Monday Blues

Why  are Monday’s so boring? But time flies fast this morning than usual, sibuk sikit submitting accounting reports for Germany office.  Alhamdulillah, Hairee is feeling better from a high fever he had last Friday..no flu..no cough suddenly teacher from school called saying he had a high fever at 38’ +.

We have a laid-back weekend staying at home and done my most-hated chore, folding laundry right on time, bravo Aiza...  I hate hate hate folding laundry, so instead of washing clothes everyday or every alternate day like other wives does I will only do my entire laundry once a week that includes bed sheets, towels, clothes and kitchen clothes. My mother in-law always teasing me that the washer is getting weak if working non-stop for the whole day..but I've been doing it for the past 8 years with same washer..anyway the washer got 6 days rest and only working non-stop for 1 day (klu betul rosak ada chance tak beli washer with dryer tak yah sidai..angan kuat..pemalas kan hehe). I don't see the points doing it everyday if I just dump piling of laundry into the basket without folding it...

These are things that he brought home last week

From school..science project, bean sprout

Birthday cake creation from daycare group

Family picture..Kamen rider pun family dia..:)

Seperation anxiety

Dalam beberapa minggu ini dia buat perangai semula tapi kali ini lain adegan pulak. Agak lagi 2km nak sampai school akan ada lakonan dalam kete...muka 'chewek' buat sedih-sedih pastu gosok-gosok mata kengkonon menangis..bila I tanya why? Ibu I don't want to go to school, I want to follow you.... hah dah pulak. So, dah beberapa hari kene bawa dia naik kelas lepas tu ada adengan pelukan takmau kene tinggal..dia dah buat perangai semula, seperation anxiety.

Monday, teacher cakap he did not focus. mmm..last nite tanya dia baik2..why? dia cakap..I don't want to go to school ibu..pastu I cakap..you cannot follow me to work..then dia cakap..I want to go to shops...(tergelak pun ada)..hubby terus ckp..dah berapa bulan kita tak pergi shopping mall itu dia mogok kot...kakakaka. Then tanya lagi, do you like your school or do you want to change school again...then dia jawap...I like my school...blur ibu skrg.

Serious, we got problem now..mula-mula cikgu kata dia slow in writing and coloring, and now tak focus pulak..what should we do? Patut ke stop kan school sekejap..dia dah bosan ke? Kalau dekat rumah bukan main bersemangat..tapi bukan kat sekolah.

Smlm ambik cuti bawa dia jalan2 sambil jumpa doctor ambil ubat, brainwash sekali, pujuk baik..pagi ni dah bersemangat tapi sampai school buat lah perangai semula, buat muka sedih nak ikut ibu..tapi kali ini tinggal kan aje dia takmau manja2 sangat.

Anak sorang dah pening gini..Hairee tak mau lah buat ibu susah hati ye..

First school trip

Some pictures taken from last Thursday, 24th of March when Hairee with his school friends went to the High-5 Bread Factory in Shah Alam organised by the kindergarten. Since, parents 'boleh join' but extra pay so I decided to tag along.

Everyone anxiously waiting to hop on the bus

 In the bus

 At 'waiting room' waiting for an officer for factory tour

 Let's go

 Grouping picture after factory visits

 Getting free breads for lunch and packed home from High-5

I have a long chat with Tumi's mom (Hairee's classmate) from Iceland while our kids playing at the back seats of the bus until we reached the school.

School Holiday

Talking about his school progress, early last month I start getting reports from teachers that he is having meltdowns over coloring and writing. I got really distraught and meeting his class teacher one afternoon to hear the real problem.

