turkey day

Turkey day, or Thanksgiving day.. is more like 'lebaran' indonesia, told Mommy. Many people travel to go to visit their family and relatives. They have a big meal with a roasted turkey as the main dish, and ofcourse acommpanied by the mashed potatoes and gravy, greenbeans caseroles, cranberries sauce, and lots of sweet deserts :). But as Indonesians we always modify the food, and sambal on the side.

Today, I went to oma Aychu for the Thanksgiving dinner. (Mommy forgets to bring her camera, so no picture :( There're so many people there. It's a mix party of families and college students. It's nice that they have this split level basement with a pingpong table, so the kids can play and run around freely. The food were extraordinary good and plenty. Ofcourse oma Aychu cooked the turkey, pastel tutup, sup jagung, and bakso babi.. yumm.. Mommy cooked labu siyem, Matt's mom brought chicken cordon bleu, Glen's mom brought bacon wrapped greenbeans, Jaceyn's mom brought tiramisu, tante Vonny brought rigatoni pasta, and many more I don't even know, because I was busy playing and drink juices.

I met several of my friends whom I don't hang out a lot. I met Glen, Sammy, James and his little brother Dave came from NY, Matt and Michael, Jacelyn, Davin, Sara and her little sister, and there's Maya from Pitts.
Quinny's mom & dad were there, but Quinny went to his grandma's and stay over there for the holiday.

After tired of playing running and chasing around, Mommy asked me to go home, because there's another party at my own house! Om Piter and om Lester cooked a 12 pounds turkey at home, and it smells sooo good. Mommy also said Om Piter's curry puffs were very good. I tasted a little bit of the ham that om Acong brought, then I played again with Andrew.
Around 10pm everyone started to leave because some of them were going to the Jeffersonville Outlets for the black friday shopping.

And for me, time to bed... Happy Thanksgiving everyone...

potty incident

Today, Mommy host the playgroup at home. It's nice because I have to learn to share my toys with my friends. I had some fights over some toys, but it turned out well. The older boys weren't allowed me to play with them, and they even kicked me out from my own bedroom!
But later we're all play together and made some mess around the house, since we couldn't play outside today. It's chilly and windy.
We were playing around the house, the livingroom, my bedroom and in the basement on my 'working area'. I miss some of my friends like Jack, Connor, Megan, Rowen, Aiden, Evelyn and Wyatt because they're in the school now. So today it's only me, Alexander, Caroline, Avery, Hope, baby Brandon and baby Michael. Clara and baby Owen are sick, so they didn't come. It's pretty 'quite' lately, and most of them have to leave early because they go to afternoon school or need to pick up their siblings.

Anyway, around 12.30pm everyone started to leave except Alexander and his mom. I saw Mommy and miss Melissa had a very serious conversation and they're praying, so I thought I wouldn't disturbed them when I need to go to potty. I can do it myself several times, so I just went to the potty without informed Mommy.
Just right after I finished potty, Alexander came to the bathroom looking for me while I was washing my hands, and it ended up we're playing with water. After awhile we had fun together, Mommy and miss Melissa checked on us, and they were surprised and upset to see Alexander took his shirts off and I haven't put my pants on, and we're all wet. I even had the liquid handsoap all over my body, so it's very slippery.
Then when mommy saw the potty, she was very angry, and I was on a time-out right away, so did Alexander. Actually we were putting all stuff into the potty, like 2 rolls of tissue papers, potpouri, straws and plastics from the juice boxes, and even the handsoap bottle!
Alexander and I were very sorry for what we've done, and he had to go home right away, and me... mommy put me on bath and I had a quick lunch and straight to bed for nap.

Hopefully I won't do the same thing again in the future. It was fun, but it wasn't the right thing to do. And I'm just glad that mommy forgives me, eventhough I'm not allowed to have juice boxes for several days because I took the straws into the potty and threw the juiceboxes into the trashcan.

'shoe box' operation christmas child

Mommy told me to participate in Operation Christmas Child from the Samaritan Purse http://www.samaritanspurse.org, it means that I bought and collected toys and other things for my friends who live in another part of the world, who don't have many toys like me. I put them all in a shoe box, but mommy gave me the plastic container so that it can be useful for my friend to keep their toys inside.

I gave toys like cars, ball, doll, binocular, harmonica, crayons, coloring books, toothbrush and toothpaste, fruitsnacks, sandals, socks, t-shirts and some other stuff.

It's pretty hard to do this, because I want them all. Eventhough I already have most of the things, but I want more.

Mommy even wrote the letters for the kids, because I can't write yet.

Hope they like them all and most of all, hope they experience the love of God I share with them.

leaves, leaves and leaves everywhere

This year, I helped mommy and daddy clean-up the yard ( I play more than raking :)) It was soooo fun! I love throwing the leaves, sit on pile of them, raking them with the small rake and my own shovel, and collect some nice leaves in my jack o lantern. The most fun thing is when mommy asked me to stand inside the leaf bag and jump on the leaves to make them packed, or sat on top of the bag with mommy and fell down on the ground.



The only thing I didn't like was when mommy used the blower. I like to see the leaves blowing everywhere, but it was too loud. I told mommy not too loud next time.




When we did the front yard, mommy talk with our neighbor, grandpa John. They talked for quite long, so I just play by myself and I decided to go to the garage to find something. I decided to get into the car, and accidentally I pressed the garage remote control and in just second the garage door closing down. I heard mommy calling me outloud to opened the garage (since mommy was panicked and realized that mommy didn't have her keys, both car or house).


I was panicked too! I cried just right after I knew the garage is dark. And just after I opened it, mommy came to rescue me :)


Hopefully lesson learned :)

javapalooza..

Daddy & Mommy told me that I can come to this 'adult' meeting at xenos. It is very rare occasion, because I usually have to stay at the childcare, so I was very exciting.
This event called Javapalooza. Mommy told me that this event is to raised some money to the needy children in Indonesia, because they don't get the chance to eat enough food everyday, don't have plenty of toys like me, and lotf of them don't go to school. It's great I can be part of it.

I don't really know what's going on on the event because I was very busy playing at the play area with Andrew, Emma, Sophie, and the twins Lucy and Olivia. There was a silence auction with lot of stuff to bid. I'm very glad that Mommy bid the movie tickets and Mc. Donald's gift certificate and got them! We use the Mc.Donald the next morning for a happy meal and I got the 'Marty' the zebra toy.

I went to SLANK concert!

Believe it or not, I went to SLANK concert! I think it was awesome, because I was on the front row so I can see them clearly and amazed by them :) It's cool to see how they play the musical instruments.. and how loud it was. But most the time I spend playing with Andrew on the back :)

Oh oh.. I also watched om Richard sang with his Columbus band. I think they are as cool as SLANK, because I know them :)