(Oct 16) Nearing the end of October. What? So fast?

On a jaunty jaunt to the Lot 1's  library...eagerly anticipating our plaza's library to reopen again in early 2017. It would be bigger and boast of a better stocked kids' section...could not wait...

even Jun liked browsing the books...ha...what a cute sight of three of them at the table, side by side...

They enjoyed going to the playground so much...

Ha, Xun was a keen climber like mama, I used to scale such structures and do spins from the bars, it was a sight to behold, I was always very smug of my agility...so maybe xun had inherited that? papa would say it was all from his athletic genes..

San yi's MIL was sick so wai po was taking care of aden. It was astounding how wai po managed to make the two babies nap at the same time, on two mattresses, and she could still cook and...pass time peacefully...SALUTE

so wai po and san yi would bring the munchkins to the playground downstairs to soak in the sun

Xun carried jun down the slide and I heard he had a chuckling good time

Went to plaza and they had this model car, so xun asked to sit in it and proclaimed that it was rather comfy.

Tested the kids again on their love languages, took the 9-12 yr old quiz as they did not have one pertaining to younger kids. oh well...

Both of them love "quality time" and "gifts"...so I guessed papa and I know what to focus on. Mama was heartened that I left my full time job to be at home more for you.

Deepavali

ha, hardly ever spent Saturdays with you kids as mama worked on Sats. It was a  public holiday so we brought you to ORTO, a family park at Yishun where there was longkang fishing. Alas, it was raining cats and dogs, you two were very despondent...we were eating at the café overlooking the prawning section, the two of you moped and gazed sadly at them

papa sent us to ah ma's house and the rain lightened. We got ah gong to send us to Big splash instead. Wow, the stall uncle was so generous to us. We wanted to pay for 2 hours' of fishing but he stated that it would be too long a time. He gave us 1 hr 40 min instead and charged us only an hour and gave us a rental tank FOC so that you two did not have to share!

I told jie how good God was, that He had better plans. If not for the rain, we would not have come to Big Splash and experienced such blessings...and have the chance to check out the new playground at ECP. So everything worked out really well, way better than what we had planned. You knew why you were posing like this in the above two photos? The one on top was of you dancing with a cookie and this was of you running away from a bottle of ketchup. Yup, mama was going to publish a book of your quirky puns. hahaha.

we went past the road safety park and mama talked about how kids used to come here to play, it was really cool to be able to go on an excursion then, it was so rare. Unlike current times, when the kids got to go for excursions every term, and even primary school kids got to travel overseas! Even jie would be going for a stayover camp at Jurong Bird Park next week!

The new playground!

Jie sure loved to climb.

Tong the cute hamster in the spinning ball

We loved the nonsensical funny mirrors

loved the optical illusions

A man was putting up free bubble shows at the beach.

It was breathtaking, he used his homemade devices and bubble solution to make really lasting and beautiful bubbles...

The children yelped in delight and hurriedly sprinted to burst them

Delightful day. Happy Deepavali, kids.

At Sunday school again. I was awed by their balloon sculptures all the time, how did they have such fanciful imagination to do such fantastic designs?

Let us take off into outer space, babies. Love you so much. The December holiday was coming...yooooohoooooooooo

(24 Oct 16 Mon) Kidzania again!

It was the Monday after Arise night so it was a school holiday. Having bought discounted tickets from AIA which was a corporate sponsor of Kidzania, we headed to Sentosa for a day of fun!

First stop - haha bak kwa shop! no queue, phew.

The very handsome chef with an adorable grin

It was not as crowded as that time when they came with the school, but definitely not as empty as the time when we came for the soft launch. So thankful that Uncle XS gave us the passes then, it was really such an awesome experience.

Chefs in training

I thought they could bring the bak kwa which they made. Unfortunately, they did not. Alas alas. I was looking forward to some delicious BBQ pork.

There was a toddlers' room for little jun. It was modelled like a house, this was the living room.

There was a ball pit for the little ones to get some bouncing action.

This was a bouncy bedroom, complete with bouncy beds, it was really pretty.

The staff gave jun a stuffed dog, he seemed to take a liking to it.

2nd stop - at the dentist. Again, no queue! Hurray, and just the two of them.

Getting some hands-on experience.

They even got free tubes of toothpaste from the vending machine.

While waiting for the kids to be done, papa carried jun to explore the place

3rd stop - Police officers

It was a collaboration between the firefighters and police officers, pretty nifty idea.

The police officers cordoned off the area and kept people away from the burning scene while the firefighters extinguished the fire in the blazing building

4th stop - Air crew

They had to make announcements and serve food

back to the toddlers' section

while jie went for the fashion show modelling, the boys had a whale of a time in the toddlers' area

it really looked like as comfy living room

where one could lounge on the sofa

the kitchen was well furnished

jun raided the fridge

gor was whipping up a storm

tong helped me to take a photo. I was waiting for the food to be served.

Meanwhile, the acting academy was lacking one person to act in the ninja turtle show and they approached jie jie.

though she had done it before, she reasoned that going for the show was better than waiting for the modelling one to start

here, the legendary fearsome ninja turtles

She definitely looked cute in that costume

ah, taking a photo with the character she was acting, her favourite colour, purple

Next up - learning to be a paramedic/doctor for tong

Jie was not around so she did not manage to join this batch

the very attentive doctor

I was asked to be the injured party, ah, they used lipstick to create this wound

oh my brave knight in shining white coat appeared

I got a ride in the ambulance and took a photo of the adorable little ones who kept asking if I was REALLY injured

Well, they put a bandage on my arm and whisked me to take it off in a booth and let me out via a separate door so that the kids would think that I was really wounded, ha.

Last stop - at the shop. Tong wanted a dinosaur keychain which was 150 kidzos but jie wanted an octopus keychain which was 100 kidzos. they had about 230 kidzos in cash so she told tong that his was too expensive. Tong had to settle for a bulldozer and was rather disappointed.Jie forgot that they had some money in the atm cards too and she felt very apologetic about it, she kept saying sorry to tong and admitted that she neglected the atm cards and would give him a dinosaur toy which she got from Matthew.

ha the jailbirds.

They wanted to go to the beach..but papa was going for a wake later, we had played for an entire day, it was time to head home.

Check out their dramatic expressions.

Playing at the playground which we passed by...

So what a magnificent day...the kids wished they could come back again...hmmm considering how expensive the tickets were...I supposed that would be a long time later.

Wonderful, awesome day spending time together!