24th Apr Updates about Ryann

Ryann recover from his stomach flu already. Thank God. Luckily he didn’t reject soymilk. Now we are trying to adjust back to Nan by changing one feed a day. His appetite seems to get better each day.

For the past few days, other then the usual running stools and poor appetite, Ryann is still alert and active. I even caught him trying to play the piano using his buttocks. **Faintz

I have met up with some of my besties recently for dinner and heard so much about the terrible twos period that was driving them mad. And of cos i experience that as well but on double doses as Ryann is not talking yet. Whenever he wants something, he will whine and whine. He refuses to come down from the stroller. He will cry and throw tantrums. When he don't get his way, he will start show his frustrations by either pulling his clothes, kicking his legs or sweeping the toys away. Sometimes, I do not understand his request and that make things even worse. I can only try to ask him questions so that he will nod his head or shake his head to reply me. That works some times. But I hope Ryann will start speaking soon. Not only he is frustrated, I feel that too, for not being able to calm him down and to understand his needs.

p/s: brought a new chair for Ryann. Been eyeing on that for a long time.

20th Apr First meet the parents session

This is the first time I am going for an official meet the parents’ session. Mrs. Koh have requested to see me so that she can update me on Ryann's progress.

Ryann must be feeling surprised that all 3 of us (mum, hubby and myself) are bringing him to school today. As usual, he started crying as we approach the door. He refuses to let go and kept clinging on to me. It all continues until I hand him over to Mrs. Koh. He ran inside himself and sat down on the mat. Crying stops from there.

We walk over to the back of the center to peek through he window. Ryann was coping fine, playing with toys. We tried to hide and not let him see us. He seems to be coping fine.

Mrs. Koh mentioned that he is getting better in class already thou he doesn't really get involved with the activities some times. He will tend to show his unhappiness and anger when he doesn't get his way. She further explained that because my mum is rather loud usually and thus Ryann might be used to loud voices. In this case, by raising our voices when we want to discipline him might not work at all. We can try using our body language such as stamping our feet, hands on our hips or our facial expression to show him that what he is doing is not right.

For the past one week, Ryann always like to hide at the books corner. Mrs. Koh deliberately go against his wishes so that he will know that the teachers call the shots here. This will help Ryann identify teachers as the authority figure.

So far I am pretty happy with Mrs. Koh as I felt that she is responsible and will always update me with Ryann's progress. Hopefully Ryann will love school soon.

** When will stupid cough bugs go away? Ryann is coughing and having fever again. Sobs

Cute moments of Ryann

p/s: pardon me of the bad singing, i lost my singing vocal.

10 little fingers tickle tickle tickle

Lets see how quiet Ryann can be.

The babies on the bus cry wah wah wah! Once he see tat i am doing a video recording, he don't want to do anymore. So hao lian. =p

Ryann's Artwork

continued from previous post

Ryann's bubble art

Ryann's orange art work

Red plus yellow = orange

19th Apr An eventful day

I cannot stand Ryann's hair anymore. We brought him to Hwa Xia for his hair cut. At the entrance of the shop, he already started crying. The crying episode continues through out the process and he refuse to sit down. Finally when he is done, he was already wet from tears from crying and sweat from all the struggling. He looks really like hubby with his short hair.


Today's class is the last class for this term. After this term, Ryann is going to join the bigger kids for the tots class. Just as we approach the classroom door, he started to show signs of wanting to cry but when he saw Teacher Wei, he started to warm up a little.


We learned letter P. Ryann wasn't listening to teacher Russell when she introduced the word Pillow but the powder that she was holding caught his attention. Teacher Russell tried to pour some powder onto Ryann's hands and he started rubbing it. This was considered the first encounter with powder. He seems very curious about it.


Teacher Russell read the 3 little pigs story for all the kids. By then , the situation was already quite chaotic but teacher Russell managed to use her voice and intonation to catch the attention of all the kids. Inside my heart, I am glad teacher Russell will still be Ryann's teacher. To be frank, if both of them were not Ryann's teacher, I think I will definitely drop out from GUG.


Today's artwork is to introduce the color pink. Ryann was supposed to mix red and white paint to get pink color on the pig artwork. Of cos Ryann enjoyed playing with all those paint.


