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 37th 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 27th
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.