Today is Thurday. Zhi Ying is in her 3rd week at school. She’s no more crying and getting used to going to school. On Monday, after the long weekend getaway to Penang with granny, Hwa ah yi, Sin Yee & family, along with my inlaws, surprisingly she didn’t cry when she reached school. But Mag misses Sin Yee a lot & cried since they reach our place.
Mom & Yani send them to school everyday at 8:30am after their breakfast & after they have done their business (poo poo). Ever since she goes to school, she has changed slightly. She’s more open to people. When we’re in Penang, she wasn’t afraid to talk to anybody. She’d say Hello & wave her hand. Sometimes she’s shy & she would say it very softly. There was 1 time Zhi Ying & I happened to be the last 2 to enter the lift that was already quite full of people. I was carrying her & so, she was facing everybody in the lift. The way she stared at people, I knew she wanted to say Hello but she’s shy. So, I told her “say hello”. Immediately, she said it & waved her hand at the lady standing next to me. She even showed the lady that her sleeve has teddy bear prints. Then she said hello & waved to the guy standing next to me too. Everyone in the lift was laughing at her.
She is also able to follow instructions better, but not all the time. Teacher said she could understand all the instructions very well but choose to not listen sometimes. Teacher said she’s very cheeky and she’s like a leader. People will follow her & play together with her. Mag follows Zhi Ying about in the school most of the time. I’m glad they have each other in school.
One problem I don’t like about sending her to school is that she always get big mosquito bite whenever she play outside at the school garden. Then it’ll take more than a week to heal. Sometimes, it’s so itchy that she couldn’t help it and scratch until she bleeds & leaves a scar & the scar will take a long time to go off.
Starting from this week, since Monday, mom let the 2 children play for a while first before taking them to shower once they reach home. Then lunch, play & sleep. Nowadays, they only have 1 time nap in the afternoon. So, they start to get very sleepy around 8-9pm everyday. But Zhi Ying will try her best to stay up until 10-11pm.
Teacher also said that she could really stay awake no matter how sleepy she is. There was one day last week, she was so sleepy at school but she tried her very best to stay awake. Teacher said her eyes were almost closed but she quickly turned around and keep herself awake. Teacher pitied her because she was very cranky. Then there was another day; I gave her some flu medicine before she went to school because she had flu. Then she fell asleep around 9:30am at school for half an hour.
Last 2 weeks, whenever I talk about school, she’d tell me “hai you kakak”. Mean she only wants their maid. But this week, she mentioned the word “teacher”. This means she’s slowly accepting teacher too. Then this morning, she requested me to sing about “gege jie jie” song. This means she thinks about her older friends in school too. That’s an improvement & I’m so proud of her. I’m so happy that she’s accepting her new friends, teacher & environment. At least, my heart doesn’t ache so badly now.
Nowadays, she started to sing my songs, the songs I created myself for her.
My version:
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear where are you/ close your eyes/ don’t you cry
TB TB I want you
TB TB I love you
Close your eyes & say good night
Her version: TB TB co the eyes/don’t you cry/ want nen nen… (hahahah!!! WHAT?? WANT NEN NEN?)
Then sometimes she will change Teddy Bear to others like mommy mommy want nen nen… Hahaha!!
Another song:
My version (using the elephant got wrinkles music/ tumble tot class, just change the lyrics myself):
Zhi Ying Zhi Ying sit down sit down sit down
Zhi Ying Zhi Ying sit down sit down in the car/ together
She’ll ask me to change to yeh yeh/nai nai. But most of the time, she likes me to use Yeh Yeh to sing this song.
Here are something that she always says wrongly & never fail to make me laugh i.e. she always says “at the pooh” when she sees Pooh and “ shi shi pu” when she wants to wash her buttock.
Lately, she likes to look at people from the corner of her eyes. So cheeky!
There was one day, she held my head with both her hands on my cheek & told me, Mommy, I love you. I was so touched & I can feel how much she loves me. I didn’t tell her to do that. It was only that one time. 