Our family - Aga's version

Aga: Mommy, ... Daddy is from Japan, and you're from England.

Me: Huh? Okay.

*Nagi went to Japan for business sometimes, and that stuck with him, I guess. Me from England though?*

Aga: And I live in Australia, and Lila... she...

*he thinks aloud, while I wait patiently. This should be good*.

Aga (finally): Lila is from the zoo.

*me laughing hysterically*

Pics from Halloween

I'm sorry for uploading them soooooooooo late, I know it's almost a month after Halloween! It's just that things happen, and I've been so busy and tired and well, here they are...

We did pumpkin carving the day before, on Rectory Farm, Milton, very near to where we live. It was infuriatingly cold that day, and I remember the weather made me very grumpy.



Aga chose and carved the pumpkin himself (with my help, a little bit, of course), here's the result:



The next day we were invited to Tosha's house for potluck dinner. I unsuccessfully made fried rice noodle, the noodle ended up too smooshy to my liking. There's nothing worse than overcooked noodles, but I was already too late to make another one, so I went with a big bowl of it. Turned out some people actually love smooshed noodles. Well, maybe they were too polite, or maybe they were hungry. Hopefully the latter.

Here's how the dinner looked like: (photo from Tosha)

(see that's my noodle in the middle of the table, on that BIG bowl.)



Then the dinosaur, the witches, the skeleton, the chicken, the werewolf, and the likes, and me, were ready for trick or treating.





Photos from Tosha:




Thanks to Tosha for organising and hosting a wonderful dinner, we had really great time trick or treating!

Side note: The next day we woke up to a horror of Halloween prank. An orange grafitti over the driver's side window. Horrible, horrible. These kids, do they even stop and think when they did it? How would they feel if it was their cars? Luckily ours was much better than our neighbour's. They got it on the car's body. That's got to be more difficult to clean than ours. We had to utilise blunt knife to scrape it off!

Aga reads

Aga reads. Very well!

He reads 2,3,4 and sometimes 5 letter words very well (depending whether the words follows the popular phonics of that letter). One of the most impressive things he read was "spins". Seriously. I was impressed with that, and he was too, because right after he read that, he said "I'm very good with this.". Of course he is!

He still confused his b with d, and p with q (only when they're in small letters), but otherwise he's doing well. He knows all the phonics, and nowadays when he sees letters, he reads them by their phonics, not by the letter. I still check sometimes if he still know his letters, and he does. He associates the sound with each letter.

Mommy so proud.

Happy birthday, Yovita!

A simple set for a simple girl.

You're the best miracle in my life.


Happy birthday, Yovita! by sephia