Her gymnastics outfit

Her custom made leotard for gymnastics has arrived. Her shorts was bought off the shelf. Mummy made 2 leotards for her as there are 2 lessons per week. It was a difficult process choosing cos you first need to decide on a design then you choose the fabric and colour. There were tons of designs, fabrics and colours to choose from. I was lost choosing from a file full of different designs. I only knew my gal love pink and shimmer.

The final product:

She loves her gym outfit!

Second gymnastics class

Daddy bought adidas shorts for Clarence and Vincy went in her ballet leotard with shorts for gymnastics bought by mummy for their second lesson.

Both learning how to flip over the pole.

First gymastic class

Clarence requested to go for gymnastic class. Since he is keen, mummy signed both of them up. Same effort bringing both to class together for me. Vincy strongly and violently objected to attending gymnastic class initially but after I told her I wonder who will perform better in class, she immediately said she will do better than gor gor and was willing to give gym class a try. My competitive gal!

Some videos of them:

Vincy couldn't do forward roll by herself at home but after her first lesson, she did it!





Perspiring after the class.

Mummy realised that they are not in appropriate outfits for the gymnastic class. Need to source outfits for them.

Both enjoyed their first lesson. Especially Vincy, she kept asking when she is attending gym class again.

Clarence's 8th birthday party

We celebrated Clarence's 8th birthday yesterday afternoon. Clarence invited his friends and close classmates to his party. Our prayers were answered, the weather was fine yesterday. The children could go to the pool. They had a lot of fun splashing in the pool with their water guns and pushing each other into the pool. It was just pure noise and more noise and madness! But the kids enjoyed themselves. Clarence loved his party. He said it was the best party ever!

We were so worried that it would rain cos the weather forecast was thundery storm for that day.  It would be mission impossible to entertain 18 kids in the function room for 3 hours. Thank god for the perfect weather.

Birthday boy with his spiderman jelly cake:

 Singing happy birthday song after their swim.

Thank you uncles and aunties for your generous presents. Mostly toys cos he requested for toys. That colourful thing on his head was swim trunk from Auntie Joyce. Daddy asked him to put on his head to take a pic:

Added in skylander camo from the Chuas in this picture:

Generous gor gor gave meimei a nerf gun (since he received 2 different nerf guns) and a note book from his presents. Meimei kissing gor gor to show her appreciation.

This Spiderman set was from George, his best friend in class.
Spider girl:

Spider boy:

Duck colouring

Vincy's recently completed piece:

 

Happy Birthday song

Clarence learnt the Happy Birthday song in late May. Playing the melody of Happy Birthday:



Playing the chords of Happy Birthday:



The guitar teacher asked him to sing along when he play the chords of the song. But he really cannot sing to the tune. Oh dear! Maybe he is still too young???
自弹自唱 (chords)



自弹自唱 (melody)



How to be a superstar in the future? Lol!

Self portrait

Meimei drew a portrait of herself in her Chinese workbook. When daddy saw it, daddy was pleased with her drawing, said not bad cos she drew eyes, nose and mouth.

He was even more pleased when he saw the next picture. It was a drawing of gor gor. He thought it was also drawn by Vincy.

He thought Vincy can draw so nicely. However, when I told him the drawing was done by gor gor, he said it was lousy for a 7 yr old standard. I thought gor gor's drawing was nice. My conclusion: daddy 偏心！

Injury time

The kids were playing "Fight" on our bed few days ago. Warning has already been issued to them while they were playing. However, they chose to turn a deaf ear to the warnings. Suddenly, we heard a loud thud followed by cries of Vincy. She fell from the bed and had a bruise on her forehead.

Although Clarence did not fall off the bed, he was not better off. The following day, we discovered his face was badly scratched by Vincy during their rough play.

Not his first time, he was scratched by Vincy in Bali while we were travelling on the car.

 When will they stop getting injured?

Birthday parties

Clarence so far has attended 3 birthday parties of his classmates this year. The most recent one was Jayden's birthday. Vincy was invited too. We left our kids there and picked them up after the party.

The first party he attended was Science experiment, the second one was magic tricks. Both employed an external party to conduct. The recent was Science related (making a volcano explode) but conducted by the parents. Wow!

The volcano Clarence created and took home:

Jayden's mummy even dyed the orchids into 3 different colours to illustrate roots absorb water and travel via the stem to the flowers:
 

So much effort from the parents!
Another birthday party we attended recently. Francis's birthday party:

Clarence wants to invite his classmates over for his birthday but daddy and mummy have no idea how to entertain the kids. Decided to have a free play pool party for him.
Mangaged to book the function room for his birthday celebration next week. Keeping our fingers crossed for good weather that day so that the kids can entertain themselves in the pool.

Harmony

One of the good days for me when the two of play can play in harmony without quarreling.
They are pretending to be in the army. Gor gor was the officer and meimei must obey his orders.

How I wish they can always play together instead of fighting or getting on each other's nerve.

Workout

I have been dilligently exercising since mid May to now except for the break when I went Bali. Started with swimming daily, 10 to 15 laps depending on mood. Then gradually started to go to gym to cycle on the stationary bike. My first attempt: 

Faint, panting like mad but only burned 47 calories after cycling for 5.2km for 30 minutes. Was thinking to myself that maybe not eating will be an easier option. Ha!
However, as the days progress, I improved. I can at least cover 10km each half hour session.
My best result recently: burned 204 calories after cycling for 11.58km for 30 minutes.

My exercise regime now consists of cycling, swimming, brisk walking cum jogging on the treadmill and going to the sauna. I will do all or some on days when I am free (usually weekdays when kids go to school).

Motivation for the workout: reduce the fat and cellulite and stay healthy. Must persevere!