Who is His Mummy?

I have not done enough for my Zaky and I am feeling guilty.

When it was only Lil Shauna, we had time to teach her how to read alphabets, recognize sharps and colours. Although there are days that I worked late, we fetched her earlier on days that I don’t. Now, we don’t see the kids until 8pm every weekday and I have no idea why. After running some simple errands with the kids (and sometimes without), we are home at only 9pm and they are packed off to bed shortly after bath. Whatever time that was left before bed is spent reading to Lil Shauna or coaxing her to do her homework, practise her keyboard, etc. while Daddy Lim entertains the tiger to stop him from being a pest to us. When I am finally done with jiejie, it is bedtime and Zaky only gets to sleep. Poor boy.

I am still a mother to Lil Shauna, who will look to me to bath her, change her, tie her hair, feed her, etc., when I am around. I have no chance to do those for Zaky. Popo, Nainai and Auntie will be “fighting” to do those for him when I am around. They seem to enjoy taking turns to be his “mother” while the one who indeed gave birth to him grew lazy and happily sublet those mundane tasks to them.

So why am I upset? Bcos I am worried that Lil Isaac will be behind his peers and it is my fault for not spending enough time and effort nurturing him. And I had an uber big realization over the weekend. I was “preparing” dinner for the kids, scooping rice and chicken and fish into their bowls so that Nainai can feed Lil Isaac and jiejie eats herself. I was hit when I realized that I don’t know if Zaky eats broccoli and had to ask the maid, who confirmed that he does. Boohoo. Bad mummy.

To make it up to him, I have been trying to spend more time talking to Lil Isaac while tucking him to bed. Daddy Lim says that the ENT specialist encourages us to do so too. The only problem is that the tiger can go on and on and on and on. He talks and I can’t understand him fully. When I do and reply him, he can carry on and repeats and talks the whole night long, even way beyond his bedtime until I had to put a stop to it. Then I have to pretend to sleep (or really did fall asleep while waiting for him to do likewise) and ignored him while he continues on his own for a little while. Sometimes, it could be a long while before he finally stops thrashing about in the bed and drifts off to lala land.

Hmmm.. the Korea trip is coming (yes! It is coming! 4 more days! Counting down!) and I will get to spend plenty of time with my kids. Maybe so much so that I will figure out that I am better off away from home. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Hi Dad!

I dreamt of my dad on Sunday morning. It had been a long time since I last dreamt of him.

In my dream, he was very able and was driving our car. I was in the back passenger seat and somebody knocked into our bumper. Dad didn't stop to ask for compensation and I was so pissed and started "scolding" him, telling him how expensive it was to repair the bumper.

The kids woke me up while I was still nagging at him. Funny dream.

I related the dream to Daddy Lim and he thought that it was a sign and bet on our car plate number. Of course we didn't win. Silly.

It had been 6 long years. I wonder where is he now.

Mummy Lim

Toilet Training

I thought it is time that we tried to toilet trained Lil Isaac. I hope he would be diaperless when he goes to pre-nursery next year. It will also be very helpful to my pocket. Lil Isaac uses up to 6 packs of diapers a month. Popo and auntie are not at all environmental friendly. The rate that they change diaper is amazing. His diaper gets change even when it is not full, when he gets a change of clothes, his diaper gets change too. I dont understand why. Trying to tell them to slow down the changing is useless.

I tried putting Lil Isaac on the potty on several occasions, different days and it didn't quite work. There was no persistency. I told Popo that we should try toilet training him. Popo agreed but there was minimal effort on her part to do so. Chey! Talk only then when will he ever be trained?

This am, I put Lil Isaac on the potty right after he woke up and asked him to pee. He sat on the potty for a long time and he finally did pee! Yeah! He also succeeded on the potty for the 2nd time this am but that was before he wet 3 other pants. Lol.

I don't think he quite get the "holding pee" idea yet. I don't know how long it will take. Jiejie succeed within 2 weeks when I trained her at 29 mths old. I have to ask Popo to help let him go diaperless the next few mornings. I think he wouldn't take too long, he does pee when we asked him to during showers. No diapers, no diapers, no diapers!

Mummy Lim

Failed!

