Decorating for CNY

Since Mama is due to give birth at anytime, Papa and Mama prepared all the Chinese New Year stuff much earlier this year! Even buying they pussy willow like 2 weeks before CNY! Gwendolyn, as usual, was so keen to help with decorating it! See how she climbed up the sofa and helped with hanging up all the decors!

Auntie Mary!

Auntie Mary is Mama's primary school friend. She came to visit us and stayed with us on 11-12 January! We had a good time...first had dinner at Clarke Quay's Italian Restaurant and then ice-cream at Haagen Daz! The following day, we went to The Cheese Prata Shop next to NUS for breakfast, before heading to Mount Faber's Jewel Box for a light lunch, feeding some fish, before we went shopping at Vivocity!

Gwendolyn enjoyed Auntie Mary and Uncle David's company so much, as Auntie Mary brought along her Nintendo DS machine, with Lyn Lyn's favourite Dora game...she knew how to play the game immediately after Auntie Mary's taught her the basics!

My special 2 scoop chocolate ice-cream!

Not sure how Lyn Lyn managed to take a smokey effect picture for Auntie Mary and Uncle David!

Ice-cream for Papa and Mama

Busy playing NDS at The Cheese Prata Shop

Our light lunch @ Mt Faber Jewel Box

Watergun Sword

If you can remember, Gwendolyn asked for this watergun sword whilst shopping for X'mas presents at Toys R Us in early December. She didn't get to "open this present" until Boxing Day! Finally, she's got a chance to play with this sword, when Papa brought her to the swimming pool!

Looking so girlie with a sword?

Even though it was rather cooling on that day, it didn't deter Lyn Lyn's interest in trying out her watergun sword! Papa challenged her to rush to the floating sword to see who's faster in reaching the sword, so as to be able to shoot the other person! Lyn Lyn, as her usual self, being very competitive, rushed to the sword and kept shouting to Papa: Don't swim so fast! Worrying that Papa will be faster than her to reach the sword!

I shoot you, Papa!

Don't splash water on my face!

Having fun with Papa in the pool!

Not forgetting to show-off her princess swimming robe!

Breakfast with Ms Angeline

Ms Angeline has been a regular to this blog and a close teacher to Gwendolyn. She started to take care of Lyn Lyn since she joined Etonhouse 2 years ago in the Pre-Nursery class, as she was taking most of the after-hours duty! Their relationship grew from then until now...even after she's left Etonhouse for good about 6 months ago...she's still very close to Lyn Lyn.

We met up for breakfast on a Saturday morning @ McDonalds (as requested by Lyn Lyn), at IMM...we're catching up with each other and had a good time! At first, we thought that this was the first time that they met outside of school...but when Mama thought back, no...it's the second time! The first time was the Dora Lookalike Competition, where Ms Angeline and Ms Wahila went to Forum to give Lyn Lyn the support!

New Academic Year - New Phase!

Gwendolyn is starting Nursery 2 this year! What's the difference? She has to start wearing uniform, follow a full-day curriculum during school hours : 9:00am - 3:30pm, etc...That translates to no formal nap time during school hours, no more shower after lunch, as there's no more nap time...what a change for her! But she was very excited about her uniform and thinks that she is now a "big jie jie"!

Since she's been enjoying a "lazy-bone" school holiday sleeping routine during the last 2 weeks of December, sleeping only at around 12midnight, Mama thought that it would be rather difficult for her to adjust : waking up earlier to go to school and have a full-day curriculum! Ms Jam, her new class teacher and Mama agreed to just observe her for the first day and see how things go! What happened on the first day? After lunch, she was so tired that she held on to her Spot and Steve and looked all teary, informing Ms Jam that she was very tired! Since it's only the first day after the school holidays, Ms Jam brought her to Victoria Falls (N1 class) for a short nap! Poor gal...but after that short nap, she was all happy and re-joined her classmates for snacks and a story!

P.S. We've heard of the fact from Ms Jam. Guess what Lyn Lyn told Papa and Mama after school? She was so creative that she's changed the timing of the whole matter, telling Papa and Mama that she napped in the morning and woke up for lunch! Hm...was she genuinely creative or did she have problem remembering the sequence of events? Something to think about...

Do I look smart in my new uniform?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We went for steamboat at grandma's house on New Year's day! Bao Bei Gu Gu and Gu Cheung bought Joel and Gwendolyn a present to share! Guess what? It's a spin-by-yourself toy! When Mama saw it, Mama understood the rationale behind buying this toy...as Joel and Lyn Lyn will always ask Gu Cheung to carry both to play the dizzy game! As time goes by, both have gained more and more weight and it's getting tough for Gu Cheung to carry both for the game! The alternative? To let them spin-dizzy by themselves! See how excited both are at this new toy!

Lyn Lyn giving it a try - so easy...as she's played coffee cup at HK Disneyland before

(Note: box said that maximum weight is 15kg...think Lyn Lyn is over the limit already!)

Joel learning to turn the steering wheel and spin by himself

Both excited about trying out the new toy, even though it's not fully assembled!