Day Out at the SAM

We made a trip to the Singapore Art Museum in late May to visit its annual Children's Season. Here's our (half) day in pictures:

The butterflies we coloured and stuck up on a wall with the others. Can you guess who did what?

hmm.. realized that we didn't take as many photos of the visit as I thought we did. It was our first time at the exhibition. Overall, the exhibition was pleasant enough and ethan enjoyed some parts of it... but i think the train ride there and back was the highlight of the day. I don't think we will return in a hurry next year cos I'm not too sure if it was worth the $10 entrance fee we paid per adult (ethan went in free). :)

Mr Rooster Head

Sometimes when I wake up, I look like this...

Weekend at Tioman

Last Friday afternoon, our family made our way to Tioman for a short break over the weekend. We thank God for a most wonderful time there. The weather was lovely the whole time we were there and we spent every day frolicking in the sun, sand, sea and the swimming pool (until we got rather sun burnt despite slopping on loads of sunblock). The accommodation was nothing to shout about but the beach was lovely, and the sea clear and sparkling, and it was shallow a long way out such that you could walk out quite far into the ocean and watch the pretty little fish dart around your feet near where the rocks were. The food was also really good. :)

God willing, we hope to go again ( and we would still choose to go back to the same resort again)!

All packed and ready to go. Ethan asking Daddy if he needed help with the luggage.

The 40-something seater plane on which we flew there and back. The journey took just 35 mins each way. It was ethan's first plane ride and he took to it very well (though i personally found it a wee bit scary especially on the way home when we met with some turbulance - during which ethan simply slept through).

Ethan loved playing with the sand. The strange little boy mostly refused to put his feet down and stand in it but he was very happy sitting in it and playing with it and can do so for a remarkably long time, with (too) frequent requests to his daddy and mummy to get water for him from the sea when all they really wanted to do was this :

Besides playing with sand, ethan really enjoyed the pool.

Notice that ethan is still in his swim suit while munching on his biscuit in his high chair waiting for lunch to arrive. During the time we were there, we simply got out from the pool and went straight to the restaurant (which had set up the plastic deck tables and chairs for the swimsuit lunch crowd) located right beside the pool for lunch. :)

* Just an interesting note: Ethan woke up from his nap after we arrived home, and the first words he exclaimed were "Tioman! Tioman!"

My Two Boys

Both love their food, and their sleep, don't drink enough water, preferring sweet drinks if given a choice. Both are bookworms and computer cum handphone junkies, make a mess and sometimes do not seem to be listening when spoken to. Both like to make music and sing, like to watch tv, can make hilarious animal noises and seem to need a haircut much too soon. Both can exasperate but both make me laugh.... and thankful for them and each day with them.

Where We Like to Hang Out

On a weekday that is... not a weekend when it gets way too crowded. We do pretty much the same thing each time we're there, with a little variation now and then. Breakfast at Toastbox, walk around the sprawling Giant and gape at the sheer amount of, well, everything there, browse through the wide selection of books at PageOne (ethan loves sitting by the glass panels at the children's section, flipping through the nice new books and looking out for the colourful trains that ply to and from Sentosa) and visit the water fountains. It's just a nice, spacious, and quiet (on weekday mornings, that is) place for roaming, exploring and hanging out.

Ethan gazing at the water fountains. He would ask to look at it every time we're there.

Ethan also likes to look at the macaroon-inspired patterns on the glass panels of Bakerzin.

Besides Giant, we sometimes go to Daiso to gape.


Ethan loves to sit and pretend to drive at the many kiddy rides just outside Giant.

Lunch at The Soup Spoon

His most favourite of them all - the kids' water play area.

Logging On

hmm... now, what is the password?

ahhh... i remember! P...O...C...K...Y...

Can you do this?

yay, I've found my fave utube clip. (I have 137 fave utube clips)

ahh.. i could do this all day... (if only daddy and mummy allow me)

I Can (Almost) Draw

Come, Come! Look at my piece of art.

Ethan holding up one of his finger puppets and saying "wah!" on the puppet's behalf.

A close up of Ethan's first art piece (or rather the first of Ethan's drawings that landed mostly on a piece of paper and not on the floor or table or wall)