Ryan cutting his cake with Roy watching next to him

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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?

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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.

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Counting has been Roy’s obsession lately. He is simply fascinated with numbers.  His favourite DVD is Richard Scarry’s 1-2-3 Counting VCD

Roy watches this VCD at least once a week. He is now able to read numbers up to hundreds and loves reading off the numbers off the parking lots in the multi-storey carpark near our house.
Recently Roy has even been asking me how to spell the numbers.
His favourite questions now is ” Mummy how to spell One?”, “How to spell —(Two/three etc)”

He is now able to spell up to three besides being able to spell his name and his brother’s name.

I’m glad that he shows interest in mathematics and counting.  I recall then when Ryan was around his age he too was interested in numbers.

When did your kids started showing interest in numbers?

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My  belated Valentines Day presents- courtesy of hubby. Thanks ) *Muck

Thanks for spending the weekend going queuing up at the outlet just to purchase the bags despite having just  spent nearly 20hrs flying to your current  outstation job posting.

Love you lots!!

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my 3 kids

These few weeks I have been pouring through the boys old pictures and looking at how their facial features have changed since birth. They are still as cheeky as ever with their killer smile and eyes. I really wonder how baby R3 will look like when he/she arrives in September.  Will he/she look much different from his/her brothers?

What I do know is that Baby R3 will not be a small baby as both Ryan and Roy were about 3.7kg when they were born. Baby R3 will be out early as we will be scheduling a C-section as the boys too were delivered by C-section.

I have been busy looking through baby catalogues taking note of items which I would need to list down in the “have to purchase list”.

It has been 3 years since I have handled a newborn and most of the things that we got for Roy can’t be reused as they have yellowed with age or started to disintegrate. I hope to be able to get everything ready before September.

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Valentines Day – A Day set up commercially to declare your love to your love ones and friends.  This is how I see this day to be. Everything is more expensive as retailers raise the prices of items like flowers and diamonds  to cash in on this season of giving.

I do love flowers, blue roses are my personal favourite . I guess that most girls do love pretty flowers and roses are a common choice.  However there were no diamonds or flowers this year.

This year’s Valentines present from  hubby was not fresh flowers which would wither in time but a timeless message.

This year he decided to do something a bit more different. It was a real surprise for me to read his love dedication in the local papers under the Valentines Day dedication columns.

It reads

Dearest Rachel,

Thank you for everything you have done.

Love Always,

Rapheal, Ryan and Roy

I was utterly touched by his sweet gesture. Words say more then a hundred gestures for me. It feels good to be acknowledged for my contribution to the household and family. I feel appreciated and loved by this declaration of love.

How was your Valentines Day this year?

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Today we brought the boys out to Explorer  kids at Downtown East. It has been quite a while since we last brought them to this indoor playground.  We had signed up for the membership at this place and enjoyed the discounted rate of $11/hr rate instead of $20/hr. I still found it rather  costly as we had to pay a total of $22 for 1 hr play for the boys.

However seeing them have so much fun playing in the playground makes me feel that the money was worth spending.  The weather has been rather too sunny lately with no rain for the past few weeks. The scorching sun has made it  too hot to bring the boys to the park to play on weekend. By the time the sun starts going down it would be dinner time and I do not want to risk them suffering from sun stroke due to the strong sun.

Visiting an indoor playground seem to be the perfect solution to let them release their energy and go around climbing up and down the play structures.
There are many different such indoor playgrounds in Singapore but this is one of the biggest that I have brought the boys to.  Surprisingly it wasn’t crowded when we were there. I guess that everyone must be too caught up in preparing for tonight’s reunion dinner.

Tonight we will be having reunion dinner at home. It will be a simple affair with R cooking some simple dishes for the boys and me.

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The past few weeks we have been going full swing ahead with Roy’s Potty training. Roy has been a bit more responsive this time around.

He is able to stay relatively dry during the day and is able to let us know most of the time that he needs to use the potty.However I still need to constantly remind him every hour if he needs to use the potty.

I have actually been trying to get him diaper free since he was 2yrs old but he has been rather apprehensive  and not cooperative. I  felt that it was no point pushing him to be toilet trained at that time as he wasn’t mentally ready. It would only cause him and me to be stressed up.

This time around we decided to re-start potty training after he turned 3 years old. My target is to get him fully potty trained by June if possible.

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