Micro-Scooters

Jaren has this Mini-Micro scooter as his birthday's present for this year. Seeing that Giselle has been eyeing on his scooter, I bought her a Maxi-Scooter as her advanced birthday present for this year too. She was really thrilled and gave me a big hug!!

Show & Tell - My Family

Giselle has been practicing very hard for this Show & Tell. The topic this round is about "My Family" and she is supposed to describe all 4 members in our family.

As this round is graded, I came up with the idea of doing to doing a bigger board with our family's photos pasted on it. So Giselle and I worked on this board to enhance her whole speech to make it more interesting.

Well, her and my efforts paid off and she came in 2nd with a score of 11 out of 13 marks. Well done Giselle! Mummy is very proud of it!!!!:)

Scootering and Blading Fun!

Nothing much to do today, hence brought them down for some fun at our basket ball court....

Fun Day @ Yishun Safra

Recently the weather has been wet and we tried getting a swim at Jurong Safra but couldn't. The pool was closed due to bad weather and lightning.

Today, however, we managed to make our kids happy but going to Yishun Safra for their water slides. They had lots of fun. Jaren was initially skeptical of the water but after a few dips, he was alright and began to play with the water guns that we brought.

Jaren is a BIG BULLY!

At Jurong Safra

Maybe because Jaren thinks everyone loves him, he has the right to take charge and take advantage of his elder sis. Giselle, on the other hand, has been a really nice big sister who has lots of patience with Jaren and loves him very much.

Whenever we see Jaren bullies Giselle by being rude or hitting her, we would step in and explain Jaren what he did is not correct. We had also told Giselle to protect herself and said "No!" to his younger brother. 

Although almost everyone kept wondering why the big age gap between them but I see the positive of it. Giselle being a much older sister, knows how and try to take care of him like a nanny. Perhaps this is the virtue of Giselle's character since young. She really has a kind heart.  

Jaren's 2nd Birthday Part II

2nd Birthday Cake

Just a simple celebration on his actual day of 2nd Birthday. Bought him a cake to let him blow candles with his classmates at his playgroup.

Jaren is 2!!!

It seems like yesterday that Jaren was born... He is going to be 2 in 4 days time! Wow!

As today is also Daddy Adrian's birthday, we had a joint celebration with our Parents at Bosses Restuarant. Jaren was very happy to see the candles and his Chuggington cake which was done by one of my good friends. Giselle was pretty excited too as she wanted to blow the cake for her little brother... haha :)

Se Jin's Birthday

It was Se Jin's birthday celebration and her parents organized a birthday party at So EZ cooking studio at Great World City.

Giselle was so excited to attend her party. She enjoyed the party very much with her friends like Lezanne, Prisca.

RV Parents Teacher Meeting

River Valley Pri had organised a meeting for P1 Parents to know more about their cirriculum and organisation.

After the briefing at the school hall, parents were led into our kids' classroom to see how a lesson was conducted. So I had the chance to take a look how Giselle was in class. :)

The class was having their English lesson and could see everyone was enjoying the lesson conducted by their form teacher, Ms Farah.

Another Celebration!:)

Brought the kids to MRT to Raffles Place and took a nice stroll to Marina Bay Sands yesterday.

All of us had lots of fun throughout the journey, with Jaren and Giselle running about and entertaining themselves. Then today, Daddy ordered a birthday cake for me from Cake Glace and the kids were so excited about singing the birthday song and blowing out the candle (for me)... haha!

Gong Xi Fa Cai 2012

Wow! Dragon year is finally here and kids are growing up too!

Dressed Giselle and Jaren in traditional costumes this year to celebrate the occasion. As usual, our visiting started at my grandma house and followed by my in-law house. Lasted the whole day but it is a good time for reunion!! :)

My Little Jaren Has started School As well!:)

Jaren started his 1st day of playgroup on 3 Jan 12 and it is at the Blk 118A Jalan Membina RC.

The day started with a not-so-good note as the teacher whom I liked has resigned suddenly. I was quite annoyed about this as I had purposely signed up for this teacher. Anyway, 1st day Jaren was alright as I accompanied him throughout. He made some friends and the most of the parents there were very friendly.

2nd day, I left halfway through the class. Although the main teacher wasn't up to standard, but the assistant teacher, Joanne, was very good.

Then started the 3rd day, he I began to say bye bye to him and left him crying there. He has a very good friend, Issac who is also almost the same pattern as him. So both of them were in the assistant teacher's throughout. I noticed he likes to hold his water bottle for security there which is the same as Giselle when she 1st started childcare. As I peeped in between the curtains, I saw Jaren was very determined to go home. He picked up his money haversack, carried it nicely behind his back, and kept pointing at the door. I was outside, not sure to laugh or to feel sorry for him. Haha! Anyway, things were better each day for him.

Today is the 2nd week of playgroup for him and I am really happy that the main-teacher has been changed to a better one. On top of that, Jaren didn't cry or resist when I walked him to the school. From then, I know things would get better and settled down happily soon.

First Week of Primary School

The 1^st event of 2012 has kicked off with the start of Giselle entering into P1 of River Valley Primary School and also Jaren going into Playgroup at a nearby RC.

Initially I was worried about Giselle having some anxiety into a new school but surprisely she was very much mentally prepared for it. Had packed her school bag about a week ago and I made her write her names on all the books. Gave her a money pouch for her recess money.

School bus on the first day was chaotic with parents squeezing into school bus. And the best part was that the driver nearly forgotten the route to school. Giselle managed to make friends with a sweet gal at our neighbourhood and everyday, she would sit with her on the bus, playing and chatting with each other. I took the first ride with her to school and also the ride from school to home. Just to make sure everything is smooth for my gal and she had boarded the right bus.

Upon reaching the school, the students were led up to the school hall and I just briefly waved to her to bid farewell. During recess time, a P5 buddy was arranged for Giselle and she had noodles soup. I met this nice gal and her name is Kimberly. She took care of Giselle very well. My gal was pretty slow in eating her noodles and Kimberly patiently waited for her. The buddy system lasted for 3 days and on the 4^th day, Giselle, together with 2 friends, bought her food without much hassle.

Her teacher had requested a one button file which I need to get it from the bookshop. Hence, I thought it would be a good chance for Giselle to be more independent by buying the file on her own at the bookshop. I am really proud of her though it was really a minor thing. This goes to show my little is really growing up positively each day.

First week had passed quickly. I could see Giselle had enjoyed every minute of it. She looks forward to going to school which I was really happy to see that. She has started to make friends even on the first day and School bus had also started to be more punctual. Now just hoping things will settle down by the end of 2^nd week.