His Funny Side

Khalish is three years and five months old now. To keep track of all his developments for the past five months is impossible, unless I won a scholarship to do a research on that particular topic alone.

Therefore, I choose to write only about his funny side, according to Kamal and yours truly:

• Khalish does fight sleep at night, but, he is able to fall asleep anytime, anywhere during the day. Often, we found him asleep in the middle of play sessions. He did so even in the midst of a spirited conversation.
• About contradiction. He is a true boy, as defined by the universal standard: aggressive, with preference for toys and games that involve vehicles and robots, among others. Nonetheless, he also has a soft spot for Tangled (yes, Walt Disney Pictures' version of Rapunzel), and pink (that has resulted in a number of pink clothes and toys), which have been stereotyped as girls' materials. Fortunately for Khalish, Kamal and I do not stereotype. We just found the contradiction hilarious.
• He acts like the whole house is his stage. Most of the scripts are originated from a favourite escalator skit and, of course, Tangled.
• He loves to dance, too. To all tunes. A current favourite: Power Rangers theme song. An all-time favourite: Angelina Ballerina.
• In fact, the usually reserved boy may act and dance at a public area if he feels the urge to. 
• Our mother tongue, bahasa Melayu, comes easily for Khalish, but, not without mispronunciations. He used to replace the first 'e' in a word, with 'i'. Examples:  'tepi' became 'tipi', 'besar' became 'bisar', and 'senyum' became 'sinyum'. It is so hilarious to Kamal and I that we still secretly talk in such mispronunciations to amuse each other although our son no longer speaks that way. Oh, even the grandparents do that.
• Fellow males are his friends, always. Not the same formula with the females though. Other than me and my mother, he only prefers certain teachers (with one mentioned several times in his sleep), close friends back in school, and my 94-98 chum, Kamilla. 
• If he finds Kamal and I seated in front of our computers, he will sit between us to start a conversation. Seconds later, he will find his way to our laps; head on Kamal's and legs on mine. Minutes later, our computers will be his.
• The boy associates Kamal and I to different iPad apps. With Kamal, he plays Snoopy's Fair, angryBots, Plants vs Zombies, and GT HD. With me, he reads various story books, sketches on iChalk, and plays Burger Bustle. It is definitely a fun association.
• We play nonsense games as well. Kamal created 'Jangan Senyum' and I invented 'Eh, Ingatkan Gunting'. He absolutely loves them that he himself incorporates additional nonsense rules to those games.  

Photos in the collage are from my Instagram collection.

I look forward to the semester holiday, during which Khalish will take an equally long rest from the daycare center after preschool, to be with me. Surely, there will be more posts on him soon.