10 brothers

Today, at around 6:30 p.m., I was napping in Jerry and Aaron's room, Aaron was playing in the room and Jerry was watching a video by himself. Suddenly, Jerry broke out wailing and couldn't stop. Marites was in the kitchen nearby and could not detect any danger or accident having occurred as Jerry was seated on the sofa throughout. I went out to investigate and could not detect any obvious problem either. Jerry cried like it was the end of the world. What do you think made him cry this way?

After a couple of minutes, Jerry said, still crying "Because you will not have any more babies...wah wah wah!" So, he is now occasionally throwing me alternating dirty looks and sad puppy eyes. He also alludes to a time when he was planning for a family of 10 kids (alternating sequence of boy-girl-boy-girl etc!)

He has in fact just now broke into uncontrollable crying again, as I write. I am not being insensitive, but am finding him to be unreasonable and this whole episode quite surreal.... Couldn't help but film him crying, though (poor thing! I am a mean mother, sometimes.)

Backtrack to half an hour earlier, when Jerry was "telling" me to have more babies, while I was falling asleep in their room as mentioned above; being sleepy, but not yet out of my mind, I told him that I will not have any more babies as 2 boys is just the right number! He is watching Curious Buddies at the Park, which is basically a video showing babies/toddlers playing in the park etc and perhaps that has triggered the sadness. What to do?

Then I told Jerry that he really had 10 brothers & sisters (bew bew cousins)--Jerry, Aaron, Heidi, Michelle, Nicole, Eric, Lucas, Jasper, Evan and Duncan make 10! Problem solved, haha!

JD at Ocean Park

Jerry and I went to Ocean Park last Friday and had fun. Jerry is at an age where he likes to make choices and can enjoy the exhibits and the amusement rides. He has also left his "no pictures" phase to "come take a picture of me" phase. Now all we have to do is work on that smile (show some teeth, Jerry!).








Despite the upbeat opener to the dolphins' performance and me already moving to the beat, Jerry refused to dance...the first time he answered, he said "Mom, look around you, you don't see anyone else dancing, do you?" I thought it was such a good answer that I had to get out my camera. So, what you see is his 2nd shot. "Because no one else is dancing."

When pressed further, he finally said he was too tired to dance! It was probably his first "uh muh guh, my mom is sooo ehmbarrassing!"-moment with a strong desire to dig himself in a hole in the ground and jump in.

nagging son part 2

yesterday was national day & we four spent the day just hanging out.

at teatime, we were eating at a restaurant and out of the blue, Jerry asked why i got mad when his dad is kidding (gong siu). i think the premise for him saying that is when LH says something annoying, i get visibly annoyed and LH then says he was "just kidding, heh heh".

so jerry said: Mom, next time when dad is "kidding" (gong siu) you don't have to get mad, you just have to tell him nicely to "stop saying that, please" (Deh-dee, ng ho joy gum yeung gong yeh lah, ng goi), just say that and don't be unhappy.

beh beh seng...as always.