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| From Jul2012 |
We just had a three-way parent-teacher-student interview this past week with Nicholas’ teacher. He seems to be doing fine. He had to pick a main goal to work on for the rest of the year and he’s chosen writing. Since the interview, he’s been practising writing at home. Maybe some of you will receive a handwritten letter from him one day.
Although he seems to be enjoying school, there are mornings Nicholas still resists and struggles to get there. Some days he declares he “hates school”, other days he says , “I’m sick.” I find these mornings to be most stressful. A couple of times he’s had to be dragged into his classroom by his teacher. The last time this happened was only last week. It usually happens on Thursdays and/or Fridays, after a busy first three days of the week. So it’s understandable that he’s probably exhausted by the end of the week and takes it out me. And it also doesn’t help that I’m constantly nagging him to hurry up and get dressed. So we’re still working out our mornings.
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At Term 3, Nicholas is finally starting to tell us just a little bit more about his school days. There’s more conversation in the car, to and from school. And when he gets going, he enjoys telling us stories and likes to talk during dinner time as well, especially when Mummy and Daddy are trying to talk to each other. He tells us who he plays with during the day. At this point, he doesn’t seem to have a real group of friends. Although, there’s one boy he’d most likely call his friend. He also has his older cousins around and he’s befriended some of their friends as well.
In general, Nicholas is a quiet boy compared to his peers. He takes a while to warm up, but once he’s comfortable, he comes out of his shell quickly and can be very sociable. He’s also on the small side, measuring at 112 cm (3’8’’) and weighing 18 kg (40 lb). He’s had comments from friends thinking that he was a year younger than he really is.
Catherine, on the other hand, is growing to be completely opposite to her brother. At 26 months, she’s already 82 cm (2’8’’) tall and weighs 12 kg (26 lb). She tends to look older than she really is and as someone commented recently, she has a “big personality”. She’s very friendly to strangers and freely gives big smiles and waves. Just last week, Phil observed at day care drop off, how happy she was when there were lots of kids already there. She joined in the activities right away without worrying that Daddy was leaving.
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As with walking, Catherine’s a late bloomer with talking. We’ve recently found out that she has mild hearing loss, which would explain her speech delay. Next week we finally see an ENT specialist and she’ll also start speech therapy. Unfortunately, the past few weeks have involved many appointments to investigate and assist with her developmental delay and it seems like this will continue for awhile. Despite all this, Catherine is a happy child. She’s a social butterfly and makes everyone smile.
It’s funny how Nicholas and Catherine are so different, yet so similar at the same time. They play really well with each other. And for the most part, Nicholas doesn’t seem to mind his sister wanting to do everything he does. He’s a good big brother and looks after his little sister.
And so I end this post with an interesting video from a Play School concert we attended during the school holidays. It shows perfectly what our two little personalities are like.
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| From Jul2012 |
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