Trial Class

Clarence went for a trial piano class last saturday after his art. It was a 15 minutes one to one session and I sat in with him. He did not seem very keen but we wanted him to be exposed to musical instrument. Hence we are still contemplating if we should send him for piano lesson???

Clarence's art piece:

Rainbow and rabbit

Over-sized bib

We forgot to bring Vincy's bib out . So mummy got no choice but to buy a new bib for her to use during her feed. All I could find was this cute elephant bib. It turned out to be an over-sized bib for Vincy. She looked so small in the bib.

Flower neck float

My internet purchase yesterday: a flower neck float for babies. Clarence helped me choose this flower design over normal the round one.
Both of them looked so cute in the float. Can't wait to bring Vincy to the pool to try it out. Not sure she will like it or not. She didn't like it when we tried it on her at home though.

They look so alike in the pictures. Vincy is a mini version of Clarence.

Hurry up

Poor Vincy was left on the hard floor by mummy after changing into her swimsuit. She was waiting for boss to change and bring her to play in the pool. My curious girl made full use of the time to crawl around and explore.

Bonding time between father and daughter:

She was so tired after playing in the pool. She took a power nap in the stroller while waiting for Gor gor to finish bathing.

8 months old

Vincy is 8 mths old today! To date, she only has 1 tooth. She still puts anything and everything into her mouth. She can crawl and knows how to kiss us.

She is always finding opportunity to stand up. She will try to cling to anything to stand up.

Poor Boy!

My poor boy lost his radiant smile yesterday afternoon. It was all because of his homework. We were teaching him his maths and realised he could not read 621 (six hundred and twenty-one) correctly. He said six twenty-one. When prompted for the hundred, he said six twenty-one hundred and many other wrong answers. He did not know what comes after 621 (number sequence). Despite numerous reminders, he still could not get it right (my boy forgets everything especially when he gets frightened). He was caned for his forgetfulness and boss made him recite 1 to 100 loudly for numerous times. After that, on our way to Paragon for dinner, he fell asleep in the car. When I tried to wake him up at the car-park, my poor boy woke up reciting numbers. Are we putting too much pressure on him? So sad.

Fortunately when I did his homework with him today, he managed to read the numbers correctly and got the sequence right.

Dinner on Friday

We went to T3 for dinner instead of going to Tampines 1 as we were afraid of the crowd. Maybe we are getting old cos we dun really like to go to very crowded places nowadays unless really necessary.
Boss entertaining his princess while waiting for the food to be served.


Boss went for the sure win hammer game and won a disney cushion for Clarence.

We got 2 complimentary parking tickets and we tried to use both of them at one go to offset the parking charges but ended up losing 1 complimentary ticket as the silly system could only register a complimentary ticket at a time.

Laughing

Managed to capture silly Vincy laughing loudly on video when her Gor gor played with her. Actually I didn't know what was so funny that she laughed and laughed but seeing and hearing her laugh like this makes my day!

Crazy about clips

Mummy is hopeless. Just bought some more hair clips for Vincy. Now she has 29 hair clips but she only has 1 head. Boss gave up on me liao.

Guess that's what happens when you have a daughter. Just cannot control myself when I see these beautiful clips.

Here we come again

Yes! Zoo again. My son's favourite place.
Took pictures with my darlings at the entrance first.

We did something different this round. We fed the giraffe. Clarence was happy to feed the giraffe. We learnt something about the giraffe. Besides having a very long neck, it has a very long tongue too. Really long! It stuck out its long long tongue to get food from us.

After feeding the giraffe, Clarence took the pony ride.

Then we were off to Rainforest kidzworld again for splashes. This was Vincy's first time playing there. For the last 2 visits, she could not play as she was too young. Now that she's crawling, we decided to let her join in the fun.

Vincy clad in her new bikini bought by the vain mummy me.

She did not quite enjoy herself as there's too much water splashing around. Never mind, practice makes perfect. We will go again next time.

My little prince and princess.

Video of Vincy crawling in the shallow pool.

We met up with the Wongs after the water play.

Cute Clara walked all around with the teat in her mouth.

Clarence and Francis pulling themselves across the river.

Large drawing

Clarence drew on a large piece of paper for yesterday's art class. The paper was as big as 4 pieces of drawing block paper and he had to do the drawing and colouring on the floor as the paper was too big. Mummy was really proud of him when he showed me his dinosaur drawing. I think it looked really nice (cos drawn by my son, hee!). The teacher told me it was all his work, she only helped him with the background colouring. Clarence loved his piece of work so much that he asked me to paste it on his room's wall.


While gor gor was busy drawing, mei mei went behind the wheels.

After his class, we went to Player's Cafe for our lunch. Food was average but I liked the cafe as it was not crowded and noisy like most restaurants. My children liked the cafe cos there's a TV there (showing Tom & Jerry).

Big Improvement for......

Big improvement for Vincy today.
She did not protest when boss brought her into the pool. She is accustomed to the water and she looked at ease in it. She even laughed when boss played with her today.



She drank quite a bit of pool water. Look at her choking after drinking pool water.


Another improvement: Her hair is finally wet. We dripped water on her head and she was not scared. She used to swim with her head and face dry.


