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 5, 2010: 2nd day of school

Today he did not do too well, Mummy sneaked off after his morning snack and the teacher told me he was wailing intermittently thereafter. I came back around 11am and heard a familiar loud wailing sound from the lobby waiting area. Wanted to go in take a peek but another friend told me not to go in as he was looking for mummy, haahaaa. I must confessed that girls these days are tougher than boys, the 3-4 'roses' in his class did not cry at all, those 'cry babies' are the boys! A big size boy was wailing badly after the mummy left and left us stunned cos' we thought he is a tough nut based on his built! Morale of the story: Don't judge a person by his outward appearance.

This is his timetable schedule for LOVE (N1) class:

8:30 - 8:45 Assembly
8:45 - 9:05 Snack Time
9:05 - 9:35 Chinese Lesson
9:35 - 10:05 Outdoor Play
10:05 - 10:35 Music & Movement/Bible Story/Art & Craft/Exercise Time
10:35 - 11:05 English Lesson
11:05 - 11:30 Story Telling/Rhymes/Sing-a-long

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.

Recent Hair Cut

To get Samuel to have his haircut is a very torturous affair for him. Everytime we pass by the barber, we will 'pyscho' him 'want to have cut hair?', his default reply would be, "Don't want!" If we attempt to step in, he will be crying even before we set our foot into the salon, sigh! Last Saturday was the utimatum, his hair is simply too long and needed a cut. We brought the portable dvd player and loaded in Barney vcd in, still....he cried through the hair cut! At least less tears than before and he don't fidget but sat on daddy's lap crying thru' the session.

Neater right? We deliberately still keep the 'curly' tail behind, find it so cool!

His current favourite dvd

Thomas & Friends! These are the few characters he recognised and among these, he likes EMILY the most...which really surprises us! :) Opposite Attracts?

Random Pixs - Oct 2009

Haven't been blogging much lately, my dear son down with flu & cough for 6wks, still not recovered. Brought him to PD again and got a referral to do a chest X-ray, concerned that excessive cough might not be good for his lungs. Thank God that the result turns out well - lungs cleared, but he is still on medicine now, ate so much medicine for 6wks until he is 'addicted' to it. :( Will resort to TCM if this last addition of medicine don't works for him. Blame the haze...last yr this time, he also down for several weeks due to haze!


1st attempt of homemade ABF for him(after seeing SY made it for Shawn), he loves the sausage, scrambled egg ok but baked beans ...no no!




Samuel can fix a 12pc puzzle by himself...way to go boy!! I have many more sets of jigsaw puzzle waiting for him to complete...including Bob the builder and Thomas & Friends!

Enjoying picnic & kite flying at West Coast Park