Volunteering works for the 2 boys

My 2 big As had been doing this kind of job since 2016... but for #3, this is his first... Normally hb will bring the kids for volunteering works during their school holidays... and this June holidays, Alvan join in the fun... I can't recall if he went last year... Anyways, these photos were taken by their daddy... so look at the fun they had... hahaha... Not sure why jiejie did not join this time... maybe she is busy with her school activities... Good job boys! :)

Khatib playgound

No matter how old my kids are, they still like playgrounds!!  Thanks to hb for taking amazing photos!!

As usual, we would normally do our grocery shopping after lunch on Sunday after our morning swim (partly due to #3 having swimming lessons at 11am on all Sundays)...  This playground had been revamped, not sure for how long... hahaha... this playground is the one situated at #1 & #2 childcare center at Khatib... but they can't remember much of it... so... left with OUR memories actually...

I wished the 3 of them can always find comfort and joy playing together... I do not know how long this will last... as they are always arguing with one another now... but I had always been telling them, they must love each other as they grow up together, as they are the ones left when we are not longer around...

 See what I mean by Teenager?!??!...  Always on her gadget... sigh...

Boys always remain as Boys... climbing... jumping... hopping... monkeying... hahahaha...

My piano loving sons

Baby #3 started learning piano around Oct last year... he was quite reluctant to go for the lessons as he is a super shy boy and always afriad to be in a new environment.  Lucky, the new teacher is a motherly figure and pretty soft spoke, so he enjoyed his first lesson and progress very quickly... I am very impressed with his love for playing piano now... as he would be the first to be on the piano the moment he wakes up... and throughout the day, practising pieces that were not taught to him yet.  He will play all the pieces in the book on his own!  Even his teacher was impressed, saying he's very fast and most of the pieces he would say he had learned on his own at home!  And with his enthusiastic in learning to play, it somehow affected his brother!!! So now, my house is always filled with piano tunes throughout the day!! And baby #2 is getting so much better at it too!!! So glad the boys can play very nice tunes on piano... fulfilled my wish of having children playing beautifully on the piano!!

The 2 boys were also performing in the piano school year end concert last year on 29 Dec!  Super proud since baby #3 only started learning from Oct! And baby #2 pieces was very smooth and impressive!! Keep up the good work sons!!  Mummy is super proud of you 2!!

Car washing by childcare

Not sure if am allowed to post this... cos it seems like child labour... Hahaha...

This activity was done on 26 Sept... but forgot to post it till today....

Anyways, the school approached me when I went to pick baby home... saying this activity is for the kids to lea4n about saving water... And I just have to state which day am free to allow kids to clean my Car!  So, here I am, at about 10am, am all ready to catch them in action!!

Thwchdten brought out a small pail of water and a rag in each children's hand...

And they started cleaning once their rag is wet!!  Super efficient workers here... hahaha... well most thought it's fun and they just enjoy cleaning the car... 

My new hobby - Terrarium

We have recently share a common hobby, I meant for me and my 3 children!!! Can't remember when was it that trigger this idea of Terrarium in my eldest son.... Ehm... I think it was during one shopping trip to the Millennium walk when I walked into a shop selling mini plants and he saw the Terrarium on display there... He started asking what are those and how to make it and me started telling him about workshops outside teaching to DIY one yourself... And immediately, he asked to attend one and I started high and low searching for weekend workshop which we can attend!  But weeks after weeks, the workshop schedule would clash on their weekend classes timing thus no chance for us to sign up for one.

And, happened to chance upon this small shop at PS, which put a sign saying Terrarium workshop here!!! My son started asking if we can do it on the spot!!! And here we go... A last minute workshop right after our dinner!!! Hahaha.  

And ta-da... Here's my 3 precious creations!!!

Impressed that my baby select all his figurines and plant and display on his own!!!

And this is Adwin's creation... Football pandas!!

And my girl's frozen theme... I like this very much.  As I love these snow scene.  

And, while we took great care to bring all these nice creations home... It was kind of disaster when we open them up the moment we reached home!!! The figurines had all gone crazy, flying all around the globe!!! And especially Adwin's globe, his pond was missing and all the colourful stones were mixed up!!! He was super upset and I promised to fix it back for him!!!

And here's my promise!!! After a long and difficult time trying to find these exact small stones and colour... 

