K swims!

This was K swimming on her own for a few metres this National Day weekend. Yay! Well done little girl! We are so proud of you. Incidentally, this is also the weekend she is trying to cycle without her training wheels for the first time.

B visualises

B seems quite visual. He was eating grapes one dinner.

"Look mummy, look like giraffe," he said. And it really did!

And on another morning, while eating apple, he said, "Look mummy, duck!"

And just this week, coming out of the bathroom, this is what he saw. "Bird, mummy!" he cried out. And again, he was right.

K says

K: When mummies get pregnant, how do the babies get into the tummy? Me: Papa will answer that question. LOL. Are we at the birds and the bees already? At 4.5 years old?!

National Day 2012

The kids were to celebrate National Day in school. They were told to dress in red and white. Took some photos before they left for school. It was hard to get the two of them to pose nicely. B kept hiding behind his flag. And when I took a nice one of him smiling at the camera, K was tired from waiting for the brother and wasn't smiling. This was the best I could get.

Here B decided he wanted a horn.




The whole school was ushered to the nearby badminton court for the station games.



The K1s.

The toddlers.

  

The older ones got to play games. 

Passing the rubber band with straws. That was what we used to do like some 25 years ago!

There was K receiving her rubber band. Am thankful they were the first class to do this. Wonder if the other classes had to reuse the straws? Eeks.

K being very careful not to drop it.

Pushing the ball with a paddle around the cones.

Kicking the chaptek. 

Transferring water with a plastic plate.

The young ones got to play with bubbles.

Sat in a circle and played simplified bowling.

Some prevented the game from continuing by holding the bottles.

B was looking around for K.

And yet again, not engaging in the activities for his class but was looking for K.

The little ones rejoined the older kids for a time of singing "Happy birthday" to the nation.

K was also looking for B.

B looking for K again.

Made to sit by his teacher.

They finally spot one another and waved to each other. How cute.

The family dressed in national colors to watch the parade with the grandparents.

The kids in red and white.

B's language development

How do you say "Banana"?

Somehow he can't say "banana" but he says "bantanana".

Before B went to school, the only Mandarin he knew was his name. And that was after drilling him so that he would know when his teacher was calling him. He was learnt two new phrases.

加油! 加油!

This is what his classmates would say during outdoors to encourage his friends to run.

不要

His favorite phrase these days when he doesn't want to do something.

Kim says

P: We can't eat MacDonalds all the time because it is not healthy. K: Because it's fried, right? P: Yes, that's right! (Very impressed) K: Fried. Like French fried, right? LOL

Ben says

Someone was practising cutting with a pair of scissors. 

B: Watch me, Mummy.

Me: Ok

B: Put down phone.

Me: (Oops) Oh, ok.