Daddy Lim brought both Nainai and Lil Isaac to their medical appointment at NUH yday afternoon. The whole gang went to NUH and I heard the kids AND the mothers took turn to drive Daddy Lim crazy. It sounded quite bad. Hahahaha.

Lil Isaac had his hearing test done and the results are not ideal. They did 2 different tests and the results were consistent. His right ear barely met the passing mark and his left ear is worse than his right. The audiologist suggested that it could be ear wax or middle ear fluid issue. The ENT specialist made similar diagnosis too. However, both noted that Lil Isaac was having flu and the flu could have adversely affected his hearing, thus the bad results. He could be having an ear infection too. The ENT specialist suggested for another hearing test 2 months down the road after his flu cleared. However, there isn’t any available slot and we will be back only 3 months later. Given the long waiting time, we could all easily deduce that the condition is not in any way life threatening or deemed even serious. They will make a more conclusion diagnosis then. If the results are still bad then and he is diagnosed with problems related to fluid in the middle ear, it was mentioned that draining of the fluid needs to be done via GA. Sob!

I somehow think that things aren’t that serious. I did see an improvement in Lil Isaac’s speech over the last few months without any special efforts on our part. He can now pronounce “Pappy, Mummy and Sorry” pretty clearly. “Sorry” used to be just “eee”. We also heard his “sss” in his “yes” when he used to sound like an ang mo kia bcos he would reply “yah” instead of “yes”. His “please” is also completed now with “p” and “s”.

It must be the flu. Sob, it better be the flu, or some humongous ear wax.

Mummy Lim

Best Friends Forever

I love how our kids play together and how they now require minimal supervision, running around and after each other creating play. I love how the older kids can play with the younger ones and are often so gentle with the youngest. Gatherings are fun! And the adults have no problem keeping out of the kids’ track while they zoom from one room to another. The adults love to be left alone too. Lol. There are the usual fights and squabbles. Complaints are a norm but children bear no grudges and are the best of friends the very next moment.

It had been a long time since we moved gatherings to somebody’s place bcos it is impossible doing so at any of the restaurants. In fact, at the end of each gathering, it looks as if a hurricane had swept through the house. No, I am not exaggerating. Whoever the host, had been gracious to accommodate the mess, the toys strew everywhere, bits of food everywhere.

I do hope that the kids forge strong bond and friendships like their mummies and grow up and become really good friends. I like it when Lil Shauna remembers the other girls even when we are not at the gatherings. Sometimes, when she asked to buy a sweet, she will request for an addition one for Booboo. Yday, Nainai brought her a balloon and she asked to buy another one for C. Most of the time, we didn’t buy the extras, there are too many kids and storage is the bigger problem. Moreover, I cant rely on my pea brain to remember to bring them for the next gathering. Hahaha.

Mummy Lim

Christmas came Early

Christmas came early for the kids. We decided to buy them their Christmas present today. Jiejie finally chose a skate scooter after Daddy Lim rejected her request for some princess Ariel heels, tiara and wand. Lol. Her existing cheapo one isn't very fast or stable and the brake just came off recently. We have been wanting to buy her a better scoot. The one that booboo has is really stable and she zooms so quickly on it. We bought something similar (to booboo's) for Lil Shauna this time.

We always feel very bad towards Didi bcos he usually didn't get to buy anything when we spend $$ on jiejie. We eventually decided to buy him a scooter too, one with a boarder base that is suitable for younger kids. He has always like scooting and fights with jiejie for the old scooter even when he cant really scoot. Maybe our guilty conscious is biting us. Thus, we didnt even bat an eye when his new scooter is more expensive than jiejie's.

So we tried scooting at the open space outside the Toyrus at Suntec. Lil Shauna was very natural and took on quickly to her scoot. Lil isaac was a disaster. We also scoot at the void deck when we were home and I was surprised that jiejie is so good. She is really fast and used the brake really well. Lil Isaac is still falling everywhere and he is a hazard to others and himself. I am worried that he would hurt himself but Daddy Lim thinks that I am overprotective and he will soon get the idea after a few falls. But Lil Isaac just turns 2 and is still falling when he merely walks let alone scoot.

