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Exam result

Today Ethan brought back his last week exam paper. He did not score all the 4 subjects.

At first mother was a bit disappointed with his English test. He had made a careless mistake. Mother asked why he was so careless and he argued with mother that some of his friends did not score any subject. Mother was angry with his attitude and told him not to compare with other people. He kept quite and almost wanted to cry.

Carry him

Ethan likes his papa to carry him around when we go outside. He will not request his mama to do so because he knows his mother is unable to carry him. Normally mama will hold his hands and walk together.

Knowing that some of people will comment that the kid has grown up but still need parent to carry? We do not pamper him. We just like the feeling that he still want to attach to us. We know that one of these days this action will stop when he grows up. We just want to enjoy this moment before the period ended.

Will mama able to do it....

Oh my! Oh my!. Mother still has a lot of books that haven't check and read to Ethan. Mother is not sure whether can complete the mission before the Dec month or not. Besides the English story books, there are still Chinese story books and Bahasa Malaysia story books.

Now mother still keep on buying the Chinese story books from Shanghai since they have the National day sale. The English story books mummy hasn't finished all were the one daddy bought when having business trip to US few months ago. Can mother manage to finish all the books? Maybe can or maybe not... All depends on how hard working mother is.

Now what can mother do is reading as many as possible. some of the books need to sacrificed and wait until next year.

Books for revision

Next week, Ethan's kindy will be having the 2nd semester evaluation. Teacher has given back the books. Mother asked why so many books then Ethan's response was teacher asked to read and do revision during the weekend. Mother really doesn't know what to read to him since the books already done by him and got answer so no need to ask him to do it again by looking at the book.

What mother worried is his BM subject as we seldom use it at home. Even sometimes mother did read the BM story books for him but compared with Chinese and English it was far less. The BM story book mother read for Ethan is quite simple and few words in one page as mother knows that his BM standard cannot beat his Chinese and English. Mother did hope that during the school holiday can close up the gap of his BM language with others.

Calculate the chinese stroke

It was quite sometime that Ethan did not count the Chinese word stroke. He almost forgotten about it. Today he brought back his Chinese subject and mother found out that he wrongly calculated the stroke of the Chinese word. Mother gave him advise him that some of the stroke even look like a lot of stroke but actually it is counted as one. After getting the advice from mother, the next few days, he manages to get all the stroke calculation correct. Well done Ethan....

Half naked

Don't know why recently it was quite hot. So whenever Ethan comes back from school, mother takes out all his school uniform and only left the underwear. He is doing his homework half naked as mother found him sweating a lot when doing his homework. Mother doesn't want him to sweat a lot as he needs to take a bath after he finishes all his homework.

At first, mother is a bit worry whether he will get sick in this situation since he is never naked like this at home before. So far so good....

Happy Mid Autumn Festival

We have bought the lantern two weeks ago but we did not take any action. Tonight is the day that we must lit it up. It have been raining before daddy took Ethan out for the walk. The lantern had been chosen by Ethan few weeks ago. We didn't know why he likes the frog design but we respected his choice.

Daddy helped to light up the lantern

Ready for the walk

Ethan really had a good time as he can see lot of kids in our taman also brought the lantern. Daddy said that he had light up 5 candles for Ethan's lantern....

Swimming fun

It was quite sometime that we did not bring Ethan to swim. We were afraid that he will cough again as recently he was often attacked by the cough virus. Sometimes we just had to make a move since daddy complaint that we are wasting the benefit to enjoy the facilities in the club house.

He was having a great fun and excited when we brought him to swim. He kept on kicking and kicking in the pool. He likes the adult pool and swims with daddy. Mother did ask him to swim in kid pool but he kept walking in the kid pool. Mother asked why not swim instead of walk, he answered that walking is faster than swimming in kid pool.

Even though he did not know how to swim but we were pleased that he can kick and swim with the help of the rubber float. Last time he wanted us to hold him even with the float. We still have the problem to make him put his head down into the water. What to do, he was very scared of putting the head down inside the water. Still have to gradually lure him to do this. We hoped one day he dare to do it....

Maths : The Division

You see. Mother did not take any action to teach him the division. During the school holiday, mother found out that Ethan almost forgotten some of the multiply after few months he did not do the exercise. So he needs to refresh again his memory. Luckily he picked up quite fast even not 100% remember.

