Category: Kids

No tickets this year, but that does not stop us from trying to catch the spirit of the festivities. Wifey had to work (yes on NDP day during NDP time *sigh*) so its all of us less mommy.

Knowing that the crowd will be just crazy, i parked at Tanjong Pagar MRT and we took the MRT to City Hall. We wanted to see fireworks (like many other Singaporeans). Walked all over Marina Square and realised that 7+pm was not considered early (fireworks usually happen at 8pm).

The time drew closer and we made do with a location that i think will get a decent view of the fireworks display.

8pm came and Cleo wanted to go to the loo… It was crowded. To navigate thru the crowd and back would just mean no more fireworks. I had no choice… i told her to hold. She say she can’t. I told her to hold.

*bom* *bom* the fireworks started and she got distracted. I carried her up to my shoulders risking the fact that i would get wet. Now i hoped the fireworks would quickly end.

It ended eventually and we quickly went back to City Hall to find a loo for her. What a night!

Happy Birthday Singapore. :)

My Clié is no longer a baby anymore. She is starting to talk like us (her parents), behave like us, want to go places we go, want to do what we do.

Of late i’ve been having verbal sparing with her. She have a way with her words as she is quite clever at worming her way thru an argument with her limited set of vocabulary. Its fun, but yet frustrating.

Her wardrobe is quite princess-sy as she always choose dresses. So for this time, I choose for her what to wear with much opposition from her as she feels the top is cow-boy-ish and not suitable for her. Wah lau, at 5 years old, i thought kids would just wear what their parents tell them.

There were alot of other photos that i took during that session, but only these were decent to show. There are some poses i’m like… huh? I wonder what she see from TV when we are at work.

This evening after a heavy dinner at Little Bali, we went to Henderson Waves for a stroll. The bridge stands 36 metres above Henderson Road and its the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. It connects the two hills of Mount Faber and Telok Blangah Hill.

The wooden deck makes me feel as if i’m on a ship. The round corners also allows people to sit, recline and relax. You can literally sit anywhere.

The kids definitely had fun too. They were climbing up and down the interesting structure. We wanted to take a group photo of them all hanging off the hand rail, but as some could not hold so long, we just could not catch the right moment. Some even let go when they could not hold any longer and fell on their butts.

Ok, at least we manage to get them all to sit down together.

The benches were also super cool as the gentle red light made it all so different.

Looks like a super cool place to hang out in the evenings. If you are a local and have not yet been there, you are defiantly missing out one of the best places in Singapore.

Its a Saturday and its family day! Today, we are off to the Zoo!

The girls have been to the Zoo countless times already these years, but kids being kids, its always fun.

This time I did up a work sheet for them to do at the zoo. The sheet had pictures of animals that I know will be at the Zoo and all they had to do was to write out the names of the animals.

We saw the white tiger! RAAAHHHH!!

Its super hard to take pictures of Cleo, cuz when we ask her to smile, she smiles, but she looks away. So finally I notice I got to tell her where to look. So “look at the black black thing on the camera” was it. From now on, I think I can get decent shots of her already.

Here is Cleo looking smashing!

We wanted to see the “Splash” show, but as we were late, it was not possible to see anything with the amount of people there on a Saturday. I could put one of them on my shoulder, but i simple can’t put 2. When one is up, the other is unhappy… so how? Go eat ice cream lor. problem solve.

Mommy bought the girls new swimming outfits and they are super cute.

Clié plays hard. I hope when she grows up, she will work hard too.

Here is Cleo filling up her cups with water, only to later throw them both up in the air. Lately she finds throwing things up fun. At home, she throws her stuff toys up.

It was a nice afternoon. Not too hot, not much whining, not much problems… everything went smoothly. The only thing that could have made things better was if mommy could have joined us. Too bad she had to work this Saturday.

Amidst my busy schedule, i took leave today to bring the kids out. I planned to bring them out during the June holidays, but just did not manage to. Today we went to the Singapore Science Centre, its time to see if the kids are interested in Science or not.

We came across some really cool devices and one of the cool ones was this spinning water thingy. Apparent the faster the the column of water spins, it will leave a large void in the center.

There were so many exhibits there. Everyone had some educational value which is cool, but its really difficult to explain science to 4 or 6 year olds.

This interactive board was very well done. It will grow plants, buildings and some other items. There is also a cat that will try to hide under what ever items you place on the top. The cat will basically keep finding shelters.

Then with the string, if you make a junction, Trains will start appearing. Then if you made an oval, the shape fills up with water and ducks start swimming in it.

Can you spot Daddy, Clié and Cleo?

Then after viewing almost all of the exhibits, its water play time and the kids had a blast.

Now, all showered and dressed, they both fell asleep in the car on the way home. What a wonderful day we had.