I hope Lil Isaac gets the idea of scooting really soon, hopefully before he falls and injured himself. He should be wearing a danger sign while he scoots. So dangerous. -.o"

Mummy Lim

Wet Nono

We bought the kids each a soft toy dog from ikea a few months ago. Jiejie called hers "Mary". All dogs to Didi are "Nono" and so his soft toy dog is definitely "Nono" too. No surprise.

One fine day, Lil Isaac had a change of heart and decided to love nono instead of his tigers. This happened soon after I bought the 2nd identical tiger for rainy day. Great! Now, both tigers sat abandon on one corner of the bed while Lil Isaac lugs his nono everywhere.

Lil Isaac looks for his nono frequently when he is home now. He lugs his nono around the house and to the living room while he carries out his daily activities. His reliance on nono is so intense that he sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night to look for his nono. I was just thinking if I should buy a 2nd nono for just-in-case, but worried that nono will again get abandoned after I buy an identical one - curse of the identical soft toy. Lol.

This morning, Lil Isaac vomited after running too much with a full tummy. Popo insisted that nono was stained. I don't know if that was true or her trying to find an excuse to wash nono. She has been trying to give nono a good scrub. I do agree that nono isn't the cleanest after all the lugging around these few months but I fear how Lil Isaac will react without his nono and refused to let Popo washed nono. But now that she claimed nono was stained by vomit, I had to give in.

We weren't very lucky too. It rained for a big part of the day after nono took his bath. Nono was still wet when it was bedtime. As expected, Lil Isaac started looking and whining for his nono. He refused jiejie's offer to lend him her Mary and he stubbornly threw Mary away. Win liao.

Eventually, I had to bring him to see and touched his still-wet nono, who was hanging by his ears on the window sill. After much coaxing, he finally made do with one of his old tiger instead. Phew..

I think it is time to hit ikea. I do hope that they still have the same dog.

Mummy Lim

Raining

It had been raining the whole day. While driving, Daddy Lim commented.

DL: It has been raining the whole day, I think my ship will be flooded.
LS: Later it will sink ah?
DL: Choi!!!
ML: Muahahahahaha.

Mummy Lim

Mini Concert

Lil Shauna would have attended Yahama Junior Class (YJC) for 6 months come December. Teacher MH informed that there would be a mini class concert in end December. Among the many group items performed by the class, there will be individual notes reading and also solo keyboard performance.

Lil Shauna did a solo song performance during her Music Wonderland mini concert many months back. She sang really well with actions then. But who couldnt sing? This solo note reading and keyboard performance is totally different and I am stressed. There needs to be plenty of practising before the big day. However, Lil Shauna appears not at all affected after Teacher MH shared about the concert. Haha.

So why am I stressed? I think I am worried that Lil Shauna didn't perform as well as her class mates, that she's not one of the better ones. Die, I am imposing my competitive nature on Lil Shauna, even when she's only 4 and on an enrichment program!

The kids were given a list of songs to select from for the solo keyboard performance. There are some easier ones and some are more complicated. I asked Lil Shauna which song does she want to perform and she immediately chose "Hot Cross Bun". This is the 1st song that she learnt in YJC and the easiest among all. I was initially hoping that she choose something more challenging and perfect the piece and wow her class! Muahahaha. I think I should just be glad that she is already so familiar with Hot Cross Bun and I need not grill her too much.

Kids, beware, your monstrous tiger mummy is watching you. *evil grin*

Mummy Lim

Counting Down to Korea

Balance payment – checked
Checklist – checked
Winter clothing – checked
Valid passport – checked

We have paid up the balance yday and I am really counting down. We will be on the plane to Korea in another 16 days’ time. We need some party poppers here!

I have bought all the necessary winter stuff for the kids and myself. Popo doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to buy the outstanding items, which are mainly long sleeves tops. I guessed she can pop down to JP anytime to grab whatever that she needs. Afterall, fashion is the last thing that she needs to worry about and without that factor to consider, shopping can be done easily.

