All About Your Child

Aaaaawwww…. how I miss those days BEFORE Keatkeat became a Primary School kid. Almost everyday, after school at 12pm, the four of us will be out of the four walls having fun.

Be it kite flying, swimming, touching toys in Departmental Stores (not buying, I’m a don’t-buy-toys-Mommy, remember?), hanging around playgrounds big and small for hours…

Finally! The one week school holiday is here! Man! My neck grew to the length of a giraffe waiting for this day! Its weird how much the Mommy longs for a school holiday more than the kids. *laugh*

Keatkeat is finishing his last bit of holiday assignments as I am typing this down and then off we will go and have a fun-filled day….even though it means without Daddy.

Alright, that’s it for this post friends.

Have a Super Fun School Holiday!!!

Its been a really long time since I last had a poll appearing on this blog. So there is one today. *wink*

The ‘adult teeth’ are almost as tall as his milk teeth now. We have waited for weeks and the milk teeth still refused to drop by themselves.

Keatkeat’s loving grandmother thinks that we should NOT wait any longer and visit the Dentist as soon as possible.

**Updated at 10.08pm. After reading first few comments, I realised I forgot to say something VERY IMPORTANT. We took Keatkeat to his school dentist and She REFUSED to do it for him. She said: “Wait for them to drop out on their own.”

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Remember my “Worries Like None Other” post regarding Keatkeat’s sinus? Never did I expect God to answer my prayers in such a way….

The term 1 Teachers-Parents Meeting on Saturday was rewarding.

Not only did I confirm that Keatkeat’s “Dreamy and Slow” characteristics have not improved since Nursery and is now threatening his teacher’s patience….., but also found out the reason why the Chinese and Maths Tests were arranged on the Same day (read yesterday’s post).

Yet, NOTHING beats Seeing the wash basin IN THE CLASS which had Saved my boy’s nose so many times over the past 2 months.

Keatkeat did tell me about the basin a few days after school reopens. The instant relief from untying that dead knot was Awesome! Extremely grateful!

So all I want to say is “Thank You Dear Lord for keeping my boy in Your Good Hands.”

My boys enjoyed the extra time they spent with their cousins, even though their “new playground” is = the Wake.

The kids loved their many ‘first time experiences’ over the past 5 days as everyone else mourned over the sudden death of Allan’s Auntie:

1. First time being so near to a coffin.
2. First time seeing a corpse.
3. First time involved in a Wake.
4. First time going through the chanting proceedings and activities
5. First time having fun at a nearby playground for as long as they want.
6. First time having a ten cent coin everyday, which was meant to be spent at the end of the day.
7. First time having a red string tied around their finger everyday, which was meant to be thrown away at the end of the day.
8. First time snacking so much that no one bothered to stop them.
9. First time holding a joss stick for so long, their fingers turned pink!
10. First time walking in a public area with just socks.
11. First time using a portable metallic toilet, which they had problem flushing.
12. First time circling and bowing so many times to a corpse, they thought they were going to do it forever.
13. First time (Keatkeat) could not resist dancing to the beat of the chanting and ended up chanting it himself. *faint*

Yes, funeral was all good fun for the kids but extremely tiring for the adults….

It was good news one after another since morning. So I was in a happy mood when I went over to my in-laws’ place, only to be splashed with a bowl of cold water when I realised that ZY is still down with fever.

And when this little girl is sick, my oh my, her behaviour can be rather extreme. Not going to go into details, in case she ‘scolds‘ me for embarrassing her. She is one of my faithful readers. *wink*

Its weird, when my dear niece was so sick, yet everyone else in the 4 walls were high spirited. The trios, M.Y. + Keatkeat + Binbin, who are just one year apart from each other had silly fun chasing and teasing the youngest W.D.

My MIL was smiley the whole time today!!! Something quite rare. *giggle*

And me? I had an awesome time fulfilling the old folks’ wish of having another lantern to decorate their house. Last year I made this:

And TODAY, I made this:

If you have the same wish as Blessed mom last year, then do not miss my next post, which I will be showing the steps in making the lantern. *wink*

Since some of you wanted to know why I had to go through my main door 8 times a day, I thought I might as well do a post about my schedule when its ’school-day’ for my boys.

7.15am: Wake BinBin up
8am: Bring Binbin to school (1st Time pass through my door)
8.10am: Return Home (2nd Time)
10am: Wake Keatkeat up
12pm: Fetch Binbin from School (3rd Time)

Right after which, we have to bring Keatkeat to school immediately. If Binbin’s teacher decides to dilly dally on a particular day, then we would be ‘running‘ to Keatkeat’s school.

Thereafter, Have lunch with Binbin and if there are errands to run, we would usually reach home at about 3-4pm

4pm: Return home with Binbin (4th Time)
5.45pm: Leave house to fetch Keatkeat (5th Time)
6.25pm: Return home with boys (6th Time)
Boys get to play for awhile before Keatkeat gets down to his homework and spelling and ‘tingxie’ (Chinese Spelling).
8pm: Out for Dinner (7th Time) Anytime earlier than that, my boys will have ‘problem‘ eating their dinner. Either they cannot finish or they would be eating at a damn slow speed. To prevent ‘nagging‘ from parents and ‘stressing‘ the boys up. Our dinner is usually at 8pm.

9+pm: Return home. (8th Time)
Complete unfinished homework. As to what time they sleep would depend on what time Keatkeat finishes his work.

Because I believe that the thing just before they migrate to their dreamland should be something they enjoy and considered fun in their vocabulary. So we do let them play (with/without us) for a while, even if its already 11pm, before we wish them “Good Night”.

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This week was extreme for my family. Everyone had some pretty absurd happenings for the past 9 days, except for the happy go lucky Binbin.

We badly needed a break from all the spellings, ‘ting xie’ (chinese spelling), endless homeworks, in and out of the house 8 times a day routine and the lack of fun ever since Keatkeat started Primary One.

So yesterday, after fetching Keatkeat from school at 6.15pm, we ignored the homework. Turn a blind eye to the spelling and ‘ting xie’. Forget about the madness of going through my main door 8 times a day. We just went ahead and had fun.

Witnessed the performances from some of the best teams flew in from different countries like China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan was a wonderful experience.

The four of us stood on our feet from 7pm to 11pm. That is how much my boys love to watch lion dance performances. They were so eager to find out who would win this 3rd International Lion Dance Competition held at the Central, they insisted on staying till the very end of the show. My boys legs, though little but amazingly strong. *Smile*

And the Winner went to Our Singapore Team! Whoo-hoo!!! With no demerits and a high score of 9.40, just 0.1 point higher than the second team (China), what a close fight!!!