Loves but yet afraid of water

Samuel's all time favourite - splashing the water

Blow bubbles on the hand!! Too afraid of blowing on the water
Taking turn to jump but when it is his turn he goes to the back againSamuel going under water
Enjoys kicking the water

Samuel loves to play with water but to a certain extend, he is afraid of water. He was very excited when he first started his swimming lesson. However after he learned that he will need to go underwater or to blow bubbles, he started to be afraid of going for his swimming classes.

He is afraid especially when the teacher asked him to go underwater. Since he is too shy to say no, he did what was told. He is also afraid of jumping into the water. When it is his turn, he will let other kids jump first hahaha.... but he can't escape as the teacher knows it is his turn. He will sit and jump instead of jump standing.

The only thing he likes to do during his class is to splash and kick the water. Whenever he has the chance, he will splash the water. Probably this is the reason he is still willing to go for the class.

45 Months

- height = ?
- weight = ?
- likes to ask us how to spell this and that
- needs to be fed, else will not eat
- can only be fed by daddy or mummy, else take about 2hours to finish
- still likes to keep food in the mouth
- appetite still the same, 2 meals, 1 snack, drinks 3x a day
- started swimming but afraid of going under water or blowing bubbles
- extremely shy
- started to be afraid of sounds again
- can recognise alot of words
- likes to draw, colour, write, trace and read
- clean freak, will make alot of noise even with a single dot of dirt
- a perfectionist, if he did something not within his expectations, he will redo it again, if he still can't do it to his expectations, he will want us to help, else he will cry

Jesse Submerged In The Water

Jesse submerged in the water. Amazing!

Daddy and mummy is so amazed with this video that we would like to share it with our friends. Knowing daddy and mummy, it is not an easy thing to do by ourselves to let our baby get totally submerged for the fear that they are not ready.

Teacher Isabelle was fantastic that she knew what to expect of a baby when it comes to babies and swimming. Next time daddy will bring his underwater camera to film more videos underwater too. :)

Mummy's Birthday Card From The Kids

Look at the birthday card both my children did. Daddy has been spending time with Samuel and Jesse to create a birthday card for me.

For the past few years, daddy gave mummy a birthday card on their behalf. But this year, Samuel and Jesse actually did the card for me! Credit goes to daddy. Thank you again daddy!

Mummy's Birthday Present

Daddy never fails to give mummy birthday presents. Yes, most of my birthdays, I received more than one present. Daddy knows that I like to open presents... hahaha...

This year, daddy did not wrap the present as it is not easy to wrap. Guess what daddy got for mummy?

A birthday card :)

No wrappers, just a box

Louis Vuitton Mini Lin Samur Ebene

A Louis Vuitton handbag. I was actually choosing between this and the other LV handbag when we were in Hong Kong last December. Daddy offered me both the handbags but I decided to take the other one.

Daddy knows I had a tough time choosing between the two, so he quietly ordered the handbag through a friend who went to Singapore recently, to get it for my birthday. How thoughtful of him. Thank you so much daddy!

Happy Birthday Mummy

Mummy's Birthday Cake (Chocolate Chip Cheese Cake)

Family Photo Taken After Singing Birthday Song to Mummy

Family Photo, Birthday Dinner in Swensens

Samuel giving mummy her birthday kiss

Jesse giving mummy her birthday kiss

Samuel and mummy pretending to be angry (at dinner)

Sourdough 49ers Beef

Samuel's chicken mushroom pizza

Mummy's black pepper seafood pasta

Ice cream dessert (topless 5)

Today is my birthday. This morning, Daddy prepared all the necessary and prepared the cake he ordered from Sheraton Hotel, a chocolate chip cheese cake, just for me. Samuel and daddy sang Happy Birthday to mummy while Jesse sat on mummy's lap.

Samuel helped mummy blow the candles after singing happy birthday to mummy. We were all so happy today.

Daddy then arranged the whole day filled with family fun.

We had mummy's birthday dinner in Swensens Restaurant. Daddy had sourdough 49ers beef, mummy had black pepper seafood pasta, Samuel had chicken mushroom pizza and Jesse had a little bit of everyone's food except for mummy's food. In Swensens, our dessert was of course, ice cream. We ordered a "topless 5" which came with yummy raisins, orange serbet, mango, chocolate freckles and yam flavoured ice creams. It was yummy. :)

It has been a simple yet lovely birthday with the ones i truly love.

Samuel's School's Pets Day

Samuel touching the tortoise

Samuel and the Rabbit

Samuel's school organized a day where the students are asked to bring their pets to show all their friends in school. When we first heard about it, we were wondering what Samuel could bring to school as a pet. Then we realised, the only pet that Samuel has is his Robot Dog, Lucky. No... we didn't ask Samuel to bring Lucky. It would have been too embarassing for him. hehe

Anyway, it has been an educational and fun day for Samuel. He seems so excited to see different pets (animals) that was shared by his friends. There was a dog, pigeon, rabbit, kitten, chicks, lots of fishes and sea monkeys. Infact, it is the first time daddy and mummy saw sea monkeys. Daddy has always been wanting to have sea monkeys as pets since daddy was a kid.

Samuel was not particularly interested in the sea monkeys, he was excited about the rabbit, turtle, dog and fish.

More of Samuel's Masterpieces

Samuel's Fish

A Chicken

Samuel drew, coloured and painted a fish today in his art class. After he has finished his fish painting, he drew coloured an painted a chicken while waiting for daddy and mummy to pick him up from his art class.

Happily Ever After

Recently, Samuel has been watching disney's "Enchanted". He simply loves it. The first time he watched it, he was smiling all the way through the movie. Its so easy to tell that he loves it and was so happy watching it. After that, he has been requesting daddy and mummy to play the DVD over and over again.

Samuel smiling while watching "Enchanted"

In one part of the movie, it actually talks/sings about "How do you know that you love her?". It is simply and innocent feeling so strong that you know... you love her...

Daddy recently feels so much in love with mummy that he could be singing the song over and over again for mummy. (Which will make Samuel smile and laugh)

If there is a happily ever after, daddy and mummy certainly wants to be the first person to have it. :)

Overly Pampered ?

Jesse crying

Jesse has never been easy to handle since baby. I can remember after our confinement lady left us, we had difficulties handling her. She doesn't wanna sleep at night and keeps crying. We tried many different methods to sooth her but doesn't seems to work. Daddy and mummy needs to take turn to look after her.

It is a big difference between her and Samuel. Samuel seldom cries when he was a baby. He was much easier to look after compared to Jesse.

Jesse is also a drama queen. If she wants us to sayang her, she will pretend that she is in pain. Its quite adorable to see her behaving that way to seek our attention. We will just hug her and comfort her.

We can't be hard on her. If we raise our voice on her, she will cry. Unlike Samuel, he will listen when we scold him. Jesse will not give in. There are a few occassions that she cried till she chooked and vomitted. Because of that, we usually have to give in most of the time.

I noticed that she has the "i want means i want" kind of character. And most of the time we allow her to get what she wants, as we don't want her cry until she vomits.

Are we doing the right thing? Will we spoil her if we give in every time?