For example: "En En feed fish", "mushrooms", "En En going botanic garden", "ma ma working". Well, to be fair, these phrases more or less describe his daily routine of feeding the goldfish, eating lunch (which may or may not have mushrooms but he seems to imagine them in every dish or wishes they were there!), and his desire to visit botanic gardens, one of his favourite outdoor places. As for ma ma working, that's moi working from home!