Our Long Weekend

It has been a FULL of activities & gatherings weekend for us.

First, we had a all night prayer meeting in church, I was helping with the children and Ezra was there from 7pm - 11pm!! Lai Kuan challenged the children that they too can rise up to pray. After the all spiritual feeding, I took over by feeding them with snacks!! hahaha... we baked cornflakes cookies with the children!! The kids were all so excited and for many of them, it was their 1st experience with baking!! The results, of cos it was the most yummy cookies they tasted cos it was done by them!! We should do this more often with them. Ezra stayed up until almost 12am with us!! Well done son.

Sat morning, we organised an early picnic at Botanic Gardens with some families and of cos for Anthony who was here for the weekend for some very exciting personal matters. We had fried noodles, baked chicken wings, American carrot cake, yummy buns, coffee, tea & milo! Its was so nice to just sit around and sip on coffee in quiet and beautiful nature.

Drumsroll for all the wonderful friends & families.... oh b4 I forgot.. all these pics were taken by yours truly!!

Ka Yun, Florence and Baby Zoe who is only 2+ months old. Flo was a little shy to take a nursing pic but with some encouragement, she nodded her head.... I tot the pic turns out NICE...

Brian & Lai Kuan with their instant baby!! We are praying that God will bless them with one of their own soon...
Dan, Fiona, Janek & Anneka. Anneke was so sweet and demure while Janek was a little camera shy...
Joanne, Natanya, Nadine & Nadya. Nimrod was not able to join us cos he had some shofarok but definately his lost. To be honest, some of the pic here were taken by the professional.... can see some difference rite.. I need to polish my skills more!!

Anthony, Anthony, Anthony of the tree... shake down the boomerang. Thanks to Brian who throws the boomerang high up the tree at his 1st throw!! Anthony wasted no time and climbed up the tree and tried all his might to shake down it down but it was just nicely hanging on the branches!!
I was so busy taking pictures for others & totally missed out taking our own family!! But it was good that I took some pic of Ezra. He found this branch & shouting "hoho monster tree!!"

The children had lots of fun... they did different things...

Bubbles

Bark and leaves rubbing

Even cricket taught by Dan & Fiona...
As the weather gets hotter, we packed our bags & went to MOF for some cold desserts & some of the men had their set meals...

Here is what Jac has... Yummy!!


On Sunday, after church, Jac, Lai Kuan, Hui Qi and Anthony caught a movie "The heart locker" at Marine Sqr while I stayed home with Ezra so he can nap. After that, we brought Anthony to Marina Barrage & it was CROWDED!! I cant believe how many kites were there & wondered how anyone mgt to fly the kites up... would not their lines crossed! We stayed there for a while & headed to Joanne & Nimrod's place for Sushi Party!!
Since Monday is a school holiday, I invited my team of teachers and staff to my place for popiah party, I was so busy preparing popiah, nonya chicken & fried wanton. It was very fun to see different sizes and shapes of popiah!

Ezra as usual had lots of fun the Thaddeus running up & down the house & had even more fun with the Nef guns.

Mdm Tan, Sharon with Kayla (Rebecca's girl) and Mdm Tang

Jenna, Mary & Helen

Kayla with mummy Rebecca & Stacey

Pretty Kayla.. see how big her eyes are!!Of cos we had a very shy Daniel (Rebecca's hubby) who refused to be caught in pic & Jenna hubby who came a little late. We missed Gabriel, Vivien & Liu who cant join us.

In the evening, my in laws and an aunt, Dany's 2 boys & Nimrod family came for dinner and finished all the popiah and all the food prepared.

A very happening weekend rite?

Mid Autumn Gathering.....sss

This year mid autumn has been a very eventful one for us....

It started with a few of us sisters gathering at my place to bake our very own mooncake last Sat. We had the traditional baked ones and mini snowskin.... yummy!!Last Sunday, we had a great gathering at Angie's place. The amount of food we had was to the MAX!! Dim Sum, yam cake, pamelo salad, chinese tea, mooncakes, chocolate banana cake (just for Diana), longan jelly... we were so FULL.... Here's all the mummies... & daddies trying to do YMCA!! i wonder why??? The children had so much FUN carrying and making their rounds ard the swimming pool with their lanterns!! Some of them had their 1st try at sprinkles!! Yesterday, Hun family gathered at Linda's place for a get together & the food theme was "traditional Chinese" We had Hainanese chicken rice & rice ball (cooked by me), Shanghainese sliced fish, cai xin with mushroom & even SUCKLING PIG which Lydia ordered just for this occasion & Nimrod had to roll up his sleeve to chop up the pig!! WOW.... See how the kids are enjoying this very traditional way of eating the chicken rice ball....After dinner, the kids again made their rounds with lanterns and sprinkles. It was nice cool night spent with my family.

Today, Chuang family came to our place for dinner... enough of chinese food... tonight with Western theme... garlic bread, beef stew, baked chicken chicken wings & salad. It was another evening of great time with family... Mid Autumn is certainly a time to be spent with friends and family.... Thank you for such a memorable week & God bless...

Batik Painting

Mummy helping with the initial stage, waxing the outline.

Ezra painting...

Finally! Master piece completed.

Ezra posing with his Nadine jiejie, the two are the earliest to complete their painting.

Change to Childcare??

As I write this post, it was with much easy & comfort cos it just home alone with Jac & me. Ezra & helper are spending the night at my in laws place. This has somewhat became a ritual for Ezra during the sch break.

