My Birthday

Jamie drew me a very sweet birthday card last Friday while Jeremy & I were out for his school excursion. This morning I had 3 lovely birthday kisses from CQ, Jamie & Jeremy! We went for a nice dinner at Swenson (not forgetting the free firehouse!) and had the usual blowing candles cake cutting session back at home before we retire for the day. Of course not forgetting my bday present from papa lor! Muack! Thank you for the wonderful Beijing 2008 Swatch !!

I Can Wink!!!

So surprised that he can do it at barely 28mths old !! Such a boy!

Jamie's 1st Spelling from School!

Today she came back with an exercise book from her teacher. Though I know she knows how to spell those words, but sometimes she can be as absent minded like me. I assume that since she knows how to read, she should know how to spell. But its not always the case. I remembered hating to learn spelling when I was a little girl and now its Jamie's turn!

Jeremy 1st School Excursion

I was with Jeremy for his 1st school trip to Singapore Science Center this morning. Apparently student below age 3 needs parental accompany so here I am. It was a nice trip though a short one. Jeremy was brave. He went up right ahead of the rest of the kids and had a up close personal contact with an iguana!! He wasn't afraid at all. And I found out that there's a tree house at Science Center!!! Just before we headed back to school, we took some group photos. See how tiny Jeremy is? Well, he is the youngest kid in the school!

Easter Sunday

Have been talking and sharing with Jamie the meaning of Good Friday, Christ's death and He rose again on 3rd day after His death. Though I couldn't attend the Easter service today due to my commitment in the pre-nursery Sunday school class, I'm beginning to understand it from a child's perspective instead. Never have I explained to the kids so much as now. I pray that our kids will one day truly understand how much God loves us that He gave His one and begotten Son, unconditionally to sinners like me and you.

Good Friday

While jjpapa was out with Jeremy to run some errands, I quickly did another Easter craftswork with Jamie within the next 30mins. Surely this is the season to share with her the true meaning of Good Friday & I pray that she will eventually able to experience God's love for her, personally...

Easter Bunny Craftwork

I did a simple craftwork with the kids since Easter Day is just around the corner. Isn't it pretty ?

Boring School Holiday

Cancelled my school holiday arts program, planned outings and we all stayed home most of the days this week. Why? Well, Jeremy hasn't been well due to some common cold and also the recent weirdo weather lo!!

Vintage Mini Album

I'm in the mist of compiling a series of CQ and my baby and childhood photos into this album. Completed the album and the front cover. Inside pages remain blank till I have scan all the photos.

Tada!

Finally completed our masterpiece! Many steps involved. Think we took 3-5days to complete this.

Rasa Sentosa

Promised the kids that I will bring them to take the train ride to Sentosa so we headed to Vivo this morning around 1030am!! Not cheap though. Adult fare $6 and children above 3 will be $3. Spent couple of hours at the hotel instead as it was drizzling. Found this kids' room pretty interesting so we played here for a while before heading back to Vivo.

Holiday Parent Child Craftwork

As I do not want Jamie to stay home to complete tons of school work given by her teachers, we started it before school closed. Here we are doing up a Name Plate using colored sand, ice cream sticks and paint.

I am very glad that Jeremy is holding the paint brush the correct way, finally!!

Mountains and Hills

Today we did another free will drawing. It's so much fun to paint together wif her.

Daddy's In Act

Jeremy asked for his daddy to help him to brush his teeth before bedtime. It's CQ first time brushing for his son.

Partial Homeschool

Ever since Jeremy can focus and concentrate doing something longer than last year, I begin my series of homeschooling programs with this lil boy. Today, we did single sound phonics, knobbed puzzle, flash cards and ended with reading of books.

Bye Bye McQueen!

This is one of Jeremy's work. He loves to throw toys. Well, as a matter of fact, this is his last acts he did to his toys cars as I punished him deadly by keeping ALL his cars away from him for days...some still keeping till now :P

Free Painting

Wanted to do a purposeful yet theme free painting with Jamie for quite some time ago but dunno why it has never come to pass. After hearing what a friend did with her son, its kind of reminded me again. So just minutes before she goes to school, we quickly did one together.

Little Artist At Work

Today I cut out some shapes using potatoes and let the kids run their own imagination of printing with paints.

You Did It !!

Just days ago I was trying to teach her how to write her last chinese name .. and guess what? She finally able to write her full chinese name by herself!! Din know its such an easy job for me :D

Scoop, Scoop, Pat Pat Pat

Got this pile of fine sand from West Coast and today, Jeremy has some fun scooping and digging. Definitely alot of mess but its good to train his motor skills. And one thing for sure is, both of them cannot play this together!

Geomag Magnetic World

Bought this Geomag colored panels so that Jamie can build 3 dimensional objects. Though mine are non-Geomag bars, good thing these panels are quite compatible, phew !

Another Milestone!

Teaching Jamie to write her chinese name has always been a challenge to me so I subtly introduce some basic strokes via cdrom & books when she was barely 3yrs. Though she knows the characters but writing is another issue. It takes the child alot of effort to write it neatly and strokes have to be accurate too. Just days ago, she asked me how to write her chinese name. As I was havng my shower, I vaguely remembered giving her instructions and when I was out of the bathe room, I got a shock! She's almost there ecxcept the last word "Min". I am so proud of you, Jamie!

Say Cheers

This was taken on 1st day of CNY by his papa.

