All About Your Child

It was just 18months ago when Keatkeat celebrated his 6th birthday with his Preschool classmates. Today, I gave Binbin a mini birthday party with his.

The difference was SO HUGE!

Yesterday when I asked what time should I come today to bring in the cake, the teacher announced to the class that it would be Binbin’s birthday today and everyone shouted “YEAH!” *laugh*

Binbin is so well-loved by all his friends. They kept saying “Happy Birthday Zen!” “Are You Happy Today, Zen?”

It saddens my heart when I recalled Keatkeat’s celebration. We had to mini-beg some children to come over to take a group photo. I remembered there were 4 classmates who did not even want to sing the Birthday song for Keatkeat. They just walked away and eat their own snacks. *sigh*

I wonder if every kid who is born in the year of the Rooster are all so chirpy and energetic. They were so eager to sing him the birthday songs. In fact, the stand-in-teacher (his form teacher is sick today) and I had to keep saying, “WAIT! WAIT!” to stop them from singing, because we were trying to get our cameras ready. *laugh*

If you watch the video below, they actually sang the Birthday song in THREE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! Pretty Impressive eh?

The Owl cake was so well liked by all the children!

They kept asking for double pieces and some even wanted the crumps! *Laugh*

According to the teachers, most birthday cakes were left unfinished and the kids hardly ask for second servings. Was it so delicious?! I didn’t get to try! Even the Birthday boy had a tiny piece for himself only…*pout*

It felt so good to see his BEST FRIEND since Nursery is still so close to him, who stood next to him throughout the singing and the birthday celebration. See their holding-hands photo back in 2009.

Its their last year in Preschool, will they still be in the same Primary School, same Primary Class next year? Only time will tell…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BELOVED BOY! *hugs*

Clementi Mall is still not quite fully opened yet. Though three days ago, the 3rd to 5th level are open to the public, but I would not say that Clementi Mall is quite ready yet. The anchor tenants like Popular Bookshop, Best Denki and the Library are still not here. And for these new levels that are opened to the public, most shops are still under renovation…

Yet, in this semi-opened Mall in Clementi, I found a corner that is really wonderful for kids. The FOODFARE! *laugh* My boys LOVE Pepper Lunch.

What makes it better is, in FoodFare itself, when you walk deep in, you will find many kiddy chairs and tables.

To make it even better, while your child waits for the food to come, they can play in the PLAY corner. With a fully grassy-carpeted mini play area, you need not worry that your child would get cuts if he or she tripped.

When I first saw the Play Area, I was thinking “How boring. If only it had those mini-wall-maze or wall-puzzles that we can easily find in playgrounds, then it would be better.” Then after seeing my boys’ reaction to the place, I gave a slap to my thought.

My boys were pretending to be Tepanyakki chiefs serving me over the ‘grassy-counter’. *laugh* And because the area is ‘empty‘ enough, there is no fighting over ‘play things‘. That dawned onto me that this empty space will bring the chances of Hand Foot Mouth Disease to the lowest possible level. So its still Thumbs Up afterall. *smile*

Other than this, I must say that it was rather disappointing when it comes to shopping for children presents. The Kiddy Palace is really small and hence the options are limited, the focus was on babies more then bigger children. *pout*

Even MiniToons shop was so small, it felt rather cramped, we had to keep saying “excuse me” *sigh*. And believe it or not, the BHG here does not have a children or toys department! *double pout*

Well, whatever that I am writing here is based on my observation three days ago, 26th March 2011. I hope to see more changes, especially to BHG, maybe an extension or something, so that they will include the toys section. *fingers crossed*

Have you been to Clementi Mall yet?