New place

After a long wait, finally got the keys to our new place. I brought Vincy over to see the new place last week. Clarence has seen the place before cos he collected the keys with me earlier on.

Their first dip in the pool at our new house. We had the whole pool to ourselves cos most of the residents have not moved it yet, otherwise it is going to be very crowded then. They enjoyed playing in the pool so much.




Playing splash together:



After their swim, we went to MacDonald's for dinner and played at the playground before heading back. Vincy has been asking to bring her back there since then, but we may be selling off the place.

She is 3!

She has been going around telling people she is going to be 3 years old since a few weeks ago. Celebrated Vincy's Birthday on Friday at her childcare. Mummy let her choose between 2 dresses and she chose this:


Must thank her teachers in school for helping to plait her hair so nicely. They even made the pink clip for her to match her dress on that day.


Her jelly birthday cake:


Singing of Happy Birthday song:



Cake cutting:


Group photo:

Happy Birthday, Vincy!

Lovingkids Sports Day

It is Lovingkids Sports Day again. This year, mummy could not go and support Vincy cos it fell on PSLE Oral day, no way I could take leave. Entrusted the task of accompanying and photography to my dear instead. Not very satisfactory performance though. He did not took videos of Vincy's competition to show me cos Vincy stick to he like glue and had to play the game with her so he could not take videos or pictures. Some photos of the event:




Her team came in second and she got a silver medal. Well done, Vincy!

An Evening of Theatre 2011

Clarence attended Speech and Drama class in his school every week. So the school arranged An Evening of Theatre 2011 to showcase what they learnt in the classes.
Meimei waited patiently for her gor gor to perform.

His performance was scheduled to be the last, poor meimei waited and waited for her gor gor to come out. And when it was finally his turn, meimei could not make out which one was her gor gor. Faint! She kept asking where is her gor gor.

Maybe my expectation was too high, I think the performances were not that fantastic but there again, they only have an hour of practice every week so perhaps I should be more forgiving. The most important thing is the exposure and the fact that Clarence enjoyed himself.

Close-up of his make-up:

New way of sharing

Last week, I allowed the children to sleep in my room. They came with a new way of sharing the bed so that they need not squeeze or touch each other.

Tie fur

Silly Meimei tried to tie the dog fur the other day. Guess she could not tie so she put her pink rubber band on Gem's head instead.


After that, she took her toy princess camera and took pictures for Gem.

Mummy also snapped pictures of her while she was busy snapping pictures of the dog.

G major

Clarence started learning scales 3 weeks ago. For the first week, he just need to play the G major for both hands separately. Then after a week of practice, he must start to combine the 2 hands and play the G major. It is not easy at all cos he must use certain finger for certain notes. This is his G major after 2 days of practice:



A much better version after a week of practice with both hands:



He has mastered the G and D major and will be learning the A major this week. I find it a bit tough to combine both hands cos I cannot do it myself despite my organ background. He will laugh at me when I struggle to play the G major.

Happy National Day!

Happy National Day! My kids went to school in red and white to celebrate National Day yesterday.


Vincy came in 3rd in her school's National Day Colouring Contest (PG/N1 category).

Her masterpiece:

And her prize: (colouring book and colour pencils)

Mummy is so proud of my little gal.

ba lou gu

I brought the kids to my mum's place last Saturday and while he was playing with his cousin, he ran and slam into the glass balcony door. The impact was quite huge thus he ended up a large ba lou gu:


He did not want me to take his picture initially but I told him it was ok cos we must remember and face both the good things and the not so good things that happen in our life and laugh about them. He then consented and allow me to snap the ba lou gu on his forehead.

Elephant

Vincy made this mask on school. Miss elephant:

Her elephant song:

Journey to the West

Thanks to his Chinese teacher in school, Clarence is very interested in 西游记. His teacher has been telling them stories about 西游记 and the characters inside. So during the book fair in my school the other day, I bought 8 simple 西游记 books (with han yu pin yin) for him. He was very excited and has started reading. So far, he has finished reading 2 of the books. :)

His drawing of the characters in the story
孙悟空：

唐三藏：


沙僧：

猪八戒：

Mummy thinks his 猪八戒画得最像！