Hubby finally got a real Chinese name, with surname and all! Thanks to my super best friend's best friend, who is now also my friend! (wow... getting complicating...) I must say that she is really good. I have requirements for my hubby's name (as always) - it has to reflect his personality, has a positive meaning and doesn't sound strange, i.e. not easy for others (people like me...) to give a nickname.
My friend suggested 戴旭阳. 戴 is adopted from a actor whom I like due to his puppy eyes, 戴阳天 (wow, their names are similar too! like brothers!) 旭阳 means rising sun. This suits him well. He is energetic and positive and is the sunshine of my life! Now we've got a good name, I have a challenging task on hand, to teach him to say and pronounce it correctly...
I started teaching the kids so that they can repeat it to him every now and then and help him to practise. Next I introduced him to his new Chinese name and explain the meaning. He likes it and is eager to say it. So I went,"戴旭阳, dai xu yang." I explain to him the 4 different intonations of the Chinese characters and try to help him to get the right tone.
Hubby ask,"like thigh?" "No baby, it's dai." "Die?" "No! Not die, DAI." "Ok, let try the next character. Xu." "Su?" "No, xu." "She?" "well close, she but you say it harder." "SHE?!" "Harder, not louder...." "Last character is yang." "Young?" "Good! but flatter." "young..." "Flatter not softer..."
Hubby said,"But baby, is this correct? Die she young? I sounds like I'm cursing someone to die young! That doesn't sound good..." I thought it may be a good idea to bang my head against the wall....
We'll continue to practise till hubby is good in saying his name and then like my super best friends said, we'll have the final challenge left - to teach him how to write....
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Jovan is 9!
I realised that I'm one of those spontaneous blogger - blogging only now and again. I really admire those who blog regularly, my life is really boring compared to theirs...
Yep, Jovan is 9! It's hard to believe how time flies! I can still remember vividly when I was holding him as a small tiny baby. Hubby said that Jovan is half way to adulthood now (adulthood is 18 yrs old here in Sweden), well, that's one way to look at it! ^_^
Jovan placed some special orders for his birthday this year. He wants a football chocolate cake and wants me to cook his favorite dinner - tacos. Well tacos is not a problem but given my extremely limited baking skills, the football cake is a real challenge! I told him that I will try my very best and hopefully it'll turn out good.
My first cake was a failure! I baked it for 45 mins and the cake still felt like jelly. After awhile, the cake more or less settled and looks like a volcano!!! The sides are hardened but the middle is wobbly!! I had to throw it away and remake another one. The second one turns out alright and now I'm left with the most challenging part - decorating!! Hubby helped to whipped the cream and "supervised" the decorating process. Here are some pictures of the cake. Not so bad for first attempt, I think.
I did a small card to display to avoid further ruining the cake!
Jovan had no idea that I made another cake, he saw the first failure and tried to console me. He said that it's ok and that the cake is good enough, we just need to put on some whip cream and we can eat it! Such a good boy! He face really lit up when he saw the final product. It's not anywhere near good but he knows we put in our best effort to fulfill our promise.
Angel was really sweet too. She made Jovan a card (since she doesn't have money to buy him present). She took about 2 days to make this card, waiting for the paint and glue to dry properly.
She was trying to glue "Grattis" (congrats) on one side of the card but her estimation in spacing was a little off. Jovan managed to understand though so that's good! ^.^
She wrote "Happy Birthday. Best big brother. Happy Birthday." She also tried to draw Jovan and her playing bandy and a birthday cake. So sweet!
This year Jovan got a big watergun (Which can shoot up to 8m far! That's just crazy!It's so fun!), a lego motobike and a star wars lego from Eric.
Kiddos jumped into the bathroom immediately after this picture to start shooting!
Jovan built this first thing the next morning.
A good present from Eric.
