Ian, the dreamer??

We do know Ian dreams alot....hhmm by the cries and laughter he has when he sleeps and sometimes he even talks in his sleep abt some stuff that happened just before he fell asleep (the one we can rem most clearly was we went this orange orchard in Perth last yr and it was past his nap time so he slept quite immed when we got into the car and he could sleep for almost an hr and then shout "oranges!!") we were all quite stunned in the car.

And today, he woke up later than usual (coz he woke up in middle of nite asking mama to scratch his itch on his back argggghhh...) and when he woke up, he gave mama a puzzled look and then went on to ask "mama, why u don't wanna swim??" and then mama was like "huh??" and went to ask if he dreamt of us going swimming....hahaa and when he said "Yes"...mama went on to ask if we went with jie2 and gor2 and he replied "No, it was with daddy and mama" hhmm coz we just went on last Sat.....then he asked "mama, why ur head go down??" then mama thot maybe coz he saw mama went swimming then told him ur head needs to go down in order to swim.....hahaa then he was like "No, how come ur head dropped?" hhmm wonder what he dreamt abt and mama couldn't go on.....just wondering what dream he had....well mama had all the while been telling him how we all can dream but he dun quite understand the word dream....maybe what ever comes during his sleep, he thinks its live....sorry Ian, mama is not an interpreter for ur dreams....just wonder if 1 day, Ian shld say like Joseph the dreamer "I saw the sun and the moon bowing down to me" hhmm what does that mean?? hhahaaa just amazed at how active the brain of our little boy is when he's asleep and guess most kids can't quite express what they dream of when they wake up but Ian's slowly verbalising it!

Actually coming to think of it, maybe it has been in him since birth coz rem when he was barely few mths old, mama captured quite alot of shots of him smiling in his sleep and that time we wonder if babies do dream too hhhmm maybe he takes after mama who is always dreaming in her sleep =o

Cheers to Father's Day!

On this Father's day, we wanna celebrate the daddy in Ian's life. He's ever so patient in teaching and reprimanding Ian (not like mama hahaha) and his efforts in making back home is very much appreciated by mama coz Ian still dun understand why daddy MUST go to work altho mama's been telling him daddy gotta work for $$....just yest, Ian asked if daddy earns alot alot of $$$, does it mean he doesn't need to work?? hhmm just wanna tell Ian his daddy is NOT a lazy daddy so he shld be working all the time....not only for earthly work but also for heavenly tasks. His endless hardwork for both work and church has never ceased (and dun think it will ever cease) and so do hope this boy will grow up being like his daddy - a hardworking and never grumbling man who strives to give his best and all for God!

KE, on such a day we couldn't say more but thanks for being Ian's daddy and ever so patient towards the 2 'naughty kids' at home hahahaa (ya its both Ian and mama coz Ian will at times cajole mama to tickle daddy TOGETHER!!! And we enjoy this joining of 'FORCE' on his little 'fear' of itchiness hiak hiak!!!)

3 Cheers to the best daddy on earth!!!

Up Up away on the Spore Flyer AGAIN!!

We had another extra tic for dayi to the Spore Flyer and thot the best person to go up the flyer was Ian since kids were supp to fly free in the mth of Jun so had dayi bring the boy up again. Well he was most delighted to hear he was going to the Flyer again and this time its with dayi! Mama gave Ian instructions to be quiet to enjoy the day view (since Fri we had the sunset view) and dun give dayi headache (hehee) and NOT to ask for dayi's i-Touch since his main purpose was to enjoy the view.