During music class, Ryann was dancing while we sang some songs. One of the songs, Ryann was given a toy hammer and we were supposed to knock knock knock and stop. Ryann find that real amusing that he started laughing when we stopped. We took a class photo and I will miss this class.

18th Apr Ryann is doing well in school

Ryann learned that he has to raise his hand when Mrs Koh calls for his name. Sometimes, he even raises both hands. He will walk to the magnet board and place a magnet on the board. That is the usual routine they practice in school everyday. First, they take the attendance by calling out names then they were asked to place a magnet on the board.

I am glad Ryann behaves well in school. Although there is still some crying episodes but it is a great improvement already. Hopefully Ryann will like school.

17th Apr Ryann is behaving better in school

Ryann seems to have improved in class. Although he still cries during the first half of the class, he starts to behave better during the 2nd segment. He started drinking water and having biscuits. That is a good start. Hopefully, he will stop crying.

I have heard from mum that some of the elder kids like Ryann alot. Whenever they caught the sight of him coming to school, they will tell their parents that the di di who always cry is here already. =( My little cry baby, But i am glad he is progressing in school.

In school, everytime Mrs Koh mark attendance, the kids must raise their hands, grab a button magnet and place it on the magnetic board. Thus i brought some small magnets for some home play. Hopefully he will get used to the routine soon.

15th Apr Cold Sores back in attack

Irritating cold sore virus seems to have came back. The core sold on Ryann lips seems red and fierce looking. Lets just pray hard that it is not another attack. The thought of it already make me feel so tired. Disturb sleep for Ryann means lack of sleep for mummy and daddy.
Please put Ryann in your prayers f0r healing. Thanks in advance.

p/s: Mrs Koh mentioned that Ryann is still crying in class but is much better then before. I am glad to know that Ryann is starting to adapt well. Hopefully he will adapt well in the tots class too.

13th Apr Ryann play truant

My tele-conversation with Mum

Me: Mummy, Ryann got cry or not today?

Mum: No. Ryann today very good boy, he never cry.

Me: Wah, so good boy today. Suddenly not scare anymore.

Mum: Because he is at home, of course never cry la. Today he play truant, never go school.

*Faintz... mum said Ryann was feeling sleepy in the morning and thus he overslept. =(

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Ryann was very alert during bed time. I couldn't get him to lay down on the bed. He kept trying to stand up. I raised my voice at him to tell him 'No'. Guess what? he started rubbing both of his eyes like crying. And where did he learn that?
The wheels on the bus song. As one part of the song sings:

"The babies on the bus goes wah wah wah (rubbing eyes action)"
Every time he accidentally hit me or cause pain to me, i will just rub both of my eyes like i am crying. So now he is showing me the same thing as well. BTH. Will try to get that down in video.

12th Apr Ryann's class

Today, Ryann managed to concentrate better in class. Although he still run about during the zoo bag segment, for the rest of the segment, he is still quite keen in listening. When we were introducing the number 10, he was watching the teachers attentively. I also realized that he loved the white board.

Today we covered the letter 'O'. We learned about octopus, orange and oil. During this segment, Ryann always like to just wonder about. Teachers prepared orange for him eat but he never liked them anyway so i rejected it. He wasn't even listening to the teachers when they introduce the word oil. When the flashcards came out, he sat down attentively to listen.
He managed to match both the zoo cards 'i' and 'o' accurately.

Today's artwork consist of mixing the yellow and red paint to get orange color. Then use the orange stamp to create orange stamp prints. Before we could start with the stamping, Ryann already got his hands all stained with paint and he was practically playing with the paint then stamping.

During class, we will introduce social skills such as waiting patiently, taking turns and sharing. Ryann have shown slight improvement on that. But at times, he refused to return the toys even after the clean up song. Hopefully by next term, he will be able to learn from the elder kids.

After class, we went shopping around in Orchard road while waiting for hubby to finish work. Send my bag for cleaning. Brought belts for $5 each. So cheap. Bugis is selling at least $12.90. Oh no, i am getting more auntie. =p Ryann was feeling too tired that he fell asleep at 8pm in his stroller.

Tomorrow is working day again. I am gonna miss Ryann again.