This blog is a specially dedicated to my 2 little boys. I hope that thru penning down my thoughts and the things we do. When times goes by... I can still look back and remember all the things we have done!
It’s definitely a joyous occasion for us today. My hubby’s sister is getting married today!!!! We have all been looking forward to this day. ^^ But…..
But little boy sure doesn’t think so, he was super cranky when he woke up super duper early today. He keep claiming that he is very very tired and refused to change and get ready. And unfortunately his crankiness lasted till whole of the wedding and even till he reached home. 
It was a impromptu decision to head down to Orchard tonight. But I am glad that we did, the boys had a fun time roaming and running about and marveling at the beautiful Christmas decoration and light. I was really amazed at their ton of energy… as soon as we came back from LEGO Land (which is around 8pm when we reached our doorstep), we shower the boys and were ready to head down to Orchard. All the while the boys doesn’t show any bit of tiredness, instead they were still bouncing about. ^^ I think I was the one looking tired… ahaha…
Yeah you guess right, we are here again, and it was our third time here and what’s more, 2 times in a week. We know this place so well that the boys already know so well which ride they want to zoom to as soon as we reached here. 
Since we have been here countless of time, I was getting lazy which explains the lack of picture in this post. (Pardon me for me laziness.. oops, I haven’t post my last 2 LEGO Land trips)
After stuffing ourselves with oh- so fattening rota prata at Upper Thomsom, we popped down to upper pierce reservoir for some monkey-ing. In fact my boys love taking the car ride to this reservoir, as they can see so many monkeys on the way there. 
Though it was a terribly hot day, my boys sure doesn’t mind one bit and was still monkey-ing around looking for bugs!!!! 
Daddy is coming back from Beijing today!!! And of course me and the boys were so excited, we couldn’t wait to dash to Changi Airport to pick him. ^^ Thus we did not know of the angry bird activities at Changi T3 until we saw it today. My boys used to love angry bird so much, and I guess their love for it is still a tad bit, judging by the way they dashed in there. ^^
Little boy would be moving on to K1 next year. He has had a great time with these group of friends for the past one year. He would happily tell me any fun or funny happening in class when he came home from school every day. I still remember at the beginning of the year, he was very sad and refused to attend school and told me his best friend is not in his class anymore. Slowly he has come to accept the fact that though he can’t be in the same class with his best friend – Brandon, he still occasionally see him in school. And they do enjoy a quick chat whenever they met. (Brandon has transfer to morning session). Just last week, he told me he miss Brandon, and that Brandon is still his Best…best… best friend!!!! ( that is exactly what he said) ^^
But I am glad to know that he had make another 2 new buddy – Yi heng and Matthias (the 2 tallest boy is his class). 
Finally, I decided to dig out my cooking barang and did some baking. I love doing this butter cupcake.. simply because my boys love it very much and it is really super easy to make. 
It was a day of excitement and anticipation moment for me. Every time when I see my boys performing for us, a sense of warm would flood over me. I love seeing his performance today. He look so cute and handsome standing on the stage… shaking and dancing. He has done a great job!!!!!
The theme for this year is “He’s able”… believing that there is a special star in every child., as long as we believe in our child and discover this special star in them… they will be ABLE to succeed. We tried to reach there early to get a good seat. But in the end we did not reached there early as I had wanted to, instead we were late. Javier’s ICL class ended abit later than usual and it was pouring so heavily, causing a mild traffic jam.
The hall was done up nicely and looked sweet with little flowers.
Today was supposed to be his day, happily celebrating his 7th birthday with his family and friends. Thus when he knows that he can’t be joining in the celebration, he was a quite disappointed. Read more about what happen here.
We had planned a Barbeque birthday celebration for his birthday. Though the 3 of us did not join in the fun, we had a simple cake cutting at home.
