Child Development in Speaking,

A child is really good at imitating.  So, if you want him/her to be good at certain languages, just expose some good examples of your languages.

Children learn to speak much faster than adults.  You never think that they need correct grammar, right? As soon as they hear some new words, they master them immediately.

You will be surprised when someday they say something really like what you have ever said.

How often do you buy books?

Books are very important for me in my life.  My favorite author is Pramoedya Ananta Tour.  What is yours?

Visiting book exhibitions is also interesting.  We meet a lot of people from different backgrounds.  They attend their own favorite stands that may satisfy themselves.  They are free to choose their favorite books, novels, and many other kinds of books.

It was October 2011 when I was visiting the exhibition in Serdang,Selangor, Malaysia.  Did you know that I went there in the late evening with Adinda Tri Murti. We bought around 20 books and I brought them home to Indonesia.

Singapore Flu

Do you what trees are they? We call them teak trees, in Indonesian we call jati.  Jati is a kinda hard plant and grows well in Blora regency.

Almost all people at my village have jati.  People think that having jati is important for money.  Their first goal is that they can make a house by using jati. They grow jati at dry area.

Jati doesn't need much water.  In the rainy season, jati have full leaves but on the dry season the leaves fall down.

Kebaya

It was Thursday evening, late June 2014.  I was back from SMP Negeri 1 Blora to accompany English fellow teachers having training of Curriculum 2013.

Nabhan was in front of our house when I parked my motorcycle.  I got down and asked him to take my picture.  The kebaya was new.  It is our school uniform. The skirt is mainly a piece of cloth that I bought when I was in Bangkok in 2009.  The shiny color is actually the pictures of elephants.
I just feel that both kebaya and skirt match and I feel free to ride motorcycle because I only tie the skirt on the top.

The sapodilla tree behind me has been there since Abiyyu was still in my womb.  We bought it from a colleague.  It hasn't born any fruit yet. The papaya tree is really a tree, I means it has no leaves because we always take the leaves for kind vegetable to make urap. Besides, we make use of the tree to put on the string to dry our clothes.

Abiyyu

He is a cute thirty-month kid who is always curious about everything.

He always asks,

"What is it, Ibu?"
"Why is so?"
"What does it look like?"
"May I use this machine?"
"What kind of plane is it?"

At home, he likes to play in front  of our house.  He climbs up the gate and move it over and over.  He gets down and laughs out loud when somebody pays attention to him.  Then he runs around the corner to see our neighbor's yard through the wall.  Hehe..he joins me cooking in our kitchen which is just next to his bedroom.

"Ibu, may I see what you are boiling?"
He climbs up the chair that he moves by himself to peep what is inside the pot.
"Biyyu, it is not allowed to climb on that chair while the stove is on. I am worried.  It migth be slippery."
He giggles, hops down, and lays on his stomach on a mat we usually sits on.

I sometimes bathe him early and force him to drink his milk by breastfeeding him first.  He almost never drinks milk since he was born.  I tried to change many kinds of brands but I do fail.  I also changed his milk-bottles but nothing happened.  I, then, spoon-feed him while he is being breastfed.

I used to escort him to school, he has been going to school since he was fifteen months old.  However, someone is going to and fro with him now.

When he goes to musola with his father and brothers, he recites "Aamiiin" so loudly before the Imam finishes his Al Fatihah. He prefers to have saroong instead of trousers.   Something that makes his father worried is every time Abiyyu is out, he always goes to the place where people take ablution.  He opens the tap and wash his face, hands, and legs.  Automatically, he gets wet through.

His favorite food is something crispy and cheese.  He always knows where I put it.  He doesn't like bolu kukus, lunpia, and milk.He likes yakult, instead.

One of the Hadith he always recites loudly is Don't be angry, and for you is Jannah. He can counts from one to twenty in English, Indonesian, and Javanese.