First I will update on Sean's developement at fo 37mths and 1 week old.
He just recovered, not 100 % but probably 99% from his fever over the weekend, slight improvement with his flu and cough which he just got it last Friday. Last week was abit cold probably that explains why he falls sick, if not so far he has been doing well, eating well at home because i force feed. Haha. But when he is out playing with Caleb or his friends, you can forget about asking him to eat. All he wants to do is just play and play and he will not feels hungry at all.
Physical developement : Height grown up taller, maybe 100cm or slightly below. Because i can see his old pants are now slightly above ankle already, unless it shrunk. Weight still remain as slim as ever eventhough sometimes i think he eats quite alot. But his digestive system is somehow too good, whenever he eats too much, he will need to go and poo it all out again. Plus he is a very active boy running up and down alot, so maybe this explains why he is forever slim.
Activities: Enjoy reading story books, so we are planning to buy more or borrow some from the library for him. He always want us to read to him at least 2 books before he sleep. Its a daily routine for him that he will not miss, no matter how tired we are, we still need to oblige to it.(both parents are lazy)It's a good hobby which i think we should cultivate him to do, some simple books he can relay back the story to us, even word by word as how they have it in the book. I think he memerized it. Can see and remember most number till 6, previously he can count but not so much on remembering how the number looks like, but he can now do so. At times he can even write it, but not very nice of course, but somehow you can still know what number he is writting. We have been engaging activities like writting numbers which he quites enjoy it at the moment. Me being a very kiasu mum, i still prefer my kids to have Singapore standard if possible so i prefer him to learn more than playing. He still enjoy singing at times, where you can hear him sing by himself in the car or sometimes before sleeps, but he just want to act silly by changing some of the wording in the songs and make is sound silly. He thinks is funny. I didnt stop him anyway, he is still a kid after all, so sometimes we just behave silly like him which he will find it very funny. ABC is still weak, i think he must have even forgotten the first few aphabets that we have taught him before, as we have stop that for quite a while ever since we move house till now. He is weaker at drawing i notice, he prefers us to draw for him rather then he draws himself. He will request you to bring his drawing kits out but he wants you to draw from him instead. Watching TV is his forever favourite activities.
Speech development: think should be quite alright bah, at least poeple can understand what he is trying to say. But of course is uncomparable to those english native speaker's kids as i must admit both myself and Jerry's english is only so so. We have been trying to introduce new words as and when we talk to him and he does pick up from there.Only problem with him is certain words his pronounciation are not as accurate and clear, but i am guessing he will outgrown as he grows older.
Self help skills : He can feed (food/water)himself but of course do expect some food droping on the table or floor after that. Actually i am also unsure how a 3 years old kid will fare. Taking of pants is not a problem for him, but taking of clothes is. Plan to start and let him to do it himself. Now is in the mid of encouraging him to wear his own shoe. He can wear the crocs by himself, but not sneakers/sports shoe yet. When you ask him to teach you how to wear his shoe, he will show you, but will need our help a little, but if you ask him to go wear his shoe himself he will tell you he can't. Fully toilet trained in the day, even during afternoon nap, i saw him waking up few times in the afternoon to urine himself and went back to sleep after that. As for night training, i still do not have the courage yet, because too lazy to change the bedsheet after that.Maybe when my mum is year, later part of this year.
Social skills : As usual needed time to warm up when he sees new people/faces.Still consider as a shy boy, not sure is it because we use to says things like bad man will catch him away if he doesn't listen of behave, but we have stop that now.You can say that he is a reserved person, he tends to play or socialise only with the people that he feels comfortable with. He has no problem socializing with kids though, no fighting, snatching nor pushing, only problem is less willing to share when it comes to his favourite toys. Food he wills still share if he sees that he still got alot of it.If it happen to be the last one, don't bother asking, he will not share.
