Special Kid

Gerrard has been diagnosed of having Asperger's Syndrome.

I picked out several signs when I went for the Autism course earlier in the year. I signed up for the course because I met 2 diagnosed cases in my career and many of us do not know how to handle these children with special needs.

Somehow I felt relieved. Knowing the diagnosis will help in the remediation process. Just that it takes a very long time in government hospitals, while the private practitioners are very expensive. Meanwhile, we just do what we can at home and in school.

I am very hopeful we can help him, although a cure is impossible. He's fortunate, that we picked out the signs and insisted a referral although the doctor at the polyclinic felt he was ok (maybe just slow in speech).

The route is gonna be long.

As the Liverpool slogan goes, You Will Never Walk Alone.

He's a happy boy. What's more important than this?

Classical Cheese pose from Gerrard.

Went to the playground while waiting for the clinic to open for functioning.

Children's Day 2010

Gerrard's glad to go to school everyday ever since the Chickenpox episode...

Presents from the teachers.

Note that the flowers in the bear's hand were missing at the end of the day!

Gerlyn and her cheeky cheeze.

No, no, she's not giving Mdm Fauziah the sweets. She's asking the teacher to help her open!

Did she anticipate that the teachers will be more tolerant of her during this special day???

Kite-Flying

Today we brought Gerrard and Gerlyn for a kite-flying session.

Not exactly successful because Liat didn't check the kites. We managed to fly one kite out of the 3, as the other 2 has missing parts...

Home-sweet-home...

Do we really have to go home....

Where's gor-gor going to?

Can this go up too?

The only kite that managed to fly up high today.

Gerlyn's gulping down her drink.

Gerrard's enjoying his drink.

See that? The fishes in the sky.

The kids enjoying a snack. Daddy's at the background.

Land is so huge that the kids roamed freely.

Who's enjoying it more? The kids? Or the daddy??

Wedding

Attended cousin's wedding yesterday. The photographer took a family pic for us.

Then realised that we lacked coordination in clothes....

Gerry is 1 years old

Ah ma with 3Gs.

3Gs.

2Gs.

2Gs.

Gerrard loves the cake too.

Gerlyn loves the birthday cake.

Baby Gerry with his new toy from Ah ma.

Ah ma blowing out the candles with Gerry.

A simple birthday cake to mark baby Gerry's 1 year old.
We had to stay at home as both Gerry and Gerrard have yet fully recover from chickenpox.

Ah Ma & Gerry.

Chickenpox Month

Yay! We survived the Chickenpox month!!!

Gerlyn got it first. From the childcare centre, two weeks before school holidays.

When she recovered and return back to school, then it was Gerrard's and Gerry turn! *groan*
So, we had an entire month of chickenpoxed children to nurse.

Think Gerrard should be able to return back to school next week, though many are still raw from the dropping off of the scabs.

Will get him assessed by the doc tomorrow.

So sweet of Teacher Camille to write on the wrapper for Gerrard's milk.

We always gave the children treats for behaving well in the day during their chickenpox 'retreat'.

Gerrard was always occupied by computer games, which kept him away from the itch and pain.

Good boy

Going by child psychology and common sense, which child do not want to be the good boy or girl?

Gerrard was facing quite a fair bit of problems in sch. Things are more settled these days.

Prior to the chickenpox attack, this was what the teachers and I found when I fetched him from school one day:

Multiple marks of stars on Gerrard's thighs

In the previous centre, he enjoyed Thursdays the most. Reason being that the music teacher will reward the well-behaved kids with a stamp on the hand. He was always thrilled to show us his 'chop' on the hands.

Gerrard stamped the stars on his own thighs. He must had felt he was a really good boy that day.