Daddy Lim is still in his maybe-I-need, maybe-I-don’t frame and I won’t be surprised if he ended up doing last minute I-think-I-really-need shopping spree. He changes his mind so frequently and could be picking up something in a shop yet ended up not buying that we can’t remember if he has bought his gloves. We somehow think that he did but couldn’t find any gloves for adult male at home, so maybe he hasn’t. Oh well, if any of the adults are short of anything when we are in Korea, I supposed they can find ways to keep themselves warm until whatever that they need is bought.

And so, I am happily whistling a tune as 30 Nov approaches. I refused to think about how much work I have to clear before the holiday and how much work will be waiting for me after I return. Ouch!

Mummy Lim

Good Kids and Bird Park

A trip to the JBP on a nice-weathered PH morning cannot be better. We also have a hidden agenda to escape from a sleep-deprived Popo, who spent the previous night at the casino. It happens every time. She will return home and will nag and scold at every little thing. When confronted, she will insist that she didn’t have a foul mood and she is highly functionable, that her night at the casino has no impact on her, despite not sleeping for the last 24 hrs and more. Yah, right. I must be crazy to believe her words. So, to the bird park we went with Auntie.

Lil Isaac was lazy and willingly sat in the stroller. I couldn’t be more glad that he chose this time to be lazy. Lil Shauna walked and didn’t at all complaint about being tired. The cooperative kids made the trip super enjoyable. We spent about an hour walking round looking at macaws, flamingos, emu and many other big and small birds. We caught the hawk show at 10am and spent another 45 mins at the water playground. We have actually been to the BP countless times and the kids are very familiar with the different birds and shows. However, their excitement during each visit makes each trip to the BP very refreshing. And I am glad to say that we have fully utilized our annual pass. Hohoho.

It was very easy supervising the kids, even in the water playground where they ran amok. The playground is relatively safe with padded floor and the kids totally enjoyed themselves running around and waddling in the water in the midday heat. We ended the trip at about noon with a nice Ben and Jerry chocolate fudge brownie ice cream. Yummy.

Our annual pass will be expiring at the end of the year. I am now thinking if we should get the annual pass for Zoo next year. There will be much more to see in the zoo. However, it is so far away and we will not be able to do impromptu trips. Let’s see how it goes.

Mummy Lim

Uncle C

Ah yee's friend, C, is here to visit her. He is from far, far France. He is here for about 2 weeks and will be flying home in another week's time.

We met them for dinner at Sentosa yday and Popo also used her reward points to get ah yee a room. My brö's family and our family swarmed the room in the late afternoon and also utilized the hotel swimming pool while ah yee and C escaped to USS.

It must be very shocking for C to enter a tiny hotel room full of screaming kids. The kids eyed him with caution. They have never seen an ang mo adult at such close proximity in their entire life. Oh, except for teacher Rebecca in their phonics class.

The kids were shy and avoided C as much as possible. I have never met a French before too and exchange the "kiss-both-cheek" greetings with C. So exciting. Hehe.

We had dinner together after a swim and the kids were hungry and noisy. Ordering was done in a haste, bcos we needed food and needed them immediately. Dinner was the usual fast, messy and noisy affair.

The kids gobbled down their food and so did the adults and left the table one after another to chase after the kids. It must be another culture shock to C. French take long meals and take their time to slowly eat. Well, at least nobody threw tantrum during dinner. Hehe.

We parted ways after dinner. The kids took a picture with them and nobody cried. Lol. Lil Shauna and lil Isaac were brave enuff to give Uncle C a big hug and goodbye kiss thereafter. They definitely enjoyed the peace and quietness after we left. Muahaha.

C looks like a pretty nice guy. It will probably be a long time before we will see him again. Maybe ah yee will invite us to fly to Paris to visit him? Muahahaha.

Mummy Lim

How Fat?

We are a family with fat genes and we are fat. I couldn't remember how it feels to be skinny.

Ah yee commented that Lil Isaac's tummy looks big yday. Well, jiejie has a big tummy too and so does Daddy Lim, who constantly looks like he is 5 months preggy. My tummy isn't anywhere smaller. Hohoho. In conclusion, we not only have fat genes but also big tummy genes. Muahahaha.

Jiejie has a way to tell how fat a person is - small fat, medium fat and big fat. So Lil Shauna is a small fat now and Daddy Lim is a big fat.

