The Heart Dog

Chloe received this stuff dog from her teachers for her birthday. It came as a simple white dog and 4 coloured pens. Since colouring is one of her favourite past times, she colours in a 'heart' a day.
Its been 2 weeks since her birthday and look at her doggie now...sprinkled with pink, blue, green and orange hearts, and it even has eye lashes!!

Little green fingers

The Peanut plant

The Passionfruit seedling

On weekday afternoons, Chloe spends time with Ah-Ma after school. During their time together, they do some gardening and take a look at Chloe's plants! She planted them from little seeds and now they are actually growing!!

Erm...cos if I assisted, they would have died long ago, so I'm proud of my girl with little green fingers!

Another school next year

The famous spaceship playground

One of the walkways of the school

Last weekend, we went to Maris Stella Kindergarten to pay for C1's school fees to confirm her place there next year, 2011! She will be attending the afternoon session in Bluebell class! All the classes are supposed to be named after beautiful flowers, until I found out that there was a class called Golden Shower! To make things worse, Chloe is supposed to be that class for in the morning session. Thankfully, I had to change her class to PM, phew!!!

Gawd, dunno why no one has told the nuns the other meaning of this...Maybe I should?

Chloe is 3!

The Birthday girl: Tinkerbell Chloe

How time flies! Our dear Chloe just turned 3 on Monday and we had her birthday bash at the club again over the weekend. Besides the usual balloon sculpturing, we had face and body painting plus a wonderful magic show from Uncle B! =)

I'll load up the pictures on FB for all to see once I receive them from our photographers.

For all those who came for the party, hope you had as much fun as Chloe who was totally pooped out and thank you again for all your company, well wishes, love, presents and ang baos!

The Thank you card which I made that never got printed coz our printer ran out of ink. Sigh!

Chloe's flowers

Ever since we made a trip down to the Garden Show, Chloe has been into flowers, especially Ikebana! One of the reasons is becoz Ah-Ma is really good at it. 
Anyway here are some of her recent creations...she even made a hand bouquet for Alexis for her birthday lunch!! 

Family Tree Clock

Last month a couple of us went down to Clay Cove to make our very own Family Tree Clock.

The little ones enjoyed getting like hands dirty by rolling out the clay and moulding the different shapes. I think some of the dads enjoyed it too!

Make me a princess

Chloe's princess

Chloe has been in Princess-mode recently, ever since we attended a Princess themed party. Yup, she wants a Princess birthday too!

I came across a free Princess application on iphone - Make Me a Princess *beams*. I quickly downloaded it to satisfy her "Princess-y" needs.

This is a girlie-girl application just for girls who like to play dress up and create their own princess character with different hair, dress, tiara, bag, earrings shoes...and simply try out different combinations. Be warned, this app can be addictive!

Mother's Day

Look what I got from Chloe for Mother's Day! Lurve it! =)

Chloe's school work

Every Friday, Chloe's school bag will be stuffed with her school work. I always marvel at how she is getting better as weeks go by. Every since she has been attending school at Aunty C's place, her speech dictation has improved. Not forgetting her handwriting and colouring - yes, she is still trying to colour within the lines but hey, she is only 2!

Check out some of her work I received last week.

Around the house

"Pig Face!"

C2 pretending to be Minnie Mouse - Thanx for the pressie Aunty May!

Chilling by the steps

Ever since we got our new camera - Canon G11, I try to take more pictures of the girls at home, hoping to capture their many happy and cheery moments!

Goodbye Little Gym...

C1 doing her bear walk

Bubbles on the tummy!

2 little monkeys hanging on the bar

For the last 6 months, we have been waking up early every Saturday morning so that Chloe can go for gym class with her pal, Emma at 815. This term, Chloe won't be going to Little Gym anymore coz she has moved up 1 level and the class schedule does not suit us anymore.

Looks like it will Chelsey's turn once she turns 18mths!

Swim class

The girls having fun on the 'magic mat'

Chloe & Emma just before class

Swim term just ended and there is no swimming lessons this week. From next week onwards, Chelsey will be starting her swimming lessons **finally!! she was on waiting list since last year**

Because her class is on Sunday afternoons, Chloe will be transferred to a Sunday class so that her class is right after Chelsey's.

