The Apple's Diary!

22 April 2015 When we picked Jonathan up from school in the evening, we noticed he walked with a limp. Then we discovered the deep bite mark on his left arm. His class teachers had left so I sent an email to his teachers and to the principal the next morning. the big red bite I was quite glad the teachers and school took quick action. They called me and updated me on their investigation within the same day. The classmate that bit Jonathan admitted it and his parents were informed. They were apologetic. We didn't pursue the matter any further. It would not be fair to blame the teachers too because we all know how little children would get themselves into trouble quickly even under our watchful eyes. However, we were puzzled that Jonathan didn't cry even when he had such a deep bite. Because he didn't even make a noise, so the teachers were not even aware of this incident. As for the limp, we still couldn't figured it out too.

4 months to 4 year old, Jonathan started to show more milestones being hit. At this moment, he is speaking a lot… sentences, questions and answers. More new words came up e.g. my favourite, troublesome and today, he started to use past tense " I told him …." Besides language development, I was pleasantly surprised that he could do simple addition, finally demonstrated his proficiency in alphabets, numbers and lastly, Heguru's dot bar. Heguru's dot bar is presented in table of 3, 5 or 10. I self made this dot bar and have been revising with them for the longest time and he suddenly reciprocated. All these developments made me realised the importance of speaking good English in front of them, because they really absorb and would reiterate in future when they are ready, be consistent and persevere on imparting skills. tracing his name His school teacher also remarked the improvement in his handwriting and attitude towards learning. He is starting to show mor...

18 - 20 March 2015 Legoland Trip with my brother's family and parents. It was a dream come true for Jonathan as he had been talking about Legoland since last year. After we booked the trip, he started to countdown the days before he could sit on the coach and head to his dream land. Matt in his coach ride We went by package tour with WTS that arranged for our coach rides (2 way transfer), our 3D2N hotel stay at Legoland hotel itself and combo theme park tickets with multiple passes for 2 days plus daily breakfast. Everything was smooth. We selected Big Box as our pick up point and the coach came on time. It was a smooth ride with no delay and we arrived at Legoland before 11.30am. Legoland Hotel Entrance Playing Lego bricks at the lobby fun fun fun The boys totally loved the Legoland hotel. The reason was simple, it spelled FUN. Once we stepped into the hotel lobby, it was Lego everywhere. So while the adults were busy checking in and depositing o...

28 March 2015 The queue to Parliament House to pay final respects to LKY has been overwhelming and I only managed to reach PH in my 3rd attempt. The first attempt was Friday wee hours at 3am. I didn't expect the queue to have a 8 hours wait and I calculated that I would not be in time to settle the boys. So anticipating that I would need extra help, I got hubby to get MIL to come over on Saturday morning if we managed to go but not back in time when the boys woke up. However, on Saturday wee hours 3am, I learnt the queue was temporarily suspended due to overwhelming response. I went back to sleep but on off waking up to check on the queue status. We did our usual Saturday routine and at 12+pm, I read the queue was about 4hours wait. The boys napped early and we made a dash down. My 3rd attempt. We parked the car at Raffles City smoothly, proceeded to follow the direction to queue. We didn't have to wait too long. We walked fast and kept moving. I was quite concerned about...

23 March 2015 Singapore grieves as our nation founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed on this early morning at the age of 91. It was an extraordinary Monday with people from all walks of life gathered together to pour out their condolences to our nation's loss. I didn't expect myself to be penning a post on this remarkable man nor finding myself moved to teary eyes when I heard broadcast on his lifetime achievements. It was strange since I have no ties, I have never even come close in his presence or have any crystal clear impression of our first Prime Minister. Yet, the heart loomed with the news of his passed on. I guess the only link I have with this leader was he set the foundation of this Singapore I know, live, breathe. You know you have not lived in vain when you leave footprints in others' life. Mr Lee, you had lived. It is regrettable that you couldn't see the nation's Jubilee Celebration as we enter into our 50th year of independence. But...

In our family, we celebrate birthday in every quarter. We started Q1 with the man of the house's birthday. @ MIL's place But the birthday has evolved. Instead of celebrating for the actual birthday boy, we got 2 really excited young ones, singing the birthday song, blowing the candles and cutting the cake. Children… everyone's birthday has become their birthday! We took some time out on Monday to enjoy couple time. The last time we stepped into a cinema was last April, watching Noah. After a year, we finally got a chance to step into the cinema again. We watched The Kingman. It was a good pick of movie selection. Before that, we had a quick causal lunch at Poulet. Poulet @ WestGate mushroom soup We actually wanted the French Onion soup but somehow, I got it mixed up and ordered Mushroom soup. Still, it was pretty impressive. Salad de Paris We loved this salad for its unique combination of taste - something sweet and so...

My expectation of Matt in CWK's program is almost non-existence. All I wanted was that he be happy. When he brought back his 1st art craft, I was pretty impressed by his 3hr kindy. 1st Art Craft - CNY decor I didn't think that the teachers would have much time to do anything else after the toilet break, lunch break. But look, they got the 2-3 yr old toddlers to do up this CNY decor. my little cheerio Good job, my little cheerio!