Here we are capturing the view of them in the capsule....ya this time had dayi bring up the video cam since we forgot to bring it along yest....and Ian was happily waving BYE to us....anw later dayi told us the smaller boy in the pic later tried to 'befriend' Ian by talking lots to him but our 'dao' boy just avoided him and only talk when the boy's out of sight hahhaaa there is still boys who talk more than our Ian hehhee

Anw later dayi told us Ian was really obedient up the Flyer coz dayi offered the i-touch but he then returned dayi said mama said he can't play games up there hahhaa what an obedient boy. Anw the boy loved the flyer, even after he came down he was asking to go AGAIN!! Hey boy, the tic dun come cheap and u are the only one who took twice!! Anw thereafter we headed to meet the others of Chng Clan for father's day dinner! What a Spore Flyer adventure for this 3yo boy!

Family Day Out Part 2 - Ian's wish coming true.....

Ian has been most fascinated by Singapore flyer or shld we say, using Spore Flyer as the compass pt to where he is going coz he will go to all places and ask 'where is Spore flyer?' and we were almost deciding to sign up a credit card that allows 2 person to go Spore flyer for free since we won't pay for the ride that is almost $1/min....while we were still deciding then a surprise came up....rem we went for the hippo tours some wks back....ya, apparently mama felt it was badly organised (hhmm coming from a customer centric background) so made some 'feedback' abt having to stand under sun and not knowing where to go blah blah and the person i/c surprised mama by offering Spore flyers tics for 'compensating' hahaa and its not 2 tics...its 7 tickets!! Most delighted to hear that and it was couriered to our place =) cheers to the National Family council in their svc recovery huh hahaa.....
And so we had to choose a gd day to take the ride....here we are on a Fri evening (since daddy was off that day coz he worked overnite the day before) and we wanted to catch a sunset! Here we are waiting for our gondola and see how excited Ian looked....with his tickets!

And here he is with a pose of the background of some fest at the F1 pit and there were some 'sports car'! Well he's most excited to ride on the much talked abt Spore flyer! ya we kept mum abt it till we were done with dinner and even prior to dinner, Ian was asking abt going Spore flyer since we had dinner near there and when we passed by he was requesting for it....dream coming true huh wonder if he slept better that nite =p

And here are the 3 kids taking a pose before the sun is gonna set but how ill-prepared we were coz mama forgot to bring the video cam (left it in daddy's car) and the camera batt went flat as the spare was in the video cam's bag....gooonnzzzz anw relied on the hp camera then!

Yes, here's the final shot we took before the sun really set coz we experienced the contrast as it was still bright when we embark on the ride and when we went off from the gondola it was quite dark...did take a video on the hp will try to upload it....well verdict was it is definitely an experience but NOT WORTH paying so much for the rides.....guess its more touristy than ever like if we go London we will take London Eye but for Spore....think pinnacles at Duxton 50th sky garden is a gd choice....except it doesn't move but anw the kids were asking how come its not moving faster....guess they were too used to ferris wheel! And Seth commented it was a little too long...well well anw this dream coming true is FOC so can't complain much =) just so thankful we could have part 2 of the family day out, at least we did sth we won't wanna pay for eg the Hippo bus and Spore flyer...anw if anyone keen its almost flying for half price with some voucher from the National Family Council to encourage folks to go with their families to fly on the flyer!

Tis' the season to be jolly....

DURIANS!!! For a boy who truly loves durian, this season brings so much joy and cheer to him! Last wk when staying at po2's pl, he saw some durians at the supermarket and asked po2 if he could buy some and when returning home, ah gong fished out a $10 note for him to buy durians but we came at nite to stop po2 from buying for this boy....gd thing he din show any protest, we were just worried abt his indigestion anw so we din have any durians last wk and this wk mama was tempted to get them from a fruit stall near our pl and it was going for $5 each but the uncle managed to psycho mama in getting 4 so can get 1 free hahaa so we ended up getting 5 durians!!!

