City Tour with Cousin

We were invited to a city tour with our cousins. How nice to be a tourist for a day!

What's a trishaw? Now you know it...

Visited Kampong Glam. Aside from the mosque, what captured our eyes were the little shops that sold toys from the olden days. Time to reminiscence…There's even a Children Toy Museum tucked in a corner.

 Next hit, a temple at Chinatown.

 The highlight of the trip - the river cruise. The kids loved this most...

Some dessert before the ride. Look just how this Turkish ice cream seller amused the kids with his little gimmicks.

Mommy's favourite

Mommy hasn't had this for the longest time. It's one of her old time favourite...

Happy Father's Day

TCC was having 1-for-1 main course/pasta and so we headed down for an early dinner after Keziah's ballet class. The food never disappoints at TCC! We were delighted wth the baked pasta and beef stew and to top if off, we ordered the high tea set with a variety of dessert. Mommy was happy with her cup of decaffeinated Azuki Caffe with soy milk.

Though it wasn't purposefully planned as a celebration for Father's day, we're sure Daddy won't mind this as everyday is Father's day right, dear? Always the sweetest Daddy needless to say..

 With Abel telling him, "I'm already three now!'

Winding down, we had movie night watching Madagascar in preparation for our trip to Universal Studio next week. The kids feasted on Garett's carmel popcorns to their delight while they slumbered on their cushion for the show! Should see how they danced to the music at the finale.

We're 6!

Well, we've turned 6! Yes, 6 years together with ups and downs, many learning curves and 2 kids in tow and another arriving soon. How quick time flies!

Mommy craved for Japanese food but have to avoid the raw ones just to be extra careful. So Daddy planned a date out for grilled Japanese food at Robertson Quay. Never knew this place was so bustling with life at night.

 This place had interesting starters..

 Some ideas for homecooked food…fried potato and seaweed with salad and tomato and eggs...

A variety of items from the grill. The taste was definitely a class of its own. Fresh and succulent meat with different sauces to accompany each meat. Yumz…

Then we headed off the Island Creamery for some nice sweet desserts…

Yes, ups and downs there are but it's always a sweet ending to it all…Many more happy years walking hand-in-hand together dearie...

Build build build...

This boy just loves to come up with his own creation. First a train and then a boat sailing towards to train and next after mommy popped out of the room and back in, a house! 

We had some activity books and the kids picked to make a garage out of old tissue boxes and toilet rolls. Just short of some paint which were all at Ta Ta's place to make it complete. In fact, the next day after the glue was dried, Abel even stacked them up to make a multistorey parking for his trains!

Baked Broccoli and Cheese

Daddy bought so much broccoli and Mommy decided to just make broccoli and cheese bake for lunch. In the casserole, just to clear the fridge, we included mushrooms and cherry tomatoes. Accompanied by baked teriyaki salmon and some pasta for these pasta lover kids.

Keziah's first story...

We got a little bored in the hols and Keziah has been sketching quite abit so Mommy decided to just clipped a few sheets of paper to make a blank book for Keziah. She immediately jumped on the idea of writing a story. We started with the zoo..

 

However, interest was shortlived and we started to slow down. Keziah decided to change the theme to the farm. Don't ask me what's the relation between tortoise and the farm. Maybe coz she saw tortoise at a fish farm we visited.

 To encourage her to write, Mommy did most of the difficult spelling and tried to encourage her with those simple ones that can be phonetically sounded ones. Finally, her completed works!

Keziah's sketches

We rearranged the playroom so that it's now a book and study room as the house just has too many books everywhere. We thought we'll make up the study room to include the kids since they are already of schooling age to sit and do some activity rather than having their table amidst toys around. It was a hit with the kids and they will be there in the morning or free time colouring or drawing or writing.

Keziah left these notes on the table and she said she's drawing a card for everyone.

 For Mommy,

 For mei mei,

 For Daddy who got the most elaborate card...

 Daddy with a big heart!

 A rainbow…he must be hers in her life...

Still left with Abel's to come along...

Bus ride fun...

Simple laughter on a bus ride! The kids were so excited to go for a long bus ride and all the more so when we got on a double deck. They happily sat on the top deck and were even more excited when they got the front seat when someone alighted!

Kids in the Big World @ United Square…..Surprise!

Didn't expect to receive in email!

Bedtime Lulluby

These days the kids would love to kiss their 'mei mei' to bed and laze around the tummy. They decided to even sing a lulluby to her every night, with Abel being the first one to start.

He's been singing:
妹妹背著洋娃娃
走到花園來看花 
娃娃哭了叫媽媽 
树上小鸟笑哈哈


Tonight, he decided to sing a second song and it's one of his favourite. His sister joined in as well…



bedtime lulluby from Joan on Vimeo.

Updates on Keziah's craft

Haven't had much time to do that!

 

Daddy and her at sunset flying a kite...

Foam art….

Keziah's been bugging me to get these after she tried one. Even the brother joins her to create a piece together.

Kids in the Big World @ United Square

Our gal had fun exploring the job of a vet which she chose out of the 7 occupation available.

Simply bubbles

What can make the kids more happy than this? Especially a new devise which doesn't even need them to blow their lungs out. Wave the magic wand...

We have stopped our letter learning for sometime and since it's the hols, we got back to it again!

Random craft and word chart (from myplayschool.net) and word recognition by matching pictures to the lyrics of "Five Little Monkeys" which the kids loved!

Next we explored the story about "The Mitten" and the kids loved it and Keziah could read it on her own again and again. Got ideas for some games from homeschoolshare.com.

We threaded out mittens and decorated them with stickers. Can you guess which is Keziah's and which is Abels? Simple colour matching and sizing activities.

Memory game to see who could remember which animal went into the mitten first and Keziah did her little sequence book. 

Craft time again. What can be an easier way to tell them what mosiac is than to get hands-on to make their own creation. For $1.60 each piece, it's cheap entertainment and it also trained them on precision of pasting as the pieces were really quite small.

When Mommy's home, they dedicate all their art pieces to Daddy…Hmmm...

Philatelic Museum

On the 'M' theme, we went on a museum trip to explore how our mail got delivered to our house. It's more so it's the Children Season where museums have special activities for kids. We missed the openhouse but nonetheless we were here.

 Pretending to be a mailman!

 There were some sections that depicted history on stamps and the kids had more fun playing.

As this is the year of the Rabbit, there as a section featuring rabbit stamps and some relevant information relating to rabbits.

The kids were really fascinated by this rabbit houses in the burrows created. Quite a nice setting though it would have been better if there were more interactives.