Happy Birthday Daddy !

Today is daddy's birthday and our little girl drew a card for him.

On the right hand side, she explained she drew her daddy's handphone. :D

The kids had seen photos of their cousins been to Esplanade & Merlion Park and bugged us to bring them there. So we made a promise to go on his birthday.

It's our first time too ! :P

In the evening, we went to IL Piccolo Pizza at Toa Payoh for dinner.

We were too full that we went to Toa Payoh central for a walk, before heading home to cut the birthday cake.

This cake was chosen by me and our little girl. It's one of daddy's favourite, coffee cake!

The kids had eaten too much for the day that they agreed when I told them there's no bedtime milk feed. Hehe.

Happy birthday daddy ! Hope you have enjoyed the day :)

Transformers 2 - The Revenge Of The Fallen

Today is a school holiday (Youth Day) and the kids woke up at their usual time - 7am !

YAWN ~

In the early morning, my dad called me and told me he wanted to bring my daughter to watch Transformers 2.

After some discussion, I was invited to join them for the 10.20am show because my mum was not interested and would not understand English movie.

So I left my boy with my MIL and joined my dad, my nephew and my niece, while mum went to market. He is such a good boy by not insisting he wants to tag along :)

We reached the cinema around 9.45am and there was a queue forming at the ticket counter which would open at 10am.

We only managed to get the tickets at 10.20am, but fortunately the movie commenced at around 10.30am

Both the 2 little girls were afraid initially as the sound effects were too loud. Both my dad and me had to help cover their ears. Gradually, they were used to it.

The movie is awesome !! Exciting !! I like the transforming effects ! Amazing !

I am so thankful to my generous dad, who treated all of us to the movie. He is such a great man.

It lasted about 147 mins and true enough, my girl did not really understand the movie and kept on asking me when it would end.

But it was her second movie experience though, second time only, will you believe it? Haha ... :P

We always rent VCD/DVD and watch at home. Cheaper mah :D Now, I am hunting for Part 1 as I have not watch yet.

In the evening, back home after work, I wanted to share how exciting the movie was with hubby and told him the story, and he asked me, "Eh, who is Optimus Prime?? What is Autobots??"

"You don't tell me you don't watch cartoon transformer when you were young ??!!", I asked.

"Oh ... I watch smurf, care bears"

Oh well.

Term 3 Spelling List

Here we go again !!

In fact, on the 3rd day in school, my daughter has spelling based on the Term 2 list.

It was because English spelling is always on every Wednesday and during the last week of Term 2, the spelling was not given as usual as the school for Term 2 ended on Tuesday. So they pushed the last list to 1st week of Term 3. *roll eyes*

On tuesday (30/6), when my daughter told me she had spelling to be tested the next day (1/7), I told her it's impossible because the NEW list was given out on tuesday only. But she insisted her English teacher had reminded them to learn.

So I paused and thought for a moment and remembered the children were not tested on the last list for Term 2. So I chose only 5 words which I think should be easy for her to learn and she got them all correct.

I think the rest of the words are ridiculous for a K2 child !

Don't you think so ... or is it just me ?

Anyway, for this Term 3, I shall remain the same, not to force/stress her to learn all the words.

Draw & Tell #10

On 25 June, my daughter drew about our trip to Night Safari.

No, we did not see lion or snake that day. Hehe. She is just confused between Singapore Zoo and Night Safari.

She explained her drawing to me:

1. There are 7 people altogether (the four of us, MIL, Mag & J)

2. At the centre is the stage of the night show.

3. At the left hand side is the entrance to Night Safari.

4. On the top, there is moon & stars because we go at night.

She said she will colour another day because her hands are tired after drawing. Haha .... but I just can't wait to show her masterpiece and hence, snap a shot of it :)

On The 1st Day Of Term 3

When my daughter attended nursery in Year 2007 and my niece in Year 2008, there was no Chinese subject in the school.

In the first half of this year, neither too.

Today was the first day of Term 3 and my son's teacher gave me a newsletter, informing us that the children will be learning Chinese starting from Term 3.

I kinda like this new arrangement because my son will have 3 years (instead of 2 years) to learn/practise/brush up his Mandarin.

I gather some informations from a nursery mummy that she had wanted to transfer her daughter to the other centre (remember I mention the "high-class" centre just a few blocks away?) because there is Chinese subject included in the nursery syllabus.

Currently, she is under KiFAS for the school fee but over at that centre, it's not applicable yet, at this moment.

Then she complained that why our centre does not have Chinese subject, after all, we are also paying school fees and we were just a few blocks away and is all under the same management.

This mummy claimed that because of her complaint, the Management decided to change our centre syllabus.

Hmm....

Anyway, I look forward to hear my son speaking Mandarin in a full sentence as for now, when anyone talks to him in Mandarin, he could not understand a single bit.

Lazy Boy

It has been a month plus that my son has not touched ALL his toys.

When I realise he is not playing as usual, I ask him.

He told me, "you want me to keep toys, so I don't want to take out play, then I no need to keep"

Aiyo ... so lazy !