This boy was most patient in waiting for the uncle to open all the durians (even posed for a pic for mama to capture in front of the bountiful stall of durians hehee) and packed in boxes for us. In order to consume all of that, mama made him go home to cycle ard the estate while we kept the durians in fridge to savor and enjoy with daddy when he's back! Well this boy was quite obedient and kept to all mama's instructions and when he finally saw daddy that nite, he excitedly told daddy that mama got DURIANS!!! The whole nite he was waiting for daddy and we made a library trip and waited for daddy to finish his dinner before we could tuck into the 'dessert', must say this boy is quite patient in waiting for it! And he truly enjoyed every bit of the durians and guess this marks the start of our 'durian feasting'! Yummsss.....long durian season ahead =)

Its PARTY TIME!!!

It has been for some time since Ian attended a party and most that he attended was when he was really small so not much memories of it and when mama told him he was gonna attend a bday party with us, mama was abit skeptical if he understood and coz prior to the party we were going po2's place for dinner (its our usual family dinner time on Sat nite) and was abit worried he might not wanna lve with us after he's done with his dinner as he might be too engrossed playing with his cousins that he won't wanna go....

but so much of our worries, he was glad to be going off for a party and was in fact waving happily bye to his cousins saying he's going for HIS FRIEND's party (yea lately he's been v much into his friends and even when phone rings at home, he will say it's his friend calling him ya at such young age sigh) and he was in fact looking fwd to the party.....guess most of the kids there he din know and even for Javier whom he just met some wks back was busy at his own home and so he was contented just with this keyboard toy in front of him....he was 'playing' on it for the whole nite yea whatever melody he is playing he finds it NICE and was showing off his keyboard skills hahhaa

Even tho he had his dinner at po2's pl, he could still ask for more fun and more dessert when we were there, he had so much food and fun, we decided to take some pics at the pretty balloons which were floating ard the place.....as it was Amanda mei2's bday, it was no wonder there were loads of pink balloons.....and yes, the cake was pretty with the precious moments figurines and the chocolate cake must have been yummy coz Ian was asking endlessly for his cake! Best of all, he had his bday goodie bag and he was happily carrying the bag home on his own! Guess he shld be really looking fwd to PARTIES since he had so much fun!!!

World Cup moo-moo cows appear at our estate!

Today, Ian woke up real early not coz disturbed by anything but he was glad to see daddy.....and we were early waiting for ah baa to pick us for bf so we decided to walk over their pl and what surprised us was the whole 'team' of moo-moo cows on the green field just next to our blk....Ian's quite used to walking on the grass patch but not today coz it was quite wet so we walked along the road and here's Ian taking a pic with daddy with the cow team hehee....how appropriate as this marks the start of the World Cup fever and daddy's definitely 1 of those who will waking up at unearthly hrs to catch the matches!!! How time flies! 4 yrs ago, we were still without kids and daddy could wake up at comfort of our own bed room to watch the matches and 4 yrs later, he couldn't quite do that coz it might wake Ian up and wonder if another 4 yrs later, will this boy join his daddy in the soccer craze hahaa

well well just saw more loads of moo moo cows elsewhere and some were wearing painted jerseys of the different countries....saw some germany, argentina ard the town area...while ours is pure white and there is even a 'Cow Survellience' sign stuck in front of the team of 11 cows =) Check them out when u are travelling ard Singapore =p

Its been 2 yrs Ian went camping at po2's pl

2 yrs ago, we started 'sending' Ian to po2's place and the arrangment was for po2 to take MRT to our place to pick Ian after his nap while mama goes for tuition and later it was po2 coming back the following day sending Ian home with home cooked dinner for mama and daddy and somehow it became mama sending Ian up and then daddy fetching Ian on the following day....

it has been pleasant sending Ian to po2's pl coz it was a 'treat' for him to take train (guess kids these days take too much car rides they wanna take public tpt) and now Ian has been so used to walking to TB to take train and only getting a seat when we change train (tho sometimes pple do give up seat for Ian) and then walking to po2's pl (just glad dun need to push the pram coz it can be quite cumbersome....its nicer to walk holding hand with the boy!)

