A few months ago we went to the PAGE ONE warehouse sale and bought a couple of children's book. One of them became Jolie's favourite. She loved it so much, she made me read it to her every night! So after listening for several nights, she learnt to read it all by herself! OK lah, I think she just memorised the book by looking at the pictures, but still, I think it's pretty awesome for a 2 year old plus toddler!
Her pronunciation still needs work, so I've added subtitles.
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Monday, 6 February 2012
Happy 3rd Birthday Jolie Part 2
It was Jolie's birthday yesterday, so I thought it would be nice to let Jo celebrate her birthday with her classmates. Cobby and I were supposed to go shopping for the cake and party favours during the weekend. But he was caught up with work, so on Sunday, I had to sneak out while she napped to do it. I headed down to woodlands to get the cake before going back to sembawang to get the party favours. Then I headed back home, drop off the stuff before taking a cab back to toa payoh, just in time as Jolie wakes up from her nap. Shaq man...
Anyway, that morning I dropped Jolie off at school before going for my workout session. The teacher asked me to come in for the celebration at 9.45am, so I had to quickly exercise, take a quick shower and immediately head back to school. Phew!
When I got there, I thought it was so cute that they have arranged Jolie to sit by herself on a special table. So we started blowing balloons for every child. After 5mins, we realised that it's going to take awhile to blow up 12 balloons, so it's better to go ahead with the cake 1st and we'll continue to blow balloons while they eat.
Check out the Angry Bird cake! So cute right?!
The teachers insisted to play the music video of "Happy Birthday", which was fine, except that it took forever to find the song and the song played for so long!
Well, it was a pretty challenging party. Kids fighting for balloons, messy chocolate cream everywhere, time running out... But at the end of class, we finished the whole cake, everybody was happy with gifts and balloons. Jolie was such a great helper, distributing the cake, giving out the gift packs and balloons to her friends. Good girl!
So the total damage for this little party was:
snacks $11.40
party sets $18.20
balloons $7.20
candle $1.30
party bags $2.50
birthday cake $17.80
Total $58.40
Happy!
Anyway, that morning I dropped Jolie off at school before going for my workout session. The teacher asked me to come in for the celebration at 9.45am, so I had to quickly exercise, take a quick shower and immediately head back to school. Phew!
When I got there, I thought it was so cute that they have arranged Jolie to sit by herself on a special table. So we started blowing balloons for every child. After 5mins, we realised that it's going to take awhile to blow up 12 balloons, so it's better to go ahead with the cake 1st and we'll continue to blow balloons while they eat.
Check out the Angry Bird cake! So cute right?!
The teachers insisted to play the music video of "Happy Birthday", which was fine, except that it took forever to find the song and the song played for so long!
Well, it was a pretty challenging party. Kids fighting for balloons, messy chocolate cream everywhere, time running out... But at the end of class, we finished the whole cake, everybody was happy with gifts and balloons. Jolie was such a great helper, distributing the cake, giving out the gift packs and balloons to her friends. Good girl!
So the total damage for this little party was:
snacks $11.40
party sets $18.20
balloons $7.20
candle $1.30
party bags $2.50
birthday cake $17.80
Total $58.40
Happy!
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Happy 3rd Birthday Jolie Part 1
It's Jolie's 3rd birthday today! We always planned a party for Jolie's birthday. This year Miss CoCo was feeling rather lazy, given that Chinese New Year had just passed. So, I've decided to give the big birthday party a miss and instead, go for a family-only celebration.
We booked a table for lunch at New Ubin Seafood Restaurant, one of our favourite places! As usual, Bro was late driving my parents there, so we took some photos to entertain ourselves while we waited.
Finally they arrived after 20mins. And Bro gave Jolie her birthday present. He gave her a book, Oliver Twist. O_o
I think it would take another 3 years before she can read that book. Besides, it's so boring, I don't think that she'll be interested to read it even if she can. Anyway, he said that it's better than buying another toy, which I agree. So, thanks Bro!
I was so hungry! Thankfully the food came quickly and we all dug in. I think everyone agreed that the highlight was the crabs, and the best tasting one was the butter cream one.
It sounds oily and heavy, so MIL didn't even take a bite. But it was actually super duper nice. It's got a buttery fragrance together with curry leaves, and they added chilli padi to give it kick as well as balance, so that the dish wouldn't taste too heavy or oily. Geninus. When the fried mantou came, everyone was mopping up the butter cream crab sauce rather than the chilli crab sauce! YUMS!
I think we ordered too much food, but even so, we finished everything! It was a great feast. For dessert, we brought out the cake Cobby bought for Jolie!
Jolie looking very pleased with herself after she cut the cake. Can you see the anticipation on her face?
Yummy yummy black forest cake!
Jolie was enjoying her whipped cream when her naughty Kaufu tried to steal her cream! But Jojo was fast enough!
Ang paos from Jolie's grandma and aunt. I thought their well wishes were very sweet!
The meal was very enjoyable, unfortunately Cobby had to go to work after lunch. Sucks man, but what to do? So we headed to my MIL's place and let Jo take her nap there. I think we ate too much, cause Jo, me and even my sister-in-law fell asleep pretty quickly. Haha...
For dinner MIL, SIL, Jo and I went to the central to have a simple dinner and went back with a new toy.
Well, it is her birthday. :) Happy Birthday Jolie!
We booked a table for lunch at New Ubin Seafood Restaurant, one of our favourite places! As usual, Bro was late driving my parents there, so we took some photos to entertain ourselves while we waited.
Finally they arrived after 20mins. And Bro gave Jolie her birthday present. He gave her a book, Oliver Twist. O_o
I think it would take another 3 years before she can read that book. Besides, it's so boring, I don't think that she'll be interested to read it even if she can. Anyway, he said that it's better than buying another toy, which I agree. So, thanks Bro!
I was so hungry! Thankfully the food came quickly and we all dug in. I think everyone agreed that the highlight was the crabs, and the best tasting one was the butter cream one.
It sounds oily and heavy, so MIL didn't even take a bite. But it was actually super duper nice. It's got a buttery fragrance together with curry leaves, and they added chilli padi to give it kick as well as balance, so that the dish wouldn't taste too heavy or oily. Geninus. When the fried mantou came, everyone was mopping up the butter cream crab sauce rather than the chilli crab sauce! YUMS!
I think we ordered too much food, but even so, we finished everything! It was a great feast. For dessert, we brought out the cake Cobby bought for Jolie!
Jolie looking very pleased with herself after she cut the cake. Can you see the anticipation on her face?
Yummy yummy black forest cake!
Jolie was enjoying her whipped cream when her naughty Kaufu tried to steal her cream! But Jojo was fast enough!
Ang paos from Jolie's grandma and aunt. I thought their well wishes were very sweet!
The meal was very enjoyable, unfortunately Cobby had to go to work after lunch. Sucks man, but what to do? So we headed to my MIL's place and let Jo take her nap there. I think we ate too much, cause Jo, me and even my sister-in-law fell asleep pretty quickly. Haha...
For dinner MIL, SIL, Jo and I went to the central to have a simple dinner and went back with a new toy.
Well, it is her birthday. :) Happy Birthday Jolie!
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