Are you here

Mary, Mary are you here?
Yes, yes, I am here.
OR No, no, she's not here.

(Sung to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star)

Benja has been singing this for the last two weekends. He always begins with his favourite friend Caleb and continues with someone called Beelylina (ballerina).

This week the development was to say "Next one" before going to the next person.

There are more impromptu names added to the song. Benja will glance around the room for ideas. First he started with curtain, cards, followed by Mummy. Yay, he finally included me in his song-game!

Well done, Benja! Mummy is glad that you are learning from school and enjoying yourself. ^^

Skunk

Teacher Nora has a skunk in her Flash Memory set that mummy doesn't have. When mummy flashes to the last card,  Benja will always tell mummy about the missing skunk card.

When mummy finally prepared the card, this was the conversation:

B: Mummy 有 smelly skunk。
M: 对了! 是谁告诉你 skunk 是臭臭的?
B: 是 Hi-5。Hi-5  有一个 smelly skunk。

Language development

Benja had terrific language development over the past month.

He spoke sophisticatedly:

这个是假的, 不是真的, 是 toy (来)的。
我们比 taxi 快 。
爸爸不要做工。爸爸要出去(玩)。
妈妈穿鞋, 出去。
不要马来人 (邻居)。

I wear my uniform.
I want to wear the blue shoe.
This is my toy.

Separation anxiety

On the second day of school, Benja went into the classroom without any fuss. Mummy was very proud of him.

It was mummy who had separation anxiety. Together with other parents, I hung around stealthily to peep at him from the darkened windows outside the classroom.

I must had been so proud of Benja that I lost my head. I went to the door to wave and say hi to him.

At first, Benja couldn't recognise it was me, so he stared blankly.

When he realised, he ran to me for a hug and refused to let me go.

Realising my mistake, I left abruptly to work, without turning my head back.

My silly separation anxiety resulted in chaos for the rest of the day for Benja and the teachers. An hour later, a kind parent sent me a video of Benja crying and refusing to wash his hands..

*Roll eyes*

I shouldn't had peeped.