School Update 学校

This is Mei, legs kicking in the air and on the headboard, hanging onto her favorite stuffed toy "Xiao Gou Gou" (puppy) and "Xiao Tow Jin" (the piece of small towel, think she combined English 'towel' and Chinese "Xiao Mao Jin" and created this lovely name and now the whole family uses the phrase) for her dear life, refusing to put on the school uniform in the morning. I took 2 half day off this week, to observe how Mei is adjusting to school life. Sadly, I actually have to hide until the time that she's inside the school gate, otherwise, there is no way
that we can don her the uniform and send her to school. In that aspect, I must say auntie Imelda does a far better job than I do. I hid around the corner, and peeped through the palm sized undecorated window after she's in. She usually cries for the first 5 to 8 minutes. Once the formal teaching starts, she stops crying and follows along. I then go and peep at intervals and found that she is actually doing fine, except for that she is clumsier that her classmates.

Mei is more advanced than Han Jin in terms of language, but not in motor skills, and she is younger (probably by one year on average) than her classmate. I'd say she did pretty well for her age. She stomped her feet to the beat of the music, waved hand when asked, obediently went back to the seat when ordered... all looks fine.

This is her when she stepped out of the school, and beamed a smile on sight of me.

妹妹好像比较习惯上学了，虽然早上还是哭着不肯上学，不肯穿校服，可是一旦去了学校，还是很开心的。

我这个礼拜拿了两个早上的假，观察妹妹适应的怎么样。我得躲在一边，等阿姨送妹妹进去了，才可以偷偷从窗口看。小丫头很听话的（在学校里），不哭不闹，出来的时候也是笑笑的。放心多了。

和瀚今两岁多的时候比，妹妹是比较粘妈妈。是因为女孩子吗？我觉得是因为我现在和孩子们在一起的时间比较多。当时瀚今两岁多的时候，我刚刚升职做经理，工作很忙，通常8，9点才回家，当时还在拼着读CFA，周末要读书，又怀着妹妹，真的疏略了瀚今。没有可能谁会什么都有，什么都不耽误，当时我耽误了看瀚今成长的过程。有时候觉得瀚今之所以会比较懦弱，不够外向，有可能是因为那一段我的投入不够，婆婆回老家以后，孩子安全感失去很多，我没有及时给他应有的母爱，几乎全由保姆照顾。所以很珍惜现在可以做兼职，有多一点的时间和孩子们在一起，我也不急着让瀚今自己睡一个房间。

理想的状况：周日孩子们自己睡，周末一家人一起睡。。。