Check Up + School Bag

Mum has to go for 2 check-ups today, I brought Kyrell along after his half-day care. We had lunch at TCC Velocity. I ordered a salmon pasta + berries juice. Kyrell loves them and ate quite a good portion of my salmon away!! He even refused to part his mouth from the straw when he drank the juice hehe... When he is full, he drop right off to sleep in his stroller. And I have a moment of peace to finish up my lunch :)

Kyrell was still sleeping when we took a cab there, was sleeping through the 1st check-up in fact. The 1st check-up was at the NCC, it is to make sure the alignment for my mum's upcoming scanning is in place. It was a quick one, we wer done within 45 mins of waiting + scanning. All's well, she will start her radiotherapy on 21 Aug.

The 2nd check up was to check her stoma/PCN with Dr Lim JF. He told my mum that she will have to go back a month after her radiotherapy is complete, to access whether the external bags can be removed and have all things sorted out. The schedule is on 11 Nov.

I told him that my mum seems to have some kind of brownish discharge from her PCN, he commented that it is norm, when the tube has contact with our skin, sometimes our skin will reject the foreign material. It is a way to repel. It has absolute NOTHING to do with what we eat, not because of egg or seafood, in fact, he said it is NONSENSE!! haha... tell that to my hubby (he has been watching my mum on her diet) and he would not agree :p

We were back to my mum's around 5pm and Kyrell can't wait to get down to his toys.









This is the school bag which I bought, cute? I do not usually let Kyrell carry it because it is quite heavy. But here, I took out some of the stuffs so he can parade around~

Happy Birthday...

Nope, its not Kyrell's birthday - yet.. its the song that he danced to. Its coming from a machine from the build-a-bear @ United Sq. Everyday after I fetch Kyrell from his sch, I will bring him for a short walk at United Sq or Novena Sq, as a reward of him being a good boy or to exhaust him so that he will knock out in my workplace >_<

See him in action! Unfortunately I cannot capture much of him dancing cos his girl came along and do not want to share it with Kyrell, she kept holding on to the button and do not want Kyrell to play..poor boy.. after a few failed attempt to press the button, he looked sad and so I pulled him away.



Pix to show how Kyrell messed up while having bread at my workplace :(

Update In School

I was late to pick Kyrell up today, my office had a last min lunch as suggested by my boss. It is an anniversary lunch celebration for me (1 year) and my colleague Jewel (2 years). We went to the Japanese restaurant - Nara - downstairs for a quick meal but don't be mistaken, the meal is surely not of low standard. On the contrary, it was very yummy! We have dined here before and liked the quality. The sashimi was very fresh, even the dishes like sushi, unagi was good.

At about 1255pm, I rushed off to pick Kyrell up. I knew that he will be the last in class and I do not want him to feel that I have abandoned him. Sure enough, he was the last one when I reached. He was holding to teacher Ain's hand and walking around, most of the full day class kids were asleep. He did not realised I was behind him. From what I observed, he seemed very at home, walking around and when one of the full day class teacher was talking photo for one of her student, he kay-pohed and walked over to look at the pix taken. He said "aiyoh" haha... then teacher Ain hugged him and they took a pix together. He was totally at ease with it! Then walked over to check the pix, he said "baby!". Principal Amanda was there too and she said "you are no longer a baby". I was abit embarrassed because this is what we call him :p

Then he said "mummy". I sneaked beside him and say "this is not mummy" - thinking that he has said that teacher Ain was his mummy. Then I realised that I was actually captured in the pix, standing at the back, my baby is not wrong! He was surprised to see me and called "mummy!!" BUT he is not crying anymore :)

I had a long chat with teacher Ain before leaving. She said Kyrell was doing very well, stopped crying shortly I left. He kept calling his classmate "Maxim" and they seem to enjoy each other's company. And Maxim even hugged Kyrell which he rarely did, according to the teacher, he only do that to 'selected' friends woh. Too bad he is returning back to his country end of this month. I wonder if Kyrell will missed him.