Just the picking Ian up from the north can be quite tormenting at times coz there are so many pple going that direction after work and it can be jam for an hr.....wonder how on earth pple staying at north travel to and fro for work EVERYDAY....its a waste of fuel and time! Anw each time we go thru the tortorous time going north on wkday, we are just thankful we are staying so near town and daddy's workplace.....so daddy can zoom home quite fast! Ya and we are always thinking how nice if po2 could shift down nearer to us

Another 6 mths, Ian would be going to sch and thus would not have this wkly 'camp' anymore but it will be some holiday camp (yea would put him there during sch hols so to give mama a breather too hehee) guess it means a whole lot to po2 than to anyone coz this boy brings so much joy and cheer to the home on every mid wk from all the calls we make each wk....the boy's NOISE, laughter, singing and maybe sometimes crying just makes the whole house more LIVELY...wonder if the boy knows what it means by starting sch and no more po2's house camping or maybe he will be so caught up with sch that he forgot abt his 'camping' days??

Just glad we made this a wkly affair since he was barely 15 mths coz it means some gd couple time we could share wo the boy (altho it still doesn't make it easier to sleep wo our boy ard!) and mama could take time off to clean the house, run errands or even take up some assignments....maybe we started this whole 'affair' when he was relatively young and so it was instilled in him that coz mama has 'work' to do and thus he's at po2's pl and he enjoys it every wk when he's there tho there have been seasons when he din wanna go or even when he din wanna come home coz there was so much fun but he's adaptable and most obliging when we make the call....it makes things easier when we drop him off there and pick him up.....he started crawling when he 1st stayed over, made some few steps and today he's a toddler who's always so active and running ard the house and even at the playground....he has made some gd friends (which include some aunties) and this is a part we wanna note so that he grows up knowing he had some fond memories at po2's pl and definitely v warm time with his po2 and gong2!

Guess po2 would wish he could stay there even when sch starts but gonna be tough as he might be skipping sch for BSF so can't afford to skip another day else he might be 'kicked' out of sch at such young age hhaaa....and also wanna make sch a daily affair for this boy starting out his sch days....we could work out some other plans....got 6 more mths to think abt it! As at now, its still going po2's place on Wednesday!

Ian's 39 mths old

Yet another has passed and this mth Ian's started napping in the living room and he loves sleeping there since its a diff env from the room and he seems to be happy to know he's old enough to be off diapers coz he knows only babies wear diapers but well for the nite, he is saying mama is not waking up to bring him to toilet...well that one we can wait a while more since he's now happily on his sheep bed....and here is a pic of him his usual 'exercise' with his milk bottle cap before nap, he will clip it with the toes and then bring it up and then with his other leg's toes meeting it and then balancing the cover....wonder how he came up with this 'stunt' but well its just telling us that his abs is so gd in keeping his legs up while he drinks his milk =) what an 'exercise' hahaa

This mth, Ian has been most excited abt Sun Sch esp this new song he has learnt from Sun Sch, its 'Every move I make in you' where the actions taught is somewhat quite hip hehehee and he will always dance back at home and then ask mama how to sing...hhmm well we dun attend Sun Sch with him so dun quite know the actions but he is happy when he can dance with Seth and Joy....and here's a pic of him posing to get ready to sing the song at Sun Sch and ah mu was so nice in capturing the pic from me....guess he's looks quite 'cool' with that pose as mama's friend who is teaching this song at Sun Sch told me Ian looked quite cool with that pose hahaaa....yaya next time his sch will have an enrichment class for hip hop dance and at 1st was thinking if he will adapt well but lately seeing how he's dancing to the music makes us think maybe he will love that class hahaa....lately on tv there is an advert with the song 'I wanna nobody nobody BUT u' and this makes him real happy to hear the song and will sing and dance with the song hahaa

