Vain

I bought nail stickers and tried it out on my toes and fingers yesterday night.

Today, I asked Vincy if she want flower sticker on her toe nails like mummy and she nodded her head, so vain mummy put the stickers on Vincy's toes too.


After putting them on, I asked her 美美 or not, she nodded her head and agreed it was 美美too!

Long wait

We went to ICA building to collect Clarence's passport. We queued to get into the carpark and queued to find a lot to park. We reached at about 3.45pm and was told the wait would be around 4 hrs. Mummy almost fainted after hearing that. There were 900+ people in the queue before us. As we need his passport urgently to travel today, we have to wait.

We only got the passport at 7.20pm. Gosh, we waited for 3 1/2 hours for his passport. Can you imagine the torture of waiting for so long? Mummy was thoroughly exhausted after the wait.
Must thank Auntie Janet here for helping to babysit Vincy. Hope Vincy was not too much of a bother to the Chuas.

The tays will be going to KL for a short trip today. Yeah!

Fantasy land

Theme for art class last week: Fantasy land
Clarence's fantasy land:

With dinosaurs and volcano and a big pink mushroom. The art teacher was impressed when he told her the breed of the dinosaur that he had drawn.

Healthy lifestyle

We decided to adopt healthy lifestyle last sunday by going th ECP for inline skating and cycling.
Actually we bought a new pair of skates for Clarence, a better pair so my boss suggested going to ECP to try out the skates.

Daddy and Clarence will skate while mummy will cycle with Vincy.

Clarence skated quite a distance this time, more than what he used to skate the previous times we went ECP.

Take a break while we wait for my boss to buy ice-cream back for us.

Curious meimei exploring while waiting.

Reward time:

Clarence's reward for skating so far this round.
Meimei in the bicycle seat.

Cat or Tiger?

Cat or Tiger?
Judging from the strips, should be a tiger. A smilling tiger!

Washing hands

The other day after we came back from school, I was busy in the kitchen and helpful gor gor asked meimei to go to the toilet with him to wash hands and feet. We make it a habit for them to wash theirs hands and feet whenever they come back from outside. After I was done with the work in the kitchen, I went to the toilet to spy on them. Clever gor gor took a stool and asked meimei to step on the stool so that she could reach the basin. I normally let her sit on the edge of the basin while I help her wash her hands and feet.

Thank you gor gor for your initiative.

Bird Park

Clarence drew Birdpark for art 2 weeks ago. The man at the counter was Daddy and the little boy was Clarence. Clarence is very close to the Daddy recently. Wonder if it is because meimei always sticks to me or is it because mummy is the one who forces him to study?

Rare

Vincy woke up from her nap last sunday afternoon and decided to be real sweet to daddy. She called Papa when the dogs barked and rushed to the door to welcome him when he came back from marketing. After that, she followed her Papa into the kitchen and watched him cut the meat and fish. She also allowed him to feed her and carry her when we went out.
Rare to see Vincy being so nice to the daddy hence Must take pictures and blog about it.

My dear was so happy for the whole night. He almost melted when his daughter called him Papa so sweetly.

Our feet

Whenever I go for foot massage with Vincy around me, I will always let her put her feet into the tub with me before the massage. She finds it amusing and likes it too.

Yes, we are wearing matching clothes again!

Aqua Ducks Swimming Competition

We enrolled Clarence in the Aqua Ducks swimming competition just for his exposure and for the fun of it. We heard from the coach that the children taking part were form different Clubs, like Swiss Club and Dutch clubs and they trained 3 times a week and they can really swim well. So we did not expect him to win at all. Just join for the fun.
The registration fee is $15 irregardless of number of events joined. So being Kiasu parents, we enrolled him in Breaststroke, Backstroke and Freestyle. (very ambitious) Although he did not really know how to swim backstroke yet. Pictures of the boys at the pool during the warm up session.

It was so sunny last Sunday morning. We were soaked in perspiration. The spectator stand did little to shelter us from the hot sun. It has been ages since we basked ourselves in the hot sun for so many hours. Poor meimei with her hair all damp from perspiration after being in the sun for a while only.

Posing for the camera during the long wait for Clarence's event to start.

Well, mummy made a mistake while registering Clarence. According to the staff. I did not circle Clarence's gender in the registration form so they thought he was a girl and put him in the girls category.
The organiser ensured us that his timing would be taken for the boys group although he was swimming with the girls. Hence to minimise the inconvenience for the organiser, we convinced Clarence to swim with the girls. He was ok with it. Guess he did not really mind or he did not know the difference. Luckily he did not kick a fuss about it!
Clarence at the competitor stand with the girls:

Getting ready for his first event, Breaststroke

The ang mo kids from other clubs were really fast. Not bluffing at all.

While waiting for their events to start, the children entertained themselves with toys and PSP.

2nd event: Backstroke.

Getting ready before the match:

He was struggling with his backstroke cos he was not taught the proper techniques of backstroke in class yet but he managed to finish the 25m. Good effort.
The last event: freestyle

Moment of truth: the results.

Clarence came in 11th out of 15 for the 25m breaststroke with a timing of 55.41s. The winner finished the race in 30.31s.

Clarence came in 6th out of 8 for 25m backstroke with a timing of 1.23.00min while the winner's timing was 29.40s.

Clarence came in 13th out of 14 for 25m freestyle with a timing of 1.14.00 min. The winner's timing was 23.43s.

See, the other children are really very very fast and good swimmers.

The organiser gave the 8 years old and below participants a medal for completing the race.

Clarence and his medal:

Well done, Clarence, Daddy and Mummy are proud of you for trying your best at the competition and finishing the race. Yeah! 3 cheers for Clarence!

Getting ready

This was the last practice session before the Aqua Ducks swimming competition on Sunday. Clarence swam well for his breaststroke. He managed to catch up and reach the finishing point first despite the late start. Rare that he can come in first cos normally he will be the last to reach.

After their practice session, Clarence and Isaac played "kill the baby". The mischievous boys snatching the baby:

Watch how the psycho Clarence "kill the baby"

So violent! Result of watching too much violent cartoons and movies. Need to counsel him soon.