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Bedtime Conversations

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I have been enjoying bedtime conversations with Jet lately. We usually read the children bible together before going to bed (me, Jet and Matt – and sometimes Lina too),  after the bible reading and praying – Matt goes with Lina to their room and I accompany Jet for ten minutes or so before he goes to sleep.

Jet likes to talk and to share his stories and his feelings. Today he told me that on Thursday he was sad because he was left out by some his friends that he usually play with. He also loves telling me about his friends too. I am a bit concerned that he has best friends, which seems to imply he prefers some friends than the others – I encourage him to be a good friend to everyone – not sure how realistic is that in the real life. I mean even us adults to get along with everyone and we ourselves prefer some people better than the other.

I really treasure this time with Jet – maybe when Matt is older – I would have this kind of conversation with him too. And I hope I can keep conversing and relating with my children and they too can be open and comfortable talking to me.

Swimming Jet

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Jet gayanya very confident sebelum masuk kolam renang – all gears in check! Lengkap dengan mini AFL ball (ga dipake akhirnya).

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Tapi setelah liat air dianya jadi cold feet – ga mau masuk – mau duduk2 doang di pinggir kolam renang – setelah dibujuk2 akhirnya mau masuk tapi gw mesti gendong-in.

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Setelah 1/2 jam-an, dengan agak dipaksa2 dan Jetnya teriak2 akhirnya dia mau juga agak dilepasin cuman pegang tangan doang dan dianya splashing around freestyle – mission accomplished! 🙂

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Getting to know Jet more

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Well, the first week of my mini retirement was really good. Lina is preparing for her L license Driver Knowledge Test – so she asked me to get Jet out of the house on certain times of the day (mainly in the morning) so she can concentrate and study.

So as a consequence I have been spending time quite a lot with Jet. On Monday – we went to the new Randwick Library, Tuesday – we went to Unigym Pool – trying to get him comfortable with water as he’s still afraid at the moment and then today we went to play basketball/soccer together.

One thing that me and Lina noticed is – Jet’s behaviour has improved dramatically this week. So it seems me being around more has a positive impact on him.

I also get to know him better, I noticed his conversational skills have gone up to another level, I noticed how good he is looking after Matt, there’s a soft side of him that I never really pay attention before. There’s just a lot of things that I would never know about him if I’m not having this break.

Lina is also less tired and less tense, so she can relate better to me and the boys as well.

Furthermore today we started to read the bible together again, hopefully we can keep the rhythm going. We used to read the bible every day before, but then busyness of life kind of kill the good habit.

Matthew – 9 Months

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Wow – 9 months already! It has been a joy watching both of my boys growing up – I really thank God for them (and for my wife too) – I am so undeserving (I guess that’s the story of being a christian anyway).

Matthew has been crawling ke sana ke mari – walaupun merangkak masih kaya ulet – alias perut masih nempel di tanah. He also like to gangguin kokonya – kalo si koko maen something dia pasti mau ikutan – sampe si Koko sebel juga sometimes – but they love each other and that what matters.

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On the less happy note – for the past few weeks Lina had been a hard time to sleep not entirely caused by the kids – but she just couldn’t even when the kids were sleeping. And needless to say with her having very little sleep – it did create a stress in our family relationship – we bought some insomniac medication yesterday thank God she’s been sleeping not too badly without having to use the medicine.

 

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Matthew – 7 Months

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Matthew has started to intentionally pronouncing mama and papa (although more like baba) – this the result of Lina teaches him these simple words. Calling me (papa) really take him a lot of effort – he needs to practice for few minutes first before pronouncing the word correctly. At last he can call us if he demands attention (not just by crying) – sometimes if he’s lazy he’ll just say “heh, heh” 🙂

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Pake topi oma.. kayanya si koko yg kasih pake..

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Belepotan. Berdua serius maen Nintendo DS ( note to self, sembunyiin DS dari Jet.)

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Jet toilet training

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It’s been a week Jeremiah doesn’t use nappy, he’s now able to do no 1 and no 2 in the toilet.

We’re quite happy about this, we did toilet train him a couple months ago but it wasn’t working. And recently Lina tried again, this time she uses a very unconventional method (it’s pretty horrible so I won’t describe it 🙂 ) and it works!

He’s such a good boy, I love him very much.