Pizza Making Day

Rynae's teacher has requested to bring a tupperware and a slice of cheese for today's pizza making activity, to elaborate on the current theme - Pete's a Pizza. I did a google search and the book is selling at US$11.55 in Amazon. Actually I find the book cover familiar.. Think I should have seen it somewhere before.

When I went to pick her up from school this morning, she was dressed in paper-made apron and crown hat, every bit like a chef! She brought home a pizza too and we shared it together. It actually taste quite nice! Yummilicious!

Alien Invasion

After watching Stephen Chow's CJ7, grandma got to know of a new character - a lion-looking pet alien (named Qi Zai) and Rynae was being introduced to it soon enough. The 'pet's' rather attention catching, making squeaky noises every few minutes so we decided to unplug its battery supply. Rynae called this green creature her pet and had quite some fun ferrying it around the house in her scooter and tricycle. Catch some sniplets of it.... Pardon her. She isn't too gentle with her 'pet' though...

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Letter of the Week

Rynae came home with yet another craft yesterday - a letter C hanging mobile made from dough. Though she knows her alphabets long ago, it is still an interesting way of educating the children, letter by letter. Well, at this rate, if the school teaches 1 letter per week, it would take them a whole year to learn all 26 alphabets!

Swimming @ Laguna

For the first time, for 2 consecutive days, Rynae was brought swimming. This time to faraway land - Laguna Golf and Country Club. Da Yi has been singing praises of its pool facilities so we ought to go there to experience it. There were slides but expectedly, Rynae daren't use them. Nonetheless, she enjoyed the company and commented that she would like to go again.

Tampines Swimming Complex

It was our 2nd visit to the Tampines Swimming Complex with Rynae's cousin. We had actually wanted to cancel the swimming trip as NEA's website weather report stated that it would rain in Tampines. Apparently it wasn't accurate.

We were first to reach so we changed Rynae and let her play with the water while waiting for them. I noticed that it takes her much shorter time to warm up now than previous swimming trips and I accord that to frequent visits to pools. There were 2 slides but she was too afraid to use them. She was satisfied playing with the shallow water all right.

A musician in the making

Rynae has requested for a violin for the longest time and her wish was finally fulfilled by Ah Ma. The only complain she has about the violin is that there're no (professional) music coming out when she strum it. Errr... well.. practise makes perfect.... Gagagaga...

A messy treat!

Rynae ate her porridge cooperatively and knowing that, she asked for an ice-cream as a reward. I opened up the newly bought Moo cone ice-cream and shoved her one to eat by herself. Split seconds later, I decided to spot check her. Lucky I did so, cus you cannot underestimate the mess! Never never leave your children to eat ice-cream cone by themselves. See what happen here...

Acceptable mess

Hmm.... heavenly.... more mess...

Oh my god!

Mum! Help me!!

3 Little Pigs

I was being asked for 5 toilet rolls and 1 shoe box the previous week and I finally saw the end product today - 1 toilet roll wolf and 1 shoe box pig. In the curriculum update by Rynae's teacher, I understood that the class was told the classic tale of 3 little pigs henceforth these crafts help to reinforce the story in their mind and to spark their imagination. The pig was the biggest craft done so far and I do have a moment of dilemma (due to shortage of storage space) whether I should just trash it away. I didn't of course. Maybe let it sit on the shelf and collect some dust to show my appreciation first. Haha.

First Morning Swim

In recent weeks, late afternoons always showered or the skies were always packed with vapour choked clouds. For the first time, we went swimming in the morning instead of taking our chance in the afternoon! Rynae woke up early that Saturday morning and that gave us ample time to prepare for the swim. We hit the pool before 11am and gosh! The water sure was chilling! Embarrassingly, my used-to-warm-baths body took a while to adjust to the low temperature. Sun was soon out and the heat coming from the morning sun made me feel so athletic.... psychologically....

