Singing in the car

It's getting noisier and noisier in our household... :P

Little pink riding hood

Chinese Garden

Papa So went to Chinese Garden for his company run. We are going to cheer for him!

Little monkeys making faces on the MRT...

Papa ran past us at the entrance! Xuan followed him for 20m and asked, "Why is he running away?" Too bad papa is in a race so we strolled along the bridge and looked at the turtles...

Didi so cute!

We spend a long time in the pagoda playing the echo game but didn't go up the spiral staircase.

Looked at huge fishes in the pond...

Offered food to the stone lions!

"Jiejie, umm!"

It was a fun and relaxed morning at the Chinese Garden! We should go there on our own another time :)

Little bird feed

I feed my children mouth to mouth sometimes...I think it's the sweetest thing in the world :)

Didi act cute

Trying to get me to “吹吹”...

I love you...I hate you

An everyday scene in the house...

But they can still be sweet to each other... :)

Recommended: Siblings Without Rivlary, by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazilish

手牵手，我们一起走

One day, we were fetching zehzeh, they suddenly decided to hold hands~

坏人脸~

Zehzeh is more sensitive to the camera now :)

Didi's bad habit...rubbing his face/nose/eyes so harsh that he nose bled...

Look here look there...走路没有看路，跟妈妈一样。

March!

Watch for the step~

Still holding hands...

They continue to hold till we crossed the carpark. The longest time yet! :):):)

Things that they say

Things that Chern has been saying:

我要妈妈、我要鱼圆、我要妈妈抱、老师再见、我要妈妈读、等等我……

Imaginative play: Pretend to eat from books/things that jiejie pretend to give

Didi loves pinching his nose and sing "elephant, elephant". He was eating cheese stick one day and started swinging the cheese and said, "Elephant cheese, elephant cheese."

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Things that xuan has been saying:

Xuan: 母亲节快乐！Me: It's not today, it's tomorrow, Sunday. Xuan: 太阳天？

Chern: Biiiig mama, mor (small) jiejie. Xuan: 我不小，我很中的！(Montessori effect)

我: 你在画长方形吗？萱：我在画短方形啦。

“应该--原来”： 它原来是蜗牛妈妈吧。

“就”：水壶在底下我，就我很痛。等一下拿我的肥皂，等一下就可以洗了。

我想要我的毛巾。

“蛮（否定）”：蛮不好吃的啦。

“啦”：为什么在十六楼了啦（呢）？

“还”--“才”：吃饱了还看，ok?

“要（动词）”：（脚车被推走了）我想要我的书！要停（脚车）！

“……不到--不可以”：我不可以拿！（我拿不到）我不可以写！（笔没有墨水了）我不可以爬！（我爬不上去）

我很晒！（太阳很晒）

我一个人！（只有我一个人！）

“问--告诉”、“教--学”：老三在哪里，你问我，老三在这里吗？你学（教）我，……

知道“讨厌”和“不喜欢”意思相近：我讨厌蟑螂，我不喜欢。

（在楼下和我碰面，抱抱）我发现你回家了！

想象力丰富：它（蜗牛）在淋雨。它没有拿雨伞。我们的窗口有线。看，树在喝水。好像它们的milo，它们的牛奶。它们很渴lei。很晒！我拿四个眼镜，给你（妈妈），给你（弟弟），给你（爸爸），（自己戴）。

Little pig

Reading

Xuan reading from memory:

Xuan recognising difference between "大" and "太". She read “知”as“和”one night and I pointed out that the 2 characters are similar. Word recognition seems to be more of a pattern recognition to her at the moment.

Didi is starting to recognise some 独体字 like 不、人

Xuan showing off that she can read too~

We were buying drinks at the Chinese Medicine shop and I decided to test Xuan if she recognised 菊花茶、羚羊水andso forth. She recognised 水、马、花、米。

Best friend Sharon

Xuan's best friend who's also our neighbour:

Didi tags along when they play. He'll be that "irritating little brother" who follows them around, and "he spoils everything cos mummy will be following him". hahahah! :)

"I promise to stay out of the way..."

On Teachers' Day, all the childcare centres were closed for a day, so all the children and their mummies were home. We spent the whole morning at the playground together, had lunch at my house while Sharon's mummy bought lunch for me and herself, then together with another nrighbour, a sec 1 boy (and his 2 other friends who stay at the other block), we went swimming! Xuan and Sharon and her mom kept floating in the lazy pool, hand-in-hand, while didi and me splashed water in the baby pool. What a "Love your Neighbour" day :):)

When Sharon comes over, she and xuan are happily occupied, didi tags along with me following him around, Sharon's mom gets a break, I get to relax a little too. There's a couple who always sits at the staircase talking, and the boyfriend is didi's best friend. He never fails to "light up very brightly" and wave to the couple with a loud "HA-YOOO" right infront of them. One day he saw the "gor gor", said hello very loudly to him, dashed inside our house, emptied out the entire "ball basket" to find THE small rugby ball, dashed out and threw it at "gor gor" to play catch and throw with him.

Hmmmm, my children have a better relationship with the neighbours than we do.... :P:P