We celebrated Mother's Day a week early, and went out for dinner at Hippopotamus, an established french steak house which recently opened its 1st outlet in Singapore.
At the end of the dinner, Christian remembered that the Suntec City water fountain which he had been clamouring to go visit but which we had put off by saying "dinner first". OOops..thank goodness he was tired and didn't pursue it doggedly. He just asked "we are going back to popo's house now?"
I took the chance to tell him the road name of where we live now. Given the recent kidnapping scares in Singapore, it struck me that this was a good time to teach him how to answer, should someone ask him where he lives (of course I told him he can only follow a policeman dressed in uniform, in a police car).
He tried so hard to get it right..the first two words were easy enough, but he kept saying "Hill" instead of "View". I tried to help him remember by doing the Victory sign, and reminding him of the phonetic sound of the letter V. He chanted it over and over again in the car till we all laughed. P was so proud of Ch, and said it must be because he understands the importance of what i'm trying to teach him.
True enough, Ch took it so seriously that when I started humming a tune right next to him, he chided with a slight frown - "don't sing..mama..I will forget.."
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