Adam asked, "Mummy, how do you spell H O S P I T A L?"

We passed by Port Moresby General Hospital one day and Adam asked, “Mummy, how do you spell HOSPITAL?”

 

Mummy spelled it for him, “H O S P  I  T A L.”

He's into alot of these spelling questions nowadays, trying his best to learn to read by asking how this is spelt or what those spelling means when he sees them.

 

Then Adam asked, “How do you spell PEA?”

I thought he meant PEE as he wet his bed and still need to wear diapers at night, but didn’t want to teach him that so Mummy spelled, “PEA” instead and told him “Green PEA.” Guess he didn't hear that.

 

Then Adam asked to spell HORSE. I was a bit distracted as talking to Daddy in the car, so Mummy duly obliged, “H O R S E.”

 

Next thing I know...Adam said from the back of the car was, “Oh, that’s how you spell H O S P I T A L!!”

Wonder why he didn't ask how to spell "TAL" for the 3rd syllable, otherwise I would have caught on earlier.

 

Duh..!!! WHAT??? Haha! He split the syllables up and I didn’t realize it. We just had to laugh at the innocent way Adam makes a fool of us sometimes!

 

I am now more careful of what he asked and be more observant next time when the cheeky boy asked questions!

Adam's 4 on 1Feb07!

Well..the little cheeky mangi is 4 at last!

He woke us up bright and early to open his presents! He got a small radio/cassette player with headphone so he can listen to radio/cassette when he is napping/sleeping, a racing car with remote, a jeep with remote from 'Tua Eh', a race track with small battery run car..and we are still waiting for another present to arrive from his grandmother, sent from Newcastle, Australia.

We spent the day getting him a small birthday cake (not much choice here as there's no proper cake shop, so we can't get him his 'Superman' birthday cake, just a plain one with 'Happy Birthday Adam' written on it. When he saw/read his name, he was happy. "YUP. That's my Birthday cake", he says!). Later his Daddy and him had a haircut, cut by a Malaysian lady and she did a pretty good job of it. Hairdresser also have hair wash with abit of neck massage. When I told Adam they have massage, he said he wanted one too but when it came to his turn, he chickened out!! But he seemed to like his haircut, though and still pretty reluctant to have his rat tail cut off!! Asked him to confirm and he repeated, 'Don't cut off my tail!!' The hairdresser in her rush to finish cutting his hair, still cut off abit by accident, so now his rat tail is very very thin and fine and it irritates him sometimes, too thin to tie up too. What to do...he wants to keep it. It actually looks abit like 2 rat tails . He looks so much more cheekier now with his hair cut short at the sides and his ears standing out and his eyes looking like puppy eyes when he wants something or when he is sad! Should have seen the look on his face when he asked, "Daddy, do they sell Prawn Crackers in PNG?" and when Daddy replied yes....it was a hint that he wanted to eat Prawn Crackers. When we went to the supermarket to buy them and there was a long queue, his face looked sooooooo sad when I told him I will get it for him another day as there's just too many people at the cashier. Tears welled up in his eyes immediately and I had to go back in to queue at least 15minutes just to buy a packet of Prawn Crackers! Gosh!!

In the evening, we had cheeseburger cooked by Daddy at Adam's request for his birthday dinner. They went out into the driveway to play with the jeep and when it's almost dinner time, Adam decided he wanted to have egg also in his cheeseburger. He got his request and he ate all of his burger in less than 1hour!! (his usual dilly dallying time of eating dinner is 1hour...sigh!) Then after dinner, we took birthday cake out and sang him his birthday song and he blew his candles and some pictures were taken. Will post some on here when I have them resized and when I am in another place where there's broadband!

From terrible Three, now I'm in the terrible Four stage...wonder what surprises he will give me...high blood pressure, more back-chatting, rudeness..more loving embraces, cuddles, more coy...peeing on his bed...haha!!!