Actually I had always wanted to do teaching materials for my boys, but I was just simply lazy to start until yesterday I finally made myself sit down to do.. n I was happy!
The idea came from Jaden's school. But I edit abit with using Chinese characters. the 1st project I did was on body parts.
Javier was learning body parts n was being done on flashcards of body parts in Chinese characters from my centre. Jaden could oso recognise some of the Chinese characters... So, I tot of doing e 1st file on that. It's more of learning aid for Javier n revision for Jaden... At least they have some 'work' to do n not playing games most of e time.
Write should always b e last stage of learning. 1st through stories, songs.. then flashcards... n then recognising.. after which will b e file of matching e correct answers, n lastly is write or trace which we called is handwriting time.
I dunno how effective it is but I dun mind trying it out. We cannot expect immediate effects or results. Bcoz wat I am doing is arousing interests for the subject or topic. Not academic kind of drilling like tuition.
I am going to do other topics like numbers in Chinese characters, n mayb family tree... I must plan in my head 1st b4 I start. I hope to start e numbers topic today n see if I can complete by tonight. Hope my boys can benefit from all these simple work projects that I had created. Results may not b seen now or anytime soon, but when they grow older n start real schooling, when they learn all these topics by then, they can learn faster n absorb better... Hope they like e projects lah. I have been far too lazy... I hope to be a little more hardworking...
It was a tiring n yet enriching weekend for us. I was happy that Jaden is sleeping with me at night w/o fussing anymore.
Saturday 21-09-13, we went to Serangoon for graduation photo taking with my maiden family. didn't bring e boys along coz mummy thinks that they r still young, anyway is graduation pics... Wait til my siblings have kids n then we can all take a full complete family picture!
It has been 8 years ever since I last worn my graduation gown. My sis wore her NYP graduation gown as she completed her advanced dip there... main roles is my brother, n his future wife Yinghui. Both SIM graduates. My parents r so proud of him, n so do I!
My mummy praised her son-in-law, aka my hubby, saying he looked good in suit n shld wear like that. haha!
It was a quick session n then we went for lunch at Nex.
Sunday 22-09-13, I brought Jaden out to Sheng Siong n Prime supermarket to buy food, as I am so scared of eating outside, wana cook at home. N I must pat myself at my back... I cooked sumptuous food again, though no exp ingredients like crab or lobster.
My parents, brother n future SIL came over to eat... Cannot finish e whole set of food that I had prepared of course. I am so satisfied with myself! Haha...
I will be starting on my new career soon, n I dun think I will have so much energy to cook again. But I will try if I have e chance n time.
As Jaden is approaching 5 soon in Nov, he finally is ready to be off diapers completely. We r all v happy for him.
Actually, he can b off diapers completely during daytime. He will go toilet n urine long ago, but the only thing that troubled us is the poo poo time. He refused to sit on potty or toilet bowl to do his big business. He will bring out his XXL diapers n tell u that he wana shit, so want us to help him wear diapers so tat he can poo on diapers.
Since last week, somehow abit thanks to MIL. she refused to let him wear diaper n forced him to sit on potty, he was crying as usual, didnt poo anything out. He rather not to poo n tolerated. But a few hrs later he really couldn't take it, so went to take e potty n pull down his pants, sat on it n poo-ed! Subsequently, e next day when he wana poo, he no longer took diapers n pass to us, he went to potty instead! Yeah, he was finally ready!
His next time to wear diapers was when he was asleep. Poo time n sleep time are e only times that he would wear diapers. Somewhere last week n a few more days earlier, when is time to sleep, MIL would help him wear on diapers as usual, but suddenly he just refused to wear n even run away from diapers. I told MIL mayb he is ready not to sleep with diapers on. So MIL tried to let him sleep with no diapers, but will get him up to go to toilet n urine in e mid of e night. 1st night try he did urine out, but after that pool of urine, he actually did not urine animore but to sleep til morn when he get up then go toilet. 2nd night he actually did not urine out totally on bed.
We would make fun of him these few days that we would pass him e diaper n ask if he wants to wear, but he would run away n refused. It means he is really ready.
Yesterday at our house, he actually did urinated out in e mid of e night ard 1.30am. I cannot sleep much coz i keep waking up to see if he did urine again or not. So that i can change him or wake him up to urine. End up he wanted to sleep n told me dun want. So just 1 pool of urine at 1.30am. He got up early as 7.50am this morn n go toilet urinated out a big pool of urine. His diapers can keep at home n wait til Javier reaches e size then let didi wear.
We are all happy for Jaden. Yes indeed toilet training cannot b forced. we tried in e past n i oso went to read up. Specialists said cannot b rushed. When they r ready, they r ready. So i took e belief that if 1 day my son is ready, he will eventually b ready. So finally, we waited the day to come. He is ready. Yippee... Hooray!
