Kids & Crafts

It's the beginning of the school holidays. No more exams stress for at least a couple of months, yippee!!!
Emily has also stopped attending art tuition class starting this week as her teacher has decided to retire. In order to keep both kids busy this morning,  I got them to work on some crafts. I googled and found some interesting craft ideas. It was a fun 2 hours activity and not forgetting the mess to clean up after that.

 

 

Jared with his Paper Plate Christmas Elf and Christmas Stocking,

Emily with her Paper Plate Reindeer and Christmas Stocking.

 

Fun With Legos 2

2 of the latest lego sets recently completed by Emily.

 

The Beginning of Our Four-Eyed Girl

My biggest fear has finally haunted me. Emily has been complaining about not being able to see word written on her classroom white board when seated far. This was some time in June this year. Initially we took her complaints lightly as we thought she made up the story in order to wear specs like most of her schoolmates. According to her, wearing specs makes her look pretty.. YIKES!!!
4 months ago hubby brought her to an optical shop to check out her power. The right side was good, but left side has a power of ~100. We hesitated and decided to onhold making spec for her, hoping that it will not get worse. Then last week we decided to bring her to another optical shop as she kept saying she was having problem to copy notes from the whiteboard. This time her left eye power shot up to 150 but the right eye is still good. Thankfully she only has mild astigmatism and no need to be corrected. Hubby chose the Myopia Control lens for her left side lens and we paid a bomb for her spectacles. Hopefully she will take good care of it and crossing fingers that her power will maintain.

 

Upon seeing jie jie's spectacles, Jared wanted to wear too, so daddy made him one too. How cool...

Langkawi Family Trip - Day 4 (16/10/12)

Today is the last day of our trip. We do not have anymore visiting plans. Hubby woke up at 7+am and went out for a early morning stroll, while we were still snoozing in our cozy beds. Weather was sunny.

 

By 8+, we were ready to go down for our buffet breakfast. The buffet spread was quite good, there is a salad counter, various types of breads, juice counter, local and western food. It was very relaxing to enjoy our breakfast with a good seaview.

 

After breakfast, we went back to our room and the kids changed into their swimming suits. They had a good splash in the pool, while I took a nap on the deck chair.

 

We checked out from the hotel and drove to the duty free shop at Kuah to grab some chocolates and a bottle of baileys. Then we found a shop which served noodles and we had lunch over there. After lunch, hubby found out that one of the car tyres is flat.. Oops. Luckily we found a car workshop nearby and paid RM5 to mend the punctured tyre.

 

Bye Bye Langkawi.. We hope to be back again...

 

Langkawi Family Trip - Day 3 (15/10/12)

We had planned to spend the whole morning at the beach, however, we woke up to a rainy weather. So we had to change plan. After taking our breakfast, we went to check-out from this resort. I have booked 2 different accomodations as we wanted the kids to experience both beach environment as well as hotel facilities. The hotels with facilites by the beach were a little too pricey.

We left our luggage at the resort lounge and drove to Langkawi Underwater World. Good thing we had plan to visit this place of attraction today and the rain doesn't seem to bother us at all. We waited for a few minutes before the door was opened at 10am. Ticket price was RM28 for adults and RM18 for kids.

 

As we entered the Aquarium, there are some flamingos and birds at the tropical forest area.

There are various types of sharks, stingrays, jellyfish, eels and other types of fishes.

 

 

 

The main attraction for the kids is the Penguins World. There are 2 types of penguin species at 2 different section, Rockhopper and African penguins. We waited awhile to watch the penguins being fed with small fish.

 

 

By 12+pm, we were out from there. I would give this place a miss if I were to visit Langkawi again. We went around to hunt for lunch and ended up in The Boat restaurant. Ordered 3 dishes and all three turned out to be disappointing.

 

Seemed like every dish was cooked with roughly cut cabbages.

 

 

After lunch, Emily insisted she wanted to visit the Mahsuri Mausoluem. She has heard about the ill-fated Mahsuri legend from her teacher. Hubby and Jared waited outside while I went in with her. Ticket price is RM5 for adults, RM2 for Emily. In Mahsuri Complex, we saw the traditional Malay houses where Mahsuri and her family lived before and some others. There were also many posters with pictures and stories about the Mahsuri legends in the Mahsuri Musuem.

 

 

After that, we went to get our luggage and headed to our next hotel, Awana Porto Malai. It is located in a secluded corner of Pantai Cenang and does not have a beach front. However it has a long boardwalk over seeing the sea. Very nice scenery at night. I booked through Agoda and paid RM192 with breakfast for four. We also requested for 2 single beds and suprisingly the beds turned out to be big. Room size is good, the toilet and bathroom is separated. It also has a balcony with garden and swimming pool view.

 

 

We took some afternoon snacks, enjoyed watching tv and rest awhile before we went down for a swim in the pool.

 

 

 

For dinner we went to Cactus which was recommended by my colleague and many others online. It has a variety of asian and western dishes. We ordered fish n chips and grilled chicken. Taste were good, portions were big and price was very reasonable. The owner is a friendly guy from Penang.

 

Back to hotel

 

 

Stroll on the boardwalk