Progress

You can sing songs very well now (at least to Daddy and Mummy), you can sing alphabet song, hokkien song. When you say eieio, we will have to sing Old Macdonald have a farm, when you say abcd........,we will have to sing the alphabet song.

We received a progress report from your school and you have a lot of areas to improve on but you are perfect to us just the way you are. We do try and read, write and play with you. Glad to hear from your teachers that you enjoyed class although mummy will be happier if you can sit through your lessons instead of walking around.

Photos of you and Ashley

 

Arrival of memei Ashley

 Your baby sister cum playmate Ashley arrived on 1st of March and gonggong and popo brought you to visit us everyday. Meimei Ashley gave you a present (bought by Daddy and Mummy) your favourite Thomas train set and a very big set. You were very happy with the toy and Daddy fixed it at ths hospital and you played with it every time you visited us. Every time when its time to go back, you will always gladly followed gonggong and popo back and mummy was very pleased with that.

You kept wanted to join Mummy on my bed but Daddy and popo were very worried that you might accidentally touched/hit/kicked my wound but Mummy wanted to hug you so badly and invited you and gave you a big hug and sayang you.



A very proud and happy brother welcoming your baby sister

 

LNY 2014

Your school has a LNY celebration in school and parents are invited too. Daddy and Mummy went and stood in a corner to observe how are you in school without us around. You were sitting right in front (either the teachers like you a lot or you are very active and need special attention, mummy thinks its the latter), you were watching the brothers and sisters performing on stage and were enjoying the songs. Mummy was heavily pregnant and one of the teachers there noticed it and offered to bring mummy a chair for me to sit but Mummy said its ok and its only for a short while.

After a while, you were getting tired and started to fuss and Mummy "appeared" to tend to you, you were very happy to see me and wants me to carry you but Mummy could only hold your hand and stood next to you.

We went to the usual places for LNY visitations and you had a great time playing at their places.

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Pre Nursery at St Joseph Church Kindergarten

You started attending St Hoseph Church Kindergarten this week, Daddy and Mummy accompanied you there for your first day at school and Mummy accompanied you on the second day and we took the school bus back together after that.

The classroom is spacious, very airy and non air-conditioned. There is a English teacher, Chinese teacher and a teacher assistant who will be with you during class. The first two days there were for you to get used to the environment and hence, the teacher only say a story and sing songs with you on both days. Hopefully you will get use to the new environment as soon as possible and enjoy your time there.

A light lunch is provided during class and mummy like that cause it teaches you how to self-feed and not rely too much on us to feed you.

Upcoming graduation at Star Tots

Teacher Esther mentioned that your playgroup is having a small scale graduation ceremony where the kiddos will sing a song and dance for the parents to watch on 15 Nov. You still cannot speak much after attending playgroup but Mummy think that you are just a late bloomer and you will speak properly when you are ready.

Your playgroup always issue a letter indicating what you will learn from week 1 to 5 or week 6 to 10 every term at the beginning of the week and mid term, for eg. phonics for letter V to X, theme: utensils, nature, math: counting to 8, shape of crescent, science concept: wet and dry and etc.. (there's 9-11 items on he letter)

Teacher Esther is very nice to you and always let us know when you misbehave in class, why you cry, why you throw tantrum. Mummy and Daddy is sending you to childcare/pre-nursery next year depending on whether there is a space for you at our nearby childcare centre, if not you will have to take a school bus to a church kindergarten. Hope that you have enjoy your time at the playgroup which Mummy thinks you did cause you can name a few of your classmates when you seldom call Mummy.

Stay healthy, Ashton! Mei mei Nichelle will meet you next year March!

Cute Antics

You entered the so-called terrible 2 stage but Mummy found you more amusing rather than terrible.

1) Recently, cause you have been pooing 1-3 times a day, mummy bought a few different brands of pants diapers for you cause to save money (you refuse to wear tape diapers). You saw the diaper (Mamy poko easy pants-yellow packaging), you flipped it around and screamed, wailed, cried, refusing to wear it and walk over and took your usual diaper packaging (Mamy poko boys-blue packaging) and insist that you only want to wear that. We struggled for 5 minutes before we finally gave in to a crying Ashton. For the next few days we repeat this cycle 2-3 times a day, sometimes, 外婆managed to make you put it on but you will continued to cry for 5-10 minutes after it was bring put on.

2) You climbed up to the piano, Daddy and Mummy had a very bad scare and Daddy rushed over but not to carry you down but to guard you and see what you are trying to get from on top of the piano (now, you know who really spoils you), you took you class photo and showed it to Mummy and just kept looking at it. Mummy began to ask you "where is jackie (teacher esther, jieyi and etc..)?" and you were able to point out your classmates to Mummy.

3) When we go out and you are sitting in the car seat, you will lift your hear away from the car seat and wait for Daddy to brake so that you can "slam" your head into the car seat.

4) There is a fun fair downstairs, you had a train ride and after that, you kept looking at the pirate ship ride so we bought you and Daddy tickets to have a go and you were very excited on the ride, no sign of fear but daddy was a bit giddy after the ride. A few days later, you went for the train and pirate ship rides again.

5) Mummy was drinking water and you came over and took a sip, you went off, came back with the ice scoop with a ice cube in it and add it to Mummy's cup and continue drinking from Mummy's cup.

Mummy will update again when mummy remembers or when you acted funny again. hehe.

2nd birthday BBQ and Phuket 2013

We had an early celebration for your second birthday by travelling to Phuket on 20 Sep, Mummy had a very relax trip while Daddy was busy entertaining you by visiting the Kids Club and swimming in the pool. We stayed at Vijitt Resort and the place was awesome. There's a child pool with a large basket of toys for you to play in the pool, a Kids Club with toys and ball pool, playing sand by the beach and sitting on the buggy when we travel around the resort.

We went elephant trekking and you had a fun time feeding the elephant, you kept walking to feed the banana into their mouth not knowing they grab the food with their trunk before putting it in their mouth. Amazingly, 10 minutes into the elephant ride, you fell asleep on it and continue sleeping through the 30 minutes ride. Daddy commented that you had travel via so many mode of transport (plane, boat, water buffalo, elephant, cable car) when you are not even 2.

We had a BBQ with our family to celebrate your birthday and you enjoyed watching 小舅 and 叔叔 playing pool and when we sang you your birthday song.

At Vijitt's restaurant

Sleeping on the comfortable bed

With the water buffalo

Look at the smirk face

Family photo with the friendly elephants

Feeding the elephant

On top the elephant

With our friendly mahout and a sleeping baby

Mini Birthday cake

Cutting the cake