I have been trying to control the amount of junk that Lil Shauna is eating. She is seriously developed some additional flesh that she doesn't need. So I have been telling her, "Jiejie, you are going to be big fat if you eat somemore." And it makes her ticks! She gets the idea. She still takes junk but at least exercise some self control when I reminded her of becoming a big fat. Hehe.

Pappy, you are a big fat. Did the message get across? Lol.

Mummy Lim

DIE!!!!

We often see little cockroaches running around in Tiggy and was surprised at the numbers we caught recently. We could sometimes catch 1 per day for consecutively a few days. It has gotten so rampant that even I dare to squash the roaches to death using tissue. DIE!!!!

Each time, Daddy Lim will complain and say that we shouldn't eat in the car. Well, I have no qualms about that rule, please tell that to the 2 small people in the house and see if they obey. Muahahahahaha.

Last night, Daddy Lim didn't have dinner and we went for supper after the kids slept. I thought I felt something crawled on my arm the moment I entered Tiggy and suspected cockroaches. Frantic swiping threw something off my arm and onto the seat. From the corner of my eye, I saw another one on the window, sneering at me. I was yelling and trying to get out of the car while struggling not to sit on the seat to avoid butt squashing the roach that I just threw off my arm. Daddy Lim didn't quite know what was happening but suspected cockroaches and was attempting to get out of the car himself without saving me. Our macho man isn't a fan of the roaches himself. Lol.

When we were finally out of Tiggy, we killed the one on the window and found 2 more on the ceiling. I don't know if one of them was the same one who molested my arm but it didn't matter anymore. DIE!!!

We decided not to drive anymore. I couldnt stand the thought of sitting in Tiggy. I went home to retrieve insecticide, which I couldn't find any but instead found the "roach house" that we bought a while ago but "hidden" by Popo somewhere in the house.

We set up 2 roaches trap and placed the bait in the center of the traps as per the instructions. The traps were quite interesting and very colorful. The animation on the house makes the roaches appear very funny and comical... like real. The traps were placed at 2 different locations in the car.

This am, we found 5 cockroaches trapped in the 2 traps and Daddy Lim found another one running across the windscreen but escaped. The trap doesn't kill the roaches but merely traps them. We are to throw the traps when we have trapped enough roaches. So when we look into the traps, they are still frantically trying to lift their legs and wriggling their feelers. So how long can cockroaches survived without food and drink? Muahahaha.

Daddy Lim was so comical after seeing the roaches and formed a storyline of how the roach that escaped this morning (the one on the windscreen) pushed his friends into the trap for the bait and escaped himself. Hoho. I guess that bait must be quite delicious, for the roaches of course.

Mummy Lim

Boys Games

Lil Isaac is a typical boy who loves balls and cars. He is always asking to buy balls and cars and rackets despite having countless of them at home. He is keen for a game of ball or car any time. He is so very different from jiejie, who is so ever girly and so into frilly clothes, pink stuff, dolls and make-up.

One night, jiejie fell asleep at 9pm after that "many mosquitoes" epsisode the night before. Lil Isaac dragged his basketball hoops into the room after shower and asked Daddy Lim to play basketball with him. The father and son ended up shooting hoops happily. There were numerous slam dunks and Daddy Lim even pretended to play stunts. Very funny.

And after all the shootings, they move on to gaming. Woohoo, boys!

Mummy Lim

A Day at NUH

We spent almost an entire day in Nuh today. Popo's medical apptm was in the morning and we made our way to Nuh after sending Lil Shauna to Centris. We brought Lil Isaac along and had to keep him entertained while waiting. After exhausted all means to make him sit still, Lil Isaac ended up racing up and down a relatively empty aisles with mummy. We had quite some fun.

We started our journey at 9am and left Nuh at noon. Lil Isaac felt asleep on the way home and took his nap in Centris while I ran errands. Daddy Lim took afternoon leave and sent us to Nuh at 2.45pm.

After registration at the ENT clinic, we were told that the q was über long and the wait could take up an hour. While waiting, Lil Isaac had a slice of chocolate fudge cake and to the mini play area at the Children's Specialist clinic. Lil Isaac loves the choo choo train. There were many other bigger kids playing and Lil Isaac seemed contented looking at them play.