Personally, i think he is still consider a quite managable boy, quite obedient and willing to listen and follow. He can understand when you explain well to him. He is a very touchy boy, he likes to be love and enjoys curdle. Recently he likes to ask if i love him, when i say i do, he will also tell me that he loves me too. And trust me this melt my heart straightaway, the way he says is is so sweet and innocent. Of course like any other kids, he will misbehave at time, but so far nothing really major that we need to be concern about at the moment.Kids will still be kids, my only hope is that he can grows up healthily and be a useful person.
July 07, 2008
Sean with Melbourne Kids
Today myself and Jerry woke up very earlier because we are planning to spend say 20mins in Melbourne Kids with Sean.What is Melbourne Kids? Yes is a new child care center new our house.We have change Sean from his previous ABC Learning Center to Melbourne Kids and today is the first day for him.
Of course we try to prepare him by telling him earlier that he will be going to a new school, where some of his friends from ABC are already there and there will be more toys to play with. It does help a little because he did show some enthusiasm of going to the new school.As we enter the school this morning, he was still quite alright till when we started talking to a teacher which she thenlead us to a room for the kids to assemble before going into their individual room, the reality hit hard on him. He realise everything is not going to be the sam anymore. He is going to be in a new environment with unfamiliar faces, he started to cry. We try to coax him with the toy car which is his favourite, but he just didnt want to play with any of them and keeps on crying. Till a kind Teacher, actually not a teacher but an assistant and cook in the childcare which is also Michelle's (the principal's mum) tries to coax him, by holding his hand showing him around the school, talking to him then he stops crying, of course me and Jerry did not follow, because if we did i think Sean will still be crying. I think she did a great job, we stayed at the foyer for another 5-10mins to see peep if everything is ok, but apparently Sean is not crying anymore.
Hopefully everything went on well for Sean and adapt well in this new school. I am prepare for few days of crying in the morning, because I know he is a person who needs warm up.Once he knows the people and environment he will be fine. But this really depends on how well the teachers in school can help the kids in adapting into new environment.
I really hope i made a right decision he changing his school, because the main reason why we choose to stay back at the area where we use to live is because at first we didnt want to change Sean's school as we think too many changes may not be good for him. But because the current ABC school in undergoing alot of changes in terms of staff and services, so we hope this new school will be better. I don't like the idea where constantly relievers are taking care of my kid which they are just here to work rather than building a relationship with my son. Most better teachers are also leaving, the new principal don't seems to be very friendly of course i do understand not everybody is born to be friendly or cheerful but since she choose to work in a childcare i think she ought to.
This new school of course at one look everything seems better taking into consideration that it is new, all the facilities still in very nice and new condition. But most importantly i hope Sean can get to learn more things there, as for this school they only group the kids in the same age together, so according to the Principal they will be engaging more activities which is within their age group. They have a qualify kinder teacher there, so i suppose more learning will be done rather than more playing like in ABC. It is definetely much more spacious. I probably will go home earlier today and see how Sean perform on his first day. I know i have been lazy since the day i knew i am pregnant till now, more i promise more updates will come soon.
Of course we try to prepare him by telling him earlier that he will be going to a new school, where some of his friends from ABC are already there and there will be more toys to play with. It does help a little because he did show some enthusiasm of going to the new school.As we enter the school this morning, he was still quite alright till when we started talking to a teacher which she thenlead us to a room for the kids to assemble before going into their individual room, the reality hit hard on him. He realise everything is not going to be the sam anymore. He is going to be in a new environment with unfamiliar faces, he started to cry. We try to coax him with the toy car which is his favourite, but he just didnt want to play with any of them and keeps on crying. Till a kind Teacher, actually not a teacher but an assistant and cook in the childcare which is also Michelle's (the principal's mum) tries to coax him, by holding his hand showing him around the school, talking to him then he stops crying, of course me and Jerry did not follow, because if we did i think Sean will still be crying. I think she did a great job, we stayed at the foyer for another 5-10mins to see peep if everything is ok, but apparently Sean is not crying anymore.
Hopefully everything went on well for Sean and adapt well in this new school. I am prepare for few days of crying in the morning, because I know he is a person who needs warm up.Once he knows the people and environment he will be fine. But this really depends on how well the teachers in school can help the kids in adapting into new environment.
