Random Photos of our Trip to Singapore

We made a recent trip down to Singapore to see uncle's new baby. Unfortunately forgot to take any photos of him.

However I did take the time to take photos of some of our meals. First, I thought this was an interesting appetiser.

Seaweed.

Tried to take a photo with Ben...but as you can see, he does move around a lot.

Ah hah - Managed to get a photo of him.....

...and another one......

I like the cups and dishes that were used.

Ben hard at work writing out our orders.

Vegetable is good and healthy....

....hmmm...must take a sip of water again....

Yummy hot soup.

And the tea came in this nice clay pot.

New adition to the Family

Isnt she a cutey-pie? Yes, I am an aunty again. My brother's wife justgave birth on 1 March 2010. Welcome, Kara...with loads of love from all of us in Malaysia.

Tired Boy

Lately the weather was quite hot, so went to buy thicker curtains to stop the sunlight from coming in. Ben actually found this lovely red "hairy" chair and wanted to put on an apron to sit on it! Then he pretend to fall asleep. Yah...the funny things that our boy love to do.

Ben has been attending a Chinese playschool on top of his Hegeru. It is quite heavy in terms of cost since both will cost us RM800 per month! So will be stopping Hegeru soon since it is just an hour a week. Very expensive.

But in terms of what he can do, we are quite happy that he is currently adding Chinese words into his vocabulary. He can say in Mandarin - mouth, ear, nose and eyes. And in terms of recognition, he can recognise "ren", "pa pa" and "ma ma". But most importantly for us, both the Chinese playschool and Hegeru gives him exposure to other kids. We can see the difference in him as I am happy to see that he actually makes friends in his Chinese playschool. Both boys will shout "BYE BYE" to each other! :)...

In terms of letters - he can recognise capital letters but not small letters yet.

In terms of numbers - he can recognise up to 20. My target will be for him to recognise up to 100.

In terms of speaking - it is pretty clear. We are pretty surprised with his reasoning sometimes. Example today, house is undergoing renovations now and my husband asked whether he would like to help the 2 workers. And Ben replied, "No thank you as I am not a builder since I dont have tools!" Can you believe that???

Food - he is still a picky eater unfortunately. Keeping only to rice, sausages, chocolate cereal and anything sweet. However he seemed to prefer outside food. :(......

Milk - I have been trying hard to stop milk bottle for him since his tooth decay is really BADDDD. At first, I was expecting serious fight-back from him - shouting and crying, etc....but actually it was not that difficult at all. One has to be patience and get use to his screaming, etc...then divert his attention (sigh...tv). I should have known better and stop his milk bottle much earlier. I have been trying to replace milk into cup but not successful.

Behaviour - he is still very active boy. Running up and down. :)...I guess Ben will not be Ben if he stops running around. I guess those overseas trips will have to wait a while.

Photos of Ben and his Ice-Cream Cones

Ok, managed to get some photos of Ben finishing his ice-cream cones. Bear in mind, without the ice-cream! :)

In-door Outing

Keep forgetting to bring my camera out.

Today was quite a hot day and instead of the usual outing to the park, brought him to Sunway Pyramid. Not too sure how but we ended up wandering around the shopping mall. Boy, the mall sure is big. Ben was complaining hungry but I could not find any food shops open at 9:45am. So we wander around until found, phew! Bread Story. Bought a hot dog for him and we shall this place which looks like an in-door circus with a Ferris Wheel. So we sat down there and he ate his hot dog. Poor boy must be very hungry as he kept saying that the hot dog is delicious and wallop the whole thing! Usually he will pull out the sausage and throw away the bun for Mummy or Daddy to eat.

Then after eating, we wander into Giant. Yes, I did not realise there is also a Giant supermarket there in addition to Parkson and Jaya Jusco (did I left any other major shops out???). Ben saw ice-cream cones and insisted on buying it. I kept telling him that it is just the cone and there will be no ice-cream on top. He kept wanting it.....he turned down the other stuff I offered him - Ribena water, biscuit, chocolate and a small Lego toy! Pengsan.

Later we went out to the in-door park and he sat (for the first time!) on his own in the musical cartoon car! But of course, it cost me RM3....!

Then he saw bumper cars and he wanted to have a go on it. I had to accompany it. He did not like that at all when I started bumping the other cars! Cost me RM10! Aiyoh! But I have to admit that the impact from the bumping was pretty hard - could feel my waist complaining a bit.
After that he was pretty tired and wanted to go home. In the car, he attacked the ice-cream cone box......again, he insisted on having it. So fine, I let him have it. I could hear him crunching away the cone (emm...without the ice-cream...) and when I asked him "Huh? Ben, the cone is nice?" and he replied..."Yes, Mummy, the cone is like biscuit...".....I pengsan again! Ke ke ke...

Anyway it sure saves me a lot of money as 10 cones cost only Rm2 plus...!