All About Your Child

Would you go for something which cost $15 when you can get it at a much lower price?

Would you let your son go for a ride on the cable car with his classmates, when he had that experience just 4+ months ago at a much cheaper rate?

Would you spend that extra amount so that you could fulfill a childhood wish?

All these questions probably sound meaningless if I didn’t give the full picture eh?

You see, the school is organizing a trip to sit on the Cable Car because its ‘transportation’ week. The aim is to let kids observe the different types of transport viewing through cable-car ride and to explore how and what make the vehicle moves.

I’m the extreme mommy when it comes to outdoor learning activity organized by the school. It’s always a GREEN light from me. Cos I know how terrible it feels when all your friends start talking about the trip on the next school day and YOU have got nothing to comment! And all you could do is sit there and look at them laughed over every single detail of it….and you are all alone sitting at that corner, feeling translucent….thinking “Damn! Why can’t I be there with them?!”

I have been through that too many times. My dad refused to sign the consent forms of any of those trips organised by the schools even when I was in Secondary School.

The only one he agreed was the trip to KuKup Village in Malaysia. That was after alot of crying and teenage whining from me PLUS my Geography Teacher’s persuasion before he finally signed his tiny little signature on that white piece of paper with the big header that reads – ‘Consent Form’.

I told myself over and over again each time my dad rejected a learning trip out of the school boundaries, “I’m NEVER gonna do that to my kids!”

And so even though I know that Keatkeat had just been in that ‘box‘ which carries him through the sky by a cable line less than 5 months ago; AND even though I know I’m paying more for him to go this time; I still said “YES” without hesitation.

This is THE FIRST TIME the school invited the family members to join!!! I have ALWAYS wished to get my butt in that ‘box’, but the miser in me said “no” when I saw the price. My sis has a discount card which gives quite a good saving off the actual amount.

And if I go, Binbin will have to follow too. When you are a Full Time SAHM, where you go, your children will follow. They are like your shadows, the only difference is they have all those cutie expressions and they definitely talk-back!

Then that would be extra cost too. The school is charging $11 for each child and $15 for each adult. So if I decide to fulfill my wish, then I’ll be paying a total of $37 for the 3 of us. Allan is afraid of heights, so he is never gonna bring me there. This seemed like the only chance for me, but I feel the pinch to give that extra, its hard to shake off that calculative-me after so many years in the retail line, where you realized the ‘real value’ of things.

The miser won. I paid $11 only for Keatkeat and he will be a happy lad on 14th Oct 2008 when he is up in the sky again.

This morning, Mdm Normah asked: “Hey Mommy, you are going with Cheng Keat for the cable car ride, right?”

“No…” I replied flatly and was going *sigh* in my heart…

“Oh! *Laugh* Cos I wrote 2 persons but only received one person’s $” She giggled.

“Ohhh…you wanted me to go huh?” I joked. And the two of us laughed so loud….

that’s how comfortable we are with each other…I think I’ll miss her next year, when she will not be teaching Keatkeat nor Binbin, ‘cos she has been assigned to Kindergarten 1 class permanently starting next year….hmmm….

Its NO LESSONS day today! The school is celebrating Children’s Day today in lieu of tomorrow.

This is the first ever Telematch for Keatkeat. He was excited and so was I! Seeing him in action with his friends is something that I could only visualize behind those closed doors and windows of the school.

Different ‘levels’ have different telematches. Nursery level had one of the easiest and Kindergarten2 had one of the most difficult hurdles.

So for the K1 it was challenging but far from what you may consider tough.

He is on the extreme left.

Balancing the green rubber ring on his head.

Then he needs to get through the hula hoop with the rubber ring still on his head

(of cos, all the kids cheated by holding on to the ring with their hands)

If I took this just 1second later, Chen Lao Shi would be blocking my screen completely! *phew*

Keatkeat nearly dropped his ring after the hula hoop…he was adjusting it in the picture….

*Arrrggghhh* My camera’s battery was so low…., if not you and I would be watching the video now instead of these ‘lifeless’ photos.

Oh how can I say that its ‘lifeless’?! Its my son alright?! Oh me and my self-talk…

Ok, let’s continue with the actions…..

Then he is supposed to jump over a box

(which I couldn’t get it into the picture).

And this is HIM! Completely satisfied with his performance! *laugh* Look at that full-of-pride smile! Ohhhh….how I missed that smile on camera.

He hardly smile like this on camera nowadays…he is always making funny faces everytime I hold up my camera.

And ONLY AFTER I give him the “smile-properly-or-you-will-not-be-in-the-picture” stare, before he is willing to smile ‘properly’ when I click the button.

But most of the time, *sigh* I just couldn’t be bothered…well, ‘monkey faces’ is what he is good at AT this age, so be it then…that’s why if you had noticed, I seldom put up his monkey faces photos other than the one in the Mid Autumn Post (which he stood with his cousins)……

And these were the presents he received for Childrens’ Day this year. Those presents which are not (labelled) from his teachers were given by the School.

School started an hour later than usual. Which happens to be Binbin’s wakey-wakey time.

So he was with me throughout the telematch having almost as much fun as his big bro.

He didn’t go home empty-handed too. *wink* I got this white balloon off the wall for him, as his Childrens’ Day gift. *laugh*

And tomorrow, my boys are going to have a super fun long day (that is IF it does not rain) with his cousins and if I don’t get back early to post for tomorrow, here’s wishing all Children of my blogger friends and All the Children in the world – A JOYFUL AND FUN-FILLED CHILDRENS’ DAY!

(off the topic…Announcement:

‘Pretty-Birdie’ died yesterday night. Nobody know the reason. My MIL called and said she has a headache now over what she should do with the birdcage and the birdfood which Allan bought….hmmm…

My boys’ FIRST reaction to the news?

Keatkeat: “How come Pretty-Birdie died?”

Binbin: “How come Pretty-Birdie lives one day only?” )