Amanda’s Blog!

Hi darling,

It has been a fantastic 2 weeks spent with you! After that 1 week spent at JG, mummy signed you up at Zoo-phonics for another 1 week of holiday programme. It would have been better if you were not down with fever then… thus you missed 2 lessons out of the 5, but needless to say, the 3 days was really well spent.. the theme was summer safari, where you learnt MORE about the different safari animals like lion, leopard, cheetah, porcupine, giraffe, zebras etc. I was really happy to see you enjoying yourself tremendously.. when you first reached there, your eyes were so tihgtly shut, but you slowly opened up and then you kept going forward in front of teacher Esther, to have the first peek at what she is showing to the class, you were happily dancing away to the music times too! Thus, this tells me that you are ready for pre-school.. you are almost fully potty trained (accidents do happen of course), your eating habits are getting better *crossed figners* you can communicate with us now and listen to intructions, thus we have decided to enrol you in Mind Champs pre-school.. signing you up for the full day programme, but you will only be going for the half day programme as Ah Gong and Wai Po will be fetching you back then.. one of the main reasons for sending you there is that daddy and mummy do not want you to waste your time at home watching too much tv… ok I do admit, those educational VCDs are really educational, but think you are toally addicted! You will ask for Blue’s Clues or baby signing times the min you wake up, you will constantly ransack the vcd cupboard, snatch the remote control from us and turn to your fav "2" channel (video channel), dont know whether it is a good or bad thing that Ah Gong taught you how to switch the tv to video mode and how to change vcds… you even attack the computer now! You also know that you need to use the mouse to click on the screen in order to load the vcd… you always say *loading loading loading* whenever you sucessfully load the vcd and you will be so delighted… enough is enough, I dont want you to end up wearing glasses b4 you even start going for formal school… and you have been blinking your eyes really hard nowadays… *too much tv*

Brought you to Mind Champs today and was decided when you could read ALL the words on the Father’s Day Banner: You are my hero, daddy" It was your first time seeing the banner and hey you can read all the words! Mummy was beaming with pride when I heard what you said.. you can even read "The coffee bean tea leaf" and spell the individual letters too… you know all the sounds of each 26 letters and is able to match the soudns to each letter.. this really made my staying at home with you worth it and I really really wish that I can continue to stay on to look after you at home for as long as possible… why didnt I do so, you can go ask Wai Po and Daddy the reason why *hmpf*