Blessed days

Blessed are the days I am able to bring the boys out to the park for some sunshine.

Blessed am I to enjoy this time of the boys' childhood.

Its such a wonderful thing to see Yi growing up and following his brother around, mimicking his actions. It really warms my heart to see En and Yi play together. Blessed are you boys, to have each other.

Tiring Day

I wanted to blog about my amazing today. It was amazing as I managed to be occupied every single minute of the day!

8.30 am: Drag

9 am: Send En to Berries chinese class.

9.2 am: I had a sumptious egg on salmon muffin from Coffee Bean.

10 am: Make work phone calls. Send sms-es to hubby, friend etc.

11 am: Pick En from Berries to cut hair.

12 pm: Bring En to pick up wall stickers for room.

12.30 pm: Feed En and myself lunch.

1.20 pm: Pat En to sleep. After that, check email, make more calls.

2.30 pm: Bring En to pre-school.

3.30 pm: Visit post office and bank.

4.15 pm: Grocery shopping at NTUC.

5.15 pm: Visit doctor for more antibiotics!!

6.15 pm: Pick up hubby, face Friday jam on way there and home.

7pm: Back home, play with boys, eat dinner.

8.30 pm: Bring Yi to sleep for the night.

9.30 pm: Accompany En to sleep, chat a little, pray and then he fell asleep.....

10.30 pm: Upload pictures onto iMac.

11.30 pm: Time to go seek rest physically and in the Lord.

Night...

Precious Times

En and Yi are growing up really fast these days. I know I said it before in my previous blogs. I guess, at this age, they just develop so quickly emtionally, mentally, physically and socially.

Joshua is now 13 months, thinner since a huge illness and also due to the fact that he has been walking all over the place. His newfound mobility gives him so much potential to explore any new place that he is in. He is constantly on the move! I like this picture of Yi holding his Ah Gong's hand and making a dash forward to something/ someone (who knows!). He is indeed a "gung ho" little boy and quite fearless. Although pats his chest when he is scared of loud sounds, like the renovation drilling works that are happening recently just above my floor. He likes to copy his older brother, follow him around and tries hard to destroy whatever En is building. Hmmm. its funny isn't it? En is at a constructive stage and Yi, a de-constructive stage of his life!!

En is always building something: with his engineering blocks (see picture above). I think that was meant to be agun. And it was so symmetrical! I love his creations! I pray I never stifle his creativity too much, though the education system might! He builds a hospital, fire station, a zoo, the park, dinosaurs, guns etc.. Lego is probably one of the most money-for-value toys around. The basic building duplo set allows them to set their imagination on fire and build practically anything!! He also loves to draw and this is the season of DINOSAURS. His all time favourites are soldiers and gun drawings. En is also a very sweet boy. Recently, when mummy (moi) was super ill, he told my helper that she had to take care of di di and him as mummy was ill. He also prayed spontaneously for my (and also daddy's recovery).

En says the darnest things! Its going to be ironical as I cannot recall any specific thing he said now! But at the right moment, he will say: Mum [emphatic pull on the word], don't say "lah". (I was the one who first told him not to say that word). He doesn't like Jesus dying on the cross. He wants to keep reading about Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the grave (side comment: what a glorious message of salvation. Even a little kid understands and shouts hooray! when Jesus rose from the cross). He is always trying to push the blame to di di these days if any item is broken or spoilt. Yesterday, when Yi accidentally drew on his card which he had drawn for grandma, En said, "Mum, I won't forgive Di Di!!". I reminded him that Jesus said that one should forgive seventy-seven times (i.e., everytime), + told him I would be sad if he did not forgive Di Di + (when the above two reasons failed to convince him) you cannot play with Di Di if you don't forgive him. The last reasoning woke him up to his senses and he forgave his brother!

I leave this entry with a quote from a calendar sitting on my desk:

"Being a parent is the most important work you'll ever do. Take it seriously but

don't forget to enjoy every moment".

God Bless.