My Lil Brother, Reyes Tan Rui Yi is born!
See Reyes's blog
http://www.reyesaurus.blogspot.com/
Daddy and Mommy had read and heard all about siblings jealousy. The sudden shift of attention would definitely be an awful experience for Gwenneth Tan. Mommy made an excuse to sneak out to Kovan during her first week of confinement to buy me a present on behalf of Reyes.
Instead of buying a toy, Mommy went to Popular bookstore and bought art craft materials. Little Gwen loves her craft sessions at Julia Gabriels and Mommy felt that we could have our bonding time drawing and pasting stickers everywhere! I had this "art box" with crayons, paint palette, brushes, scrapbook, stickers, children's glue and cellophane paper in assorted colours.
I also have a Barney lunchbox(which i use to keep my crayons) elmo beaker and story books!
Oh Didi, I love you!
Gwenneth would say "art time!" just like this clip from disney channel, and drags out her huge red box.
So how is Gwenneth coping with her new brother's attention competition?
Daddy :" Well, so far so good. She has not made any attempts to kill him yet."
Take photo take photo!
Gwen :"Lion! Lion!"
Mommy wanted to buy me a lion dance doll, but we didnt see any suitable size ones for lil Gwen.
Spot my Ah mah in the photo!
Gwenneth at school.
Practising to be a big sister.
Getting involved in class
Out of 10 sessions at Julia Gabriel, i only attended 5.
Daddy forbidded Mommy to bring me for the last 5 sessions. This was because Daddy disliked the teacher in my playclub class. I can do whatever i wish to in playnest, and enjoy the freedom of exploring around, looking at things that interest me. However, the teacher from playclub restricted me and made me sit down for story time even when i really do not wish to! Perhaps, its also because of the infamous "Terrible 2" phrase im going through, I cannot understand why I cannot have certain things which i would like to, at that very moment. When i have a "want" in my mind to own or touch something, I MUST satisfy that need, right there and then! The teacher did not allow me to walk to the back of the puppet play screen as i was really curious what was behind. That made me struggle and cry.
It made me wanna escape from class.
It pains Daddy's heart to see me being forced to do the things i disliked and felt that the teacher did not correct Gwenneth's tantrum in an more appropriate way. Mommy understands that there should be some sort of discipline in class but perhaps, the class size on a Saturday was too big for the teacher to have such patience. However, it was pointless for Gwenneth to attend the class and disturb the peace of others. Cause many of Gwenneth's classmates are above 2 years of age and can appreciate the joy of some quiet time, listening to a story.
Mommy's heart aches each week for the $50/lesson, fly away just like that, but Daddy was REALLY against it.
Hence, i was withdrawn from Julia Gabriel for a term and Mommy will be more particular about the choice of teachers next time.
