At school only this week; Monday (blues) in fact.
Grandma and Hot Mummee dropped by to settle some issues with Caitlin’s schooling.
The school had suggested we check out a neighbouring suburb’s franchise which is offering the Pre-2 Chinese medium, that we could transfer Caitlin to that school if we choose to.
After “spying” on that school / class and knowing that they still conversed in English in that class (whereas the present one they speak in Mandarin fully), the two ladies decided to let Caitlin remain.
After informing the principal of the decision, the two ladies were in the vicinity of Caitlin’s ongoing class.
Hot Mummee’s remark to me that night was something like this:
“.. she’s actually quite disciplined…”
“.. she saw us from the class, and only smiled and waved a little wave. She didn’t run out crying “I want Mummee…” or anything like that ..”
“.. she was even behaving when the class was let out to wash their hands; not recess time yet. It was only on Grandma’s insistence that she came over for a hug, and one for Mummee too..”
Reminds me of her first day at school. Walked straight in. Never looked back.
Recent scalding accident
Despite the I-can-only-imagine pain from the accident, she’s actually been quite steady about the whole thing. Sure, she was sobby on the same night, being “banished” from her usual arrangement to sleep in the other room / bed cos of the medication / cream (we did keep her company). But she didn’t really complain.
The next days she was very conscious of the burn site, heeding our advise to watch our for small accidents that may rupture the blister. She had to wear only shorts, folding up the right leg to keep it exposed / uncovered, being very careful when going to the toilet. She walks with a limp, right hand holding up the folded shorts; which we are not sure if it’s put on or that it does sting from the impact of foot / leg connecting with the ground. In any case it was quite amusing / cute / heart wrenching to see this.
Other than these physical quirkiness, she was / is her usual happy-go-lucky self.
Update on the scald site
This morning after she was ready for school, I applied the SSD again. This is the second time she exclaimed it was ticklish rather than painful; I think the first ticklish time was last night but she still say it hurt.
It also felt harder, like soft scabby, under the pad of my finger. Meaning the site is no longer raw. Which to me is good news.
Glad to hear all is going well.
A real relief, yeah?
Well I guess it is healing the way it is expected.
Just concerned about the possible scarring afterwards.
So, it will def be chinese school for her in 2011 then…
Good that you are all so decisive about the matter.
Glad her wound is healing well. When it startes to itch, hope she has the strength to keep her hands away too!
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Yeah, that’s at least what I am thinking, and I believe Hot Mummee sees the value in this too.
Regarding the wound, it is healing, and it is itching, but the strength isn’t always there!