According to her this seems to be the only problem, he has friends, sociable, he enjoys singing, dancing and likes cutting and pasting but when everyone else were doing coloring or writing he seems to get distracted easily, stop his work and start dreaming and talking which end up he did not finish on time and teachers has to put him at one corner finishing his work whereas the others doing something else. Although it may not a big deal to them but I’m so glad that his teacher came and talk to me earlier, in fact she has given priority to him right now. After having long discussion, we concluded that he would probably just get unexciting with the same thing that he has been doing for the past two years in the old kindergarten. We replaced a few things like from color pencils to giant crayons, fancy coloring books. I even told his teacher to take it easy on him just make sure he participate and give him other materials that make him more enjoyable. So I guess getting to school at early ages does not bring any advantages.

Surprisingly, he shows a lot of improvement in this week at home, he could finish coloring fast, hold the pencil properly and start recognizing A – D. Hopefully he is doing fine at school as well.

Last week I took 5 days off taking the advantages of school holiday to spend time with him away from school. I wish I could spend more time with him every day but at the moment I still need to work to share  the financial burden of raising him and family. Sesungguhnya Allah knows what is best for us.

Ok, what we did together last week on school holiday

Pictures with nenek above on the way to Muar attending wedding

 With kakak Jehan on the way to the Cinema

Hairee first time watching cinema - Mars Needs Moms 3D

Playland in Bukit Tinggi Jusco Klang

With daddy in Pusat Sains Damansara watching Dinasor alive 

 

Tadaa....till we holiday again on next school holidays

New Gadget

He is so addicted to Kamen Riders now. I‘m actually quite amazed at how he could memorize all of their names by just looking at the pictures, there are so many of them with different looks and colors I myself would crack my head to even remember a few of it. Not only names, he remembers the movement and kicking style of each and saying it in Japanese word HENSIN!!. When he’s in a bad mood and ignores me, I would just start the conversation by mentioning one of the Kamen Riders and bla..bla.. how that fellow kicks and that, and in a second he’ll cheer-up and start talking to me non-stop and if I tried to switch the conversation, he would just ignore it and still talking about his fantasy..boy..boy.

On the first day of Chinese New Year hubby was so generous to give him ‘Big’ angpow not in cash but gadget, Sony PSP with loaded of games including Kamen Riders games. It took him about a month to familiarize himself and we are so delighted he loves it. Well, frankly speaking I’m not sure whether it is right time for him to expose in the gadgets world as he’s still too young but hubby has his own idea. Yea perhaps, nowadays children as age as baby already know how to play iphone, iPod..pep.

That sign 'peace' automatic dia akan buat setiap kali ambik gambar, cikgu skolah ajar ;) 

Picture of him with Kamen Riders in Toy Museum in Penang last December

Johan's Birthday

Last weekend my sister did small birthday celebration for her only son, Johan. Macam biasa my havoc boy memang suka aje everytime when telling him about going to his cousins house tapi bila sampai sana gaduh, pastu baik..main sama-sama..pastu gaduh balik..baik..main sama-sama sampai kene pujuk ajak balik.

Dah 3 tahun Johan, beza about 4 month younger than Hairee

Tengok siapa yang terlebih excited

Johan is still recovering from minor operation on his leg,

shyly boy refused to blow the candles out

 and...see who is taking charge to blow the candles out ?...hahaha

Pictures below taken many months back in my sister house. He just loves staying in aunty iza's house, playing with his cousins was just so fun to the point he insisted that we drop by to my sister house everyday. Soon, I'll be sending him twice a week to my sis house for muqaddam lesson, insyallah.

Hairee goes to new school

Initially, I have no intention of giving up the old kindergarten mainly because I like the mandarin system that they have. It was proved right in front of us when Hairee could understand and talked a bit of that language with his cousins when we were in Penang. He was reluctantly to say a word at all even with  mother in-law who has been trying to talk to him in mandarin ever since but he would do what what she told to do.

But somehow, I could see that he was not happy going to the old school. He keeps begging me to bring him  to my office or rather making some excuses like stomach pain and so on. After talking to his friend's mom, I found out that they were not happy with the guardian daycare in the afternoon but he likes the school session in the morning.

