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Presenting: Miss Claire Tan!

Sportsday 2011@greentree montessori

Its a sportsday where EVERY kid is a winner...

And with one of her besties, Christine

Happy birthday ah gong!

Our first trip to the beach, ALONE.. just mummy and dou

Need I say more?

Last week of the June hols in 2011

Our 4 yr old

Just an update of what our 4 yr old has been up to lately.

1. Piano (she could recognise some of the notes and practises rather regularly. It's easier to get her to the piano than do her split for Ballet) 

2. Ballet (Nice split and posture though she complains all the time about PAIN!!!)

3. Maths: Could count backwards, do addition, subtraction. 

4. English: At Peter and Jane 9B. Proud of her.

5. Chinese: A little slow in this department but we're getting there!

6. Art: We started art classes at Global Art and she loves it! At least we could see improvement in her colouring and perhaps drawing!

7. Social: Her best friend is still Claire Tan from Greentree Montessori. They stick together like glue though I would say Claire is usually the big sister and dou just sticks along... haha you know what I mean. She also plays with Christine, Yi yuan, Guan Hong, Alex, Si Kai, and so on. Seems quite sociable.

8. Teacher told us dou is no pushover in school. She would reprimand others for having bad behavior and this would get quite worked up. (Hmmm... I wonder if this is a bad behavior in itself.) You see, N likes to call her "bad princess" and coaxes Claire not to play with her but our little one stands up for herself by telling her NOT to do so.

9. It is now apparent to me dou has a happy go lucky character like teewui but she can be VERY stubborn. Getting her to apologise is not easy... She is also very sporty but hates the mud and dirt when it gets to her feet, just like mummy. (I mean the part about getting dirty)

10. She is into princesses now. She is salivating for a Barbie doll but I am absolutely against it. In fact, she doesn't read any princess books at all so I have no idea why and how she knows ALL their names. She could tell me why I don't buy Barbie dolls for her: Mummy, she has big bra (read: boobs) long legs, and long hands. Nobody is like that, right? So mummy doesn't allow me to buy Barbie dolls. But I dream(t) about buying one yesterday night. 

11. Routine:

7am: Wakie

7-8am: Breakie

830am: Reach Greentree

445pm: Reach home. (She started on the full day program in dec 2011)

5-630pm: Piano, Ballet or Play

630pm: Dinner

730pm: Visit yeye or some "academic work"

830pm: Reading

915pm: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Happy Birthday Ah Pui!

Our JJ turned one in June!

Happy Birthday Darling!

 

Downunder in June 2011

Here are some photos of our trip to Australia, Perth in June 2011.

Time to take stock of what happened for the past year.

Sumana was 3.5 when we went to Perth, (Harvey and Fremantle) and is now 4. 

We decided to self drive in the city and ended up losing our way as we attempted to drive to the farm. But before the commencement of all the adventure, here's a photo of our little diva at the Changi Airport.

 

Finally, after an approximate 4 hour flight, we reached our destination, Perth, at about 3-4pm.

Here's an excited Sumana with her Ah ma... not anticipating the adventure of a missed turn we're going to experience later.

The missed turn was an adventure that showed how courageous our little bean had been. Daddy drove passed the gate to our farm at Harvey and Yi Zhang had to run down the 7-seater, back track along the expressway before daddy could reverse... Yes... reverse along the expressway. Did I say that the sky was dark at about 6-7pm because it was winter? Ah gong was fidgeting in the car when dou woke up to a much dead pan nervous kind of silence. She knew instinctively that something was amissed and said to ah gong: It's ok ah gong, everything will be ok. 

And ok it would be. We finally arrived safely in our farm house, welcomed by 2 wild kangeroos that were shielded by the darkness of the night. We even had to open the gate ourselves and lo and behold, saw this note in the post box!

Well, it turned out, all the adventure and heart stopping reversing was all worth it. This is our cosy abode for the next 3 days.

And if you think tv and animal watching is all that we do... check out what our two chefs cooked for us! Cooking up a storm is an UNDERSTATEMENT!

And don't you wish we live in such an environment?

During our stay at the farm, Sumana was busy feeding animals, collecting eggs from the chicken coop, squinting her eyes looking at wild kangeroos, getting close to cows and seeing live sheep for the first time in her life.

 

I do not have photos of Sumana with the chicken and the cows on my iphone so we'll have to get this from yiyi's camera but here's us at the local Harvey supermarket.

After 4 days of being in the farm house, its time to go to the "city" of Fremental! We were surprised to see that Yizhang had booked a terrace house BY THE SEA! We literally saw yachts the moment we opened  our balcony's sliding door! wow!

What's a trip to Fremantle without tasting its famous fish and chips at Cicerello by the sea?

... And its famous chocolate factory??? Sumana was high from all that sugar rush! Chocolate Galore!

 

And some Kodak shots for the tourist mummy

Here's a photo of our dearie with her dearie - AH DANG!

And her dearie yiyi

And her dearies - Ah ma and ah gong

On our last day in Fremantle, we visited this Vegan shop that was "in teewui's words" my kind of place:

So bye bye Perth! see you soon!