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Love her outgoing character.

Love her independence.

Love her determination.

Love her reasoning skills.

Love her spontaneousness.

Love her delightful giggles.

Love her curiousity.

Love her thoughtfulness.

Love her enthusiasm.

Love is looking at her being herself.

We like the trees sculpture at the entrance. They looked like monsters raising their hands.

Faith was our tour guide. This tour guide can come in handy cos she knows everything in this park.

I don’t like this maze cos’ once I go in…. I’ll get lost. Finally, I made my way out. After which, I went back to find Shayne. But, Shayne was not in the maze!!!

Got out of this maze.

Trying to make some vapour

Me and the waterfall.

Shayne and Faith.

So, that is Sean’s 1st blog entry.

Since I am so busy with my work….. I’ll get Sean to blog on Tues instead. He shall contribute to this blog.

Papa told Sara that this is the …beginning of her fave fruit , banana.

Now since we are on this note, let’s talk about Sean being ”artistic”….Sean being artistic? That is quite unheard of actually.  That boy’s artistic cells = naught.  I’m sure that same goes to Shayne as well. They are only good at all platforms of electronic games but just not drawing, which I wish they  can draw a little better. By they way, picture this…. Sara is able to draw better than her two brothers.

Two nights ago, 11.30++pm to be exact, Sean told me that he has not finish his art homework. He has to hand in the completed art piece the following day. OMG…it’s already near 12 midnight… when it comes to art, it’ll take him hours to complete. I bet only a mother ( despite being REALLY tired) is able to stay up till 1am to complete his art work with him. Sean need guidance in his art work cos’ I just mentioned …zero art cells remember??

So, to start with, Sean showed me his incomplete artwork from last week art class… he asked me : “”mommy, how to continue this? I am drawing the 12 zodiac animals crossing the river”  I looked at his incomplete picture… thought for a very long while – telling myself….it’s near impossible to complete it …cos’…

Firstly, his drawing is in a big mess.
Secondly, his incompleted artwork is in oil pastel. We do not have any oil pastel at home.
And
Thirdly, the animals he drew don’t look very animal like. OK, the sheep look a little sheepish, cow – if he never tell me- I may not know it’s a cow, the mouse on the cow - looks slightly like Mickey mouse. And the cat - is cat . Cat? Excuse me, Sean, is there cat in the 12 zodiac animals? 

Anyway, he reluctantly started a new drawing. The picture composition and concept is his… to be honest, he is not too bad with his concept.  His greatest weakness is : he has a concept but can’t execute it. There is a foreground and background, the finished banner and the trophy. He drew the grass, bushes, rainbow and butterflies. I taught him to draw all the animals and he contributed the rabbit.

He told me that he has to draw half sun and clouds. Subsequently, he insisted that he has to fill the background with dark blue. It will take  him ages to fill that background with colours. So…I taught him that background need not necessarily be in solid colour, they can be patterned too. In this instance, the background is the sun ray and rainbow… lines as background.

He struggled with this cow. I taught him cows visual characteristics ( their nose and black patches). As for the mouse, it’s their sharp pointed nose. He added that whiskers.  It’s very challenging teaching him art…..

…. is Sean artistically inclined???

This is from todays car ride:-

Sara: ” I want to go to gugu house.” She has been repeating and repeating this sentence DAILY since our returned from KL after CNY.|

Mom: ‘ It’s not holiday now, you cannot go because gugus have to work.”" Ah ma tried to explain.

Sara:” Why must they work?” She obviously understand what is work but perhaps she does not know the purpose of working.

Mom:” If they don’t work, they don’t have money. What do they eat? They have to eat grass?” Ah ma told her 

Sara: ” Ah ma, gugus can’t eat grass? ” she corrected her Ah Ma. ” Grass are so dirty. Ah ma, only cows eat grass.”

Shayne:” Then, who eats leaves?” Her brother chipped in the conversation.

Sara:”  Shayne, why you don’t know that catepillar eats leaves.”" She told her brother.

My mom asked me how does Sara knew that catepillar eats leaves…… I suppose it’s from Eric Carle’s book: The Very Hungry Catepillar.

Yup, cow eats grass, catepillar eats leaves and I gonna eat biscutes.