I really hope i made a right decision he changing his school, because the main reason why we choose to stay back at the area where we use to live is because at first we didnt want to change Sean's school as we think too many changes may not be good for him. But because the current ABC school in undergoing alot of changes in terms of staff and services, so we hope this new school will be better. I don't like the idea where constantly relievers are taking care of my kid which they are just here to work rather than building a relationship with my son. Most better teachers are also leaving, the new principal don't seems to be very friendly of course i do understand not everybody is born to be friendly or cheerful but since she choose to work in a childcare i think she ought to.
This new school of course at one look everything seems better taking into consideration that it is new, all the facilities still in very nice and new condition. But most importantly i hope Sean can get to learn more things there, as for this school they only group the kids in the same age together, so according to the Principal they will be engaging more activities which is within their age group. They have a qualify kinder teacher there, so i suppose more learning will be done rather than more playing like in ABC. It is definetely much more spacious. I probably will go home earlier today and see how Sean perform on his first day. I know i have been lazy since the day i knew i am pregnant till now, more i promise more updates will come soon.
January 16, 2008
Caitlin mei mei's full month celebration
Last Saturday we went to Caleb's house for Caitlin mei mei's full month celebration. Needless to say i was super happy because i get to play with my best buddy Caleb. As usual we will run around chasing each other, fighting for the same toy, cried for a while and friend again.The adults enjoyed the good food to eat, while we kids happy playing with the toys, and also the balloon sculpture by Uncle Felix and lollies too.
January 04, 2008
2007 Point Check ...& 2008 Resolution
Looking back on what Sean has achieved in year 2007
1)Officially off dummy
2)Officially off diaper during the day
3)Big improvement in speech development (Can sing and talk more)more big words coming out from him.
4)Grown taller around 100cm but weight wise maintains, a pathetic 13kg. Still wearing 2 yrs old pants and it's dropping.
5)Can relate back books that we have read to him before even for the cartoon that he watched
6)Knows all colors and numbers although numbers sometimes are still not in order
7)Currently very crazy over Shrek movie
8)Can pee on his own in the toilet at home. (in the mid of training)
9)Can identified his own 5 senses in chinese. I know he is consider slow at this for his age, but i am already very proud of him taking into consideration we never speak chinese to him at all.
10)Dare to jump into the swimming pool on his own, but of course still need abit of warm up first
Hope to achieve this year :
1)Sleep without diaper on at night (targetting June 08)
2)He still can't pronounce "F" sound accurately, hope that he will improve on it
3)Can identify the numbers,alphabets and shapes confidently. Eventhough he can sing his ABC song but he is still not able to identify which is letter A,B etc...
4)Weight gain. (mummy's target every 4mth increase 1 kg)**hopefully
5)Learn more chinese words. We have been trying to introduce more chinese words to him daily. Hopefully even if he doesn't speak, at least he can understand.
6)Basic swimming skill.
7)Learning the real meaning of sharing and loving
8)Get over with his terrible two syndrome
9)Sleep throughout the nite with no noice, as he is still crying on and off. Not sure is it because he wants to sleep with us. Because once we put him on our bed, he is fine.
10)Happy and willingly to attend childcare.
1)Officially off dummy
2)Officially off diaper during the day
3)Big improvement in speech development (Can sing and talk more)more big words coming out from him.
4)Grown taller around 100cm but weight wise maintains, a pathetic 13kg. Still wearing 2 yrs old pants and it's dropping.
5)Can relate back books that we have read to him before even for the cartoon that he watched
6)Knows all colors and numbers although numbers sometimes are still not in order
7)Currently very crazy over Shrek movie
8)Can pee on his own in the toilet at home. (in the mid of training)
9)Can identified his own 5 senses in chinese. I know he is consider slow at this for his age, but i am already very proud of him taking into consideration we never speak chinese to him at all.
