Not sure how many of you caught the KungFu Panda craze?!?!  I know it got my kids all right…..my office planned it as a movie nite recreation action for all staff and family members so we caught it for free.

And finally after 6 long weeks of Madonalds……we finally got all 8 of them……phew!!! FINALLY it’s over…..no more fast food for us!!!

This morning, on my way to work, just outside my car park entrance, I witnessed this maid riding a bicycle with a primary school going boy pillion riding and her front wheel hit the curb and they fell……oh my gosh, thank goodness there were no on cming vehicles……seeing these situations and things happen, I am really really glad I don’t have to rely on my maid to take care of my kids…..I still trust myself more than anyone else….what can I say…..10 months each of carrying them in my womb is enough to make them priority 1 in my life.

These days, I try to let the kids be more independent, especially Rayner simply because he will be going off to Primary 1 and he needs to know how to take care of himself and also get things done.  Plus he is a boy after all, he has to know how to take care of himself….”he has to serve national service one day you know and you will not be able to take care of him then and if by then he still can’t take care of him, he is the one who suffers because you been mothering him too much”….that is what David always tells me!!!  I always wonder if it’s true…..the part about me mothering him too much.  I have to learn to let go and trust that he can do it!

These days I also make him do simple things for his sister and hopefully RayAnne appreciates what her brother is doing for him and hopefully in 10 years to come, they will still be as close as they are now…..

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Something simple but it really made my day…..

 

My bed of flowers has been bared for coming 6 months and I was about to give up because I never really had green fingers THEN it suddenly flowered one day……..

Then day 2, I saw another flower bud coming out….

 

 

 

What can I say, I am a simple woman and simple little things make me happy!

It’s Good Bye Learning Vision and Hello SunnyGrove for now!

I hope the kids are doing ok in school today.  At least they were not crying when I left them.  Maybe because we had been telling them and preparing for the change for almost a month one.

Tonight, we are going to have MacDonald’s for dinner.  They also each requested for a tube of mentos……If they didn’t cry for a week, they would each get a toy.  Rayner requested for a huge size transformer and RayAnne requested for a toy labtop.  I told them, we will see how it goes, you will get what you want if you can keep your promise not to cry or create a scene.

I know I know, it’s wrong to use gifts to entice or make them do anything but I am desperate.  I think you can imagine how awful it is for a 6 year old to be tugging at my leg and wailing at full blast.  It’s scary just thinking about it. 

I didn’t even slept well last night……feeling all jittery!!!

And of all the children, you would least expect such behaviour from my kids.  All I can say is, my kids are super sensitive and super close to me.  Last night, they were crying even before they went to bed.  Suddenly, they were saying things like I love you very much mummy and I miss you very much, in fact, they made me teary as well but good thing, the lights were off and they didn’t see me tear.

Although sociable kids they are, I just cannot explain their behaviour.  When I ask them why they cry, their response is always the same, they miss me.  I told them I needed to go to work and would be back in the evening to fetch them, their response is still always the same, I know but I still miss you so much leh!  Haiz!!!  But once mummy is out of sight, the teachers tell me, their crying stop almost immediately.

My so so special kids……but I still love their unconditionally!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Think the video speaks for itself, we were watching Terminator wednesday night and there she was, role playing her own show….I had a really good laugh and I hope you all will too!!!  Have a great weekend!

 

 

It has certainly been a long long while and I hope everyone’s doing fine.

We a fair share of good news and some really bad news.  Fannie’s had her baby, Ivy’s boys are doing mighty fine.  Kat’s girls are growing up really fast….those were the good news and the bad news was the China Earthquake.

It was really heart wrenching watching lifeless body being carried out from piles and piles of rubble and parents moaning for their dead children, lost children crying…..it’s just a sad sad scene.

Back to my updates….now, let’s see, where did I left off!

Sometime in FEBRUARY, my darling RayAnne celebrated her 4th birthday.  Ordered cupcakes for her birthday at my parent’s place, a barney prima deli cake for her school’s celebration and a Angie’s durian cake for our own home.

Sometime in MARCH, Rayner sent me a letter by mail…….

It now proudly sits on my office desk……(I even kept the envelope with the stamp date)

Then sometime in APRIL, RayAnne had a very bad fall….

