Shi Xu gradually understand and establishes some good manners .The kudos goes to Cherie Heart . (and of course daddy and me *wink wink *)
a) Shi Xu:"everybody clean up !clean up!" ( he will help to clean up when we or he finish our food )
b) I have a bad habit of putting my finger on my lips sometimes , one day when Shi Xu saw me did that
Shi Xu:"Dont put your finger on your mouth "
c) He will greet everyone before start having his lunch .
Shi Xu :" 老师吃， 小朋友吃， 大家一起吃!"
And he always wait patiently for everyone get ready before he starts tucking in .
d) He knows to throw rubbish into the bin instead of the floor ( sometimes he purposely do the opposite ,grin at me and ask me if he can throw on the floor )
e) He has good sense of safety , he will remind us to buck up for him when we forget to belt him up **what a reckless parents**
Some manners he will do as well when we ask him to do so
a) Greet us good morning when he wake up
b) Give a bear hug and bid goodbye to everone before leaving grandmother house
c) Wash hand before taking his food
d) Keep his toy neatly after use . ( sometimes he refuses to do that ,he still need more training on this )
e) Say good night to us when we put him to the bed .
f) Say "I love you " . (This always gives me the warmest feeling )
The list goes on ...
**Shi Xu @26 months
Were were invited to attend an informal parent teacher conference (PTC) by Cherie Heart.The purpose of this is mainly to update parents about their children's development progress.
Shi Xu , mummy would like to share with you the comment from your teachers .
Teacher Naizirah ( form teacher ) :
Shi Xu is excellent in his language and cognitive development . He is able to express himself emotionally . He is able to speak in more complete sentences whilst others at his age might have fewer words and speak less. He is a fast learner ,intelligent and independent boy .He can remember what teacher had taught him .
He is not so good in physical development .He scares of falling down when he stand at high place and he has water phobia . He cries whenever teacher bathe him .
** i have suggested teachers do not directly shower on his face ** .
Shi Xu is well trained in potty training , he knows to signal teacher whenever he wants to pass urine .However pass motion still need more training on it .
Teacher Xu( chinese teacher) :
Shi Xu sets a good example to his peer. He is such an independant boy , he can take care of himself . The deepest impression to teacher Xu is whenever the school bus come to fetch him , he will pull his school bag , get his water bottle , all his belonging and walk to the bus .He refuses any help and insists on doing on his own . Recently there has one boy who same age with him also learn from him .he is his peer's role model now .
Shi Xu doing well in his language development ,he is able to recite 2/3 of national pledge .This is amazing speed in speech development at his young tender year . She commented that even some of her K1 student still unable to recite the national pledge as the pledge is using some abtruse words.Shi Xu also able to read after teacher when teacher reads the story book .
On the other hand , his limited attention span and diet have significantly improved .
Shi Xu used to be the center of focus in his school, teachers love him due to his face always beam with joy and happiness.But recently there has some new children just join in , so teachers always have to take care of these new kiddos ,Shi Xu feels that he is out of favour of teachers ,hence he will whine occasionally to get some attention . He is expressing his jealousy !!** I can't imagine what happen if i have 2nd baby :P**
After the session , Shi Xu was so proud to show me his works which teacher paste on the wall , he was happy to show me his peer's work as well . I was wondering how he diffentiate them (as 10 same set of works which done by different children paste on the wall all look same to me except the names are different ) .
Overall , i am glad with his progress with Cherie Heart , i am looking forward to the next PTC .
**Shi Xu @ 26 months
It is never too early to start introducing the concept of saving.The earlier you start it , over time the principles will sink in. It takes constant reinforcement.
I am always out of idea when do get it start . After Cherie Heart PTC , we were invited to do some charity donation and we got a pinky ,sweet heart piggy bank as a gift . Thus i think now is good time to introduce the concept of saving .
We give him some coins and let him put into his first piggy bank . We let him know that it is wise to save for his future .We always need to save for rainy day .Now we save our money in this little piggy bank , next time we can use this money to buy toys ,books ,etc .