Oops, because of her petite build, her bikini shorts is too loose for her, so when boss swung her up and down in the pool, her bikini shorts dropped! My poor darling! Shame shame.

Naughty little Vincy

Vincy has very "itchy" hands and is super curious. She is completely different from her gor gor. Her gor gor never did these naughty acts when he was a baby. At times, we were really amazed by her determination to get things. She just keeps trying and trying whenever there's an opportunity.
To document her naughty acts, I just need to give her a chance and let her explore my room freely.
Act 1: Playing with the bin

Act 2: Playing with the dogs' drinking bowl

Act 3: playing with the dogs' food bowl

Act 4: Climbing up my bed to play with the alarm clock

Act 5: Playing with the door's magnet
I was really shocked when I saw her with the door magnet yesterday. I have no idea how she managed to pull it out cos it has never came out before. (I did not even know that it could actually be taken out.)

Verdict: Extremely dangerous gal!
So the best place to put her in will be her cot. I have just converted the cot to a playpen so that she could not climb and fall.

Lucky me

So far, I have been a very lucky mummy in terms of my children's sleeping habits. Clarence slept through when he was 8 wks old and started sleeping in his own room when he was about 2 yrs plus. From that day onwards, I no longer need to lie down with him till he fall asleep. I just switch off the lights and go out to enjoy my precious free time at the end of the day.
In Vincy's case, she is even easier to manage than Clarence. She began sleeping through when she was 10 wks old. Except for the first 2 mths we need to carry and rock her to sleep, she falls asleep by herself in my room every night now. She does not even need anybody to lie down and keep her company till she's asleep. I just switch off the lights and go out.
Therefore, I count myself very lucky.

toe roll and swizzle

Clarence has been practising his toe roll for the past 2 wks. Video of him doing the toe roll on 31/3:

toe roll on 14/4:

He can roll for a longer distance so I would say he is making good progress except for his speed. He is still skating very slowly, like an old grandfather!
New skill taught this week was the swizzle (a basic, fish-shaped way of moving on skates, like figure of eight):

Surprise for Clarence: One of his classmate also turned up for the skating class. He had a good time running around with his friend after the lesson. Mummy was busy talking to other parent thus forgetting to take pictures of Clarence and his little friend.

Ben 10 again!

Clarence did all these poses:

just to get......


Yes, Ben 10 toys!
I asked him to pose 5 different poses before we buy the toy for him.
He even queued up to pay for the toy himself.


Whenever he buys toys or tidbits, he will always tell the cashier he does not need plastic bag, wow so green rite.
Actually, he just wants to hold on to that toy or tidbit so that he can open it quickly. That's my boy.

Me

Clarence did a portrait of himself. His first attempt was done without any guidance. As for his second attempt, the art teacher drew a boy with other details on the white board and he followed.

The dark patch he drew near the feet was supposed to be our black dog, Gemie ( I was told by the teacher cos I also dun know what's that). The art teacher says he still needs to improve on his colouring/painting skill.

Playtime

Some random pictures taken after Clarence's swimming lesson. This was the first time I managed to take pictures of the 2 children in the pool together.

My silly boy with 2 buckets on his head and the noodle float in his hands.
Seriously, I have no idea who or what he was pretending to be.

Non slip bath mat

Bought a pack of non slip bath mat for Vincy.

Good buy cos:
(1) huge discount (40%),
(2) safelty reason,
(3) so cute pictures,
(4) She likes it, I think.

Doggies and Vincy

This is Vincy's first photo-take with the dogs in the house.

Rock-A-Bye baby

I went to my room the other night and was surprised to see Clarence carrying his Mei mei, singing rock-a-bye baby to her. My instant reaction was to pick up the camera to capture this sweet moment. However, towards the end of the song, all the surprise and sweet feeling disappeared. Why?

Cos he was reprimanded for playing with Vincy so roughly!

Science Centre Trip

We went to Science Centre today. Our first stop was Water works as the sky looked dark and we were afraid it might rain in the afternoon.
Clarence loved playing inside.

The Super Dryer: supposed to help to dry up but only emit loud sound, not much result.

Shooting with the gun.

When we took a break and came out for lunch later, it was raining heavily. We were so glad we made the right decision to visit Water works first. Yea!

Another fun discovery: head on the fruit platter.

Serving Clarence's head:

Serving Boss's head:

Felt rather eerie just looking at the pictures.

We came upon a shocker electric chair in one of the halls. So I sent the 2 naughty boys to the chair. Ha!

Boss paid $1 to experience the shocker electric chair. He chose the low voltage mode.

Interview with boss about his experience: The voltage increase gradually and his hands felt numb. He could not release his hands from the chair during the process. 还钱受罪 was his overall conclusion. He offered me a dollar to try out the chair but I politely declined.
Before we left, we saw a booth for kids to decorate paper butterfly. Clarence was keen to try and he really concentrated and spent some time to decorate his butterfly. After he has finished, the lady at the booth pasted 2 little metal rings at the back of his butterfly and presto, he could balance the butterfly on one finger.

According to my boss, the proper name for the metal rings should be called washer. (dun know how true).

We spent half a day at the Science Centre and had a great time there. Although the exhibits were a bit 'chim' for Clarence to understand, I think he still enjoyed himself there.