Glad To Be Here

When I’m talking about my boys, there is always something that I’m afraid of. One of it is their safety. Since they are always so curious about things around the house, they are always in search of new adventure, especially Cal.

The other day, he was playing with those disposable chopstick. He put it on the stove, let it burn till it turns black and then use it as a drawing tool! Ya, I know, very innovative for him, but at the same time very dangerous.

Other than that, he knew where I kept the play station and he knew where the key is. So he used a chair to reach for the key. Just what if he fell? Another dangerous act of his is to ride the bike from a slope and just let it free. Incident like hurting himself is no news to me. I’m more worried if he set the house on fire, because we don’t have a fire insurance or home insurance for this old house that we are staying!

The evil side of me is saying, ok, let it burn, so that we can have a new one up sooner than we thought. >:)
*ya right, like we don’t need money to build it*

This morning little Mer used my camera to take some snapshots in the room. He is taking anything and everything in front of him. Doesn’t matter if that is the blanket, my clothes, my mom who walked into the room. While he is doing that I was so worried that he might just slipped and dropped the camera. So I kept on telling him to stop and used the excuse of the camera is running out of battery.
Then finally I got the camera back from him.

Was reading this post in Grace’s blog talking about gratitude and how to teach gratefulness in the family. So I’m trying it out on my boys, I myself is having trouble keeping up with them and also setting a good role model. It is just so hard to do that because they are constantly in tantrum and with special request that I just had to punish them, especially little Mer. He pushed the chair and let it fell to the ground when he didn’t manage to race with me and Cal. So he had to have his time-out and stand on the corner for awhile.

After that one sure thing that he’ll do is to ask me hugging him. This is one obvious difference between him and Cal, Mer loves to hug and cuddle with me or my mom, especially right before bedtime and after he has done something wrong. I think this is his way in getting assurance that I still love him eventhough I’ve scolded him or eventhough he has done wrong.

About the gratitude thing, I guess I’ll have to keep on working on it and myself, especially myself as the role model for the boys.