Fireworks @ Esplanade

The last time I brought the kids to catch a glimse of the fireworks was 2 years back in 2006 when Jeremy was only few months old and Jamie, 2years+. We took a train and met Sherie and her 2 kids there. Though it was a short 5mins presentation, I'm glad that we can be part of the crowd, admiring & enjoying watching during this festive season. CQ was there too but he was wif 2 other frens who are also like him, enjoy keeping their passion alive. See here for more of his masterpiece.

Lou Hei @ Vegetarian Restaurant

Every year on the 1st day of CNY, we will sure to dine at this vegetarian restaurant. Food is so-so and I think their standard has dropped. This is our only pix family pix taken during CNY so far. Will probably have our family pix taken @ home studio this coming weekends.

Reunion Dinner

This year reunion dinner wif in laws' side was a simple yet delicous meals. We had the traditional hainanese chicken rice as dinner along with other side dishes. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

來拜年囉!

* Jeremy's school work

恭祝：新年快樂！事業高升！身体健康！萬事如意！鼠年行大運!

新年將至，祝您在新的一年，一帆風順，二龍騰飛，三羊開泰，四季平安，五福臨門， 六六大順，七星高照，八方來財，九九同心，十全十美，百事亨通，千事吉祥，萬事如意！！！

I Can Take Care of My Brother

Jamie suddenly asked for my permission to bath her lil bro' Jeremy and so I permitted her to have a short few seconds of being a big jie-jie lor.

My First Watch

Got this Nike kid's watch for Jamie about a year ago and I'm intending to let Jamie wears it to school when school re-opens next Monday. She is taught how to tell a time by half past an hour and hourly so far.

Reunion Dinner wif Shellen's Family

We had our advanced reunion dinner tonight cos like me, both my elder sisters need to have reunion dinner wif their in laws so we will host it earlier from our side. Every year, my sisters' maids will chip in to assist my mum during the preparation and cooking of the food. Since both maids had just gone back and the current ones are pretty new, my mum has to cook most of the dishes herself. Nevertheless, my mum's cooking hasn't really changed much though age has been catching up wif her and she must be exhausted after the long day in the kitchen. Thank you mother!

What's down there?

Caught this special moments........they fight, snatch, chase & do all sorts of naughty stuff but this is one of the quiet moments I enjoy seeing :D

Ice Ice Baby

Took out an ice and let Jeremy has some fun on it. Though he is still too young to understand the concept of different forms that water can turn into, I supposed he still enjoyed exploring the cold cold icy ice, seeing it melted away!

Tying the Knot

Eight years ago, we were seemingly busy at Chijmes getting ready for that BIG moment in our life. Yes, big moment of changes when we were to be separated from our parents, to face our new challenges together, a place where we called it ~ home. We were filled with excitement & joy yet uncertainty laid the path ahead of us. Now looking back, we thank our God for His provisions, His abundant grace and blessings, seeing us through all ups and downs that we have encountered and will be. Happy Anniversary, CQ!

Peacock Drawings

Can see which one is drawn by Jamie? Btw, she decorated the tail with nice vibrant dots for mine.

DIY Tambourine from Sunday School

Jamie showed me this art & craft work she did after church today. She said there are some beans inside which produces a nice crystal clear sound when she shakes the tambourine. She can draw stars better now.

Paper Folding

Asked Jamie to cut out the colored shapes and we did this miniature birthday cake. Nice? This "Origami" bk that I got it in replacement of the actual out of stock Origami bk also not too bad. It has many cute lil handicraft works for the child to do!

Got this 3 cute wind up miniature insects from Toysrus. When these are wind up, one can see the wings moving up and down as if its really flying!

Jeremy 1st Take Home Work

The teacher handed me a blue workbag when I went to school to fetch my boi home. Here's what's inside together with some notices from the school.

The chinese booklet. Inside the book, there's about 5 words, 1 word per page. Right now, I am doing quite a fair bit of reading with Jeremy since he just started to enjoy reading. Other stuff I'm doing at home are, reading, coloring, painting, drawing, learning via cdroms and some simple practical life exercises etc.

Back to School

I am on cloud nine when Jeremy finally is back to school today!! Just days ago, I asked him if he wanted to go to school and he said "NO!" . This morning, when I raised the same question again, I got a "Yes" answer from him!

Jeremy's Newborn Scrapbook

Finally completed this album. Above are some of the layouts I have extracted out. Photos were all taken in the hospital when he was newborn.

Flu Jab

Just yesterday, it suddenly daunted on me that I should go for my jab as its almost a year since I last took it. And this time, I asked Jamie to go for the jab too, assuring her that it won't be painful and it will be swift. I'm hoping that she will not develop any side effects after this. She will proceed to school after the jab....

Yea finally! Tell you, Jamie is a very brave girl cos the jab is quite painful no wonder she yelled sooo loud and cried for about 10mins. Prior this, she was so happy and looking forward to see the doctor woh!

NO School Again

Rang up Jeremy's teacher this morning and after reporting to her of his health status, it is decided that he should not go to school today. Anyway the doctor said he should be fine to go back to school on Friday. Sigh, ever since he's off medicine for more than 7 months, this is the 1st time he is not able to combat the virus/bacteria off despite consuming lots of Millennium, a kind of royal jelly, cactus fruit juice to boost up his immune system. I am still feeding him this + medicine, hopefully his fever will subside completely and he will be on the road to recovery by this week.