This is the basic concept i introduce to him so far . Next time i will introduce more like the value of money ,basic counting coins, money management and talk with him about how much things cost when he run his errands at food stall or supermarket ,etc .
**Shi Xu @ 26 months
I came across this cute kitchen toy set when i went back to KL .It is a free gift from Enfa brand formula .Those cut fruit and vegs are damm cool .It has velcro in the centre, so you can actually slice through the fruits and vegs complete with the crisp sound! Shi Xu likes it to core !
I ask for this set from my sister .Shi Xu enjoys playing with them .
What tackled us most was when he has difficulty to cut the vegetables/fruits ,he got frustrated and hence he went into the room and came out with a long sword!!He was thinking to use "long knife " to cut his food!He made us couldn't suppress a soft chuckle about this .
His tricks always never fail to amuse us indeed .
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLittle chef is in making ...........
How fast time flied , today was last day of 3rd semester in LNT . Teachers were busy writing their comment to their students .Here we go ..
"Shi Xu can concerntrate very well in class! He is excellent in open focus (eye exercise ) and enjoys singing song in class .
Fantastic work ,Shi Xu ! "
From : Teacher Deon (English teacher )
"Shi Xu has shown great improvement .He can now speak a lot of chinese words .He enjoys songs and does well for IQ games .Good job ! "
From : Chinese teacher
"Shi Xu is able to read after me for the japanese words , and he does well in his photograpic memory game " ** I wonder why he likes to give me wrong answer when i play with him at home **
From : Japanese teacher .
**Shi Xu @ 26 months
Last month we had a historic pledge in singapore 44th birthday . That time Shi Xu still unable to recite the pledge , he was only able to present the posture of pledge when he participated . After 1 month ,he is able to recite the National Pledge !!Last week he recited the pledge in English and followed by manderin , lastly sang his Cherie Heart school song .(Like what he usually does during his school assembly time )
He made my eyes pop and sent me in a state of shock!Daddy even felt shame of himself as he doesn't know National Pledge has Chinese translation !
我们是新加坡公民，
誓愿不分种族、言语、宗教，
团结一致，
建设公正平等的民主社会，
并为实现国家之幸福、繁荣与进步，
共同努力。
**Presenting the posture of pledge ,Shi Xu was able to recite the pledge (the words in blue color above )
( Mummy was using handphone to record Shi Xu's pledge as a sound clip ,thus that is not a video file , i add in the photo in this audio file )
I was deeply impressed that he can recite the National Pledge at his tender years despite he only recite the first few lines of the pledge .
Shi Xu , mummy and daddy are really proud of you !
**Shi Xu @ 25.75 months
Shi Xu starts understanding some basic concept , eg : concept of time , days of the week and basic traffic rules .
I have been teaching Shi Xu the concept of time . I show him events that he will relate such as time to go to school, breakfast time , lunch time , dinner time , sleeping time ,playtime etc . I am sure he still not really grasp the concept of the time but his concept does gradually become clearer . For instance , he knows to tell me "10 o'clock ,Shi Xu study " ( i told him 10am he should study at classroom at cherie heart ) , and when i say 6 o'clock , he knows to answer me " dinner at Ah Ma (his grandmother ) house " (he take his dinner at my MIL house at 6 o'clock in the evening ) .
I start teaching Shi XU some basic traffic rules.Recently evertime when we come to traffic light , you can see him lights up to tell us " traffic light!(but he pronounses as "fancy light!") red colour stop , green colour go !" He has so much delighted to show us every traffic light and the rule he knows .
For the days of the week, he knows his daddy has lesson on monday and tuesday .And he knows other days like friday , but so far we dont mark any particular event for the days , so i think he still does not have a full picture yet.
Shi Xu has very good IQ . He is able to answer correctly for most of the IQ questions conduct in LNT lessons. However , his memory is not so good , he always gives me the wrong answer when i play the memory games with him .
Shi Xu can recognise and name out most of the characters now , but some characters still confuse him like W,U and V .
How time has gone by ,my baby has grown up as a little boy .He is growing at such an amazing pace.