Excuse me mommy, you are blocking the TV

Sean , Shayne and Faith were so facinated by Marcus’ magic tricks…Sean told me about it upteems times today.Sean:” Mommy, do you know that Uncle Marcus is very good, very very good….. he knew the cards you are holding ……” on and on…

Here are some of the photos…

Sean tried to climb over…. but he came down without going over the other side.

Shayne is more adventurous.

Sara played very well with Nicole.

Sara: ” My best friend.”

Sean waiting for his BBQ mashmellows….

Papa wanted to try it….Sean refused but he offered to get a new stick of mashmellows for papa.

Having some fun time on the stairs

Kiddos and their lollipop. Sara does not have one cos…. she is waiting for the birthday cake.

Here comes the highlight of the party…. birthday song and cake cutting….

 She simply loves cakes.

Happy Birthday Owen.

Our photos during this CNY in KL…. we never go much places…. just to restaurants after restaurants…and not forgetting the shopping malls and gym.

My mom said that all kids have to be their new pyjamas on Chinese New Year eve, hence this has became our family tradition. Tada – kiddos in their PJ.

He played games on DS, Ipad and PSP (practically during all his free time).

Well, same goes to Shaynie, who has a lot more free time than his brother.

As for Sara, she spent many hours drawing.

CHEAI boyz. Shayne – always the funny guy.

 The biggest and littlest fought over this chair……

Sara loved it. Hmmm…..Where to get one of this here?

A sense of rhythm? Yup, she is rather good in music and rhythm.

She played with Yoong gugu…I supposed it’s some sort of counting games with these golf balls. Her brothers were playing  golf game in the room…. they do not want her to disrupt their games…..hence, they gave her a few golf balls to play in the living room.

Knew what she was up to??? Watching fire works through the windows……cool huh?

As usual…. eating  is top priority in the Cheai’s culture… we ate and ate and ate a lot during this KL trip.

Some photos while waiting for their lunch.

Yoong gugu prepared and cooked Shayne’s meal almost every outing. Shayne only likes noodle.
Bren gugu: ” Shayne, you better finish your noodle. Do you know that many African kids  have nothing to eat.”
Shayne:” Bren gugu, I don’t know cos I have not been to Africa.” 

We brought along some donuts to the Chinese Restaurant for him. And after finishing his noodle, he gobbled down the donuts within two minutes.

Me: ” Sara, who is your fave gugu?”
Sara: ” Mommy, it’s all the gugus.”"
Me:” Who is your most fave gugu?”
Sara:”" All the gugus…. I like Ra gugu most.”Sara is very diplomatic in all her answers when it comes to who and who is her fave…. who and who is able to cook better….

Father and sons

Brought the boys to the mall…. very CNY

Father and daughter.

Sara wanted her pakpak to hold the sparkles while she in turn holds his hand….. cos… she is really afraid of the sparkles.

Papa lighting the sprial sparkles with his sparkles….sound confusing huh….anyway, look at the photos below.

The effects of a few spiral sparkles.

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Gugus and pakpaks, thank you for the wonderful time in KL.

Sara with Papa walking along the street…..

After a relatively short walk……she wanted to be carried instead.

Pomelos

Introduced her to this fruit…. she was rather facinated by this ‘mountain’ of pomelos.

She was lost in this candy stall. She went around asking the aunty ( seller) which of these are good….  after which, she picked various candies -  a large bag of candies to bring home.

This girl just simply loves to draw. She  drew while we had our breakfast.

We’ll be spending CNY with the kiddos gugus and pakpaks in KL.

Happy Chinese New Year  from our family to yours.

The girls.

Took some photos before the show

She loves Mickey and Minnie and all disney princesses….next destination shall be Disneyland then. We watched disney on ice…. the initial 10mins were captivating. As the show processes, her attention span diminishes. The mickey mouse and friends spoke Cantonese, which non of the kiddos understand.

My boys

Our lil three year old.

Sean and Ryan – best friends and cousins

Resting and deciding which gym to go.

Clowning around

Gondola ride. All of them were able to fit into one gondola.  

Sara chatting with this aunty about her gondola ride.

Generally, the kiddos were well behaved throughout the entire trip. With that, we will go for another trip during the June school holidays. Well, I will not bring them to scenic places, museums, art galleries, sight seeing nor shopping stuffs…. given their age…theme parks will be a real perfect place for them.