Hooray Claire…

 This is her 1st time running with so many people, 1st ever race in her life and definetely 1st time getting a finisher medal…

 :)

The starting line…

Runner getting ready behind the starting line…

More runners Q-ing up behind…

Race for those below the age of 2… Parents running with their baby in the pram..

Here they go…

Time now – 0945 and it’s finally our turn to run…

The cheer leader mummy…

She does not want to run… End up I carry her 750m out of 800m…

And here comes XX crossing the finish line.. :)

XX Showing everyone her achievement…

And here she is with the medal..

I am so thirsty…

Let’s drink together…

And more drinking…

Cold Storage Kid Run ’12

Play area for the kids..

All so shag walking to the carpark…

Mummy wasn’t free the whole day & therefore, daddy gonna do his part today to bring XX to class. Mummy was with her the last 4 lesson & this is the 1st time I am accompanying her.. Send mummy to Toa Payoh & we were off to Thomson. Time is still early, we proceed to Long House for breakfast before we proceed to class…

Breakfast at Long House before lesson starts…

Everyone parents are doing their own things.. Hee Hee

Has always been running at Hougang stadium & this is the 1st time we are running at Toa Payoh Stadium..

We reached.. Time for change up…

XX showing good sign.. We are good to go…

XX standing one side, waiting for us…

While waiting, she does her stretching..

XX would like to encourage all her friends to keep fit & be a healthy kid from young…

Happy Mother’s Day to all mother out there…

Hope you have enjoyed the wonderful day with your love ones…

As for us, we celebrated our mother’s day at NSRCC Swimming pool & then drove opposite to the Zhi Cha Store for Dinner…

There are enjoying themselves…

Now they enter the adult pool… But how come XX is in there???

Playroom after swim…

Nia Nia & XX – While waiting for the food to be served..

My Brother Daniel & I…

My Mum & Daniel..

And this time round.. My Mum & I…

What we do after the meal??? Take photographs… :))

Happy Mother’s day…

The last photo before going home.. We will be coming here again on Father’s day… Who want to join us???

Cold Storage Kids Run ’12 is getting closer & it’s next Sunday… Last Sunday we drove to the F1 pit (beside Singapore Flyer) to collect our goodie bag…

Collection of goodie bag starts at 11am. Since we are early, we stop and took photos.. :))

Sign Board leading us to the entrance…

The early birds.. We are one of them.. :)) Collection start 11am sharp..

While mummy Q for the goodie bag, XX draw something for mummy…

Mummy is so fast.. While drawing half way, mummy came with the goodie bag and we stop the drawing. Anyway, this is from XX to Mummy.. Happy Mummy’s Day…

Our little one’s name tag… SOH FUN…

This is what we have inside the goodie bag…

Here we come, Cold Storage Kids Run’12.. See you there…

Flu & Slight fever hit XX this weekend. It’s been more than 6 months since the last time XX fall sick… 

Bought the medicine from Guardian Pharmacy at Tampinese Giant… Walk over to the pharmacy counter, asked for fever & flu medicine but we were surprised that she asked us to get from the shelf instead. XX has turn 2 years old & she no longer needs those prescribe medicine… All these cost us $20/-

Everybody don’t feel good, can’t eat much, don’t feel like doing anything when we are not feeling well but we need some fresh air for awhile… Therefore, we brought XX out to meet TYL & Jasmine at the peak while XX can have some fresh air & play at the playground for a while. We went home for an afternoon nap shortly afternoon lunch. XX also skipped today’s lesson because we do not want to spread the virus to the other kids. Anyway, Congratulation to TYL & Jasmine – they will be getting their house key end of this month… :))

My cousins were there early in the morning – 9am but we can only go in the afternoon after XX’s afternoon nap. When she woke up at 2pm, Punggol was raining cats and dogs. I check if they are still there and they say YES… We proceed after receiving the comfirmation message… When we arrived, it’s still dizzling…

XX riding on a big bike…

Jia Ying Jie Jie pillion XX MeiMei……

The 3 girls…

Is mummy struggling? :))

Mummy also on the bike…

The 3 girls..

Why so happy?

The Slipper that makes her so so happy..

meyouandourlittleone….

Mummy creation…

Grandpa & his grand daughters..

Keefe climbing the tree..

My Cousins – Joyce and Grace

She is doing good..

She is on kids scooter..

XX and Keefe…

XX on a big BIKE…

Learning how to skip…Will they skip better than Chloe?

See how she skip..

And XX is tired… :))

Thank you cousin for the invitations & food provided.. Looking forward to the next gathering.. )

We have always been jogging in the afternoon & now we have decided to jog in the morning instead, I mean just for today…   We have missed our April Run which I have promised in my earlier blog but nevertheless, we have been bring XX for a swim almost every weekends… This morning run was at Bukit Timah and we choose Bukit Timah for serveral reasons.. We have not been there for quite sometime and we missed the slope. We, especially XX can train her legs when she run OR walk up the slope… Too bad, she refused to even walk when we were there… The running trip failed this time…

Warm Up Stretching Before Running… Did you notice something? She is stretching her hands instead of legs.. LOL

Here we are… At Bukit Timah Nature Reserve…

Car Park Full & we have to park along the road side…

Mummy tied her hair before the run…

Is mummy too slow??? :))

Yeah… We are ready to go…

Carrying her starts now & ALL THE WAY….

The sign board…

XX is more interested in monkeys rather than running…

Do we look alike?

Another reason for going Bukit Timah was King Albert Park. I just heard from mummy that King Albert Park is closing down and that includes everything in the building – Macdonalds, Cold Storage, etc… We will miss it..

