Month of Celebration 2012

We are almost done celebrating our birthday month! (We had a great month but boy, was it tiring as well!!)

The month started with Kiefer's birthday. He first had a celebration in school with his classmates. He asked for a Lightning Mcqueen cake this year. So his cake for school was ordered from Bengawan Solo.

We had a little celebration at home with immediate family. Also had a Lightning Mcqueen cake. But this one made by 外婆.

And then we made a short drive up north for some family getaway. It was just 24 hours of eating and swimming.

As Kieran's birthday fell on a Thursday, we celebrated it on the Saturday BEFORE the date. And so, the following weekend (after our Melaka getaway), we were partying again! On the same Saturday, the boys went along with me to my school's sports carnival. They had fun the entire morning, running around. Kieran had so much fun at the soccer kickabout. And Kiefer, had his share of fun when he participated in the kiddo's novelty race.

After a good nap, birthday celebrations for Kieran started. We had a mini BBQ as it was a Saturday, and everybody could stay late. And he had a Ninjago cake made by 外婆 as well!
For both their birthdays, we also had a Lego minifig jello made and they simply enjoyed jabbing the cake knife into the cake! ;}

and again, another birthday celebration in school on the actual day. He has a classmate, Tyrone, who shares the same birthday as him. So they kinda had a combined birthday celebration. He asked for a Transformers cake this time and well, it is easier to get that than if he were to ask for some Lego character one.

Another May has gone by just like that! My boys (and myself) have grown another year! It's nuts to think that Kieran will be in Primary 1 next year already!! Seriously, Carpe Diem!!

Daily happenings..

We have just a little more time on our hands these days, and so, what have the kids been up to?

The boys started swimming classes about a month ago. They have since gained much water confidence and can now paddle by themselves while clutching onto their swim noodles. After just a month or so of lessons, the 2 of them are as brown as toast now.

Kieran started Chinese class at Tien Hsia this term. After just 7 lessons (#8 was a review session, #9 was a mini recital), he now recognises some 28+ characters and can recite about 6 poems in Mandarin. In fact he attempts to speak in Mandarin more these days. He will point out different vegetables/ fruits in the supermarket and say their names in Chinese. An amazing achievement for someone who once didn't utter a single word in Mandarin!

Both the boys had their end-of-year concert at their kindy last week. Kieran was performing a song called "Barnyard Animals Worship" and he was great as a little brown dog! The song opened with him shaking his little butt, and I thought that it was really cute. He actually warned us prior to the concert that we were not to laugh at his wriggling butt!

This was Kiefer's first concert and we were so proud of him. He was singing and dancing to his song "This little light of mine" and we could see how much focus he put in to get everything right. I thought he was the cutest little kid on stage. When he first came onto the stage, he started looking around for us. We could see his usual look of annoyance (the "why-you-never-let-me-xxx" look) when he could not find us. He was quite a blur bloke actually. We were waving and waving at him but he just didn't see us. Finally, at the end of the segment, as they were getting off the stage, I yelled "Kiefer!". He heard it, spotted us and yelled a really loud "MUMMY!". He was so adorable that the audience started laughing too! We saw his entire face light up when he spotted us. That's my little rascal!

 

Chicken Robot (by Kieran)

Eye (by Kiefer)

AT-AT (by Kieran)

We've finally taken their box of Duplos out of storage and they've been building and building and building the last couple of days. 

Really looking forward to the holidays really starting. Things haven't been slowing down in school for the 2 of us. So we are really looking forward to the break!