Issac Chan, My Son

The name Issac was picked my son before he was born. My husband and I do not know the gender of our child during the first 4 months of my pregnancy. We decided to try the name Genevieve and Issac  with our preborn baby and he responded to the name Issac  several  times. We have been calling our baby Issac ever since regardless of the gender.

He arrived at the most unexpected period-my last day of work and the day my hubby contracted high fever during the H1N1 season in 2009. A smooth and quick delivery for me! Our pair of families were in deep shock with the arrival of our premature baby at 37^th weeks. Now he is tall and athletic built for his age of 2 years old. His sport coach refused to believe he is just 2 year +.

Being a jovial and outgoing child, he never fails to win smiles from his grandparents to even our neighbours. Our neighbours like him so much that they even bought him an Ikea arm chair. However, he gets really lonely for being our only child. He enjoys the companion of peers and family members tremendously. He looks forward to his school as there are a lot of music and interaction time with his peers. We never regret our decision to put him in preschool at such early age-20mth old.

Once he turns two, he amazes us with his ability to recite the numbers from 0 to 10. He simply loves singing rhythms in English and Chinese with us.  At his 27^th mth, he starts singing the complete alphabet song and counts his numbers backwards. It is weird that learning can take place at such unprecedented rate for a young child that you will never know what he will surprise us with. His favourite number is 5 as that is one of the digit of our flat unit number. That’s definitely in our checklist of items to bring when we pack his school bag or outing bag.

When he turns three, he is already reciting multiples of two till 10 during one of his playtime. As usual I play our usually game of completing the sentence for each other, in this case Issac has to identify the next consecutive number after hearing the number that I call out each out at random. This set of numbers is restricted to 10. One day, I decided to test if he knows his 11 to 20. Impressively, he was able to gather the momentum of reciting up to 40. He was able to identify the pages randomly picked from his storybooks correctly. That’s where I have decided to put him in abacus class to strengthen his numerical sense.