A fun Saturday for Jolie

Technically, it's the school holiday, but The Little Gym was having special holiday Safari Camp, which was a 2 hour special and existing students get to attend for free. So, why not? Jolie was always more than happy to attend her gym classes, and Cobby and I get to have an additional hour to ourselves! When we got back early, Jo and her classmates were doing art and craft, something they don't usually do in gym class. Jolie was so engrossed with her work that she didn't even notice me standing next to her taking photos! And since I was there, I helped Jo a little with her mask. Cute?

We usually would send Jolie to my parent's place after Gym class, but that day we met up with them at Suntec City for lunch instead. Jolie's 公公 wanted to buy his precious granddaughter some new toy, so after lunch at MOF, we headed to Toys 'R' Us.

We didn't know what to get, so we took quite awhile browsing in the huge store. Halfway through we found the mask section, so we adults had a little fun too! Heehee...

It's strange, seemed like as Jolie grows older, it gets harder to find her a new toy. Girl's toys can be so boring, mostly are either kitchen stuff or dolls, most of them don't do anything. So Jolie would probably get bored of them after a short while. Educational toys are good but also kind of boring, besides, most of them were either too advanced or too basic. So we ended up looking at the boys section. Definitely more exciting, but they can be pretty violent too, so we got her an emergency centre. Stimulating and yet full of harmless fun!

Just as expected, Jo had loads of fun with it. Check out how it works!



I just love watching her play with it. It may seemed like a very boyish game, but Jolie would put her own spin into it by playing "house" with her ambulance, police car and helicopter. She would make the vehicles "talk" to each other, for example:
Ambulance: "let's go down the slide!"
Police car: "Hey wait for me ambulance! Weee..."

Then after much fun and games, she would put the vehicles in their respective parking lots and pretend it's night time and they were asleep. Of course, she would demand that I keep quiet as her vehicles are asleep. -_-

Interesting how she can make a boy's toy into a girl's game. Oh well, don't care how she played it, important thing is that she likes it.

Balcony Revamp!

Well, it's not strictly a long weekend, but Cobby had taken 2 days off because we have finally decided to officially give up our balcony garden! I think the last time I blogged about my balcony garden was 2011 new year's day. Since then, some of my plants flourish, most of them have died. Seriously, the garden is growing more and more like a burden. The floor is always dirty, filled with leaves and dirt, which I have to sweep because no one else would do it. -_- And now with another baby coming, it would be great to have one less place to clean up.

Besides, the baby's room, which have been labeled as "the other room" until recently, has become our 2nd storeroom. And it has been filling up with Jolie's infant toys, car seat, stroller and her FIVE different types of her "cars". From push cars, to scooter and bicycle. In order to house the new baby, we have to find a new space in our home for her vehicles, and the balcony seemed like the perfect place, the only place actually.

I didn't want to propose the idea actually. With the new baby coming, we are already spending alot of money, and more to come! But I really can't see what other options do we have, so we decided to get rid of the garden, install some windows and convert the balcony into additional living space.

We shopped around the weekend before and found some window contractors. We ended up with a contractor all the way in an industrial park in Bedok! So they came over on Thursday to install. (06-09-2012)

The contractors was scheduled to come around 2pm, but they called in the morning and asked if they could come in the morning. Cobby didn't want to spoil our schedule, but I thought it would be great if we can settle everything early. So they came early and installed everything up in only 2+ hours! Efficient!

My initial reaction was, waoh! Suddenly the whole living room seemed so much more brighter and spacious! Whoo hoo! The next morning, we ate some yummy breakfast at chong pang followed by a trip to the paint shop.

Cobby estimated that he would be done by lunchtime, but as usual, his time estimation sucks and he's only halfway done by lunch. -_- So we ate lunch at home while cobby paint the balcony into a nice shade baby blue. Yes, it took longer than expected, but the end result was lovely! Good job Cobby!

We still kept some of the plants (those that needed direct sunlight) in the balcony while the rest were either thrown away or placed outside the house instead. Since there was a Far East Floral sale, we couldn't resist going down and buy a few more plants! Haha, but this time we got smaller plants that don't need direct sunlight.

So here is the new family garden!

Bubble time with Papa

Was a typical weekend at mother-in-law's place when Jolie pulled her Dad out to play bubbles with her. I loved these simple, innocent moments where you can see the pure joy in a child's eye when bubbles appear. Sometimes you can even see that in adults! Haha, amazing what bubbles can do.