Seriously, what is this!?

First his report card, next his college degree and before I know it, he’ll be running away with eloping getting married to some girl. *holds back tears

No, the truth is I was really excited when his teacher texted me and asked me to make an appointment for our first parent teacher meeting.

I had a hunch that Fighter (and other kids) would display a different side of his personality in school, away from us and I wanted to know what outsiders thought of him, as himself and not an extension of me and Fatty.

So here’s the four of us in conference with his teacher.  Whatever we discuss can be said in front of the whole family yo wtf.

The teachers whipped out this whole portfolio on Fighter! Complete with photos to illustrate each point some more hahahaha.

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Teacher told us that the kids all try to be independent and do things for themselves, partly due to peer pressure LOL.  They apparently race to see who can put on and take off their shoes fastest.  Based on this report, it looks like Fighter wins at removing shoes hahaha.

No wonder he insists on wearing his loafers every single day to school!  Teacher said he feels very confident cos he can handle these pair of shoes well.

I thought it was just some weird quirk about his outfit that he had!  Turns out my son is so kiasu he wants these shoes so he can win at shoe wearing every time. -_- Hahahahaha.

OMG our fears are unfounded!  Remember when he was starting school and I was so afraid he would be bullied or taken advantage of?  It turns out that Fighter is very popular HAHAHA.  And his classmates protect him because he’s the smallest awwwwww. That’s the thing about Fighter though.  He likes everyone he meets; he remembers everyone’s name and he gets upset whenever someone leaves.  So much so that he’s adored by both sides of the family.  I chalked it up to him being cute, precocious, and related to us wtf, but it’s also his personality that makes him so lovable. And I’m not bragging hahaahha you’d have to meet him to know. Two of them entertaining themselves while mommy and daddy discuss important matters. Here’s some other stuff we learned.

1. He’s become very independent!  At home, I noticed he insists on feeding himself now, when a few months ago he was super lazy and wanted us to feed him.  He’s clearly been practicing at school and he’s actually pretty good with a spoon now!  He does this thing where he opens his mouth as wide as he can to accomodate the spoon (and reduce chances of missing his mouth hahahaha) which is damn cute. The teacher chalks this up to peer pressure because everyone else is eating on their own.  Teacher told me about three weeks ago he started refusing to let the teacher help him and eats on his own now.

• He used to hate art because he hates getting his hands messy.  Now he doesn’t mind working with glue.  He still doesn’t like paint too much but he tolerates it because he knows that the teachers will clean his hands when he’s done lol.  He used to insist they wash his hands right away but now he tahan until the end of the art class wtf.

• He remembers everyone’s names!  Unbelievably, he remembers all the teachers’ names (even those who don’t teach him) and all the school staff too.  If he sees whoever, he’ll sing out, “Hi, (insert name)!” As a result, everyone’s got a soft spot for him and apparently people regularly drop by his class to check if he’s there. LOL.

• I kept him home from school last week cos there was a HFMD scare and Teacher told us his presence was greatly missed.  At first I thought she was just saying that cos she has to lolol, but she said really, the class was super quiet without him and other kids asked about him. 😀

• Only two kids in his class know their letters and he’s one of them.  Teacher asked if I worked with him on them at home and I said I did.  But then I remembered I only started doing flash cards with him when I noticed he was reading out letters he saw on signboards!  And then I realized he was learning his alphabet from ABC songs on Youtube. :X  He knows all the upper case letters but not that good with lower case though.  This year they’re focusing on lower case or else he’d be even more impressive hahaha.  He also knows numbers 1 to 0 but I forgot to ask teacher about that.

• Teacher said he’s very observant and has a good memory.  Actions or words they taught in the last week, he’d still remember the next week.  And we notice that at home too!  He not only knows our names but all our car names wtf.  And he knows the sounds that go with certain letters.  Like H sound is huh, K makes the sound kuh etc wtf.

• At home he’s very impatient and cannot even sit to hear out a story if I’m reading one.  He has no patience at all with puzzles and gives up the first second if a puzzle piece doesn’t fit immediately.  I told Teacher who seemed surprised.  Apparently in school he loves story time and quietly listens to everything – even the Mandarin stories.  And he’s good with crafts too – he sits and finishes his work.  And today he made a necklace for me by threading a piece of yarn through cut up pieces of straws.

This is one of his artwork which I think is something to be proud of!  The teacher showed him what a face is supposed to be like – where the facial features all go – and he made this by himself, sticking on the facial parts in the right places!

I’m so proud of Fighter!  There I was, afraid he’d be picked on, wondering if I should pull him out because he cried every day before school for two weeks, but he’s thriving!

I’m so proud that he’s developed this wonderful personality and that he’s so well liked.

I’m so proud that he overcame his fears (of paint and school wtf) and is handling himself well.  That he’s independent now and doing things for himself.

If he (and Penny) keeps growing well like this, there’s nothing that would make me more contented. 🙂