Say No to diaper project

Diaper less for Ethan was one of the mission impossible for mother. First of all, he must drink about 11 oz milk plus water before he goes to sleep. He did not like people to disturb him when he is sleeping. It was impossible to have a dry diaper for the whole night.

Why we suddenly have this project? All because mother found out that one day during his nap time, he had woken up to pee and continue to sleep back after that. That gives mother a thought that maybe it can work at night also. So mother just asked him whether he wants to try at night after mother praised him. Surprisingly, he was willing to try it at night.

On the first night, he unwilling to wake up in the middle of the night, so he pee on the bed and mother wanted to discontinue the project and think maybe he was not ready yet. What he did, he insisted doesn't want to wear diaper in the second night. Shame on mum as he did not give up but mother did. And he was right, the second night, he was willing to wake up at the middle of the night and pee in the toilet. So he was dry in the morning. He actually was successful for few days at the end of Feb month.

In order to encourage him, mother did up a chart to let him track his own record at the beginning of March month. He gets to stick sun sticker if he is dry through the whole night and he will get the raining cloud when he pee on the bed. The whole project was just for him to to have fun since he likes to stick the sticker..

This is one month project and let's see how many sun he can get at the end of the project.

Dramatic :- Shopping

Today, we played shopping. Even he gets to experience it when we brought him along during our shopping. But this time, mother let him choose the product and put under the shopping cart.

First, he said that he was driving a car and finding a parking space. After he parked the scooter, he went to push the shopping cart. He began to shop.

Mummy gave him a list of paper of item that need to buy. The purpose is to let him find the product in the table by himself without mother's help. He need to read how much and what were the product mother wanted him to buy.

After finished shop, he need to pull the trolley and waiting for paying the money.

Mother let him be the cashier, he needs to press the button to calculate how much he had to pay. He even use the scanning machine to scan the product before he put them into the paper bag. Mother gave him real money to pay for the product.

After having paid the money, he needs to go to car park to drive his scooter and happily bring home his product.

He actually wanted to further continue after shopping and back home. He wants to cook all the product he bought. Mother told him to play in the next day.

From this game, mother have noticed that he was poor in calculating the money. Like total he needs to pay is RM44. He needs to pay 4 pieces of RM10 and 4 pieces of RM1. He was blur about it. Mother plans to teach him the concept of money another day.

Simple theory made him laugh

This was unexpected. Mother was reading a story book " Chug the Tractor" for him and he was asking how the tractor gets down to the floor from the lorry. While at first, mother just drawn and explained to him on a plain paper but afraid that he might not really fully understand. So mother told him to be patience until mother finished the whole book.

After finishing the book, mother tried to find the stuff that can demonstrate to him. Well, we use the dictionary as the base, his toy car and the chopping board of his toy. Mother told him that the car will fall down from the top without putting anything. He laughed when mother pushed the car and the car fell down.

In order for the car to safely get down from the higher place, we need to put the ramp and help it. Mother just put the board to form a ramp for him and demonstrated to him. Mummy also told him that normally the ramp will be forming a triangle shape when he views it from the side...

He was having fun and laughed just because of this simple theory. After that he took over from mother and played for himself by on and off took away the ramp and pushed the car.....

Meeting his old friend

Today mother got some new books for Ethan. One of them is Curious George story book. Ethan's eye brightened when he saw the book, he was like meeting back his dear old friend. Yup, mother did read the story of Curious George to him when he was in Shanghai. Mother borrowed the book from the school library. In Malaysia library, seems like cannot find it. Not only that even though Borders sells it but it is too expensive. Nearly RM16 per book for a single story. Terrible....

This book, mummy gotten it from US Amazon and it was 8 stories in one book. The beauty is that it only cost nearly US8 per book. It is way cheaper compared to Malaysian bookstore...

He doesn't want mother to read to him and he wants to enjoy himself...

Just for a laugh

We laughed when we looked at it. We didn't know where he gotten the idea of hanging the paintbrush instead of clothes....

The toy set

Mother gotten this toy for free. Ethan loves to cut out the fruit and vegetable. Mother only got 4 sets out of 6 and we only open the two sets for him to play....

Error in the books

Ethan finished another maths book again. This time he used less than one week. One common thing that mummy have been noticing is that in those books there are always printing error. In one book you can find at least 5 and above printing errors. Seemed like it is very common in the Malaysian printed books especially the kid's books because mother also can find it on Ethan's kindergarten books.

But mother had no regret to buy the books for Ethan because he has the capability to find out the mistake and informs mother. Then mother will amend them for him. This is good for Ethan that he knows where the mistake and not just follow the book. Guessed his capability may only apply in maths and sometimes in English. For Science, Mandarin and BM, mother doesn't think so. It would need double careful and accompany him when doing those three subjects but shame to say, so far mother did not let him do other subjects. Hi hi..... So far only maths because he loves it so much....