Saturday, October 25, 2008

Singing

Kayden has started singing more often recently. his favourite songs are 'wheels on the bus', 'abc' and 'Happy birthday' (where he'll end up blowing at an imaginary candle, haha... )

he will also want others to sing too, especially his dad. he'll go on and on such as, "papa sing, papa sing...." until his daddy joins in. lol.

realised that he enjoys attention. after he sings a song or does something well, he'll go around asking people to clap for him. he can say 'clap', 'pai shou' and 'pa pok' (in hokkien, especially to my grandma). he always asks my grandma, 'ah zou (great-grandmother in hokkien), pa pok'. think children are really very versatile. can pick up different languages and dialects and even know to code-switch when they are talking to different people).

Actually, i'm glad Kayden speaks to his great-grandmother and that she responds to him. It's rather seldom that my grandma will take interest in the surroundings and to clap. so touched to see that my grandma will also involve herself in the daily happenings even though she's always very tired. she has parkinson disease and has lesser energy compared to the past. she dozes off very easily and seldom interact with us nowsadays. how i wish she could be better or there's a cure for parkinson. so sad to see the usually very energetic grandma being so quiet and inactive.

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