W first and P last visit to the HBP sch dental

A day post National day, little W and sis P accompanied one another to the school dental centre.

W hadnt been brushing his teeth diligently, while P had plenty of loose teeth falling... 

It's a little early for P2 to change their set of bb teeth to adult teeth, nevertheless, we felt relieved when the doctor said everything is normal.

W required adult supervision/help with rushing teeth. And he should brush after food, not before. Oops. 

Last night, the three kiddos were flossing their teeth together before bedtime. Like playing violin... kinda fun. Haha 😂

my portrait

Illustration by W at 5yo

Illustration by P at 7yo

Papa, mama and baby W with ❤️

Illustration by mama, afternoon drawing with W. He is very encouraging. When I didn't draw the same way as he did, W would take a look at picture and comment, " This is okay too." Along the way, he would guide me what to draw next and share with me how he would draw it. Towards the end of the session as we were colouring the doodles, W turned to me and said gently, "Mummy, this is the first time that you draw with me. I'm so happy." I felt so appreciated. Then, W asked, "Is it you don't have to work today?" He exclaimed, "oh yes!" When I told him that I wasn't at work for the day.

Our same same but different drawings 🥳

my girls, playing hide and seek

R was doing her chinese term break homework when she suddenly said "wait a min, I have to find sis... She left me a clue..."

We found her after a long time, not because it was difficult but because we realised she was playing hide and seek with a clue after a while... Since we were working on termbreak homeworks 🤗

R found P immediately the moment we know she was waiting to be found, from an obvious hiding place... 🥳

小姐姐，小弟弟

就像平常一样，爸爸扛起了家中大大小小的活。

今天早上，爸爸和我分享了一件温馨的事。

两天前，爸爸一如往常地接孩子们下课。

一如往常地扮成怪兽追着孩子们，像赶小鸭子回家般。

小琦跑着跑着，突然停了下来。她望着草丛愣了一会儿，便往着落在最后头的弟弟跑去。

原来，草丛里有一只很大的蜥蜴。小琦姐姐担心弟弟；所以连忙赶到弟弟的身边，牢牢地牵着弟弟的手，陪着弟弟勇敢迈进。

🙏🏻🥰

My Sunday breakfast by Renee

This is the first time she cooked.

She had planned this out for a long long time ever since the school's HBL or meeting with teacher shared with them about Mother's day...

10th May... The girls made me some craft card for memo and R cooked me scrambled egg breakfast, with fries. Haha 🥰

Evening, the kids watched Angry Birds 2 on Netflix. It was hilarious! Haha... they had icecream and before bed, we finished off the whole box of puzzle sets together. Awesome quality and bonding time with my little ones. 

Thank you, my lovely children! 🥰

小童当家

Friday morning, the girls were forced to help me with plucking the baby spinach before they could take their breakfast.

Why? It was the backlog from yesterday. They promised to do it after dinner but they didnt. The pack of baby spinache was left on the dining table table overnight.

When I asked W why was he helping with the veg, he told me, 'because Papa said I'm a baby." I didn't understand what that meant but I had no time to figure out.

Afternoon, dear and I were overwhelmed with work. I pulled out the basket of laundry from the washing machine and placed them at the balcony. 

"Girls, help me settle the laundry, PL" okay I didn't exactly said please but I asked quite nicely though it's not a question but a statement...

The girls took eye break from the computers and came to my rescue while I continued to "indulge" myself at my piling backlogs...

Night time, their aunt called for a video to let the grannies and babies meet. It's been a long while...

Past midnight, when I could finally sit down to enjoy the leftover peanut waffle... I saw piles of folded cloths on the sofa...

I was quietly impressed. Just... Why wouldn't they keep them back to the cupboard.. 😔

It's Friday, our co-sleepinf night in the master bedroom... Little W was still awake! Omg... 

Project 自理

When Barber and hairdressing services were deemed as non-essentials...

When the season has been quite a summer...

When the itchy-fingered mum found her kept-in-the-deep kid hair shaver...

When the mum is cunning and over optimistic...

When the kids were gullible and naivie, ultimately... It's all because they love their mum!

With faith, trust and lotsa love... P, W and I took our leaps... The results? P was okay, W didn't enjoy as it was too hot and sticky/pricky... But I totally love it. Muahhahhaa... 

karma...

When my kids talked to me, I was using my phone doing work or using my laptop doing work... 

Now when I'm settled down to talk to my kids... They are on their NinjaGo movie. 

We don't talk anymore... We don't talk anymore..

你长大之后。。。

一天早晨，我牵着锦的小手，边走边问道：“大姐，妳长大之后，还会牵着妈妈的手吗？”

锦想都不用想就回道：“会啊！不管什么时候，我会牵着妈妈的手！”

另一天早晨，我牵着琦的小手，边走边问了一样的问题：“琦，妳长大了还会牵着妈妈的手吗？”

琦认真地想了想便回答：“我会牵妈妈的手呀！为什么你问这个问题？”

我为什么会问这个问题？因为不知何时开始，我就没有牵妈妈的手了。。。时间久了，就不好意思更加不敢牵了。这下子，我从孩子们的直率态度学习到了。我也要做个好榜样。。。 哈哈。加油！

（不知道扬会怎么回答我）

天天医院跑

不说不知道，说了自己都吓一跳！

星期一。 我换纱布。

星期二。我和琦看医生。

星期三。我复诊。

星期四。 郑家三宝看医生。

星期六。 将拆纱布。

明天我不要再去任何医院了。。。

My Big Little Sweetie

Ever since Renee learnt to read and write...

I'm getting very encouraging and sweet memos from my girl...

Love you, always, my darling!

