Similar like last year, Shan's dance school traditionally held their "birthday" celebration with a showcase of their dance performances.

Make up Time



Ready for performance

The kids were sitting in their groups, getting ready to be called up to the stage.


Waiting for the music cue


Part of the performance!

Brought the kids to watch "Guess How Much I Love You & I Love My Little Storybook" by Act3 (Prudential Children First) on 1 Mar 08.

The puppets are very beautiful and the puppeteers made the "animals" lively. The kids enjoyed the show very much .

Aunty Elisa & Aunty Suzie came over to our plc for steamboat last Sun. It's also to celebrate Dh & Elisa's birthday.

The cakes


The kids having fun

With a $100 marriot dinning voucher, we went there for a buffet lunch last saturday to celebrate dh's birthday. At the end of the lunch, I took out the camera to take few shots of the kids. Then, Shan started making funny faces for me to take the shots and even lead the brother to do the same thing. It's hilarious to watch them so cheeky.

Shan's uniform was delayed due to no stock in her size. Her uniform finally came. I manage to take a pic of the kids in their uniforms.

The cell celebrated Dh's birthday yesterday. Shan also present her drawing to her beloved daddy after the cell sang the birthday song. In fact, she has drew this few days ago after I told her to give it as a present for Dh's birthday and she has been waiting for the moment to give it to him.

Although his pronunciation is still not clear, he's now able to spell his name!! Was totally caught by surprise last nite when I just casually asked Sky how to spell his name.

I now it's abit late..but still..GONG XI GONG XI from us!!

Clementi is where i grew up. After 6 years, we are now back to Clementi again. And now, we have more reasons to love Clementi!!

1. Beauty
Everywhere else was fully booked and was panicking to get a pedi for CNY. Chanced upon a recommendation on Nailz Lab from M4M and was lucky to get a 9.30pm slot on 3 Feb 07 for a pedicure.

It's a small cozy place and I do like the experience there :)

Tel:68726106
Blk 431 Clementi Ave 3 #01-340



2. Food
Haa..there's too many to choose from. Ironically, we did not really have the chance to eat at Clementi. We also bought our ba kwa from Chai Ho (Clementi Ave 3) for CNY which IMO is far better than Mei Zheng Xiang. Within a stone's throw, there's also West Coast Recreation where we can have the oh-so-familiar Jack's place and Moon Korean Restarant (hvn't tried yet).

A little distance further, there's good food at West Coast Hawker and not forgetting cozy mini Holland V alike at Sunset Way. We celebrated PH's birthday @ Grill Out - a Western restaurant. Were quite impressed by the tenderness of the fish (Yellowtail) & pork ribs. At Sunset Way, the kids enjoyed their ice-cream at The Daily Scoop. Oh yes..not to forget me & Shan's fav tu-tu kweh at Blk 449.

3. Sports
Dh has started to go jogging at the Clementi Stadium (but because of the nearing IPPT). I'm still procastinating to join him..but we did bring along the kids for slow walk after dinner. Swimming is just few minutes walk & the kids has been able to go for swim on & off. For healthy lifestyle, thought of booking the court at sports complex for a game of badminton..Then again, have to see when we can fulfil :p

4. ERP
Guess this is more of dh's satisfaction. Not encountering any ERP when he send me to work every morning.

Kindergolf opened a branch beside Jitterbugs. Since there's a promotion, brought Sky for a trial lesson to see what the lesson consist of. Too bad, no photos allowed. Sky was the only student with jie jie (waiting for her ballet lesson to start). He listened to instruction well. The lesson includes some theory lessons on Golf and Golf ettquette. Besides that, he did putting and chipping. An interesting one-time experience.

Shan suddenly told me in the evening that she saw a man & woman kissing the other time she was attending holiday programme at tien hsia. She was describing to me that this couple seems to be biting each other and asking me why they are eating one another! Oh my!! At the moment, I was stunned & not sure how to react. The way she describe was way too funny & I can't help but laughing! Muna subsequently told me Shan tried to do that to Sky before I reach home but Sky keep pushing the crazy jie jie away! After the laugh, I quickly distracted her to her music practice.

Aunty Elisa held Daniel's 5th birthday at Disney Restuarant yesterday. It was our first visit to this interesting restuarant at Anchor Point. I must say that for a novelty restuarant, the food was not bad though choices were limited. The menu includes pizza (which comes in shape of mickey mouse), soup, juices and ice-creams. Shan like the computer games that were available.

Sometimes, dh & myself will spell out certain words if we do not want to let the kids hear. Did not know that Shan has already grow up & she already know some spelling.

Me talking to dh: (not wanting to disappoint the kids if we did not go) Wan to go Z.O.O (Sp) later?
Shan sitting beside: Z.O.O ZOO?!! Yeh, we are going Zoo!

Oops! Eventually, we did not go Zoo also.

