Speech and Drama

Today was Clarence's school speech and drama performance. They performed Wizard of Oz and Clarence acted as a guard in the play.
His self introduction before the play:



Scene 5, when he performed:



Great effort from the teachers and kids.
However, the kiasu mummy could not help but wonder why Clarence got such a minor role? Was he too naughty in class? Was it because he was not good enough? Was he really that bad? Was it because his teacher did not like him?
A lot of whys in my brain but no answers.
Think I am too competitive, I should relax.
Most important thing should be: Clarence enjoyed acting in the play with his classmates and he felt proud. I felt proud of him too.
Pictures taken after the play:

Lunch at Swenson with his classmates.

Action

After sitting on it for so long, mummy finally put my plan into action and send Clarence to his first piano class today. Took a picture of Clarence while waiting for the teacher.

It is a one to one, half an hour session. I left him with the teacher and went to childcare centre to pick Vincy. When I went back to pick him, the piano teacher praised him for being a good boy. He concentrated throughout the lesson and the piano teacher was surprised that he was patient and could sit through the whole lesson.

Although today was his first day of lesson, he already brought homework back.

Clarence told me he enjoyed his piano lesson. He also showed me what he learnt today.

After dinner, he told me he wanted to do his piano class homework and he went and do them all by himself. I am glad that he is so enthusiastic.

He finished all his piano homework today. Yeah! Will get a keyboard for him to practice this weekend.

Antenna

Was showering Vincy the other day and I realised her hair was rather long, so the mischievous mummy tried to put all her hair up.
Looked like an antenna to me.

Jump

Vincy is learning how to jump now. She jumps with one leg. Cannot lift both legs up and jump yet. She was happily demonstrating to us how to jump in Early Learning Centre the other day.

Marina Barrage again

We went kite flying with the Lees at Marina Barrage again yesterday. This round, I managed to take pictures. We had ice cream first before we started kite flying.
As daddy went to toilet, mummy had a go at kite flying. In less than 5 minutes, my kite was soaring high up in the sky. So kite flying wasn't that difficult after all. Ha ha!
After the kite was up in the sky, I passed it to Clarence.
The marina barrage is really a good place to fly kite with strong wind and nice view around except it is too crowded, thus you got to be very careful with your kite cos the string may get entangled with other kites'strings.
Clarence even sat down on a mat that Auntie Jaslyn brought to fly his kite. He said it was more relaxing this way.

My little darling wondering around, keeping herself busy.

After a while, Clarence asked his daddy to bring down the kite and try to fly it again. So my boss obliged and flew the kite up again later. After the kite was up, he called Clarence to go and take over but Clarence refused.

Actually the kids were not really keen in flying kites. Ryan ended up playing with his mummy's handphone games while the adults were busy flying kites.
Me and Vincy: (photo taken by Clarence)

I love this picture. Gor gor hugging his little meimei. This picture will be my blog's cover photo next time.

Took a family picture before we left.

Morning fun

We woke up late today and my boss suggested bringing the kids to T3 for breakfast and slide.
Breakfast at Ya Kun:

Followed by sliding fun:

Vincy did not meet the minimum height requirement so she can only watch us slide.

Waiting for his turn:

Mummy and Clarence went down the slide twice.

Before we left, we took the big hippo car in the carpark.

Meimei did not want to sit, she was scared of the huge hippo. She sat aside and enjoyed her lollipop.

My dear bought these in T3 to cook chicken rice for us. He says he is confident of cooking chicken rice and the chicken. Rice should not be a problem but the chicken......

Well, we will be his guinea pigs.

Yummy

We had an expensive and yummy dinner tonight at Crystal Jade Golden Palace at Paragon. We went there to eat because the restaurant recently garnered the Asiaone People's choice 2009 Awards for the top chinese restaurant. The deco was good and most important food was really yummy!

Vicny enjoyed the crackers most.

We ordered Sharks fin, suckling pig, peking duck and soon hock fish.

Initially, Clarence told us not to order sharks fin cos he learnt about shark hunting in school and he told us to save the animals. But sorry son, mummy really loves sharks fin. When the sharks fin was served, we gave him a little bowl and he happily ate it all up. So contradicting! After that, I asked him if he still want to save the animal, he said no. Guess too yummy for him too.

Bicycle

Today is the last day of my holiday. Sob sob!
So I decided to be a "good" mummy. I picked Clarence from school at 1pm and went to buy a bicycle with him.
He was very surprised to see me and he was very excited when he knew I wanted to buy a 2 wheel bicycle for him. He is very keen to learn cos some of his friends already knew how to ride a 2 wheel bicycle (peer pressure?).
We went downstairs to practice for about 10 minutes. Did not want to stress him and myself out for the first time, afraid it may kill his interest. Furthermore, it is very tiring for me to hold on his shoulders while he is trying to get his balance all the time. I told him we will practice again some other day.
Pose for the camera:

Truck

Clarence painted a truck last Sat during his art class.

Cannot resist

I went to Compass Point library to return books just now. Since there was still a little bit of time before I need to go and pick Clarence, I went into Fox to see. I really meant to go in and just see and spend some extra time there but I bought something in the end.
There is a 30% sale and with UOB card, I get another 15% more discount, so I bought a swimsuit for Vincy again. Yes, swimming costume AGAIN! Cannot resist the temptation.
Got my little model to put on her new swimming costume and take pictures!

Out of curiosity, I went to check in my cupboard and guess how many sets of swimming costumes Vincy has?
She has 14 sets! All thanks to her crazy mummy! Even I dun have so many sets from baby till now. And she is not 2 years old yet.
Next question, does she wear all? Yes, so far all has been worn to the pool except this one and another set.
My dear may faint after reading this post, Hee! Dun faint, dear, cos the number will still increase.

Class Photo

Mummy scanned all Clarence's class photos taken in his childcare.
Playgroup (2006): (still got baby fat)

Nursery 1 (2007):

Nursery 2 (2008):

Kindergarten 1 (2009):

Kindergarten 2 (2010):

Wow! He is in his graduation robe, 戴四方帽了！

My boy has grown so much!