Hannah and School

Hannah went to the same school with Adam and despite their different ages, the teachers put them in a same class because Hannah will start crying once they are separated. Both of them will be in Adam’s class for the morning session and then Hannah’s class for after break session.

I think it is hilarious because they barely can stand each other outside school and Adam is irritated having Hannah in his class because Hannah will be playing at the back while the class is in session. Hahahh…

So early in the morning, when I want to get her ready for school, she will say “Mama, hari ni Lala nak pergi sekolah (kelas) Adam” and she will take her bath, get dressed without a fuss when I agreed. But she will still make me carry her all the way to the bathroom and back to the room. I don’t mind but my hips have been protesting silently because she weights 14kg now.

Last week, she randomly say ‘api neraka’ and I asked her ‘api neraka tu apa, kakak?’ She said, ‘api neraka tu macam obomen la, Mama’ and put her hands up and do the Ultraman’s firing position. Lol.

I told Gen about the api neraka incident. Gen said it was in the doa that she recites and the full version would be ‘dan selamatkanlah kami dari siksaan api neraka’. With that, we then find out that Hannah can now recite doa tidur, doa makan, doa penerang hati, doa masuk tandas and few others. She will also recite all this doa in the toilet while she was doing her big thing. However, she will not recite the doa before meals or before sleeping. Hmmmm.

We were at my parents house for the weekend and we make Hannah recite every doa that she had learn (proud parents syndrome) first to her Tok, then to Aki, later to Mak Teh when Hannah finally say,

Hannah: Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah
Mama: Kenapa kakak baca doa macam tu?
Hannah: Mulut Lala ni dah rosak dah sebab baca doa banyak sangat. Haaa, cuba Mama tengok Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah. Haaa, kan dah rosak?

Sabar je lah, kan? Lols.

School

Adam keep on telling us that he wanted to go to school. So, both Gen and I went to two nurseries near my office just to check on the environment. Actually we are not sure what we are looking for or what our expectations would be but maybe we can figure something up when we were at the nurseries.

The first nursery located at a cornered lot terrace house and it has a roofed vacant area for the children to play. I can see almost 40 children there aged 3 months to 4 years old and it was pretty much packed considering the small area. I am not convinced that the caretakers there actually love their job. Most of the children were very dirty and we can actually see traces of slemo on their faces. It is just too sad. One boy aged about one and a half year took his bag and follow Gen around. He thought that Gen is his father and he wanted to go home. It was both funny and sad at the same time. I’m convinced that the boy is not happy there. There was another girl who wouldn’t stop crying from the moment we were inside the nursery until we left. She sounded so much like Hannah when she’s having one of her tantrums. That does finalize our visit and I’m not sending Adam and Hannah there.

The caretakers of the second nursery told us that they were packed and they cannot take more children. We have no opportunity of looking around at the nursery but we saw all the teaching gadgets inside the office are more convincing than the first nursery. She took our numbers and suggested another nursery for us to see but Gen decide that we have seen enough.