Happy, Happy to Mummy

Happy Happy to mummy! Little Darling would so say, if I do not correct him, Happy Birthday to mummy. He was looking forward to Daddy’s coming home from work as I told him that daddy would bring home a cake this evening.

He loved to blow the candle on the cake but he did not eat much of the cake as he just finished a big bottle of milk when daddy’s home.

Walk Walk At Chinese Garden

We brought Little Darling for a ‘walk walk’ at Chinese garden in the late morning. The cloudy sky turned sunny soon after we arrived in the garden.

The first stop was ‘The Live Turtle & Tortoise Museum’. There were many different species of turtles and tortoises. He was ‘scared, scared’ over the alligator turtles and later an ‘unexpected visitor’ – a monitor lizard that was. The highlight of this visit was the giant African land tortoise feeding time – despite its size it was so tame that it could be hand-fed a cucumber! Little Darling enjoyed it so much that after about 2 hours there Little Darling still refused to leave, we had to literally drag him away. We then proceeded to the Bonsai Garden and after that the Ixora Garden.

We also visited the statues of the famous ancient Chinese characters like Confucius, Yuefei & Hua Mulan etc. This little one then insisted on going to the Garden of Abundance to see the twelve Chinese Zodiacs - rabbit, pig, tiger, ox, dragon and so on. Mummy though of not going to this place as it was too hot! But Little Darling kept nagging and nagging ‘rabbit, tiger, mouse ……..’ Mummy surrendered! On the way, there was shady grass patch, where he ran and ran and ran and fell! Luckily that was a grass field or else he would hurt his knees!

1. Pakistan Star Toitise 2. Alligator Snapping Turtle


3. African Giant Toitise 4. Pig-nose Turtle

A to Z

Little Darling can speak out the phonics song learnt from his SM class long time ago. When I say ‘A is eh eh…’ he would continue ‘apple’, ‘B is br br…’ ‘bear’…. till ‘Z is zi zi….’ ‘zebra’ and he would request I repeat this a few times a day!

Now he can say and recognise A, B, C, D, E……… Z with only did not pronounce H and W properly!

Well done!

Mini Performance

Daddy bought Little Darling a drum set which came with castanets, rattle, whistle and drum sticks. He had read a book about monkey drumming on a drum ‘dum ditti dum ditti dum dum dum’ and loves the drum very much! Bang! Bang! Bang! nonstop he played the drum in the car on our way home. He likes all kinds of percussion instruments! Gosh…Mummy would rather be deaf!

Now lets watch Little Darling perform for his animal friends! Hooray!

Happy Birthday to Daddy!

It was Daddy’s birthday today. Daddy was working so mummy brought Little Darling out late afternoon to buy a birthday cake for daddy! Little Darling helped to pick the cake.

Little Darling purposely stayed up to wait for daddy come home to cut the cake. Daddy reached home pretty late. Quickly we sang birthday song for daddy and Daddy cut the cake. Little Darling went to bed soon after eating cake.