Oh, another thing which the teacher told me, after the incident where Kyrell 'told' Maxim off for pushing, Maxim seem 'afraid' of Kyrell and does not bully him. Everytime he bully other kids and Kyrell was around, he will run off!! Haha this was so funny!! And I am so proud of my boy, really :)

During meal time, teacher Ain told me that Kyrell will sit on his chair and he knew to pull his chair in and placed the bowl near him (to which I have told him but I did not specifically stressed on), so my little boy did listen to me whenever I teach him. And when self-feed, he is able to put the food into his mouth and not make a big mess of dropping the food, of cos, towards the end, he will play around with the food :p

In all aspect, I think Kyrell is adjusting well to his life there and he is growing more and more independently. Ie He likes to hold his spoon/fork now. Hearing what the teacher has updated me, I felt comforted at his maturity but on the other hand, I missed seeing all this :(

Labels And Bag Tag

My order for Kyrell's labels and bag tag reached me today! I am excited and I liked it hehe.. I am going to paste it on his shoes, bag and his sch uniforms :p

Kyrell's Update In School

This week marks the 3rd week of Kyrell in the childcare and 2nd week that I left him alone.

When I picked Kyrell up, I will usually have a short chat with the teacher(s) on his "performance".

1) Kyrell's teacher told me that Kyrell cried for awhile after I left today but was ok shortly.
2) He mingles with his friend mainly Maxim and Kyle.
3) He likes his red truck at the playground.
4) He did not cry during shower now, an improvement indeed.
5) He does feed himself during lunch but after that will get distracted and play with the food.
6) He has grown attached with the trainee teacher - a young malay lady - whom he will call her in school (teacher Ain). When we are leaving, he will go over and give her a hug when asked to :)

He even told the teacher that the monkey t-shirt he wore was "mummy buy" keke..

His main teacher (Yati) is back from maternity leave today, she's actually the vice-principal there and I am looking forward to seeing her guide and teach Kyrell. Being more experienced all that... Kyrell was wary of her intially but I think he will warm up after a couple more days.

Back to my office after that, Kyrell slept within 10 mins I fed him some raisin bread (which he really likes). He fell asleep from 130pm and woke up only close to 5pm!! Wow.. must be the cough that was giving him sleepless night. When he was up, I gave him 240ml of milk which he finished (lately he always did not finish his milk!). Then played abit and hubby came. He had training today and so was able to leave early. He brought Kyrell to United Square Toy-R-Us for a walk. Hubby said Kyrell kept dancing to the music played and was pretty well behaved hehe...

They came back to my office after about 30-45 mins. Waited for me to clear up before we headed home. We wanted to bring Kyrell to see a doctor for his cough/flu again, this will be the 3 time in 3 weeks :(

The Q at the clinic was really long, there were 10 others in front of us. So we register, took our temp then went for our dinner before heading back later at 830pm. The clinic was still packed. This time the doctor changed the med and prescribed a higher dose. We weighed him and true enough, Kyrell has put on weight, he is 13kg now!! Yippie! No wonder my bones are breaking *doink*

Break or no break, I wished that Kyrell will recover soon from his sickness and be a happier boy.

This is him sleeping in my workplace

Visit To Great Grandma

Its been some time since my mum visits her mum (my grandma). Today she felt like paying her a visit. Due to my grandma's old age (91 yo) and her failing hearing, we did not disclose my mum's illness to her. She is only aware that my mum has to put on a urine bag which is enough to make her sad :(
Well I hope both great women will continue to live well with good health!

Kyrell with Great grandma


Kyrell with Grandma aka Ah Mah








Sticker book time!

Purple + Zoophonics

Purple is my favourite colour and somehow, it is Kyrell's too, I think. Because everytime we asked him what is the colour of an item, he will go "purple" though he recognises other colours like blue, yellow and green.
So today, we all dressed in the same colour - Purple.

We went to visit my mum first before heading for Kyrell's ACT 3 class in the late afternoon. Then we went to this Taiwanese restaurant at Robertson Quay which hubby patronised just 2 days back, he said the food was quite good and wanted me to try it. The price tag was abit on the high side but the portion was big so it made up for it. And taste quite good indeed...

When the sun went down and all was getting dark, the walk and restaurants were filled with people and candle-lit tables, oh how I missed that! Before, I used to wine and dine, have a chat with hubby or friends. Now, we hardly do that, its always with our lil precious Kyrell, it was romantic in a different ways :)

At my mum's place...




At Robertson Quay...


Pardon me, I am still not familiar with zoophonics yet... tried to do the 1st few alphabets with Kyrell somewhere in May/June then one day he was humming that tune and it took us awhile to realise that he was actually listens and remembers them!