My 2 baobeis drove me nuts this evening!! Got into my nerves when the two was fighting over the bicycle when I reach home. Wonder how can they deceive their teachers in school. Earlier in the noon, the branch director (principal) of the school was just updating me on the kids progress in school. Was sharing what a loving jie jie Shan is. Took great care of Sky like reminding him to tell teacher if he want to pass urine and sent him to his class before going to her K1 class. How can they be so lovey dovey in school and be so nasty towards each other at home!!!!

Contrary to what the teacher says that he can feed himself lunch in the school, he was running around during dinner time back. The last straw came when he spits out the food and I gave him a hard stroke of cane. Arrg!!

Dinner time was over when Shan brought down a pretty ornament (gift from Aunty Sandy) from the shelve. Again, Sky wanted to have it and they fought over it again. Got a bad feeling that this ornament wouldn't last long. Manage to separate the kids & brought Sky to shower. He was wailing away refusing to shower and my heat level went another notch higher. Just when when I was changing Sky, Shan fell & needless to say, she broke IT! Guess Angels must be watching over her that she had only a miner cut. She cried very hard & kept apologising. Surprisingly, I was rather calm and did not leash out at her though i'm already very HOT! She must be feeling very sorry about it as she kept repeating "Sorry mummy". This lesson is good enough for her. As a form of punishment, I sent the kids to bed. But hey! since the kids were asleep early today, I could catch k-dramas. :P

Sign...do I really want a third child????

Newly found this wonderful site which can satisfied my "crave" for K-dramas. Has been staying up these few days during wee hours (after the kids slept) to watch the dramas (luckily for the hols). Finished watching these:

Had lunch with Ah ma & Ah Yi at Ma Maison @ Bugis.

Rec'd a call yesterday out of nowhere from Foto Gallery (never heard of it before) telling me to bring the family down for free makeover + photoshoot the next day. It's exactly the same concept with the previous free shot that we took 2 years ago. Not a bad idea to get free shoot again though we have to go thru the 2 hours! The kids got tired & cranky at a later stage since they did not napped. By end of the session, while waiting for me to remove the dozens of pins on my hair, the 2 fell asleep :p

We had a mini celebration to countdown to 2008 with Aunty Karen & Aunty Sandy's family joining us. Cheers to our friendship for > 10 years! Sky really enjoyed playing with Charlotte!

What a pair!

Both baobeis had been with the school for about a week already. Thank god for the smooth transition with no cryings nor any separation anxiety at all. Sky was abit apprensive of the new environment when I'm around on the first day. But he settled in fast as teacher allowed him to follow jie jie the first few days. The school has also been giving us daily feedback on their "performance".

Sky loves his Thomas & Friends Pyjamas soooo much. Thanks to Aunty Suzie who gave him this Xmas present. He request to don his Thomas & Friends pyjamas EVERYDAY.

Finally, all x'mas celebrations has come to an end.

1. Attended two X'mas services at CHC. Felt blessed as dh's friend responded to the altar call. Shan & Sky got face painting on the 2nd visit.
2. X'mas Party at Ronnie's place
It's a company celebration hosted by dh & Ronnie for their team. Have to "crawl" to work the next day since it's a working half day (Xmas eve)

3. Thanksgiving at our place
Our cell organised Thanksgiving celebration at our house yesterday! It's indeed good fellowship where we had great food, fun & laughter!

Her work today at One Art Studio. Again, she asked to continue lessons but too bad, there's no slot available for regular lessons currently.

Shan has been asking to go for art lessons for some time. So far, I have yet to see a complete painting or picture drew by Shan though. Am not sure if she's really interested in ART. Manage to get around to bring her for a lesson at One Art Studio last Sat. It's a 1.5hr lesson and I finally get to see a complete painting.

Before we moved, Shan would do her practice using the old organ at my mum's place. As we are not bringing the organ with us, I decided to get a keyboard for her. Have been searching around for a recommended model at the forum and finally decided on Casio CTK-496. Just when I wanted to buy, I spotted a gently used set for sale at the forum. Thank God for the favour! Shan happily started her practise again today.

Despite the packing activities on the day before, we woke up on a Saturday feeling fresh. Seeing the Sun, the kids bugged to go swimming (we had asked the kids to pray for a good weather the day before for swimming). Hopefully, we will be more involved with sports since we are so near to the swimming complex and sports complex. The kids had an enjoyable time at the pool.

In the late afternoon, we attended baby Josh full month. Boy..he's really chubby & cute! It's nice catching up with all the old colleagues too.

Sky attended his last day at Enrichment Classroom last friday. I learnt from the teachers that he's the baby of the class. Because, he's the youngest, the teachers called him "Skyler baby"..his friends followed suit and called him the same! His teachers are really dedicated. It was also the completion of the holiday programme - Artist Workshop. The teachers painstakingly compiled their art pieces together. Similarly, I sought the teachers' help to take some pictures for memories.

