Jopthomas Prime Reveals

‎"Jopthomas Prime" 

A new nickname I have for Jayden. It's a combination of a his recent favourites. 

Anyone would like to decipher the code? :P You can try your best before looking at the answer below.. I am sure you can get a few of them.. Let's start! :) 

So, why Jopthomas Prime? 

What is Jopthomas Prime? 

J: Jayden
Op: Oppa Gangnam Style
Thomas: Thomas the Tank Engine 
Prime: Optimus Prime 

You got them all right?? :) 

What a sweetheart I am raising!

While walking to the car just now, Jayden ran ahead of me, opened the driver's door, then hurriedly ran across to open the passenger's door, and quickly ran back to the driver's side. When I am there, he asked me to get into the car and closed the door for me before getting into the car from the passenger's side. I wonder where did he learn that! His dad never do that to me! :P What a sweetheart I am raising!!!

Make a Guess

JJ was asking me to search for something in youtube, and below is our conversation. Can you guess what he wanted to search for?

JJ: 妈妈，我要有人有鱼。。
Me：什么有人有鱼？
JJ：那个人有鱼。。

Well, only mommy knows what he is asking for I suppose.. :P

Got your answer ready??? He was asking for a mermaid.. Hehehe.. :P

Instilling Good Manners

It's been a few months back that I am working on teaching Jayden on good manners.. It was a fiasco at first, as he never listened and never seemed to understand. However, I think my persistence and perseverance have taken effect lately.

He has been quite consistently greeting people, apologising when he does something wrong, and saying thank you when he receives a favor. Not just that, he would even thank me (quite frequently) whenever he knows and learns that I am doing something for him.

A good example was like yesterday, I made a double boil orange with salt for him (a friend recommended this as natural therapy for cough). Seriously, we don't like the taste. Anyway, after taking about 3-4 spoons, he said "mommy, we don't want this anymore, ok!?" Then I said, "But we have to finish this. It's good for your cough. An aunty said this is good for cough, after eating this your cough will go away. I make this for you." To my surprise, the little one said "Oh I see. Thank you mom!" And he continued eating till finished.

I am a truly blessed mom.. :o)

Mandarin Kiddo

Since 3 days ago, Jayden has been requesting me to speak with him in Mandarin! I was delighted!! That's the greatest surprise by far as he resisted to whenever I initiated to speak in Mandarin.

It's been 3 days that we are communicating in Mandarin, I am also doing my very best to remind myself as I got so used to speaking in English. One of my goal is to provide a Chinese speaking environment for Jayden by the time we move to Australia, and it seems like my goal is achieved..

Apparently, Jayden is not a native speaker in Mandarin yet, therefore he has a lot of problems constructing sentences and expressing himself. But I am very proud that he is doing his best in doing it, and sometimes he told me: "It's OK mom. I can do it!"

I am super proud of my little sweetheart.. :o)