In the car

Aiden: Why you go so fast? 

Daddy: oh cos we are late

Aiden: Don't go so fast, you are not a race car driver.

Aiden's Girlfriend

Pointing to a blue car...

Aiden: Mummy, this is Sally.

Me: Who is Sally?

Aiden: Sally is Lightning Macqueen's girlfriend.

Me: Oh I see. Do you have a girlfriend?

Aiden: No.

A few seconds later...

Aiden: Mummy lor!

Me: Mummy is your girlfriend?

Aiden: Yes!

Article - 10 Ways To Guide Children Without Punishment

Excellent article and a good reminder to ourselves. We need to take a good look at our own behaviour before we blame the child.

http://www.thenaturalparent.com.au/blog/?p=2047

Eventful Saturday

Double decker bus ride in the morning, seated in the first row at the upper deck. Followed by a walk at Gardens by the Bay in the evening to view the lanterns display for the Mid Autumn Festival.

Mini Police Officer

We have a little police officer at home, reminding us that we cannot say "W*L**" or "Stupid" as it is wrong and rude. We should say "Oh my goodness" or "Oh my gosh".

Yes he has absorbed our reminders and is "throwing" it back to us. We totally deserve it!

Nano Blocks

Completed my first Nano Block figure! Ironman - 130 pieces! Took me an hour. Really not easy as the blocks are so small. But it is so cute. Am going to buy more, will post more when done!

And for you to have an idea of the size, I've placed it next to my iPhone 5 as comparison.

The Chill Mom: 31 Free Places To Bring Your Kids In Singapore

Excellent List!

The Chill Mom: 31 Free Places To Bring Your Kids In Singapore:

Not sure where to take the children during this school holiday? Fret not. Initiated by Gingerbreadmum's Adora, 31 mommy bloggers took part in a blog train called Fun For Free in Singapore and came up with a list of free fun places to take your kids. Here is the complete list along with links for detailed reviews and information.

Mid Autumn Festival

Couldn't find any nice lanterns that uses light, so we had to use the Angry Bird ones that mum bought.

After warning Aiden not to swing it for fear that the flame will burn the whole lantern, he returned it to me after holding it for 5 seconds. 

Think he had more fun with the sparklers... And the playground of course.

First 100 words

At 3 years and 4 months old, Aiden is already able to read about 70% of the words on the 100 cards we printed. So impressive right? Smart boy. And thanks to Daddy's patience in teaching him to read and make sentences with the word to help him understand.

                                          

Skinny boy

Realised that we have a lot of photos of Aiden, but not many of us with him. So snapped some of Aiden and Daddy here.

And noticed his cool get-up? Stylo-mylo. But actually it's cos he doesn't outgrow his pants at the waist, only the length keeps getting shorter!

         

Drawings

Drawings by Aiden at 3 years 3 months old. All the descriptions were given by him 

Happy 72nd Birthday Mum!

To an awesome mum and grandma to all of us! 

                                           

National Day celebrations

Can't see from this pic, but even his shoes were red and white.

Racial Harmony Day

Looking out of the window

Looking out of the window....

My helper - Do you want to go swimming?

Aiden - No, I am not a fish.

Picnic at East Coast Park

               

8 years and counting

It's a "no presents" year. Partly to save money, but mainly due to the fact that we have totally ran out of ideas on what to get for each other. Decided to save up for our big 10 years ROM anniversary next January instead. So we just celebrated with a nice dinner at The Clan Restaurant.

Bargain

At about 9pm each day, we would go into the bedroom to change, read some story books and prepare for bedtime. Aiden will always bring some cars in with him. Until it reached the point where we limited him to a maximum of 10 cars. Last week, he decided to try his luck.

Aiden: I want to bring 11 cars into the room
Me: No, only 10 cars
Aiden: 11 cars?
Me: No.
Aiden: I want 10 cars!

After thinking for awhile...

Me: Ok, only if you can say 11 in Chinese
Aiden (after a short pause): 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 十一 ！

I couldn't help but smile and gave in to his request.

Happy Mother's Day

 

On the Friday before Mother's Day, Aiden greeted me at the door excitedly and said he had flowers for me. He ran to his school bag but was not able to find it. He kept saying there were flowers so I told him that he may have left it in school and can give it to Mummy on Monday.

 

On Monday, again he greeted me at the door, this time with the picture above. I was so touched. Not because I received a gift from him, but because he was so proud of his work and remembered to give it to me. And he said to me,"Happy Mother's Day, I love you!"

 

I love you too my darling, and i have it at my office cubicle, reminding me of you every single moment!

Aiden turns 3!

Aiden is 3!

Happy Aiden

The photographer at a friend's birthday captured such great natural shots of Aiden. Love love love them!

Fire engines at the zoo

Me: Do you want to go to the Zoo or Fire Station on your birthday?
Aiden: Zoo!
Me: Really?
Aiden: Err, Fire Station
Me: oh which one?
Aiden: Put the fire engines in the zoo, then I can drive many fire engines in the zoo!

Like this

Aiden: Why the car parked like that?
Daddy: I don't know. Why?
Aiden: Because the car did not park like this.

Noise

Aiden was busy rolling the small balls along the window grill.

Daddy: Not so loud please.
Aiden: I'm making noise for everybody to listen.

CNY

First time we see Aiden really having fun and playing with other kids.

First Day of School

Teacher Aiden

We took out the new puzzles to play

Aiden: Mummy, let me teach you

Me: Ok Aiden teach Mummy

Aiden: Aiden is teacher, teach Mummy

And throughout the session, he was encouraging me with phrases like

- Oh yes, that's the one Mummy!

- Can you try here (pointing at where the puzzle piece should go)

- Let's fix Thomas first (giving me directions on where to start)

And some others I don't remember the exact words now... 😁