Jaslyn's Last Day at Play School

Today is the last day of play school for Jaslyn at efuture before she starts attending nursery at YWCA next week. Feel a bit sad for her as she has been with her friends for so long. Jaslyn seems to be taking it better than I am though. She does not seem bothered that she will probably never see her 'old' friends again and will have to start adjusting to a completely new environment. Well... I should learn from her.

Jaslyn's last day at her old school (Front row, first from right)

Mini Updates

Went with Liyun and Jaslyn to check out a nursery school (YWCA) near Outram this morning. It's 3 bus-stops away from Tiong Bahru, and the environment is quite nice. School hours are 8.30am to 11.30am, which would give my mum-in-law a brief respite in the morning. The plan is for me to bring her to school in the morning, and she will take the school bus back to my in-laws' place after school ends.

Mini Updates

Jaslyn had been having a bit of problem sleeping recently. Usually, Liyun will pat her to sleep, but with Jason around now, it is rather difficult for Liyun to breastfeed Jason and pat Jaslyn to sleep at the same time. Anyway, Liyun was rather tired last night so I carried Jason and found out that he likes lying on my chest (flat on his tummy) and having his back rubbed. He fell asleep rather quickly and for quite a while too.

September Break

I have just been informed by my company that I would not be able to take leave from now till the third week of December due to work exigencies.

Jaslyn is having her September 1 week break now. She has been waking up only at 11am for the past 2 days, as opposed to the usual 8am. Was driving home the other night when she asked, "Daddy, why I no need to go to school?"

So I told her that it was because of the 1 week holiday. She asked, "Then why you not on holiday?"

"The holiday is only for school children," I replied. "Not for working adults. But daddy would like to be on holiday too."

She thought about it and said, "I call your boss to ask her to let you go on holiday?"

I said okay, and she proceeded to dial her imaginary phone and said, "Hello, boss? Can my daddy go on holiday or not?" After a pause, she put down her 'phone' and informed me, "Daddy, your boss said no leh. You cannot go on holiday."

And to add insult to injury, she proceeded to call her friend, Dylan. "Hello, Dylan? Tomorrow also holiday you know?"

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Had not been spending much time with Jason. Well, I know that he's only one and a half months old and there are not a lot of things you can do with an infant. And most of his waking hours are spent breastfeeding, which I am hardly equipped to do. But remember spending more time on Jaslyn when she was an infant because work was less busy then and I didn’t reach home at the end of everyday feeling so burnt out.

The government has been desperately trying to get Singaporeans to have more children. However, with the kind of working hours most Singaporeans are keeping, it is highly unlikely that we are going to see a significant rise in growth rate any time soon despite all the incentives they keep handing out.