Hubby has also been trying to look for new games for Jovan's Xbox and Gameboy but apparently, these are slowly phasing out and so we have problem finding any games. After some discussion, we decided that it is time to upgrade their set and we agreed on a Xbox 360, since mother-in-law and brother-in-law have Nintendo Wii, we decided that kiddos will have fun to be able to play something different when we visit them. We settled on a Xbox 360 set and the guitar hero set. We told kiddos that we have a super big surprise for both of them, which is a combined birthday present for both Jovan of Angel (since it's quite expensive, it's makes more sense to combine!) Kiddos almost went crazy when they opened the presents!!
Jovan and Angel crazy with excitement and little Ivan is clueless as to why they got so excited over a box...
Truly happy kids.
Kiddos were feasting their eyes on the boxes because daddy told them that they can only play tomorrow (it was late when we opened the presents because we were all watching the final of the singing contest for Sweden). Then Jovan, looking at the guitar hero box, said,"Daddy, it says Playstation 3."
Daddy cooly replied,"Oooook, don't open it yet then, I'll fix it."
Typical hubby....
Yep, Jovan is 9! It's hard to believe how time flies! I can still remember vividly when I was holding him as a small tiny baby. Hubby said that Jovan is half way to adulthood now (adulthood is 18 yrs old here in Sweden), well, that's one way to look at it! ^_^
Jovan placed some special orders for his birthday this year. He wants a football chocolate cake and wants me to cook his favorite dinner - tacos. Well tacos is not a problem but given my extremely limited baking skills, the football cake is a real challenge! I told him that I will try my very best and hopefully it'll turn out good.
My first cake was a failure! I baked it for 45 mins and the cake still felt like jelly. After awhile, the cake more or less settled and looks like a volcano!!! The sides are hardened but the middle is wobbly!! I had to throw it away and remake another one. The second one turns out alright and now I'm left with the most challenging part - decorating!! Hubby helped to whipped the cream and "supervised" the decorating process. Here are some pictures of the cake. Not so bad for first attempt, I think.
I did a small card to display to avoid further ruining the cake!
Jovan had no idea that I made another cake, he saw the first failure and tried to console me. He said that it's ok and that the cake is good enough, we just need to put on some whip cream and we can eat it! Such a good boy! He face really lit up when he saw the final product. It's not anywhere near good but he knows we put in our best effort to fulfill our promise.
Angel was really sweet too. She made Jovan a card (since she doesn't have money to buy him present). She took about 2 days to make this card, waiting for the paint and glue to dry properly.
She was trying to glue "Grattis" (congrats) on one side of the card but her estimation in spacing was a little off. Jovan managed to understand though so that's good! ^.^
She wrote "Happy Birthday. Best big brother. Happy Birthday." She also tried to draw Jovan and her playing bandy and a birthday cake. So sweet!
This year Jovan got a big watergun (Which can shoot up to 8m far! That's just crazy!It's so fun!), a lego motobike and a star wars lego from Eric.
Kiddos jumped into the bathroom immediately after this picture to start shooting!
Jovan built this first thing the next morning.
A good present from Eric.
Hubby has also been trying to look for new games for Jovan's Xbox and Gameboy but apparently, these are slowly phasing out and so we have problem finding any games. After some discussion, we decided that it is time to upgrade their set and we agreed on a Xbox 360, since mother-in-law and brother-in-law have Nintendo Wii, we decided that kiddos will have fun to be able to play something different when we visit them. We settled on a Xbox 360 set and the guitar hero set. We told kiddos that we have a super big surprise for both of them, which is a combined birthday present for both Jovan of Angel (since it's quite expensive, it's makes more sense to combine!) Kiddos almost went crazy when they opened the presents!!
Jovan and Angel crazy with excitement and little Ivan is clueless as to why they got so excited over a box...
Truly happy kids.
Kiddos were feasting their eyes on the boxes because daddy told them that they can only play tomorrow (it was late when we opened the presents because we were all watching the final of the singing contest for Sweden). Then Jovan, looking at the guitar hero box, said,"Daddy, it says Playstation 3."
Daddy cooly replied,"Oooook, don't open it yet then, I'll fix it."
Typical hubby....
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