Jesus Is Born, We Are The Reason

********************************************************** My hope during this season ... for all of us at home to draw close to Him so that we can live a life that's according to His purpose , not ours ! Merry Christmas!

Christmas Party At Home

** My dad with his grandson, Jeremy**

I'm the chef tonight while its CQ when our friends were here last night. Weird thing about both of us is, he likes to cook western food while I prefer chinese cuisine. So tonight I cooked fried bee hoon using AMC pan & other stuff. Very satisfied as we din order from any KFC, Mac or Pizza Hut!

Blessed Christmas

We have invited some of our ex-cg frens from our previous church over for a dinner gathering. It's really so nice to see one another again, chatting & cracking jokes like what this gang used to be. Missing family from the above photo is KH's family. They have gone home slightly earlier.

Science Center Visit

It's always good to know more friends..especially when we share good deals and lobangs. Here, I managed to get free admission to the Science Center for 3 adults & 2 kids! Yup, my friend got the corporate card from her other friend and hence, we only paid for 2 kids' admission tickets at a discounted rate of $2.25 per child !

Surprise !

Today Jamie received her 1st Christmas greetings card. Guess from who? It's her next year K1 form teacher, Mrs Yee!! Btw, Mrs Yee is new to the school. She will commence her teaching career at Jamie's school next year.

Sesame Street @ Taka

Don't know why we went to Suntec City instead of Taka !! Thank God before its too late, we quickly took MRT back to Orchard! Phew, we were on time & managed to get a good spot at the side of the stage. While the kids had a wonderful time watching the entire show, I was busy videoing down as much footages as I could so that Jamie & Jeremy can watch it anytime at home.

See Aeroplanes

I almost forgotten that we have a pre-arranged outing to the airport with my dear hearing impaired friends this morning till I received an sms late last night! Good thing that I was reminded else the children will not get an opportunity to see the aeroplanes!

Our Handsome Boy

Jeremy does looks kind of dashing & cool if you manage to snap photos of him from a certain angle.

Barney & Friends

Heard about the show from friends and since my holiday programmes has just ended, we headed down to Marina Square this afternoon for a short 1/2hr showtime. Though its short, the kids had a great time watching the Live Barney & Friends on stage!

Birthday @ Swenson

Tonight we brought the kids to Swenson for a nice dinner and Jeremy has his 1st free birthday firehouse complimentary from the restaurant + "birthday carolling" from the staff too!

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Happy Birthday, Son!

Today marked the day that you were born some 2 years ago. Time really passed so swiftly and now you are capable of doing things that a 2 years kid can do. We are all so proud of you and are looking forward for many many more years of birthdays celebrations we can have with you. May the Lord watches over you and may you grow to know and love Him with all your heart!

My Hobby Craft - Recycled Spider!!

This is another series of making use of recycled materials. Here, we are using used eggs crater & straws as primary recycled materials. Other materials involved are, construction papers, nylon strings, double sided & sticky tapes & ribbon.

Sensorial Lesson

Today's lesson is purely on Montessori...

A Short Break @ Holiday Inn Batam

We were away for a 3D2N stay in a 2 bedroom suites at Holiday Inn Batam Resort over last weekends. Came back on Monday evening. Had a wonderful time with CQ for couple of time alone dining without the children, went for a spa while the kids had their afternoon nap, and we had a long dip in the pool during the 3 days there! Kids were enjoying at Panda Kids Club and I managed to do up a simple craftwork with Jamie! Will be uploading some pixs up soon...

My Hobby Craft - Tissue Box Giraffe

Day 04 - Recycled Tissue Box Photo Frame

My Hobby Craft - Day 03

The 7 Continents Booklet

Each child brought home a customised booklet that I did for this workshop.

Day 02 - 7 Continents of the World

This is an educational lesson for the kids. I taught them about the earth and its 7 continents. The kids were given a helicopter view of the various continents, where they are located on the map etc etc.

First Day of My HobbyCraft Holiday Programs

Shiong Ah!

This coming week's schedule going to be very tight for me as Jamie's Mandarin Speech & Drama lessons (used to be once every Sat morning) happens to start tomorrow till Friday , 830-10am as according to them , alot of parents are going for a holiday in December, so they push forward all Dec lessons to this week! Hopefully I can manage my time well and it will not be too tiring for Jamie to attend 2 different lessons with only an hour break.

Storytelling Workshop

Was away this afternoon for a 3hours session of Introduction toStorytelling for Sunday School Teachers. Since I have been asked to take over the storytelling session at the N1 class from my church, thought this probably will give me a better insight of what's storytelling is all about. Indeed, I have learnt alot from the speaker, Ms Sheila Wee. I am very inspired by her deep passion in making stories come alife! There's definitely alot more for me to learn and experience with my kids. Here's an extract of Why Tell Stories from Asian Storytelling Network.

