The Last Day of 2011

Time flies... and today is the last day of 2011.
Only a few hours left before the new year of 2012.

I could still remember getting the Happy New Year card from Sisil. :)

And the Album Donal Bebek 2011 cover.

This year Timmy has entered Primary 1, lost his baby teeth and we opened our Morning Chinese.






Wishing you all Happy New Year 2012!
May it be full of blessings and be a wonderful year ahead, filled with happiness, peace and joy.

Lego Creator

Being a fan of Lego, Benny bought this Lego Creator and introduced it to Timmy. They ended up playing it together. 

It has been Benny's dream to have a son. 

When I was pregnant, he said he wanted to have a son, so he can play Lego with him. hahaha...

And we got a son, Timmy...

Now when Timmy is 6 years old, they started playing Lego together. 

Benny prepared the components needed for each step. 

Timmy looked at the instruction and put the pieces in place. 

Here is the photo when they played and installed the pieces together. 

Father and son play together...

Timmy with his car half done. 

Timmy with his completed car

The features of the car...

Visiting Lego City

Ho Ho Ho.... 

It's Christmas time at Lego City. 

Santa Claus and the giant Lego snow man has come... 

It's amazing how they can build detail structures with Lego. 

Swimming competition with the spectators,  

the light house with the light, 

the bridge with Santa, 

the restaurant... 

Father and son having fun time together...

 Well, Santa is taking his hat off..... Adios everyone! 

See you again next year! 

Our Christmas Tree

It's school holiday! To fill our time during this holiday, we made the decoration for our Christmas tree. It was simple and fun to make.

We made snowflakes, Christmas tree, and a snowman from ice cream craft sticks.

Then we hang it on our Christmas tree.

And under the tree, we put the Christmas card that we received from Sisil and Tari.

Merry Christmas everyone! May your days be filled with happiness, health, peace and joy.

Warmest Regards,
Benny, Helen and Timmy

Wishing you Merry Christmas

Wishing you a Merry Christmas 2011 and a Happy New Year 2012 from our home to yours!

May your days be filled with lots of happiness, peace and joy.

Jingle...jingle...jingle....

Exams Over...

Exams are over and I am so looking forward to Christmas holiday!

Here's a Christmas Song for you. :)





Santa Claus is Coming to Town....     in the Holy Night. 

Can I see Mom?

Today, I had a shower while Timmy was playing with his cars.
Suddenly, he opened the bathroom door, while I was washing my face.
Tim: "What are you doing Mom? Washing your face ya?"
Me: "Yup.   Please close the door Tim."

Then he went away and played with his cars again.
Not long after, he came back, stood in front of the door and said: "Mom, can I see you while you are having a shower?"
Me: "No Tim."
Tim: "Why Mom? I want to learn how to have a shower by myself."
Me: "Let Papa teach you  on how to have a shower by yourself."

He then went off and played again, only to come back not long after that.
By then, I have finished my shower and he asked me again: "Mom, why I am not allowed to see when you are showering? I am not a stranger."

Oh dear, I don't know how to answer this one....

Study...study...study....

Exam is around the corner....and I'm juggling between work and being a Mom.

This is Timmy's first final exam for Semester 1.
Gee...how I feel that time flies....
I could still remember clearly his first day of school...and now he is in Primary 1, doing his first final test...

Recently, I've been asking him to study.
And he commented: "Mom, you always say study...study...study.... Study is not fun. It only makes me smarter. Playing game is fun.  I like playing game."

Oh dear.....
I gotta think of new creative ways to make study FUN!
Any ideas, anyone?

Yesterday, when we went through the text book together, I told him, "Tim, why don't I read it?"
Tim: "Why do you want to read it Mom? It's my book and it's me who study.  Do you want to go back to Primary 1 again?  No right? So, let me read it."
Me: "hahahaha....okay."

Oscar Oasis

Oscar Oasis is showing on TV and Timmy loves to watch it. 

He would laugh out loud during the chase...

One day, we went to Ace Hardware and Timmy found the trolley, which he imagined to be the trolley that Harchi pushes around. He pushed it around happily...