My Portfolio Cover

Dear Parents,

We need your kindest attention and fullest co-operation in participating in an activity. Your child requires your help in completing an assignment. The assignment is entitled 'Design Your Own Portfolio Cover Page'. The design, colour and font size depends on your own creativity. Looking forward to your participation and wonderful creations! Happy designing...

I was amazed when I saw this note in Rynae's handbook last week when I went to fetch her. Parents kena homework? There was an outline and proposed template so I thought I could easily settle it in powerpoint. After double checking with her teacher the next day, I was told to involve Rynae in the making of the portfolio cover.. Now, this is the headache part. How and what shall I ask her to do? She hasn't the motor skills to do proper, nice colouring (I don't want to end up colouring for her) hence I kept colouring minimum - just 'My Portfolio'. Her major contribution is the punching, glueing and sticking of the leaves. Minusing away the mandatory information, there wasn't much space left on the A4 hence involvement is thus much. We're both quite proud and happy of the end product.

Proud Portfolio Cover

Extra leaves are being used to play as 'food' to play

How Good Friday was spent

21 Mar was a Good Friday holiday and we decided to spend this Holy-day (pun intended) shopping in Cityhall. Daddy needs to make a trip back to office to pick up his forgotten house keys hence we waited for him in Raffles City. We moved on to Marina Square next and got to know that Puma was organising a Fashion Show in the mall. Rynae had her fun with some Fisher Price toys in Kiddy Palace and a S$2 kiddy ride. Tea break was spent at Kopitiam and mummy ordered her fav waffle ice cream and grass jelly! The waffle ice cream was yummilicious! It brought back the good old A&W days. As for the grass jelly, it was disappointingly tasteless!

DVD for Recommendation

I was disappointed when I couldn't find any Little Einsteins or The Backyardigans DVD for Rynae during my last trip to the library. There weren't any interesting titles to borrow too. Rushing for time then, I simply grabbed Bounce:Emotions! with curiosity of what could be within. Hope it's not another crappy show. Production of this title was simple and economically inexpensive as it was casted in a studio with just 5 toddlers and a music therapist. Furthermore, the duration of the DVD is a mere 15 minutes! However, I would say that this is worth a watch as it teaches children about emotions, which is what we feel inside! It identifies emotions such as being happy, mad, scared and silly through friendly and interactive songs and dances. Knowing and understanding how oneself and how others feel is important in day-to-day communication. I would say this brushes a child's EQ!

Orchard Shopping Day

The wet spell that smack right in the holiday week is a curse that's keeping everyone indoors. Thank god the weather's fine over the weekend. Having coop up for so many days, we decided to head down city belt to Orchard Road for a shopping spree Saturday. Timing was coincidentally well planned as a show just started when we arrived at Forum the Shopping Mall. Rynae enjoyed the show and even participated in the boogie dances!



Mummy couldn't be more delighted to chance upon Little Einstein's VCDs in a toy shop. She couldn't find it anywhere else on this little island thus had almost ordered the latest Feb 2008 DVD titled 'Race for Space' over Amazon! Oh Boy, wasn't I glad I hesistated! What a great feeling of satisfaction. I grabbed 2 VCDs, one of which Rynae had seen but I do not mind owning one of our own as it is very difficult to borrow Little Einstein's series in the library.



The Talking Hall in Taka was having a small-scale toys sale fair and Rynae insisted on a S$5 toy. Captured herein was her victory look.

1st School Holiday

7 March is the last day of school before the 1-week school holiday starts. Ever since the little one started school, Mummy has to take note of school terms, which was oblivious to me previously. Rynae received a puzzle from NEA that day. It was actually a public education campaign initiative by the government agency to create more awareness about the prevention against dengue fever. Was good to receive a free toy anyway. Gagaga.. She also brought home another piece of art and craft - a rooster made from recyled honey stars box, bubble tea straw and drawing board. Excellent! Now.. where shall I keep it?

More Prezzies! Yippe!!

