"Boo-a-Baa"

It's actually the title of a story book from the library he has taken a great liking to. Well, the title really is "Boo and Baa" but we swallow the "and". It's a very well-drawn picture story of a sheep couple Boo and Baa who one day find a cat stuck in their garden tree and try different methods to help it come down. We have taken to reading it during meal times(a major improvement from Mickey Mouse and Tom & Jerry) and this book is an excellent demonstration of how reading improves their vocabulary: he has picked up "wheel-barrow", "plank", "ladder" and "rake", words which are less common in our daily vocabulary. Of course, he insists to both his parents that Boo is Baa and Baa is Boo and we can live with that sort of confusion for now. If I get distracted while reading, he goads me on with "read a book, mummy, read a book". Most times I stop reading just to hear him say it. I like the way he uses the indefinite article and says, "a book" instead of "the book". It's just one of those things.

Pre-Kinder Room

There are two ways, among numerous others, that indicate clearly that your child is growing up: bigger nappy sizes(especially for lazy mums like I who don't bother with toilet-training early) and moving up rooms at the child care. The new year brought along with it our concerns about his adjusting to the pre-kinder room. I wasn't keen on moving him up so early( he barely turned two and the pre-kinders' has always been a 3+ room). It seemed to me that he was more attached to his carers in the toddlers' room than his roommates and so was very reluctant to move him up even though most of his roommates were going to the pre-kinder room from the start of the year. My fears were slightly misplaced though: I was told that he did feel a little misplaced and lonely during the first week back in the toddlers'. I was glad that he had to be moved up to the pre-kinders' the very next week because of the high demand in the toddlers'.
The major plus point with the pre-kinder room is Meera. The girls can't tell us enough about how chummy the two are with each other, how he imitates everything Meera does and how protective she is of him. It is suiting us all quite well. I drop him every morning with the promise of being able to play with Meera. He has also taken to waving me bye from the window of his room which conveniently looks out into the driveway of the child care. He still has on and off days - he screamed like a banshee and brought the whole place to his attention the day before because he had taken it into his mind to go the Glen for shopping instead of the child care.