Happy Birthday!!!

It's my son, Alex's, 9th birthday today. Since last week, he has been counting down the days until his birthday. I am so happy as to how simple his request was for his birthday. He just wanted us to set up his inflatable pool and a cake. He invited his friends from his old school and they had a swimming party yesterday. Unfortunately, it rained really hard but that did not deter the kids from having fun.

After playing under the rain and on the pool, it's time to blow the candle on his cake.

Since today is his actual birthday, we attended mass and had lunch at Shakey's P. Tuazon. He ordered his favorite combination of Pepperoni pizza and chicken. With us are my in-laws (minus my father in-law, who's in the U.S. right now as part of PNoy's news crew), my mom and my sister. Though it's just a simple lunch, Alex had fun. He's starting to appreciate the meaning of family and friendship.

Challenges...

This school year, Ritchie and I decided to transfer Alex to a different school. Ritchie felt that Alex is being babied in his old school and that he needs to be taught how it is to be independent. Agreeing on my husband's point of view, we had our son take the entrance exam which he passed.
So came the challenges...
#1. In his old school, his teachers would check daily if he was able to copy his assignments for the day. Here in his new school, the teachers would not check their dairy if he has copied his homework. I would just see his notebook marked with " NO ASSIGNMENT" at the end of the day.
#2. He was so overwhelmed with the number of kids in his class (his old school used to have 15 students per class, now they have 48), that all he could think of is playing. Talk about being deprived.LOL
#3. He has to write down his seatworks now before he answers them. Again, he is so lazy to copy it that most of the time, he ends up with no seatwork.
#4. The teachers in his new school would not give you any idea if there's a problem with your child. I think it would just be guess works then.

Funny, I got his report card and he seems to be doing ok. I mean, he got a fairly good average.
I guess I just have to play it by ear and be a little more patient with him. I'll just wait it out till he has adjusted to his new school.