Can’t seem to rotate the photo but i think either way the picture is posted, extent of the damage can be seem pretty clearly!!!

Sometime in MAY, Rayner made me a pizza…..all by himself!!

Think picture speaks a thousand words….

And for those of you who missed the Rays….am happy to say that they are doing fine….growing up happy and healthy…..and you all know, happy kids = happy mummy!!!

Work has been pretty busy for me but I must say I am enjoying every moment of it.  I may not be able to blog as often as I wish but for sure I am missing reading all your posts.  Will also try to catch up on my favourite reads.  Don’t worry, have not abandon your blog…..wait for me….I WILL BE BACK….I PROMISE!!!

Wow, it has been a long long while since I last blog.

Let’s see where I should begin……

17 January 2008

I celebrated my 33rd birthday with my loved ones.  Nothing fancy, we had a simple dinner and a simple cake.  My kids sang me a birthday song and it was the most wonderful song I have ever heard.  My very own copyright Birthday Song by my lovely rays……

19 January 2008 

We collected the kitchen play set my parents bought for RayAnne for her coming 4th birthday.  The kids had a great time playing it while we had a hard time trying to fix it.

The kids whipping up deliciously looking meals for me…….

21 January 2008

My sister May gave birth to her 2nd kid.  Asher, the biggest baby ever born in our family.  A whopping 3.88kg.  Mother and baby are all doing well and coping pretty well.

So RayAnne kept her precious only grand-daughter title.  My parents now have 3 grandsons and 1 grand-daughter.

This very day my sister gave birth, this very day I started my new job.  I haven’t had the chance to update that I finally found a job.  Not any job but a stable and fixed hour job.  This job allows me to carry on my mother duties of dropping and fetching the kids everyday.  Best of all, it pays damm well.

5 February 2008

David collected our new car.  Just in time for the chinese new year.

This is our new DRIVE……The Subaru Impreza 1.6litre AWD

Just before we collected the car, the kids gave the car seats a whole new meaning.

They placed the car seats right in front of the telly and pretended they were cinema seats and sat there comfortably enjoying the show.

7 February 2008

Today I drove our car for the very first time.  It was tough, I had a hard time adjusting to the clutch level and accelerator.  David wanted this car to have a proper run in so we were not allowed to travel beyond the speed of 90 km/h and rpm should exceed 3000.  I could have vowed my arm pits and undies were soaking wet when I finally pulled the handbrake…….

7 & 8 February 2008

Visited my parents and in laws

8 February 2008

Bought the kids to the East Coast park.

The kids all geared up for a day at the beach.

This time round, the kids were a little braver than the last time we bought them to the beach. This time, they got into the water, quite an achievement….hahahaha……weather was damm hot but the water was really cool.  Silly mummy forgotten all about sun blocked.  The kids were a little burnt…….

 9 February 2008

We visited the ZOO.

Crocodile hunter??? Drama Drama

This time, we let Rayner be the navigator and guide.  He took charge of the map and decided where he wanted to go and what he wanted to see.   He did a pretty good job.

WenYang lion dance troupe was there to perform for the audience.

They put up a great performance.  Everyone enjoyed it, especially the kids…..

The lion came and allowed the kids to touch and play with them.  The kids really enjoyed touching and playing with the lion…..up close and personal…….

When we got home that day, we saw on the news that Ah Meng has died.  Our Iconic orang utan has died.  She was 48 years and she died of old age. Certainly sad news for the new year……

I will be going back to work tomorrow.  Mandy told me that it would be a good and auspicious time to start work tomorrow between 10am - 12noon but since I am new on the job, I think I going to have to give that good timing a miss.  BUT I am going to pretend that I started work at 10am instead of 8am….heehee…..but David will be going back to the office to just kick start work although officially he will only be back Thursday.

Oh oh, and before I go……A VERY HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR TO ALL MY CYBER FRIENDS.  HOPE THIS WILL BE A GOOD AND BETTER YEAR FOR EVERYONE…..HUAT AH!!!!!! 

Does Your Child Have Myopia?

Myopia is commonly known as “shortsightedness”. A person with myopia is able to see close objects clearly but objects that are further away will appear blurred.

