20 months

At 20 months, Ryan is speech is slower compared to Geraldine. But he is very fast picking up alphabet recognition and phonics skills. He recognises 'A, B, C, D, E, N, P, U, Z' and is able to sound out 'A, B, C, D, H, M, N, O, S, T, Z'.

Got his hair cut today....Ryan slept through the whole process. Good boy! Makes it so much easier to cut his hair.

Arcade

 Ryan waiting patiently to go out. We are going to the airport today!

 Geraldine wanted to go on the slides but it only opens at 12 noon. So to pass time, we brought the kids to the gaming arcade

 She definietly loves this game and is pretty good at it!

Both kids go crazy with this.... Ryan busy trying to grab a basketball and keep shouting 'ball ball'!

Play time

Having fun at the indoor playground. 

9th August 2012 - National Day

Daddy drove around and discovered a nice spot at Garden by the Bay where we got front view of the Nation Day fireworks. Beautiful! Geraldine loves the fireworks whilst Ryan was a big wearily due to the loud 'bombing' sound

A walk at the park

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National Day rehearsal fireworks

Manage to catch the National Day rehearsal fireworks. The kids are definitely fascinated with the loud fireworks. First time they catch it up close.

Swimming fun

Hot Sunday afternoon, best is to have a dip in the pool. Geraldine trying out the new Mickey Mouse float. She sure have fun, but couldn't get Ryan to sit in it.

Ryan and his Phonics

While playing on the bed today with block and alphabets, he picks up the letter 'H' and start making the phonics sound 'ha...ha...ha' for 'H' running around the bed. Then he picks up 'W' and starting saying 'wat wat wat'. My little boy sure is picking up good educational stuff from the Net.

Jacob Ballas Garden

 Cool tree house with long slides.

 Nice pool with lilies too bad they are not blooming.

Big round fruit, forgot to take down the name

 Ryan very cautious about the water play. Only willing to let his feet get wet.

 Geraldine all out to get wet!

 Finally got Ryan to get fully wet!! It takes him a while to get used to it.

Both kids definitely had fun! Nice place for the kids, will try to bring them here more often for outdoor activities and breathe in some fresh air.

Nice bakery set

Geraldine and Mummy stayed up late today, everyone was asleep. So we decide to do up some nice bakery stuff...... all thanks to Aileen for these cool sets!

Ryan trying out boiled veggie

Boiled veggies are Geraldine's favourite, we thought to let Ryan try it out and surprising he likes the taste of it. Hope he eats more of the greens....he is really picky about what he puts in his mouth.

Spelling

The school started the K1 children on spelling since 7th June and since then they have spelling test every Monday. So far Geraldine has been getting all full marks for her spelling. Well done Geraldine!

1st batch spelling list:

pan, bed, sip, cod, gum, the, and & you

2nd batch spelling list:

bat, pen, fin, log, bus, in it & we

3rd batch spelling list:

cat, web, lid, dot, cub, is, my & me

4th batch spelling list:

hat, vet, pin, pop, rug, not, for & to

Ryan's 'C' and 'G'.

While waiting for Geraldine to end her Abacas session yesterday, just for fun I ask Ryan to point out the letter 'C' from words on the school wall 'Creating great minds from Arithmetic'. To my surprised, he actually points out 'C' correctly. I thought it might just be a lucky guess on his side, so I ask him to point out 'G' and again he got it right! So I thought I will try 'C' again and without hesitation, he points out correctly. I'm really impressed! We didn't teach him any flashcards, he just happen to enjoy watching the ABC songs these few days on utube and is picking it up all by himself. Watching educational clips really works...what they watch really do register in their mind.

Lazy Sunday at East Coast Park

Another Saturday

  

 Went over to the new playground facilities opposite the house...nice place with little crowd.

 Ryan trying out the slide,need our help to hold on to him.