You've Reached All Your "Three"s for 2011

This is just a little self-reminder on how time flies and how fast this little Active bundle of Joy has grown over the short period of time... 30 months, to be exact.

As i took time to dig through his photos and came up with this little diddly-doo collages, i realized how much i have missed, how often i have forgotten what he looked like in his first years (while i was ALWAYS occupied with Chloe, i left him very much to the care of the helper... which i now REALLY, TRULY regret!)

Anyways, before i find myself procrastinate any further... here's the final project that will keep reminding me of how time FLIES and how FAST he grows up.

In the early days/months and still the BABY of the family...


Moving onwards inot his toddler-hood... and of course, the Terrible Two stage :p

And last but not least, finally turning 30 months in Sep 2011...


I am looking forward to your many more THREEs!

Sunday's a fun day...

weather was good and we're suppose to go play water at the indoor playground at IMM but...

it was closed for maintenance! what luck... but all is not lost coz we just headed just a few steps over to the playground next to it... along with a whole bunch of other kids, and it was not even 10AM on a Sunday morning!

playground, playground, here we come!


taking turns... helping to push jiejie...


now it's my turn! and when i'm done, i'll tell mamii... "Inish"! (missing the F!)


the wheels that gets us spinning around and round...


climbing up the tunnel and goes to the highest slide... by myself!


"Roar...."

down the slides we go, taking turns...


trying out 'assisted' rock climbing... daddy, don't touch my buttock!


after fun, comes food...


and after food, comes fun again... fruit slicing time!


yes... sunday's a FUN day!

her love for reading makes me happy!

"happy" is an understatement - i've Excited, Amazed and Ecstatic over it! :)

it happened since early this week when she dug out the loads of Joy Reader books which i've read to her (only a few of Level 1) when she around 2 years old. and since she found out how 'easy' it was to read as she knows a few of the words, she kept going and going and going...

and she loves reading them out loud and will only stop at words which she is unfamiliar with, and waiting for me to read it out for her. for some of the higher level books, she will ask me to read them for her. usually she'll say : "Ok mamii, you read this, i quiet".

i hope her love for reading is not only a 'phase' they go through at this age... hopefully she will continue to love reading, be it for academic purpose or otherwise.

meanwhile, i'll just continue to indulge in this little new-found happiness! :)

puzzling good times

the last time the kids played their loot of puzzles was many, many, MANY moons ago.
that's why when chloe suddenly asked me to bring out the box of puzzles, i was both surprised and happy that she still remembers this activity which she loved so much previously.

this time round, gaby tries his hands on them... but still unable to understand which parts of the puzzles goes where. and soon was out of patience and decided to 'destroy' all those that chloe had completed. oh boys...

happy to play with her puzzles again... look at that face!


gimme some time okie... i'll eventually know how to do it!


trying to rebuild the puzzles by NOT looking at the picture on the cover... as if that's possible! :)


our little conversation while she played her puzzle, where she negotiated for her bday pressies!

maids in waiting... as if!

believe it or not... 730 days can zoom you by just as fast as the weekend!
well... maybe NOT the weekend but it sure seemed like it was just a couple of moons ago!
and now i'm back to my search for Teban's NEXT TOP Helper.... keekeekee...



but it's really NO laughing matter... this searching thingy...



times have changed.
rules have changed.
the playing/searching field have changed.

it's not that easy to find a filipino FDW with experience.
their expectation have changed quite a bit, even those who have only worked for a year or 2 in Spore (i'm not even convinced of their working experienced back in their home country)
they are more demanding in terms of starting pay and off days and handphones and so on and so forth...

but i digress.

yes, my search for my replacement has been slow to fruition and time is not on my side.
those that i had shortlisted - 90% of them are unable to commence work. majority are faced with passport validity issue (need to have at least 30 months validity), while those that are available, are keen to work for expats or overseas. obviously spore is NOT such a condusive working environment for them as compared to HK, Taiwan, US or EU.

i still limit my search to filipino FDW as the comments i read from the forums about maids from other nationality... just doesn't fit my requirement. and because of this limitation, the list of potential candidates also got shortened. for example:

*NEW direct hire - they takes at least 2 months, which we do not have that luxury of time to wait for processing, etc and there's no guarantee they can come.

*Transfer maids - i've tried but so far no LUCK. (i believe on hindsight, this could be a blessing!)

so yes, i have only myself to blame.... at least for now... until i get one confirmed before my current FDW flies off to smaland...

i surely hope GOD is listening to my plight...

if only we are like children...

while the kids were busy hogging our Andriods last nite, i sneaked away quietly and decided to go online and watch my long overdue korean dramady (daddy hogged the sports channel on tv!).

i was only halfway through the FIRST Episode when Gaby came over.
he climbed onto my lap and said he wants 'star star'... watching his favourite 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' on youtube lah. i told him later he can watch, after i finished my show. he obliged and sat on my lap, watching the show with me.

less than 10mins later - chloe came over and wanted to get up onto my lap as well but was pushed aside by gaby, who now has sole OWNERSHIP of both my laps since he was FIRST to conquer them. and before they both end up fighting over my lap, i had to stop the girl from climbing and this made her upset.

in between getting upset with me and his brother, she blurted out "I Don't Like You" and hit me on my arm. Wah piangz... i gave her the EVIL STARE for a good few seconds and then sternly questioned her action. Before she could answer her daddy called her over to the living room area. Lucky for her, else she'd get a BIG piece of my mind! Grrr...

and less than 5 minutes later, chloe came back again.
by then gaby was somewhere in the kitchen with the helper, hence she just decided to climb upto my lap without any hesitation.

the following was our conversation:
M : You don't like me, rite? Why still want to climb on my lap?
C : Just now I don't like you. Now I like mamii.
M : Why just now don't like me? And beat my hand some more hor?
C : Just now you naughty. Now you not naughty. I like mamii so much! (continue to manuveure her butt onto my lap)
M : Why mamii naughty?
C : ok, stop talking. we watch starfall ok?
M : -.-

so at the end of my short-lived ME time with my korean dramedy, both of them got to watch youtube and starfall while i ended up logging on to FB via my Andriod. sigh!

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children are fast in reacting to their emotions, and it shows on their faces and actions.
but they are equally fast at forgiving, or should i say, forgetting about the previous incidents and moved on to the next activities without bearing further grudges.

sometimes we too should act like children... and surely we can all STOP sweating over the small stuffs and be happy with the 'moment'.

if only we can learn to be like them more often...

FUN.SHION

heard about this site 2 weeks back from the group of obasan in my office...
finally went to surf it, check it out, downloaded it and watch FREE dramas from it...

WOOHOO.... (BLISS)