Monday, July 30, 2007

Moving here, there and everywhere

We had our living floor tiles checked earlier and it was found that we had about 20 tiles that are hollow. After some negotiation with HDB, we managed to get them to redo all the tiles in our living room. It will take them about a week to complete the job so we had to move out. Last Wed, the removal of the tiles started. In order to keep within the claimable amount of $150, we booked 2 nights at Robertson Quay hotel. Room was very small and hardly much space for the 2 boys to roam around. Little Gavin seems to have difficulties adjusting to the place and thus wakes up almost every other hour crying with frustration. Gareth did not sleep very well as well being disturbed by Gavin's crying.

Mummy booked Sentosa's Siloso Beach Resort for the weekend as it will be a good chance to let the boys have some fun at the island. It was a much much better place with a bigger and more comfy room. Of course, the price was different as we paid $220 per night compared to the $100 at RQH. It was raining almost everyday during last week and we were hopeful that rain will reduce or even disappear over the weekend. Alas, it was not to be.

On Sat, after breakfast at the resort, we went to impiah lookout and got into a glass cable car. It was the 3Gs 1st ride on the cable car. Gareth was not afraid at all of the height. Gavin was scared initially as he sat very still but was ok after a while.

Stopped over at Vivo to grab a bite over lunch time and then back to Sentosa. We went to try the Cineblast. After myself and Gareth went in for the preview, not sure why Gareth then backed out and wanted to get out of the place. Thus I went through the ride myself. Was kinda disappointed Gareth did not try the ride but it was kind of rough though so also not sure if he will be scared of it in the middle of the ride or not. So probably next time then will find out :P. We planned to watch the Songs of the Sea in the evening but little did we know that it was fully booked when we try to get tickets about 2 hrs before the 1st show.

Sunday morning.. we saw sunlight.. and this time.. after breakfast, we went off to the beach. Laid the mat, took out the beach toys and beach ball.



Swam a little in the water. Then comes the dark clouds again.. sigh.. we packed up and went to the inhouse pool. Wah.. the water was so so cold. We thought Gavin would jump out of it as he previously does not like cold water. Haha.. but he enjoyed the water so much he was not bothered at all.. he just went splash splash splash in the water.

Gavin is already beginning to say few words. He learnt to say "milk milk" when he wants to have his milk. There was this once he kept calling "Pa Pa" "Pa Pa". Mummy then tell Gavin, “再说一次”Gavin then said “一次” Haha.. it was really funny.

As for Gareth, nowadays he grows to like animals. He asks to go zoo quite often and now would watch Animal Planet channel more than he watches cartoon. He will call out the type of animals shown on the tv.. even the difficult name "Hippotamus". So what does he say when he does not know what the animal is? "Papa, what's this, what's this?" Now anything he does not know, he goes "what's this, what's this?". Hehe.. is this a sign of the beginning of the inquisitive mind?

Now we are putting up at their grandma's place. They seemed to feel much more comfy although Gareth still misses home. He still tells us "Mama, Papa, 回家". The poor boy is homesick. He misses his bedroom and his toys. We had re-painted his room with a new colour and going to do some nice deco to make it more like a kids room. Hope he will love it when he finally gets to go back home this Wed.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Pizza making party @ CPK

Today we were invited to a birthday party at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK). The kids were treated to a pizza making session. The birthday gal Grace's mummy made lovely aprons for the kids; red for the girls and blue for the boys. There was no tossing of the dough though, so just put toppings on the dough to make their hawaiian pizza. The kids then get to enjoy their piece of mastery :P