Swinging Day

SMS: We are going to Waterfront for breakfast picnic.
Reply: Okay, buy tau sa pau for me, I’m on the way.

That’s how we started the children’s official June holidays. I can foresee many more abhor decisions to bring the girls out during this period. That is how life should be right? Just be spontaneous and fun.

Thanks to Kless who is always on the lookout for new and fun activities for the family.

Every moment is a photo moment.

The swing has to be the favourite for all 3 ladies.

Jayne has a bit more difficulty getting on the swing, but given the competitive nature between the 2 girls, she won’t give up without a try.

Did I mention 3 ladies? Cos Kless also joined in for the fun.

I have 3 women who really loves the swing. Joey & Jayne trying to follow Mummy’s swing-steps.

Ear Piercing Experience

We promised Jayne to bring her for ear piercing when she turns 3. Finally the day has arrived. We prepared her for many weeks, told her the pain will only be like an ant’s bite, the pros out-weights the cons. Truth be told, Daddy Isaiah is more gan-chiong than Baby Jayne. Most of the time when the 2 girls went for their immunisation jabs, it was Kless who brought them into the doctor’s room, I will stay outside and wait. I can’t bear to see the girls feel the pain and cry.

But this time it’s different. I stood firm and managed to take some photos for memory’s sake.

Jayne sitting on the chair, getting ready for it. Can actually sense her anticipation and slight tinge of uncertainty.

BRAVO to my little girl. Papa is so proud of you. You are so brave! Check out this short clip, sorry for the image quality, I was too gan-chiong and it happened so fast.

Jayne’s ear piercing

No tears! No crying! Such a wonderful girl!

Maybe she was a bit startled by the gun pierce sound.

Like what Kless said, suddenly Jayne looks so much more demure with her new earrings.

Told her we will be shopping for some cool and nice earrings in Gold Coast later in June.

Jayne Turns 3

2 weeks ago Jayne finally turns 3 years old. In a way, I’m 3 years older (hopefully wiser) as a father. This fatherhood road has been a journey of fun and laughter more than anything. Jayne is such a darling, living up to her name, 以心, she is really a darling that touches our hearts in such a beautiful way. She is always so eager to greet you when you stepped into the house. She is always looking out to see if you (kids) have toys to play. She is so sweet and will just come up to me suddenly and kiss me on the cheek and call me “Daddy” in the most beautiful sound ever heard.

Just look at her smile and all your worries will vanish.

We did a McDonalds birthday party for her this year. Secretly I think all children should have at least one birthday party at their favourite place. Papa Isaiah didn’t get his chance when he was younger, so he is trying to fulfil his own dreams too =)

Just look at the nice posters on the wall. So colourful and vibrant!

The kids get to wear a nice crown and eat their favourite nuggets or fries.

Parents and adults have a rare chance to just relax since the kids are just enjoying themselves in an enclosed area with someone to entertain them. Win-win scenerio.

A collage of the kids & a few adults playing games organized by the Mcdonalds staff.

My dad was also there, his birthday is just 2 days before Jayne, so technically we are also celebrating his birthday too.

For the entire 2 hours or so, Jayne was so cooperative and smile at every photo chance. So much so, her smile became a bit frozen.

Thank you to all our dear friends & children who came and made the celebration more meaningful for Jayne. I’m sure when she is older, she will look at all these photos and remember the moment we spent together.

Yo, Sista! Yo, Sista’s love!

The birthday girl making her wish and blowing the candles.

Even cutting the cake needs to be so drama-rama. But who is to say no? It’s her birthday party.

This is the first time I have seen so many people willing to pose for a funny shot. Even my mother and father-in-law joined in too. Cute!

No birthday party is complete without the family photos. With 奶奶 & 姐姐.

With 公公, 婆婆 & 舅舅.

The Kuan Family.

Children’s Season - Art Garden 2012 @ SAM

International Museum Day is a day to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society. Organised by ICOM (International Council of Museum), this event has been around since 1977.

In Singapore, International Museum Day 2012 (IMD) is celebrated on 19 May with free admission to participating museums and galleries. For the full list, click here.

Jointly organised by National Heritage Board and the Museum Roundtable, Children’s Season offers children programmes that seek to engage and educate the young ones.

This is the 3rd year running for the much-loved Art Garden @ Singapore Art Museum.
The famous Walter is back!

And so are the J Babies!

The girls were so excited to see these mega earphones and they took turns to be DJs. So cute.

Do remember to visit the Round Table-tennis Room. So creative! If there aren’t so many people in the room, I will also go into the circle and play.

I guess Jayne’s recent favourite colour has to be yellow. She was so excited to see this huge piece of yellow canvas. In Singapore where academic is usually the priority, I’m trying to expose the girls to the artistic and creative things too.

After a long walk through the exhibits, they were so happy to finally had a chance to so some art themselves.

Slowly the painting is showing. Jayne chose to draw circles and lines with different colours. Joey drew a garden with trees, butterfly and clouds.

The end product, lanterns!

Before the museum closes, we still have time to try out the hand-painting segment. Since Walter is one of the main mascot for SAM, naturally the painting has to be the cute white rabbit.

J1 chose a butterfly with Walter, she had a nice flower bracelet on the other hand too.

J2 followed ‘jie-jie’ and chose a butterfly. But with her cuteness, she got a bee painting too.

We spent 2.5 hours at SAM, missed out on the balloon sculpting and paper boat activities. But still the girls are happy. We still have time to re-visit again.

Fun With 3D

A few weeks ago, we visited our relatives in Malaysia and my cousin brought out a set of 3D glasses for us to try on. It was absolutely too much fun for the girls.

I think they were watching some shows where this guy in the show was throwing some money. You can see my girls are well trained to receive when given. Even virtually.

Oh well, you can blame them if their grandmother (my mother) does the same too.

Guess it was too real for them bah.. So happy to see my mom enjoying herself =)