Little updates on Daryl

Times passes so fast. Our little Daryl will be turning 2 years old this Sunday. Witnessing his growth and development have been the happiest moment for us.

Although he is not a fast learner, but he have indeed learn quite a lot of things after he passes 1 year old. He enjoy helping out with the littles things we ask him to, like fetching and passing things to us, helping us to bring the clean laundry from kitchen to our bed in the room etc.

With a playful nature, he start giving us funny faces and is alway up to some mischief. I almost have heart attack when I saw him standing on the seat of his little toy bike and trying to lift up the bike with his hands at the same time, u know those kind of bicycle act that some teenagers like to perform.

But this little boy is afterall still rather brave, coz usually he will not cry if he only suffered slight fall, but will come and tell me which part of his body is pain due to the fall. Even if he cried if it is more painful, it is also for a while only, not for long (as long as my parent his favourite ah gong and ah ma not around).

Then early this month, little Daryl promoted to be a little kor kor with the arrival of his little cousin Xuan. Then for the 1st time, I saw his angry and jealous face when my mum carried Xuan in front of him. But again it is only for a while, coz he very quickly break into smile when he saw my brother taking picture of him.

From what I observed, it seem that little Daryl sayang me more than his daddy. Coz he will vent his anger on his daddy. For example, if i scold him becoz he is naughty, he will beat his daddy, or if I say daddy is naughty or bully mummy, beat daddy, he will. But he will hardly beat me or will at times refused to beat me even his daddy tell him to.

Also, he is more sticky to me. When his daddy scold him or beat him, he will run to me for comfort but when I scold of beat him, he will not want to be comfort by his daddy but will still run to me. Even when he sleep with us on our bed, he tend to lie nearer to me or even want to share the same pillow as me.

He is also a rather possesive boy as he will not allow his favourit people like, me, his daddy, ah gong and ah ma to kiss each other coz he will beat us as only he can kiss us, muahahaha.

For unknown reason, he seem to be like those barrier in the carpark alot. Whenever he saw one, he will exclaimed :"ONA", his own words for barrier. He will also turn back to see the barrier even we have drive past it.

I did not forget on my aim to bake his 2nd birthday cake. It was always on my mind. In fact, I have the receipe and ingredient at home but due to my morning sickness, I am really unable to try baking the cake at all. Yes, little Daryl will be having a little sibling joining him in November this year. Guess, I have to give up my plan for baking him a birthday cake this year. Also, we are not holding any big party for him this year. Maybe the most is a small scale celebration with immediate family members.

Now, what I am trying to do is to slowly let him accept his coming new sibling without any jealousy.......

4th Lesson

The shirt that Daryl is wearing is the one and only, coz it is made by his grandmother (my MIL)!

This is the 4th lesson for Zoophonics. However, it seems that Daryl is not interested in story telling or the phonics reading as he keep on running about whenever it is the storytelling or phonics reading session. As Kaleb is also the same, Wanlin and me think that perhaps they are still not ready for such lesson yet. Thus, we decided to pull them out and look for other enrichment class that do not required them to sit down that much....muahahaa.

However, due to Zoophonics policy, we have to give a month notice for withdrawnal, thus, we used our deposit to pay for another month fee.

Hotdog Dance

Daryl will usually not sit thru to watch the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cartoon, but he will only get really interested at the ending part where they played the Hot Dog song where he will try to dance along.

Finally managed to capture him on video doing the dance.......just that as Shawn was playing viwawa, so the music of viwawa wahjong can be clearly heard too.

Decoding of Daryl's wordings

I still remember those baby words that my little cousin, Cassandra used to say when she was around Daryl's age. Those words, 'invented' by herself like buka which refer to durians and repika which refer to ribena.

Well, it does sound cute right.

Now, my little boy also have his own words 'invention', and these are words that people close to him are able to understand, especially his nanny and me.

Below are the decode of some of his wordings.


pa pa ya - not the fruit but refer to his papa's car or his papa's stuff

ona ona - refer to a handful of stuff, like car signal lights, traffic light, barrier at carpark, street lights and street sign board metal pole etc.

ota/oya - orange (both fruit and colour)

ta ta - star

ple (sound like pearl) - apple

ba - bus

si - taxi

ng ah (with his hands holding on his birdie) - he want to pee!

nana - banana

nai nai - to take something

mona - the nursery song "The more we get together"

wawa - the nursery song "Ni wa wa"

Gong - (if he is not calling his ah gong) the nursery song "My grandfather clock"

tea - the nursery song "Do re mi"

ter - water

momo - motorcycle

sunshine - the nursery song "You are my sunshine"

ninenine - nice (he like to say this to tell people his clothes is nice with his fingers holding on his shirt)

3rd Lesson

Bubbles time is happy times for all kids.

Posing before the lesson start.

This is the 2nd time I get Shawn to join in the lesson. Good thing is that the English teacher today is back to our usual teacher and not the stand in teacher last week who only allow 1 parent to accompany the kids.

It seem that Daryl only cannot concentrate and sit still on the floor during story telling time as he is okay with the others like art & craft, fruit tasting, games, dancing to the song etc.

For me, I like the part during the chinese lesson where they have a part on the nature teaching, teaching the kids, different types of fruits and vegetable (kids like it best if it is fruit as they get to eat it). Also, I am happy that both English and Chinese lesson have art & craft which allow the kids to paint or do some handicraft.

2nd Lesson

Today is Daryl 2nd lesson in Zoophonics but it is Shawn's first time attending the lesson with Daryl. However, Daryl's teacher is on medical leave, thus a relief teacher stand in, who is more strict, in the sense that she only allow 1 parent to accompany their child and when she saw Shawn is videoing, she stopped him immediately and say that only 1 parent is allow to be in the room. As such, Shawn's impression of Zoophonics is not good at all.

However, I do feel that this relief teacher is rather good in her teaching too except that she is too by the book.

1st lesson

Cleaning the table top where Daryl dirty it.


Cleaning Daryl's dirty hand while little Kaleb is still busy painting.

Mummy helping Daryl to touch up/colour his pear.

Finally, I decided to go ahead and sign Daryl up for the Zoo Toddlers lesson (with Chinese lesson) at Zoophonics together with Wanlin despite Shawn protest.

Although Daryl have attended trial lesson at Kindermusic, Gymboree and JWT, we did not sign him up for lesson for any coz Shawn alway find the lesson too expensive and not worthwhile giving the reason that Daryl is too young. So this time, I decided to sign up even though Zoophonics do not have trial lesson as I feel Daryl is big enough for lesson since he is already 22 months old.

Shawn dropped us (together with Wanlin and little Kaleb) before he went to run his errands. Daryl was excited the moment he entered the School. He went and sit beside some older kids who are also waiting for their lesson.

Today, they started the Chinese lesson first before the English lesson. Daryl is happy and enjoy his lesson except the part on story telling where kids are supposed to sit around the teacher to listen. My active little terror cannot sit still and will move around in the class, but overall, he is fine as he did not cry or fuss. Can say that it is a good start.