Parks: Rabbit Park, Bukit Tinggi

The kiddos enjoyed a trip to the Rabbit Park at Bukit Tinggi.

At RM3 per admission, the small petting zoo is a good opportunity for young children who can come up close to the little critters and enjoy cuddling the rabbits, feeding the deer and riding the donkey (extra charge).

Oh Deer

Shows: Bites of Delights

During the school holidays, the kiddos got to watch an impressive local production by young Malaysian actors called Bites of Delights, produced by Rhythm in Bronze, at the Temple of Fine Arts, Brickfields.

Besides being exposed to the many-faceted talents by the children and the chimes of the traditional art of gamelan, the kiddos got to learn about some of the popular (albeit slightly morbid) Asian folklore from countries on a journey along the Spice Trail — Persia, China, India, Malaysia and Japan.

Persia: Gopal the Court Jester and his Hilsa fish

Playgroup: His Beloved Lambs

Started a toddlers' playgroup for some mummies and babies.

Go to His Beloved Lambs to check out some of our activities for little ones :-)

Parks: KL Bird Park

One of my favourite parks is the KL Bird Park in Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur.

Apart from the fact that it is "World's Largest Free-flight Walk-in Aviary", with more than 3,000 birds, it is a wonderful way to see a whole variety of feathered friends up close in a beautifully landscaped environment. 

The daring birds would come up close (sometimes too close for comfort), giving you lots of ad-hoc photo ops. There are bird feeding stations located throughout with designated feeding times, or you can hand feed the ostriches, emus, lories, and even fishes!

School: End of a chapter

Boy first went to kindergarten in 2010, a year ahead of the rest of the class. It wasn't because I wanted to push him or because he was exceptionally brilliant (although I have to say I think he's highly intelligent ;-)). It was mainly for certain practical reasons, such as not wanting to shuttle between preschool and kindergarten, among others.

Anyhow, I thank God that Boy not only kept up with the rest of the class but enjoyed his 3 years of schooling very much. Being the second kid in the family, he was not pushed as much by Mummy to read nor shuttled to and fro Chinese classes. But he still learnt well and fast.

He enjoyed science. Math not so much ... He scored 48% for his final-year Math paper ... not because he didn't know how to do the sums, but because the pages of numbers made him want to put his head on the table and close his eyes.

Am thankful for his Chinese teacher, Mrs Tan, who always had an encouraging word to say about Boy every time I saw her.

As a bonus, he was given a starring role in his kindy's year-end graduation concert, which no doubt boosted his self-confidence and challenged his stage skills.

Thank you Jesus for these past 3 years. As we close the chapter and move ahead to a new, albeit uncertain, one, we know You have gone ahead and prepared many more new and exciting things for us.

Games: Practise, practise, practise

Was telling boy abt the virtues of practising skills that we are not good at so that we can improve. 

Later that day, I found him playing Monopoly by himself. 

"I'm not good at it. So I need to practise!" 

Growing Up: A Toothy Issue

The Boy's front baby tooth was loose, so we extracted it Mommy's way on Aug 11, 2012.

However, when the new tooth started growing, we noticed that it was shaped as a canine tooth, instead of an incisor (earlier, we thought it was just an odd angle).

So off we went to our friendly dentist, who took an x-ray of the gums. Indeed, it was a canine tooth. An extra one, at that. Otherwise known as hyperdontia or supernumerary teeth. Pretty cool, eh?