Tay Jieren Clarence 郑杰仁 

DOB:13 July 2004 Birth weight: 3.635kg Lilypie Kids birthday Ticker

Tay Yingxi Vincy 郑颖希 

DOB:27 Aug 2008 Birth weight:3.125Kg Lilypie Kids birthday Ticker

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

She needs ......

She needs a ticket to watch movies now. We went to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 and bought a ticket for her.

She has her own seat!

She cried during the movie. Not sure if she was scared of the fighting scenes or sad because the mummy and baby panda was being chased.
After the movie, sent the kids to Ah mah's house to stay. This was Vincy's first time staying there. She was very brave and did not cry or look for me. Ha!
After leaving the kids with my mum, went for a drink in Coffeebean at Railway mall then to Macdonalds in Bishan to eat fries.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Trying hard

She has been singing these 2 chinese songs recently. Cannot really make out what she is saying.
泥娃娃





Only know the last 2 sentence: 祝福妈妈身体好,祝福爸爸身体好!

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Handsome

After showering the other day, Clarence took my brush to comb his hair.

After combing, he asked me if he look handsome. Getting vain.

Got them to pose for camera, Clarence insisted not smiling to look cool. The COOL look! (more like buay song look! ha!)

I like their smiley look more.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Clarence's Semestral 1 Progress Report

Clarence got his Semestral 1 Progress Report yesterday.


Frankly speaking, as a parent, I found it super stressful to have so many bite-sized tests in a semestral. I found myself struggling to find time to prepare and revise each test with Clarence. The numerous hours put in for his oral and show and tell preparation...... So to a certain extent, this progress report belongs to ''us'' instead of him alone. I think unless your child is those super motivated and intelligent, close monitoring is still essential.
Mathematics:

He tends to be careless in his Maths and he needs more drilling. I felt guilty when I look at his Maths marks cos I should have spent more time revising his Maths with him.
English:

Chinese

No complaints for his English and Chinese results but I still prefer our old way of CA and SA rather than this holistic assessment.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

New Watch

Bought a new watch for Clarence cos the old one that was given to him from my brother was broken.

He loves his new watch very very much. He wore it to swim, shower and has been sleeping with the watch on his wrist for the past 2 nights.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Fidgets Fun

It was a last minute decision to go Fidgets during the Vesak Day holiday. Sent an sms to Auntie Zann and it happened she had nothing on that day. So the kids began their Fidgets Fun:





Thursday, May 19, 2011

CCA

Received a letter from the school last week.

Clarence was selected for Dance CCA. He was a bit disappointed cos he preferred Wushu to dance but it seemed that the teacher wanted him in dance more than Wushu since Dance is one of their "star" CCA in school. Actually we thought he is better at Wushu too. But on second thoughts, we think he might like Dance too since he likes pop songs now. His favourite is "Never say never" now. My naive boy even told me to cancel away the Dance and replace it with Wushu. We decided to let him try out the Dance next term since it was offered to him. This was what he learnt from Isaac sometime ago and he said the gor gors in Dance were also doing it.



Far from good though, haha!
Meimei also wanted to give it a try:

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

My mother's day gift

My mother day's gift from Vincy:


From Clarence:

It was a goodies bag that his classmate gave him. He gave it to me cos he said he had no money to buy the mother day's gifts from school. It's the thought that counts, son!

Losing his Central Incisor

My boy has been complaining of a shaky tooth recently. Upon examination, I realised that his upper Central Incisor was the shaky one.
Took a picture of my handsome boy with all his teeth.

That day, he lost his upper Central Incisor while playing with meimei in the car. Funny thing was, he did not even realise he drop his tooth. When he alighted from the car, I saw a hole in between his teeth and asked him where was his tooth. He went back to the car and found the tooth on the car seat. He said it must have dropped when meimei punch his mouth just now.
This is how he looks now:


This is the first time he loses his teeth.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Rides in the Zoo

Our friends of the Zoo membership expired in March so we went to the Zoo today to sign up for another year of membership since Vincy has been asking us to bring her to the Zoo to see real animals.
Clarence wanted to go and feed the goats. Hence we went to Kidzworld and to my surprise, Vincy was willing to ride the pony. For all past trips the Zoo, she has been declining my offer to ride the pony but she said yes today.
Holding on to her ticket, waiting for her turn:
She enjoyed the pony ride, my brave gal! Seeing her up the pony reminded me about Clarence's first pony ride when he was around 2yrs and 1mth old. To be fair to Clarence, Vincy is 2yrs and 8mths old now
He was still smiling when he sat on the pony but when the pony started moving, he started crying. We were laughing at him today for crying on his first pony ride.

After the pony ride, we went for the horse carriage ride.

I prefer the old route cos the horse will gallop for a distance unlike now in the Kidzworld, the horse just trotted.
After that, Vincy went on the Carousal ride. She chose to ride on the zebra:

Too bad daddy didn't join us! While we were leaving, Vincy told us to go to the Zoo again next time. She loves the Zoo!

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Mixed-up?

Daddy bought a Barbie vacation house for meimei last week. After assembling the house, meimei and gor gor started playing with Barbie and the new doll house immediately.


Yes, Clarence was playing Barbie doll. I told him boys dun play with dolls but he said he want to play with meimei so I just let him.

The next day when we went out for lunch, meimei traded the ipad for gor gor's Ben 10 mini characters. She was happily playing with the characters.


Is there a mixed-up? Lol!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Note from my secret agent

He claimed he was a secret agent, so he got his sunglasses and gun and pretended to be like one.


My secret agent wrote a note for me the other day:


Such a sweet note from my son!

Monday, May 9, 2011

Get together

We met up at the Chuas place for Isaac and Domi's birthday celebration. The kids had a great time playing with the Chuas and Wongs kids.


Pretending to swim:




Vincy and Agnes has grown so much, from this:

to this:

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Talking to Daddy

As daddy often works late, the kids will sometimes call him at night to talk to him.
Vincy on the phone with daddy:


Clarence was already sleeping when I took these pictures.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Comments


Received Vincy's Observation Report (March 2011)
Overall Comments:
Vincy is a chatty girl who enjoys participating in interesting conversations with her peers and she is determined to do things that she believes in.
After decoding:
chatty, participating in interesting conversations = talkative in class
determined to do things that she believes in= stubborn

Clarence's feedback from his English teacher:
Clarence is rather active in school. He tends to be careless in his work. Thus he needs to learn to check his work before handing in.
After decoding:
active= monkeying around

Cannot help but decode the comments in this way due to my profession. Ha!

Monday, May 2, 2011

Free Cookies again

We went to Suntec last week and we had the chance to decorate cookies again. No instructions needed this round.

This was done by mummy me on behalf of Vincy. (In case you can't tell, this is supposed to be a rabbit)

Clarence's cookie


All done

Yummy, yummy!