3rd week of Play school

Alamak! Just realised I haven't even blogged about Keston's first week of school and we've already reached week 3!!!

Week 1 was tough. On the first day, he actually didn't cry much cos he didn't realise he was gonna be left alone for 4 hours. On the 2nd day, he started crying as soon as Daddy took him out from the carseat. The 3rd day, he started recognising landmarks and would start crying once he realised we were enroute to school. Also on the 3rd day, he had the most horrendous nightmare/night terrors and woke up wailing at 2am. Nothing in the world could get him to stop crying, nothing in the world could get him to go back to sleep. In the end, I relented and played Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to calm him down. Worked a charm and he stopped crying. But everytime an episode ended, he'd threaten to turn on the waterworks. He refused to let me turn off the tv and sat there watching tv till 4 am, when daddy woke up and scolded him. He finally agreed to go back to the room but sat there tossing and turning till he finally fell asleep at 5am. Needless to say, we were very VERY late for school.

The whole of the first week, I had a hard time adjusting his routine. Although he'd had lunch in school at 11.30, he still seemed hungry at 12.30 after school. So after a quick bath, he would eat his full bowl of porridge. And then the whole world would come tumbling down cos he'd refuse to step into the room to nap. He'd play for abit and then start getting frustrated with everything-- his toys, me, himself. I'd endure the wailing, whining, struggling (when I try to carry him). Nothing works! He'd fly into a major tantrum and nothing could appease him. He'd look terribly sleepy but simply refused to nap. Finally at around 3pm, I'd give him his milk and he'd fall asleep drinking the milk. His afternoon naps were fretful as well and he kept jolting awake... I had to keep watch beside him to make sure he gets at least 3 hours of sleep (or he would wake up pissed off). This happened consecutively for the whole week.

The 2nd week, I decided that he probably doesn't need the additional lunch and is probably overstimulated, hence the crankiness. So, after school, he goes straight into the bath and would get his milk immediately. This seems to be the perfect formula as he'll guai guai and calmly fall asleep by 1.30pm.

Thankfully this worked out cos frankly, I could not handle his afternoon crankiness for the 1st week and was screaming and yelling at him all the time to SHUT UP and GO TO SLEEP! Baby crying + Mummy screaming...I can't imagine what the neighbours must think! :P

School-wise...the 2nd week, he seems to be adjusting better. Not crying so much during class, and starting to participate in class activities. He's still crying everyday when daddy drops him off in class. Daddy tries to settle him in class first before leaving but he will always cry when daddy goes off. Daddy has reported that alot of little girls like to surround Keston, singing around him, giving him toys and sayanging him, telling him not to cry. So sweet right?

But the little boy probably gets freaked out by people stroking his face, so he continues to cry. Sigh. Got girls sayang, still cry? Big already won't have such privilleges liao!

In case you're wondering, Mummy doesn't drop him off for class cos he's so sticky to mummy that he will cry even harder and hold on even tighter. We're still hoping for the day he happily waves bye bye and runs into class himself.