Ian is 4 yrs and 3 mths old!

Oh wat a mth.....we realised there were some changes in Ian just over the hols at Perth, guess we spent so much time together or either he had so much fun that he developed some habits?? hhmm anw this mth he had his long awaited dream come true that was to take a plane (coz he most prob forgot the 2 times he took since he was still little then!) well he was so excited that on wed when po2 came, when po2 asked to follow her home (which usually he would promptly say YES but couldn't coz next day got sch) for once he said NO, coz he wanna go Aust with mama and daddy hahhaa even tho how hard we convinced him we will see po2 and ah gong on plane as well, guess he just wanna be sure he gets on the plane huh

Anw he had his 'adventure' on plane since he was so excited abt taking off and landing and his endless requests of food, drinks and chocs....aiyaya at this age also headache at his requests and prog channel of cartoons and even ipad! Anw we had the chance to take a pic of him getting on plane coz mama and Ian were the 1st few to get on plane since he's a young kid hahhhaa

This mth, he has been more keen to take poses pic and whenever we whip out the cam, he would be readily giving a pose (not necessary cheese anymore!) and it can be something out of the blue pose, aiyayaya this poser boy huh but it was fun taking photos and video during the trip till mama took almost a 3h video hahhaaa guess we could zzzz watching it! But it was a momento coz we did 2 yrs ago and it's still well kept to prep him for trip!

Yeah this is our photographer in action....during the trip there were so many chances for grp pic and this boy (tho amateur) would insist that daddy goes back to the line while he does the clicking of 10sec auto shot and he would dash back to get in place sigh....so many times he told daddy 'Go back and stand there, I will do it!' and the rest of us just obediently just stand there while he takes his hands on the cam hhhmm how obedient huh but guess that's the privilege of being the only kid during the trip!

He has become more daring when it comes to horsey ride coz think we did bring him to take horse ride maybe a yr back but he wasn't keen but when we were at the farm, he was alright and was even ok to go for 2nd time the next morning coz he knows the horse doesn't GALLOP as he was worried so we stood afar to take shots of him while the auntie took him 3 rounds at the farm and he also loves animals just that he has this phobia of dogs....wonder why coz we went SBG this mth and he was so scared of this dog while he was climbing on a sculpture that he almost burst into tears and this time again on the farm, the 2 dogs just make him scared coz they got quite big teeth and they tend to 'bite' on kids so he got a little worried else coming back he still misses them 'Chilli and Lily' hahhaaa

Being such food and fruit lover makes it easy on the trip coz he was almost eating what we were eating and was most glad to ask for fruit as there was plenty there since we stocked up fruit everywhere we go, see the BIG bag of oranges which he adores! Anw there were times he would request for certain food like at harbortown, he asked to have subway coz he loves the lettuce?? hhhmm strange request but this mth, he starts to like certain veg like cabbage?? But gd for him to love veg altho he would always say he dun like veg and he loves chicken hahahaa and he can really clean off the chicken wings quite well like an adult hhhmm his daddy's genes huh

We also realised he has reached this age he could say what he wants and choose what he wants and no longer can we really influence his thinking sigh so much abt growing up but there are times we will reason out with him and he's still able to take out reasoning which is gd and hope we never lose that else can grow up to be a stubborn boy hahhahaa but it's fun seeing how he reasons out what he likes and often it's quite reasonable and so we can't say more sigh 4yo aren't as naive as we think anymore =p and he can even argue his way out

An interesting happening during the trip was on dayi's scout for this winter wear which she din buy eventually coz initially was undecisive and later she couldn't get the disc at the last place and this boy had to rub into her 'wound' when he came across a kid's winter wear like 'hey dayi, this is similar to wat u wanted to buy' hahhahaa The trip was a bonus for him who had been gd in sch for last sem and we see a different cheeky and super funny boy during the trip which we really can't recall when it started tho mama can rem some bits of it before the trip but during the trip we really saw the CHEEKY side of him which is so rare when he's so serious in sch hehehe and coming back he will still do it even to some pple he's not really close to (which mama was surprised) and well going the trip he still has his lah, lor, leh sigh.....wonder how maybe its how we talk so he picks up....anw gotta slowly change our speech but what caught mama by surprise 1 day when walking back from sch and he was saying some things but being shorter, mama din quite catch what he was saying and he then turned and said 'U DUN UNDERSTAND ME, sigh' aiyo when did he learn this and if anyone hears this, they most prob think mama is being really not understanding hahhaa my 4yo boy becomes so grown up suddenly in his speech and thinking hehehee quite scary huh