Last Sunday

We went to Bishan Park to walk the dogs together last Sunday morning. Clarence pulling Gemie and Vincy pulling Jewel.

Discovered a sand pit in the park and this was actually Vincy's first time on the swing. We played at the playground while Daddy continued walking the dogs.

After walking the dogs, we went to MacDonald to have breakfast.

Then we went for a swim.

Busy Busy

Starting from January, Vincy has 3 classes on Saturdays. Swimming class in the morning:

Then ballet class after swimming class. So we will dress her in her ballet outfit after showering.

After ballet, we have a short break for lunch before she goes for her piano class. Super busy!

She wants me to go in with her for lesson cos she says Daddy dun know piano.

So we are busy rushing for classes on Saturdays. And she still wants me to enrol her in art class. She says she wants to learn art after her piano class. Faint!

Taking medicine

My kids took turns to fall sick during the last week of holiday and first week of school. First it was Clarence, he had fever for 3 days then it was Vincy's turn. Her fever subsided within a day. Fortunately for me, my kids have no problem taking medicine since young. In fact, they love to take medicine (sound crazy rite). When one of them see the other taking medicine, he or she will tell me he is sick and need the medicine too. They often say medicine taste good.

The little monster

Vincy has turned into a terrible little monster. She is in the terrible and horrible 3 yr old phase. She can be sweet this moment and cheeky the next. She is very stubborn and insists her way. She throws tantrums whenever she is unhappy. She whines and cries at the littlest things and she has very very itchy fingers. She touches and plays with everything. Faint!

She loves to irritate her gor gor by imitating him. She just gets on her gor gor's nerves and makes him angry.

She loves to bully her daddy. She wants daddy to take off her shoes when we are back home. She demands to sit on his shoulder or get him to carry her when we are out. And daddy always gives in to her. Daddy is spoiling her! She is the 野蛮公主 at home.

Clarence is P2!

Clarence is in primary 2 this year. Mummy took 8 mths of leave so that I can spend quality time with my family and take a break from work too. Hence I can send and pick Clarence from school everyday now. After our move, Clarence no longer needs to wake up at 5.30am in the morning to catch the 6.05am bus. He wakes up at 6.30am now.

Daddy walking with Clarence to school.

We were so blur on the first day. He was supposed to report to his class so we thought since he is in P2, his classroom will be upstairs but his classroom is actually the same classroom as last year. So we went up and down searching for his class.
Outside his class: (mummy's without make-up look at 7.10am)

A simple birthday

Got a treat from my dear to go to Aramsa Spa on the eve of my birthday. We sent the kids to bed at 9pm and went for a 90 minutes couple massage session. The massage was so relaxing. My dear fell asleep in less than 15 minutes. He said it was a waste of money for him. We walked home after our massage treatment. It was just like going to the resort. So shiok!
On my birthday, hubby bought a slice of cake after picking Vincy from school and I was surprised to see Vincy running in with cake in her hand, shouting," Happy Birthday Mummy."

New Year at USS

We went to Universal Studio on New Year's Day to try out the highly acclaimed Transformers ride and other rides that we missed last time. We bought express passes for all of us to minimise the waiting time. Express passes were great, no need to queue for so long and get the best seats too. We went early in the morning and the first ride we dashed to is the Transformers ride. We did not use the express pass for the first time cos we wanted to take it again later. Poor meimei did not meet the minimum height requirement so she could not take the ride.

While mummy and meimei waited for daddy and gorgor to come out, a kind hearted man offered to help us take a picture.

Mummy waited for the Lee family to come out from the ride and pass Vincy to them before I went in to join Daddy and Clarence for the ride.
This was the transformer robot we were taking:

The ride was fantastic! Very good!

Next we went to take the Accelerator. My dear was giddy from the transformer ride so he closed his eyes while the Accelerator spin round and round. Clarence chose to close his eyes cos he was scared. This was the posture for Clarence in whatever trilling ride we took later.

Clarence and I took Revenge of the Mummy ride and Clarence was so scared. He was screaming and crying. After Ancient Egypt, we went to The Lost World.
Dino-soarin:

We tried the Canopy Flyer this time. We missed it last time cos the queue was too long.

Vincy was very brave. She took the ride with daddy and screamed when she was scared. Clarence simply bent down and refused to open his eyes cos he was scared. 

Caught the Waterworld show again. Daddy and Clarence in the soak zone. Clarence t-shirt and shorts were wet despite wearing the poncho cos the staff just pulled his poncho and poured the water in.

Vincy did not like the loud noise from the show, so she covered her eyes throughout the show.

Crate Adventure: This ride was not open when we went last time. Clarence loves this ride. We took it twice.

Vincy's favourite: King Julien's beach party go-round. She took this ride 4 times.

We watched Shrek 4D Adventure twice and took the Enchanted Airways. Clarence bent down and closed his eyes throughout the roller coaster ride. He kept telling me he did not know what was happening. I asked him to open his eyes to see for himself but he refused. Ha!
Pretending to take the Battlestar Galactica:

I like his scared expression!

Another round of Dino-Soarin.

We had a long day at the park. We spent more than 10 hours in the park. It was fun! We also saw the "Hollywood Dreams" parade that day.

Vincy"s first swim class

Vincy started her first swimming lesson on 17/12/2011. The excited gal before her lesson:

Playing in the water with Domi:

Her goggle is too big for her small face. All ready to go:

The coach asked her to hold on to a swimming board and walk across the pool. She held the board with one hand and stretched out the other hand to the coach. She wanted the coach to hold her hand and walk together. So cute!

She followed Domi throughout the lesson. Whenever Domi went, she would go and find him. No wonder the coach said Vincy was Domi's little girlfriend.

Blowing bubbles with her little boyfriend:

Learn to Dive

Signed up Clarence for a 3 day "Learn to Dive" course at Toa Payoh Swimming Complex during the Dec holidays. He enjoyed the course cos his best buddy Issac was at the course too.They started the day with some dry run exercise on the trampoline and mats. Then they went for a break and after that, it was water splashing time.

Up tuck stretch(1m):

Video of his back jump(1m):

Video of him doing the back jump tuck(1m):

Head down(1m):

Somersault into the water:

Sit and head in (1m):

3m jump:

3m touch feet dive:

3m tuck jump:

He attempted a few 5m jumps on day 2. Daddy and Mummy were so proud of him. We never expected him to jump from so high, in fact we were worried if he dared to jump down from the 3m platform.

My brave son's 5m dive:

Another 5m jump on day 3:

He tried a 3m head down 3m dive on the last day but because he was scared, his technique was wrong, His hands and head did not reach the water first so he was crying when he landed. His face and chest were all red.

The painful jump:

A group photo after the 3 days course.

I was glad I sent him for this course just for his exposure. Really value for money course!