Uncle Leslie's Mama came over recently for a short holiday and along with her are 2 blouses that Uncle Leslie has bought for Rynae. Uniqlo (a household name in Japan) is not available in Singapore yet hence there is an almost 0% chance that there would be a child spotted with the same top as Rynae. That's one thing Mummy likes about imported or limited stock merchandises. Fox apparels are simply too common! Well, Mummy used to buy Hush Hush clothings for Rynae but this brand has withdrawn out of Lion City about 2 years ago. Wat a pity....

D-I-Y Play Doh

This is the 2nd time mummy DIY a Play Doh for Rynae. Though a little troublesome, it saves $. Most important of all, the made-from-natural-ingredients DIY Doh does not have a strong synthetic smell and it is easy to clean up! I lost the recipe I tore from a parenting magazine but I could still remember the ingredients used. Not the portion of each, however. Anyway, to share with you, here's what I used:

- half pack of plain flour
- few tablespoons of cream of tar tar
- few tablespoons of salt
- few tablespoons of cooking oil
- water


Freshly made Doh


Doh with permitted food colouring.
No preservatives added.

MC

Rynae fell sick 2 days after the IMM trip and we guessed it must be the afternoon heat.. causing her heat stroke.. or.. whatever you call that.. Luckily, she recovered the very next day! V is for Victory or Victim? Hee..

IMM open water playground

I read from Straits Times a few months ago that IMM has a new open water playground. Some mothers in my neighbourhood have been talking about it hence we decided to bring Rynae there to check it out. We have no idea where and which floor it is located so we shot right up to level 5, speculating that it should be at the roof top. An empty hall greeted us at level 5. We went 2 levels down and Daddy spotted the playground on level 2. It was pretty hot at 12ish pm therefore we allowed Rynae to play in the dry playground only (which is beside the wet playground). We revisited the place at about 4ish pm. The sun's less blazing then, so permission granted to play!

The dry playground

The wet playground

Vege Stamping on 19 Feb

Whenever mummy feels like role playing as a teacher, she'll think of something for her only student to participate in. This time, I cut up some carrots, potatos and broccoli stem and carved some simple shapes onto them, to be used as stamps! Rynae love the activity but Mummy can tell that she is more interested in squeezing and mixing the paint rather than on stamping!

Gift of love from San Diego

Auntie Sharon came back to Singapore during the CNY holidays and along with her is a demin dress she bought from San Diego for Rynae! What a lovely thought... The dress is a little oversize now but it will suit Rynae perfectly next CNY. Mummy like the dress a lot because of its simple yet classy design. Most important of all, the demin fabric is soft! Great buy!

Belated Birthday Present

After dinner, as usual, we brought Rynae to Kiddy Palace to have her fun there. I decided to get the little gal a Toy House because I could use it as an educational piece of material for role playing to teach discipline, time management and respect etc. Anyway, we didn't get her any birthday present so let this be considered so then.

10th Indo Trip Home

Mummy and Daddy brought Rynae back to Indo during the Chinese New Year for the 10th time and below are some pictures to share with Dashing Mama's blog fans!

One moment, she was eating with style. The next, she knocked out.

Playtimes like the good old kampong days....

Drinking coconut water, fresh from the trees....

Any idea what this is? A slide on a school compound playground made from tiles and cement! Mind your steps!

Birthday Girl Treats!

Mummy decided to make 29 Jan special for Rynae, being her 1st year of school, by making her little goody bags to give out to her classmates as a form of announcement and well wishes for her. As it was mummy's 1st attempt in preparing goody bags, she spent several sleepless nights planning the number and type of things to include. In the end, she prepared 15 packets of it, each with 1 mentos mini, 1 M&Ms milk chocolate and 1 Wang Zai mini mantou. In total, 10 goody bags were given out and 5 were brought back home. The cost is broken down as such:

Mentos mini x 2 packets ($1.05 x 2) = $2.10

M&Ms milk chocolate x 1 packet = $4.95

Wang Zai mini mantou x 3 strings ($1 x 3) = $3

Goody Bags x 2 packets ($1 x 2) = 2

Manpower Cost = FOC!

Total = $12.05

Each Good Bag = ($12.05/15) = $0.80