Jonathan can cycle today!

This evening, Jon told me he wanted to get on his bicycle, a birthday gift from grandpa. He couldn't wait for me to put Jillian down and tried to get on the bike. He promptly fell down with the bike on top of him.

After comforting him and helping him get back on, Jon cycled on his own in the living room. We had pushed him on the bicycle a couple of times before today, and haven't done so for the last couple of weeks. Such a proud moment.


I was happy coz this justified my choice of a real bicycle and not a kiddy one. When we went to the bicycle shop to pick a bicycle, Jon kept going for the kiddy bicycles. They were short enough for him to get on them without any help. But I wanted a sturdy and real bicycle for him. The last three weeks, Jon didn't even noticed the bicycle and I was wondering if it was going to be an expensive toy chucked aside...just a flavour of the week.

Today is the first day of the Sep mid-term one-week holidays. Jon had been cooped up for the last two weeks, so I brought him out to the garden in the morning as Jillian took her nap. How timely, as grandma had harvested some longans. So Jon and I helped picked the longans off their stems. We collected half a box worth of longans. There were hundreds of them. We gave one bagful to a friend and another to Aunty Catherine.

Made Jon do a couple of chores: fill the water bowl for the doggies and visit and play with Tigger (who's coping fine since the passing of Tiger in January this year).
Clowning around. A hose is not what it seems...could also be a weapon. Yes, Jon is into guns... exposure to Ben 10 and Super Heroes League.