Celeste & Cyrus Ng

Cyrus had a chance to play at the playground while Celeste went for her Chinese speech and drama lesson. Usually, cyrus would need assistance in climbing up the slide but today, he did everything all by himself! And he could even slide down without hold on to the slide! Looks like he really had a lot of fun. :)

It was all dark clouds over at amk but we still decided to go over to Bishan as it looked much brighter there and we hadn't received any sms saying that swimming class was cancelled.

5 mins into Celeste's swim/play in water, the siren of the lightning alert went off.

So the girls had to come up to dry land. So what did they do? Play of course! Just a piece of bathing towel was enough to let them play continuously for 30 mins and they would have continued if we didn't stop them.

Met Gywneth there. Happy to see a friend together with her!

Celeste doesn't know anyone in her class, 1 Grace. She's index no. 5 on the list.


Mummy and daddy spitting up the job and we got things done v fast! Mummy filled up the forms while daddy bought the books. Daddy even saved quite a big of money as he found books that were being recycled by students.

Cyrus recently likes Thomas the train. Or rather, he just starts liking trains so the Thomas the train stickers that Celeste doesn't use anymore is put to good use.

He spends a gd deal of time playing with the stickers by himself. Loves decorating his hands with the stickers. Tonight, he sees a huge space on grandpa's leg and immediately went into action. ;)

Think it's time to buy more stickers for him!

Celeste woke up early so that she could go to the airport together with Daddy. See her puffy eyes!

Mount Elizabeth Novena organised a "Hospital Land" event for children aged 5 -10. I registered immediately as I've always missed their Doctor A Day event!

Celeste was very excited about it and woke up very early in anticipation.












However, while the different stations looked colourful and really fitting for children, Celeste thought that it would have been better if the hospital had shown real things instead of children's size. I agreed with her. It seemed more suitable for smaller kids, rather than my mature 6 year old. I think she would have preferred a guided tour in the hospital.

Time passes so quickly. The September holidays are now over. Will be missing the carefree and stress free days! Almost everyday of the sep holidays were fun! Will start recapping with the latest.

Sunday: no Chinese speech and drama lessons in the morning so we went to ask hub for breakfast and to buy cyrus' s medicine. His runny nose is still persistent and yesterday night took a turn for the worse as it kept coughing. Luckily after feeding him some sinupret,  he coughed less and managed to go back to sleep.
Later in the noon, Celeste went for piano lessons and after that, We went to clement's new condo for the children to have a swim. Look how Cyrus is enjoying himself.

Cyrus using Celeste's swim board as a toy. Directing all the water from the fountain to elsewhere. He managed to play quietly by himself for a looong time!


of course the girls
 only play with themselves and forget about Cyrus. Heh. 


 Almost impossible to get a nice pic of Cyrus as he is always refusing to look the camera!

Saturday : Swimming lessons. Celeste- has progressed quite quickly. - I think this is only her 3rd lesson? But she is already being chosen to go to the deep pool. Looks scary but I think she is very happy that she is being selected and seems to be trying her best to perform well. Proud of her!




Celeste love letter to me. It's in
 Celeste's love letter to me. It's in Chinese! and with hanyu pinyin! Incredible right? Celeste learns things very quickly so it's easy for me to teach her myself. Hope she continues working hard. 




Lastly,a tiny update on Cyrus . He now seems to be able to say more words and is trying to speak or imitate our words. However, his pronunciation is still very poorbut nonetheless,I'm still happy that he is trying to communicate with us. At least he is putting in effort. I can understand him. He can understand me.

Words he can say now:
bye-bye (Baba )
apple(ah perl)
Banana (nana )
sit
go there
bread(pan)
milk ( malk?)
water (malk?)-he uses the same words for milk and water so I have to keep asking him which one he wants.

Cannot remember what else he knows now. But it's a good range of words.

Recently Celeste & Cyrus have been having lotsa fun together. They seem to be interacting more. Cyrus likes to follow Celeste around and knows that Celeste will take care of him. See how loving they are! :)

Celeste loves didi so much. ... :) glad that didi is of company to her.

Just look at how cute Cyrus can be. He's becoming really cheeky. Think he belongs to the worker's party. Ask him to not do something, he'll purposely do it.
He's quite gd at listening as can see from his actions. Either do it obediently or purposely play with you.

He's trying to talk too! Daddy heard him say "handphone" and "teacher".
Today I heard him say "bolster" and "handphone". And he is also trying to communicate using his baby language and hand gestures. Just now he spilled some water on the sofa coz he was playing with it in his mouth. I told him to tell grandma about it and he really managed to convey to grandma that he had done something wrong and needed help. Wahhhh.... Finally can communicate! Mummy is happy for Cyrus!

These days, I noticed that Cyrus can play with his cars for quite a long time by himself. Haven't timed him. .. but maybe 15min? Or more? He'll be so quiet playing that I'll go see what he's doing. Basically he just pushes the cars around, lines them up or sometimes bang them each other. Very interesting to see what he is doing. Love it when he gives me peace. Heh.

Btw, Cyrus has so many cars now. Cars of all shapes and sizes!

Today while on the way to dinner, he heard the song 妹妹背着洋娃娃 and suddenly did the 笑嘻嘻 action. Really very cute! It seems like he really knows what is 笑嘻嘻! Coz subsequent times I asked him to do, he does it for me. When I say 笑, he smiles. If I say 笑嘻嘻or 笑哈哈, he pokes his cheeks with his two index fingers and smiles. Ahhh... so cute. We conclude that school is indeed helping him a lot. :)