Jacob Ballas Picnic
A hot sunny day in Sept, arranged a picnic at Jacob Ballas Childrens Garden with some friends. These mommies have babies all born between Aug-Nov08, and some also have another bigger child like us. We potlucked, and met at the sheltered area next to the sand pit.
HOT! Though sheltered, the weather was so hot hehehee. Jovann and the big kids had fun in the sand pit. We were baking not 1 hour after starting, but it was still fun, the bigger kids enjoyed loads running around kicking ball (we brought one), or basically just making noise. :)
My contribution - The organic snacks.
The overall feast.
The big red and sweaty ones.
Lantern Date #1
Met up with Auntie Jamie and Auntie Hsin Dee with their 3 kids at Botanic Gardens one cool evening in Sept, for the kids to play lanterns. I must say I enjoyed this, it sure was wacky carrying lanterns through the quiet and tranquil Botanic Gardens, playing bubbles on the huge grass patch near the Symphony Stage, strolling round the pond which in the day was filled with ducks, swans and tortoises, chuckling at Malcolm and Jovann's shouted conversations during the stroll, and our very very frequent stops to light a candle that went out. Very unusual and fun hehee. Many a times we laughed guiltily at the thought of the despairing looks many a dating couple must be throwing our noisy kids.
At one point of time, Jovann and Malcolm kept up a shouting commentary in chinese whether or not there was fish in the pond. And their lanterns kept going out, as that day all of us are using candle lanterns besides Eunice and Jazreel. Poor Uncle Peter was repeatedly lighting and relighting them hahaha.
Lantern Date #2.
My experience with the candle lanterns previously prompted me to get these great find - individual battery operated dome lights that could be attached to ANY candle lantern. COOL! I put this in Jovann's Thomas and Friends lantern (which I realised later that I was lucky to get, as Thomas lanterns seemed to be sold out everywhere, thumbs up for early shopping!) and Jazreel's Chang Er lantern. :) Problem solved! Very pleased!
We had dinner with Reubern and Rochelle at West Coast Plaza. At this dinner, Jazreel helped gorgor wiped his mouth for the very first time. :P
Made a quick trip to NTUC to buy some neccessities, and discovered this kinda sausages targetted at kids, containing interesting mix of fruits or vege. Cool!
Then the kids had a ride on the animal rides, before we proceeded to West Coast Park this time.
There was a happening carnival going on, but hubby didn't wanna go near there, so we took a slow stroll in the park, before retiring to Macdonalds for drinks.
Jovann accidentally spoiled Reubern's lantern (so sorry Reubern :( ) and Reubern wanted to trick Jovann into eating chilli as revenge. hehehehehe super cute.
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