Looking at his multiply, mother delayed again teaching him the division. "BUT" this kid gone and used the calculator to do the division exercise. Mother spot this and said that he was cheating using the machine. He immediately stopped and mother told him that the division is the opposite of the multiply. He got the idea and do the rest of the exercise by himself. What surprised mother was that he had done all the questions correctly. He really loves maths....

Activity in school holiday

During the school holiday, mother brought Ethan back to Kedah to stay. The activities that Ethan had in the morning or evening was scribble words on the car park floor. Ethan had a box of chalk for quite some time but we did not let him have fun with it. In Penang, our car park was covered with tiles so we only have cement floor outside the house. We considered it was dangerous for him to draw outside the house because of the cars passing by.

Since grandparent's house car park is covered by cement so this is good place for him to draw or write something on the floor under safe environment. He just loved it, he drew sun, house, road all over the floor.

Our sunday

Today we went to Eastin Hotel to attend one of seminar organized by one of the branded milk Co. This is the first time we attended this kind of function. Since the event started at 2.30pm so it means that Ethan cannot take his nap time but we asked him to take a short nap like about one hour but he didn't. Both parents fell asleep while accompanying him. He was the alarm clock for us as he woke us up saying that it was 2 o'clock.

We arrived at the Hotel at about 2.15pm and we took the escalator to Level 3. A lot of parents had already arrived and we registered ourselves. The staff gave us a piece of form to fill up in order to get the goodies bag from the milk co. We went to the children corner to let Ethan have some fun. We had been offered by the staff to take care of our kid when we go for the presentation in the other room. At first Ethan refused to let go so we just informed the staff and we would think about it before letting them know. We let Ethan colored the "Doraemon" and asked whether he wants to stay here with the other kids or not. Yes was the answer then daddy went to register him. When the presentation started we informed Ethan that we will go to the other room and we will pick him up at 4.30pm. He said bye bye to us.

Half way through the presentation, daddy went to take a look at Ethan whether he was ok or not. Daddy found him eating the muffin and playing with the toys. The staff walk towards daddy and asked daddy whether is this kid his son. Yes and the staff informed daddy that Ethan was a very independent boy. He even asked the staff to bring him to the toilet. Daddy saw that most of the kids were accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Seems like we are the one who left Ethan alone in the children corner. After the talk, we went to pick Ethan up and he was happily playing in the room. We had some refreshment before we left the hotel.

Ethan slept early at night.....

Eye problem

Recently we had noticed that Ethan is having an eye problem. He will consistently blink his both eyes. Seems like that was something inside the eye. Last time he had this problem too but only for a while but this round he has persisted the situation for few days already. We planned to bring him to the eye specialist to inspect his eye.

We hoped that after the inspection he could recover from this.

Some art work

It has been quite some time that we did not do the art work together. Seems mother start to discipline Ethan on his nap time so that he got spare time to do extra stuffs.

Today we started with the cut, paste and draw. This time mother had to sit beside him to look at him cutting or else the whole color paper will transform into small pieces of rubbish. He likes to cut the paper into small pieces. After he finished cutting, he has to paste them on the paper. Mother asked him to draw anything on the paper.

Paste the house

He drew the door and window on the house. Mother asked why is it so many windows in the house. His response was that the house got lot of levels so it would need a lot of windows. He even said one house is Ethan's and the big house is mama's house.

Concentrated on the drawing

He even drew the tree, sun, cloud and birds in the picture. The last thing to do, paste on the wall.

Mother wanted him to practice his drawing skill and not only writing the number on the paper as recently mother noticed him has some interest in learning to draw with the help of the book. Maybe is time to consider whether to enroll him to the art class or not....

His drawing

For us this was a surprise as this is Ethan's first drawing that mother had noticed. It was part of his school homework. We never think that he can draw. We were please that the school had taught them how to draw.

Need a discplince

Mother wants to discipline Ethan on his day to day routine. Basically the two main concerns are his homework and the nap time.

Homework:-
Mother wants to set a timetable on his homework like he only has 15 min to finish his homework on one subject. We need to train him or else when he enters the primary school that time where got ample time for him to finish all his homework with his current attitude.