So after browsing thru internet and visiting few kindergartens, I have decided to enrol him in Taska with montessori system in Sunway Damansara which is further than the old school but still somewhere around my office. What I like about this school, they practice 'independency' i.e. students got to do it everything themselves. It is pricey compare to the old plus we have to pay extra on every quarter for school activities, enrichment programs and field trips..mmmm we will see...

What I can tell right now after being in new school for nearly two months, he is happy here. He would sleep early every day and wake-up early in the morning without making all sort of naughty noises and ready to go out from the car when we reached the school. My only concern here is although they have mandarin class 3 times in a week but they don't converse mandarin in daily chaos so I'm worried he could not adopt the language for preparation to real chinese school...we will see.

Ready to go

Bawa beg sendiri

Hairee's 3rd Year Performance for 2010 Graduation

We left home early last Sunday to send my dear Hairee to school before 7.30am for preparation of his 3rd year performance. The School changed the graduation location to SRJK Yuk Chai which is not far from Taska. Instead of having to talk about the excitement of the concert, he was "thrilled, obviously" talking about hopping on the bus with his friends from Taska to Yuk Chai School, budak2 kan seronoknya naik ramai macam pergi school trip.

He already took the bus 3 times before for rehearsal and keep telling me how happy he was and reminding me not to be late to the school (i must send him by 7.30am on rehearsal day) and keep saying 'Ibu, Teacher Teo said tomorrow we take the bus again'. Too bad we could not wait until he hop on the bus as we have to leave him at Taska, have breakfast and wait at the graduation location.

Anyway, the concert started on time at 10am and he got the chance to performance first. He did so well this year much better than last year and really enjoy the show.

Skrg dlm dilema tak sure nak register dia kat sekolah ini (reason sebab dekat tempat keje) or

Pin Hwa Setia Alam, takpe masih ada setahun lagi utk fikir.

3rd year boys performance 'Brush Your Teeth', Hairee at no. 3 from right

@ 1.40min, tiba2 dia terdiam dan menyorok kerana ternampak daddy depan mata..hahaha 

3rd Year Girls Performance about 'TIGER' so cute especially girl no. 3 from right

Lepas itu ada show Merry Chritmas combination 3year boys and girls

Butterfly dia pegang tu ada ceritanya tersendiri

Sempat tengok sampai budak umur 4 tahun perform aje, tak tunggu sampai habis 

kerana budak di atas telah mengadu lapar

Terus ke SS2 belanja dia makan MCD

Kegilaan Baru Hairee - Masked RIDERS

Klu early of this year asyik cite pasal BEN 10, skrg ni asyik cite pasal MASKED RIDER pulak. Punca utama masa nak belikan CD ultraman tapi dia terambik masked rider CD..tapi memang best, cite jepun berdasarkan comics since belas belas tahun dulu sampai skrg masih ada cite baru kat jepun (kekadang aku tengok pun leka walaupun ada certain episode no subtitle). Ada mcm-mcm jenis masked riders, decade lah, den O, skull, kamen rider, kabuto..(hahaha..aku pun leh hafal..dah dia asyik cite aje).

Daddy dia pulak memang suka benda2 gini, hobby dia pun simpan collection ARMY toys which klu ku jual semua boleh settle part of our big hutang :( ..so turun kan sifat2 itu pada anaknya, lagi2 daddy rajin sgt skrg download  cite masked riders utk Hairee yg entah dah berapa byk episode..so TV di rumah hanya menayangkan masked rider at this moment. Channel cartoon tak layan skrg..

Smlm masa dia susun cantik kat TV rack..saje ambik gambar..nak tunjuk bila dia besar nanti

Skrg ini pergi mana2 bawak toys ini, dia simpan dlm box..atas katil, dlm kete..

The good things, bila dia tengok memang leka smp ternganga..bolehlah ibu mengemas dan memasak dgn aman.