This means no more class with Emma and Chloe will be having new swim coach! I'm sure Chloe will miss Coach Sam and most of all Emma in class 'monkeying' around with her on the magic mat, but we can always still go swimming at the pool downstairs our place! =)

C1 @ school

Chloe with he favourite 老师

Chloe has been going to Auntie C's Montessori-style home school for the last few months. Since attending school there, she has been come more chatty and sociable. She even speaks in whole sentences now. She has also been singing quite bit nowadays, especially in Mandarin but I can't seem to understand it yet, except for Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars!

Zesty Spot

Chloe and one of her many BFF's Kimberly

Chloe and her favourite Chinese teacher Sherry

Caught Chloe in action on her last day of school, enjoying circle time

Chloe's last day at Zesty was more than a month ago but still remembers it. Everytime we drive past Pandan Valley, she will shout out " That's my school!"

Just another 'ordinary' morning

The every morning when I drive Chloe to school, I try to make it a point to have our little mother and daughter conversations.
Last week we had 2 muscially linked conversations.

Part 1
Driving past Botanical Gardens, along Holland Road

C1: Mummy, look! Monkey!
Me: Where?
C1: In the tree?
Me: What colour is it?
C1: Black
Me: What is its name?
C1: Bad romance
Me: What kind of name is that?
C1: Like Lady Gaga
Me: *&%$#??!! What else do you see? (attempting to keep the conversation going)
C1: Owl
Me: What's the colour?
C1: Brown
Me: What is its name?
C1: Wonder girls!
Me: *&%$#??!!


Part 2
Just driving out the car park and saying goodbye to Grandma, Grandpa and Chelsey at the car park.

C1: Where is Grandma?
Me: Gone to the market
C1: Where is Grandpa?
Me: Gone to the market
C1: Where is Meimei?
Me: Gone to the market, noboday is at home
C1: (breaking out in song) Nobody nobody but you! *clap*clap*
Me: *&%$#??!!

All I have to say is that Chloe has been influenced by Papa's choice of music and he is a very proud father! =)

Anyway, here is the link to a weird video of wanna-be Wondergirls dancing to the Nobody.
Enjoy!

Room on the Broom

Chloe's favourite book of the month!

Our tickets to "Room on the Broom"

Every night, we read a book to the girls before they go to bed. Its part of our bedtime ritual after the girls brush their teeth. For the last few weeks, it is always the same book, "Room on the Broom". Since I took her to catch the play at the DBS Arts Centre, she always wants to read this book and every other night we have this coversation:

Me: What book do you want to read tonight?

C1: Roooooom on the Brrrooooommm

Me: Again?

C1: Yes, the witch with the cat, dog, bird and dragon and monster!

Me: Ok (reluctantly)

I wonder how many more days or weeks this will last.

Chinese New Year

http://project-little.com/index.php

We had quite a tiring CNY this year with lots of visiting, plus the hot weather didn't help. The feasting of delicious food and catching up with family made up for it. Not forgetting the girls enjoyed collecting their ang baos from relatives! I'm very proud to say that Chloe can readily say 'Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fai Cai' when she receives an ang bao. Good job! =)

The other day, I overhead a conversation Grandma had with Chloe

Grandma: Do you know what is inside the ang bao? ?
Chloe: Money
Grandma: What is that for?
Chloe: To go shopping


Spoken like a true lady! haha
Hmm.. This gives me another task to instill in her the value of money.

Swimming lessons

Chloe's certificate end of the swim term

The only picture I have of Chloe's swim class - the group shot, given by the school

Chloe asked about Coach Sam again today. Coach Sam is Chloe's swim instructor at Marsden Swim School (Turf City). We have been going since the last term together with Uncle Jeff and Emma. I don't have any pictures or videos of Chloe swimming as I am the one in the water with her.
I must say that her confidence in the water has improved over the last few weeks - jumping into the water unassisted, swimming under water with her eyes open and being able to blow bubbles. My only gripe about the whole swimming class is the coach's singing, but Chloe doesn't seem to care. She enjoys the whole class and even sings along sometimes!

Progress report at Zesty

What the teachers say have to say....

The cheery cover of the report with pictures of Chloe at school

Chloe's artwork and painting

Received Chloe's progress report and artwork from school earlier this week.

I'm impressed! =)

Ugly nose

Ugly nose no more!