We only managed to see the ENT doctor at 4.45pm when our apptm time was 3.15pm. We were in the clinic for less than 10mins. His ears were clear and we were asked to do a hearing test before seeing the doctor again. As hearing tests for children are not like the normal ones, we have to get another apptm and come back another day.
After hearing defects are ruled out, we would probably be referred to the speech development unit.

So, my day of leave is spent waiting at Nuh and shuffling between Nuh and Centris. Well, at least I fulfilled my duties as a daughter and a mother and I get to spend quite some quiet mother-son moments.

Oh, the ENT doctor commented that Lil Isaac looks exactly like me and Daddy Lim turned green at the comment. He is so jealous that both kids look like me. Muahahaha.

Mummy Lim

Many Mosquitoes

Last midnight, Lil Shauna woke up in the middle of the night and came to find me. I didn't know what time it was and couldn't really make out what was she saying. I vaguely remembered her telling me that she dropped her purple something and asked me to turn on the light so that she could look for it. I was too tired. I think my reply wasn't even coherent and I was thinking why hasn't she gone back to the Masterbed room (MBR) so that she could torture Daddy Lim instead.

After not receiving my reply, she decided that she would go back to the MBR and my heart was doing wheel cart in my half asleep state. I heard Daddy Lim asked "where" and switched on the light to attend to his little princess. Daddy Lim says that she only went back to sleep at 4ish, almost an hour since she woke up.

This evening, Lil Shauna told me that she saw many mosquitoes when she woke up. They bit her and she talked fair but about them and asked where are the mosquitoes now.

Did she have a dream?

Mummy Lim

Counting Down

We are 25 days from the Korea trip. I can't believe how close we are to the trip. I couldn't stop grinning at the thought. Hehehe.

I got most of the winter stuff for the kids and myself. Daddy Lim is still taking his sweet time alternating between wanting to buy some more and maybe he has enuff. It is ok, even if he doesnt buy more, I think he has quite a fair bit of fats to protect him from the cold. Lol.

It is almost impossible to resist buying the winter accessories for the kids especially when there is a sale for such. The kids each have 2 to 3 pair of gloves and 2 to 3 beanies. They cost about $10 a piece but they are all so cute!!!

I got stressed when Mummy L and friend started testing out their winter clothes and send me their pix. They seem like they are going for a fashion show. It is so hard to try to be fashionable and yet keep warm with those limited pieces that I have.

So I started mixing and matching what I have too. Imagine wearing thermal leggings, long sleeves, scarves, beanie and down jacket at home. I started perspiring at the very 1st outfit and didn't last very long before I started tearing the warm clothing away. Lol. Daddy Lim was very amused at the extent I would go to look presentable.

I hope my thermal leggings do their job in Korea. Hohoho.

Mummy Lim

Little Fingers

Just a few months ago, I took ages to help Lil Shauna to wear her gloves before skating. It was so hard to make the 10 little fingers go into their designated slots. I often ended up with squeezy slots (2 fingers attempting to squeeze into one) and empty slots with no fingers. Lol.

A few days ago, we were trying gloves at Winter Wear and she could wear her right glove easily on her own. Left glove only require minimum assistance from us.

Yday, I was helping her with her skating glove and I got her fingers into the right slots in one attempt. Hehehe, the little milestones that the kids achieved. So little yet so significant.

Mummy Lim

Don't Jump to Conclusion

A few weeks back, while chatting with Lil Shauna before bed, we know that there is a mischievous boy taking the school bus and is currently in K1. Apparently, this boy goes around calling people "stupid". Lil Shauna knows that she is not supposed to call other people "stupid" and that it is a "bad word".

A few days later, she told us that this boy now calls people "stupid a******". Daddy Lim and I were dumbfounded and didn't quite know how to react but to tell Lil Shauna that it is a "bad word" and she cannot use it. Unfortunately, Lil Shauna is at an age where she picks up bad habits easily and learns the weirdest words and slangs, like in this case. She probably didn't quite understand what "a******" means.

