Jurong Bird Park

A very backdated post as usual. I have been really busy and tired of late, thus the slowdown in blogging.

After 2 years of residing in Singapore, we finally brought Joshie to Jurong Bird Park. He's been to the zoo twice, but not the bird park.

We had to pay an admission fee of $18 each (for hubby and I). It's still free for Joshie till he turns 3, I think. It was quite a gloomy morning as it was drizzling.

Here's hubby and Joshie with the penguins. We also had the opportunity to watch the penguins being fed small fishes. My little boy was very excited and for the next few days he kept on telling me "mummy, penguin eat fish."

Walked around a bit and managed to take pictures with some parrots in the enclosure. There was a bird each on our hands, with the exception of Joshie. Own camera not allowed and we didn't want to fork out money to buy our pictures so no photos of us with the parrots.

Wandered further and came across this lovely pink birds with long legs......the flamingoes!! They were a pretty sight.

Went in to the theatre for the King of the Skies show. Saw different types of eagles. They were really huge!!!! But I'd say nothing fascinating about the show, if you are not an eagle lover. Joshie quite bored in-between when no new eagles came out.

Also brought Joshie to watch Birds of the Skies show which was much more captivating as there were some performances, dancing and singing. The hubs and I were pretty much bored by that time and didn't bother fishing out the camera.

We left soon after the show. Walked around a bit to look at some other birds and we were out of the bird park before noon. I'd think the zoo is a much better place for 2.5 year olds.

Getting cheekier by the day

As the days pass, my little son gets cheekier. Full of funny expressions and speech which makes the hubs and I really tickled. Good stress reliever for the hubs who faces a lot of pressure at work.

This is the "I don't want to eat already" look........

He found a box of raisins while rummaging through my bag. Happily climbed onto our bed to eat, even though he knows he's not supposed to do that. This is the look that I got when I "confronted" him!!!

Hogging the bag of Twisties all by himself during a school picnic. See the look of pleasure on his face? How much he enjoys junk food!!! And look at the amount of junk food served to the children. Each one had a huge bag!!! This is the ONLY main reason I am unhappy with the school and thinking of switching him to another school.

Sticking out his tongue at Rion when she tried to take a glimpse at his iPad.

Some of the cute things that he says lately are:

Mummy, what this? Tell me, tell me.

Why you kissing me?

Clever boy!!!!! (praising himself every now and then)

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all mommies...........-big grin-

I received my first Mother's Day card from Joshie last Friday. He rushed out of the school door eagerly and passed me the card without wishing me anything! As usual, he proceeded to rummage my bag for food. Teacher Winnie then came up to him and asked "Joshie, have you wished mummy yet" to which he sheepishly replied "Happy Mother's Day".

The cheeky posing with his card. He kept telling me that he liked painting the card.

There's a little booklet of mother's day coupons that came with the card.

One of the coupons that I am entitled to redeem. I know Joshie will be delighted to help with the dishes. His idea of fun play since it involves water. But I'd think it means more headache for me......hahahaha. There were also other coupons like "one kiss", "one hug", "one dance", "read a book together", "breakfast in bed" etc etc.

Babysitting Rion

My Japanese friend, Motomi has just shifted to another condo nearby as the prices here have gone exorbitantly high. On moving day, I offered to babysit her daughter so that she can handle everything without disturbance from a toddler. Poor lady, she settled everything as her hubby couldn't take leave on that day.

Rion came over slightly before noon as the movers were supposed to arrive at 1pm.

The two kids having fried rice for lunch. Rion has a huge appetite.

After lunch, I bathed Joshie while Rion played by herself in the room. Then I put Joshie down for his nap while my helper played Rion.

Luckily Joshie napped even though he knew that Rion was playing in the next room. Rion was pretty bored playing all by herself. She kept on going into Joshie's room to look at him as pictured below.

By 4pm, she was really restless, even though Joshie had already woken up. She was also missing her mom and kept on asking for mummy. I tried explaining to her but it was really tough communicating with her as she doesn't understand English. Luckily I managed to amuse and entertain her till her mummy came around 5ish.

That was my first experience babysitting a toddler for such a long period of time, 5 hours in total. Actually I was real glad when Motomi appeared at the door :)