Papa Is Back!!

After 10days away from home, CQ is finally back to the familiar house & usual noise of the children. While he was away, I did a scrapbook for him. Most of the photos taken were from our home studio taken last year July 7th. And guess what? He has slimmed down his waistline too :D

Jacob Ballas Children's Playground

It was our first time visiting here and the kids have alot of fun playing especially Jamie and her friend, Elizabeth. The play area is small yet comfortable enough to fuss out their energy here! We left the garden around 615pm and headed to Tanglin Mall for a nice meal. The kids were obviously worn out at the end of the day!!

Labour Day

Went for dim sum at Red Star Restaurant located at Chin Swee Road for an early celebration of Mother's Day for our mother. The crowd was amazingly ridiculously crowded! It all started right at the old rundown lift lobby of Block 54. When we finally reached 7th floor, another huge crowd blocked the restaurant's entrance! This was not all, the crowd continued even inside the restaurant! Terribly horrible I thought and I supposed the food should be commendable since so many people flocked to this more than 40yrs old HK style eatery. To my dismay, most of their dim sum were salty and not satisfactory to my taste buds! What a letdown... however their mango pudding is great!

More Work @ Home

Ever since Jeremy has been off school the whole month of April and perhaps May and June, it also means that I will be busy homeschooling him during this period. Perhaps this is the best alternative since hfmd is on the rise. Haiz, I really hope he can quickly get back to school to pick up some skills from his teachers so that he will be well equip come January next year when he will be in nursery.

手足口症, 提高警惕!!

手足口症的每周新病例，继续增加，上个星期，新病例多达1466起，比前个星期多了221起。另外，又有八家出现病例的托儿所和幼稚园，卫生部建议，它们主动从后天起关闭十天。See here for the list of child care and kindergarten.

Family Portrait

This is one of my favourite family pix we took last July on our wedding anniversary. So I'm collating some of our home studio pixs to do up a scrapbook, hopefully before CQ returns next Sunday.

My Favourite Backpack

Simply love it as its small (real small) & compact yet has many very useful pockets and slots for storing different types of things. In fact, I will hand it down to Jamie say in 1-2years later when she is bigger enough to carry it.

Zoo Trip

Today Jamie went for a 4hours excursion to the Zoo with the school. I thank God for the good weather He has granted me as I've been praying fervently for a good weather since yesterday. I am thankful that He has answered my prayer and hence again, revealing His promise to Jamie as well.

Mini Album

Photos speak louder than words. This is how I feel and so I did a collection of photos of CQ with the children and quietly slipped the album into his luggage this morning :D

The Other Half..

CQ is away to China w fil till next Sunday... so meanwhile, I will occupy the other side of our bed, whahahahahaa.

Well done!

It came as a surprise for me last night. Just before the end of the usual stage performance, the teachers announced 2 awards each for K1 and P3 class. Teacher said this child has improved tremendously from being a shy and quiet child to a more chatty and enthusiatic person. In my heart, I was already guessing...could it be Jamie? My six sense is right!

Spot the Difference

Saw a series of such books at Popular Bookstore and I bought one for Jamie to try out. We love to do this together and within a week, we already completed the entire book! So yesterday, I headed down to the store again to buy the rest of the books.

Rocfish vs Hi5 ??

A fren introduced me this christian group during the easter month. I've missed their live concert here in Singapore but thank God she gave Jamie a DVD ! Now, I'm busy looking for more of such DVDs as both Jamie and Jeremy love to watch it! Best of all, its all about God's teaching.

A Father's Gift

Here's a peek of what I have just completed a mini scrapbook album for CQ. I find this very meaningful and hence decided to present this to him coming Friday when he will be going to China with his dad for 10days.

Underwater Puzzles

Jamie doesn't really like puzzles as much as some children I know of. But this morning, she suddenly took out this 37pcs puzzles, sat down and fixed it herself. Now I'm comtemplating if I should get few more of such puzzles for her.

Chinese Writings

I know Jamie is not the youngest child who started to write in Chinese but I feel that its time for her to learn the correct strokes at this age before its too late. And like English, I started teaching her the possible "sight words" so that this will help her to write more in future. *double click to see larger pix*

Mixing Colours

My lesson plan for him today is, letter N and its sound, chinese reading and mixing of 2 colours (Blue+Yellow=Green). Jeremy has been enjoying all my lessons so far and I just hope that he really learns something out of it.

My Birthday Present

Here is my 3weeks old watch.

Our First Experience

Brought Jamie to catch a live stage play at DBS Arts Centre this afternoon at 2pm. We had very good center fifth row seats. As its Jamie's first time watching a play, she remained silent throughout the entire play while I was laughing and giggling away surely had enjoyed myself too! Thumbs up for the organiser!!

L-O-O-K !!

Jeremy was so excited when I told him that he will be studying at Jamie's school soon (next yr Jan) when he reaches 3yo old end of this year. He refused to remove the attire and insisted that he wants to go to jie-jie's school, hahahhaahaa!! This set of outing attire soon will be his from his jie-jie. I can't believe my eyes when I saw him wearing this, he is soooooo baby, unbelieveable!

More Chinese Enrichment @ Home

Lately bought 5 sets of chinese strokes books. And I have started teaching her writing more chinese words, started with words and short sentences. Now Jamie exhibits more confident conversing in Mandarin as well as recognising and writing too. I give myself a pat on my shoulder :D

Blow Candles on April Fool's Day

Oh my!! Didn't realised that time has been slipping us by so swiftly and before we know, we are already blowing so many candles off our birtthday cake each year!!!

Impulse Haircut

I took them one by one for a quick, new hairstyle! Look at Jamie. Hers really trimmed to slightly below her ears! What a change!!

Have Fun!

Bought a big pack of tissues papers but din noticed the wordings till days ago. Din know tissue papers can humor people!!

Let Me Help You

We always think that Jeremy is just a baby without realising that he is now 28th months old!! Jamie already a Jie-Jie when she was at this age. See him in action... helping us to clean the wooden door after the cleaner washed our corridors and staircase.

Books

After my medical checkup at Raffles Medical Group, I quickly went to Popular Bookstore and grabbed some nice books for Jamie. =============================================== 1) Spot The Difference - This book is relatively priced low. Around $3.00 2) Guess Who Am I? - Comes in a series of 8 books. Well invested books! 3) IQ/EQ - Actually I have quite a lot of similar bks/tools but what made me bought these are cos' its in English instructions and its handy too! Can do this during travelling.

Sunlight, Water & Air

This is what Jamie is being taught. I told her that plants need sunlight, water & air to grow. Here, we did a simple experiment. One that is sealed up with little or no air while the other is not. Just shortly after a day, this is what happened.

Jeremy's New Train Tracks

I finally bought this tracks that's suitable for him to play from Ikea on my bday! Today I was having my facial in the bedroom while Jeremy was happily playing with his new toy for quite a long time :D

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...