Hello Bunny Baby & Snakey Junior!

Moved to "new playground"

2015-02-04T00:01:00.000+08:00

mummy tired of blogspot template ... so we have moved to "new playground" =)

See you there !

Star Cruise Gemini

2014-12-13T02:33:00.000+08:00

Our first overseas trip with the kids, we survived the 3 days !! Ok, we had some help but still it is an achievement for me at least. So we have some experience to venture further.....

yx's birthday celebration

2014-12-06T15:00:00.000+08:00

I am 3 years old !

woah...how to eat ah?

mummy may i have more cupcakes?

yum yum yum ...

heeee

hmmm....

yx is still quite reserved in the beginning and gets to warm up towards the end of the celebration. I hope she grows up to be a happy kid! We love you darling, muaks! =}

Year End Concert 2014

2014-11-15T21:30:00.000+08:00

still singing happily.... lalala...

playing with the pin wheel after concert

yr spinning away....

spinning again...

hey shayden, please come and take photo with me ...

having fun with Sandra

Kick the ball

2014-11-09T10:00:00.000+08:00

yx: This is my ball. Go and get your ball !!!!

yr: who cares? (kicking the smaller ball)

my boy sometimes can really bo chup his sister. That's really good, else I don't know how many world war 3 I need to save.

Toilet roll fun

2014-11-08T09:30:00.000+08:00

"shy-shy" plant

2014-10-30T01:24:00.000+08:00

..............that is MIMOSA ! cos like yx, the plant is so shy that it always close up whenever people touch it. oohh... touch-me-not! lol. yx loves mimosa and we make a point to pass by the spot where mimosa flourishes around the coconut tree. She is amused by the reaction of the mimosa while her bro is not too keen ...haaa. Recently, we kindda stop the habit of searching for mimosa as the novelty worn off. Let's see if she remembers if we pass by the spot without reminding her......

Words of "Wisdom" =)

2014-10-27T01:05:00.000+08:00

source: Pearls of Raw Nerdism

Having fun @ Tampines Regional Library

2014-10-18T17:00:00.000+08:00

Muffin Gal and Boy

2014-10-12T19:30:00.000+08:00

Last week doing Chocolate Chips muffins:

This week doing blue berry muffins:

Thanks to Betty Crocker Muffin Mixes, else I would probably have a harder time. Anyway, baking muffins not only act as a time-filler and quick distraction technique but also introduce concepts of baking like how and why the mix rises and temperature that goes beyond 100 degrees celsius. Actually, the interest and idea is sparked off from the "Have you seen the Muffin Man?" song that she saw in the video.

Not sure whether she really listens but she was quite intrigued when she saw the mix rise...haha..something magical for her. Her waiting-in-anticipation look amuses me. It's a pity little bro missed out the action as that was done during his nap time (and that's the reason why she needs to be distracted....haa..)

blue car

2014-10-12T01:26:00.000+08:00

She uses her fav colour again - blue. =\

Bubber

2014-10-06T19:30:00.000+08:00

This is a good alternative to the dough (which was disastrous, but we had good fun!) that we make, so she is having fun making the alphabet mould. I am glad that she is still not tired of bubber after so many months. Keeping it away from her eyes do help! =)

yr playing with the screws

2014-10-05T23:30:00.000+08:00

yr loves screws, or anything that turns. like pinwheel, steering wheels, bottle caps, lotion caps. He really wants to explore how it works which makes him look so cute. LOL

Singapore Teochew Festival 2014

2014-10-05T19:00:00.000+08:00

I am a Teochew and I don't really know the Teochew customs that well although those that I saw in the festival do ring a bell especially the wedding customs cos I followed it quite closely. haa... Watching the Teochew Opera brings back some nostalgic moments as I remembered grandma loves listening to them too.
I think I am more fluent in Cantonese than Teochew thanks to TVB drama serials when I was watching them at my maternal grandma's house during my growing up years.

I really hope yx could pick up some phrases if not all, but then again, she is a Hokkien muahhaa.... Anyhow, knowing some dialects would be good else we really become a jiak gang dang society. I wonder what dialect group will yx's future husband be? hmm....

Octoburst 2014 @ Esplanade

2014-10-03T23:00:00.000+08:00

After lunching at Poulet (Raffles City Shopping Centre),

we head to Esplanande for an "Octo-good-time"!

Shadow Tales - Performance by Pat Schoolhouse (Jubilee Park)

Book making workshop - by Boedi Widjaj.

Does the first picture looks like snowflake to you? Anyway, that's my creation =)

The 2nd one with palms ...well it's pretty obvious who's the creator. hee...

yeay! I got my palms printed on my book!

at courtyard green - aMaze Me!

It was quite hot so yx just stood beside me and watch other children in the maze.

