Tim surprises me all the time with his funny bone. Today I went to the study room and saw this on the wall.

He told me that he saw some ants on the wall and he put this up so that the ants do not go there. :think: How cute. He is really good in expressing himself with drawing. I think he uses his right brain more. My hubby said that Tim is a visual person like him and he picks up things faster if he sees it.

It explains why I had difficulty teaching him spelling. He doesn’t like doing memory work. I must think of a more visual way to teach him spelling.

As Vien puts it: No Ant-ry!

I was shopping with Emily. Yeah again! I went to a bookstore. Suddenly from behind, I heard a boy shouting “Timothy! Timothy!” But Timothy was not with me. The boy asked me, “Where is Timothy?” I realized he is one of Timothy’s school friends who recognize me as Timothy’s mother.

The funny thing is that the boy sister started to follow him and wanting to look for Timothy too. Oh well, I told them Timothy was at Art Class. If I didn’t tell him that he probably will search hi and lo for Timothy around the bookstore.

I must say Timothy is pretty popular among his friends. I bet he is known as the quiet boy. This is not the first time I encounter this where his friends saw me and asking for him in public.

As for me, I got a nice English blouse from Summer Set on 30% discount and a nice white skirt. I hope to hear some good news next week. Oh giddytigers and justmytots will too, hopefully.

Whenever Tim wants something, he will pull out his persistent weapon. He will repeat and repeat till I get annoyed. I will try to divert his attention but it does not help. He will not listen to any reasoning or rejection. If I did manage to make him forget, he will come back at it after a little while. Sigh.

Do I give in? It depends what he really wants. If he wants me to buy him a toy, 95% it will be NO. If he wants a candy or food, yeah I give in.

He is crazy over Ultraman toy, he wants me to get for him the red Ultraman. He already has a few in his toy box. What do I do? I told him to ask por por to buy. Por Por is in KL, so he has to wait till he sees por por. Anyway, that’s what por por does, buy whatever the grand child wants. Yeah I don’t even want to waste breath talking por por out of it. Either he waits for por por or waits for Christmas to come.

Talking about the brave gal reminded me something about Tim. Sometimes children are in the world of their own and do not understand a lot of things. We often have to remind them of manners, hygiene, discipline and all.

One Sunday, at the end of the Sunday School class, sometimes the teachers will give out goodies like sweets, candy, or vitagen to the younger children. Emily’s class got lollipops. Tim saw Emily having the lollipop, he came and asked me for one. I didn’t have any but I was busy talking to another father who was holding a lollipop for her gal. Tim came by and took the lollipop from his hand. It happened so very fast that the father didn’t know what to do next.

Fortunately I was there and return back the lollipop. I reminded Tim, he cannot take other people’s things without permission. He wanted the lollipop so much that his brain forgot about manners. Later I asked him to go Emily’s teacher and asked nicely if there is any lollipop left.

Children are always children, they need to be taught and we have to be patient with them.

Tim’s school is celebrating Children’s day today. The Universal Children’s Day is on November 20th. Get your presents ready for your children. 7 days to go get one if you don’t have one.

I got a cake for Tim’s school to celebrate Children’s Day. I guess the school celebrated earlier because next week will be school holiday. Tim thought it was his birthday just because I bought the cake to school. He told me that the children blow his candles and he wanted me to buy him a present.

I told him that today is not his birthday. He still does not know how the calendar works yet. However I did get him and Emily some ice-cream. He was satisfied but he was hoping I get him Ultraman DVD or an Ultraman toy.

Saturday was a busy day for me. First we started the day early at 7:30am and help Timothy look smart. He was giving a performance at his school concert. I guess every parent is excited about her child’s concert. By the number of cameras pointing at the stage, you will know. Parents were anxious about taking every shot of their child.

As for Timothy, as usual he needed time to warm up. He took the stage away in another sense because he was so cool standing there without moving. I bet everyone is looking at him. Later when he got warm up, he started giving a very cool performance. I am so proud of him.

Yesterday I took Timothy to do a little shopping after his school during my lunch time. My colleague wanted to tag along. I picked my son up and he was seated at the back. He was tremendously shy. First he took the newspaper to cover his face. My friend told me he then opened his bag and put his head inside. After that, he moved towards the door and look at the window.

Later when we got to the shopping mall, he started to be very chatty and got acquainted with my friend. It took him a little while to get warmed up. Once he started, he couldn’t stop yakking away. Let’s hope he will take away his shyness and be more sociable.

Actually this is a backdated post on Timothy but I would want to remember it. The tadika principal commented that Timothy is very observant and he has the ability to notice who is around. I must say this is a special gift that Timothy has. How often do you find boys or men being observant?

One example the principal say is when she goes into a class and if she looks at Timothy from far, Timothy will notice. Like six sense. Other children will not be aware of her presence but Timothy does. She told me that often, she will not look at Timothy because he will spot her easily.

From my point of view, Timothy is very caution about his surrounding. I am not sure whether it is good or bad. Yesterday I took a nap after work. At about 8pm, I woke up and went downstairs. Timothy asked me why am I in my red shirt. Usually at home, I will wear a baggy t-shirt but he spotted that I was in my going out shirt.

By the way, I have good news to share….no I am not pregnant, try again. I told no one but if you can guess it, I will send you something special.

Recently Timothy got a very bad rash. Until now I have no clue where he has gotten the rash from. It could have been in school or at the babysitter’s place. I am pretty sure that it is something he ate.

He has been scratching real bad last week. We took him to the doc and she gave him some allergy medication & calamine lotion to ease the itch. He recovered but it came back again.

Now we do not allow him to eat nuts, eggs, his favorite prawns and allergy food group. Let’s hope he will fully recover from his miserable rash. He does have sensitive skin.

My hubby started to teach the children about Law & Punishment. Reward alone doesn’t work as children are still prone to do naughty things like fighting. I guess fighting or toys snatching are part of growing up but children need to learn to behave.

Previously my hubby set some simple rules and whoever breaks it will receive punishment. There are light punishments like apologizing, stand in a corner or sit on a “goodie” chair to severe punishment no sweets for a week, no TV or even caning.

However with caning, please do not do it out of anger and stress. When you are angry and stress up, it is better for you to cool down first, taking deep breath or count 1-10. Take your child aside, you can tell him what he did wrong and that you are going to give him his punishment. This is to prevent you from abusing your child.

It is always best to communicate to the child what he did wrong and why is he getting his punishment. That way he can learn to correct himself. Do not always associate pain with punishment. Try to be creative in giving out punishment.

Amazingly Tim and Em understands what punishment is when daddy introduced it to them. They had no sweets for 1 week as their punishment. Grandpa offers Emily a sweet when she went to visit him. Daddy reminded Emily of her punishment and Emily gave the sweet back to grandpa. Now every time they start to misbehave, we asked them whether they want to receive punishment. Both will say “NO”, shaking their heads and hands.