Getting Scolded for the Wrong Thing

Early this morning, Gabriel was searching frantically for something and he threw a fit when he couldn't find it.  When I was rudely awoken by some jostling at the covers, I asked him what he was looking for. He whined, "My card." So I told him to go look at the table top near the door. He walk briskly over, took one look, then came back and hit me on my feet (through the covers) for asking him to look where there obviously wasn't any "card".

 

I stomped out of bed, grabbed his Dino Duel cards, walked to him, shook the cards in his face and then walked back to the door, opened the door and flung the cards into the toilet opposite our room door. Then I stomped back in and got back to bed. That's when the bawling started.  He yelled so hard that he woke his little brother up."I want my cards, I want my cards....", he kept going on. "Then go and get them!", I shouted back from under the covers after a good 2 minutes of crying had gone by.

 

By then, I well and truly couldn't go back to sleep, so I had to discipline him for lashing out at me unnecessarily.  I sat him down on the floor next to the computer and gave him a 5 minute time out. And that was when I saw his Autobot Jazz on my side of the bed. Apparently it got shoved under Mummy and after she heard all the fuss, she dug it. I put it on top of the clothes drawers and got back under the covers.

 

After 5 minutes, I went over to him and asked him why he hit me and he said it was because "you told me to look where it wasn't" and then he hit me with this question,"I said I was looking for my car. Why did you throw out my cards?" "What car?" "My Autobot Jazz."

 

Imagine my face.

 

I told him his car was on top of the drawers and I pulled him into bed with me. Then I hugged him and kissed him on his cheeks.

Gabriel and Numbers

Gabriel loves numbers.  He can count from 1 to 100 without any problem.  He often does it when he cannot sleep at night or when he cannot fall back asleep at 6 in the morning!

 

He especially loves the number 27.  The obsession with the number 27 stems from the fact that it is our house number and also the last 2 numbers of his mother's phone number, but he doesn't know that yet.. or does he?

 

He can pick out the number 27 in the strangest of places; on the GPS when I'm driving (speed), on a signboard, a block number, some article in the papers, on locker doors at CSC, and even like today, on the powerpoint slide of today's Gospel Reading. (Go check! It's John 10:27-30)

 

We're trying to teach him Addition and Subtraction slowly and he's getting it in his time.

 

Today, in the shower, just for fun, I asked him what the smallest 3 (digit) number was. He could immediately reply me, "Umm...One Hundred!". The smallest 2 (digit) number was met with the number 10 and the smallest 1 (digit) number with 1. So he clearly understands the concept of digits already.

To confirm my doubts, I asked him what the biggest 1 (digit) number was and he promptly replied 9. And the biggest 2 (digit) number, he coolly said 99.

 

Gabriel, Future Mathematician. I'm still waiting for him to stop counting to 5 when one hand's fingers are all up...

Gabriel Gets His Own EZLink Card

Finally after months of jumping over barriers, Gabriel gets his own card! Now he can go to GodPa and Godma's house on a bus by himself!

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Charging Low Batt

If there was a power bar, it would show a charging sign.

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Gabriel and Raphael

Raphael gets tickled everytime Gabriel laughs. Gabriel knows this and
he loves to make Raphael laugh by laughing out loud and long.

The sound of Rafa's laugh makes us laugh too!

Gabrielish

For the longest time, Gabriel has been saying that things are the same
fast. Today, as he asked me what the 100 in the 100cc Race in Mario
Wii Kart was, I explained that all the motorbikes were small. He
immediately said that his was the biggest (which is true since he's
riding as Bowser on a huge monster bike), so I clarified that the
bikes in this race can only go so fast. And then he asked non-
chalantly, "The bikes are all the same speed?"
Yeah, he got it.

Gabriel Says

Yesterday, we brought Gabriel for his scheduled ENT Follow-up at KKWCH.

As we were a little late, we were coaching Gabriel on what to tell his 老师.

Mummy : Gabriel, 你要跟老师讲,"对不起,我迲看医生."
To which Gabriel replied immediately,"不是,不是.医生看我."

I looked at Mummy through the rearview mirror and we both started laughing!
How true!

Gabriel's Moments

Scene is set at home, some time in the early afternoon, about 3pm or so..

 

*Phone rings*

 

Daddy (with Rafa on his lap) : Gabriel, pick up the phone!

Gabriel jumps up and gets to the phone before the machine picks it up.

G : Hello?

G : Who is that?

G : Yes, she's home.

G : She can't come to the phone 'cos she is attending to Amber at the moment.

G : Yes, Uncle Leonard. Call back later.

G : Bye!

 

I'm just dumbfounded at the way he handled the phone call. Yes, Auntie Celest was attending to Amber at the back somewhere....

Belted to a chair

Rafa is stuck in a chair at the coffee shop. We're nicely having
lunch. He's a happy baby sitting up!