Role Play - Teacher

Samuel the teacher - Recently he likes to be 'teacher' and we are his 'students'.

Samuel: Let me tell you story.

Mummy: Ok!

Samuel: I am teacher, you are baby.

Mummy: erhm..I am children.

Brings out his story book.....he goes...

Samuel: Say..."Fruits"....

Mummy: Fruits...

Samuel: This is pineapple

Mummy: Teacher...wrong...This is a Pear! Waaahaahaaa

He is so adorable when he is role playing 'teacher'! He is mimicking his school teachers. He even 'distribute' worksheets(rough papers) to us.

I am enjoying every bits of his growing up and have to embrace his nonsenses (Tantrum/sulking/demands)...oh well, it is a package deal of having children.

Simple Pleasures in Life

Simple pleasure in life makes him excited:

1. Half boiled eggs for b/f with bread, he loves his wholemeal bread w/ no trimming off the skin! (Last i heard he fought w/ my maid for the top/bottom ends of the bread!)

2. Roti Prata

3. Curry Chicken (he is learning to eat spicer food..bravo!)

4. Trip to the playgrounds downstairs

(on & off, he still try his luck, asked if he can go FIDGETS...i told him we can go again if he can 'poo' sitting on the toilet bowl! He still has to poo in his pull up pants!!!)

5. Visits to toy shops even if no buying....he is ok with that!

6. Loves watching Noddy and Tom & Jerry cartoons now...those are classic ones which I used to watch during my childhood time.

The list goes on.... and yes, still as cheeky as ever and he agrees, Cheeky Boy!!

22 months old....

Pictures of Sam above to share…he has his haircut last Sunday, brave boy…no crying although he has his initial fear and almost wanted to ‘back out’. His pony tail still in tag, we aren’t going to trim off till he goes to P1. :)

How time flies…it’s been 5mths since my last post. Many things has happened, both at work and home but 1 thing is for sure, my boy has not stopped growing…he is a ‘big boy’ now! Turning 3 yrs old in 2 months time. I have been really busy at work due to some role restructuring but am glad for the change, to a certain extent, I pretty like changes, changes for the good definitely!

In April, we had our family trip to Phuket, Sam had his first deep sea experience, we went snorkeling and of cos’ he was ‘thrilled’ to bits that he is afraid of beach/swimming …hahahahaa! He enjoyed the sand play though and I hope to have another beach holiday soon! *hint hint* Samuel daddy…if you reading this!

I had a mini holiday with my mum, my twin, our primary sch friend and my colleague to BKK recently…a good break away from the hustle & bustle of work and family. All ladies trip, it was good although I felt sick on the day before we depart and ended up doing a lot of massage sessions and of cos’ shopping trips here & there. I still love to shop, eat and enjoy the thai massages a lot, will definitely go back again.

Samuel is pretty much adventurous in term of food, he is willing to try out new stuff. Over the weekend, we went for our prata ‘fix’ again, happen to be Samuel’s favourite too! This time round, we ordered mutton curry and requested him to try. With an initial hesitation, he pluck up the courage to try, asked for his water bottle on standby, he chewed the meat, tender and a little spicy…and down the water immediately after swallowing that chuck of meat, that wasn’t the end of cos’….he ate 2 more pcs thereafter. Well done…Spice baby!!

February 22, 2010: Cooking Craze ...

This is for Samuel’s ardent fans…

Lately He is into his ‘cooking craze’ again. Every day after school, he will immediate come home and wants to play his cooking toys…I think those were the best value for money toys we have invested. Yesterday after church service when we picked him up at N2, he was playing cooking alone at 1 corner while a volunteer helper looks on. When he saw me, he told me, ‘I cooking beef stew!’….he looks so happy in his own world of kitchen.

January 8, 2010: Defeated...no school today!

After 4 days of school, my little boy felt sick...down with fever today. He was actually dressed(as you see above) but I felt that he is abit warm than usual and took his temperature - 38deg.

Mummy: Samuel, you're sick...you can't go school today!
Samuel: I want go school!
Mummy: You're running a fever, touch your head, hot hot.
Samuel: I want go school!
Mummy: Change out your uniform and take your medicine.
(I get ready to leave house while my hubby searched for the medicine and samuel reached for his crocs - in his home attire. At least he associate home attire is crocs sandal, not the usual shoes for school...so smart!)
Mummy: Samuel...put back your shoes, you're not going out.
Samuel(whinning): I want wear shoes...

