mama Met Auntie Wee Kean at Forum. She was one cool cat, she organized Chinese playdates! We had only managed to meet once at Botanic Garden and had not been able to join her and her beautiful daughters. Well, since the two of you napped early today, we were in time to catch her 4pm playdate at Lorong Kismis!
Today, the theme was on water play. First we drew the sea and pasted fish.
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| What an awesome collection of art work! |
Exercise and games time!
Oh it was a little girl's birthday on Fri so she brought along a cake!
All the kids adored the stunning cake and could not resist wanting to touch and eat it.
Auntie Wee Kean had wanted to set up the inflatable pool for the kids to play but it was raining. Well.. we made do with watering the plants and pouring water...
You had fun and asked to come back again. Well, if timing permitted, we should definitely do so. Mama always wondered how preschool teachers could tolerate taking care of whiny, temperamental and moody kids for long hours every day...in the 1.5 hours there, the two of you got into skirmish every now and then...crying coz a little boy knocked into tong...crying coz an auntie accidentally stepped on xun's fingers...whinging coz both of you wanted to eat the cake before the celebration was over...and take the toys on top of the cake..yammering coz you wanted to play with the inflatable pool...grumbling about the games as you wanted to hold on to the water balloon...
It affirmed my decision to keep Xun with tong till Xun was 5 and Tong was 3 before you started school. The teachers probably had no patience to soothe you when you felt hurt, they probably had no time to stop and answer your never ending questions...they needed to instill routine and discipline, they needed docile bodies...
I was exhausted after the event...it was still raining, we ran in the rain to the bus stop...and ended the day with dinner at Wai po...
what an eventful day...
mama did not expect you to be top in the class or earn loads of money or be some high profile achiever. I prayed for you to do your best in whatever you endeavored, that you gave glory to God...that I wished that you would look back upon your childhood and it would bring a smile on your face as you recalled having a carefree and joyful one...that you had a good childhood...not attending lessons incessantly, not sitting through flashcards...not memorizing facts in preschools...I did not know if this was right...since it bucked the trend of most singaporean parents...in all things, we had comfort that God is sovereign and He would make all things good..
I love you two to bits.
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