Joshua at 14 months

Joshua sitting in Giant's Shopping Cart.

Joshua at Fidgets, Turf City.

Josh....you have reached 14 months.
You are still crusing around.
You are so different with your 'xiao ge' who has started walking at 11 months.
You can do many things which your 'xiao ge' never done at your age.
You can't do many things which your 'xiao ge' able to do at your age.
Both of you are really different.
You are fussy eater unlike your 'xiao ge'.
You are so playful.
Mommy notice that you prefer to use left hand. Are you a left handed?
You are pro-active.
You will approach kids around your age yourself.
You start to call your 'xiao ge'
One day you called ge...ge...Your 'xiao ge' is so delighted and asked spontaneously to you. "JH, are you calling ge ge?"

Story Behind Shifting to CCK

As I have promised you to share the story when I came back to Singapore in my previous post, I will start now.

Five years ago, when Derick was about 1 year plus, we signed him up to join Baby Show at Yew Tee. At that time, we were only curious about how the baby show will be performed. Der didn't win the show but we came across that the size of flat near the Yew Tee Community Club is big. The environment is quite clean and kids friendly. Once our old flat at West Coast hitted 1 year mark, we looked for another place to shift. We did not visit many flat at Yew Tee. I recalled that we only visited not more than 3 flats before making final decision on which flat to be selected.

When we decided to move to CCK, I asked mommy from forum about the kindergarten at that area. You may call me 'kiasu' or 'well-prepared'. Immediately, I visited a church kindergarten and went to register Der for the Nursery class next year. The registration was over (eventhough it is only April) and no vacancy for the morning session. But then, I passed the message to the Principal that I prefered morning class and please put Der in the waiting list. I did the registration in April and in Sept/Oct, the Principal called me to inform that there was somebody withdrawn her child out and asked me wheter I would like to take that slot. Surely, I answered "YES" I praised God that He has heard my pray.

When we moved to this flat, we also engaged a Foreign Domestic Worker ("FDW") for the first time. Der just reached his 3 year old when we moved to CCK.

I started to visit the church where Der would be starting his Nursery too. Right now, I am a member of the church. I happened to know a few friends from there too.

Primary School

My stress is finally over. Derick will be going to De La Salle Primary School next year. Der has been balloted in at 68th out of 103th. I am so happy for him. Some of his kindergarten classmates will be going to the same school. I asked Sam to print out the name list registered to that Primary School and asked Der to tick which name he recognised.

We love to stay at Yew Tee. There is actually a story behind it why we can shift to this district. I believe everything has been planned by God. I will try to write the story soon since I am still rushing to finish my work here in KL. I will be back to Singapore tomorrow.