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Hamburger shirt

janeeeee — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:56:20 +0000

Titus wore a cheeky singlet with a HUGE hamburger (he calls it his “hamburger shirt”) to the track two days ago. He was so cute to be bobbling around the track in his cheeky singlet. He giggled very happily whenever we pretended to “eat” the hamburger off his stomach.

My Family Journal

janeeeee — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:26:08 +0000

K has to bring a family journal to school next week. Even though it’s very easy for me to create a nice journal with scrapblog or smilebox, I decided that since he’s in K1 this year, he has to do his homework on his own. So I printed some photos for him, bought construction paper/glue/tape and provided him instructions to …

… cut the photos, cut the cute animal printouts, cut the construction paper, paste the photos/printouts, and write the title page for his book (he copied off what I wrote for him on another piece of paper).

It took him one hour yesterday and one hour today to complete these!

After he went to bed just now, I stapled everything together and tadaa, we have completed the book! The writing is a bit messy, pictures are not cut perfectly, glue is not spread evenly, and pages are jagged. But then again he’s a 5 year old, so this is already a very nice piece of work. And I’m guessing that he’ll be so proud of his work when he sharres it in class next week because he’s invested so much effort in it! He did tell me (a few times) that he liked doing this piece of homework.

Learning to draw a star

janeeeee — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:02:03 +0000

Was teaching K to draw a star just now by combining two triangles together. The green and pink triangles belong to me while everything else on the paper were drawn by him. There’s lots of Letterland characters like Sammy Snake, Annie Apple, Oscar Orange etc, and there are also two transformers (the two things that look like spaceships) sitting on the grass patch.

Chinese New Year 2012

janeeeee — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:56:10 +0000

Reunion dinner: Boys having their dinner in front of the TV. They were thrilled to catch Toy Story 1 and 2 at the grandparents’ place that evening.

Reunion dinner: I wolfed down half of this box of cakes after dinner because it was so yummy!

Lunar New Year Day 1: K made these cards for my parents during breakfast time so that they can have good health and happiness in the year ahead.

Lunar New Year Day 1: Boys in the family dressed in matchy clothes … on the way to visit both sets grandparents to 拜年.

Lunar New Year Day 2: Boys in matchy clothes again … bonding with a 7-year-old cousin from KL’s side of the family over iPad games!

Bird Park with the cousins

janeeeee — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:29:01 +0000

Over the long weekend, the boys visited the Bird Park with their fav cousins. They had free tickets and wanted to check out the new waterplay area. My mum and her helper went with them. As for me, I slept really late till 11am that day cos there was no disturbance at home, ha!

Happy Chinese New Year!

janeeeee — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:09:11 +0000

王泰泽祝大家富贵吉祥! 王楷泽祝大家心想事成!

Rainbows on 21 Jan 12

janeeeee — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:44:54 +0000

Spotted two rainbows from our living room window just minutes ago! It’s my first time seeing two rainbows appear together =)

Self portraits made with paper plates

janeeeee — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:43:24 +0000

Self portraits that the N1 class made today made use of paper plates, paint, brush, yarn, glue. T’s plate is the one with the little blue ribbon twist. I assume that the other two plates which come with red ribbons in the hair belong to his female classmates.

Combi stacking toy

janeeeee — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:06:11 +0000

T tried his hand at stacking yesterday. When he received very specific instructions from me on which piece to stack on top of which piece, his structure turned out neat and nice like a tall cone. But of course I also left him alone to stack anyway he wanted because it’s fun to stack any-o-how and this was the result that ensued!

Check out these pictures of K playing with the same toy three and a half years ago back in the kitchen of our old house.

Lunch with friends

janeeeee — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:30:26 +0000

After the dental visit, KL met three friends from his old lab for lunch so K tagged along too.

Today’s lunch was to celebrate these these two pretty ladies and the photographer finally submitting their PhD theses! Congrats!