Monday, December 18, 2006

Practice makes perfect

Indeed, practice makes perfect. Let me tell you why I say so.

Somehow, Anbo's favorite story is "Three little pigs". He often 'begs' me to tell him this story. Well, actually, I already told him
this story more than one hundred times. To be honest, I myself is very bored to death by this story already -- after repeatingthe same story
one hundred times, I no longer need the story book---like a recorder, I can forward, rewind, stop, pause and play the story at anytime.

I decided to have fun with myself, too. I grow the story a little bit everytime when I repeat the story to Anbo. First, I added lots of details to the story.
For example, I explained why building a brick house needs sand, water, concrete and bicks, and how to build a brick house from these raw material. Second, I will ask for Ambo's opinions.
So, there are some interactions bewteen me and my son. Third, when I told the story, I tried to use different words to describe.

Yesterday, I found that my story attracts not only Ambo, but aso his mother. Wenlei was angry at me as usual, but I saw her burst into laughes when I told Anbo how the big wolf was trying to
touch the pigs' trembling curly tails.

Well, the success of 'three little pigs' indicates that I hardly get away from these pigs in the near future.