Another thing he had his 1st stint at Sun Sch was collecting offering....for some time he has been envying the older kids being able to hold the offering bags, yes back at home he even 'pretend' holding an offering bag and asking mama and daddy to put our offering into the bag (that's the extent he was envious of others being able to do the task) and last Sun ah mu told us that Ian was being 'volunteered' by a teacher who noted he hasn't been at it before and guess that brings much cheer to the boy as he stood up with much gusto to do the task till he forgot to put his own offering into the bag and was even shy to approach 'new friends' who were there that wk as he only went to familiar faces hahaa..well his 1st try at it and will see more of him at it I guess =)

This week, he surprised mama when he wrote a letter C asking if this is the letter C....slowly he's learning how to write the letters and now he's so curious to know whose name starts with what letter so he will always be asking whose name starts with W, C, D.....and when he knows dog starts with D, he will exclaim to daddy, hey dog shares the same letter as u, daddy.....hhmm its interesting to see how he's learning his letters esp he will tell us that he's G coz he is a GOOD boy....hahaa then we will tell him he is N coz he is a NAUGHTY boy or he is L coz he's LAZY coz sometimes he doesn't wanna walk....guess this makes his learning of alphabet coming ALIVE since he uses these words in his daily life! We even teased Ian saying his name stands for I Am Naughty heheee

Sun Sch started this scheme of 'encouraging' the kids to come to Sun Sch early and since daddy has 'duty' on certain wks so we have been early on some occasions when Ian's awake early and we could make it out of our home early....so the scheme has just started some wks and Ian has gotten the GOLDEN sash for 2 times already...this wk managed to capture a shot with his sash and he even posed for mama to capture this photo hahaa quite girly and he doesn't quite like it coz its always getting off his shoulders (guess its too BIG) well guess we dun have quite a choice to be early hehee but he's happy to be there and having NO sun sch makes him real upset sigh...dunno how to 'console' him on that part gotta find stuff for him to do on such wks

we visited the pinnacles the last Sun as our friends are finally getting their reno done and soon we will be visiting their housewarming and Auntie Amanda was nice to even invite us to visit them during NDP coz their 39th storey unit shld be able to view the fireworks....yes, Ian's keen for the fireworks but not too close I guess...for the time being he's happy with their new playground and he's been exploring so much at their place's playground and heard the 26th storey sky bridge has playground as well and Ian's waiting to go that playground when they bring their access card.....nice place with cool 50th storey sky garden....gd to have friends staying there so we could drop by anytime since its quite near our place =)

Now this boy sure knows where he is going and when we drive into our place and he will be so sad asking why we have to go home as he wanna go out and play....sigh what an un-homely boy hehee anw he's now so excited to go HOTEL and last wk he even asked dayi when we are going HOTEL and he wants HOTEL....Ian, ur daddy dun earn so much to go hotel every other day hehee well some trips coming up so wait patiently =p

This mth, Ian had his 1st visit to the art museum...tho he had went to 1 before, he was still too young to appreciate and this time he was really game to try the stuff with his cousins and most imptly, we were glad he was able to let go of mama and daddy when he was off to the museum, guess the last time we had such separate moments was the last NDP which was almost 1 yr ago, just glad he's not getting back his separation anxieties but he's really comfy with ah mu and family so we are glad we could find pple to babysit Ian if there is a need to =)

Happy 39 mths old, my boy!

Visit to the SAM @ 8Q

Read on some friend's blog abt the Singapore Arts Museum(SAM) at 8Q and for this period its FOC for kids under 6 yo and ah mu was asking if wanna go on such gloomy Sat morning since it seems rather downcast for the am so the kids tag along with ah mu and ah baa for the museum visit while mama and daddy went for GSS (Gone Serious Shopping!!!! hehee) and it was quite gd that Ian was most willing to part with us and he had a gd time with the gor2 and jie2 exploring the new place....there seems quite alot of art stuff for kids to hands on and there was so much to explore they could stay longer if not for the lunch and their needed naps....here are the kids ready to zoom thru every corner of the museum!!!

