Day 3: Dinner (Room Service)

Day 4: Phuket, Thailand

Breakfast

Indulgence

Yum yum yum

Posing in the villa

Photo taken by eldest, Gabriel.

Kids getting very excited about the hotel room, villa.

Posing with mummy in the bath tub.

Despite all the commotion in the house, our dear sleepy Nathan is still sound asleep. 

Marriott at Phuket, Thailand

 

Trip to Phuket, Thailand

The kids are getting so excited to be on board the plane again after soooooo long. It's Nathan's first time on the aircraft.

We have postponed this trip since last Dec 2013 as the kids were all down with rotavirus and were admitted for 7 days at KKH.

Really looking forward to this family trip!

Out of school

Taking Nathan and Sarah out of school earlier today.

Have an early dinner at Macdonald's.

Then to the Pediatrician... Sigh.

Nathan hasn't got well since we last see the doc 1 month ago.

Better get some medication before our trip to Phuket, Thailand tomorrow.

Doctor Goh Han Meng has just diagnosed Nathan as Asthmatic. Poor boy he is going to be on long term mendication. Pray that he will outgrow this stage soon! 🙏

Transformers!

Nathan was Spider-Man, when he went out with daddy.

Easter 2014

Gabriel needed to decorate some eggs for school.

I'm very proud of him as he planned and decided how he wanted to design his eggs. Most importantly he did it by himself with some assistance from daddy.

I bought some Kinder Buenos chocolates  for the kids at home to do their egg hunts, 

Sarah's first book

Sarah's first attempt to publish her own book.

She has been making attempts to write letters, copy words (both English and Chinese characters) on random scraps of paper. 

2 weeks ago, I've prepared some small booklets so that she can start writing in them like the 'Letter Getter' series.

I read a friend's blog motherkao.com and picked up some ideas on how to get Sarah started.

Since she is only 4 years and 4 months old, I assisted her by telling her that we are going to write a book on numbers.

I've chosen the theme on 'bugs' to align with the school's theme.

She named the bugs that she has learnt in school and I wrote using a highlighter.

But getting her to trace over the words it also helps with penmanship and modeling, as she still tends to get a little confused by the orientation of the letters.

After tracing the letters, we run through the words again to reinforce word recognition.

Then she started drawing.

It's quite a big project for a 4 year old, after 2 hours. She was exhausted so we took another day to colour the pictures.

She is most confident in recognizing the last 2 Chinese characters - 'Kun Chong' which means bugs in Chinese.