We had prepped Ike the whole of last week by going there for about 30 mins a day, over the weekend he started talking about "my class". The teachers were concerned he is a bit too young as the youngest in the class had already turned 3 and was a mature 3, that he could be disruptive and not yet fully toilet trained. So last week was a crash course in toilet training (ie mommy had to be more consistent with ike and no diapers, thank god olivia is here!). Agreed with the teacher that Olivia will be there to help with the potty process.
Monday : mommy leaves, olivia stays in school. Ike cries for 15 minutes but eventually joins the class and even finishes a project (dr's bag and the stuff inside). He only wears the uniform bottom but agrees to top the next day. Teacher's comment... rough beginning but good progress. Ike by the way is more advanced than the other kids in scooping food into his own mouth and eating faster than anyone else.
Tuesday: olivia stays and in the corner of the classroom... Ike stuck to her alot, did not want to participate, sat on her knee. Teacher's comment... will try something different the next day. But again, number 1 for eating, the other kids are either fed or helped along or are not good food scoopers. Ike started telling olivia he is hungry at 11am, starvation is the way to go.
Wednesday: olivia stays outside the classroom and comes in to check if he needs to go wee... also not great, he gets upset that she isn't close by. He also does not participate and the other kids are wondering how come he gets to play by himself in the corner but they have to do songs and work... he is still the champion eater.
Thursday: olivia leaves with me but actually does stay outside incase they need her. All goes well until Ike see's Nate at the gym and wants to go with Nate... cry cry cry, Nate is quite sweet and holds his hand and brings him back to his own class and tells him that he must stay there as he has "work" to do. Olivia is trying to duck away so that Ike does not see her but nate spots her.
Ike really likes the Chinese teacher Miss Jenny and allows her to hug and kiss him and calls him affectionately, mingming or more like miiiing ming. When his english teacher, Ms. Jackie tries that, he says, "i'm ike, IKE". He also was able to tell Zuzu (the burmese helper in the class, yes there are 3 people there for 12 children) that he needs to go wee. In the last 4 days, no poo in the morning nor even accidents!
Here are pics of us on the double decker bus ride. 10 mins into the ride, ike falls asleep! I later take them to the toy store. I had promised nate his bat cave (in the container) when we get to singapore and if he does not whine about going to school and does his homework and the umbrella covenant of being good, he had filled all that so I said he could get another toy while our container awaits a home. Ike seems to not be bribable yet... he vehemently refused olivia helping him with dinner (mom helped him in the past but now has another job as a real estate agent, calling up leads myself), but for a Thomas DVD, he fed himself.
On the housing front... will post our house 7, house 8, house 9.... you guys must think we are too fussy but there is a shortage of houses in our budget category, lots of demand so everyone elbowing each other. A good potential one popped up today, the tenant got his budget slashed by half so we will be paying 50% more than the poor chap's slashed budget. We can have the place if we don't demand too much and move in as soon as they move out. Nice area, right next to the botanical gardens and in Tanglin. I do not have any more than my 10 toes to cross.
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