He is cheerful , he is happy , he is lively.Yes! He is such a sunshine boy !
He is upbeat about almost everything . His smile is adorable and infectious .
** If the photo complete with a backdrop of white sandy beach ,it would be perfect ^_^**
**Shi Xu @25.75 months
we were learning day of the week ......
Mummy: Monday ! (Hope Shi Xu will read after me )
Shi Xu : Tuesday ! ( wow !amazed that the litte boy know Tuesday is after Monday )
Mummy : Wednesday ! ( thought Shi Xu will give me the answer of "Thursday ")
Shi Xu : Friday !
haha .. so fast he skip to Friday .
Shi Xu : Monday , Tuesday , 爸爸 study .
The little boy still know which day 爸爸 has his master course lesson ..He truly deserves the applause.
Ah Meng is a female orangutan which belonged to an endangered species and was smuggled from Indonesia but was later given a home at the Singapore Zoo . She passed away last year due to its old age . Nowaday , we only have chance to take photo with Ah Meng's monument
Shi Xu said Ah Meng is chimpanzee .Does Ah Meng's monument look like chimpanzee?what do you think ? In fact , chimpanzee , ape ,monkey,orang utan , gorrila all look same to me , i just call them as "monkey " ^_^Today we decided to go to Zoo's Rainforest KidzWorld, the latest kids attraction in the zoo . There has a very big waterplay features, and we thought Shi Xu would have his great time there . But we were wrong ...
when we reached there ,it was so crowded as it was in the weekend and was school holiday!There was like a madhouse ,a lot of kids running around at the water playground ,and the highlight was the gigantic bucket of water which would poured over every 4 mins . The kids enjoy splashed by it .Out of our expectation , our little Shi Xu was scared ,he has fear of water !
" I dont want !" ," I dont want !", " scared! scared !"Shi Xu cried and said when daddy carried him running around the water playground and splashed by the water . ( he was like koala bear "hanging" on daddy as he was scared . Apparently he was not ready for the water play .
Once home ,Tuckered-out Shi Xu took a nap. My little poor boy , he still mumbled " Dont want !Dont want ! " in his dream . But On the very next minute ,when he wake up, he told me " I do not scare ".What my little cute boy .How can i overcome his fear of water ?I hope he can enjoy thoroughly his water play .
Last Sunday after LNT lesson , we went to coffee club to have our dinner . I have ordered a slipper lobster linguini .This spaghetti is slightly spicy but Shi Xu cound't wait to try . He has grown to be more adventurous to spicy food .
Shi Xu : i want spaghetti ..
Mummy : This spaghetti is "la la " (spicy ) , Shi Xu can not eat
Shi Xu : i want !
Since he was so adament to try ,i just let him had a small bite,with the hope that he would give up his idea after taste it .Showing my " sinister smile ", i was waiting for him to say "No " to me . To my much surprise ,after he tasted it ,
Shi Xu : hmm ... nice ! very~~ good ! I want spaghetti..
He should wonder what on earth is this that taste soooo darn good and mummy never let him try before . I think Shi Xu love of spice to the fact that I myself ate a lot of spicy food while I was pregnant.
We shared the spaghetti happily and Shi Xu was certainly enjoy the spicy food . By the time we almost finished , i just noticed that the area around his mouth turned red !Initially i was thinking if he allergy to spicy food ,but he was still enjoy his food and never complain he was itchy or so . Anyway we dont worry too much as he is not allergy to any food so far . Luckily the red patches was gone when the peppery taste cool down .
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaThe area around his mouth turned red as ezcema
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHe said he was making hamburgar
last sunday we planned to shop at Ikea at tampinese . When we passby Sengkang , the awesome scenes of kiteSs soaring in the sky attracted us .It brought us to a big field near to the Sengkang LRT station .
The sky full of kites add excitement to us.Yes! we coudn't wait to fly kite again. ( we have just bought our 2nd kites and put it in our car , so we can fly kite at ANYTIME ANYWHERE ).We have forgot about our shopping plan totally.We just do exactly what we feel like.cool!