In Singapore, about half of our children develop myopia by the age of 12 years. Children are also becoming more myopic at a younger age.

This is a really worrying trend. Of course I am worried, because both David and myself wear glasses. Chances the kids may be shortsighted increases tremendously although I didn’t need glasses till I was in my 20s but David has been wearing glasses since he was in Primary 1.

Anyway, the Health Promotion Board visited the school and did an eye screening test for all the K1 students.

And this is the results, till this very day, I don’t really know what it says about his eye sight.

Vision without glass

LogMAR Right eye +0.18 / Left eye +0.24

Computed Snellen Right eye 6/7.5p / Left eye 6/9.5p

Stereopsis: Normal

Examination Notes: Vision screening done - Normal Vision

The only thing I can understand from the screening is, his vision is normal but how normal?  Far from perfect eye sight or near shortsighting??? Think I am going to bring him to a optician to get a proper reading and screening.

And only yesterday, I found out from Rayner that the Nurse actually taught them eye relaxing exercises.

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Think most of you would agree that GIRLS these days are nothing close to GIRLS during our times.

Like what my mum always say, “I remembered, you girls (my sis and me) were very quiet and well behaved.  We, too throw my tantrums but nowhere close to the extent my kids behave.  The first time my mum took care of the kids while I work (almost 2 years ago), she was shocked and overwhelmed.  She couldn’t believe how naughty and mischievous my kids were…..hahahaha

Yesterday was Sunday but we didn’t feel like going out so we stayed home.  The kids were bored and started clowning around.  They dug up their action hero costume and started playing.

My spidey……..AND

My extremely cute baty ……….

Then, there was the fight of the century

Spiderman VS Batman

If I didn’t tell you, you probably didn’t even know batman is actually batgirl……one minute she was behaving all boyish, playing fighting with her brother but next minute….she’s all girly……

Here, she is feeding both her babies……come to think of it, she might be mimicking me hor or she is just learning to be a mummy…..wohahahaha…..scary thought…..

And after feeding the baby, she proceeds to burp the baby……hahahaha…..

I could actually sit and watch them play all day long!

Like daddy says, girls are unpredictable one what?!?!?!  One minute they could be happy and the next, PMS thingy sets in and they go all sulky……hey, is he talking about me or RayAnne????  hmmmmmm………………but I say, girls are versatile…..ya, that’s the word!

How time flies ah…..2007 is coming to an end….a whole new year is coming.

Let’s see what we have achieved in year 2007.

David’s career has been looking pretty promising in year 2007. Got promoted and a couple of pretty good salary increments. Career wise for me wasn’t as promising for me. I lost my job in July 2007 and has been a SAHM since then. Being a SAHM is just temporary until I can find a suitable job. Let’s just say that I am taking my time.

The Rays has been good……progressing well in school. Immune system is almost all accustomed to the virus-clad school environment. Rayner has been on and off the medication to boost his appetite, progressing quite well, he managed to put on 2 kg in a month. He now weighs 18kg. RayAnne however weighs a healthy 15.5kg….woahahahaha….putting on weight has always been a easy task for RayAnne because this little girl loves milk. She can be asking for milk every 2 hours and every feed is 220ml……

Well, both my in laws and parents are doing well. My sister is having her 2nd baby in January 2008. Everything seems on track and it’s more than I can ask for. I just ask for all my loved ones to be happy and healthy.

What have we been doing the past 2 weeks:-

Rayner had a little accident, he was fiddling with the stapler, trying to do a little fan artwork. And he punch the stapler into his finger and scraped a little skin away but he didn’t tell me. Instead, he just went and got a plaster and bandaged himself. Silly mummy only saw the plaster in the evening. So I asked him why he didn’t tell me about his accident?

Me: Why didn’t you tell Mummy, wasn’t it painful?

Rayner: Pain but there wasn’t any blood, only a little skin come out only.

Me: Oh……how did you hurt yourself?

Rayner: I was trying to staple the fan, the fan I make for you…..

Me: next time, please try to be more careful when handling the stapler ok?

Rayner: ok mummy, me boy mah, have to be brave, next time I have to be soldier.

Me: *wah pengz, he is only 5 and he is growing up so fast*

Then there was the Christmas Party in school.

