Yvette: 3 yrs. 8 Mths (44 Mths)

*picture taken on 30/12/2011.

Instead of just learning the solar systems, Yvette could remember the sequence up to VY Canis Majoris. I have so much to share on this learning journey but I still can’t find time.

Instead doing story telling, she could remember scrip. Yes she loves to watch peppa pig and we do allow her to watch up to an hour daily (of course she doesn’t watch them every day.) The number of scrip she could recite is horribly unbelievable.

She loves to compose song and even her own story. Most don’s make sense but her effort is there. I hope she continue to imagine and finally one day she will love to pen down herself.

Instead of just being able to do P1 Maths, she could further explain the fundamental concept to us in her own view.

Instead of just reading, she often thinks out of the box. This is a good example.

Often we thought she can’t do it or she will not able to understand she could. As Of now, she has never fail to surprise us and exceed our expectation.

She could read time but limit to the digital clock. She is able to tell me mins and hours before and after. But I am still working with her on the hour and min hands clock.

She is able to follow routine that we set for her daily. (Sadly but still not the sleeping routine. Still we start to see some light after we really kicked start on the discipline method shared by my colleague.)

She has good penmanship for a 3 yo but she is still lazy to practice her handwriting at home.

She is able to remove dirty laundry from her school bag and throw them into the washing machine. She is able to pack her bag now too. However I am still encouraging her to put the stuffs in the bag. Still a little more effort is required.

Once she accepts the reason for change; she is able to adapt to it. She has no longer telling me “I want poo poo” and “I want wee wee” when she needs to answer her nature call. Instead she uses “I want pass urine” and “I want pass motion”. Her N2 teacher told her the before are meant for PG.

She certainly has learnt how to relate. It’s about the Peppa Pig again. We were in the topic of the States of USA and I told her D loves to see The Grand Canyon. However we need to drive there but both of us can’t drive. She pause and thinks and reply: “Mummy, Peppa Pig doesn’t drive!”

That’s her developments I could remember. She is 4 months shy to 4 yo. She is waiting for that day to come as she had already attended 2 birthday celebrations in class.

Yvette: 3 yrs 3 Mths (39 Mths)

This post was drafted in Aug and the picture was taken on Aug 13. But I only publish now. 02/02/2012.

There isn’t much update from me on Yvette’s monthly developments and growth anymore. Since I have pen down quite regularly on her learning, (late posts) and since she is older now, there isn’t much “growth” except other than her weight and height.

Technically, nothing much has changed. She grew taller, didn’t gain much weight, probably due she was so sick a few weeks ago. Initially I wanted to do bi-monthly update but due to the time constraint and her development (mostly on behavior and emotional development) progress on her, I feel quarterly update will be more appropriate (Hopefully I can carry out this commitment timely.)

She is definitely much easier to manage for the past 3 months. We hardly need to deal with meltdown except during bedtime. She is definitely much easier to strike a deal with, much accommodating to the ”No” she received. But when come to nap time/bed time, we still face battle and sometimes, it can be tough. I am such a failure in this department.

She loves to learn. She is (in our eyes) a hardworking child. She can be very much on her own when we are busy. D has definitely put in equal effort in teaching her. Maths is still her favourite subject, but she started to find love in learning Science. Having said that, sadly although she loves going to Music Class and her Chinese Enrichment class (she will cry badly if I threaten her not bring her there), however the participation rate isn’t that fantastic. Shall I add another Art class for her???

She still loves to talk a lot. More than often we hear her talking to herself. D always comments that her mouth never gets tired. Perhaps pursue a profession that can talk a lot will suit her in the future.

She has some new bad habits – putting her fingers into her mouth. Biting her nails. Oh yes, she dislikes to brush her teeth. So during school days, she only brushes her teeth in the night before she sleeps (because we have more time to coax her to).

She can be very naggy. She is getting more and more like me. She is the principal at home. She will make sure certain housework is done in certain way, her way. She will make sure D bathe on time, sleep on time, etc. I finally can pass my throne to her because she was rather strict over D and has “higher” expectation than me for D now. *Wink*(Sound good to have a daughter!)

Yvette: 3 yrs 2 mths (38 mths)

This post is so long overdue. And decided on a quarterly update for Yvette instead of bi-monthly.

Picture taken on 14th July and this post is being updated on 06/11/2011.

I browsed thru all the pictures and really didn’t find any thing really alarming or special for this month. Or perhaps this was already so long overdue. I really can’t recall much. We only didn’t see her biting herself anymore. But she loves to me “ghost-face”. (And I wish to leave more updates for the first quarter developments update that I have already blogged long ago but yet to publish.)

I love this picture taken on 02/07/2011. She told me this is her head band.

Yvette: 3 yrs 1 mth (37 mths)

The last update I have done for Yvette was for her 35^th mths. I have yet managed to pen down her 36^thmths progress. (There is a missing post for the month of May I have jotted down on my iPod in pointer so I won’t forget. That post will be long and I have to really sit down to write a round up post for Yvette.

Anyway, going forward, (firstly) I don’t think I have the time to write long post for Yvette’s monthly progress update. I will probably do it every bi-monthly or quarterly. Secondly, there won’t be much change to anticipate. Growth will be “stagnant”. Development on her learning will be updated constantly in this site and I don’t think I need another long post for it.

With that, her monthly update will be more on her behavior, her emotion development and snippets of her life that are not updated in this site.

Picture taken on 16th Jun 2011; This post was pen down on 28/08/2011.

For the past one month, the alarming behavior that caught our attention was, she bit herself when she couldn’t got what she want – She was crying for me as I was away at work while D took care of her when she was sick on 27^thMay 2011.

I understand she learnt this behavior from CC. (One of her classmate loves to bit himself when he was angry.)

Luckily we didn’t witness this “self-destroy” again after 27^thMay 2011.

Finally to wrap up my post, here are some snippets (that are not being updated on this site) on how Yvette spent her 36 mths in general…

On 21st May, we went to the polyclinic for her annual check up (requested by the health book.) Generally this check up is for the assessment at 2-3 yo and it were all about motor skills and cognitive skills. Weight and height were taken during the check up at 12.4kg and 92 cm.

She was really happy on that morning; constantly pointing out the “V” sign to kids sitting next to us.

On 6th June, she celebrated her best friend 3rd birthday in CC.

She played with this toy which she totally outgrown in Taka. That was on 11th June.

Plenty of playground play despite both of us work.

Her hair is rather dry, I started to apply conditional on hair. This was a gift from my sister.