And here was a nice room where there were pretty flower petals seemingly 'raining' on them while they sat there to enjoy the 'art'!!! It was almost like high tech visual art =)

And there were some stops for the kids to do some coloring of the butterflies and here is Ian who looked like he was in some serious art work hahaa maybe another Leonardo Da Vinci in making hehehe anw heard he was only keen to color 1 wing of the butterfly and asked him why, he just answered 'Ya!' as if it was common for butterflies to have colours on 1 wing only hahaaa

And here are they exploring some artefacts and posing for some shots....there was an interesting room where the cast of each person's shadow on the wall was showing growth of a plant and the pics couldn't be taken better since no flash was allowed in the room....looking at how much the kids had to say abt the visit they had, guess they had a real gd time exploring the art museum! Maybe they could do more museums with children activities and we could go for more visits....anw it was a gd time off from the usual stuff and doing some arty stuff =) and of coz for mama and daddy, it was nice to have some couple time doing some stuff which we used to do when we din have Ian yet =p thanks ah mu and ah baa =) we could take turns =p

Kids just love going to the ZOO!!!

When we were kids, we also loved going to the zoo and it was our daddy who got his friend to get his coy's corporate pass and now its Ian's daddy doing it hehee and we have been enjoying this corporate pass thingy quite well =) this June hols it was Seth's request to go zoo coz he knows kaka can get his corporate pass so he 'booked' him before the hols started and here we are on a Tue going to the zoo!!!

While in the car we did ask the kids which animals they wanted to see and Seth requested to feed kangaroo, Joy requested to feed giraffe and Ian requested for elephant (altho he initially wanted to feed the lions hahaa) and here is Ian feeding the giraffe and this time the kids were bolder they really went forth to feed the giraffes unlike the last time when we came to feed themAnd here is the plate of carrots for the giraffes.....the kids were so excited to embark on the feeding trail =)

Next we walked a whole loop to the Australian outback to feed the kangaroos....and here we are sitting on the bench to feed the roos but the kids looked so engrossed feeding the roos =p and Ian was hogging onto the cup of pellets and the roos crowded ard him and he got quite frightened hahaa so much abt going to Australia heheee

Next we went to the elephants show and after the show, we went for the elephant feeding and the kids chickened out this time coz they were afraid the elephants would bite them...hhhm wonder how come they have such a thot just coz the elephants are so much bigger?? but their trunks were there to get the food for them to gobble up and not their teeth!!!

At the end of the feeding, the drizzle came on and we were glad it only came at this time coz we could have our lunch at the shelter at the elephant area and here we see feeding of the kids hehheee....they were happy with the chic rice which we got and we were glad we decided to dabao in else with the rain it was hard to travel any further to get the lunch and after the lunch, the drizzle ended and it was just nice for us to explore the zoo and for the 2 younger ones to nap and this time we went to the fragile forest (which we liked the last time we came which was 2 mths ago) and we still liked the upclose encounter with the animals....guess this is the fav part of the zoo trip we were on!!!! Highly recommended for any parents wanting to bring their kids to the zoo!!!

It rained a little while more and we then dashed for the Splash Safari show and tho the place was wet, we enjoyed the show and the kids were in the front row, really near to the splash zone (where u will get wet!)

After the show, the sun surprisingly came to visit the zoo and we were glad that the weather gotten better coz the other plan was for us to visit the kidz rainforest and then we went ahead with the water play

The kids just loved the short time of water play they had, they were running ard the water play and finally washed up for some more walking ard of the zoo before we go off for dinner

And we went to Peramakan at Keppel Club for dinner and it was yummy nonya food for dinner and to end off the nice zoo visit and dinner with the Durian Penggat which was super yummy hheee.....it was a nice day out with the kids and feeding the animals, today we almost walked the whole zoo seeing almost every animal exhibit.....guess we could come back again esp for the fragile forest =)