Multiparenting Cayen & Cayson

As you know, I like to spin stories during bedtime reading in request to his request for more stories even after I off the lights. Today was no exception. Given the cold weather after the rains, I decided that the theme would be seasons. And so my story goes: Once upon a time, there's an Ant and Grasshopper who like four seasons. This is because they like to see the leaves change colour and the temperature change. For instance, in Summer, the leaves will be green and in Autumn they will turn yellow or orange. In winter, they will all drop off..  "Yes, these are deciduous trees, not evergreen trees , " he interrupted .  I was surprised. Deciduous ? Haven't heard this word since Geography class in secondary school, "where did you learn it from?" "FasTrack.. (This is one of his classes)," he replied, sounding very bored as if I should know.  This is really very fast track I think. Looks like my fictional stories better be as fact ...

After watching Paw Patrol and Blaze and the monster machines, he's very into volcanos and machinery. So he was all ears when I went through those pages in the picture dictionary and that was a good start. Today , I tried to educate him about the gemstones. But this was not easy as he kept calling them rocks and how he's going to crush them using jack hammer and drill. Focus was not on the colours but all about the crushing. So I kept repeating "gemstones or crystals" Then he suddenly asked ," gem as in Kaya and Jam?? " We said , "no, gem as in gem. Not Jam." Then I tried to educate him , "diamond is the hardest material on earth . It takes a diamond to cut a diamond" Cayen asked, " a diamond to cut a diamond? Why? Can't I use a jack hammer and a drill?"  I told him that a diamond is the hardest and you can't cut a  hard object with something softer. Da quipped on the side, " I think can crus...

爸：Cayen, 你越来越像阿妈了. 妈：这样很好啊，比较好看 爸：Cayen, 阿爸帅吗？ C： 帅 ... .. 我也很帅！  （哈哈！真不要脸） ------ 爸：明天要去银行拿钱包红包 妈：不用去，我这里有，可以先拿去 爸：你不讲我怎么懂你有 C：我有！ 爸：你有cash 啊？ C：我有cash card !  (Wah!! Really savvy )

As usual, Cayen was meddling around the table instead of sleeping. He touched this ornamental cat and I warned him not to as that has dust . He asked me why there is dust .. And here my story goes : (resorted to spinning stories instead of reading the same story books) Once upon a time, there was an empty house with nobody. One day, a speck of dust flew in. He saw no one and was happy.  He said , " Yeah !!! The house is empty. There's no one to wipe me, mop me or sweep me away! Yeah !! I will stay here." On day 2, another speck of dust flew in and he was so happy to see an empty house and a fellow dust.  He said , " Yeah !!! The house is empty. There's no one to wipe me, mop me or sweep me away! Yeah !! I will stay here." On day 3,   another speck of dust flew in and he was so happy to see an empty house and fellow dust.  He said , " Yeah !!! The house is empty. There's no one to wipe me, mop me or sweep me away! Yeah !! I...