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

快乐的一天

要知道孩子一天过得怎样；就看着他熟睡时的模样。

今天，扬吸着奶嘴，合着双眼；时不时发出咔咔笑声；脸上也流露出简单的快乐笑容。

妈妈一天的疲惫都烟消云散了。现在就在想念着姐妹；希望她们有乖乖听话。哈哈！

Jun Hols without enrichment class

Often, I would bump into a neighbor from  the 20th floor whose girl was 2 weeks younger than Renee. 

I hadn't enrolled any of my kids to June Holidays enrichment class, however, as far as I know, my other neighbors, cousins, colleagues and friends did...

This 20th floor neighbor sent her girl to enrichment class since she was 3 years old... OMG!

As much as I could remember, I played a lot during my childhood and wasn't sent to any enrichment class. Holidays, to me and my siblings, were time to break from school and have great fun (or lobo)!

This Hols wasn't much planned for as both dear and I had to work and meet deadlines... Luckily, the grandparents from both sides had stepped in and helped to bring some holiday joy to the kids ^^

My MIL jio-ed us to NEX library (sorry too overwhelmed to take pics), while my parents accompanied the girls to a cycling trip along the Punggol beach. 

After the girls cycled, we headed for dinner at Heavenly Wang at the Punggol safra. I chanced upon a "hidden" Cosy corner and we spent like 15-20mins chillax-ing... Ended up with $5+ of parking fee! Oops!

Exhausted but what a super fun day we shared! Thank you, 奶奶，阿公 and 阿嬷！

My second Bento...

Quite a failure because both Renee and Phoebe couldn't finish the serving... Guess I was too ambitious. Buahahaha!

Nevertheless, they love my apple soup (an attempt to reproduce 老火汤). Wuhoo! Even I was impressed by myself...

 

Baby Wayne can only smell and watch but not get to eat... Kekeke! ^^

My First "Bento" attempt

It was a school holiday this Monday when I almost forgot to prepare dinner for my girls. After clearing some work, I decided to cook up a simple meal for them.

This was the first time when I cooked rice and dishes ever since my helper left on 11th May.

My first steamed rice, my first smooth silky steamed egg... The former turned out too moist, hence, I was carried by a whimp to mould the rice into balls... After putting 2 balls of rice in each bowl, they looked like a snowman already... I pulled out a few pieces of seaweed and cut them into eyes and mouth...

"Mummy, you are awesome!", exclaimed Renee when she saw her dinner was so special that evening...

"Yeah! My favorite egg egg! Thank you, mummy!", shouted Phoebe as she jumped up and down beside the dinner table.

I also made a "yucky" fish soup with carrots and black beans, using my soy milk maker... It tasted okay to me. Well, Phoebe finished all of her serving happily. Renee, however, only tried a few sips and concluded that it was not her "bowl of soup", and she couldn't finished the cheese sausage and rice ~,~

I was motivated to try other bento settings when I have time... Only if I could make them with Japanese pearl rice, though this Thai fragrance rice was good enough ^^

Family Fun at Waterway Kids corner

The girls requested to go to the playground but the sun was scorching hot, the air was warm and humid, the mozzie at the park were thirsty of blood...

So we headed to the FOC indoor playground which was not too far away, the Waterway Point ^^

Well, I promised them that I would bring them there one day, so let the day be this weekend!

Renee hopped into the chocolate cup... Too bad it's not real chocolate...

Phoebe found her favorite cheese!!! Too bad it's not real cheese...

Just realized it today that this playground was filled with rubbery sculptures and pretty much that's it... The only "slide" was this tiny one stuck at the wall, easily flooded with kids...

So after a few slides, the girls sculpture-hopped to explore the place like Dora...

After some 20mins of fun, we left the playground and left for lunch. Say cheese  to our Wefie while waiting for daddy to packet some nice Nasi Lemak ^^

These sisters love to come sayang their baby brother whenever possible. That's how much they adore him!

Pray that the world will become a more loving and blissful place for all livings. 

恭喜发财？

"Gong Xi fa cai..."

"Nian nian you Yu..."

I overheard my girls saying all the CNY greetings, repeating one after another...

Curious, I turned around to see them holding crayons straight up in their hands and bowing repeatedly at the whiteboard where I record their good and bad behaviors...

"What are you doing?", I probed.

"We are praying...", they answered.

 

See their crayon joysticks and Disney gods? O__o"

Their second movie in the theatre

It's Kung Fu Panda 3!

The girls love Kung Fu Panda when they watched its first movie on TV... 

At 2 years+, Phoebe would exclaimed "Kungfu Panda!" Whenever she passed by a bus-stop which put up the movie poster.

Both girls would also pretended to be kungfu masters, bowing and landing with a loud entrance when they were playing at home.

This term break, I decided to bring them to the movie theatre to catch Kung Fu Panda 3. Hahaha! 

See the "Kiddo Special"? It meant that I bought 1 adult ticket which was entitled to a child ticket at no extra cost. While Phoebe didn't require a ticket... So the three of us enjoyed the movie at $8.50.

I was worried that it may not be as good because Panda 2 was quite a flop (to me)... 

Turned out? Panda 3 was engaging and pretty hilarious. 

After the movie, we picked up some grocery from the Fairprice finest at basement before heading home. These girls were exhausted from this simple boon outing. Haha!

Thanks to my MIL for being here to keep baby Wahne accompanied at home so that I could bring the sisters out for some term break fun!

Shiggy-shiggy-shag-shag... Qi Qi Qi Qi Qi... Wahahaha ^^ dear and baby Wayne didn't get to watch it with us... Oops!!

两个小娃娃

正在打电话呀。。。

Thursday, Phoebe's playgroup (baby class) taught them physics. How sound travel by making toy phones.

So these two girls had great fun po-tin-wa-zhok*

Realized that both were talking and none was listening? That's how they communicate!