when you wake up in the morning...

... you brush your teeth!

Working on Words

At the moment I am trying out new words everyday! It is really quite fun to try to mimic mum and dad. I think I like the letter “B” at the moment. I like saying bath, bird, book, and my all time fav – ball! I am also collecting a few other words like moo when I saw a picture of a cow, I like scratching my under arms like a monkey when I see a picture of a monkey, and I like making a noise like a cockatoo whenever I read one of my favourite books “Cockatoo Calling”. I also enjoy reading about wombats and kangaroos but they don’t make very fun noises! I also said something like teddy (but I think my parents understood me!)

 

I am enjoying playing in my kampung and can find my way to Ethan and Ezekiels house on my own. This morning Ibu Tati didn’t know the way so I had to lead her to their house so I could play with them! We often go to the park and play on the grass together! I enjoy watching the older boys fly their kites and I always try to get involved in any soccer match I can, but sometimes I get knocked over – but I always get right back up and keep going! Dad says that maybe I would be good at Rugby, maybe I could help out the NSW Blues side… although mum thinks soccer is a much nicer game.

Practice makes perfect!

Just getting some practice in for the next lucky lady! I wanna be just like my unky Dan!

it now makes sense!

After nearly three months of mum going to the toilet and making funny noises every morning it now begins to make sense. I think mum is growing some sort of alien in her belly that is making her sick. We went to the doctors today and I even saw a photo of whatever it was, and it was moving and wriggling and I could see it had two arms and two legs just like me, I could also see its fingers, no wonder mum is sick every day with that little thing wriggling around all over the place.

I have decided that the best way to cheer her up is to stand at the bathroom door every time she is sick and laugh at her! She usually ends up laughing too and forgets about being sick! Mum says the alien thing, which they have named ‘chilli’, will come out sometime in early December. Everyone in our kampung says I will have an adik to play with! An adik sounds like a lot of fun, I wonder if it bounces?

How to impress the ladies 101

At the moment we are in Singapore and I have been working on my latest method of impressing the ladies.

Firstly, I smile at them and they usually smile back. Then I like to wave and do a little bit of a dance and then they usually smile back at me. Then after we are smiling and making real contact I then stick my finger right up my nose. I can sometimes get it past the first joint and if they are really special I try it with a finger in each nostril. Mum just sits there laughing her head off, and dad keeps muttering something about "uncle Dan".... I am not sure what that means but I bet he knows how to impress the ladies :)

Training, training, training!

It seems that every weekend mum and dad have some sort of training. It is great for me because I get to play with all my friends while they are getting trained! There are about 7 or so other kids to play with and we always have a great time! Mum and dad are learning something about contextualisation or something like that - I don't know what it means, but I reckon that if you live in a country where people are different you have to try to be like them! It seems pretty easy to me!

I have also had plenty of opportunities of training of my own. Every morning mum or dad or Ibu Sumi or Ibu Tati take me walking through the kampung and I meet lots of people. In the mornings I usually see other children going to school and I play with them, I also like looking at the paintings on the wall at the entrance to our kampung, there are lots of different kinds of animals and fish! Every time I want to go out I find my shoes and say "shoos!" I am slowly getting better at walking but I still fall over every now and then!

In this photo I am carry around one of my favourite toys - the clothes basket! I play with it every day - I carry it around, I sit in it with some toys, I read books in it, I put it on my head, and when Ibu Tati needs it for the washing I am not happy! My other favourite toy is the dirty clothes basket which I like climbing into and putting all the dirty clothes on the floor and then putting them back in again! Mum calls me "the discarder" because she thinks I like throwing things away!

Swimming!

The wet season has officially ended now and we are now in the dry or hot season which means that it is generally a bit hotter during the days although it can be quite cool in the early mornings. We have been to our local swimming pool at a resort just near our house and I went swimming with Ethan and Ezekiel! I had a great time and splashed and played and climbed in and out of the pool! AND I only drank a bit of the water when I fell over!

We also had a nice dinner there one night with Ethan and Ezekiel and I played with them in the restaurant! The photo is a picture of the big pool and the gardens in the afternoon from the restaurant. There is also a kiddies pool which is just right for me and the water is very warm as well!