Missing School

After staying home on Friday and Monday plus the weekend, JS started to miss school. Though her cough is still bad, she insist on going to school today. She said she missed her friends and teachers and that they will miss her too. After we reached school, again she insisted that she can go to the class by herself and asked me to leave.

After 1/2 year of schooling, this is one of the significant change in her. Still remembered most morning were a struggle to leave her at the school, a lot of crying, and unwillingness. Even if she’s willing to stay, she would need me to be near by to accompany her. Usually after a long break, we would start the struggle routine over again, or when she’s sick and recovered, she would still claim to be sicked and wanted to stay home longer…… those were the days and now she’s must more enthusiastic about school. Good sign.

More Art & Crafts

JS has been excused from school since last Friday due to her cough. In order to occupy her time, we have decided to do a little pape plate craft together.

Here’s the paper plate crafts. The “octopus” inspired by MG’s.

Instructions from here. I drew the outline and most of the cutting and tracing is done by JS’s herself.

And more of her drawings….

House for Big Brown Bear. The red circle is the fish pond with red fishes inside. (The nicest house in black outline was drawn by hubby…not JS’s work. )

Monitor Chain

Saw this fun tag at Immomsdaughter’s blog. Since I’m almost running out of topic to blog, my mind is on my ”new baby” now (most of the posts here are on scheduled posting which can last me through untill month end. ), decided to do this chain.

How to play (copied from Immomsdaughter’s site)

Photograph this blog post (including your monitor and its immediate surroundings), and post the resulting pic on your blog. Then the next person photographs your blog post and posts it, and so on. Leave your post URL in the comments so people will be able to follow the chain, and link your image to the post you photographed… this way people will be able to zoom into the monitors by clicking.

JS’s A Big Spender

JS’s a big spender and shopaholic just like her mummy.

Each day after school…

JS: “Mummy, where we going now?” “Mummy, let’s go Giant. want to buy something lah”

and so often she says

“Mummy, buy things for me” or “mummy, why you never buy things for me?”

Before hubby went for biz trip,

JS:” Daddy, remember to buy me things huh?”

Since she’s the apple/gem/pet of the house, she usually gets the thing she wants easily , in fact without even asking. Since she was very young, each week she has been given pocket money (not just syllings but RM10 notes each week) from her grannies. Even when we go travel, sure the aunties and grannies will give pocket money for her to spent. She doesn’t yet know that she has to work hard to get something. Everything is so easily obtainable.

Most of the time I keep the money for her, telling her that that’s for her future and I’ll keep in the bank.

Recently she has been given a coin box.

Training her to safe for herself now. At the moment she got the coin box, everyone has been donating their coins to her. Within a day it’s almost 1/2 full already. She will go around and asked for coins from grannies, from daddy , from aunties and from me.

Told her only 1 coin a day, but still she come negotiate with me everyday, “two…two lah mummy….”

How to educate her that nothing comes easy….????