Bukit Batok Fire Station

Siren ! Siren ! Siren!! Yes, we were at the fire station this morning around 11am with my frens and their kids. It was an eye opening for the children as well as the adults ! We were ushered around the station, getting to know how the firemen operates internally as well as getting ready for a resue, be it, a fire or an accident! The kids had so much fun getting into the ambulance, fire engine, motorbike, trying out gears and helmets, smoke mask, taking photos with full armoured firemen and of course I think the kids enjoyed the best was having an experience to hold the long heavy hose that sprayed out strong and forceful water! We ended the excursion wif a group pix taken wif the firemen as well as some sourvenirs for us to bring home !

Excursion to the Zoo

Have been to the zoo a couple of times but I can say this is the BEST excursion that we ever had! Firstly, Jamie & I have been praying for good weather a day before and God who is faithful answered our prayer ! Weather was so cool and we din sweat throughout the entire 1/2 day except when the kids were at the playground. Secondly, I purposely planned this trip with a suggested itinerary started from 9am till 1pm. So we got a chance to sit back and enjoyed 4 shows ! And thanks to my fren that we all were entitled free admission to the zoo and so wif the extra cash, we used it for a decent lunch (not KFC or Mac!) , tram rides & a professional group photo taken for us :-)

Zoo Phonics Trial Lesson

Was with Jeremy this morning during the 2hours trial lesson. This boy, cannot sit still during the art & craft sessions. So difficult to catch his attention! But he did well during the mandarin & english story telling time and music & movement session. I'm still thinking if I should enrol him for once a week lesson at Zoo Phonics or not. Shall wait till next Friday when he's done with Montessori trial lesson.

Bye Bye Teachers...

Thank You, Teachers!

These are 2 of the 4 scrapbooking DIY cards that I did it a day ago for Jamie's form teacher, assistant teacher, chinese & music teachers. Told Jamie that she has to learn to appreciate all her teachers who have taught her for the past 1year. I have seen the teachers' reports & comments, form teacher & chinese teacher said that she has make a lot of progress and has learnt to interact and socialise with her friends well as compared to the earlier year when she was so quiet and reserved. These cannot be accomplish if I homeschool her.

Christmas Party @ School

Jamie woke up early this morning and happily dressed up in green top (as requested by her teacher, either red or green or combination of both) to attend her 1st school's Christmas party! I was there watching the children singing and the K2 kids performing on stage for the one last time b4 the principal bid them off with prayers for the group. The children were ushered into their respective classrooms for the makan & exchange gift session. I'm beginning to miss all these when she moves on to another school next year :(

Christmas Presents

Did this for Jamie this time. As Christmas is just around the corner, its also a time of sharing and giving to demonstrate God's love. So I have generously bought 24 pencil cases with a magic eraser, colored pen, chocolate biscuits & a personalised card for all her classmates. Hope this will indeed be a season of unselfish giving for God gave us His Son to us while we are yet sinners. Thank you for Your unfailing love!

How Tall Will You Be?

Ever wondering how tall your child will be when he/she reaches their adulthood? Here's an interesting estimated adult's height calculator. Surprisingly Jeremy will probably be at 1.70m while Jamie will be around my height at 1.63m though Jeremy is slightly shorter than Jamie in his statistics taken so far.

Excuse Me ....

See how precious his cars ???

Stomach Flu

Yes I got since yesterday but thank God it has been mild with occasions diarrhoea and fever. Totally different experience when I had it the previous round. One thing for sure, I'm taking E.Excel supplements which has helped me to recover much faster apart from the anti vomit & paracetamol tablets.

Draw With Me

Bought this some time ago and Jamie will have her hands on it once every one two days. Now she's quite good using ruler and her observation skills has increase tremendously after all the training that she has gone through so far.

23rd Months Old

Jeremy has grown alot more these days. His neck is slowly "emerging" and soon he will pass his babyhood (below 2) and into what we normally called, preschooler. Now he is capable of doing alot more things than we can imagine. He has always been our lil baby since day 1.... one can see him running after his jie jie, imitating Jamie as much as he could. Screaming, jumping, climbing up the sofa and chairs, leaning over the window to see the passing vehicles etc. One thing I'm sure both of them have in common, that is, he loves to hold something and its usually his fav cars , lol!!!!!

Mind Champion

Jamie has completed Mighty Mights and today we started working on the advanced level, Super Mind for age 5-9. After rounds of guidance & doing the exercises together, Jamie now can do it independently with ease.