Goodbye Octoburst2014 !

Does it look like bones to you? According to her, they are like dog bones.
But to me they look more like weights. LOL.

Middle finger

2014-09-30T18:00:00.000+08:00

yx: here.. pain pain

(Then she points her middle figure to me)

me: (compose myself from laughing out loud), ok show mummy which point on the figure? I apply ointment for you.

yx: points her middle figure even nearer to me ...and starts to whine ..here here here...

me: .....

Hello Snail!

2014-09-20T23:30:00.000+08:00

from her art class (trial lesson)

Seeing the real stuff in action!

Getting ready to climb the wall

So after her trial art class, I took her to observe the snail in greater detail. Not that she hasn't seen snail before but I thought it would be interesting to see how she react and observe snails after her class. She was looking at the snail so intently that she doesn't want to go until daddy came over. How I wish yr was also with us when we saw the snail.

Fire Station Visit @ Bishan Fire Station Open House

2014-09-20T23:14:00.000+08:00

Thanks to a mummy - Amanda who took the initiative to organise a trip for the toddlers at the Bishan Fire Station Open House 2 weeks ago. It was quite an eye-opener not only for the kids but also for the adults as most of us never been to a fire station before.

At the end of the whole tour, it ended with a demonstration on how the fire fighters respond when the siren sound to alert all.

Making Play Dough

2014-09-20T12:30:00.000+08:00

This is really long long overdue as we should have done this few months ago but ........ok so now we managed to make the coloured play dough that is safe for kids. (at last !)

Guess we put too much water and didn't put any glycerin to give it a better texture. Anyhow, yx had fun and so did daddy and mummy.....Yes we had "fun"cleaning up the mess. =}

Word of the Day 6: Toilet Seat

2014-09-19T22:45:00.000+08:00

Toilet Seat = 马桶座圈

I always just use 马桶 but if we would like to be more specific then probably 马桶座圈 is a better usage, cos daddy got this all-in-one toilet seat for adults and toddler for quite a while and the other day I was speaking to yx in mandarin and suddenly my mind just went blank when I wanted to ask her to put down the toliet seat quickly as she was fussing around trying to hold her pee. In the end I just use the word 马桶 -

赶快坐上马桶. ha.... some workaround when I try to advocate speaking using proper English and Mandarin and not mix them in a sentence. More for me to learn ...... >.<

Hello Mr Spider!

2014-09-15T22:30:00.000+08:00

Hi are you scared of me?

This photo looks quite faint as it was taken against a white background and that the spider's legs are really fine - almost a camouflage if not for the body. I quickly took the opportunity to show the real spider and the web to yx and get her to count the number of legs. Instead of getting excited, she curled up and refused to see it. I don't know why she felt so afraid all of the sudden and thus I took a photo of it to show her. I think this is also partly my fault as I shrieked when I saw a really black spider at the corner of her cupboard in her few months ago. Although I regained my composure quickly, I bet it must have some impact on her that spiders are some scary creeping crawlies.lol. Haha..so much of singing the Insy Wincy Spider Song and now she is afraid of spiders. I will try to involve her again if I were to see spiders again in da house but probably get her little bro on board first. Maybe that would do the trick.

On a side note, why are there spiders in the house??!!! @_@

Lantern Festival

2014-09-13T22:44:00.000+08:00

Materials:

Toilet rolls
Scissors
White glue
Coloured paper
Ribbon

Yes, it' time for art and craft for mummy and yx so that yx can bring the lantern to school as part of the lantern festival celebrations. However, we have to use recycled materials and I didn't want to do the usual lanterns using recycled paper. Then I remembered that I had kept quite a number of toilet paper rolls last time as I knew that it will come in handy someday for art and craft. And so I came across this DIY toilet paper roll wall art while searching online for some ideas. Thus, I improvised the idea and make it stacked to a height of 6 (or 2 sets of 3 "leaves") and we used a total of 72 "leaves" from 18 toilet rolls.

Since yx love blue so much, she gets her blue flowers and orange seems to be the best contrast since we don't have enough pink or red coloured paper. So I did the structure setting while yx had fun pasting the flowers. There was actually a ribbon attached to the lantern but this photo was taken before the attachment and it came off when yx brought back from childcare. hee...

Well, it didn't came out as pretty as I imagined it to me, but still we had a great time, though it was pretty time consuming with the flower craft punch and all the pasting!

Word of the Day 5

2014-09-12T21:32:00.000+08:00

Screw Driver (tool) = 螺丝刀 (NOT refering to the screw driver drink -cocktail made from Vodka & Orange Juice. heh.)

Lying sideways

2014-09-11T19:00:00.000+08:00

In her cheeky mood =)

yx's hairstyle

2014-09-10T22:30:00.000+08:00

Is this a mini-me? hmm..