Butterfly Pet

Richie bought two caterpillars from his school for science experiment about life cycle.
We fed the caterpillars with fresh leaves for few days then suddenly one of the caterpillars became cocoon, another caterpillar was still the same.

After about a week, the cocoon became butterfly and the other caterpillar didn't survive and died.
At first, this beautiful orange butterfly couldn't fly, it practiced to fly within the container.
Sometimes it just stayed still and mama was a bit worry because it didn't eat anything and we didn't have any fresh flowers at home too.

However, today Tromson accidentally toppled the container and the butterfly flew near the bay window.

Mama thought that the butterfly still didn't know how to fly, slowly put it in the lid and place it near the window and finally after three days, it had enough strength to fly back to the nature.

What a beautiful experience !

9th Birthday Celebration in Singapore

As he wanted to celebrate his birthday at bowling alley, we have booked the lane on September 22 and unfortunately mama needed to go to Jakarta so mama missed the bowling session.

Papa accompanied Richie and his friends and I believe they had fun there.
On the actual day of his birthday, mama managed to come back before midnight and we had simple celebration at swensens.

9th Birthday Preparation

As he now approaching pre-teen age, he wants to celebrate his birthday with his close friends.
At first, he wants to invite his friends to play soccer at the field next to our block.
But I told him, we can't just let them play and go right, and mama needed to go overseas so papa can't be the host alone at home.

So I looked for alternative place for him, at first my thought was Trampoline Park Amped at Jurong East. But after seeing the party package price, I thought twice hahaha...

Then, during the school holiday, he joined free bowling session and somewhat he loved to play again, so that's become the birthday idea.
I saw the rate is not expensive and papa can manage the boys too.
In the end, we decided to celebrate his birthday at Bowling Alley near our home with his close friends.

I helped him making invitation card

Water play at Pirate Ship

As promised, I finally brought the trio to Pirate Ship at Palawan Beach to play water last Sunday

The weather was nice, it's not hot and cloudy. They played for about 45 minutes and the best part it's FREE entry to Sentosa and they had fun.

After the session finished, they already asked me when we play the water there again.

Two Favourite Saints

Last Friday during CEP programme, the kids were watching Saint Francis of Asisi and Richie was very inspired with his life story.
And luckily, I just finished reading his story too few days ago so my memory was still strong and I re-told him again the whole story.

In the end, he asked me what is your favourite saint ? I told him, Saint Therese of Avilla and Lisieux and he told me that his favourite saints are Saint Ignatius of Loyola and St Francis of Asisi.

Praise God, mama and papa hope these saints will inspire your life and your heart so that you grow with the heart of mercy and obedience to God

September School Holiday Activity - Sandsational Sentosa

Last Sunday was the last school holiday and since this week, the weather has been crazy, I couldn't promise and stick to outdoor activity with the kids so I told Richie and the brothers, if the weather was nice, we will go to sentosa to see Marvel Sandsational but if it's raining we will abort the plan and go indoor.

Thanks God, eventhough in the first half day, the weather was not friendly, it turned out cooling and cloudy in the afternoon so after the kids woke up from their afternoon nap, I brought them to Sentosa.
The good news was it's FREE ENTRY, the bad news was because it's free entry, everyone also going there and the carpark at beach station was full.

So I tried my luck to go to Imbiah carpark and hoping there's available slot. And tada... I found few slots and we parked there. I was happy at first without knowing that the location of the sandsational event was near at Shangrilla Rasa Sentosa.

I walked with the three minions from imbiah to the other end of Sentosa. Luckily there were many things to see so they were not complain except Ted who asked me to carry him after we almost reaching the location.

We went in there, it's not so crowded, we took some pictures with our favourite marvel character and I knew the kids will complain if we headed straight back to carpark after walking almost 30 minutes and spending only 15 minutes there, so I prepared the armour, buying them a bag of popcorn and one cold drink shared among three, it's damn expensive, they were jacking up the price like there's no tomorrow.

