It's the Holidays!

Finally the school holidays have started. Its a relief for the kids but not for me as I'll be entertaining the 3 monkeys at home everyday. I'll just have to stock up more food at home and keep them from killing each other lol On the other hand, we are all glad that we're moving closer to our Beijing trip end June with my parents. The kids simply can't wait!

Hao had his school report book back few days ago. He had Band 1 for Mathematics and Chinese and Band 2 for English. Surprisingly his Chinese fared better than his English although he's more fluent in english. I guess he needs to brush up on his English vocab and chinese characters. He scored better prob due to his HYPY. June holidays will be a good time for him to read more. It's a good thing that as we are pushing Hao to read more, Min and Ee are spending less time in front of the television and taken up books to read instead. Hope they gain from it too.

Today we're having our block party in the late afternoon. Sounds like an event from hostel! Wonder how it'll be. Will update more!

Rain Rain Come Again!

Finally it rained today. The past weeks had been horribly hot and I was secretly praying for rain these few days and thank god it rained today.

Hubby is away for business trip again this week and won't be back till Thursday night. As usual the kids are elated that daddy isn't going to be on their backs for a few days and is really enjoying their short-lived freedom at home. I don't really understand why they are so happy about daddy not being at home since I am usually the one barking at them instead of hubby. Maybe he is the more authoritative one at home :P

Min and Ee are down sick with cough and running nose :( They had it going since last week but it was really mild and I just self medicate them with the medicine I had in the fridge. They were recovering well till Sunday when they had a dip in the swimming ring at in laws place and caught the cold. On Monday, Ee started with a bad cough and Min with a horrible running nose. Worried that their condition might worsen because of the drastic changes in the weather, I brought them to see the doctor this morning and had Ee skipped school for a day. Thank god they are sleeping considerably well and I hope they will recover soon. Since we were at the doctor's, I made Hao take the Tamiflu jab with me just as a preventive measure since we'll be travelling out next month. At the doctor's advice, once Min and Ee recover from their flu, I'll also bring them for the jab and hope that they won't fall sick too easily!

My Project Menu!

It's increasingly difficult to feed my 3 monkeys. Each of them have different tastes and likes, and of course with the horribly hot weather now, they hardly have appetite for anything except fast foods, fried foods and simply no food! It's quite challenging to cook food that they are very willing to eat nowadays and I need to think of new ways to get them to eat more! That's how I came up with this idea that I call my Project Menu. Simply put, I'll write down all the food/recipes that I know how to cook and then try my best to cook them in the days ahead and then taking pictures of all of them and put into an album. It'll be my cooking menu and then in future it'll be easier for the kids to tell me what they want to eat and what they like me to cook for their meals. Sounds easy but it's going to be an extensive project! I wonder if I can really accomplish it and even if I do, will it work for us or against me :P Wish me luck!

A Nice and Carefree Lunch..

Yesterday was our 9th wedding anniversary. Both of us almost forgot about it and I only remembered that it was a special day for us in the morning when I was getting breakfast ready. I suggested to hubby to ask my mum to babysit the Ee and Min for us while we head out for a nice lunch. Thankfully mum was free to babysit and after settling the kids' lunch and dropping them off to mum's place, we headed to this Italian restaurant called the La Cantina in Venezia at Changi Village Hotel for lunch. We didn't pick this restaurant for any reason except it was the best place we can think of for a nice and quick lunch in the East side of the island. I didn't want to travel too far out and was watchful of my mobile phone, expecting it to ring any time after we drop the kids off. The food wasn't that great but it was the nicest and most carefree lunch that I had with Hubby for the longest time I can think of. Probably our last meal out alone was 2 years ago before I had Min. Anyhow, that made my day really special!

Photo Updates!

Got my new netbook and loving it! At last I don't have to lug a big laptop around the house. The netbook is so small that it can fit into my everyday bag and doesn't weigh a ton!

Been busy lately but managed to download some old photos that I took of the kids the past few weeks. Here's to share:

The boys in shades....

Candid moments at home...

Our slumber party while hubby was away in Shanghai..

Brotherly bonds!

My Mothers' Day gift from Ee :)

Another Long Weekend Gone...

The two long weekends in May is gone. Hao's exams are over too, and had gotten his results back. Not the top in class but his results are very satisfactory to us and himself. I must applaud him for his efforts and as promised, I brought him out and got him the whole series of Ben 10 comics from Popular (9 books in all). More books? Yes! Now that he's starting to enjoy reading, we are very willing to get books for him to read, in any form, including comics. We feel that with interest, he can pick up vocab and reading faster than forcing him to read books that we choose for him. I've also declared 2 weeks "off" for him and he wouldn't need to do any worksheets or assessment, except his homework and he will also have free play at home. Now he's in Cloud 9!!

After lunch on Saturday, we had nowhere to go and wandered to the Bedok Reservoir for a walk. It wasn't particularly hot that day and we were quite keen to explore the Forest Adventure over at the reservoir. It wasn't crowded and Hao decided that it wasn't too scary for him and went for the kids' course there. Ee was too young (min age is 5 yrs old) and thus we just looked at Hao from the rest area. He had a lot of fun. Hubby took pics and video on his mobile phone so I'll post more stuff once I get hold of them!

It's nearly over!

Today is day 2 of Hao's Exams. Yesterday he had his English Language paper, and today his Mathematics paper. I've done all I could to help him prepare his papers and I certainly hope he can do well...not so much of wanting him to top the class or show off his intelligence but to boost his confidence in his studies. Anyway, there's only the Chinese Language paper left and it'll be party time!!! I can also take a breather and lay back a little :P After that, I'll have to start teaching him on Multiplication! Gotta go and research how best to teach him that LOL

Labour Day Blues~

Ouch. After so many years, my Aunt Flo came back today. Had been feeling crampy for the past few days but I thought it would just be false alarm type of cramps and Aunt Flo won't be back so soon since I am still nursing. Nevetheless, I feel a gush in the wee morning and went to checked in the bathroom and saw RED. Sigh...back to the game of buying pads, mood swings, binge of chocolate and crampy tummy. Was at the supermarket trying to buy pads and realised I've not done that for a long time. I had forgotten what was the brand I used before and had to take some time to remember that I need to get which brands and types. Now the cramps are really bad and with the 3 kids around with no help, the best I can do is to let Hao do his own worksheets and Ee and Min play by themselves. Putting all 3 of them in the study room really makes my life easier to monitor them so I can rest a little. Contemplating to take some panadol to relive the pain so at least I can function better. Thank goodness Hubby will be back tonight and at least he can take over the childminding for a while tomorrow while I rest a little more (HOPEFULLY)!!!