Nap time:-
Last time he takes his nap starting from 1 o clock but recently after his homework and reading session, we actually delayed it to 2 o clock. He can take his nap time until 6 something in the evening. Well, cannot persist with this situation anymore because after he wakes up late from his nap time, he actually only can sleep around 12 at night which causes him not really can wake up early next morning. Mother wants to set the nap time from 2 to 4 then in next year he only entitle one hour nap time. We need to gradually adjust it because we were afraid he will attend the afternoon class when he is in primary one.

After adjusting this two main issues then he got spare time to play. Let's hope the plan can work. Mother will start from today.

Washed the plates

We did not expect him to help us to wash all the plates in the sink. At first he self fed himself with the multi-vitamin then he wanted to wash the spoon. But he was not tall enough, so he moved the chair to the sink and he started to wash the spoon. Then he continued to wash all the plates and stuffs in the sink. We were pleased with his action even though we have expected that we might have to rewash again all the plates.

Homework issue again

Few weeks ago he was still fine with his homework but recently the situation changed. He was very slow and day dream when doing his homework. Just a simple few words he can take ages to finish it.

Today he needs to write the Chinese character, he informed mother that he wanted to take a nap first. Ok the deal was on and before he slept he requested mother to read the story book to him. When mother finished reading the book he bargained for more. He seemed like doesn't want to take the nap. Instead wanting mother to continue reading and reading. Mother rejected him knowing that without nap time it would even be more difficult for him to finish his homework. He wailed a bit then he fell asleep.

When he woke up he still refused and made funny action doing his homework. At last mother gave up and said to wait after the dinner and daddy comes back to guide him. After everything was settled, mother quickly bathed him and brought him to the room and asked him to finish what he promised then mother went to take a bath. After the bath, mother went into the room and found out actually not any progress on the homework. He was doing other things instead. Mother was angry with his attitude and said she will not take care and ask him to do the homework anymore. Is his choice not to do that then he needs to take the consequence of it. He was afraid and tried but he seemed like having no concentration at all of doing that. He waited until his daddy walked into the room. He constantly asked daddy to sit beside him to accompany him but he was doing funny action again.

Daddy was out of patient after asking him so many times to write the word and walked away. He was like the boy who cried wolf asking his daddy if he sits beside him then he will write it. After few attempts daddy felt like being cheated then daddy was really mad at him. So the next action was to beat him. He cried non stop and mother also cannot stand his attitude so we collected the homework and banned him from doing his homework. We told him that we will let him not able to hand over the homework to the teacher next morning. He wailed even louder and begged for the homework then we rejected his request. We told him that we gave him so many chances but he did not appreciate it so he has to bear his choice.

He even refused to sleep and walked around the room. Mother erased all his Chinese characters that he wrote because his words were like scribble on the book. Mother gave him the last chance after he said sorry and that time was already 11 something. Mother did her own stuff , Ethan was doing his homework. Half way through mother cannot stand anymore so he needs to complete his homework without anybody accompanying him. Seemed like he had learned his lesson so he wrote it nicely and completed it but that time was already 12 in the midnight....

Now we need to see whether he learned the lesson or not. The result only can be shown in Thursday as normally Wednesday he will not have any homework because every Wednesday is his school fun and sport day.

Shopping center.....

This is first time mother and Ethan went to "Time Square" in Penang. We had our lunch at "Swensen" after visiting the hospital. Sometimes mother just felt like we are actually out of date. Normally when new mall opens in Penang , we will not pay a visit after the opening ceremony. Like Gurney Plaza, mother's first time visit there was because of company team building and the first visit was after the plaza had been opened for more than one year. Even QBM nearby the place we stayed but we only pay a visit to the mall after the mall had been opened for more than half year....

Not yet

Sometimes daddy will on and off bribe Ethan with the electronic gadget if he gets good result. Mother always protest about it. Daddy said want to have a electronic dictionary for Ethan but mother does not agree with it. Mother wants him to start with the traditional way, find the unknown word in dictionary book. You can say that mother is out of date but she just wanted Ethan to learn from the basic first.

So far mother also did not feel Ethan needs an electronic dictionary because he is too young and mother still can teach him the words. Will plan to teach him to search the dictionary when the time is right. Mother thinks that the electronic dictionary will be the last source if Ethan really cannot handle the situation.