Emily's 11th Birthday

Time flies..Emily turned 11 last Friday. She had been requesting for a birthday party since 2 years ago but each time I had turned down her request. This year I decided to hold a simple party for her but she was only allowed to invite 2 of her closest friends (mummy is too lazy to clean up after that). I have also invited 2 of my ex schoolmates and their kids for a yearly gathering.
Baked a cheesecake for her birthday cake,prepared cheese tarts, satay, spaghetti, laksa, jelly, fruit salad, red eggs and also muffin as party pack.
After the party, she told me that it is her best birthday so far :)

 

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Our Growing Up BABY !!

Updates of Past Months Activites

Updates of some events in the past few weeks.

Jared's kindy organised a farewell potluck party for those kids who will be leaving for Primary One. I made some cheese tarts and sausage puffs for him to share with his teachers and friends.

Cheese tarts 

Sausage Puffs

Awards for the kids

Jared's Craft Works when he is home alone with me cooking in the kitchen :)

Jared's Little Scribble

Jared was very excited to show me the gift that he has gotten from his classmate's birthday celebration in kindy when I picked him up on one of the evenings. It was a writing board with a pen and some chalks. He was busy scribbling while I was driving and this was what he showed to me. He has certainly made my day :)

Learning Taekwando

Awhile ago, Jared has hinted us that he wants to join taekwando classes after seeing his cousin brother demonstrating his TKD movements to us. We were doubtful as he has just turned 5, even though his cousin also started about this age. We found a centre operated by the same instructor as his cousin's but at different location. Kids as young as 4 are accepted as long as they have good attention span.

Last Saturday was his first class and he was surely excited about it. After class, he came home feeling really happy and showed us his movements and refuse to remove his TKD uniform :)



 

Talent Week K1 - Chinese StoryTelling, Rabbit & Turtle Story

Every year, on the month of July, Jared's kindy will organise a Talent Week Event for all the kids. This year his class students are required to compete in Chinese Story Telling.
A replay of him performing the story telling in school. Unfortunately I was not able to rotate the video.



Last Friday, Jared came home with 3 prizes which he had won in the Talent Week Events.

1st Prize for Chinese Story Telling

1st Prize for Coloring Competition

2nd Prize for Writing Competition

Good Job and Well Done, Jared.


Talent Week 2013
Talent Week 2012

Jared's 5th Birthday

Tomorrow, Jared will be turning 5. We had an earlier celebration for him today at home within ourselves.
He has changed his mind 3 times about the type of cake he wanted and finally settled for a minion cake. I found some minions cake topper made of sugar when I was getting the ingredients for his cake from the baking ingredients shop. 
This year I decided to make him banana chocolate cupcakes, top with cream cheese frosting, added with edible yellow color.

Jie Jie gave him a little present of minion made using the pyssla beads

Jared Plays the Piano

Jared has started learning piano since January this year. His has the same piano teacher as Emily.
Some of the songs that he played during his practice sessions.



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Emily - School Choral Speaking Competition 2014

This is the 2nd year Emily has joined her school Choral Speaking team. Last week I took half day off to go to her school to watch the competition among other schools. Her school took the 3rd position, out of 4 schools which competed.

Emily - Ne Tirez Pas Sur Le Pianiste

Dream Car ??

I have no idea how Jared has managed to pester daddy to draw this car . Is this daddy's or Jared's dream car ?

Jared : Arts & Crafts

Jared drew this girl whom he refers to as one of his classmates

Lego house with a piano and a boat made of his magic pens.
According to him the owner of this house is too poor to own a car,
so they had to travel by boat :) 

Requested daddy to make him a plane which flies to US. 

The following day, he managed to convince daddy to make him an even bigger plane.
Definitely a satisfied smile....

Jared's Love Notes

This morning while I was preparing breakfast in the kitchen, Jared found his writing pad in the toy box . He has asked me for help with the spellings and later on, this was what he showed to me. 
Love you too baby....

Jared's Kindergarten Concert 2013

This is a belated post of Jared's kindy concert held 3 weeks ago. 

Receiving trophies for Story Telling / Writing / IQ Competition 

Emily - Grade 3, 2013

Emily will be sitting for her grade 3 pratical exam in the next 2 weeks. Hopefully she will fair well in the exam.

Talent Week - N2

Same as last year, it was talent week in Jared's kindy last week. As shared in previous post, he participated in the story telling contest. His teacher was very nice to help us record a video during his session.



When we went to pick him up yesterday, we were surprised that he had won 3 prizes in the talent week contests. 1st prize for story telling, 2nd prize for writing and 2nd prize for IQ test. You were definately happy with so many toys to play with. Good job my boy...

Talent Week - N1

StoryTelling (N2) - The Ant And The Grasshopper

This playful boy is rehersing for his kindy story telling competition to be held next week.

Father and Son - Arts and Crafts

Lately, Jared kept pestering daddy to do arts and crafts with him. Few days ago, he asked daddy to make him a castle, so daddy had to look for some ideas on the Internet and found a site which gave details on how to build a castle using cardboard. Jared helped with the coloring while daddy did the drawing, cutting and gluing. After that, he even wanted some figurines where he created stories of a King and Queen living in the castle.

 

 

This month onwards, Jared officially attends full daycare as his babysitter is unable to babysit him anymore due to unforeseen reason. So far he is adapting well, but I now have some cooking to do after work to prepare extra food for his dinner.

Emily's Grade 3 Ballet Exam

Yesterday, Emily had her grade 3 ballet exam. It was in the morning, so I took time-off from office to fetch her from school to the ballet centre. I also engaged the centre to tie her bun, as I can't tie as neatly as them. This year the exam lasted for almost 1 hour, unfortunately parents are not allowed to even peep into the exam hall :)

 

Emily and her teammates before the exam

 

 

 

 

Kids & Their Scribbles

By Emily

By Jared

Emily - Primary 4

Emily is in primary 4 this year where she will be in the morning session. She has been really excited about the 1st day of school, not so much of starting school but eagerly wanting to use her trolley school bag..
With only a single car in our household, we have to let her commute to school by the school van which comes at around 640am. It has been a week since school started and we are still on time to catch the van, crossing fingers my alarm clock does not fail to function every morning.
With this arrangement, it is less hectic for us as we only need to send Jared to his kindy before heading to work.