Fun Time With Lil Cousin Xu En

Both of them wreaked havoc whenever they are together, HAHA!! Xu En is 8 months older then Kyrell so their age gap is pretty closed. Lately they have been able to play together (while previously they will play on their own) and so the story begins... lotsa running, snatching, screaming, laughter etc. And we adults are busy chasing after them, scolding them, tearing them apart -_-||

At the end of the day, we are ALL EXHAUSTED but HAPPY!!

















Bucket as his helmet, innovative huh kekke...

Happy 4th Birthday Dayna!

13 Aug marks Dayna's 4th birthday, her mummy, Veronica, who is my ex-colleague from BMS (my 1st job) held a party for her precious @ Jurong Safra. We went straight to the venue after Kyrell's sat class.

We were already hungry when we reached. It was a BBQ affair, not really suitable for Kyrell's little tummy. So we only fed him some bee hoon and fish ball. Then we stuffed him with bread to fill him up heee...

Kyrell was excited to see the swimming pool and seem eager to play, unfortunately we did not bring any trunks for him. Anyway he has yet recover from his cough/flu so no no darling...next time.

We have last seen Veron & Dayna in Mar during the movie event and surprisingly, Kyrell seems to remember Dayna and kept calling out "Dayna 姐 姐" and wanting to play with her and two other 姐 姐 (Anvia and Tessa who are also turning 4 soon).

Pretty Agar-Agar


The birhtday cake from Jack's Place!


The birthday girl :)




Dayna with Daddy and Mummy




Left to Right : Anvia, Dayna and Tessa (Dayna's cousin)

Act 3 Class

Kyrell's been going to the Sat class since mid Jul, today being the 5th lesson, I have decided to snap some shots during the class after I saw 1-2 parent did so.

Today's class is about all about HATS, great cos Kyrell loves hat!! We made a simple hat using newspaper :)



Now whenever I sing this song to Kyrell, he remembers and say 'Teacher Asha where?'


Hmm.. what should I say, Kyrell's not very attentive in class, always walking around when others are sitting down or playing!! But I must say, being one of the youngest in class, I shouldn't expect too much, or should I? :)

The Little Boy And His Helmet

Kyrell is in loved with hat/cap and helmet!! And anything that looks remotely like helmet (pail, basket etc), he will put them on hehe... and had hrs of fun with it :) He was first introduced to helmet months ago, when we were teaching him the word "motorbike" then when he saw the rider wearing the helmet, we taught him "helmet". Ever since, he will shout 'helmet' whenever he saw a motorbike. Then probably from shows that he watched, ie soldiers wearing helmet, his love for helmet grew :) So now whenever he reached my mum's place, he will run into his playyard and pick up the red basket and put it on his head and go around telling us that is his helmet keke...

Playing his guitar


Showing off his helmet to ah mah and ah gong


Colouring time!

1st Day At Childcare

Hubby, Kyrell and I were still having abit of cough and flu but we still went ahead to send Kyrell to his 1st day of sch. However we reached only at around 11am and I was wearing a mask for precaution. We were quite dozed out from the medicine taken the night before. When we were reached, the kids in Kyrell's class were just about to finiish their outdoor play at the playground, needless to say, Kyrell was excited because we do not usually let him play at playground.

At around 11am, it was lunch time. Lunch today was spaghetti in tomato sauce, no other meat or veggies which is to my dismay! I usually gave about 3-4 other veggies plus 1-2 meat for Kyrell's meal. Oh dear, now I am worried that he might not get enough nutrients :(

After lunch, the kids proceeded to the toilet/shower room for a change of diaper, for those who opt to be bathed, the teacher will bathed them. There's only about 3 other kids who needs to be showered. So while the rest diaper are changed, they will sit on the stool and wait. Today we did not let Kyrell take the shower cos we were only there for an hr and having a 'stranger' to bath him on his 1st day there might be too much for him hehe...

All went well, he enjoyed himself because he get to play at the playground and feed himself which is something very new to him!

After his school, we went for lunch at Swensen (again), this time there's a lunch promo for weekday : 1-for-1 which is really worthwhile! And we managed to have a 'peaceful' meal because Kyrell fell asleep in the middle of our meal :)

Preparing to go his school, his new water bottle!


This is Kyrell's school


Sleeping during our meal