The little rascal had become a true boss baby, often terrorizing his siblings who willingly indulged him in his whims. One of his favourite tricks was snatching whatever gor gor was eating or whichever piece of snack gor gor had chosen. The ever dutiful gor gor would always oblige.
Free playtime at the newly renovated Bukit Panjang library. There was a dress-up corner so jie jie dressed up as a bride.
Her first ever report card. Well, we did not expect Xun to top the class, it caught us by surprise. Well, mama actually felt pressured to give jie jie more work during the holidays so that we could maintain the lead. Of course, jie jie was dismayed, she was reluctant and had a sulky face and "earned" a dressing-down from mama.
mama talked to Aunt A about it and she gave this sagacious advice that xun is doing well as she is not put off academic learning as a result of being forced to in early childhood. Instead she could follow her interests and learn through play. Well....I supposed if this worked for jie jie, then we could continue till she reached a point when she needed additional help, and we could look into enrolling in tuition centres.
The ever compliant jie actually came to ask me when we were starting the assignments one day. Bless her little soul. She was a most obliging and dutiful girl. I told her I had thought about it and decided that we would not do extra work so long she could keep up in school.
Hurray, jie received a $20 Times voucher and use them to buy a surprise animal egg for herself and the brothers. Would you believe it? Xun squealed when she opened hers and got exactly what her heart desired - a unicorn! A rare one too. Jun was thrilled to get Hudson the husky, he had a thing for little puppies. Tong remarked that it would be so cool if he got the dragon. And he did! GOSH. Out of so many possibilities, they got the ones which they wanted in the correct order!
God was so good to us : )
On an ordinary day, we bumped into Xiaolongbao at the amphitheater. The munchkins had grown from being babies to toddlers with big personalities now.
Ha, the boys were in the matching tiger tees again.
River Safari
At River Safari. Maybe tong would really be a zookeeper or work with animals someday? He had such an ardent passion for animals.
The zookeeper asked if anyone knew what the iguana ate and tong answered correctly that it ate leaves. I would have never guessed that. Tong did retain a lot of those knowledge we read!
GBTB with Jj and Jay
If only we lived in a wintry country, we would be able to have a cozy fireplace too. Ha, sorry, nope, I hated the cold weather. If one of you ever studied in another country with winter, I would NEVER visit during that season.
Growing taller and taller
Dazzling displays
Did I see three cute little Christmas trees?
Where should we go next?
Hmmm...I forgot what they were asked to do...were they supposed to be shouting out to customers?
Never failed to take a photo on this lion sculpture. Aunt Val commented that Jun was a very photogenic baby. He looked adorable and cherubic in every photo, that cheeky one.
T-Play
Checked out this newer playground with Sera who was in love with Jun and only wanted to play with him. She did not even want to hang out with Xun and Tong.
Ha, see how they stuffed their shirts with balls?
Gigantic Pikachu at Hillion Mall
It was so cool.
On the train to City Hall to meet papa at his office
It was snowing, snowing, snowing here.
What a cute little merlion!
Birthday dinner for Ah Gong at a zi char place in the East
The boys were up to no good as usual.
Take a bow!
Merry Christmas!
Woah, what a cabaret-feel!
I remembered we had a photo of Xun snuggled under a pillow too. Well, I supposed this inclination to cuddle under soft things ran in the siblings.
papa bought this infrared BBQ set, he liked fanciful gadgets, such as game consoles, cooking equipment...anything to do with technology
The very first time it was being used! It was good for an intimate setting of 10 people, all could sit round the table and chat while waiting for the food to be ready.
It felt like the holidays were gone in a blink. As I was typing this, it was already 8.28pm on 31st December. We had just finished our dinner. The children were playing on the ipad in ah ma's room. 2017 had come and gone in a glash. I did not feel like we did a lot during this holiday, we did not have as many playdates as we used to, we did not go to any mall for the Christmas show...it was a rather quiet and subdued period of time...well, still, a toast to 2018, we prayed that 2018 would bring greater blessings. And surely it will, because we have a good God.
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