This has been a very busy school break for me. I have been back to office for 2 days & will be going in again tml. After our Family day on Tuesday, the 2 big boys and Nadine had a sleep over at our place on Wednesday evening... I was busy cooking & feeding them. Today, 2 families from church Fiona & Huey Hong came over for lunch and a playdate for the children. I had 8 kids in the house but they did well, playing with each other & stuff. It was so funny when my neighbour actually stopped Fiona at the corridor & asked if our place changed into a childcare!! It sure feels like during the holidays!!

Family Day Out

Jac was able to take off from work yesterday & we planned a whole day out with Ezra.

1st stop was Science Centre. We read from Angie & Joyce blog of how much fun the children had and we tot why not!! BIG mistake!! We paid $32 for 3 of us.. walk ard the exhibit a little & why we tried to explain things to Ezra, he wld press the button & run off to press the next button!! After a while, we kind of gave up!! We actually planned to stay there until 2pm but by 11.30am we were done!! I suppose Science is not for both of us & even for Ezra!! Next time must tag along with Science people like Clement when we visit Science Centre again.

We went for our 1st Omnimax movie, Bears... The show was ok but Ezra was complaining of hunger all the time cos someone brought in popcorn!!

After the show, we drove all the way to Ikea at Tampines for our special day out lunch while Ezra snoozed in the car! Ezra was really hungry & popped into 7 meat balls + mashed potato & 1 winglet!! Once he has his energy replenished, he was up to some mischief again!! He looked at us & said "See mum, i can move my eyes!" It was so FUNNY...

He remembered eating ice-cream & plead with us for yet another cone of ice-cream!!

Jac brought a sandtoy set "beach work" & he was very eager to show off to Ezra what it can do... so off to Changi beach we went! It was perfect weather for beach, a bit cloudy with lots of wind!! Father & son wasted no time & set out their tools & started building castle.After many 'hours' of hard work... Jacky & Ezra are proud to present their castle!! Oh I almost forgot... Jac was commenting "Let papa add some ???? to the castle..." Can you guess what it was? Let me give you some options....

1) The 12 apostles
2) Christmas Trees
3) SHIT!!


Changi beach was really quite a nice beach to chill out... every so often, Ezra would shout "Look mum, see the plane... wow so big!!" Once in a while, we get to see big container carrier sailing across the sea.
I think Ezra had more FUN knocking out his castle than building it.After our beach outing... its time to hit the movie!! We drove to Marine Square (again Ezra had his power nap) & caught the G Force. This time, Ezra had his wish of pop corn!! The show was ok & glad that Ezra enjoyed it.

By the time we finished the movie, it was 8.30pm & time to head home.... All of us were tired but it was a day well spent with our most loved.

Thank you my 2 darlings.

1st Holiday Gathering

Our group were supposed to meet up at the Botanic Garden for the children to play but the weather was a little wet & everyone came to our place instead!! I rushed to Seng Shiong to pick up some stuff for the gathering.

After a quick round of preparation, we are ready for our guest.... The Ng family arrived first... Jaimie wasted no time & dashed into Ezra room where they played with the toys.

Next came the Chiah family arrived next and Cherryln joined in the party pretty quickly as well.

Wolfie & Rain came a bit later but Rain was kind of throwing a tantrum but she also joined in the fun after some time.

We had a FEAST!! We had udon, fried bee hoon, kong bak pao, taiwan sausage, chicken sausage, fishball, ham & cheese bread & bean curd dessert. Everything was so YUMMY...
The children had so much fun together, they were playing with each other, laughing at each other and with each other... It was such a joy to see them play together.We also had fun playing taboo... man wear BRIEF... not sure if its the bird or sound "COCKADOODOO", etc...

What a way to start the holiday!! Thank you friends....

Ezra's 1st Plant

I remembered reading abt Jaimie having her 1st plant.... Ezra also brought home some wheat grass plant from school as they are learning about plant and flowers. The children put seeds of wheat grass onto a kitchen towel and placed it on a form plate.

It was very interesting to see how excited he was about his plant, how he would carefully water the plant and how fast the wheat grass grows in just a week!!

The grass will be ready for harvest and we can just trim off near the roots and they should grow again. I am not sure if Ezra would dare to drink the wheat grass....

Different angles of the plant!!

New Dishes!!

I was cooking a lot recently and had to try new recipes cos I am running out of dishes to cook!! I had always like soon kueh and found a recipe that promised crystal clear skin... The filling is easy to cook but its the skin that requires more skill. I really liked the texture and feel of the dough and kept knitted it. After wrapping the kueh, its off to the streamer. Looks really good but the skin is a bit hard..... A check with an expert confirms that over knit & steam will cause it to be hard. I am going to try this again tml!!

We were a bit sicked with chinese dishes and decided to go Western one evening. Josephine taught me to do a veg 'bath' with all the hard veg and some black pepper to be put under the rosemary chicken tighs. It was so pretty with all the colourful veg and chicken!! The veg turned out just perfect and so tasty with the juices from the chicken!! YUMMY!!

Teacher's Day Gift

I almost forgot that Ezra needed to prepare gifts for his teachers!! On Friday we went to got all the needed ingredients & on Sunday we were all ready for the BIG BAKE!! This recipe is oatmeal chocolate chips cookies. I prepared the mix and Ezra helped to decorate the cookies with colourful mini flowers. He is quite good with it!! See focused he was!! The results....pretty & yummy!!