13th Month….

Each day, Keren gets steadier with better control of her motor skills. She's also asking for more attention and being in the play yard alone won't satisfy her. Mommy tries to occupy her with as much of age suitable toys.

Playing puzzles though she most of the time just take out the pieces and throws them everywhere. She has not developed the motor skills to piece the pieces back. However, she's more keen to explore her brother's toys, ransacking boxes to see what's in it. Haha…caught red handed here.

Thank God there are quiet times when she will sit down and flip the books. These days, she has her favorite books. Yet when Mommy sits down during her free time to read to her, she would crawl away or simply just take another book after a few pages. She starts to say 'book' and finds one when we ask her for one.

We play with little stacking blocks and she creatively made it into a ball stand.

She sure knows what a phone is.

Messing around in her play yard..

She's learnt to shake her head to say NO too!

Busy September Hols..

Well, I wasn't quite prepared for holidays. Being a Stay At Home Mom has made me realize homemaking is such an arduous job, worse than teaching. Every moment is full of something to do, be it washing, cleaning, cooking, coaching the kids, playing with baby and a whole lot more. There's never much time to think. However, looking back, we were almost out every day of the week despite Daddy being in reservice! Looking back, we actually revisited many of these places we had went before when they were much younger.

Holidays kicked start with the long requested visit to the Night Safari. We went together with the children's school bus mate which mad the trip even more enjoyable for the kids. Sometimes, it's really the company that counts.

 Monday, we went for Alice in Wonderland show at United Square. It was a real big boo coz there was no show at noon due to some organized tea party. So we went to Nei Nei's place to take a nap before returning for the afternoon show. Surprisingly there were not many people and we even had a photoshoot with the cast.

Tuesday, we went to the zoo with our church mate. Seriously, I was thinking of aborting the plan coz Keziah didn't sleep much of a wink the night before, waking up at 2 am, complaining of a pain in the left cheek. It did look a little swollen. I tried to sweep it aside and ask her to get some sleep but she just didn't and continue to whine till I gave her a dose of Neurofen before she settled down. We did see a doctor the next morning and he diagnosed it as mumps. Somehow still the impetus of going to the zoo seem to dull the pain and she still insisted on going. So we went.

Wednesday, it was off the the airport to try out the new play area, The Canopy. Seriously, it's far to small to interest me in paying for it. Since I had it free, why not?

I challenged to the kids to the slide which Keziah had some fear of since the last time she went as she didn't know how to exit. They got hooked on it after the first try.

 Thursday, it was to Jacob Ballas. We had fun spotting all the interesting plants like this calabash. Along the way we saw figs that were fruiting and mushrooms as well.

 Nothing beats the play area and sand. Though they really wanted water play, I just wasn't keen to get wet. However, I must say the water play area was a little disappointing. Not as great as before.

Friday, it was home with 婶婶 for some drawing class while Mommy took a break to catch up with some pals.

Saturday, we took off to the Science Centre with Daddy since it was a break from piano class. The kids sure had fun playing around with all the equipment.

 Our first trip to the Omni Max Theatre since our days as kids. The kids' first documentary show too!

Whew! It was a busy holiday after all….

Thanks to our Teachers!

At last minute, I decided to get the kids to work together to make our lovely teachers some cookies to say our big THANK YOU to them for their patience with the kids.

The kids are never more excited than making something with their own hands.

 All nicely packed. Keziah also made some bracelets for her teachers. Her exclusive designs...

Rider's Cafe

This was a really nice place. Kids just love being able to watch the horses in their stable while dinning. The food was delicious too…

 Guess Abel's expression tells it all!

Legoland Prelude

Yes, we are here to collect our annual pass. A little place waiting for more to be seen!

Keren's 1

Time sure flies terribly quickly. Keren's now 1 year old. We decided to have a family celebration just like the other 2. Simple decorations but loads of love. I can't believe I have been home with 3 for this long, and of course, more to come.

The little girl took awhile to warm up to all the guests. 

Afterwhich, she was simply the bubbly and playful girl that she always is. 

Her first birthday was a cutie pooh just as lovely as our little princess.

Not to mention, tasting her first cake which was laden with sugar. A definite pleasure on her face!

Looking back…..how all 3 have grown…how alike do they look?

Keren's turning 1…the megawatt smiles!

Yes, we thank God for giving us happy kids. 

It's time to take stock of this one year!

Keren began with being a baby with seemingly slow growth but once she took on to solids, she grew! She's still petite but gained a good weight, now being close to 9 kg. She's not a fussy eater and simply loves all her foods, especially fruits!

She's very mobile now, able to get up on her feet supported and simply just dashing around with her walker.

Now she also plays hide and seek. It ranges from hiding behind the door….

To doing peekaboo in her play yard.

Her hands and legs are everywhere now which makes taking pictures extremely challenging. She's definitely kinetic and playful little one. But what captivates us more is her laughter that rings of pure innocent joy!

She's calling "mama" and "papa" with discrimination and we hear lots of "mum mum.." when she sees food. In fact, if you are carrying her, she will dive for the food. I think she's saying a lot more but it's Mommy who's getting to busy to note down every single progress.

Problem solver

Mommy has started to play hide the toy and she's really good at finding it though at times she gets distracted by other things around her. Mommy has to just ring the toy in hiding to alter her back.

There's so much to celebrate as we see our little girl each day. Her looks seem to change too…Do you notice?

National Day

We had planned to go West Coast Park to play but sadly, the place was so full that the carparks couldn't take us. So we detoured to IMM to explore the rooftop playground. It's a delight to be out and about, seeing the smiley faces of the kids. It's a pity we weren't prepared for the water play. We will definitely be back again.

We proceeded to our cousin's place to have dinner time together and watch the fly pass and fireworks before our eyes! The kids as usual had a whale of time playing together.

NDP in school

Today was a half day in school. As usual the kids done on their red and whites and showed their patriotism, embracing the national anthem, pledge and Singapore songs.

Dad took a day off and we went wet and wild at the zoo again. Yes, I know we never seem to get far from this place. The kids simply loved it!

Gallop Stable and Beaches

It's been awhile we haven't been to the beach front and we decided to explore the lesser treaded places. We went to Changi Beach but to our surprise, it was under refurbishing and many areas were bordered up. Well, the kids still hand some fun playing with the little playground.

I simply love the myraids of smiles my little one gives!

Next we ventured down to the Gallop Stables in Pasir Ris to let the kids have a ride. Seriously for $10, the ride was too short. Guess we paid for that experience for the kids. They enjoyed it and kept wanting to go for second round.

The kids wanted to play at the beach. So we stopped by the Pasir Ris Park. Guess it just wasn't our day, the big play area was bordered up for renovation. We simply just settled for some sand play. Simple fun under the hot sun!