My busy toddler

With my sprained ankle, we're pretty much home-bound.
Being at home with Adam these 2 days has really been an eye-opener for me.
I didnt know my son is such a busy person, even at home!

He plays with his vehicle...


entertains himself by role-playing on some cardboard...

does his coloring on his favourite Mickey Mouse coloring book...
just don't ask me why they are all green.

and watches his favourite collection of Elmo's World DVDs with his favourite character, Dorothy the goldfish...



He also reads his board books and I do flash cards with him.

Here, he is reading Maisy's train and identifies Thomas the Train. It's pretty obvious he's into trains at the moment :)

Other times, he's often caught climbing on Mavy when the unsuspecting dog is napping, poor Mavy jumps up and growls at Adam to tell him off, I scold both of them, they break up and stare at me with huge, guilty puppy eyes and their heads hung low.
You know how kids are - the more you tell them to stop, the more they do it, and a Border Collie is faster than you can blink.
When one of them is sleeping, the other wants to play, but when they play, they fight. -_____-
I dont know whether to laugh or be angry.


I guess these are the joys of a SHM :)

Crayola Mess-free markers

photo from www.cloettafazer.com

Another clever invention to keep tykes busy minus the mess, by Crayola.

The "neat" patches of brown face and a bit of purple hat is done by me. The messy greens are done by Kai.
I thought this activity could save me some time watching over Kai, but Kai seems so proud of his artwork that he insists that Andy, MIL and I sit and watch him color.
If either of us walks away, he gets upset.

I sure hope this will be a worthy investment to keep him busy on the plane.
"Look Ma, no mess!"

Doodle

We had lunch at Marche's today after Kai's Gymboree class.
He's having fun doodling in his own good time, leaving Daddy & Mummy free to eat our lunch. However, once the Strawberry sweet crepe came to the table, he kept pointing to em strawberries and stuffed himself silly.
In the end, Mummy ate the crepe while Baby A ate the strawberries.

Now, he's gotten really expert at pointing to things he wants and if you deliberately give him something else, he will point to it again and again until you get the right item.

Realised that on Sunday AMs, the class is made up of mostly boys. think we'll be switching to the Sunday AM class in future.

And I did a simple search on Google, found out that Gymboree has a branch in Tsim Sar Tsui, Kowloon HK. That means Kai can still go for playgym come our holiday :)