3 days ago, Jayden started running a high fever in school, he was still ok when I sent him to school in the afternoon. But at 4.30pm, he school rang me up and told me to fetch him back from school telling me that he is having a fever 38.5 degree. So I brought him home and fed him some medicine and sent him to rest and the same time to monitor his condition. That night, at 10pm, the little one also started running a high fever- and my nightmare begin….. the temperature was shooting high high as the night progress. I couldn’t sleep and cannot sleep due to the worrying.For the whole night I was busy feeding them medicine and sponging them to try to bring down the temperature.
The next day, Jayden was much better and his fever was under control. But little one was still running a very high fever (the highest it goes was 40.4 degree) I quickly rushed him to the clinic. After checking him, the doctor told me that his tonsil was swollen and thus this maybe the causes for his fever. So fever medicine and anit-biotics was prescribed. And when we went back, the war started again… the refused to drink the medicine or water, So I had to force him to take. 
For the past 2 days, he hardly eat any food and I never suspected it to be other causes until….
On Thursday, Javier complain of mouth pain, thus I used the torch light to see the condition of his tonsil which I then spotted a few white spots near his throats and 2 on his lips. And I was thinking this looks like hfmd. Thus I quickly brought him to the clinic (I decided to go to another clinic) to again to have him checked. And it is indeed HFMD.
It is really heart pain to see them see them in pain. But for Jayden he doesn’t really complain of any pain thus I never suspected that he have hfmd. But for Javier, it was a totally different story, he was whining for the past 2 days and couldn’t eat and cannot sleep well. But I am glad that they are on the road to recovery now. Javier is started to eat again though still not a lot and of course he is back to his mischievous self again.
But as you can see from the below picture, he was really reluctant to take pictures. Thus he always gave me the sulky look when I told him to pose for the camera. 
(but I was lucky to capture a few good shots ^^)
We promised the boys we would bring them to LEGOLAND one of these day. And so we are here today… and not only that, one more thing that got the boys real excited… they would be exploring LEGOLAND togather with their good buddies. ^^ In order to beat the custom traffic jam, we decided to head off early. The boys were still feeling sleepy and heavy eyes when we dragged them out of their comfy beds.
Our first stop for today is breakfast at Old Town. Personally I really love the authentic food sold there. I ordered a Nasi Lemak for myself, the sambal sotong was real spicy but shiok.
This is a long over due post which I have long forgotten until I was clearing the files in my laptop and saw these pictures. My boys love Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, so I couldn’t pass up this chance when I know there is a LIVE show where they got to see the engines in action.
We had a pretty fun filled September holiday. After we came back from our short break in Kuala Lumpur, we watched this show. My boys love Dr. Seuss book and when I saw this, I know I just had to bring them to it…. . bet they will be super excited!!!!! ^^
He is four years old, I feel it is the right time to bring him for his 1st dental checkup, especially this boy got a sweet tooth. Well, bad mummy did not really get him prepared for this trip. I only told them about the dental checkup the day before. 
Luckily both of them take in the news calmly, and actually looking forward to visit Dr Lim again. ^^
The day finally arrived…. Javier was feeling pretty nervous and gave me a ‘forced’ smile.
Continuing from Part I
In this exhibit, the boys enjoyed themselves acting as the driver of an excavator since very young, they like excavator a lot. 
Wow… this is a really backdated post. Actually I couldn’t remember clearly the details, but I would try to jot down as much as I can remember, if not I would let the pictures do the talking.
We had a short road trip to Kuala Lumpur during the September school holidays. Its certainly a long drive to reach there, not forgetting the bad traffic jam and we kinda lost our way while trying to find our hotel. The location of this hotel is quite convenient as it is near to the MRT. We tried to take train whenever possible because of the bad traffic jam. Actually it is pretty convenient to travel to places by train.
What greeted Javier when we reached the hotel is this plate of welcome fruits!!! He just couldn’t wait to eat the banana.
The initial plan was to bring them to the Port of Lost Wonders for some water play. But when we reached there, the last admission time had already pass. Thus we just bring them to this small water play area, not that they mind one bit. Though they were a tad disappointed that they can’t play in the Port of Lost Wonders, but as long as there is water, they were just fine with it. To heal their little disappointment, I brought them to 7-eleven to buy the water gun, but Jayden prefer the spade instead. So holding the little gift for them, they jumped and ran to the water, eagerly wanting to try out their new toy.