Tingting's 2nd child, Ayden, held his full month showers at their humble house yesterday noon. I cannot reveal his Chinese name yet as the master told Ting to start calling his Chinese name only after 4mth old. So, let's all just call him Ayden.
Bcoz of some situation cropping up, the confinement lady tat she engaged did not come, luckily i managed to get ah-yi to help. Ah-yi helped Ting with her confinement, n I felt relieved that she was happy with ah-yi's 'service' n experience as a confinement lady.
Ayden came out early as 36wk+. But v healthy. After Javier's class, I went over alone.
Happy to catch up with my ex-colleagues from PHPPS. Spent a great noon there chatting.
We will have to catch up soon again, haha! Though we had left PHPPS one by one, but our frdship is always there. Let me find 1 day to gather them all again. It's just so fun catching up to gossip anything under e sun.
Glad to koe that Ting has done her confinement well with ah-yi's help. Hope every1 is going on well with their respective careers. We shall all catch up again!
After postponing for a week, we finally went for our buffet dinner!
Bought e deal online as it was so much cheaper! Considered as a date lah, a short one.
It was my 1st time making a rojak, n I was happy! Haha...
There were many ppl yesterday at e hotel, Melting Pot. Most of them actually bought e deal too. We had a very full dinner, real full one. Almost bloat
ed, but I think e varieties not too much. I love e soups especially! the desserts were great too, but I am just too full to go for more. I think shld b the coke's fault.
I shall look for other buffets soon. Well, I was supposed to control my diet, but.... glutton me lah. Haha....
Although it's just a short dinner date btwn e both of us, but I am equally contented. Yes, I agreed we must have couple time at least once a week, just the 2 of us.
I'll b starting work real soon officially, n hope we will have time to eat together as 2 again.
The birthday that we were looking forward to has finally ended yesterday around 9.15pm! It was Javier's 2nd birthday yesterday!
Had invited e usual gang of friends... TABLE.. Tays, Aws, Bongs (us with wenxian n xiaolin), Lees... Together with both side of e parents, my 4eva loving siblings, my future SIL... Gugu, this year added 2 more ppl... hubby's cousin n hubby...
The dinner started at ard 6.30pm. We ordered mini buffet from xinyipin.. hubby went to buy xtra fried rice, bcoz e main dish we ordered was bee hoon... lucky he bought rice, some of them preferred to have rice yesterday evening.
Javier, e main role of the evening, did not have enuf nap, thus fussing n crying! It was a crying birthday for him. Haha. But it did not stop us from continuing to eat n chat n had our own fun time.
I ordered desserts specially for the guests, though there were eclairs. Luckily e reviews of the desserts were ok. It was cheesecake in a jar, with diff flavours... Phew.. Glad to see them like it.
Cake, we ordered from bengawan solo. Javier's mood became better during cake cutting session. Haha. Jaden was then fussing already n making a scene.
The whole event ended ard 9.15pm, n Javier slept at 11pm. But he got up at 7.30am today.. so early.. yawn... Haha..
Thanks every1 for turning up yesterday to share e joy n celebrate the crybaby's birthday. It was great catching up n shall meet up again soon! Happy birthday Javier. We all hope you can always be healthy n smart always!
Javier's birthday is coming up in less than 1 week's time. I treat it as a gathering for the TABLE gang. Our last gathering was during the CNY! Oh my, so long ago liao loh...
I just placed the order for the mini buffet. Initially wana make steamboat, but in e end I scared not enough time to prepare all the ingredients all by myself. The cake we had decided on e design liao too. Will not b as extravagant as Jaden's 1st bday cake like tat, customised. We will order from Bengawan Solo, looney tunes design, since Javier is born in e year of rabbit... getting baby bugs bunny design. Tmr will go Pioneer Mall outlet to place my order.
I had gone to an extra mile to order a kind of dessert for my personally invited guests. Private event I should say, Haha! I just emailed e company to place e flavours that my guests had chosen. Sat noon will go down collect, 1 day in advance, bcoz they dun open on Sunday.. Boo.... Hope it's nice. I saw e comments given by patronists, n e rates were good.
I koe I won't b in time to slim down for Javier's birthday! Haha, coz today only started my 1st session of tummy slimming treatment. Well, I am really broke now liao.. hehe.
It's going to b a small event with my pals, family members, tats all. Less than 20 ppl. It's been a long time ever since we last met as a big group. I miss my pals, really. It'll be a celebration held in the evening this Sunday, on his actual birth date. I hope Javier can b more obedient, b more friendly, b more cheerful too! Most imptly is good health!
Looking forward to his mini birthday celebration on Sunday. See u my pals!