To pacify him, we let him wear a new pair of crocs in the house and off I went to work.

January 6, 2010: Day 3 in school

I decided the quicker way to go for Samuel to be independent is to cancel my planned leave yesterday morning and have him board the bus alone...off he went to school. Mrs Lim, the class teacher updated me yesterday's afternoon that he is doing better than previous day, cried abit at 11am..probably starting to feel tired, otherwise his attention span alittle longer but still likes to roam freely. Good headstart for him!

Mummy: Do you like school?
Sam: I like school
Mummy: You like to take school bus to school?
Sam: I like take school bus
Mummy: What did the auntie give you in the bus?
Sam: Auntie gives biscuits, auntie gives sweets

No wonder he likes taking school bus....bribes on the bus..hahahaha!

January 4, 2010: 1st day of school for Samuel

With much anticipation, the day finally arrived...our little boy is heading for pre-nursery school now, a 3 hourly daily fun filled activities lesson. His new school - Centre of New Life Kindergarten is about 10mins walk from my place but we opted for him to take the school bus for safety reason rather than having the domestic helper to accompany him. Took the school bus with him today to familiar with the route, he's the last to be picked up and 2nd to drop off after school...short bus ride but he enjoyed it. He behaves the same as in sunday nursery class in church, very active and likes to roam around freely in class. Fuss free, no crying...kept aiming at the door waiting to run out to have his hands on the tricycles and little tikes car(which are out of bound to all kids today!). After 2 hrs thru' his lesson, he toned down, energy soon depleted...haahaaha. He tried to snatch toys from a bigger size boy but was 'humptum'(not once but twice cos' he tried to snatch toys from the bigger size boy!)...serve him right for snatching toys, hope he learnt his lesson! There's only 3 'roses' among the 12 'thorns' in his class. :)

Dec 2009: Fun @ Polliwogs

Had fun at Polliwogs with Aloysius, posing above with my primary school mate, Felicia - friend for more than 20 years now. These are friends that I cherished and we can talk about anything and still feel very much at ease even when we meet ie. once or twice a year.

2nd Birthday Celebration

We had a small birthday party with my family today, Samuel was thrilled and seemed to know abit more about birthday and could say 'happy'. How time flies...he is turning 2 in 10 days time. Am amazed at how fast he has grown and thank God for his good health and happy nature.

I Love CAPS

When Sam was younger, he hates to wear caps. As he grow older(& more 'vain' I think), he loves wearing his caps, strange eh! He will cry if you try taking it off his head unless we reached home. It's hard to find nice and fitting caps for him, if any of you know where, let me know.

Going TWO soon...

Sam in sunday nursery class in church, enjoying his biscuit snack time! This is the only time that he will sit down and munch, the teachers recently feedback that he has such big strength that he will pushed away those heavy cabinets/shelves surrounding the play area and sneak out!! Ooops...did we feed him too much beef?

This is Sam's 2nd birthday gift from us ... he was frighten when I used the 'remote control' with him in the car and refused to sit inside! I got this 'mini' from a BP spree, abt 25% cheaper than retail price. He rather his teddy bear sit inside than him, hopefully he will overcome this fear soon. He is also scared of those coin operated kiddy rides...*faint*.

Trip to Farmart

Mummy & Daddy brought me to Farmart for the first time, there's really nothing much to see except alot of live seafood there. We didn't buy much stuff except for some yummy freshly based portugese egg tarts, a box of quail eggs and some vegetables.

1 week ago - new hair cut

After 10-15mins of crying, a tired & sleepy Sam you see! It is still a tedious chore to bring him for haircut, hope this phase will pass soon and we will bring him for cut more often to help him overcome the ordeal. This time round, no fancy hair salon, this is $5 at a barber which is 2 bus stops away from where we live. Be it $5 or $20 haircut, he also cries his lung out!

Cheeky face

This is how he looks when he's cheeky!

These days it's tough to get him to sit still to take decent shots....

Samuel's new pet...The Dalmatian

"Sit...don't keep bouncing up & down!"

Been wanting to get a pet dog balloon for Samuel...it can "walk"!! He is so excited and walked the dog up and down the hallway and very upset when I teased him this morning, 'Mummy bringing doggie to work'! :)

Going 20 months...

Been out of action for quite some time as am caught up with chasing HK drama...haahaa.


Mummy tired me out that I dozed off in this push car.

Little Pianist in the making ...stay tune!


Flower basket presented to Mummy ...from Samuel (auntie sharon helped me to arrange the flowers...so pretty right)