yr playing with the screws

yr loves screws, or anything that turns. like pinwheel, steering wheels, bottle caps, lotion caps. He really wants to explore how it works which makes him look so cute. LOL

Singapore Teochew Festival 2014

I am a Teochew and I don't really know the Teochew customs that well although those that I saw in the festival do ring a bell especially the wedding customs cos I followed it quite closely. haa... Watching the Teochew Opera brings back some nostalgic moments as I remembered grandma loves listening to them too.
I think I am more fluent in Cantonese than Teochew thanks to TVB drama serials when I was watching them at my maternal grandma's house during my growing up years.

I really hope yx could pick up some phrases if not all, but then again, she is a Hokkien muahhaa.... Anyhow, knowing some dialects would be good else we really become a jiak gang dang society. I wonder what dialect group will yx's future husband be? hmm....

Octoburst 2014 @ Esplanade

After lunching at Poulet (Raffles City Shopping Centre),

 

we head to Esplanande for an "Octo-good-time"!

Shadow Tales - Performance by Pat Schoolhouse (Jubilee Park)

Book making workshop - by Boedi Widjaj.

Does the first picture looks like snowflake to you? Anyway, that's my creation =)

The 2nd one with palms ...well it's pretty obvious who's the creator. hee...

yeay! I got my palms printed on my book!

at courtyard green - aMaze Me!

It was quite hot so yx just stood beside me and watch other children in the maze.

Goodbye Octoburst2014 !

Does it look like bones to you? According to her, they are like dog bones.
But to me they look more like weights. LOL.

Middle finger

yx: here.. pain pain

(Then she points her middle figure to me)

me: (compose myself from laughing out loud), ok show mummy which point on the figure? I apply ointment for you.

yx: points her middle figure even nearer to me ...and starts to whine ..here here here...

me: .....

Hello Snail!

from her art class (trial lesson)

Seeing the real stuff in action!

Getting ready to climb the wall

So after her trial art class, I took her to observe the snail in greater detail. Not that she hasn't seen snail before but I thought it would be interesting to see how she react and observe snails after her class. She was looking at the snail so intently that she doesn't want to go until daddy came over. How I wish yr was also with us when we saw the snail.

Fire Station Visit @ Bishan Fire Station Open House

Thanks to a mummy - Amanda who took the initiative to organise a trip for the toddlers at the Bishan Fire Station Open House 2 weeks ago. It was quite an eye-opener not only for the kids but also for the adults as most of us never been to a fire station before.

At the end of the whole tour, it ended with a demonstration on how the fire fighters respond when the siren sound to alert all.

Making Play Dough

This is really long long overdue as we should have done this few months ago but ........ok so now we managed to make the coloured play dough that is safe for kids. (at last !)

Guess we put too much water and didn't put any glycerin to give it a better texture. Anyhow, yx had fun and so did daddy and mummy.....Yes we had "fun"cleaning up the mess. =}

Word of the Day 6: Toilet Seat

Toilet Seat = 马桶座圈

I always just use 马桶 but if we would like to be more specific then probably 马桶座圈 is a better usage, cos daddy got this all-in-one toilet seat for adults and toddler for quite a while and the other day I was speaking to yx in mandarin and suddenly my mind just went blank when I wanted to ask her to put down the toliet seat quickly as she was fussing around trying to hold her pee.  In the end I just use the word 马桶 -

赶快坐上马桶.  ha.... some workaround when I try to advocate speaking using proper English and Mandarin and not mix them in a sentence. More for me to learn ...... >.<  

Hello Mr Spider!

Hi are you scared of me?

This photo looks quite faint as it was taken against a white background and that the spider's legs are really fine - almost a camouflage if not for the body. I quickly took the opportunity to show the real spider and the web to yx and get her to count the number of legs. Instead of getting excited, she curled up and refused to see it. I don't know why she felt so afraid all of the sudden and thus I took a photo of it to show her. I think this is also partly my fault as I shrieked when I saw a really black spider at the corner of her cupboard in her few months ago. Although I regained my composure quickly, I bet it must have some impact on her that spiders are some scary creeping crawlies.lol. Haha..so much of singing the Insy Wincy Spider Song and now she is afraid of spiders. I will try to involve her again if I were to see spiders again in da house but probably get her little bro on board first. Maybe that would do the trick.

On a side note, why are there spiders in the house??!!! @_@

Lantern Festival

Materials:

1. Toilet rolls
2. Scissors
3. White glue
4. Coloured paper
5. Ribbon

Yes, it' time for art and craft for mummy and yx so that yx can bring the lantern to school as part of the lantern festival celebrations. However, we have to use recycled materials and I didn't want to do the usual lanterns using recycled paper. Then I remembered that I had kept quite a number of toilet paper rolls last time as I knew that it will come in handy someday for art and craft. And so I came across this DIY toilet paper roll wall art while searching online for some ideas. Thus, I improvised the idea and make it stacked to a height of 6 (or 2 sets of 3 "leaves") and we used a total of 72 "leaves" from 18 toilet rolls.

Since yx love blue so much, she gets her blue flowers and orange seems to be the best contrast since we don't have enough pink or red coloured paper. So I did the structure setting while yx had fun pasting the flowers. There was actually a ribbon attached to the lantern but this photo was taken before the attachment and it came off when yx brought back from childcare. hee...

Well, it didn't came out as pretty as I imagined it to me, but still we had a great time, though it was pretty time consuming with the flower craft punch and all the pasting!

Word of the Day 5

Screw Driver (tool) =  螺丝刀 (NOT refering to the screw driver drink -cocktail made from Vodka & Orange Juice. heh.)

Lying sideways

In her cheeky mood =)