Have been bussssy for the past wks as we are moving to the new place. Our house has been cluttered with carton boxes and DH really maximised full usage of his Odyssey the past week to gradually move items over. Today is our moving day and the kids are pretty excited! Thanks to God's favour, our reno is completed in time for us to pass the keys to our buyer as planned. The house is also done up to our expectation. It has been a very wet December and we give thanks to our Father God that Mr Sunshine was up yesterday for the final painting and this morning when the movers did the shifting. God's provision is really great!

We managed to unpack everything except the kids' room (waiting for their wardrobe to arrive). In between our packing, I have to settle kids' occasion squabbles and make peace. I must say though, the kids helped in their little ways:

Shan
- the communicator bridge btwn me & dh who's at different rooms doing packing (big time)
- swept the floor
- carrying things around the house when needed

Sky
- swept the floor
- took a 2hr nap - it helped alot as he can be quite a terror! haa!

Though really really tired, I'm happy to shift back to my "hometown" - Clementi. It's such a convenient location! Yet, on the other hand, felt sad that we will be further away from my mum, pa & sis who were previously just 2 blks away.

Today is also Sky's last day in his playgroup and significantly, also the end of his holiday programme. Will post more another day.

Don't like the idea of Shan cruising through December doing nothing. Thus, we signed her up for a 5 days Chinese holiday programe which started today. Looks like she enjoyed it! Was sharing with me about the toy shop she visited today and the things she ate. Hope she enjoyed the week ahead!

Urgg! Shan got a tooth decay! Finally got around to bring Shan to see a neighbourhood dentist last Saturday. However, the gal refused to cooperate! She used her hand to cover her mouth tightly and refused to sit on the chair. The dentist was kind enough not to charge anything and told Shan "It's ok, treat as weekend outing". Have previously sounded Dh out saying there's this very child friendly dentist mentioned over the forum but charges are on a higher side. The moment he hears that the other mum spent about $200 on the first visit, he brushed it aside. Sign! Should I send?

Something he (I think more so the teacher) does at school during his holiday programme.

1. Haircut
Was grumbling to ah ma that Shan fringe cut was extremely "ku ku" & not nice.
Her sudden reaction: It's ok mummy..I'm still pretty!

2. Boys
Shan: Mummy, I like boys
Me: Ya, and girls too rite.
Shan: No..boys only because they are handsome"
"DUH"

3. Marriage
Shan: "Mummy, I don't want to get married. Next time, give birth very pain"
Goodness! At this age, what does she know about marriage!

4. Pictures
Me: Shan, can you take photos of me.
Shan: Nooo, mummy, you have not put make up on.

whoever taught her all these!!!

Due to our moving, we had to withdraw the kids from their current school. Today's Shan last day of her CC. Not sure how she felt but I was kinda sad for her. As an appreciation for her teachers, I bought a carrot walnut cake (supposingly the best seller) from Cedele bakery for her principal & teachers.

Was looking through her progress card again and am reassured to note these words repeatly appeared since she joined when she was 18mths old.

Helpful - 4 times
Enjoys music & movement - 6 times

The teachers also verbalised the above to me whenever I asked about her in school. Except for talkativeness in class, she's generally labelled as "good" student. In her small ways, she practiced what pastor kong has preached :p. She adopted cultural mandate and is a testimony in the school (which I have been praying over the kids).

Not sure how long her memory of the friendship amongst her & her little friends and the bond she built with her teachers since 18mths will stay with her. In fact, she has been asking me if her Ichiban teachers can go to her new school to teach her.

The pictures that her teachers helped me to take on this last day.

Part of her growing up..till her new chapter in the new school...

Sky's edudrama class had a "carnival" day on the last day of the term last Sunday. They had face painting & "visited" another class who performed a small drama. Likewise, they did a bubble gum act. To celebrate early X'mas, they had "Santa Claus" walking around the centre.

Sky requested for a tiger during the face painting session and da-dah...here's one


In the midst of the "bubble gum" act

School Concert cum graduation ceremony is an annual event of Shan's school.
As usual, the kids participated in 2 items. Shan has been dancing her items at home but nothing beats seeing her in the costume and performing on stage. So proud to see her dancing so well. I believe other parents are also as touch to see their kids performing.

It's my turn to be sick! Was down with fever flucuating to as high as 40 deg, a bad sore throat & sore eye since Last Thurs. Felt lousy to be ill & din go anywhere except for Shan's concert. We had earlier planned for a celebration meal for ah-ma birthday but because of me, it has to be cancelled. I was on my bed almost all day. Sign!

Shannon

Doubt she caught anything from Sky but more due to heatiness resulted from eating the deadly ba kwa. Her immunity is however stronger against the bout of cough attack. Unfortunately, the kids' ah yi was down with stomach flu & Shan caught it on Friday! Her fever fluctuated over the weekend & had terrible diarrhea over the weekend. Has been praying constantly for their health & thank god that she recovered fully. Let her rest today as not really sure if she had recovered but thank God, the episode is over & she's still able to go jogging with ah-ma in the morning!

DH

Dh has been cursing the deadly ba kwa we bought the last weekend ever since he's down with terrible sore throat. Guess the heatiness in the kids were also somehow affected by eating ba kwa.