We started on Wed and today is the second day of the trial. So far so good and I guess the only factor is for him to adapt to this new school and the schedule. Since I am heading back to work on Apr 26, he will be officially starting his new school on Apr 5. Yah yah - you must be thinking that I am Kiasu or this mommy is so lazy that she didnt wana care for Garath. To be honest, the reason for placing him so early so that there will not be a cut to this flow that we started during the trial. I am giving the two grandmas next week to play with him still and then it will be school time for Garath.
School will be ideal for him (though most pple say he is just a baby, what can he learn?). The two days have made Garath picked up some good habits like - no rocking to sleep (the teachers tapped him on the bed and of course there was wailing but it is always easy for a third party to do it - mommy here dun have the heart to tap a crying baby to sleep), sit longer in the rocking playchair versus always carrying (with me around, his attention span on the chair is less than 10 mins as he always want mommy to carry) and he made new friends. The centre only accepts up to a max. of 5 infants and this capacity includes Garath and there are 3 teachers, making the teacher:infant ration much ideal that most centres which is 3 infants:1 teacher. The teacher is able to spend more one on one time with the infants. Most importantly, Garath is getting used to bottle feeding again - we had a huge challenge trying to bottle feed as he prefers to latch on mommy and rejects all bottle feeds).
Hopefully this work out for the three of us and I thought I post a picture of Garath on his second day in school playing with Noelle Jiejie ( the first infant at the centre). Noelle was rocking Garath in the baby chair. How sweet! =)
