Playground

Daddy's working now so Mummy din bring the kids too far during the school hols. On one of the days, I brought them to the nearby playground. See how happy they were...

Teacher's Day 2011

The kids celebrated Teacher's Day on 1 Sep. This year, MOE changed Teacher's Day from 1 Sep to the 1st Friday of September. Again, it was a headache thinking of what to get for the teachers. In the end, Mummy drew these and got the kids to color them, framed on Ikea frames for the teachers. Also got some rock candies too. A big thanks to the teachers!

Doing homework

Caden loves doing homework... at least for now. Not that he has from school, but he will always bring out the books and stationery and start writing n coloring. He'll repeat this for many times in the day. He wants to do it on his own and doesn't like it when I sit down beside him to guide him.

Look at these 2 pcs of work which he did.

1. I was wondering what he was doing with Alicia's maths book. Was puzzled when I saw the answer and only realised later that he was following the serial number!

2. He wrote nos. 1-10 and A-Z on his own. Look at how he wrote his M. So funny looking...

Nerf

Look at my Nerf boys. They love playing Nerf with Daddy...

Swim & Gym classes updates

Both Alicia & Brandon have been promoted from Beginners level to Level 2 for their gymnastics class. Congrats to them!!!

As for their swimming, they've managed to grasp the breast stroke and are now learning free style. Mummy has always thought that Brandon would do better in swimming compared to Alicia as she's afraid of water since young. However, she has gone far and exceeded our expectations. She loves the water and can swim at the deep pool without the float anymore. Well done, Alicia! As for Brandon, maybe it's cos of his playful nature, he's still struggling without the float - his strokes go haywire whenever he's nervous!

Once in a while, Caden will follow along...

Weekly USS 2

Weekly visit no. 2 - Caden took the mini roller coaster ride for the 1st time. Brave leh! Daddy took jie-jie for the ride, twice. Then, while watching them, Caden suddenly told me he also wanted to try. So, Daddy took him, with jie-jie. Mummy was afraid that he'd cry. Who knows... he wanted to ride a 2nd time! Alicia took the ride alone when Daddy sat with Caden. She even raised her arms! Brave girl... much better than Mummy.

National Day Celebration in School

The kids celebrated National Day in school and here's their National colors outfit!

Ikea Playground

Brought the kids to Ikea Tampines. Caden refused to join Alicia & Brandon at the playground. Hence, he followed us shopping around. Wah... after one hour of play, the kids were so hungry that they ate so much!

Look at how they enjoyed their food!
It wasn't before long when we visited Ikea again and Caden was so excited over the playground. His first time!!! Daddy & Mummy shopped peacefully too.

Musical Barney

It's June hols - means it's time for us to mall hop for the kids' fav cartoon characters meet & greet. We had to delay our "job" this time as Alicia was sick. Am glad we made it to watch one of Caden's fav - Barney @ Marina Square.

We went there earlier so that we could get in the queue for the photo pass. Kids went to play at the playground before going for dinner.

Caden was very happy!!! When it ended (yes, very short...) he kept asking me, "Huh? So fast??"
Sigh... the photo was not well taken by the crew. I should have insisted on taking it myself!!

Brandon hurt his cheek

Brandon was jumping around the house when he accidentally fell and hurt his cheek. See the blue-black? While I was trying to take a photo, Caden was trying to be cheeky in the background. They're also into meditation... for less than 1 minute each time!

Sick... very sick

Alicia fell sick twice in the month of May & June. First, she started with fever, followed by flu. We brought her to the doctor as self-medication didn't help. The nurse commened that she's not seen me for a long time in months. Choy! choy! choy!! She recovered quick enough. This was followed by Caden, who had cough & runny nose & ear infection. Again, Mummy brought him to Dr Ong's clinic. The nurse commented again.. when it starts, there's always a repeat. Sigh... My boy recovered very fast too.

But, the nightmare came a week later. Alicia started running very high fever. Initially, I put it off as teething (cos babies get fever when they are teething!!). But, when it came with diarrhoea for more than 10x a day, something mus be wrong somewhere. It was heartache seeing her running to the toilet so many times. She also lost her appetite - everything tasted awful to her. Mummy brought her to Dr Ong and she was diagnosed with intestinal infection. Continued medication but it didn't seem to cure her. Went to Dr Ong a 2nd time and did a stool test. He prescribed anti-biotics for her. Thank god the bacteria test was negative and she recovered after a few days. She lost 1.2kg!!!

This girl is helping herself to the food these days... Daddy said she'll gain back that kg in no time. : )

Brandon had to attend the gym & swim class alone.

Excursions

29 Apr, Fri: The kids went on excursions with the school. Alicia & Brandon went to the zoo, while Mummy followed Caden to Underwater World & Dolphin Lagoon, Sentosa.

Excited kids

Took this pic while waiting in his class

Bus ride to Sentosa

Looking at the big turtles

Group photo

Inside Underwater World
Heading to Dolphin Lagoon

It was hot!!! But he enjoyed himself very much. He was very close to the dolphins - dunno y the staff chased the others away except him leh...

Busy Wednesdays

Wednesdays are busy as it is. Mummy will go for volunteer work at the primary school after sending the kids to school. Brandon has his phonics class in the afternoon and Alicia's in the evening. It's even more busy now... cos both Alicia & Caden have their music class in the afternoon too! Oh dear... hope we can cope with the schedule.

Caden having lunch (round 2) with Daddy & Mummy before his music class

New haircut

The kids went for a haircut last week.

Painting

The kids have been bugging me to let them play with poster colors. So, when the weather wasn't so hot the other day, I let them play at the backyard.

Airport T3

Cousin Denise jie-jie had the opportunity to go Beijing for one week as part of her school learning. We sent her off at the airport in the afternoon. Kids skipped their nap and got to have their afternoon tea at Earle Swensens and play at the playground.

Caden was very happy cos he could play at the Slide. It was his first try - as he's shorter than the minimum height requirement. There wasn't any staff there so Mummy took the 1st ride with him. He couldn't stop after that... Even Daddy, Mummy & Er-gu played.