Gabe and his 6th birthday

Earlier this month I had promised Gabe a Fraulein Idolmaster figure for his birthday present. Unfortunately I was told that it will only be available in June. So, to make it up, we brought Gabe to a toyshop owner’s home just a few blocks from ours and let him choose on his own. Gabe was picky enough but thankfully oom Stefanus was very patient while offering various toys. It took quite a while for us to wait until he made a choice. But it was an excellent choice, afterall.

A Transformer Bumblebee (movie version), with three additional S7 agents packed in Screen Battles series. Bumblebee is transformable into a Chevrolet Camaro. Whew! It took me an hour to figure out how to convert from robot mode to vehicle. I made a few mistakes at first, but good thing the toy is sturdy and can handle several wrong moves.

I need to mention to readers who happen to have this toy too, remember to pull the back first when trying to pull the front grill up. It serves as somekind of a locking mechanism, and that was what took my time the most.

Although we didn’t go out today, Gabe was having fun playing with Bumblebee. And so have we..

Gabe & piano

Gabe will be participating in Symphony Music Show on the last day of this month. With his teacher and friends, they’ll perform in Mitra Keluarga Hospital, Kelapa Gading.

One day on a sunny Sunday when Gabe was practicing, I came by and requested him a few songs to play…

Gabe and Stamps

Gabe has a thing with stamps. The first time he saw my stamp collection, he was so amazed. Perhaps because of the beautiful pictures of the many things printed on such small pieces of paper.

Once when we found a mail still has a stamp on its envelope, he even cried asking to peel off the stamp from the envelope, and put it in his little stamp book.

“Dad, what are these stamps for?”

“For sending letters.. say you want to write a letter to your far away cousin, you can put the stamp on the envelope so the postman would deliver it. The stamp works a bit like money.”

“Can we use the peeled stamps to send our letter?”

“No I don’t think so, son.. they’re already stamped. We can only use new stamps to send letters, or use the old ones which haven’t been stamped from the post office..”

“Dad, let’s get some stamps and send letters!”

“Hey, that’s a good idea.. not many are sending letters through post office.. nowadays people can send text messages or e-mail instead of old-fashioned letter.”

Well, if you share the same idea, why don’t we exchange letters with Gabe? He’d be thrilled and I can assure you he’ll reply back.

Do let us know and I’ll give you the mailing address. :-)

Smile for each new day!

Yotsuba just came accross with Optimus Prime and Jetfire and she teaches them a few motivational moves for meeting every day challenges in life.. ;-D