After fully recharge, we walked back another 30 minutes to carpark.

Then, we went to Vivocity to have dinner and see tsum tsum lantern.
After dinner at kolomee, we went up to skypark and it's a lot of people. They were queueing for the tunnels and photo points.
Luckily, our kids are all boys, they were not so excited about tsum tsum so we just walked around and went back home after the trio complaint very tired especially the legs haha...

A Story of Pet Fishes

Almost 3 weeks ago, Tromson and Ted had field trip to fish farms, both went to different fish farm and end of the field trip, each of them carried a fish tank with full of small fishes. They were excited but not for me. I was reluctant to bring those fishes home because they surely die by the next few days since I was not a pet nanny type.

But seeing how excited and happy they were without knowing that the fishes may die the next day, I brought two fish tanks full of fishes home. Total was 18 small fishes.

I didn't have a heart to see the fish die or flush them into toilet bowl, so I played along buying the cheapest fish food in the pet shops to make the kids happy.
In my mind, I told myself, I already done my best to take care the fishes with a little knowledge that I had, at least if they die, they will die naturally, peacefully and with dignity and I didn't feel guilty.

As expected, the next days, the fish died one after another and fortunately the kids were not too emotional when they saw the dead fishes. Every day I was like having another "baby", feeding and cleaning the tanks and the sh*t.

Until 10 days later, Richie exclaimed mama, I saw baby fishes in one of fish tank, I was like, are you sure ? may be it's poop. For me, it's like a miracle if the fish can breed new life in those condition. But he said, yes it's baby fishes and when I went to have a look, it's really baby fishes and they were a lot. But most or all of them were like dying baby fishes, so I cleaned up the fish tanks and thrown away all dead fishes.

And as days went by, one by one died and left with three survivors who survived until yesterday.
Tromson came to me and told me that one fish has died, ok so I told myself, one tank gone,I only need to take care one fish tank but he continued, but I saw baby fishes. I was like WHATTT ?? AGAIN ??

Quickly I came to have a look and yes, one adult fish died and many baby fishes were surround it, it's like dying so I told them I will clean up the tank and left with two fishes in other tank, then Richie told me, mama you need to save the baby fishes who were still alive, I didn't notice at first but when Richie asked me to wait patiently that few of them were moving, they really was.

I had a hard time to separate the survivor babies and the dead one because they were so tiny, anyway I managed to save 4 baby fishes. So one adult died, 4 new life emerged.

I was like, God, You must be joking with me, within 3 weeks, I saw fishes breed new life not once but twice.

September school holiday activity - bowling

Another activity that we decided to take was bowling.
And surprisingly, they have the coach that gave a quick basic lesson how to hold the ball, the posture and how to roll the ball.

He had some fun too and we re-attend again for another free session and mommy will join too.

September school holiday activity - Nerf Gun Combat

Mommy was scratching head to find the useful and free activity for Richie and the brothers because papa was away for business trip and I remembered about HPB events family active, so mommy googled and found that they have lots of activities during September school holiday.

So we decided to try something new which is nerf gun combat and bowling.

Nerf gun combat was fun, at first they practiced shot the objects after that they have the games using nerf gun.

September School Holiday Activity - Peranakan museum

Sunday, 2 September started September school holiday and we have quality time as family and spent it with friends too.

After morning mass at St Ignatius Church, we had lunch together with Uncle Ivan's family at Pondok Jawa Timur, after that we met Uncle Yasin's family at Peranakan Museum and explored about the history of peranakan in Singapore.

He made some art and craft while we were there.

After that we watched movie, Titans Go with uncle Yasin's family and had dinner at Kopitiam.

It was a fruitful day to start school holiday

Debater Session - Speech Academy

On August, he learnt how to do debate speech and he was chosen to be an emcee for the day of showcasing.
Papa was there to watch Richie's end of the month speech while mama accompanied Tromson swimming.
Well done Richie !