Multiparenting Cayen & Cayson

It’s very funny to hear a barely two year old shout “Wait” when we are walking too fast for him or he think we are leaving him behind , or “Quick!” when we are too slow.  I don’t recall he knows as many vocab as Cayen when he’s young but his comprehension of things and sentence making seems quite advanced. That day, teacher asked him for help to keep something as he’s usually helpful and obliging. But he said, “ No.” Surprised, teacher asked him why not. He replied, “ Bad Mood!” Teacher rolled over in laughter.  I didn’t know how or where he learned it from. But I suspected the dinosaur book as I read about the dinosaur being in a bad mood when he wakes up in the morning. But how did he even what bad mood is ? Beats me.  Other notable phases are: “my scooter”, “I like baby shark”, “I like Ah Saur (dinosaur)”, “thank you Ah Ma”, “I like this”.  And for such a small kid, he doesn’t like small things. If Ah Po cuts his apple into small bite sized pieces, he will fuss an...

I was not so sure what to expect. Touchwood but there wasn’t much complaint or feedback from teachers this year so I had hoped no news is good news.  General feedback. No problem with work as per normal. Does his work very fast but because he’s so fast, he has no one to play with so he will have to go to drawing corner to draw. Very creative in his drawings as he concocts his own stuff. Same goes for compositions where Teacher says his stories are quite interesting and reflects actual life though he still needs to work on making them coherent as he may jump from idea to idea.  His chinese work is surprisingly very neat and tidy (compared to what I saw at home). Apparently the Chinese Teacher worked out that since he always writes fast so he can finish fast , but she would erase his work until it is of the right quality. Once he figured out that he can’t squirm out of it, he started to write properly. The same teacher also observed that because of the same 小聪明 and some laziness...

Cayson likes to hi-five his friends when he goes home every day. Yesterday, he tried to hi-five a friend but she didn’t want, so she tried to dodge.  Teacher saw it and tried to console Cayson that it’s ok if she didn’t want to hi-five. Cayson said, “ No... I missed!” And he tried to try again. At this moment, teacher literally laughed out loud.  Nowadays at night, Cayen and Cayson will play a bit before they sleep. Last night was  “shooting” and hiding the dinosaurs where they took turns to hide and seek. It’s a whole load of fun but I feel so tired just watching them. Youth and Energy. 

We just went for meet-the-parents session for Cayson and it’s quite amazing how 5 months have just passed like that. The insights from teachers are quite similar to what we see at home, brave and trying to try everything, loves reading, loves animals and generally very cheerful and happy.  He’s very independent in school and even want to try to take off his own pants, diapers and wipe his own butt. He also tries to eat on his own using utensils though sometimes he still uses fingers. He likes to try everything including the big trikes/bikes. He no longer needs to be parted to bed, he will just sleep on his own after milk , even though it could still be noisy.  The only bad thing is that he likes to pick up dropped food from the floor (yikes) and eat it even though he has clean food on his bowl. He likes chicken but sometimes instead of asking for more, he will take them directly from his friend’s bowl (oh no!) . Lastly, he likes to drink water from the floor (??). Well, those ...

Cayson is a people person. When he enters his class every morning , he will greet his friends excitedly and vice versa and they all get along very well.  Yesterday, we were told that a “fight” broke out. Apparently this other boy tried to climb onto Cayson (don’t ask me how) but Cayson didn’t like it, so he protested. All the girls in the class then went to his defence . Some started hitting and biting the other boy so he would get off Cayson.  Hence, during pickup, the teacher was trying to explain to one of the girl’s parent what happened because she was one of those who had helped and bited the other boy.  What’s amazing to me is how kids at a tender age of 2 years old already somehow know teamwork and would go to each other’s defence.  

Cayson is a people person. When he enters his class every morning , he will greet his friends excitedly and vice versa and they all get along very well.  Yesterday, we were told that a “fight” broke out. Apparently this other boy tried to climb onto Cayson (don’t ask me how) but Cayson didn’t like it, so he protested. All the girls in the class then went to his defence . Some started hitting and biting the other boy so he would get off Cayson.  Hence, during pickup, the teacher was trying to explain to one of the girl’s parent what happened because she was one of those who had helped and bited the other boy.  What’s amazing to me is how kids at a tender age of 2 years old already somehow know teamwork and would go to each other’s defence.  

Today looks like any other day, until I received an email congratulating me on my 13 years’ anniversary. It’s been so crazy busy of late that I didn’t realise it’s 16th May today, a date I recall fondly every year as it marked the start of a long relationship with the bank and with my friends.  It’s surprising to many that I have lasted so long in my second job . After all, 3 years is about the average lifespan of a job in many industries. Well, guess I have had the good fortune of rotating across many departments and it just doesn’t feel that long when one is on different assignments every 2-3 years, working on different products with different people.  Not many people can confidently say that they love what do , but I’m glad to say that I mostly do.  I particularly enjoy the times where I get to create products or services from scratch , where nothing has existed prior to that. I started my first project with a digital in principle approval solution for mortgage 13 year...