55 months

The little man turned 55 months today! okay sound real weird, he is 4 years 7 months old. Either way it sound really a mouthful.

 

Pardon me but my mind is seriously blank and totally uninspired on what to blog which is very pathetic.

 

On the whole, he is growing very well, a little too well I must say but I am definitely not complaining here. Nothing beats the happiness and satisfaction of watching our own children grew strong and healthy. It appear that he is the tallest and one of the biggest build in his class but of course bearing in mind he is a January baby thus started early than most of his peers. It is with no difficulty for him to stand out among his peers or trying to spot him in a crowd.

 

This bad mummy here could not even recall his last height measured when we did his assessment at the PD. Weight recorded few weeks back was 22kg though. He is still a pretty much milk monster and a norm will have him guzzling 330ml of milk thrice a day. We have tried to cut his milk feeds but in vain. The best achieved was cutting back on the tea break feed replacing with either sandwich or porridge when he returned from school in the mid afternoon.

 

As for his speech development which was one of my main concern back then, he is progressing really well at this moment. I have yet to identify any words that need correction in pronunciation. Academic wise, I would rather don't go there as we have not been very much focusing on this aspect of his development. That's the results of 2 super duper relax parents and guess it's time to look into enrichment classes for him soon, 'honeymoon' drawing to an end. His pencil dripping skill (fine motor skill) had to be worked on further while there are lots of mirror images reflected when it comes to writing of lower case letters.

 

In terms of character, there seem to be some regression though. Rather it should be considered as behaviour. Lots of shouting, rude actions which he had never ever displayed before. Rebellious might be the word for it and I certainly hope it is a passing phase otherwise it seem that he was being punished multiple times a day and it's only in my presence of that short stretch of 3-4 hours in the evening before bedtime. I have tried the soft and hard approach concurrently but regardless of which, the message did not appear to set in his mind. Not that I would like to punish but it would do him more harm than good if I had not enforce the appropriate discipline to the boundary testing antics he is up to. I certainly hope that it is not due to sibling rivalry and jealousy that he is displaying these attention seeking behaviour. We have tried to our best to balance out equal attention spent on each child and tried to spend some quality with him alone in the absence of the sister.

 

His confidence level and self esteem looked pretty low which required lots of encouragement. Though that had to do with fear of getting himself into trouble thus not standing up for himself. An example the other day, the auntie on the school bus complained that he is naughty; not behaving and refused to heed her advice on where he is supposed to be seated. We spoke to him with the intention to identify the root cause only to realise that an older boy had snatched his toy, refusing to return it back to him on the bus journey home. Now not that it is right for him to be bringing a toy to school which he had hidden in his school bag without our notice. However we still encourage that he would have to speak up for himself and in such instance to notify the adult present supposedly in this case the bus auntie. There are also a few instances where he was hit by a friend and kept mum about it, only telling us during casual talks with him.

 

It came as such a surprise that though he might be all active and outspoken, he is actually a very shy boy. He dislike to be in the limelight and centre of attention. Even in our presence he is very shy as seen when he blush and turn away our attention when we try to bring our full attention to him in things he is doing or even a simple action of trying to take a photo for him in the comfort of our home. When we try to take a photo of him in public, his eyes will drifted around to see if anyone is watching him. Guess I would need to kick my lazy butt to do a little research on activities that could build his confidence and self esteem. If you do know of any effective methods, please do me a favour and kindly share with me.