We make reservation for our dinner at Dempsey Long Beach as this place was usually very crowded, especially on a weekend night We ordered quite a number of dishes and their and their specialty is none other than the crabs (though I am not a big fan of the crab, but I think the gravy was quite nice). So below are the yummlicious dishes that we stuffed into our tummy.
Fried baby squid
Today we met up with Javier’s teachers. I am pleased and relieved to hear very good comments on his learning progress and behavior in school. Both teacher mentioned that he has no problem in his work and he learnt things fast. He can grasp what the teacher is saying very fast, thus teachers like to ask him to demonstrate to the class on some occasion, like dong some actions and dancing. ^_^.
His Chinese teacher 郭老师 feedback that his word recognition is very good, (thanks to 四五快读). But this in turn makes the lesson seems boring to him, thus his attention span tends to wonder elsewhere during some lesson time.
But other than that, he is a well-rounded boy, outspoken, participate actively in sports, dance and singing. 
Frankly I feel so pleased and relieved that he is coping so well in this school now. I would say he has started to enjoy going to school now, I think the main reason is that he likes his 2 teachers. Did I mentioned that Javier’s current English teacher is a 3rd one for this year!!! 
He doesn’t really enjoy or like the previous 2 teachers, thus he really really dislike going to school during term 1 and 2. However, I noticed that his whining started to get lesser and lesser as term 3 progress, until presently, he doesn’t says he don’t want or don’t like to go school already. Phew… that’s a really a load off my mind.
It is only when I met up with his English Teacher Mrs Tismo that I started to understand why he love this teacher. She is a really gentle, caring and patient teacher who really dote the kids. Though she has only taught Javier for about a term, she has already won the trust of Javier. I believe that it’s only when the kids really like the teacher and enjoys going to school, that is when the kids will really learn well and progress. I sees a huge improvement in his learning progress as compared to the previous terms.
One thing I like to mentioned is that this teacher has a effective and simple way to teach spelling, that is, she teach the kids how to spell numbers thru singing. Javier loves to sing his number spelling song every day..which goes like this O-N-E 1, T-W-O 2….. (of course there is a rhythm to it) ^_^ In this way he can spell his number effortlessly now.
Today was a rather uneventful day which I rather not talk about here. We make a trip to Garden by the Bay today hopping to grasp a magnificent view of the newly open garden. We do not have much time with us, thus we only make a short tour around the garden and did not visit the 2 Dome.
My 2 mini boys standing in front of the huge tree.
After our sumptuous lunch, we set off for Marina Bay Sands Boardwalk for our next activity for today. As you can guess it’s none other than the National Day Parade 2012 Fireworks!!!! We reached there bright and early, but a huge crowds have already gathered eagerly waiting for the NDP to start.
As usual, wherever there is ample of space togather with some spare time, its’ a good excuse for my boys to roam and monkey around.
And of course a good excuse for me to snap lots of pictures too! 
Up to his mischief. I was telling Javier to stand behind Gorgor and and just put his hands on his shoulder, but instead he started to squeeze him very hard and eventually tried to ride on him. 
The falling parachute caught their full attention and thus they decided to stop their monkey-ing for a while.
The mischief starts again…..
Ouch, he is practically on top of Jayden now!
Javier was bugging us to let him take picture of us, so here it is….
and one more here.
The boys weren’t able to see the firing of cannons, so D carried both of them which is kinda heavy.. (Ouch!!!)
Later HaiYun and family joined us. My boys were very happy indeed.
The beautiful fireworks
The foursome were engrossed in the fireworks.
We had our dinner at Chinatown Food Centre. Just look at the yummlicious food below. …
I was almost drooling when I saw these pictures. ^_^ and of course we managed to wipe out all the food.
We had a tiring but fun day. The boys were totally knocked out on the way home.