Last week, things were worse and she said that this boy now uses "f****** stupid a******". We were horrified. Daddy Lim's eyes grew 200% bigger when she heard Lil Shauna said that. The F word coming out of his princess' mouth and she is only 4.

We suspected that this boy probably picked up the words from his elder siblings or probably some other adults. I made a mental note to feedback to the school.

Today, I saw the Principal and grabbed the chance. She too was very surprised that these words came from the child. But she also asked for our understanding and explained that the kid's father passed away suddenly bcos of heart attack recently. She mentioned that the teachers also observed some changes in the boy's behavior following the incident.

I am still upset that Lil Shauna is exposed to such language and from a source that we have little control over. However, I do realised that I am a little more understanding after finding out the cause for the boy's outburst. The Principal asked me to feedback to her should we are aware that such things happened again so that she could too feedback to his mother.

Poor boy. But I do hope that such incidents stopped. Such thing are no good for a 4 year old.

Mummy Lim

Orientation

Today is the pre-nursery orientation for Lil Isaac at CNL. From next year onwards, Lil Isaac will attend the same school as jiejie. Hehe. I am excited at the thought.

Lil Isaac was happy that he was going out with jiejie this morning. Jiejie was happy that mummy was sending her to school. So, we started off really fine. Upon reaching school, I asked jiejie to bring Lil Isaac to the holding area. However, right after they entered the holding area, jiejie went happily to join her friends and Lil Isaac was led away by a teacher. I was initially hopeful, thinking that my tiger is braver than his jiejie but I was wrong. Lil Isaac started crying shortly. He cried so pitifully but jiejie was too busy with her friends and couldnt be bothered to go comfort her brother. Even when she finally did, Lil Isaac didn't stop crying. Jiejie soon abandoned him again and went to join her friends. Lol.

Lil Isaac stared blankly when the teacher led the kids in song and music. Then he hugged his bag, as if he was waiting for the right opportunity to run away.

The kids were led to their class and Lil Isaac started bawling again when jiejie was led away. He yelled for jiejie as if jiejie was being kidnapped while jiejie happily walked away with her class.

Lil Isaac wasnt too happy to be in his class but cooperated when he was asked to wash his hands. He initially didnt want his snack, which was cream bread and ribena drink. I made him sit down and he went on to finish his bread and asked for a second serving when most of the classmates were still struggling with their bread. He even requested for a 3rd serving and I had to stop him. We often complained that Lil Issac eats so much yet he is so skinny but when I compared him to the rest of the class, he ios definitely not skinny. In fact, he is no where near to skinny and skinny cannot be used on him. Lol.

He joined the rest of the children on the floor mat for chinese story and songs thereafter. I was surprised that he actually sat through.

But that was all the attention that he had. He lost interest even when the teachers took out toys and dragged me out of the classroom and started exploring the outdoor playground.

No amount of coaxing could get him back to the class and I had to scope him and run to the 3rd floor for music when they were done with the toys playing and also Englisg story.

Lil Isaac participated in the music lesson. He was even alright when I disappeared for a few minsutes to retieve our bags from the classroom. He was fine with exploring on his own but kept a look out for me. The orientation ended after the music lesson and we took the school bus home with jiejie thereafter.

Lil Isaac looked so small in his seat in the bus. He still look so tiny, how could he be going to school in 2 months' time? I think I am suffering from separation anxiety. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Hair Cut

Lil Isaac is long due for a haircut. The last one was a few months back and we had been delaying it as the 1st 2 resulted in some mega screaming and crying affairs. The last one was done somehow peacefully but we were armed with plenty of mentos as part of the bribery deal. Popo had suggested that we keep the hair. She said that it would keep his head warm for Korea. But I don’t think we can wait till then. They were getting a tad too long.

This one is much easier. Our boy has grown and there was no tears shed. In fact, he sat independently and allowed the hairdresser to manipulate his head. Even shaver is fine now. But there were still plenty of mentos involved.

I think Lil Isaac looks better after his last haircut as compared to this. And he definitely looked better with longer hair, much, much cuter. It is OK, hair grows. Hopefully, he would look better when we head for Korea. We must all look good in the pix!

Mummy Lim