School Holidays Again!

June school holidays are here! A month, loads of activities to keep Chloe occupied before she starts bouncing off walls.

Plays, movies, playdates, shopping and a little stay-cation on the to-do list with more lined up. We kicked off with a play 'The Gingerbread Man' at the Alliance Francaise, followed by lunch and a shopping trip.

'You are a monkey, Ooo-ooo ah-ah. I'm a koala.'

So happy that her Yis brought her to Toys R Us and went rounds with her checking out the toys.

Boy meets Dog

They make eye contact for a split second.
Sunny is bored. 'Another one?' Raphael is very excited, he squealed. 'Finally!'

Raphael crawled and reached out for Sunny

'Friends? C'mon, don't be shy. You have been eating my crumbs for months.'

Sunny break dancing for Raphael. Dance to friendship and more food crumbs!

Cold Storage Kids Run 2009

This is Chloe's first run, 750m for a start. Too much for a 2 years old? I figured if she can run from one end of T3 and back, she can do this, after all there is a Plan B - piggyback ride by Simon.

We chomp down some breakfast and set out early, drop Raphael at mum's place and off to the Padang. Mother hen shooing everyone out of the house, we don't want to be late for the excitement at the starting point, turns out I'm wrong. No fanfare, no countdown, just a honk and off we go. Okay, this is not the Bay Run or Standard Chartered Marathon.

A little disappointment, we got separated during the run hence no pictures of Chloe running. Simon was so excited when they sounded the honk, he grabbed Chloe and turbo charged ahead. Yes! All the way to the end, leaving me behind looking everywhere for them in the sea of green. Argh... He was very excited too as this is also his first run.

All ready to do 750m!

Her race tag with her name printed on - 70019. Alas, it was thrown away by mistake, sob!

May the force be with you, Cranston.

Her first finisher medal!

Recharging with her 'isotonic' cream.

Show Time!

I'm so extremely excited and proud when I received the email from Chloe's teacher that her class is going to sing and jiggle during their weekly assembly again. I bugged her the whole week prior to the big day for a sneak preview, 'Chloe, can you show me what are you going to sing for your class performance?'. All I got was a sheepish grin. So the big day finally arrived. (Hmm... if I'm going goo-goo gaga over this, I'll probably burst if she's going on stage for real.)

Singing her Mandarin nursery rhymes with lots of actions. She was enjoying all the attention, applause, all the mama-razzis with their cameras clicking away and all the cheering.

Charmaine giving out their certificates for putting up such a good performance. Well done!

Picnic at Botanicals Garden

Whenever there's an outing for the kids, we always prayed, hoped and keep our fingers crossed for great weather. This time, we had to double cross our fingers that the 'pigs don't fly', darn the swine flu. The outing was almost cancelled when the health alert was raised to the red level the week before the outing. That spells big trouble. Phew! Thank goodness, the alert was revised. Cheers to good health and good weather. The kiddos had a fabulous time.

Chloe's morning eyes - small and little puffy.

The teachers - Armed with books, keyboard and CD player. All set to entertain the children.

Surprise! Surprise! Little bottles of bubbles from the teachers. Chloe huffing and puffing for a bubble. She blew with all her might, trained from extinguishing numerous birthday candles. She was blowing soap suds onto my face.

There you go girl! Bubbles!

As usual, taking the obligatory group picture was impossible. The bubbles were the culprits this time.

Seeing stars!

This little person here loves his stars! That is his snack, Gerber stars and the Baby Bites. Here he is, picking his stars one at a time and by the handful which is more productive.

'Snack time!' Hoooooray! Attack!'

'Mummy's one at a time is too slow. THIS is better, do it the Singaporean style - by the handful.'

'And Mummy's way, one by one.'

'Real good!'

'All gone?!'

Our First Chinese Orchestra Concert

We attended our first orchestra concert, a casual one just for kid, titled 'The Musical Rainbow'. The orchestra played some familiar tunes like 'Do-Re-Mi' and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' with Chinese musical instrument like guzheng, pipa and suona, very refreshing. The conductor introduced the different instrument and explained about different scales and notes too.

Chloe really enjoyed the concert and danced non stop with Cranston when the conductor invited the audience to boogie to the music. They let loose and go all the way out, the pair had their own audience, yes.... people were watching them, clapping.

We are definitely coming back for more!

The giant Chinese drum outside the hall.

Beating it with some help from Uncle Ronnie.

The 2 of them fighting for Cranston's toy camera.