Had another round of celebration for Sky's birthday in school during his actual day. As Sky's having Kindersmusik that day, we leave him to finish his lesson and went back to pick the kids up in another hr time.

In between to another family celebration at Swensons, we brought the kids to Botanical Gdns - Jacob Ballas Childrens Garden.

Celebrated Sky's 3rd birthday at Julia Gabriel last Sunday. Bought the cake from the The Patisser which i thought would be less messier for his S&D class. Both kids and the parents like it very much!

Sky is in the "Why" Phase as he's reaching 3 in a wk's time. Can't seem to answer his endless "Why" questions. He can be so persistent and keep asking why this and why that until I'm loss for words.

I know each kid is different. When comes to teaching, Sky is really driving me nuts. While teaching him, he...

1. Can't sit still & will wonder off to do something.
2. Will say "Mummy, I promise you. After this, ok?" and proceed to doddle.
3. Can't remember what i have said and mix up the shapes that he knew and not known.
4. Ask for milk halfway

Urggg! God! Pls impart me with more patience and the right method to teach him!!

Shan's music teacher has been "chasing" us to buy a piano for Shan as she's advancing in her piano lessons. After weeks of deliberating, we decided to take the plunge and commit a $4900 second hand Yamaha piano. The shop will allow a buy back at 70% if we decided to sell back. So, the calculated risk is abt $1500 if Shan decided to back out. Thinking that in abt half a yr or so later, Sky will also be taking music, we "invested" in the piano. Many thanks to PH & shan's teacher who took time to choose the piano with us since the mummy & daddy are musically illiterate.

Shan practising the song for her concert in June

The kids' cc were closed on Wednesday. Took the opportunity to go on leave and spent some quality time with them. With compliments from Christina's hubby, we got free tixs to Zoo. Unfortunatly, dh couldn't join us.

We spent a good time there and Sky was being extra well behaved by not asking me to carry him. Nothing much changed except that Ah Meng was no longer around. The kids ventured the Zoom took pony rides, watched sealion performed two times, played at the playground and pool. As usual, the kids knocked out when they finally reached home in the late noon.

The kids cc is very proactive in enaging the parents. First, they had an orientation begining of the year to bring you through the theme and activities going through for the next six mths. Three months down the road, they organised another informal parent teacher session.

This time, I'm quite sad as Sky's English teacher, Lydia, (who is also Shan's literacy teacher) informed she would be on six months no pay leave to pursue her dip course. The good news is she would be back in half a yr time. Thus far, she's the best pre-school teacher I had ever seen. She's very passionate about teaching pre-schoolers and know her stuff well. In fact, she was Eton House trained and also a former teacher from Eton House. I understand that she's also using the same approach to teach the playgroup kids. Nonetheless, she's following God's calling to enrich her passion in pre school teaching and we fully bless her in her path.

Back to the kids development

Shan
- Good helper in school
- Good academics both in English & Mandarin
- Loves to talk
- May be strong pride and can't accept if there's peers do not listen to her (have been working on that)

Sky
- Independent
- Only communicates in English. Chinese teacher "complaining" that he don't speak Chinese at all! Oh dear!!!
- Can colour well (at least within the lines)

Our cell organised an outreach outing to Sentosa. Goodness, it's been ages since I visited Sentosa! This time, our visit Sentosa is to experience Night Luge & Skyride. We brought the baobeis to the outing as well. It was indeed FUN, FUN & FUN. Sky just passed the height limit of 90cm and is able to join the fun. We were initially worried that he may be left out.

The package is for 3 trips of Skyride + Luge. Skyride brings us to top of the greeneries and I'm sure the scenic view would be better in the day. The Luge operates on the principle of gravity and provides a fun ride on a downward slope. Being a first time "driver", it's really thrilling. By the 3rd trip, this mummy is so much bolder and able to "drive" the Luge speedily. However, I was afraid to "ferry" Shan and throughout the three sessions, she's with her favourite Uncle Wai Seng. Shan was screaming happily to Wai Seng to slow down. Sky followed daddy throughout and is very nonchalant about it.

It's such an enjoyable session. We look forward to another trip soon and this time, we will go in the day time for another different experience.

Brought Shan along when I go for my pedi session two wks ago. She manage to coax for a pedi herself and chose a glittering purple polish with nail art. Compared to mine, it much more glam lor.

Shan's pedi


After a swim y'day, some of the polish dropped off and she told me she needs to go back for more. O dear! What have i gotten myself into!

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.