And after learning the rope of putting up a Terrarium, I started buying all the materials on my own and doing them at home!!! My destress therapy which I super liked and enjoyed now... Seriously, I feel its the age that is catching up , thats why the change in hobby..  hahaha... Anyways, who cares! So long thr creator enjoys it and its a way to beautify my house!!!

Here's my first creation!!! Thinking to gift to hubby WL for him to bring and put on his desktop, but till today its still sitting at home... Hahaha... Self enjoyment!!!

And here's my creation today!!  Super like the pair of old couple... Cos the old lady is knitting something in her hands... Sooo like me!!! Hahaha....  How good it is to enjoy life when I get to that old....  More Terrarium to come... Cos I had lots of materials on hand!!! Hahaha.. 

Freeing SG

We happened to be at The Cathay for MilkCow ice cream and while walking around, WL spotted this Freeing SG on the 3rd floor and thought to give it a try... I had kind of heard of this enclosed room for solving puzzles but does not really know how it works!

So, at the last minute to went into the room theme of Russia... start of was pretty bad as all my children are timid mouse..  they got pretty loud music and the lights were dimmed so my kids were unaware of such games so they kept sticking to me without much help... After some explanation and asking them to help find keys to open the many small padlocks then they start to join in the fun...

Sorry, we took more time than what was allowed and needed clue to solve all puzzles and didn't managed to break free! Hahahaha... but good try and kids enjoyed!!

Subsequent, we decided to book a slot for Ninja room for another try in September... hahaha... this time the same.. no break free and exceeded time limit with clues needed!!

And in October, we went back again trying out a new room, Alice in wonderland!  This time was much better, we managed to open the door but exceeded the time by a little!! Hahaha... no photos taken as they have an event and this side of the wall was packed. Oh yes, we left my baby out this time as he's not able to join in the game...

Overall experience was good... some clues were easy some were not but guess its a good brain exercise for a family!!!

Woodlands waterfront poke hunting

We first went to the Woodlands Waterfront for poke hunting when we first heard that this place has lots of rare pokemons! That was about 2 months back already... and I was really surprised to see so many people there poke hunting!

My kids were busy playing at the big playground... Initially my baby was playing on the smaller one for toddlers... but later on, he requested to climb onto this super high structure ( sorry, I really do not know what to call this thing here! Hahaha... ) especially when he sees his korkor climbing up there! I was really worried as it was really high!! I kept asking him to hold on tightly to the ropes and didn't manage to take any shots only after he got up to the hanging bridge!

His korkor is really sweet to be always following him and taking care of him giving him instructions along the way... all the way down, asking him to follow his foot steps!

The first round of climb was successfully therefore, the 2 boys went on the second round!  But the second round was not so smooth because korkor went up and down faster then him, in the end, papa need to rescue him!!! What a scare!!!

My Ashley has recently took a liking to swings, therefore, its easy to spot her at the swing area whenever we go to playgrounds.

WL birthday celebration

This year, I decided to try my hands on a ' exploding box ' pressie to WL. And I had planned this for at least 3 months but always no time to put my hands on it till WL went to Vietnam for a business trip!  Excuse?? Hahaha... maybe? So I do not feel so bad?

Anyways, my hand made pressie took sooo much time that I had not anticipated... I had spent lots of time finding photos for the past 12 mths and then finding time to go develop them! And arranging them nicely was another chore!  And I must admit am really not good in designing!! Bad Bad Bad.... but still glad it turn out nice and beautiful in the end (according to my kids!)... Hahahaa...

Another pressie also took me some time to decide, LG 360 camera!!  But really glad I got it in in time!!!

Here's a sample shot of photo using the 360 cam!

This is the photo if we are viewing it as a photo not having the 360 view...

Here's a close up if we view using the app!!! Its really fun to see a 360 view taken by the cam!

The day was packed with kids activity as WL birthday falls on a Saturday!  My baby was having his last lesson at the chinese enrichment class, thus he needs to perform!  Very happy to see him enjoying his chinese lessons and having fun!  See my baby kangaroo!

After the classes, we decided to dine out at the Belly View restaurant at Changi!  After which, my kids asked for pokemon hunting again!!! This time decided to go to ECP to try our luck and along the way, spotted a new big playground at car park C!  And the kids had an awesome time climbing, sliding and swinging!!

Initial climbing up for the 2 boys, somehow, almost reaching the top, Adwin came down! 

And my baby got up realising his brother went down without him, he got scared and started crying... so Adwin gotta climb up again to pacify him and bring him down thru the slide!

