Conversation with my son

Shukri is my youngest son. He will turn 6 years old soon this coming Feb and pretty much looks forward to have his birthday party. Now that I have some time off from work, it's my duty to be the daily school chauffeur to my 5 schooling kids. Yep I love getting stuck in daily traffic jam during school rush hour along MRR2 and Jalan Jelatek. But the opportunity to spend more time with all my kids during this part of their life is precious to me and one that I will cherished forever. I hope it is the same for my kids too. But often it's the 10-15 mins drive back home, everyone would be so excited and clamouring among themselves to tell me of their day in school. I love that time! Sounds of their 4 voices on top of each other is musical heaven to my ears.

So my daily drive routine will be to send Afifah, Aliyah and Wajdi first to their school and them making U-turn to send Shukri to his school. Sometime if Kakak requires a ride, I will proceed to send her next after Shukri.

By mid day it will be time to pick Shukri from his preschool and I look forward to his cute cherubic cheeky face after missing him the whole day (hey I am not used to have the house that quite).

So last Monday, I picked him up as usual and we always have conversation about our days i.e. bare in mind conversation with your 5 year old tend to be one sided aka Mum's side. Our conversation topic in the car are sometime random. That day it went like this:

Shukri: Ibu, I know how to say hello in Chinese! (Excitedly)
Ibu: Oh yeah... that's good Shukri (I am genuinely excited for him too). What is it then?
Shukri: It's KONNICHIWA (With confidence!)
Ibu: Errrr Shukri, that's actually Japanese
Shukri: Oh really, the writing looks like Chinese to me (He said in a non plussed manner & went back to playing)
Ibu:.Errr hmmm.............................(flabbergasted!!)

You should know that Shukri has started reading few English and  BM books in his school. Back in Gabon, he speaks a little French with Irene, our menagerie. Also he started learning Arabic letters since July last year. When did he found the time to learn Mandarin (which is only taught when your in Primary 1 at his school, Shukri is not in primary one yet), I haven't figured it out yet. Shukri, Shukri you're so funny!!

I signed him up for taekwondo and swimming co-curriculum in his school. He wanted to also do gymnastics; I hesitated not sure of why he would be so interested in that. His dad said Shukri probably wanted to check out the beautiful girls during the gymnastic class hahahahaha. Oh my Shukri!

Till next time, insya-Allah.