While we were having dinner last night, Julian said he wanted to get down from his high chair. So I told him “You can’t come down because you haven’t finished your dinner yet”. Julian then said in mandarin “Ju Ju Bao Le”, which meant “Ju Ju is full”. He still had half a bowl of porridge left! But since he said he was full, I didn’t force him to finish his food and carried him down from his high chair.
While we were preparing to leave home for a prayer meet after dinner, Joan asked me if I wanted to fill my water bottle with sweet corn drink, which she prepared earlier in the day. Julian heard our conversation and said immediately, “I want to eat corn!” and he went straight to the kitchen, took his plate out from the kitchen cabinet and came back insisting “I want to eat corn!”. So i decided to ask Julian a trick question, “Are you hungry?”… if he said “No”, I’ll reply “Then don’t eat the corn if you are full.”… if he said “Yes”, I’ll reply “Then why didn’t you finish your dinner earlier?”.
Julian paused for a while before looking at me with his reply “I’m hungry for the corn.” and gave me a big grin! I was STUMPED by his answer! After that, Joan and I just couldn’t help bursting into laughter. Where did he learn to reply like that? I have no idea… but this is just one of the many reasons why I just love talking to Julian. He never fails to amaze us!
I learnt from the Ang Mo around me, they too felt the same way.
1 of their daughter somehow learnt a bad habit, she will throw left over on the floor when she is full!
my baby gal is giving a hard time these days, refuse to go to sleep in her crib. I have to hug her to sleep! painful.. wasn’t like that b4. Might have develop this habit while I was away. Tried leaving her in her crib for 10 mins, to my astonishment she is all wet with tears. need to buld body strength loh. ^^;
What a brillant answer from Ju. Kids are always so spontaneous on answering a question from us adult, sometime we thought we can trick them with a question, but their innocent yet quirky answer never fail to amaze us. Lol…