Our computer had been in ICU for the past 2 months and was warded for a few days. Yesterday it was discharged and have fully recovered....so now is the time that I get to update our blog.
Shadiq turned 2 last November and have lost a lot of weight. He has bad cough and flu so in a way it made him lost his appetite. Now he is more into cornflakes, bread, rice and soup, fish and milk. He is also under toilet training. He is able to go to the toilet on his own or tells us if he wants to pee but still poops everywhere. He only tells us when he finish pooping. Funny thing is he will only go to the toilet if I am around. If not he did it everywhere. He doesn't wear pampers in the day only at night or when he sleeps. I made him go to the toilet before and after he sleeps.
He is also learning to swim. He swims in the normal pool (with buoy) and the deep pool (without buoy). He will dog-paddle around the pool and mimic swimming actions. He is going to pre-nursery next year May (they only accept when 30mths)but I brought him to my centre a few times when my mum was sick. My colleagues took turns taking care of him in their classroom. Apparently they and the children liked him. They said that he was well-behaved and did not make any fuss when he was in their classroom (surprisingly)....it seems that me and Herman's disciplining with him work out well (I hope!). Even though he is the only child right now, we did not want to spoil him and turn him into a selfish or spoilt brat. I have seen alot of brats in the centre and I dont want him to turn out into one. THe only thing that we want to teach him now is not to play rough. Herman teach him silat and play fighting with him so he tends to be quite rough with others (even with me)...He can also be very obstinate and stubborn if he doesnt get things done his way....We punished him by making him sit at a corner (the naughty corner) or not letting him play. The worst punishment that he will get is a caning from Herman (only reserved for bad or naughty things) or a pinch/smack from me. If he saw Herman with the cane, he will immediately run into a corner and said "Ampun, ampun" then crying pitifully.
I got some good books from my centre. We are shifting centres so we get to go through tons of worksheets, activity books, textbooks, storybooks, cds, etc. We were told that we can take the books if we want to as there are so many sets of them. I brought home lots of books for Yani, Elya, Ilham, Irfan and even Shadiq. xc I made him do writing and colouring too. I teach him the alphabets, numbers and shapes. Yesterday I and Shadiq went through the alphabet book together. He got along quite fine until we reached W. I pointed to W for Woodpecker and he said "No! Bird!" I pointed to the letter W and told him W is for Woodpecker but he insisted that it is a bird! Said "No!Bird!Bird!" Oh well...who is to argue with a 2 year-old.
I really do enjoy the holidays coz that is the time I really get to do a lot of things with Shadiq. Its like I have a mini-classroom in the house. We will do painting, playing with dough, writing numbers, alphabets or drawing pictures. I do alot of art and craft activities with him. Its fun and educational as well. Sure helps being a preschool teacher. I got lots of resources and fun stuffs hidden away so Shadiq sure is lucky. But I havent had enough holiday this year. Because of the shifting of new centre so our holidays are less and I have only two weeks leave. Not really enough for me to plan my activities with him but I think its better than having nothing at all.
Herman started working at SMRT for nearly 2 months now. It is better than working at Suntec in terms of having better future prospects and it is much more stable considering it is a government job. He is much happier now where he is and I told him no more job hopping from now on. Now he is into thinking of buying a condo and a car. I told him that he work for SMRT not own it to be thinking about all that. I dont mind getting a car but not the condo. It is not worth the money.
Me? Well, I am basically going to spend my entire life at this PCF centre. Besides I am going for my Speech and Drama course under Lorna Whiston Centre next year for six months. It is an established training centre and after I got the cert I can teach Speech and Drama at any place. It will be fun and quite entertaining in a way. No news about my bonus yet. Everyone have already been appraised about their performance except me. My principal told me that I dont need to be appraised and that they are happy with my performance. Dont know how true is that but I do hope that I got a good increment for my pay. Still low though.....'sigh'...we do more work but got less for it.
Holidays? Still havent decide yet where to go. We thought about staying for 2 nights at Shangri-La Hotel at Sentosa or Downtown East Pasir Ris Chalet. Reason is because of the short holiday that I have, our bonus and Herman doesnt have enough leave to go on a long holiday. So we plan for a short holiday in Singapore during the weekends or public holidays. We do it to coincide with our bonus (at least we have money to spare!).