Here we are at King Albert Park…

Another one from Mummy…

Good by King Albert Park…

More news about the closure here

We are not professional photographer who can take beautiful shots but we love to take alot of photographs, either from our iphone or digital camera. So many photographs that we might be able to win the guinness world record - just kidding From all the photographs we took, mummy will choose the nice ones & we will develop and fill up the album… We love to travel around to explore interesting places, take photographs of the place & of course us in it.  If you have been following my blog, I did mention that we still have 3 stacks of photographs not filled up in the album because we are still waiting for Alan to call. Alan is a professional photographer who took our wedding actual day photographs & we will look for him if we needs empty album – of course not free, we pay for it.  Photograph means memories & I strongly encourage friend to keep all these memories…

Spend our fun and enjoyable weekend at SAF Seaview Resort..

Many people ask me how to book this resort & therefore I will answer the question here… I received the “family recognition voucher” from SAF during my In Camp Training (ICT) & therefore I was able to book this chalet… So if you intend to book, get help from those in the SAF. They will be able to help you if they want to :) Good luck & enjoy… 4 Days 3 Nights cost us $456 (after $100 voucher)…

Upon check in, you will be given 2 door access card, 1 car park label & wifi login card..

One resort is entitle to one car park lot… Visitors can park along the road side.. Don’t worry, no one gets any summon in the past few days…

This is complimentary… Includes one packet of charcoal, tama, tong & wire mesh…

Our little one enjoying the scenery…

And here come Josh, surprisingly 1st to reach…Josh park his car at the open car park & we are transferring the items he bought to my car… I will drive to the designated parking lot which is nearer to the resort…

Josh enjoying himself…

He starts to set up the fire…

And here come 2nd & 3rd… Freddy & Meng…

Hungry.. Let’s start to BBQ…

The resort has everything… They even have rice cooker…

BBQ in progress…

It’s time to top up charcoal…

The ladies chit chatting while the guys sweat…

This resort really has anything… :)

Wine time…

James, Calv & Josh chatting…

BBQ…

These are what we ate…

Ladies continue to chat…

Meng caught me taking photo.. :)

It’s time for poker…

TYL the winner intially.. But lost everything at the end & don’t want to pay up…

Ladies are tired…

Day 2… This is our view from level 2 room when we woke up…

Went home to fetch Nai Nai & Ye Ye… Look at how many bags they brought… Are they going to one month stay at the resort?? :)

Nai Nai reached… Preparation starts…

Curry chicken by May Teo…

Bee Hoon by May Teo…

Delicious Curry Vegetables by May Teo…

Nai Nai preparing for tonight’s BBQ…

Preparation in progres…

Tong is back from the beach…

And he is washing…

This is day 3 where we choose to BBQ indoor… Cousin Grace nice pose..

Uncles & Aunties Chit Chatting…

Hello Everyone…

May Teo Relaxing…

Great weather… But it’s raining soon…

BBQ…

Nai Nai and XX taking photo…

Still rememeber I blog about “I inspired people” early this year when one of the attachment student appreciate my blog and start his own blog to share. I feel so good & this motivates me to continue writing…  When I first start to blog, I never expect people to thank me for what I have shared but definetely I feel good when people compliment. Anyone don’t? I believe everyone loves to be appreciated. Today, one of my good friend send me a Watsapp & ask me to go for it. Should I?

To go for it or not? :)

And this is only for daddy blogger? I wonder how many daddy blog? :)

Let me introduce you a place where you can develop your photo at a cheap price – 15cents per piece. In fact, this place was introduced by Jasmine. Previously, we went to Jubilee @ Ang Mo Kio which is also 15cents per piece…

100 pieces of more – 15 cents per piece…

The outlet in Toa Payoh…

Photo albums are getting more… We have 3 album for our wedding, 1 album for honeymoon in Europe, 1 album for Bali trip when XX was 6 months old & the last album for our recent trip to Taiwan…

As we want to have standard albums, we are still waiting for another 3 empty albums to be delivered to us before we can put the remaining photos in…

If you are like us, love to develop your photo, it’s time to find a cheap source… For 100 pcs of photos you develop, you save $5 (If you develop at 20cents per piece). However, if happen to come across cheaper source, pls let me know… We just spent $150 for 1000 pcs…

Lesson 2 @ Zoo-phonics

Another lesson this weekend and XX came back with another piece of work… She place it on the TV Console to showcase to all aunties & uncles… Pls refer to mummy’s blog on further review on Zoo-phonics

I’ve always been telling people to start doing it right now & you will never be late. Instead of looking back & ask yourself why you didn’t do it when you are 10? or 20? which is impossible, doing it right now is definetely not too late Even if you are 80 yrs old reading my blog, start doing it right now & you are not too late… So for our little one, we cultivate her to start understanding the benefit of saving up.

Every morning, mummy & daddy will give her 10 cent each to drop it into her coin bank… We will educate her along the way and when it’s filled up, we will blog again. So stay tune…

Finally, mummy has decided on Zoo-phonics @ Thomson & today is their 1st lesson… If you have been following my blog, you will know that our intention to enrol XX into Enrichment class is to explose her to the outside world, gain independence & to interact with the other kids… Today is the 1st day and XX is still shy & did not interact much with the kids. Will we see improvement on this? Let’s see and stay tune…

We enrolled XX into Zoo-Toddlers (18-30 months) & this programme allows 1 parent to stay with the kid… We choose the Sat programme because it includes 30 minutes of Mandarin & we are allowed to go for the Sunday programme if we can’t make it on Saturday.

Their enrichment programme sheet.

Total we spend $270 today. $120/ month – 4 lesson, $30 for registration & another $120 for deposit. We need to inform the centre one month in advance in order to get back the deposit.

Her paint work…

Another school work…

Mummy accompany XX in today’s lesson & therefore she will give a better review about it… Visit her blog @ http://clairesohxiaoxuan.blogspot.com/ for a more detailed review…