Archive for June, 2010
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Playmobil
I wish… Just like in the beautiful utopia world of Playmobil, the little guy would already be toilet-trained… Slowly weaned off drinking from his milk bottle… He would be able to self-feed… and transition from sleeping in a cot to a toddler bed… The little girl would become accomplished with using her camera… and learn [...]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry and Ahoy! Me Hearties!
The husband and I are avid fans of board games, from the traditional Monopoly and Risk and Cluedo to European ones like The Settlers of Catan, Ticket to ride, Ark of the Covenant etc and we wanted to start the children young. The children’s aunt gave them Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry for Christmas and the [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Children Development,Family,Talia Ann,Thaddeus Aaron by Jaime
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
JG holiday program
It has been a hectic hectic week for me last week. I took all five mornings off to bring Talia and Thaddeus to Julia Gabriels holiday program at the Forum. I did this last December as well but couldn’t get Talia into a class because it was full! It’s not cheap mind you! 1 kid [...]
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
Sandcastles
There is something very tugging about the repeated requests of a little voice. Ever since the school holidays started, the little girl has been repeating on and off on separate occasions on her wish to go build sandcastles. Being the more practical minded one, the husband asked me if there is any playground nearby that [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Family,Talia Ann,Thaddeus Aaron by Jaime
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Twinkle twinkle little star!
Oh! this is like so many other run-of-the-mill vids posted at youtube – your kid singing twinkle twinkle little star! But its memorable for ME not because well, I am the mum (that counts too) but because I saw how he progressed until he sang this fully at 21 months old. He has been singing [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Children Development,Thaddeus Aaron by Jaime
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Amusing the kids in the museum
To be very honest, I have not visited any museum in Singapore before. But the few weekends in May, there were some activities for kids going on in the various musuems in Singapore in conjunction with International Musuem Day so we trooped down to National Musuem on Saturday. First up, there was a large velcro [...]
