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My 4 years old boy is VERY into CCTV lately. It started out innocently during a recent visit to my SIL's condominium and on our way back, Benjamin noticed the CCTV camera right at the corner in the lift and started asking me what is that. And that started everything....

I explained to him it was a camera to monitor any naughty children who threw tantrums in the lift (to scare my boy who on and off likes to throw tantrums), or bad people who wanted to vandalise the lift or cause crimes in the lift like stealing people's wallet or kidnapping etc etc. He seems satisfied with my answers and remained quiet until that night... and asked me again the same question. And I repeated my answer.

The next few days, we went to Tesco for grocery shopping and he noticed another type of CCTV hanging from the top and asked me what is that. And again, I tell him the same thing. Few minutes later, he asked me why is the CCTV STILL there. Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I remained cool and answered again it will remain there forever.

Another time when we were out eating at a food shop, he asked me why aren't there any cameras in the food shop? I looked at hubby and told him to answer giving him my take-over-this-I'm up-to-here-tired-with-the-same-questions-over-and-over-and-over-again look... Before hubby could reply, Ben pointed at a corner of the shop and said 'There! There's a camera there!'

Great!

And then he asked why is the camera there. I continued eating my food, letting hubby answered our boy and Ben continued asking why the CCTV never moved. Hubby told him it cannot move, else it will not be able to capture the criminal's face.

And then on Sunday during church service before hubby brought our kiddos to their Sunday classes (normally I will bring Alyson while hubby will drop Ben off at his class before heading back to main hall for sermon but that Sunday I was sick and told hubby to take over) and Ben asked me 'Why is there no camera in church?'

Oh boy....

I told him because there is no criminal in church and that everybody behaves properly in church?

And then he asked hubby the same question and hubby told him because God is watching.

Ooo... nice reply!

CCTV.... so many questions from a same device... and yet different varieties of reply which can come from it... hmmm...

2 years ago (when I was pregnant with Alyson), I wrote a post about my pregnancy then and now and I'm recycling the contents of that post to include the 3rd pregnancy updates now.. hahah...

The table below is to recap and note down what are the differences between my pregnancy then and now...

And just a couple more things to note that I will not be able to do in a few months time:

And the things I'm so NOT looking forward to in a few months time:

Please wish me luck and I really need all the support I can get in making my breastfeeding during pregnancy works! And of course, most important is I have a smooth and safe pregnancy and delivery!

I have also made an extraordinary decision this round, will share when I received the items I ordered. I've already gotten my hubby's approval to do this, so hope to have my family, relatives, friends and you guys supporting me as well!

Thank you for reading, have a good week and God bless you!

Hello! Here's the next number writing worksheet I created for my 4 years old boy in our homeschooling lessons.

Just a bit of explanation why I designed my worksheet in such way:

* Recognition - teach child how to recognise number 3: I begin with the example of how number 3 should look like followed by how you should write it. For number 3, I told my boy that number 3 is made up of 2 half moons, so he should draw 2 half moons and making sure they are joined together.

* Practise - teach child to practise writing number 3: Next, you will see 3 columns by 4 rows on how your child should practise writing number 3. I begin with an easy example of how to write number 3, dashed line with very bold lines, followed by less bold dashed lines in the next row and so on and in the last row, your child will need to practise writing number 3 without any guidelines. I do not want to do so many rows/columns as using my child as an example, he does not have a long attention span, so I keep the lessons short and sweet and simple.

* Identify - teach child to identify number 3: Finally, I included 3 examples with pictures, each picture will have the number of object(s) related to the lesson to learn, meaning if the lesson is to write number 3, the examples all will have 3 objects but there will be 2 numbers given for the child to choose which number is the right one to represent the number of object(s). For this, I get my boy to circle the correct number.

Here's a picture of my boy (taken on 21st March 2013) on his number 3 writing worksheet. If I recall correctly, this is the second time he practised writing number 3.

I don't have designing experience but if you would like a copy of the learning to write number 3 template that I created, feel free to download it here (Learning to Write Number 3.pdf (302.31 kb)) Please note that it is for personal use and I do not own any copyrights to the images used in the worksheet - all the images are from Microsoft Clip Arts.

That's all the updates I can share for now, feel free to ask and share if you have feedback!