5 years and 10 months old

Today at the Chinese dance, I saw that you were very tired. However, you persevered. I never see you so determine before. Your performance is in Dec and today it's the second time you had to practice for 3 hours. Last week you were not well & had food poisoning. Even with that, you wanted to go for latin and Chinese dance. I was with you all the time at your dancing class to ensure that I'm there for you when you are tired, to hug you and to give you mental and emotional support. You were so willful to learn the dance steps, which are very confusing to me. Wow, I'm so impressed with you. I must write this down so that you know how proud I am seeing your determination and perseverance towards dancing. After dancing, you wanted to go cycling to show me you can cycle with 2 wheels now. Again, I'm very impressed with your determination. You were able to cycle on 2 wheels a little on your second attempt and successfully on your 3 attempts onwards. When you first cycled on 2 wheels, you had to stop because you were out of breath. It was too exciting for you that your whole face turned red and your heart thump so hard and fast. You were unhappy due to short of breath. I think you were disappointed at yourself for not able to continue to practice. Mummy and daddy told you it's normal and it happened to us before too. Your palms were all red and swollen abit as you gripped the handle very tightly on your first attemp. I'm so proud of you and love you so much.

How To Play Sand Art and Keeping the place clean

Mommy suddenly got an idea as to how to keep the sand away from the floor and table and everywhere.
First, take some newspapers. Clip the sides to make it into a tray. Cut the side of the newspaper to make a pocket to hold the packs of sand. This way, when you feel tired, you can always put the tray aside and continue doing the next day or whenever you feel like it.

5 years old and 9 months - First canvas & JMC

You did your first canvas which is a drawing of some flowers in a vase. It's so pretty. Your teacher is very talented and knows only children has this ability to produce such drawing on canvas. She said when the children get a little bit older, they will not be able to produce such cute drawings anymore. She meant those drawings which are not proportionate for example big head and small body etc.

Now, you're more confident at drawing. You used to have no confidence in drawing and didn't want to draw at all. I'm so happy you finally draw.

You started JMC this year and you love it. Timing is abit rush as on Saturday morning, you have Eye Level (math), followed by Mrs. Seabourne's english class and then JMC. Mommy always go into the class looking exhausted.

You have stopped chinese dance couple of months ago and stopped Heguru just last month. You didn't like chinese dance because you said it's too long hours. Mommy stopped you from Heguru because your schedule is too packed and I seriously want you to just play on Sunday, not travelling to go for classes. I'm glad now we have Sunday off. We get to go cycling in the morning or evening, we get to go out or have SY over to have fun or go over to condo for a swim.

Changed school at 5 years and 8 months old

After complaining to me about one of her teacher in school for 4 months, I had it enough and changed her to another school. It's SY's school. I didn't survey around. I trust da gu's choice.
I started you with full day. We tried for a week then decided to go back with SY at 12:30pm.

You liked the new school as you have been there before during the holiday programme whereby you had so much fun.

Back to kindergarden: 5 years and 3 months old

You're back to your previous kindergarten from morning until evening. Teacher said at the beginning you were shy to mix with the children and you were so quiet an reserved compared to last time. However, after few days, you were better and joined your friends in games after nap.

Teacher said your mandarin is good and you can pronounce the words very well. She also mentioned that you are easily distracted. All the teachers were watching how you got distracted when you were on your way to put your lunch box into your bag. The principal said you are very easily distracted like her son.

5 years old

We had a party for you at da gu's condo on your birthday & we invited Lydia & her family, Ern Hui & her family, Siow Ling & her mother, Mag & ah yi. Mommy ordered a mickey and mini theme cake from Baby Sweet Cakes. However, I think this is going to be the last time I order from her as I notice she's getting abit sloppy with the alphabets. It cost mommy RM200 & I had to pick it up from the lady as it was really a last minute decision to have a party. Initially our party suppose to be on the 20th & we're planning to invite your favourite cousin-ni ni jie jie. However, mommy cancelled it as daddy had to attend a wedding dinner and Ni Ni jie jie couldn't come as her mom has to attend some other function. The most important reason was that mommy is actually feeling abit down and hasn't have mood to arrange proper cooked food for our relatives due to several reason. First being the fact that granny has shifted to Ah Yi's house and you have to go to daycare (except Monday & Thursday) after morning class at BB because we need to send didi to da gu's condo. Mommy felt very sad because you don't really like sleeping at the day care. If you don't sleep, you'll feel very tired for the afternoon classes & even more tired to spend extra time with mommy at night. Granny shifted because she wasn't feeling well and ah yi has more time to take care of granny compared to mommy. Mommy has to take care of you and didi.
Today, I went to MA for the parents-teacher meeting. You score 84%. Teacher said you are a dreamer & dislike drawing nor colouring & dislike playing with the toys there. You prefer to pick up a book to read. However, teacher said that you score well and it's fine if you're a dreamer as every child has their own special ability. A dreamer comes with other special ability that non-dreamer don't possess. Mommy felt relieve to hear that. I'm proud of you. You have full mark for listening. That's really amazing for a little dreamer like you. :) Although mommy was there, but you sat at your place and concentrate with your work while mommy talk to the teacher.
Also, I just want to let you know 1 more thing.. you have been grinding your teeth since somewhere around Sept 2011 i.e. last year. I don't know what's the reason. But I'm still trying to figure it out.
You're so caring too. The other day I carried you down from the car to go for Heguru class. You just fell asleep not along ago but then you woke up and immediately told me you can walk by yourself. I asked why & you said you didn't want me to feel tired. I love you so much...

First time drawing your thoughts

Mommy was so happy to see you draw out your thoughts for the first time. You used to say you can't draw and you feel sad. But last night, you drew a girl standing on a stool washing her left hand at the basin. First, you coloured the stool blue. I wasn't sure what they were so I asked you to tell me the story of your drawing. You didn't immediately tell me what was the drawing about. I've guessed that suppose to be our blue colour stool but I wasn't sure and didn't want to say the wrong thing and cause you to loose confidence in drawing. So I persuaded you to tell me. At last, you told me that's you standing on the blue stool washing your hands. I couldn't tell that's the basin and the water tap because they were very tiny. The basin looked like a plate. So I couldn't actually figure out the tap. Anyway, you drew a hole in it later to improvise the picture so that it look more like a basin. Then you wrote there "ZY is washing her hand". I'm not sure whether it was our drawing practices which gain your confidence back or was it Morris Allen's classes drawing session. Anyway, I thought I should jot this down to let you know how happy I am to finally see you draw your thoughts on the paper and colour them.