We’re turning off our street when Al asks where we’re going. Leen tells him we’re going to pick up a dental chair (which will be her back-up chair) and take it to her clinic. Al cheers.
Al: Yay! We’re going to Mommy’s teeth clinic!
Me: You know, I think he’s going to be a dentist when [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
The other day, in the lift.
Me: You know, Aaron really looks a lot like you when you were a little girl. From the pictures I’ve seen of you, anyway.
Leen: You think?
Al: Hey! Aaron’s not a girl. He’s a boy.
Leen: Yes, that’s right. What about me?
Al: You’re a girl.
Leen: And what about Daddy?
Al: Daddy’s a boy.
Me: [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, family, parenthood
Our second child, Aaron Yusuf MacVay, was born in the early morning hours of March 7th, after a lot of pushing and an emergency C-section. Mother and baby are both doing fine now. As for Alisdair, well he really loves being a big brother.
We had a few names in mind but Aaron Yusuf came out [...]
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Me: So, buddy…soon you’re going to be a big brother. Are you excited?
Al: Yes.
Me: But listen…when your little brother comes, sometimes Mummy’s going to be really busy. You know, she has to give him milk, and all that stuff. So you’ll be spending a lot of time with Daddy, okay?
Al: No, Daddy.
Me: No? But you [...]
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Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
I’m sure most little kids have awesome imaginations, so it might sound overproud-daddyish of me (yeah I just coined that term) to say my son has an awesome imagination. He does, though. He can play out epic scenes with his toys, or with invisible friends (and especially invisible enemies). I like to think he’ll be [...]
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Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
After watching Monsters Vs. Aliens, Al and I were playing with some of his toys.
Me (holding the head of a robot dinosaur): Hey guys!
Al (holding a transformer in one hand and a generic Voltron-like robot in the other): Hey!
Me: What’s your name?
Al: My name Robot.
Me: OK. And how about you? What’s your name?
Al: [...]
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Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
A few weeks ago we tried to explain the concept of time to Al. It was a Saturday and he was enraged, in typical terrible-two-year-old fashion, because Ultraman had not yet appeared on Astro Ceria. I showed him the clock and said, “Look, look here. See this little thing here? When it reaches the number [...]
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Tagged: Alisdair, parenthood
Some Information About Malaysian Birth Certificates and ‘Official’ Ancestry 23
Some of you may know by now that Leen and I are expecting our second child (you can call him A2 for now) sometime in March. That means I’ll be doing all that baby stuff again, which includes not only sleepless nights (woohoo, can’t wait) but also a visit to the National Registration Department to [...]
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Tagged: immigration, Malaysia, migration, parenthood