My little precious helped me washed dishes, all of our plates and bowls we used for dinner. And he said, “I really wanted to help you mom”

awwwwwwwwww

All i did was point out during dinner that he and Qinzhi had lots of potential and are so very gifted and as parents, we will do what we can, the utmost we can to provide them with what they need to get to the spot they desire

And before bedtime, Huaihao prepared his diffuser without me saying.

Its amazing how praise works.

You want more from kids? Praise the good in them and let them see their good.

The thing is, everyone somehow feels good at the end.

On Fridays, we head over to ah yi’s for dinner and bonding with grandpa and Huaihao somehow loves to have ah yi trim his nails

And this is Huaihao prepping a birthday card for his daddy. And at 530am on his dad’s birthday he woke and did this piece of instruction paper in the living room and came in to paste it on our door. He had hid the card under his pillow the night before and told me, “probably dad would know, because that is what he always does—on our birthdays and during Chinese New Year when he hid the angbaos under the pillow”

It really explains in such a nice way, how children emulate and learn from their parents. And it becomes the way they know.

We celebrate dad’s birthday and Mother’s Day the same weekend and I had my treat too! Under the pillow!

I should have known!

On dad’s birthday we woke early and went out for our weekend walk and breakfast!

Dinner was at Summer Pavilion and Huaihao looked forward to this treat so much ! He kept asking me to check if chef is around and if he isn’t, he wouldn’t want to eat there.

And he is right because this is the way you get treated to proper food, with chef’s attention. Huaihao had all the soup to himself and had an abalone fish maw scallops alll. His favourite is the amuse bouche of egg and lobster bisque with vinegar caviar.

And he tried sweet and sour pork and declared this is the best. Chef gave us a dumpling to which Huaihao opened himself and obviously devoured, he opened up the steamed dumpling with spoons pretty much like a pro and asked “Can i have this all to myself ?”

And this is Huaihao, the precious one. I asked him what he would like for me to get back from the trip. He said, “I would like to try the food there.”

Like baguette? Croissants? Macarons?

He nodded and said, “But i like to try the meat there too,”

Like sausage hot-dogs kind?

“Yes, can you get them from sausage land?”

Another night on the bed, he said something like , “Just be yourself and don’t follow the herd “

I asked if he meant hurt. And he said, “like sheep and cow moving in a herd!”

I asked if he copied this somewhere and he said, “I pooped it out mommy”

So effortless so humorous. And really cool!

Another night.

I forgot what we spoke about that led to this.

HuaiHao: I want to help people when I grow up

TPY: oh how? Like erm, teach or share knowledge also helping, giving money also helping, how would you like to help.

HuaiHao: I like to help to make people happy.

TPY: would love to see what precious HuaiHao is going to do !

Another night:

HuaiHao: Mommy I love you

TPY: I love you too!

HuaiHao: So when you love someone, you got to appreciate his highs and lows?

TPY: What is it you mean by appreciate ?

HuaiHao: It means accept.

TPY: And what is highs and lows?

HuaiHao: It’s the things you do and not

TPY: Why must we accept or appreciate?

HuaiHao: Because what we are talking about —- is love, mommy.

Huaihao seems to procrastinate when it comes to learning spelling and there is chinese spelling which he didn’t really want to learn but eventually did and scored 100 marks and it is all in a day’s work. I love the doodles he did.

This is my precious boy, trying to smile the emoji smile

Its been a while since i travelled without the kids, and I asked for their support as always and got it. Huaihao says he is helping the sis and dad with raindrop, really thankful !

And I know, I just do, that the travel will be working miracles and love and joy for us all!