Numbers

On the way to school this morning Sasha shouted: "I like traffic light and numbers mama." Sasha is referring to the numbers that counts down the time for red light (as well as green light) on the traffic light. And this is the start of his infatuation with traffic lights...especially the ones that have numbers attached on it.

Busy Life

Sasha is now four years old and he is officially a kindergarten student. How time flew so fast. With school is still on a holiday break, Sasha has been doing various activities to enhance his skills. For starter, I like to have him do exercises that move his fingers in order to prepare him for kindergarten. For example, I have him writing the alphabet every other day, and do mazes in between writing practices.

April

I cannot believe its April already....my newborn is almost a month old and Sasha will be 4 years old soon. Live is adjusting nicely, especially with the brotherly love that Sasha has shown his little sister. Sasha tries to help me whenever he can by giving me the diaper when he sees me going to the changing table or pushing the baby bedchair together to the living room. I feel very blessed.

Baby Sister

Sasha is a big brother now...everybody has been asking me how Sasha is doing...whether he is jealous of his baby sister and so on. The truth is Sasha has been very kind to his baby sister. He is caring and showing interest in his little sister well being. Sasha's favorite so far is watching me changing his sister's diaper. His behavior is exactly like professor Shichida had explained to me a long time ago, that a Shichida child is a kind hearted child.

Life Experience

Its almost time for Sasha's sister to be born. My husband and I have been preparing several scenarios when I have to stay in the maternity ward since Sasha has never been apart from me, not even one day. The best scenario so far is to have Sasha come visit me every morning before school.

100 Peg Memory

Sasha has been attending Shichida school for quite some time. One of the lessons is to memorize 100 peg. As a 3 year and 9 months old, Sasha has memorized 50 peg so far. Professor Shichida refers this training as instant memory training in his book "Children Can Change Through Right Brain Education." The goal here is to instantaneously memorize different pictures in 1 minute or less.

Health and Well being

Sasha just recovered from a skin infection. The whole thing started out unexpectedly. Sasha has always had a sensitive skin and before the skin broke out with bacteria, his lips were always chapped. So I tried to diligently put a lip balm on, however, he liked to pick on the dry lips which caused some skin to bleed. One thing led to another, and bacteria got into his lip resulting in skin infection. His lower lip where it chapped the most, was swollen and looked pretty nasty. Doctor advised was only to wash his hands all the time and wash them good. Thank God the ordeal is over. I cannot stress enough the importance of washing hands and carrying anti bacterial solution at all times.

Impact of Surroundings

Sasha does not watch television at home nor has he ever seen any commercial movies with us. My husband and I, we do not watch television programs even tough they are at our disposal in front of Sasha. I do let Sasha watches the educational Anpanman and Shichida Right Brain training DVD movies to improve his Japanese. However, it is inevitable to control television watching when Sasha is out and about in other people household. First came "Barney" then "Dora the Explorer" and the latest was a movie called "Garuda di Dadaku." I am just happy that Sasha does not demand to watch television at home.

Happy New Year 2011

As the new year begins my personal resolution is to see Sasha to be more independent. He starts off very well with brushing his teeth by himself, going to the toilet and washing his hands by himself. Little things that he can do by himself he does them. This year Sasha is going to be a big brother too, so to be independent is important.