A Day with Timmy

I thought of writing this to remember this day as the sweet and sour day with Timmy, it would be a beautiful memory after he's grown up one day....

This morning I woke up early before Timmy did...
prepared the bread for him to bring to school...
not long after, Timmy woke up and the first word as he woke up was: "Mama".

Timmy's morning routine includes: milk right as he wakes up, pee in the toilet,tooth brushing, get cleaned & get dressed for school.

However, after he drank milk this morning, he threw up...
That's unusual...luckily as he felt uncomfortable, he ran straight to the closet...hence, no mess for me. (Thanks Tim) :)

I got him a drink and put some eucaliptus oil on his tummy and rubbed it to make him feel better.

He was very cooperative during rest of the morning routine, hence we still have some time left for fun before going to school.

The night before, I searched up You Tube and found "Xi Shua Shua" song. Timmy was so happy when I played this song for him, coz his teachers are using this song for their morning dance at school.

Time for breakfast...

Normally Timmy just has milk before school (as he will eat together with the rest of his friends in class).

However, since today his tummy was empty, I tried to get him to eat something before school. Bought bagelen bread the day before, but Timmy only took tiny bites of it. I was having Kellogs Corn Flakes with chocolate milk, and offered him some. Apparently he likes it! Yippee!

We had fun reading the story of how Dr. Kellogs accidently invented the Kellogs corn flakes which is now enjoyed by millions of people around the world.

As we reached the school gate, Timmy was very cooperative and brave today. Previously he would be stuck for some time, before entering the gate.
I have spent months of effort talking to him, and tried all sorts of methods to get him into school.

I hold his hand and told him that I will go through this with him. If he doesn't know the teachers who were standing in front of the gate, I will be there with him and let's introduce ourselves and asked them their names. That way, you'll know them already.... :)

At home, I also used the achievement charts, listed from Monday to Friday. Everytime he's good and brave, he'll get 1 stamp. Timmy is highly interested to have the outer space book. I told him that if he can collect 5 stamp for 5 days in a row, we'll go to the book store and buy it!

I have also tried all sorts of methods explaining to him why he should go to school.

Finally, it works!
Tralala, he entered the gate bravely and went up the stairs to his class room...

Towards midday, I had a nice surprise that Mom and my brother is around the neighbourhood. So, we picked Timmy up from school and headed to SMS for lunch. At the foodcourt, as we walked around, Timmy found KFC, and told me: "Mom, I have found what I wanna eat....my favorite". Hahahahaha...all of us ended up having KFC too. When we were kids, we used to love KFC...it's loved by generations...hahaha

Arriving home, I would bathe him, while he tried to 'clean' the bathroom...
putting water into his ex-shampoo bottle and sprayed it around on the wall. hehehe.

Then we did some drawing and writing together...

Time for an afternoon nap...
I thought that Timmy would have been tired by all of those activities, since he also had singing class today...but no...he didn't fall asleep as we lay down on the bed..
he kept on talking and talking and we ended up having a chat instead...hahahaha

Timmy put a pillow above my head, leaving some room for me to breathe, and then he came next to me and we chat under the pillow...hehehehe...
sweet...

Around 5 pm, I thought of asking him to play ball at the park next to our house.
Tried to improve his motoric skills...
At first, he was throwing and kicking the ball into the bushes...
I asked him to get it by himself as he did that...hehehe.
Then explained to him that if he does that it's difficult for us to get the ball.
It would be much for fun if we just kick it around the grass.
Finally he got the idea and we had fun...Tari, me and Timmy.
Throwing, kicking and catching the ball...for about half an hour..
Goolll....

Getting tired playing the ball, we ran towards the lake,
and Timmy did some 'gardening'. hehehehehe..

On the way home, he refused to get in and pointed the garden again.
He said: "Mom, look! The arrow is pointing this way... (i.e the garden)"
hehehehe...we played for another 15 minutes.

I've prepared dinner, spiral bolognaise pasta...

After we had our bedtime routine, as I was making the milk downstairs,
I overhead Timmy teaching his chickens...exactly the way I talked to him...
hahahaha...

We played another make-believe-pretend play...
Since they will be having 'Pajama's Day' on Thursday,
Timmy's little chicken will be going to school.
He was so excited telling his little chicken about school,
and I used this opportunity to play pretend, whereby his favourite little chicken would act like the way he was at the school gate and Timmy got to be the mother chicken...hehehehe...reverse role...

What I found funny was he used the words that I normally told him and told little chicken exactly as it is...hahahahaha...
Apparently what I told him is in his mind...
Just found it out today....hehehehe..