CHARACTERS
-Oscar - The main character of the show. He is a lizard that is always getting into trouble with the terrible trio – Popy, Buck, and Harchi, and the chickens too. Oscar is always trying to catch flies and find some water, but most of the time things don`t come out right.

-Popy - a fennec fox, the boss of the terrible trio, the one who gives the orders.

-Buck - a vulture, the nerd of the bunch, he always approves when Harchi gets yelled at by Popy.

-Harchi - a hyena, the idiot and the brawn, he’s given the physical jobs. In the event of them taking a collective tumble, it’s he who catches everyone so they avoid the ravine.

MINOR CHARACTERS
-Manolo - a truck driver who transports various items in the series. He is often asleep at the wheel while his dog, Roco, drives.

-Roco - Manolo's loyal and faithful dog. He always tries to keep their cargo safe and frequently chases Oscar and the terrible trio or tries to deter them from the contents of the moving vehicle.

-Oscar's girlfriend - a female lizard to whom Oscar's heart belongs.

-The Chickens - their half-closed eyes give them a nonchalant, blasé appearance. They fall blindly into the traps laid for them, and get out of them without realizing they have escaped any kind of danger.

-The Crocodiles - the most feared animals of the desert and the top predators.

-The Skunk - He doesn't smell good. He is always afraid of Oscar. But Popy, Harchi, and Buck are always afraid of him because of his smell.

1 BHP

One weekend, we saw a horse-wagon on the road at night.

As I saw it, I told him: "Tim, look delman."
Timmy: "Yeah, Mom. It's 1 BHP.
Me: "One BHP?"
Tim: "Yes, 1 BHP. Because there is only 1 horse pulling it. Look Mom! Only 1 horse right? So 1 BHP."
Me: "Hm... interesting."
Tim: "BHP is Brake Horse Power, Mom."

Apparently, Timmy got the knowledge from his grandpa.

Click here to find out more about BHP.

Celebrating my 34th Birthday

Today is my 34th birthday.
Time flies and without realising it, I'm 34 years old..... :)

I'm celebrating my birthday with Timmy.
Just the two of us...
because Benny is away on business trip to Singapore.
and my maid has just gone home yesterday...
to top it up, one of the teachers is not feeling well.

There are lots of things happening at the same time...
Birthday, with no hubby, no maid, and one of the teachers is sick...
So, busy....busy....busy....

Timmy and I had a dinner date at Pizza Hut.
We had fun with our simple meal.

I got a sms from Sisil, that really brightened my day.
Thank you for the sms and the gift Sil.

Few days later Benny came back and we celebrated my simple birthday at home.

Bak Kut Teh

On the way for dinner, we were planning to eat Bak Kut Teh.
Timmy loves Bak Kut Teh and he offered mbak, who is moslem:
"Mbak, do you want to eat Bak Kut Teh, it's yummy."
When I heard it, I said: "Tim, she is moslem. Moslem can't eat pork, and bak kut is pork."
Timmy: "Oh, ok. Then I will give you the "Teh." Want it? It's yummy."

And Timmy funnily thought that since it is only the "Teh" then it's okay for her to consume it.

My dad and mom laughed....

Timmy...Timmy....

Lantern Lantern Up in the Air

Our neighbour was playing with the lantern.
It was our first time seeing the real lantern going high up in the air.
Lantern, lantern, up in the air......

It was fun!

Getting Ready for Bath Time :)

The photos were taken when Timmy was getting ready for bath time.
I like his smiles on the photos....

Time will fly and before I know it, he will be a grown up man.
I like to keep this photo, as a sweet memory. :)

Days when I still take-care of him, teaching him, handling with day-to-day ups and downs as a mother.

We will always love you Tim!

Getting Ready

Timmy helped out in preparing Morning Chinese.

Here are the clips of our photos during the preparation.

Thank you Tim for your help.

Love,
Mom

Home Made Bowling

I love playing with Timmy and one afternoon we played home-made bowling.
We gathered all the yakult bottles and the yoghurt cups, and turned it into bowling pins.

