As I have taken a long break for a few months, it also means very little on my kids except for updates on facebook.

So here is my eldest, he is 8 years old now!  A very big boy whom would soon finish Grade 2 and moving up to Grade 3!  My goodness, he is a very big boy.  He is upto my shoulder, weighs 30kg, loves cricket, loves swimming, enjoy riding his bike up and down the street and to school.  He hopes one day soon I will send him out on his bike to buy a pizza!

He is a very good boy but geez, loves to annoy his sisters with all the jokes centered around the loo, and things that go with it!  Is in the genes, male genes I mean. 

He plays piano but I think he really wants to play a guitar!  He hates practicing it, hates the fact it takes a while to learn a new piece.  But when he gets it, he is a different kid.   So I must admit, I have quite enjoyed listening to his playing in the background.  There have been times when I actually offer him the opportunity to forgo the whole piano thing because it all seems so hard.  But he didn’t want to, so we keep going, 30mins practice everyday, once in the morning, once in the afternoon…and he is getting better everyday.  He can sight read the notes, he knows the theory for his age, he knows it better than anyone in the house! 

I used to learn it from his music teacher as well so that I can coach him at home.  But I gave up because I struggle with time and practice.  So I take a crash course from his teacher once every few months to polish up my knowledge on music theory!

In school, when they have “Kids Got Talent” performance, he actually asked to play a musical piece!  I actually think he likes to perform and loves the thrill of being on stage.  I have watched him dance a few times and he has done a few moves on the dance floor at the school disco too!

He also loves his books, but he is the kind of kid that loves to gather information.  So he reads a lot of non-fiction books, such as the 100 most disgusting things on earth, or the guiness work book of records or recipe books or the world’s most poisonous animals!  So he knows a lot about spiders, snakes, monkeys…..but also knows a lot about how to treat a spider’s bite if you get bitten by one!  

He still hopes to become an engineer one day, a Lego engineer specifically.  He is still very much into Lego, but it goes through phases.  Sometimes all he does is Lego and nothing else.  

Like most boys, he likes his computer.  He likes to watch origami folding on youtube and learn quite a lot from there.  He makes his own video on how to build a Lego piece which I am yet to upload onto youtube for him.  He knows that he can find lots of things and information on Google!  He uses the internet to research information for his homework.   He loves his Nintendo, wii but again all these come in phases.  Sometimes he doesn’t touch it for months, but usually school holidays will see him doing everything in 2 weeks!

Jayden also enjoy sports very much!  His favourite his cricket!  He loves that game.  He plays every Tuesday and can tell me all about the cricket players, the rules of the game, how to bowl, how to bat…..He looks very cute in his cricket green shirt, and next year he can enter the under 9s!  He enjoys swimming as well and does a very elegant back stroke!  His posture is just great when he does a backstroke swim!  He wants to do tennis, football as well…but you know any kid of his age would love to do every sports they can.  But I stop at 2 for him, because I can only drive to that many after school sports without burning myself out.

And I still have 2 other kids with their own activities too.

Jayden also does boys scout which is a very good experience for him.  He has learned so much from survival skills, to basic first aid, had his first campout, earning badges, took part in many different challenges.  He has made some great friends at the local Scouts group and they are all a great bunch of kids. 

Recently I asked him again what he wants to do.  He said

- He wants to walk on the moon and be an astronaut!

- But he also wants to visit Disneyland in Hong Kong and stay at the Disney hotel

- He hopes to audition for the Junior Master Chef one day

And here’s one of him preparing baked potato one evening.

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