6 Aug 2015 - Rosyth School Sports Day

Jerlene participated in her school's sports day this morning.  I took a day off from my work to witness the event.  For P2 students, they assembled at the multi purpose hall while waiting for the event to commence.

All students will participate in at least two events while some did three.  Jerlene is in Philips house and they emerged as runner up among all the houses.

Below is a compilation of all the events that Jerlene participated.

5 Aug 2015 - Dental Review at School Dental Clinic (HPB)

Javier had a dental review today by a specialist to assess if there is a need for him to put on a teeth retainer.  The purpose of the retainer is to keep the gap, left from an extracted molar, from closing up so that the permanent molar will have space to grow out in 5-6 years time.

The assessment is that Javier is still not ready to put on a retainer due to his unsatisfactory mouth hygiene.  Without a good mouth hygiene, putting on a retainer may cause more issues as food may get stuck in the retainer.  As such, the dentist advise Javier to improve on his brushing and hygiene and have another review in 3-4 months time.

2 Aug 2015 - Foam party for the kids at roof terrace

My neighbour bought an inflatable pool for his girl and invited our kids to go over to join her.

It's a foam party for them and they enjoyed it so much!  Kids nowadays 真幸福!  :-)

1 Aug 2015 - Great determination, Javier!

During today's swimming lesson, Jerlene and Javier were told to swim 4 laps in freestyle.  Towards the end, I could see that Javier was running out of breath and he could hardly keep up with his arm strokes.  However, with great determination, he still tried to push on to complete all the laps.  Well done, Javier!  You have been improving week after week!

1 Aug 2015 - Parent Child Teacher Conference (PCTC)

After Jerlene's ballet class, we went to her school to attend the Parent Child Teacher Conference.  In the 10mins session, Jerlene presented to us what she had learnt and enjoyed during her learning journey to the Science Centre.  She also reflected on what she had done well and which area requires improvement.

Actually before this session, Jerlene had told me that she was very nervous and hoping that she can skip the session.  In the end, we managed to convince her to proceed and just do her best, which she did pretty well.  According to her teacher, there were really some students who decided not to attend the conference simply because they were too nervous.  So well done, Jerlene!

30 Jul 2015 - Playing the trombone

Jerlene joins the school band this year and the teacher assigned her to play the trombone.  This "trumpet" lookalike instrument seems a bit too big for her.  However, she was quite comfortable handling it.

This is the first time she brought the instrument home to practise.  It's actually quite difficult to even make a sound from this gigantic instrument.  I tried it a few times and failed miserably.

Let's see how well she can play a trombone with mommy playing the piano in the background.
Well done, Jerlene!  Can't wait to see you perform on stage!

26 Jul 2015 - World's smallest Nano Quadcopter

We bought a mini quadcopter (drone) recently and took it for a trial flight this afternoon.  From some youtube videos, it seem easy to control but trust me, it not easy at all.

Without fail, the quadcopter will crash few seconds after taking off.  Javier was having fun chasing and avoiding the mini drone.

26 Jul 2015 - Nice haircut for both

Jerlene and Javier's hair was getting long and we took them for a haircut today.

Javier looks clean and cool after the haircut.

As for Jerlene, she looks prettier.  Hair really plays an important part in a person's look.

23 Jul 2015 - Streamers Dance

Javier brought back a job bag from school few days back.  There were straws and ribbons in the bag and the job task is to create his very own streamers.  After decorating his streamers by pasting patterns that he created on the ribbons, the job was almost done.

The last task was to think of some dance moves using the streamers.  He got to perform it in school today.  The following was his favourite moves.

21 Jul 2015 - Racial Harmony Day

Today is Racial Harmony Day and Javier was on his way to school in his traditional Chinese clothes.  Somehow he looked very sleepy this morning.

19 Jul 2015 - Power of Minecraft

If you go around asking young kids if they know what Minecraft is, they will probably get very excited and have lots to talk about.  Jerlene and Javier are getting "hooked" to it in recent weeks.  Fortunately, they are discipline enough to only play during weekends.

However, once they started playing, they will ignore everything else.  And the only way to communicate with them is as follows.........yes.....join them and talk to them in-game.  :-P

I am sure there are parents out there who had such similar experience as me.  Right?

:-)

17 Jul 2015 - Cousin's gathering

We had a cousin's gathering at our place this evening.  The main event was BBQ at our roof terrace,

Without fail, every time when we had BBQ, dark clouds start to gather above us.

Fortunately, the clouds dispersed after a while and we were able to start our fire.

Jerlene and Javier started to enjoy BBQ food now, especially the chicken wings

After dinner, we went back downstairs for some games.  Big kids played bridge and mahjong while young kids played their tablet games.  Before we called it a day, we took a few great wefies!  Nice!

11 Jul 2015 - Birthday Party at McDonalds

Jerlene and Javier attended a birthday party at McDoanlds this evening.  This is probably the fourth or fifth birthday party that they had attended this year.  It's Jerlene's classmate's birthday but nowadays siblings are invited too.  They had a great time feasting and playing during the 2 hours party,

4 Jul 2015 - Javier the Chef, or was it Jerlene?

Javier the chef is here again taking down our orders for dinner.

Actually he's just a waiter though he's wearing a chef hat and an apron.  The actual chef was Jerlene who was cooking in a kitchen that they had built in our living room.

4 Jul 2015 - NDP Rehearsal 2015

It's the time of the year again, the National Day Parade (NDP) rehearsal.  For the coming one month, we will be seeing fighter jets zooming past our roof as part of the NDP performance.

We can also vaguely see our national flag fly past the Padang area.