Our good friday activity--cycling

Cycling it was. We decided to spend the Good Friday public holiday at East Coast Park cycling. It turned out to be an unwise decision. We saw more humans than the grass *laughs*
It took us by surprise that the kiosk where we often rent our bikes sort of ran out of bikes for rent-at least those bikes with child seats were not visible in that kiosk. So, we had to walked over to another kiosk to rent our bikes.
This time, I braved myself to take B with me. I was so nervous as I had not taken any of them on bike rides before. This task was usually assigned to A. I mean he is the better rider than me definitely. However, yesterday, I was thrown in a situation where I had to do it no matter what. I was left with not much of a choice It was either I sit in the heat and people watch while waiting for A to take each of them on rides or I joined him and escape the heat which means I had to take either one of them. B was my choice given her lighter mass.

I successfully took B on the bike ride without any accidents. Hooray! We even cycled to Bedok food center to enjoy some yummy barbequed chicken wings. There will be more rides in the future definitely!

Sand play

A couple of weeks ago, we decided to head to the beach for some sand play. The weather looked good, so off we head off to the train station. Of course, mummy went through some chaotic madness before the trip. It has been the usual routine that I have to go through before each outdoor trip we take which includes occasional screaming and chasing around after the two. Haha! tried to minimise that and still working on that.
We were greeted by the sunny weather. Ilyasak took out his sand toys and immediately started his play. B joined him too but not with the sand of course as she would probably just put all the grains into her tiny mouth. Then, the weather got a little on the warmer side. Ilyasak started to complain about the heat and requested to go home. I coaxed him to stay on for a while and encourage him to play with his toys (Ilyasak is still eating his lunch at that time). B was getting louder too as if protesting me to take her away from the heat.
Then, the weather took a total change and became cooler, I was delighted. The change spur me to stay on the beach longer when suddenly the RAIN just crash on us. We had to make a dash and the nearest shelter was the bicycle kiosk. We were soaked to the skin. Nevermind me, but the kids were soaked and boy! was I worried that they will get sick because of the rain. I quickly took out the towel and towelled their heads dry and change them into dry clothes.
Once dry, Ilyasak, was his usual self. He starts monkeying around and even went splashing around in the rain thinking he was paddington bear in boots. He even asked me,
' where is Ilyasak's boots?' There I stood worried but he was having so much fun in the rain and I thought I should just leave him in his wet clothes. B on the other hand was socialising with those around her who was seeking shelter as well.

The rain stopped after an hour or so and we made our way to te taxi stand and took a cab all the way home. There goes my intention of saving cost which is to stop at a train station to take a train home.

Nevertheless, we had great fun!

indoor playground

I managed to take I and B to this indoor playground despite the chaos start in the morning. Thumbs up for mummy for getting my 2 pumpkins ready and out by 3pm. Both managed to have a short nap too.
However, when we arrived, the sight of the indoor playground send a bulk of disappointment to me. It was really small to start of with and not much activties for I to play with. Nevertheless, I was obssessed with this fisher price ride on car and B was all over this colouful push cart, so I figured it was worth my $12 and my taxi fare after all. This is one indoor playground that we will not visit anymore as it is not worth the travelling ordeal that we have to go through.

She liked this wooden push cart a lot that she managed to climbed into the push cart herself.


In the pushcart already


He was so obsessed with this ride-on.


Almost drowned in the sea of balls.

Sand and water play

We were off to East Coast Park last Saturday. We had such a blast. I had his much awaited water and sand play. This time we came geared for his water play unlike the previous visit to the beach where water play was not in our plan and he was drenched from head to toe. Even A was geared for his son's water play. B just stayed on the beach mat with me playing with some of the sand toys. Blur me forgot to pack her toys.
After the sand and water play, we rented this 3 wheeler for I to try. He enjoyed it very much and claims the he can ride it very well.
'Umi, I dun want my skate scooter, I want the 3 wheeler. Tomorrow we buy'. That's what he said. we had such a good laugh when we hear that. He even relate his new love for the 3 wheeler to his grandpa.
Anyway we had such a blast that day and definitely there will be more of such activities.

Graduation day

We attended I's graduation day today. My boy has graduated! It seems like it was just yesterday that I send him to his first day of school. How I remembered that he refuse to let me leave the classroom and insisted that I stayed with him.How time flies and how much he has grown to what he is now. It made me realise how we as parents should cherish these golden years that we have with them before they grow and get themselves busy with their own agenda- needing much less of their parents.

Reading

An update on their reading:-

I is now reading 5a of the p&J series. I'm extremely proud of him and at the same time very happy at his progress. Of course there will be some words which he will deem to forget. Probably I should write those words and stick them up on his cupboard. I have been slacking on that.Time to work mummy.
I have stopped teaching him the complex phonics which are the long vowels and the silent 'e' words. He tends to be confuse and mix up all the vowel sounds. Well, I guess I kind of overdo it. I mean he is only 3 years and 3 months. I should probably hang on a bit till he is a bit more mature before going on to the complex vowel. But, then again, I am put on a dilemma that I'm not fully exercising his potential since he already knew all the basic phonics. I go into more deeper thinking into that.

As for B, at 7 months, she doesn't seem very much interested in books. Read to her a book and that is probably her max before she wiggle and crawl off your lap despite how colourful the book is. Ehmm!! that can be worrying-what if she don't really develop the love for reading. Well mummy just have to work a little bit harder and continue to read more to her.

I tend to taste my book at times...

I's 2nd last day of school

Gosh! How time flies. It's going to be his last day of school tomorrow. Funny though I am the one who is feeling so sad that he will not be going to that school anymore. When I asked him if he feels sad about not seeing his teacher and friends anymore- he just said ,'sad...which school ilyasak will go to next year. After getting a reply from me, he will ask again, 'at which block?'.My boy, he doesn't know what sad means I guess.
I have grown to like his teachers very much and feels very sad that he is going to have a different teacher next year and has to try to adapt to his new school environment. I hope I made the right choice in enrolling him in the new school though.
He will have his graduation party tomorrow. One might wonder, 'huh! graduation for a playgroup boy'.I must say, I'm pretty excited myself. he is going to perform 2 songs..AH! can't wait for the 'mega'performance of my boy and the other 3 year old classmates.