10)Dare to jump into the swimming pool on his own, but of course still need abit of warm up first
Hope to achieve this year :
1)Sleep without diaper on at night (targetting June 08)
2)He still can't pronounce "F" sound accurately, hope that he will improve on it
3)Can identify the numbers,alphabets and shapes confidently. Eventhough he can sing his ABC song but he is still not able to identify which is letter A,B etc...
4)Weight gain. (mummy's target every 4mth increase 1 kg)**hopefully
5)Learn more chinese words. We have been trying to introduce more chinese words to him daily. Hopefully even if he doesn't speak, at least he can understand.
6)Basic swimming skill.
7)Learning the real meaning of sharing and loving
8)Get over with his terrible two syndrome
9)Sleep throughout the nite with no noice, as he is still crying on and off. Not sure is it because he wants to sleep with us. Because once we put him on our bed, he is fine.
10)Happy and willingly to attend childcare.
December 28, 2007
Can you guess what are we eating?
Can you guess what are we eating?
Stroll down and see.......
(you can still see the iice on the durian)
It's durian....Honestly speaking,it smells alright but the taste is not really there as compare to our local mao shan. But again, what do you expect in a foreign land like this. Mummy and daddy have been tempted a few times to buy it and one fine day they finally bought it ($10 for 3boxes same in sin) just to try out how it taste like. The durian is frozen in order to keep it fresh throughout the whole journey from Thailand to Australia, when we waited for it to defroze the flesh actually turns "nuah" (mushy). Verdict, if you really want to eat durian please wait till you go back to Singapore or Malaysia to enjoy the best durian.
*we didnt had durian for christmas, it was taken quite sometime ago already.
Stroll down and see.......
(you can still see the iice on the durian)
It's durian....Honestly speaking,it smells alright but the taste is not really there as compare to our local mao shan. But again, what do you expect in a foreign land like this. Mummy and daddy have been tempted a few times to buy it and one fine day they finally bought it ($10 for 3boxes same in sin) just to try out how it taste like. The durian is frozen in order to keep it fresh throughout the whole journey from Thailand to Australia, when we waited for it to defroze the flesh actually turns "nuah" (mushy). Verdict, if you really want to eat durian please wait till you go back to Singapore or Malaysia to enjoy the best durian.
*we didnt had durian for christmas, it was taken quite sometime ago already.
December 22, 2007
Hair Cut
My personal hair stylist.Do I look clean and neat now? Actually I find it abit too short, but what to do, if you want to save $20 this is the outcome plus you must help to clean up the area later.
December 21, 2007
I luv singing
Another old video of me, actually I can sing better in real person when mummy is not recording me.Maybe I am camera shy boy, whenever they try to capture a video of me I will either stop singing or will act silly.
December 20, 2007
December 08, 2007
The little Prince is Sick
Sean missed his swimming session with caleb today, because he is not feeling well. He is running on a temperature of 40'c yesterday when the chidcare centre called. His temperature is up and down now since yesterday, hopefully he can recover by tomorrow, because both Jerry and me have to work on Monday.
One thing that i do notice about my own son is he has grown up alot. What I mean by grown up is, he actually can wakes up half way during his sleep to tell me he wants to go and pee. And he did that few times, even though he is with his nappy on.I must say it is abit troublesome for us, because we both are lazy to bring him to the toilet, but we still push ourselves up to bring him there in order to encourage him to go diaperless soon.
We did not let him wear nappy anymore in childcare, but he did wet his pants few times in school. Hopefully my plan of him going diaperless can realise before we went back to Singapore next year.
One thing that i do notice about my own son is he has grown up alot. What I mean by grown up is, he actually can wakes up half way during his sleep to tell me he wants to go and pee. And he did that few times, even though he is with his nappy on.I must say it is abit troublesome for us, because we both are lazy to bring him to the toilet, but we still push ourselves up to bring him there in order to encourage him to go diaperless soon.
We did not let him wear nappy anymore in childcare, but he did wet his pants few times in school. Hopefully my plan of him going diaperless can realise before we went back to Singapore next year.
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