Since our fail attempt at West Coast park , we are unwillingly succumbed to our failure .This time we hope we could get some decent elevation .When a nice breeze kicked up,daddy left his kite to the air ,he kept running hoping that his kite would fly at least to a certain height .but his kite dropped down when he stopped running !His mission was fail.
And i repeated his failure as well ! My little poor Shi Xu , he kept begging " kite ! kite" he was begging for his turn to fly .but the parents were so busy trying to fly up the kite and just asked Shi Xu to wait and wait and wait ......
unfortunately , our kite broken again before Shi Xu had chance to fly . So we let Shi Xu flied the broken kite by our "own method" again (Shi Xu held the string winders and run , mummy held the broken kite up and ran after him )
I was wondering if Shi Xu has chance to fly his kite if our kite not broken ?haha ..
Initially we want o soar our kite in the sky to keep little Shi Xu enthralled but now who is the person who thrilled when come to fly kite ? parents or Shi Xu ? well , the answer is clear .Hehe ...
** no photo attached as mummy and daddy were toooo busy running around to fly up the kite that no time to take photo.^o^
** Shi Xu @25.5 months
when we entered our house in late evening ,it was so dark as i had not turn on the lights yet
Shi Xu :So many 暗暗。 (he means so dark )
Shi Xu likes to play water gun when we bathe him . He put his water gun inside the pail which full of water
Shi Xu : gun swimming .
**fainted , can gun swim ?**
Our stand fan fell down to floor and made a big sound
Shi Xu : fan cry cry ..
**will fan feel pain and cry when fall down ?**
Today , Shi Xu told me
Shi Xu : mummy , 我要一个小朋友 .
what does he means ? does he mean he wants a younger sibling ?
for no reason , Shi Xu find funny to hear me speak cantonese to him , when i speak cantonese to him ,
Shi Xu : (smirk) I dont want !
mummy ignored him and continue the cantonese conversation .
Shi Xu : (smirk again)关掉 mummy .
He was trying to "turn off " mummy . He thought i am radio or TV ? *fainted *
Spending moments with little Shi Xu is like entering into another realm.He never fail to bring on a smile and add sunshine to our everyday .
**Shi Xu @ 25.5 months
Umpteen time we say we want to have a wonderful kite day . Today we finally made it done .In the early morning , we headed to West Coast park with so much delight and excitement .It's therapeutic to take in the greens, morning breeze and fly kite under the sun and by the sea .Shi Xu was definitely amazed that he get to fly a kite.
Daddy and I can't fly kite for nuts .Just within FIVE minutes ,our kite got stuck in tree and its frames was broken when we tried to remove the kite from the tree branches!Daddy tried to use the string to join the dowel rod ,but our kite was not precisely proportioned anymore ,it kept spinning out of control when we left the kite to the air .
After few fail attempts ,we "invented " our very own method to fly our broken kite .Shi Xu held the string winders and run , mummy held the broken kite up and ran after him . We just tried to made us feel like our kite soaring in the sky . haha ...what a hilarious yet heartwarming scene .
**Shi Xu @ 25 months Shi Xu pointed at a bird which was flying in the sky
Shi Xu : Bird bird!
Mummy: o Ya , bird bird !
Shi Xu : 还有一个!
He puzzled me , where is the other bird ?i only saw one bird flying in the sky ??!..
Mummy : Where ?
Shi Xu :还有一个! ( pointed at his "bird bird" )
Mummy burst into laugh ..
Mummy was trying to show Shi Xu what is canal when we was passing by a canal at our downstair .
Mummy : This is canal .
Shi Xu :(wave his little hands ) can not !
I was wondering why can not ?
Mummy : canal !
Shi Xu : can not ! ( wave his hands again )
Pause for few sec , i just realized that he misheard "canal " as "can not " haha ..
I tried to tie my hair up due to the recent hot weather
Shi Xu :姐姐！
muahaha .... do i look young when i tie my hair up ?
Mummy : 姐姐 ??
Shi Xu :姐姐 mummy！
He gives me a few minutes of excitement. It’s such a lovely day .^ ^
**Shi Xu @ 25 months
