[Another long weekend.... and lots of pictures!]

It has been more than 20 years since I've last stepped foot into the Science Centre. We decided to bring the girls there over the long weekend, as a. we did not want to go anywhere outdoors (too hot!) b. they loved Petrosains in KL c. we did not want to go anywhere that involved too much eating of junk food.
Here's the trip and other things we did over the long weekend! (i LOVE long weekends!)
This is the only thing I remember from our school excursions to the Science Centre - watching real life hatchings from incubated eggs.

New jeans and birkis! And K was so thrilled they had these buggies.
Me and G. She LOVED the science centre, which managed to keep both of them totally occupied for a good half a day.
Giggly giggly girl
Token dinosaur exhibit.

Some pictures of our usual hangout - West Coast Park. This time we went to another part of the park for a different experience.






While the kids napped in the afternoon, I started on a preggy journal album for a client turned good friend... (congrats L!)

Still at the beginning stages, we are going to be documenting the pregnancy and birth as it happens. It's a really exciting project, and I'm really looking forward to the journey! :)

We also made a trip to our nearby Salvation Army (thrift store). It was a good haul for the kids, lots of old enid blytons for G and a cute Dumbo and Maizy book for K.
The last few pics are of G in her ballet class. She's been going for about 2 months now. She seems to really enjoy it, lots of giggling with her classmate and being pretty fairies. I can tell that her posture has improved a lot since she first started too, although only during Ballet class!! She still slouches outside of class....



Another week is over... (so quick!) and we look forward to this weekend where we have 3 birthday parties (!?!?!) to go to, and lots of arty crafty stuff to catch up on!

[another short story by G]

Tuesday nights are 'me & my girls' time, as V has to go for classes. I try to make the evening activities more structured, instead of the usual 'own time own target' chillouts that we have when both of us are around. The girls seem to like it, and so far we've been engaged with activities such as making paper mache bowls, baking muffins, lego projects... Last night was no exception, after seeing what she is capable of coming up with, I set G the task of making her small little book. Using an A4 coloured paper, i simply cut them up to the right size, started the first sentence, and voila! after a good half an hour of writing by herself (and only asking once on the sp of 'celebration'), she proudly presented her little short story to me! Here it is:
"My Princess Story" written by Grace Lee (she wanted to write her name in cursive, hence the wierd alphabets)





Hope you enjoyed the little story!! I certainly did and i still lol at the way it is so matter-of-fact - "her mother the queen said she must marry a prince and so she did... " hahaha..

The behind the scenes pictures.

G writing her story...
K was also supposed to be making her little book, but she became quite bored after awhile, and found a much better activity - cutting up paper! heh.

[End of Term Party]

The girls had their end-of-term party at the kindie, and considering it was a Friday morning, there were a lot of parents who actually took time off to attend! The kids all had such a good time, especially with stations like dressing up, makeup, nailpolish.... gosh, so much fun!!
G and her bestfriend in school, N
G was my best supporter! She brought a whole bunch of friends to paint and decorate the paper mache bowls at the art and craft station.
Enjoying herself painting the bowls
Love how absorbed they get!
G and her other best friend H having a lot of fun painting.
After that, girls being girls, they LOVED the nailpolish station,
Getting their hair done....
The dressing up station...
K and her fellow classmates looking sooo cute in princess outfits!
K was especially thrilled that there was the Cinderella outfit, the current princess of choice these days....So demure! She would even lift the dress up and walk so daintily around.... :)

G in Belle's costume.... Yup, only a mummy of girls can correctly identify all the princesses costumes!
K in ariel the mermaid princess...
Sisters :)

A scary looking princess!!! she can be sooo goofy sometimes! lol...

More pictures and a full description of the event can be found at the Kindie website HERE.

[Happy Teacher's Day!]

To the most hardworking teachers that I know: Happy Teacher's Day!!! :)
Here's what we made for the teachers this year:I suggested that G wrote a little story to all her teachers... I started out the first 2 lines:
I wrote : "once upon a time, there were 4 teachers and 1 kindergarten. One day....... "
G wrote : .... they went out for a walk and they spotted a nice sunny place to have a picnic (mostly inspired by the end of term activity, which was going to be a picnic) they had lots of yummy food. they enjoyed the food very mach. the end.
After the story, she drew a picture of the picnic mat with all the yummy food placed in a picnic basket. :) Super cute.... and to think that there were almost zero spelling errors!!
Added some handmade notepads....
K did some sketches too. She wasn't very specific to what she was drawing....
Although this one above is definitely a Barney Fairy. lol. I love her little cute figurines, i think I will pilfer some for embroidering onto my clutches!
Finally, all wrapped up! Hope the teachers like it! :)
It was very fun making them.... (p.s. having a photocopier is a BIG plus at home)