Spring is coming!

Today is a sunny and cool day. Just 21 degrees, perfect temperature. We went to the market early this morning to do our weekly marketing. Made it a point to go earlier, to avoid the crowd. Matthew also woke up very early, and won't go back to sleep after his milk. We had no choice but to wake up also.

Box Hill, where we stayed, is a town with the largest Asian population. If you're at the town on a Saturday morning, you might have thought that you are in one of the Asian countries, instead of Australia. It is also very convenient shopping here, as you can get almost everything you can find in Singapore. Price difference aside, it's always heart warming to see familiar food.

Since it is a sunny day, Matthew has been able to roam outside without a jacket on. Here's a picture of him playing with the pebbles outside the house. He likes to throw them on the floor.

Something very funny happened. We bought strawberries from the market, so I taught Matthew how to say it in Mandarin. Strawberry is 'cao mei' in Mandarin, but he said it as 'dao mei'! (which happens to mean 'bad luck', something very very different.) He kept repeating it, as it is a new word...and we nearly faint as he got better at it. In order to distract him from his new word, I introduce something else to him.