Growing up in an urban area means u might not have the chance to play in the mud, or even to see how farm animals look like in real life.
I myself am somehow grateful that I grew up in
kampung, despite the fact that I hate how I was tortured to do stupid things under the burning sunlight... like weeding the grass, sweeping the lawn, and the most intolerable one is picking/isolating the tiny black pebbles from the white sandy yard (
Giler ahhh...mak orang lain x pernah suruh buat macam ni!).
Anyway, those things also mean that my life was spent observing the environment, playing with sand, midget creatures in the soil, growth of plants that I am now a bit observant as compared to my students nowadays. Well,
orang environment
kan? Need I say more?
Cikebum, so far has been taught to distinguish farm animals like chicken. And to avoid confusion, I taught him...it is
"ayam chicken". I don't want him to wonder why is the chicken running on the ground is also called chicken in KFC?
Last raya, he was so excited running after a hen (I haven't taught him what is cock and hen, though) with her 4 little chicks, at MakNgah Nah's place.
One more thing, it's good that in MrHubby's kampung, the chance to see cows and goats is very high. Well, education is easier when u see it with your own eyes, right? Yet I find him sometimes confused between a cow and a goat.
He surely knows that cows
"mooo...."and goats
"mbekkkkk..."but after a while, he'd just go "mbekkkkk..." whenever he sees a cow, a goat, a buffalo and the like. Duh...
Okay, dear. The big one is a cow, and the small one is a goat.
That's a monkey. *chattering like a monkey*
...and that's a big lizard. Eeee....
Hmmm...what about u? Can your little ones distinguish cows and goats easily?
Look at how amazed he was...
Check kiri
Check kanan
Ohhh..there's also Thomas on the other side.
Playing with the train while Mama assembled the track.
And he loves it very much.
Wow!
What is this, Ayah?
Ohhh..this is Cranky the crane.
Tadaaa...
