Mother's Day - Sunrise

We slept, for the 1st time in almost a week, in an airconed room last night. The weather has been really totally unbrearable, so hot and humid. If not for WY's and later WF's fevers, I would never have allowed our airconditioners to have gone idle while we all struggle to survive in the sweltering heat.....

At about 5am, I awoke to find WF 'a little warm' to touch. And the 1st thing that came to my mind was that his temperature was threatening to climb upwards again - it always seems that fevers always come in an airconed room.

So I quickly switched off the aircon, then set about getting ready to give WF his medicine - due anyway on the 6-hourly schedule now. After taking his medicine, WF asked to sleep 'outside' (ie on the spare mattress in the living room). So we 'moved out' at about 5:30am.

However, WF couldn't get back to sleep again. He went to the shelf to get a book, asking me to read to him (at that hour!), and asked to play his Thomas & His Friends (yah, also at that hour!) When both these requests were declined, he went to the balcony to check out the colour of the sky - I had told him that the sun was still not up yet, mah.

After about 5 minutes of standing at the balcony's glass door, he excitedly pointed out to me that the sky was a little 'less dark' already! And he discovered, to his amazement, that when he breathes out hard at the glass door, there would be 'water' on the glass door which he could 'write on'!! (Ya lah, he realised that there is condensation and that he could scribble over the condensate.)

So, to show my enthusiasm and support in his discovery, I peeled myself off the mattress and joined him at the balcony. We discussed a little the colour of the sky and I had to answer WF's uncountless questions - "Why is the moon not round?" (it was crescent, so I said simply that it takes several days for it to become round) "Why are there so many lights on all the buildings?" (my answer: the lights warn pilots of tall buildings/structures so that they won't crash their aeroplanes into them - this answer drew WF's comment: "If they crash into them, the people in the buildings would be so angry with the pilot, right?!")

"Where is everybody?" (my answer: most are still asleep) "Why are they still sleeping?" (my answer: they are still tired) "Then what about the cars?" (ha? oh, he was referring to the cars on the PIE)... and the exchange went on and on. WF eventually decided that we should sit and wait for the sun to 'come out'.

By 6:30am or so, the sky was almost completely bright though the sun still could not be seen. So the discussion continued and went on to how there were now more buses 'bringing all the different passengers to everywhere' etc. I think the Thomas & His Friends vcds have been a great influence in transportation-related terminology.

After a while, we spotted Mother going to the market. WF waved frantically and called out to her excitedly. When I explained that Mother did not see him and was too far away to hear his calls, he dashed to grab his whistle to blow! I had to quickly tell him not to do that less others get upset to be awoken by it.

Then, true to his reputation of being a cheeky fellow, WF decided to try out his whistle at WY so that WY would also wake up to join him at the balcony. He went into WY's room, and whistled so loudly that the irate elder brother started to lecture him about such 'inconsiderate prank' the moment he woke up. Later WY reluctantly got up and joined us at the balcony.

As we sat behind the metal railings, all 3 in a row, we discussed the clouds floating by. For the 1st time, I realised that the clouds actually look dark blue against the bright sky (before the sun rises). WY and WF said the clouds looked like the outline of a big cruise ship. Then WY said it became a horse, while WF started to see a scary dinosaur in them.....

Then WY popped a question to me, "Mama, why does the sky look so bright even though the sun has yet to be seen?" I pointed out how the sun's rays are all far-reaching etc, so it doesn't mean that we must 'see' the sun before the sky would be lighted. (Actually, I didn't do a good job explaining, but I think he got the idea anyway.)

Gradually, we noticed the sun rising from behind the clouds, giving that famed 'silver lining' to the clouds - the only thing is, the lining wasn't silver but bright orangy red. It was quite a beautiful sight. I grabbed the camera and tried to capture it. This was the best I could achieve:

As the sun rays came flooding in, we had to move off from the balcony and we proceeded to keep the mattress etc. WY made his bed as I prepared breakfast, with WF ordering 'cereal and cheese' for his. R woke up and got out of bed about then.