The kids put together a little performance for the parents. There was food for all. They even had a gift exchange between the children.

RayAnne got a set of pooh bear towels and Rayner for a pair of Barney slippers. Boy was he disappointed. Barney wasn’t one of his favourite characters so he gave the slippers to his sister. Seeing how disappointed he was with his pressie, Daddy made it up to him by giving the kids their Christmas presents earlier. Rayner got his transformer toys while RayAnne got her baby dolls.

Then we visited the Formular Drift at the Singapore Expo.

Rayner enjoyed the screeching sound and smell of burning rubber in the air and RayAnne just wanted to go elsewhere. How typical!

Then, just over the weekend, we bought the kids to the IMM water play area.

Parking over at IMM was simply crazy. In case you didn’t know, gantries over at IMM car parks are up. Parking is free for the first 3 hours, they only start charging from the 4th hour.

The kids had a whale of a time.

The kids had been crazy about ridding the scooter skate these days. My parents got them each a skate scooter. A 2 wheeler for Rayner and a 3 wheeler for RayAnne.

Wheeeeee……see them go!

All set for their holiday programmes.

To be honest, I haven been taking much snap shots of the rays as often as I used to.  Here I am downloading the photos into my labtop, only then I realised how much these 2 tots have grown.  Especially Rayner, he has grown so much.  So much so that I didn’t realise he was not longer the toddler he used to be when RayAnne was born.  Even my baby RayAnne looks so grown up, like a little young lady.

Both my kids are growing up so fast.  Soon, I am going to have to learn to let them go. It feels really sad knowing that one day, they wouldn’t need me anymore and I would no longer hear them call out to me, Mummy, mummy, mummy!!!

I have mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I have been learning to cope with a extremely hyper active and emotional Rayner.  Only way I could think of is to involve him in everything I do.

That’s him loading dirty laundry into the washing machine…..

And that’s him adding the washing powder and softener……

Now, that’s him hanging the laundry…..

With him doing all the housework meant it would take more time but at least he is channeling all  extra energy into something useful……beats him throwing tantrums.  And best of all, he enjoys it, he’s happy I AM HAPPY.

What’s RayAnne doing while his brother is busy with housework?

Care to guess?

She is lazing and relaxing on the sofa.  That’s my clever girl wah!

David was on leave yesterday and guess what???  We sent the kids off the school and went dating again lor.  Initially wanted to catch a movie but decided against it.

Instead we went car shopping.  Did I mention that we are looking into getting a car.  We are now down to deciding the make of car.  The fun Honda Jazz or the sedan Mitsubishi Lancer.  Couple of weeks ago, we test drove the Subaru.  David loved it but I didn’t.  I wanted a normal and standard car, not a performance car.

Tested the Honda hatch back Jazz (1.4 manual) but something about the car doesn’t feel right.  Perhaps the car’s too small as I ain’t exact pined size…..kekeke

However the Mitsubishi Lancer is much roomier but not as fuel economical as the Jazz.

So…..

The sport cute looking jazz or cool looking lancer

Which do you think?I didn’t think it was this hard to make a choice.

Anyway, we didn’t spent the entire day car shopping.  We dropped by the Salvation Army and MINDS (Movement For the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore).  One thing I don’t mind are 2nd or even 3rd hand books, as long as they are not in really really bad shape and condition.  They usually have lots of life left in them.  I pick up many copies of Rigby Literacy for the kids.  They are retail at about $3.50 per copy.  I got them at 2 for $1 at Salvation Army.  They were in perfect condition.  Plastic wrapped.  It’s the school holidays now so there is a further 20% discount.  wahhhhh…..where to find??? heehee…….Picked up $10 worth of books (think about 25 books) for the kids. Also picked up a brand new steamboat pot for $4.  Still sealed and unopened….

And guess what else I stumbled upon…..

This…..

My very 1st fridge………how did I know it was the very same one???  Easy, I recognise the stains and markings made by my fridge magnets and notice the white patch at the very bottom of the 2nd door, it was my evil doing.  I cleaned it with some very strong cleaning agents and it completely stripped the coating off……ok, I was a lousy housewife 8 years ago……but I didn’t expect to see my very 1st fridge 8 years later and at such a location.  What a reunion!!!