Timmy took his cars and ball and rolled it towards the bottles.
His cars would then raced to reach the bottles.

A simple and fun way to play and recycle at the same time. Hehehe...

I miss blogging

I haven't been blogging for a very long time.
I kinda miss it, but with my busy daily routine, I would rather sleep when I have time. Hehehe..

Mother and Son

Playing Pretend

We were being silly and pretended to be animals.
I called it, he be it. And we took turns.

We pretended to be elephant with the long trunks...
Pretended to be snake with the forked tongue...

Ah...we were being silly that day. Hahahaha...

Turtle

Sometimes, I do treasure my time with Timmy.
We play, we read, we do fun things together...

However, there were times when I feel that I have failed being a good parent.
When Timmy was naughty, talk rudely, whine, etc.

Here's a sneak preview when things went good.
We read the story about turtle life cycle together.
Timmy brought his 'little chicken' to read the story too. hehehehe...

I printed out "Roll a Turtle", we played it with the dice, and Timmy colored it.

Then we made a paper-plate turtle.
I made a nice green turtle to accompany the brown turtle.
Timmy had fun playing it around with his imagination.

Lastly, Timmy drew turtle on our small white-board. ;)

Here's the summary of what we did that day.

Thank you Timmy for the fun time we had.

Love,
Mama.

Bumble Bee

We did this activity 2 months ago, but I haven't had the time to post it.
Not until now...

Well, here's what we did:
1) We read a story about the bee life-cycle.
2) Timmy cut out the part of the bee's body and the behive.
3) Then we glued it to a large piece of paper.
4) Timmy started painting flowers for the bee... :)
5) We played "Make a Bee", while rolling the dice.

Oh, we watched the video about bee.
You can click it here and here.

We had fun that day! :)

Feelings

I have been feeling lousy, blurry, in-decisive lately.
Argh....

Deep breath in.....deep breath out.....
deep breath in...deep breath out....
Relax.....

Everything will just be alright....

What Things Absorb Water?

We experimented on what things absorb water?

I laid out several type of materials on the table for Timmy to explore.
Newspaper, tissue paper, kitchen towel, plastic, sticker paper, magazine, carton, and milk carton.

Then we added drops of water onto the material, and saw which ones absorbed water.

We found out that newspaper, tissue, carton, kitchen towel absorbed water.
Milk carton, magazine, plastic, sticker paper didn't.

Why milk carton, which was made of carton did not absorbed water?
While carton did?
Because there was the plastic lining.

Then Timmy filled the milk carton with water and he water the plant. Hehehe...

Afterwards, we left the wet newspaper under the sun to let it dry.
Where did all the water go?

Then we talked about the water cycle, where water comes from the mountain, down the river, into house piping, into the drain, back to the river, to the sea and water evaporates, becomes cloud, then comes down as rain. And the cycle begins again...

Things Father and Son Do Together

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, is the game that Timmy likes to play these days.
Both father and son could sit in front of the computer and play together.

I don't understand a single thing about what they talk about. :)
"Put-put, Spike, Jammer, EMP."
Well, I guess it's the boy thing. Hahahaha....

When Benny plays, Timmy becomes the co-driver.
I like to see their happy, smiley faces.

Apparently, the game really inspires Timmy.
This is what he drew lately.
The cars are on the spikes! Which supposed to make the tyre flat.

Therefore, when I asked Timmy to play "When I have a circle...." Timmy changed it into "When I have a triangle, I can draw spikes!" Hehehehe...

Here's another father and son bonding time, when Timmy helped Papa to fix the laptop.

Dear Papa,

Thank you for taking time to play with Timmy.
Timmy has such a special bond with you.

We love our time with you,
especially when it involves so many giggles, tickles, games and fun!

You are a great Dad!

Thank you for always encouraging us to keep on
believing, improving ourselves.

Thank you for helping us to believe in ourselves and our dreams.

Most importantly, thank you for loving us Daddy.

We love you Papa!