The Yellow Bird...

Ashley has been practising her dance at home... at po po house... in fact, whenever she is free! :-p I can see that this girl really enjoys dancing. But then, maybe a little too much! Sometimes, while having her meal half way, she just left her seat and started dancing on the floor. Sigh!!! It has been getting out of hands to control this girl to have her meal with buttocks on the chair. 22Nov was the day... to her concert. We arrived at the Civil Service College at around 9.45am, waiting to be seated for the show. As usual, the K2 have their graduation ceremony, followed by performance by the Carpe Diem Alexandra and Jurong West. Ashley was part of the performance. This year, the theme was 'The Enchanting Tales" with the combining stories of the race between the hare and tortoise, and the 3 little pigs. Ashley was part of the 'animal' in the story of the race between the hare & tortoise. She is one of the yellow birds that witness the race and rejoicing that the tortoise won the race...thus it was towards the end of the story that I get to see my Ashley dancing. The children never fails to surprise and bring joy to the parents. There's some amusements where little ones (toddler) doing silly acts, shy ones on stage crying...etc. Nevertheless, encouraging parents always cheer and clap for their love ones on stage. It's' not easy for them.. you need courage to be up there performing. Like many parents, I watched with pride. Ashley dance happily and I can feel her enjoyment. I am not being boastful, but honestly I think my girl had dance well. She saw us watching her, but never waves or returned acknowledgement. I feel proud of her... as a performer, you should not let audience affect your performance right? Little Cieran seems to recognise his sister, eventhough Ashley got her make up on. He calls for her (as in the usual 'Errr..') when he spotted her flying (yellow bird...) out to the front stage. Cieran claps his hand...as if he too agreed that his sister dances well.... haha! After the grand finale, we waited our turn to 'collect your kid'... I praised Ashley for a dance well performed. She smiles happily...I know she had enjoyed herself. Outside auditorium, I took some photos of Ashley with her friends.... Children nowadays got all the exposing which we didn't such oppopportunity. Personally, I wished as much was given to my children.

Ashley made me a proud mummy... :-)

A Family "SWEET" Treats...

Recently I have exchanged 2 haagen dazs ice-cream vouchers from my starhub points. Since the days to my kid's birthdays are drawing near, plus Jeremy is not as busy during year end, I thought it will be nice to have a family ' Sweet Treats'. Sat was a good time to enjoy ice-cream together. It was a surprised that Jeremy suggested the outlet at Holland Village. He nevers likes to drive there since parking has always been an issue. But I supposed the new ERP parking system, and no valent service at Holland Village does help smoothen the traffic and parking difficulties. We did not wait for long to have a parking space. Ashley is excited and longed to eat ice-cream. However, I inisisted that we must have dinner before the treats. Eventually we ended up the same store where I used to dine with my colleagues from Nokia... Katong Laksa with added cockles was always been our orders. I had the same, while Jeremy and Ashley shared the nasi lemak. Little Cirean? Well..he ate his cereal I bought for him, and pinched a little food from the nasi. Cieran can never satisfied with his own portion of food. He's more keen on own food than his own...haha! After our dinner, we stroll around the arcade before landing our feet in the haaden dazs stop. Ashley was blushing with smiles. She happily went in and look at all the flavous on display. I followed her, while the father & son settles comfortably on the sofa couch. We spent more than 10mins browsing the menu and eventaully made our order. Cant't remember to beautiful descrbtion and name of the item, but it was brownies and 2 scoopes of ice-cream (chocolate and choc chips). Ashley's face glow with delight when the waitress placed the ice-cream on the table. Cieran immediately responsed with pleasure seeing 'FOOD'! Impatiently, he makes little groaning and attempted to get the ice-cream himself. What a little greedy fellow! But, can't blame the little fellow... it's his 1st time seeing an ice-cream, moreover it was so well decorated. The look of it spurs out the temptation buds! The 2 kids enjoyed their sweet treats.... mummy can't help but busy taking snap shots of them. We have a fun family sweet treats.... eventhough it was drizzling outside.