Visit to Bottle Tree Park

Our cell group organised a trip to the Bottle Tree Park. It was in a rather ulu park of Singapore but the trip was quite educational (at least for me). The boys had fun fishing for prawns.


The boys are all ready to set off on their adventure.

The park was named after the bottle trees in it.


Gareth and Gerald excited at the outing. The place is so near JB that my phone kept picking up the Malaysia signal. Sure kenna charged for overseas call!


Only Gerald was old enough to try fishing for prawns.

Why so long still nothing, mummy?

After the fishing session, the prawns we caught were BBQ-ed for us on the spot. Gerald happily ate 2 prawns.

Little boy in uniform

It has been 1 and a half months since Gerald started in his new school. He is adapting well and can tell me the names of his new friends. The new school has a indoor gym and he looks forward to the twice weekly sessions. Most days, he will say YES when we ask him if he wants to go to school. But he has to wake up really early now to catch the school bus and he will always whine in the morning and complain for headaches and tummyaches. But once he has woken up fully and gotten up the bus, he really seems to enjoy school.

At the void deck waiting for the school bus. See... everything is still dark.

I will usually take him downstairs and see him up the bus before going to work. This pic is taken by Gerald. =)

Braces for Daddy

Daddy is bothered by some growing gaps in his teeth and decided to go for braces, even though he is an old man in terms of getting braces done. Aunty Sharon was very nice to him and did not tighten them too much so he could still eat almost everything.

Before.

After.

Daddy's favourite past time now is brushing his teeth!

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.