6th May Request to be carried

Not sure if we are to be blamed, Ryann seems to enjoy being carried around then walking around these days.

Initially, he loves to walk on his own. He prefers to walk without holding our hands. This strong little boy will resist and will pull our hands away.
These days, when I put him down to walk, he refuse to walk and will stand in front of me with his arms raised, requesting for me to carry him instead. When I refuse to oblige to his request, he will start to throw tantrums.

I am starting to see the ‘D’ character in him. Better start reading my notes on how to handle a ‘D’ character person in a more effective way.

4th May Honey horse Ha Ha Ha

When i was practicing the zoo phonics with him, I deliberately stopped at honey horse and was waiting for his actions but I didn’t expect him to say Ha Ha Ha (phonics pronunciation of the letter 'H') together with its actions. Feeling very touched and happy. I think it feels better then kenna 4D (although i never kenna 4d before la). =p

3rd May Sunday dinner with in laws

Ryann's 2nd Tots class was better then last week but he still cannot sit still at times. He was ok in the beginning but started to fidget when it is the zoo bag segment.

Today, we learned about the letter R - Rabbit. Ryann wasn't interested with the rabbit puppet at all. He started wandering around the room and pointing at the posters (always). Only when we started rolling balls on the floor to introduce the word 'Roll' when he started coming back to the mat and playing with his favorite ball. He enjoyed playing with water sprayed from the bottle spray when they introduced the word 'rain'. Ryann has always been curious about the umbrella and when teacher Wei opened the umbrella, he immediately hided under the shade. One of the funniest parts is when we introduced the word 'raisins'. Teacher Wei gave him a raisin. He didn’t want to eat it (choosy over food); he fed me in my mouth. *Touched.

During the flash cards segment, Ryann tap his lap when we said honey horse. So far I think he knows a few letters such as dee dee deer, honey horse and inny inchworm. At times, he seems to know how to show A,C and E but only when he in good mood. He seems to be able to concentrade when teacher wei joined the letters together to form 3 letter word. Today we learned about Rat. I am not expecting him to understand it but at least with these classes, his eye contact problem improved tremendously. I hope to see improvement in his speech soon.

Today's activities was pretty much challenging for Ryann. Food tasting and labeling. They were asked to taste tomato sauce, marmite and kaya. At the same time they label the food with smiley face or unhappy face to indicate if he like it or not. Ryann just refused to eat them. =(

Class ended with dance using the music player as teacher Russell was on leave. Ryann was jumping and dancing through out.

We collected our zoo phonics cards and went for our gathering dinner with my in laws.

For the first time, Ryann allowed my father in law to carry him. He even refused to come down. My father in law was so happy that he finally gets to have a chance to carry him. Such family gatherings are fruitful meetups to promote bonding between Ryann and them. Hopefully we can meet up more often (without the dog, of cos.)

2nd May Dee Dee deer and Sorry

Ryann's new stunt: Whenever I practise the zoophonics with him, he will point both of his index finger to his head like how we perform the Dee Dee deer movement. He even will move his head side to side at times. Some times he will scratch his ears like Catina Cat. Unfortunately everytime he sees my camera, he will deliberately not do it. Will try again soon.

2nd new stunt: He will hold his palm up like salute when we ask him how to say sorry. He will only do it when she feel like it but it is quite funny to see him do that.

Ryann have been eating rice with soup already but very slowly. Not sure if it is because his 9th tooth which is the right bottom molar is growing or becos he is just plain lazy to chew. Hopefully things will get better tomorrow as we will be eating out.

1st May Meeting up with my best friends

Since it is public holiday, my best friends decided to have a mini gathering at my place. Brought Ryann to NTUC in the morning so that i can get all the ingredients ready. We had breakfast at Punggol plaza first.
Ryann had his usual bao. I brought chee cheong fun (without sauce) but Ryann didnt like it. Ever since he started taking normal outside food with us, he became more choosy over food.

My best friends arrived with their kids in the late afternoon. Total of 7 children, all girls. Ryann is the only boy. Nevertheless, Ryann enjoyed himself. Although the house was in a mess ( can you imagine the scene of 8 kids running around the house?), I am glad we met up for some catch up and the kids get to play with each other. Who knows they will be buddies like their mummies too?

