Sky is in the "Why" Phase as he's reaching 3 in a wk's time. Can't seem to answer his endless "Why" questions. He can be so persistent and keep asking why this and why that until I'm loss for words.

I know each kid is different. When comes to teaching, Sky is really driving me nuts. While teaching him, he...

1. Can't sit still & will wonder off to do something.
2. Will say "Mummy, I promise you. After this, ok?" and proceed to doddle.
3. Can't remember what i have said and mix up the shapes that he knew and not known.
4. Ask for milk halfway

Urggg! God! Pls impart me with more patience and the right method to teach him!!

The kids cc is very proactive in enaging the parents. First, they had an orientation begining of the year to bring you through the theme and activities going through for the next six mths. Three months down the road, they organised another informal parent teacher session.

This time, I'm quite sad as Sky's English teacher, Lydia, (who is also Shan's literacy teacher) informed she would be on six months no pay leave to pursue her dip course. The good news is she would be back in half a yr time. Thus far, she's the best pre-school teacher I had ever seen. She's very passionate about teaching pre-schoolers and know her stuff well. In fact, she was Eton House trained and also a former teacher from Eton House. I understand that she's also using the same approach to teach the playgroup kids. Nonetheless, she's following God's calling to enrich her passion in pre school teaching and we fully bless her in her path.

Back to the kids development

Shan
- Good helper in school
- Good academics both in English & Mandarin
- Loves to talk
- May be strong pride and can't accept if there's peers do not listen to her (have been working on that)

Sky
- Independent
- Only communicates in English. Chinese teacher "complaining" that he don't speak Chinese at all! Oh dear!!!
- Can colour well (at least within the lines)

With a $100 marriot dinning voucher, we went there for a buffet lunch last saturday to celebrate dh's birthday. At the end of the lunch, I took out the camera to take few shots of the kids. Then, Shan started making funny faces for me to take the shots and even lead the brother to do the same thing. It's hilarious to watch them so cheeky.

Shan's uniform was delayed due to no stock in her size. Her uniform finally came. I manage to take a pic of the kids in their uniforms.

Although his pronunciation is still not clear, he's now able to spell his name!! Was totally caught by surprise last nite when I just casually asked Sky how to spell his name.

I now it's abit late..but still..GONG XI GONG XI from us!!

Kindergolf opened a branch beside Jitterbugs. Since there's a promotion, brought Sky for a trial lesson to see what the lesson consist of. Too bad, no photos allowed. Sky was the only student with jie jie (waiting for her ballet lesson to start). He listened to instruction well. The lesson includes some theory lessons on Golf and Golf ettquette. Besides that, he did putting and chipping. An interesting one-time experience.

My 2 baobeis drove me nuts this evening!! Got into my nerves when the two was fighting over the bicycle when I reach home. Wonder how can they deceive their teachers in school. Earlier in the noon, the branch director (principal) of the school was just updating me on the kids progress in school. Was sharing what a loving jie jie Shan is. Took great care of Sky like reminding him to tell teacher if he want to pass urine and sent him to his class before going to her K1 class. How can they be so lovey dovey in school and be so nasty towards each other at home!!!!

Contrary to what the teacher says that he can feed himself lunch in the school, he was running around during dinner time back. The last straw came when he spits out the food and I gave him a hard stroke of cane. Arrg!!

Dinner time was over when Shan brought down a pretty ornament (gift from Aunty Sandy) from the shelve. Again, Sky wanted to have it and they fought over it again. Got a bad feeling that this ornament wouldn't last long. Manage to separate the kids & brought Sky to shower. He was wailing away refusing to shower and my heat level went another notch higher. Just when when I was changing Sky, Shan fell & needless to say, she broke IT! Guess Angels must be watching over her that she had only a miner cut. She cried very hard & kept apologising. Surprisingly, I was rather calm and did not leash out at her though i'm already very HOT! She must be feeling very sorry about it as she kept repeating "Sorry mummy". This lesson is good enough for her. As a form of punishment, I sent the kids to bed. But hey! since the kids were asleep early today, I could catch k-dramas. :P

Sign...do I really want a third child????

Both baobeis had been with the school for about a week already. Thank god for the smooth transition with no cryings nor any separation anxiety at all. Sky was abit apprensive of the new environment when I'm around on the first day. But he settled in fast as teacher allowed him to follow jie jie the first few days. The school has also been giving us daily feedback on their "performance".

Sky loves his Thomas & Friends Pyjamas soooo much. Thanks to Aunty Suzie who gave him this Xmas present. He request to don his Thomas & Friends pyjamas EVERYDAY.

Sky attended his last day at Enrichment Classroom last friday. I learnt from the teachers that he's the baby of the class. Because, he's the youngest, the teachers called him "Skyler baby"..his friends followed suit and called him the same! His teachers are really dedicated. It was also the completion of the holiday programme - Artist Workshop. The teachers painstakingly compiled their art pieces together. Similarly, I sought the teachers' help to take some pictures for memories.

Something he (I think more so the teacher) does at school during his holiday programme.

Sky's edudrama class had a "carnival" day on the last day of the term last Sunday. They had face painting & "visited" another class who performed a small drama. Likewise, they did a bubble gum act. To celebrate early X'mas, they had "Santa Claus" walking around the centre.

Sky requested for a tiger during the face painting session and da-dah...here's one


In the midst of the "bubble gum" act

Shannon

Doubt she caught anything from Sky but more due to heatiness resulted from eating the deadly ba kwa. Her immunity is however stronger against the bout of cough attack. Unfortunately, the kids' ah yi was down with stomach flu & Shan caught it on Friday! Her fever fluctuated over the weekend & had terrible diarrhea over the weekend. Has been praying constantly for their health & thank god that she recovered fully. Let her rest today as not really sure if she had recovered but thank God, the episode is over & she's still able to go jogging with ah-ma in the morning!

DH

Dh has been cursing the deadly ba kwa we bought the last weekend ever since he's down with terrible sore throat. Guess the heatiness in the kids were also somehow affected by eating ba kwa.

Brought Sky for a free trial at The Little Gym last Sun. He enjoyed himself tremendously. He's already a monkey at home. So, with the activities, he's even err monkeier :p. Believed he actually enjoyed himself much more than his edudrama at Julia Gabriel. The free trial still comes with a Lucky Dip and Sky got himself a photoframe! So, dun wait, sign up for the free trial now! Think it will end in Dec.

Noted that the activities do help to built up confidence level. But seriously, doubt we would want to waste $ to sign him up for any Gym classes.