Who Cares

A few weeks ago, I noticed that when I asked Hee not to do....., he would stop doing that and said "Who cares". I told him that they were not very nice words, and he never said that ever since.
Last week, when I asked him not to do something, I heard him mumble to himself "誰管”。 I wasn't very sure about what I heard, and I didn't believe that he had the ability to translate the word "care", so I asked him what he said. He said "nothing", so I was sure that he said that. Then, I asked him how to translate "who cares", he told me "誰管", and he admitted that he was saying "誰管" few minutes ago. I told him that bad English words are still bad even when they were translated into other languages, so I asked him not to speak "誰管" in the future, and I never heard of that ever since.

Yesterday, he told me that at school, he heard a kids saying "who cares", and he went to tell the teacher. Oops, in our childhood, we didn't like this kind of 打小報告的狗腿同學; however, I hoped that he can feel free to go to the teacher when there's a need (for example, being bullied), and I didn't think that he's old enough to draw a line of when he needs to go to the teacher, so I didn't say anything to him about 打小報告.

Hee's Thanksgiving Performance

On Tuesday, Hee's school had a Thanksgiving Potluck, so after dropping Hee at school, I rushed home to make a chocolate banana pie and rushed to Ha's school to help out ( I really like to see what kids do at school, so I can talk about what they learn at home) and went home to get the pie and rushed to Hee's school. Luckily, both schools are about 4-5 minutes away from our house, so it's still manageable.

The potluck started at 12pm, but I went there few minutes earlier, and I saw them lined up on the lawn and singing few songs. I didn't know that they were going to sing, but I was glad that I went early, so I didn't miss it. (only 2 songs)

Hee is in Pre-K, so he was in the back, and behind them were the kindergarten kids. I am not tall enough to get the perfect shot, and he's not tall enough to stand out of the crowd, so, try to find him if you can!

Hee's First Preschool Picture

Today was Hee's school photo day. At first, he was not happy to go to school because in the past 2 days, he was sick and was able to stay home, so even though I knew that he's able to go to school today (yesterday, he was perfectly ok at home playing with R), he still tried to cough loudly to hope that I could change my mind.

I told him that he's perfectly ok, so he should go to school; moreover, if he wanted to have a school photo like Ha's, he needed to go to school today. Since he didn't have any choice, he went to school without crying or arguing.

Tonight, Stephen saw him smiling on the bed, so he asked Hee if he smiled like that when the school photo was taken. Hee said that he didn't remember how he smiled. He said that the photographer made funny faces, did silly trick, but he didn't laugh; at last, "the photographer tickled me! And I laughed!" Hee said. It's not easy to be a photographer!

Preschool Homework

From last week, Hee's preschool started having homework, too. He usually got homework on Thurs. and needs to turn it in on Tuesday. At the beginning, I thought that he may not enjoy his whole weekend because he needs to do the homework; however, after these two weeks, I think that I'm worrying too much because he usually finishes everything before dinner time on Thursday.

He loves to do his homework and started doing it when he was still in the car. I asked him not to, but he just couldn't wait. When we came back from school, I usually cook our lunch first, and he went to my room and continued to work on his homework. (he likes to write his work on the floor. I asked him to use the table, but he didn't want to.) The problem was that without adults' supervision, he couldn't understand the instruction on the paper, and sometimes, he might do it wrong and need to erase and write again.

He always said that he knew how to do it, and he didn't need my help, but in fact, he's not always right. It reminded me what the Bible says: “驕傲在敗壞以先；狂心在跌倒之前”， “尊榮以先，必有謙卑。” However, other than that, I really like his attitude toward the homework because I don't need to push him all the time.

Comparing to Hee, Ha is more conservative. He needs to know the instruction clearly before he starts, and he's slower than Hee. He usually finishes his weekly homework in 2 days.