I hope our friendship will last till our kids grow up! Love you guys, Eggies!

The 3 little ones are of the same year and the girl behind is the eldest girl among them. Big age gap but they still enjoyed playing together.

29th Apr Swine flu alert

sry for the lack of updates.... Been busy setting up policies for the club in case Swine Flu hit Singapore. Been talking about Swine Flu all these days and that reminded me about the recent art work that Ryann did during his sunday class.

Pink Pig. Introducing the letter 'P' and also mixing red with white to get pink. Great fun playing and this 'pink pig' certainly is healthy and flu free. =p

28th Apr disappointing zoo trip

Deliberately took leave to go to the zoo with hubby and mum today. We wanted to leave home early but the weather stopped us from doing so. The rain did stop by the time we reached the zoo for breakfast but it started to rain again just before we went in.




Despite the light drizzle, we went in with our umbrellas and stroller after waiting for more than 1 hour outside the zoo.

Due to the rain, we didn't get to see many animals. *sad

Ah meng not around anymore but we had our lunch at the Ah Meng Restaurant. Quite sad that Ah meng is not around any more, cos i really can sense the humanity side of her. It is a pity that Ryann never get to see her before.

We will go to the zoo again but the next time we will check out the weather forecast first.

26th Apr 1st Tots class and our tiring sunday

I was 'blanking' on the blog page for a good 5 minutes not knowing what to write about today. I am lost and I don't know how to describe my day. It was filled with struggles, cries, tiring arms, anger and tiredness.

Began the day with Ryann refusing to come down from his stroller after breakfast. For weeks he has been behaving like that, refusing to come down from the stroller and cries the moment I unbuckle the seat belt. I still don't understand why. With him not speaking yet, worsen the situation. I allowed him to cry for a while, ignored him for a good 5 minutes. Despite his cries, I insisted and carried him out of the stroller and kept it. Of course that triggered more cries and tantrums. I continue to ignore him until he walk over to me and tried to hug me. I don't think any mummy can resist that. Painful to see him cry but discipline is a must too.

Crying episodes didn't stop just there. When I tried to bring him into his new class today, he almost broke into tears too. Luckily he seems to recognize Teacher Russell and Teacher Wei. During the playtime, he was more settled down. He helped to keep the toys without being asked by me. Thinking it was a good start but I was wrong. It was just the beginning. He became very restless in class, fidgeting every time, refused to sit still and was not attentive at all.

Queeny quail caught his attention but not when the teachers tried to introduce the words queen and quiet. During his favourite flash cards segment, he went all the way to the front for a better view and was trying to take the cards from teacher Wei as usually in babes class, they will be asked to match the cards after the flashing segment. But there was a new segment for the tots class teaching 3 letter words using Zoophonics method. Ryann wasn't attentive and he didn't want to do matching with the small cards as well. Needless to say about how he behaved during the last segment of the class when they introduced the masking tape (sticky), pebbles (hard), cotton wool (soft) and bubble wrap with lotion (bumpy and slippery).

After class, we meet hubby at orchard and proceed to woodlands for war number 3. Ryann cried the moment we went into the house. Only managed to calm down after a while. It was my first attempt of eating out without cooking porridge for him. Rice with winter melon soup, fish ball, veggies and fish. Slow but he managed to finish them all.

After that was all struggles and cries which I think it could be due to his tiredness. He cries at the slightest things and just refused calm down. All these ended with a crying baby and frustrated daddy and mummy.

I thought mother instinct would teach me how? Why isn't it working for me now?

Flash cards practice

25th Apr Boys are boys

Yesterday, Sis brought Rhys a power ranger sword toy and Ryann seems to like it alot. Rhys was playing with it before he put down the toy to wear his shoes.That was when Ryann immediately ran towards Rhys, grab the toy and ran away! This is the first time i saw him doing that. Of cos Rhys started crying when that happen but Ryann just refused to return to Rhys. We had to grab the toy, returned it to Rhys and quickly distract him with other toys.

I went to buy something similar from the power ranger range and he liked it too.