Second week of school - little Wayne

It's the second morning when little Wayne would start to cry at the moment he knew that I was sending him to school.

I had to carry him... So today, in the attempt to distract and calm him down a little, we said bye-bye to Dora on TV before switching it off... We said the first hellos to two aunties neighbors whom we met in the lift and we were ignored... We then greeted the cleaner uncle who responded happily...  Two strangers women who were cycling and they smiled back... A cyclist uncle who ignored us... Two elderlies and their dog who also ignored us... A poodle which was pretending to drive a stationery car and kept waving it's tail at Wayne... And we said hello to a butterfly...

I was fed with about 3 cheeseballs along the way to school. Wayne didn't cry anymore. He just whinned a little when he saw his teacher during the screening. He kept his sandals to his allocated pigeon hole and went in to the centre quietly...

We didn't exchange good bye today. I just told him that he's doing great and I'm very proud of him.

I'm bringing the rest of the cheeseballs with me to the office... These shall be the power to keep my spirit up for the rest of my day.

Jia you! Cheers!

Feeling exhausted but happy somehow

I must admit that I was totally exhausted yesterday.

The main reason why I was feeling so drained was due to some negative energies from my peers.

Nevertheless, I was happy because I got to send off my kids in the morning, watch them take their dinner and hear their voices (cries) in the night...

I was happy because I could iron school uniforms for all of them... I could pack bags for them... I could plan for what's for breakfast and dinner for the next day.

I was happy because my dear returned from work, ate dinner and helped me out with the chores everyday.

So I decided that I should recharge and repay for all the good stuff by staying positive. Cheers.

Thank you for being there for me... Life is about balancing... The inner soul...

First 3 days of School - My little Wayne

First day of Wayne's toddler class... Supposed to report to school at 9am but I got the wrong time and turned up with little Wayne at 10am, instead. The class would conduct EL class daily between 0900 - 1000 hr, then break for playtime between 1000 - 1100 hr before serving lunch, followed by bath time and prepare for nap between 1200 - 1500 hr.

According to the teachers, Mother tongue class would be conducted between 1500 - 1630 hr on every Mon and Tue. Anyway.... for the first day when we were advised to stay for only 1 hour to sit in for their EL class, I stayed for 2 hours, watching their playtime + lunch. OOps!

Wayne was excited in school uniform and strolling to school.. (see Day 1 before and After school below)

Day 2 was a big leap for him (and for me), it totally reminded me of those days when I had to drop Renee off for playgroup years ago... heartbroken memories... Anyway, Wayne did great! He sat down with his friends to enjoy (or rather playing with) his breakfast, without realizing that's an important meal of his time there.. I bid him goodbye and assured that I would be back very quickly, after his lunch to pick him up.

He didn't cry. He was enjoying the nursery rhythms played during mealtime and looking forward to playtime... When I turned up to pick him from his 3 hours session on second day, he was crying... quite badly.... too exhausted and famished... since he's a picky eater. Time for him to appreciate food by adequate starving I supposed...  T__T

Below: Day 2 Before and After School (and he kept showing off his "Star" reward on the back of his hand...)

Day 3, instead of doing the same AM session warm-up for him, we were asked to report after 3pm because the kids were out on an excursion... We missed it since we only joined them this month. AIyOooo.... Nevertheless, Wayne had a good time with his sister at the playground before getting to school. He was still excited... He told us to keep our volume down because his friends were napping. We exchanged goodbyes and picked him in 2 hours time. He came out crying hard, again... He missed us. We knew it...  T__T

Family Staycation!

(Back dated post found in draft from Dec 2016)

its been a while since my last entry. It's because the blogger app wasn't compatible with the new iOS. Anyway, I really had to blog about this family staycation. It's was extremely exhausting but absolutely awesome! So, I'm using the web-version... via mobile, since all the pics are in my phone ;p

Ok, so this was how it began. It's school holiday but Daddy and mummy were busy with work, very guilty we felt and were determined to plan for a "simple" staycation for our babies.

Sentosa would be the "overseas" local staycation that we could do, first ever, for us! We got the famiy room at Festive hotel, roamed to the beach swimming pool at Hardrock hotel, for our RWS invite welcome package USS tickets, with $30 meal vouchers... strolled along the casino and RWS shops so so so many times...

Funny thing was that the girls loved their loft bunk bed and bathtub so much that they would emo-enough whenever we went out and wanted to rush back for fun in the room... LOL ^^

Phoebe went swimming on both days, while Renee couldn't give a miss to her loft bunk bed. Climbing up and down and up and down the stairs... arghhhh.... both had a quick dip in the bathtub on both days... Wayne played and cried in his own poop... disastrous!

At USS, Renee was the most adventurous one... she shouted "This is crazy!" When the tram slided down the track...  wuhoo! (Or maybe Phoebe was the coolest since she didn't even scream?)

Finally a long waited family pic with the madagasca characters. Hahaha!

Dinner inside USS was so-so, just to use the food voucher because we forgot to use it during lunch at the seasame street pizza restaurant ;p