After a few more climbing, baby got more confidence to get up and walk thru the bridge and down the enclosed curvy slide with his korkor.

Yes, this is our Birthday boy!!! Hahaha...

After the play, the kids realised they did not get to catch much pokemons and birthday boy wanted to explore other areas for pokemon hunting thus another hour was spend at another car park!!!

By the time we were home, the 2 kids had fallen asleep thus WL birthday song was sang by my baby! Hahaha...

My girl decided to join in the fun when daddy wanna cut the cake for his supper! 

His birthday treat will be the next day as I found a new cafe serving some fusion food with his new found quinoa as part of the main! Why next day? As the cafe closes at 6pm on weekend, thus we will not be able to be there in time to enjoy before they close due to the kids enrichment classes timing! 

Nevertheless, hope my hubby had a fun day celebrating his birthday and likes the pressies I had given much tthought and efforts with this time!! Cheers!!!

Changi airport Pokemom murals and Post WL birthday treat

This sunday, we started off going to Changi T3 just to find the Pokemon mural wall! WL dropped us in front of the departure hall, as he took the wrong turn but he did not tell me where the display were! He only asked me to bring the 2 kids to ' find ' the wall! So, I brought the kids to B2, thinking that was were most shoppers would head to! While we were still hunting for it, he sent me my baby taking shot in front of the Marina Barrage big poster!

Followed by these few photos to tell me he and my baby found the wall mural! But did not tell us the exact location! So, I brought the 2 kids to L2 departure hall and look for them! However, we found the Marina Barrage poster but not the Pokemon one!  So, once again we went to B2, me thinking if we missed out the other side of the level! But wrong again, my Adwin, not able to tolerate my search, called his dad to ask him for exact location!

Seems like my girl just started her selfie stick craze! She managed to bring along this stick whenever she's out this weekend!

The airport will be joining in the Pokemon craze, having Pokemon Xmas theme! As I saw a Xmas tree inside this 4 walls full of poke balls!!!! Ah ha!!! Shall wait for it to start and believe we will be back very soon!!!!

While along the way to our dinner place, WL decided to give ECP zone H another try as we were not able to spot this zone H last night, as mentioned by some Poke Fanatics, this zone H car park is the Omanyte nest! And true enough, this pokemon was in sighting the moment we turned in the service road! So after satisfying everyone in the car, we are finally able to set off to out dinner place!!!

Here we are... Ninja Bowl! A not very obvious place for a cafe... as the door was fixed with a black screen or cover due to the hot sun shining into the cafe.... and it's at the end or beginning of the row of shophouses of Duxton Road and there was no obvious big signage... but lucky I did enough of my research thus able to spot it the moment WL turned into the lane!

US after filling our stomach!! Oh, forgot to mention that we had an early dinner as this cafe closes pretty early on  weekend... 6pm!!! Thus our reservation was made for 5pm!

Ok, back to food!!! I must say, their food were really pretty when they were being served!!!  Sorry, am not able to remember that name of this main, as all were having Japanese names! But this comes with beef flank and lots of veg... while we ordered another main with beef cheeks and ehm, it was not as yummy as there were lots of sauce from the beef soaking the Ninja rice  ( we were required to add rice or green salad or quinoa, to all the mains, else you only be eating what you see here... )

This was what WL ordered and this is the yummiest of all!!! As my 3 kids kept asking for the garlic toast that is dipped with the cheesy cream saucr here!  And lucky for WL to have request for an addition of udon inside... and it was really yummy with all the seafood inside!

We ordered their Fancy French on the left here and a fries with cheese and beek cheeks! Everyone enjoyed the pretty french toast with with a hint of sweet and sour honey while we can't comment much on the fries... too soggy at the bottom due to the beef cheek sauce!!!

Another thing I like here was the Ume Ginger Mint drink I ordered!!! It was huge and really refreshing!!! Good choice!!! ;)

My 3 enjoyed their ice chocolate!!! 

As usual now, its always poke hunting when we are done with our meals!  And this time we decided to go to MBS to see if we have the luck for Lapras or any rare catch!

After parking our car at the public car park, we found a new playground in front of the pizza cafe... kids really enjoyed themselves here as its different from all other playgrounds they been to!!  Its just strings and black rubber belts for them to climb and move around!

See my super naughty baby at play here!!!

Another fun packed day with good food and poke hunting that left everyone super tired when we reached home at 930pm!