Multiparenting Cayen & Cayson

He had been sick for the last few weeks -hence, we all feared for the worst but somehow we still hoped he could make it till National Day. When I saw the news on Mon morning , the real sense of loss started to sink in. I tuned in to radio at 8am and heard the speech by Lee Hsien Loong as our Prime Minister who is also his son. As he made his Chinese speech, I could hear his pain but he still tried to hold his composure - at this moment, I truly felt the loss. Over the next few days, my days were fraught with meetings and calls and I didn't have much time to grief. By night, I spent whatever little me time I have to read up whatever articles I could find about him .. I tried to watch whatever  I could catch on TV too as it was recalling the history of Singapore. Then I realised that as a Singaporean, I hadn't known him all that well when he was alive. I certainly didn't realise that he was extremely influential in the global stage , despite our small country a...

Ah Pa (Ap) what book do you want to read today? C: Dora  So Ah Pa proceeded to read all the five mini Dora books, one of which is Big Sister Dora. Ap: 你要不要有你自己的弟弟妹妹？ C: 不要，  uncle and auntie 有很多弟弟妹妹了 Ap: 但是这个是你自己的弟弟妹妹，不是别人的, 是你自己的。 C：... 好    ( ponders a while)  C：不要弟弟，要妹妹. （ ponders a while) C: 不要弟弟妹妹，因为要分享..  Sigh.. He recognises that he needs to share things if he has siblings. By the way, I'm not pregnant .. This is just to show how Cayen's not too hot on the idea of having siblings. 

Cayen is a mischievous one in school .. As such, just like how Monkey God was given a small title to keep him busy and make him feel important (and distract him from mischief), his teacher started to make him their right hand man in the last few days. Initial signs are good - he has been on his best performance thus far.  So now he's responsible for helping teachers on the little things like distribute things, collect things and do all the admin stuff. He will also tag along to help out wherever they go. As such, he also has no time nor chance for his usual mischief. When he came home, he was quite proud about it and proclaimed that teacher 拜托他，叫他帮忙  (asked him for help) ..  All our usual preaching about responsibility seems to be coming in handy now . Well, whatever works to guide him out of mischief. 

Hope it's a sign of creativity and imagination overflow more than anything serious but there's recent trends of spinning tales this month.. Teacher: I haven't seen your Dad pick you up recently. cayen: He went to Hong Kong. (Problem is that Ah Pa is in Singapore every day . He used to travel to HK once in a while last time but he is certainly here every day in the last two months!) ------- Teacher: happy new Year. How many Ang pows did you get? cayen: 5,6, 20 teacher : where's the money? Cayen : you took it away  Teacher:???!! (He never brought his Ang POWs to school) -------- Me, Ah Pa and Godma brought him to Polliwogs to play and to watch his favourite Larry. He had a field day there. When he returned home, Ah Po asked him where he went and who he went with , " I went to watch Larry with Gwen, Rachel and Emily.? "  Ah Po: did Ah Pa, Ah Ma and Godma go? Cayen: No (Emily left school three months ago and all his friends certainly didn't go!)  -------- Me: ...