Is he READING ???

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Gonna write this down first before I spent too much time babbling about the San Diego Trip and to take a break from all those photo uploading…it is really taking way too much time…but still…will put them all up soon….

We just came back from dinner at this new Japanese restaurant near our place, the food is ok, price is ex and service sucks!!! Maybe is because we went in a big group. Mal was already tired and hungry when we reached there and it did not help when we had to wait for like more than hour for our food to be served! We had tepanyaki and the chef had to come to our table to cook in front of us on the hot plate. Luckily Mal was entertained while the chef cooked thus I could feed him his food…he had tofu, mushroom, beef, rice and soup.

By the time we reached home … as usual, he did not seem to be tired anymore. Let him played his cooking toys a bit…maybe he was inspired after seeing the chef cooked in the restaurant as he went straight for his cooking toys after changing into his pj!

When it was finally time to sleep, I started reading him his ‘Grinch Meets his Max’ book by Dr. Seuss. I had been reading this book to him for about 1 week as I find this book easy to read…for me (heehee), the sentences rhymes, the book is cute and most importantly each sentence is short so I don’t doze off reading it

His favourite story book recently had been ‘Justin’s Just Joking’ an old story book (published in 1991) we borrowed from the library. (see… the book is so old and obviously not very popular as I can’t even find it on the internet to provide you a link to view! so I had uploaded the image to share in Amazon as they do sell this book but a used one at 0.99 cents) I had been reading this book to him every night diligently for more than a month now cos I had forgotten it was a borrowed book. You see…the problem with library book is that once Mal gets ‘attached’ to the book…it will be difficult to ‘detach’ him from the book as he will ask for the story to be read every night and he will not want us to return the book!!!

So in an attempt to try to ‘detach’ him from the book before I return it…I changed the bedtime story to the Dr Seuss book. It worked for a while as I had been reading that for quite a while now…but tonight…before I could reach 1/2 the book, he asked for his Justin book again! Hmmm…I had no choice but to oblige to his request. But instead of reading it word by word this time. I paused in each sentence…kinda prompting him to finish the sentence for me…and you know what?! HE SURPRISED ME! He could actually remember the story word by word!!! He could help me finish the sentence when I paused. He could not memorise every word but could remember certain words in every sentences. I was AMAZED ! I went on doing this for around 8 pages and he could still remember… I am not sure how much of the story was ingrained in his little brain cos I did not do this for the whole book thinking that it might be too stimulating for him to sleep.

Not sure whether you consider this as READING…but he sure impressed me with his super duper memory!!! Don’t know what other bad things had he remembered and learnt from Daddy and Mummy! Scary!!! Anyway the next thing I am going to do now is to bid for the whole range of Alpha Pets book on ebay cos I just found out that there are people selling them ! Pray that I will win the bid!!! at a reasonable price….