Taking a bath and singing/talking to himself

Adam is taking a bath right now as I'm writing this and he is singing and talking to himself. It's so funny that I can't help but put this in the blog right now.

I did not notice him talking as I thought he is playing as usual in the bathtub but then I heard him say, "Mummy & Daddy always scold and smack me, but it's because I always naughty.", like he is talking to someone.
Next thing he said, "When Mummy is busy she tells me, "GO AWAY" and other things which wasn't very clear but sounded like, "I don't like it when Mummy scold me and I will be sad/angry".

Makes me think sometimes, what goes on inside this almost 4year old's head.

He is loving his bath time as he is 'helping' our housekeeper who comes in twice a week and his help always ends up with him 'cleaning' the bathtub and making the whole bathroom totally wet! He treats the bathtub like a slide and shakes his whole body inside it and splashes it as hard as he could to spill the water out. I guess the housekeeper lets him have his bath so that he gets out of her hair!

As I'm finishing this blog, Adam shouts out to housekeeper, "Daisy, I'm finished now!!" when she is busy mopping the floor. She told him to wait and he just jumps out of the bathtub totally naked to the living room and says he wants Daisy to help him when he can very well dry and dress himself. What a bully!! When I give him his bath, he always insists to me that he is very capable of dressing himself as he's a big boy now and he is going to be big and strong and he is going to be a 'cooking man', fireman, ambulance man, superman, batman, doctor, dentist, policeman, 'dumptruck man' all rolled into one! Sigh...what a boy!

As he is getting dried up by Daisy, I can hear him singing some nursery rhymes and other songs which he hears from Disney Channel and ABC Kids channel and from Nursery Rhymes and Alphabet songs CDs which I play for him sometimes to keep him quiet for 1/2 hour.

When he replies to questions if he has done something, he will reply, "Yes/No, am ARE", so funny, instead of saying, "Yes, I AM".

Talking and asking questions all the time and gets in your face and always wanting cuddles. That's my boy!

Adam wants a new Mummy & Daddy today

Well, what can I say?? How do I start???

It was a hot day and I did not let Adam out for a run and he had to stay cooped up in the house the whole day. Towards evening, he told me, "I want a new Mummy & Daddy".

I told him he can go out to find himself a new one and off he goes for almost 2hours, didn't bother to come back inside even when it got dark. He was at neighbour's house. Only time he came back was when he said he needed to change his shorts as he has wet it playing with the hose outside. Didn't allow him to come inside as he hasn't found his new 'Mummy' yet and he couldn't care less...off he went again back inside neighbour's house.

I lost! Had to get him back inside and he wasn't abit sorry for having to stay outside at all....sigh!! The place we are staying is in a compound and has a guard so I'm not worried about him getting lost but I have an almost 4years old who is willing to sleep out and not want to come back inside!

When I asked him why, he says it's because Mummy & Daddy always scolding him. I told hiim it's because he's stubborn and always backchat/backtalk and do not listen when he is told not to do something (almost always an immediate WHY? comes out of his mouth) until we have to scold him.

Anyway, I had to go get him and he was pretty reluctant to come back inside as he was having a fun unlimited time outside to play!!! I told him since he doesn't want to come home, he will have to stay in his room (yes, he sleeps in his own room now!) and will have to miss dinner as he will only be fed once he has found his new Mummy. He couldn't keep quiet, keep saying loudly 'Daddy, I'm hungry!!' again and again until we have to feed him to keep him quiet! Haha! The reason why he is so noisy is because he is bored in his room and getting fed means he gets to watch TV and be in the living room.

When we had ice cream, MAGIC! He suddenly likes his Mummy & Daddy again!

MAGIC!

Tomorrow we start all over again the nagging and repetitions of what he can/cannot/must/must not/should/should not do and the scolding. He is not sad for long and always trying his level best to irritate you. Behaves like an 11 year old but cries so easily like a baby sometimes.

***** He picked up a lizard today too!! Like his mummy, he's scared shitless of the poor thing but with abit of encouragement, he managed to pick one up with 2 fingers. Daddy fed it to his snakes though.