Mummy's birthday

It's my birthday and hubby took me out to dinner. Actually we had a difficult time deciding where to go as it is the 3rd day on CNY and everywhere was still serving over-priced CNY menus. Thankfully, we managed to have a delicious dinner of steak and wine. Yummy!

Daddy sent flowers to the office, which made everyone comment, "Spoil market!".


Managed to find a nice restuarant for dinner.

Our yummy dinner.

After dinner, we went home to have cake with the other 2 men in my life... my cute little sons. *muaks*

So fast, 1 year older again. But must keep forever young to keep up with my boys!

Chinese New Year 2009

Chinese New Year is really early this year. The carols have barely stopped and the tree hardly taken down when CNY songs started blaring in NTUC and everywhere else we went. It was a mad rush trying to get everything ready before CNY but we remembered to have fun and take pictures.

We went to squeeze at Chinatown on New Year's Eve.


The boys got new clothes for the 1st day. Was doing last minute shopping.

Didn't get anything new for myself. No time to shop for new clothes but it didn't matter.

The boys actually prefer clowning around at home to visiting people in their best clothes.

We rounded up the holidays with a trip to Sentosa where the boys had a splashing good time at the beach.

Room Renovations

We have decided to get beds for the boys' room. They have been sleeping on mattresses on the floor so far but Gerald has proven that he can stay on a bed and not roll off anymore. So we went to Ikea and got them a bunk bed and 2 chests of drawers. Then we played carpenter for 2 nights in a row to assemble the furniture by ourselves. Also had to order mattresses and buy bedsheets. Did not think that getting new beds ready was so much work. Finally, the boys got to use their new beds before Chinese New Year.

The new bed after painstakingly matching and screwing pieces of wood together. It was like building a rocket.

One boy got a Dino Safari themed bedsheets.

The other boy got a Farm themed set.

Gerald, being the older and more agile one, naturally claimed the upper bunk for himself. He is still bouncing up and down with glee now.

Cell Group Retreat

We attended our cell group BBQ cum retreat (9-11 Jan) at the ultra "ulu" Home Team chalet in Sembawang. It is like a 1-star hotel. But cheap so what to do? Beggars cannot be choosers. The BBQ was fun and the food was yummy. We also had a lot of laughs playing Wii in the middle of the night. Overall, there was food, drinks, 'nuahing' and bonding among cell members and guests. We should do this more often.

Luke and I manning the BBQ.

Gerald and Gareth with one of their few female friends. Our church seriously lacks little girls.

Gareth fell asleep really early.

Gerald prefered the air-con comfort of the room.

At a "ulu" bus stop, waiting to take the bus to civilisation for some McDonald's breakfast.

First day in new school

This year we have switched Gerald to a new school and he has to take the school bus all by himself. At first we were worried that he will cry when he gets on the bus. I prepped him days in advance and told him that he has to take the bus by himself. Surprisingly, he happily went up the bus and didn't even whine. He also had no problems adapting to the new teachers and friends. My boy is all grown up.

Gerald has to wake up at 6.30am in the morning in order to catch the bus. Poor thing... he looked so blur in the morning... got bed hair some more.

Gerald getting off the bus. We drove to the school to wait for him after he got on the bus.

Gerald happily got off the bus and went into the school with the rest of the kids. Didn't even look at me much.

Assembly time. Let's play "Where's Gerald?". Look carefully, he is in the picture.

Gerald going to class with his new teacher. Didn't even look for us on the first day of school. Don't know if I should be glad or sad.

2009's first visit to the zoo

To take advantage of not having to start school on the 2nd of Jan this year, I decided to take the kids to the zoo. Gareth has not been to the zoo many times and we wanted to check out the new Rainforest play area for children. But unfortunately, I got a massive migraine not long after we entered the zoo and I was nursing such a severe headache that I didn't get any pictures at the play area. The weather was not very cooperative either and it poured just when the kids were going to enjoy themselves in the pools. We had to cut the trip short and went home quite early. Will get pictures another time.

Gareth is happy just to get KFC for lunch.

Daddy and Gerald likes KFC too!

Year of the ox... so must pose with the Ben and Jerry's cow.

Gerald captured a crocodile!

Happy 2009!

Hi all,

After almost 2 years of maintaining separate blogs for the boys, I have decided to start afresh in 2009 with a brand new, combined blog. This blog will be about our lives as a family, and as one who even bother to visit this blog, we know that you are someone who we love and who loves us (hopefully both are true!) and we welcome you to share in our lives. God bless!