Random photos

Haven't had much new photos of Josh recently, cos it's so hard to snap him as he will try to snatch my iphone or the camera whenever they are in his sight. Managed to find some random shots taken in the last few months......

 Goofy smile

Looks cool?

Being mommy's slave

 In his playland

From Childcare to Pre-N

Josh has been attending childcare when he turned 18 months. Even though my mum is looking after Josh, we put him there at such a young age to let him learn to socialize and pick up some life skills, since he's an only child. Sad to say, after 9 months, he still plays on his own at childcare. And he doesn't mention anything about his friends or what he learns or do over there. We were wondering if he really enjoyed going to childcare, and felt that it might be a good time to make a change as he's turning 2.5 yrs soon.

Starting from this month, we transferred Josh from Cherie Hearts to Pre-N class at Little Wings. Little Wings is under PCF, but managed by NTUC, and it's newly renovated about 6 months ago. Last week was his first week at Pre-N, attending a 2-hour "Minnie Class" in the morning. Seems like so far so good.....we asked him if he likes going to school and he gave a loud "YES".  Maybe with a smaller class and lesser kids than at the childcare, Josh gets more attention from the teachers, who will not be busy with changing diapers, toilet breaks, bathing and feeding. He likes to play with adults, but doesn't know how to interact with other kids, like somehow he can't communicate in "kids language". Once he starts settling down at the pre-n, I am thinking of enrolling him for weekend play classes at Julia Gabriel, which came highly recommended by most friends. 

Have a great bunny year ahead!

Happy bunny year to all! Sad to say it hasn't been a superb start to the bunny year as I have been down with a very bad bout of flu....been falling sick frequently the past few months, so hope that my health would get better (hence haven't been posting recently :P). Daddy has been very sweet during this period, taking care of the spring cleaning while I rested in bed. Not to mention taking care of Josh when he wakes up at 7plus am in the morning, so that I could get a few more winks. Thank you Daddy!! :)

Overall, it's been a hectic and busy new year....starting with rushing for 2 reunion dinners of CNY's eve (from west to east and east back to west), first day of new year again travelling to and fro to visit relatives followed by family dinner with Daddy's family at our place. 2nd day we had our friends n kids over at our place for steamboat, so lots of preparation and cleaning as well. The kids had much fun playing with sparklers at the playground after dinner. 3rd & 4th day went house visiting plus a round of MJ at our friends' place. 

We hope to teach Josh from young the values of kindness and empathy, especially during times of celebration to share our blessings with the less fortunate. So 10% of his angbao money will be donated to a charity....and we will do this for him till he is old enough to choose his own preferred charity.

Meantime, our family is looking forward to an exciting and eventful bunny year ahead....new place, new beginnings, new changes!

Josh kept chasing n hugging Uncle Jeff's doggie, CoCo. Poor CoCo was traumatized by the overzealous boy!

Building sandcastles

It's been quite a while since we last brought Josh to the park playground to play with sand, as he & mummy were pretty much sick for most of the month of Dec. One Sunday morning Josh took his bucket & spade and said he wanted to play with sand. So off we went to make sandcastles, followed by a nice cold melon milk drink from the vending machine.

Photos from Jaycus Birthday Party

We went to attend the 3rd birthday party of Jaycus 2 weekends ago and here are some photos taken by Daddy:

 Making a cheeky face!

 Having fun with Kitlyn

 Micky Mouse Pinata: Kitlyn kept asking her mummy "Why they hit Mickey?"

 Pretty gal with Minnie ears

 Birthday boy with his mummy

 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake. Nice!

Happily munching his stash from the pinata

Online child development test

New year, new beginning....Josh has been falling sick pretty often in the past year, so my simple wish is for my dear boy to be blessed with good health and be a happy little boy (if I can stretch the wish, I hope he will be a polite and considerate boy too :P).

Did an online child developmental test when Josh turned 24 months and below are the test results:

 

The assessment shows that Josh is well ahead in speech development but behind schedule for problem solving and social skills. Problem solving came as a surprise, as I was expecting gross motor and personal-social to be the major concerns. Guess I have to work on more for these problem areas and also to check on his feet. His tip toe habit has reduced considerably, but he still doesn't dare to jump and refuses to walk much when we are outside. Hmm wonder if he has a flat foot problem :(

Phonics & Spelling

One of Josh's fav video now is this phonics video called Alphabet Sounds which we found from Youtube. Presented in a song format with a catchy tune, it makes it very easy for him to learn the sound of each letter. He will also use the tune of the song on other words, such as "Daddy, daddy, de de de" or "Mummy, mummy, mm, mm, mm". So this video comes highly recommended as a fun and easy way for kids to learn basic phonics.

He's also learning to spell simple words (thanks to the Wordworld app), such as apple, stop, baby, dog, pig, cat, frog, car. He will spot things around the house and ask me to spell to him, like "how to spell table" or "how to spell spoon" and so on. It's one of the few activities that would make him sit down, hence I really enjoy doing the spelling game with him :)