All About Your Child

Today is the Last Day of the one month long School Holidays, Yippeee!!!! Finally, my life can be back to the more predictable routine, instead of squeezing my brain for new stuff to do with them day in, day out.

You see, during school holidays, they don’t nap because they wake up really late. Then the question of “Mommy, can you play with me”will come right after they had their morning milk and this will continue to wee hours like 1am! Their energy level is unbelievable!

This mid-year school break WAS really fruitful, especially for my preschool Keatkeat. Finally he is able to spell from 1-20, know the days of the week through the song I created, improve on his motor skills, which is still a little behind his 15 months younger bro in some ways, recognise almost 10 car brand logos, paint at home for the very first time, help to cook too, etc….

So on this last day, I tested him with this…. which my hubby thinks was too CONFUSING for a 4 year old. What do you think? Too confusing? Too tough on him?

But he scored really well, without any prompting or assistance, remember, its a Test. I wasn’t too harsh on him too, I gave him a chance to look through his answers twice before handing the worksheets back to me.

I’m glad I did gave him time to check over, ‘cos that’s when he noticed some mistakes he made, as you can see the signs of stuff being erased and rewritten over.

 Though he may not have scored full-marks for this last one, I’m happy with the results. He used to be much worse off.

My hubby still thinks that it was too tough for him…..hmmmm

It’s funny how the old feeling of giving tuition to other kids, in my younger years, comes right back as I put every red tick on each correct answer and (as usual) give lots of stars…..Keatkeat wanted 39 stars and I granted his wish. *smile*

How time flies! It’s been one month since the birth of my Secondary School friend, Xiuyan’s 2nd daughter, Phedre.

Buying presents for girls are always so much easier than buying for boys! Remember just 2 weeks ago, my Primary School Friend Lianmeng celebrated his son’s full month? It was so tough for me to decide what to buy for his son, even though I have 2 of my own.

This time, I decided to prevent such headaches by calling Xiuyan up and ask what she wants for her girl. “Pretty Clothes!” she shouted. That was so super easy and so I went and got lots for Phedre. Clothes that she can wear from now till she is 1+. 

On top of that, I added one toy and one voucher so that the gift won’t look so clothy. Then get them all into the nice Winnie the Pooh carrier. I am actually quite satisfied with this pack. *wink*

With my own small pocket I wouldn’t be able to get this much, so all the above were shared between 2 other friends, Baolian and Juliana, and me! I’m glad I was the one assigned to buy all of this girly stuff, so fun!

Can you believe it – the limited stuff which I bought for Lianmeng’s son actually cost more than ALLLLLLL THIS! *eyes rolled*