Weekend Reflections- Having Fun

This weekend the boys had fun at West Coast Plaza. We went there after church service today and the boys were thrilled to go on a free kiddy ride, play on the WII- Mario Kart game and try out the Daytona like racing car on the specially built circuit.

Ryan got his chance to try out handling a remote control car like the one shown in the picture above. It was not easy for him to maneuver the car around the circuit. It looked more like he was playing bumper cars then a remote control car as it kept on bashing into other cars or the sides of the track.  I tried it myself and it really wasn’t easy to steer even with a dial shaped remote control.  It takes lots of skill and practice to get the toy car zooming skillfully around the track without crashing.

The boys also enjoyed going on a furry green elephant kiddy ride. This movable ride was steered with a steering wheel and Ryan had fun giving Roy a ride around the aisle of the shopping mall.  On normal occasions I would not let the boys try out such a ride as the $2 price tag for a 3-4 minutes ride is really not worth splurging on.

How was your weekend?

Happy Birthday to Me

Ryan cutting his cake with Roy watching next to him

Weekend Reflections- Playing Scrabble

Scrabble is one of the games which I recently introduced to my boys.  I find this a very educational game as it not only challenges them mentally it also helps to improve their spelling capabilities.

The boys are still rather young  at 3 and 6 yrs old and have quite limited vocabulary so we play this game slightly differently from how it is traditionally played.

The boys are allowed to draw as many letters as they need from the pot and then form words on their letter holder.

They need to use a minimum of 3 alphabets to form a word.

So far Roy has managed to come up with these words without prompting

- One

- Two

-Mama

- Roy

- Ryan

- They

Ryan is able to spell many more words on his own as they have spelling in his school regularly. Some of the words he spelt out for me included- cake, eating, children, happy, birthday, mummy etc.

I find it is a good tool in getting toddlers like Roy interested in spelling and learn new words in a fun and interesting way.

Do you play scrabble with your kids?

Baby Turns Six Today

Ryan’s Six Birthday Cake

6 years ago on this day Ryan entered our lives. He was 3.7kg at birth and about 53cm long. Fast forward to today he is now 20kg and about  125c m tall.

My little monkey has grown and matured a lot since birth. He still is a handful at times but can be extremely adorable and charming too.

Now at 6yrs old Ryan ins able to

- read the newspapers independently

- converse and give his own opinions on most matters.

- help to do the laundry and clean up the house.

- takes care of his younger brother and looks out for him.

-rollerblade and ride his bicycle independently.

This year he requested for a 3D Shinkansen for his birthday cake. It took me about 4 hours from baking to decorating the cake. I’m glad that Ryan and his classmates really enjoyed seeing and eating the fondant covered chocolate cake.

Happy 6th Birthday my little boy.