Princess Time with Pals

It was a Thursday packed full of activities. We were early at Di'dier's place for craft time! Aunt Susan taught us how to do decoupage on canvas bags. It's surprising how it was. All you need was decoupage glue, pretty napkins (serviettes), sponge and varnish. Look at our pretty works!

 After lunch, we headed down to Vivo City for the girls to have a make over. We met up with Ting Gu Gu and Raelyn as well. A princess dream!

The pals!

The process….Our princess interestingly chose to be dressed up as Cinderalla. That's coz Ariel's attire was too exposed, showing the belly. Just so amazed she would feel so at this young age. Good for Mommy!

Our princess was all done!

Meanwhile, there were some fringe activities by Abbot. The kids created little crafts and dabbled with color blending in milk.

The wait for the makeover was long and Abel simply sat down to watch the game show that was on while Mommy was busy with Keziah. Guess what when Mommy peeped over! He was on stage playing the game, sorting out the foods into the different food groups. Just amazing how much guts this little one has and his attentiveness to pick up via hearing as he got everything right!

5th Birthday Party

We had a party arranged at Vince Art and Music Studio, nothing less than a princess.

 All getting ready to meet the guests.

It all started with making their own crowns when the guests came. Friends from her kindi, previous school, music class and our dear 2 cousins graced the occasion.

 

They did a little treasure hunt around the studio for jewels...

What for? To make their own photoframes.

The action! Friends from her kindi all busy at work..

 Friends from her previous school..

 Cousins….

Friends from her ex-music class.

The glorious cake cutting ceremony that everyone looked forward to! So excited till we didn't managed to get any family picture or group photos. A little disappointed but guess there will be another chance. The kids were definitely excited with the princess cake!

 

Really thanks to all for attending and your understanding of any delays and lack of hospitality! The kids definitely enjoyed themselves. Thanks too to our organiser, Xinyi Jie Jie whom we didn't have time to even catch a picture with and of course, Shu Shu for the extra hands.

Not forgetting thank you everyone for your lovely presents. Keziah was all smiles as she opened each of them!

Kids start young...

Keziah showed me this from school…How should Mommy respond? It's from a boy this time round. Bum into a mom of another boy in her class and says he kept talking all about her especially after she celebrated her birthday yesterday at school.

Bottletree Park

We met up with a few churchmates today for the kids to have some fishing experience together. The kids were early and they were happily skipping on the rocks on the pond while waiting for the rest to arrive.

It was definitely not easy to be as fast as the fish but all of them were ready to get their hands on one.

Keziah caught a few of her own and became quite an expert after awhile. Mommy forgot to take a picture of the catch. In total we had 9 fish that we brought home from this trip. Sadly, they all didn't survive for more than a day.

Churchmates from of old...

It's been ages since Daddy caught up with his pals from his youth days…..

Road Trip to Malaysia 12 - 15 Dec

We tagged along our friends on a road trip to Malaysia. This time we headed for Port Dickson, Sunway Lagoon @ KL and A'Famosa at Ayer Keroh all in 4D3N. A total of 7 cars and 8 families sped their way up. We headed out early at 5.30 am and only stop over for breakfast at Machap.

Frankly, we were the odd one out as the rest of the families have always met up every now and then, and we really only know the Lians. It's heartwarming to see how Keziah could mingle easily with the rest and Cheryl never fail to keep Keziah in the loop despite having all her gang of friends around her. In fact, the two were always hanging out together. How simple are kids' friendship!

First stop: The Port Dickson Mini Zoo. Yes, mini as it says but animals are always amazing to the kids.

 

The kids were so fascinated over feeding the goats that they practically picked up all the leaves on the ground to feed them.

 

 What's Abel plucking? Starfruit! First time seeing starfruit trees! Guess what, the goats ate them too.

A lunch of seafood.

 We were at Avilion for the day. It's one resort we were never tired of going back to again. Coincidentally there was a carnival going on and the kids had some fun with simple games.

 Wet and wild as usual.

 As the sun went down….

 The two 'monkeys' got wild in the room after a shower down.

 Never fail to appreciate the sunset.

 We were all so tired so it's hitting the nearest place for dinner. A simple local fare. The fish was yummy though.

13 December

We headed down to Sunway Lagoon and arrived at Sunway Pyramid Hotel.

The room was fantastic. Cozy and we had great view of the other hotel and Sunway Lagoon from our window!

 

Without further ado, we headed for the theme park. We explored the Wildlife Park.

Interesting animals in sight! Hedgehogs, Star Tortoise, Red and Green Iguana (first time Mommy knew there were red ones around), Wallabies, Skunk and many more. Mommy also learnt something new that turtles have flippers and tortoises have legs while terrapins can live both no land and water. Such a trivial truth but Mommy just missed it!

 Abel certainly had no fear of feeding the animals and petting them.

 

Now, it's Amusement Park time. Rides for the old and young.

Then it's all soaked in the Water Park!

The complete group photo of all 16 adults and 14 children!

Sumptuous dinner at a Taiwan Restaurant at Sunway Pyramid Mall.

 Just a stroll around the mall after dinner and guess what the kids found?

 The lovely night scene...

14 December

An early morning walk before we left for A'Famosa.

Off we go to A'Famosa. Real countryside with condo style living.

 After settling down we drove off to Malacca for lunch at Jonker 88 which was well known for its desserts.

15 December

We ventured down for go-karting in the vicinity.

The kids were all excited to go on it. However our dear girl was just happy being the beauty to accompany the beau. All all had great fun being driver or pillion as they feel the win breeze past them.

 

The happy kids!

Our water babies just didn't get enough of water. So off we headed for Seng Kang Swimming Complex to explore the pool, one of the newest with exciting water features for the kids.

Till the next trip!