Christian's Toys

Well from the look of this pix ... you figure it out ... these are the only three proper toys that Christian owned. Some friends said we are super 'kiam siap' ... we don't think so! Well we certainly do not encourage 'press-the-button ala Fisher-price' kinda toys. Not just because we grew up with none and therefore the legend continues. But we thought there are certainly more to toys than TOYs TOYs. What about quality time while playing, getting more out of it than just sitting around in the house to get to know more of the particular toy. We prefer running in the park chasing kites like orang gila and roll around the grass while having a good laugh, walking around the lake in the evening while feeding some fishes with a bag of bread (how about), going to a stream to catch some tad poles, making sand castle, and the list goes on ... so as long as it is outdoor activities!

Dough Play with Kiersten & Christian

Dough play on a lazy Saturday ... It was all fun with lots of mess done :) Kiersten & Christian ... LOVE it ... Wafle too LOVE eating IT!

What You Need:
+ Flour
+ Warm Water
+ Pinch of salt
+ Whatever safe kitchen utensils you don't mind using as tools ... eg. spoons, chopstick (gotta be watchful on this), plastic shape cutter (to create fun shapes (star, squares, etc)

How it works for us (Kiersten, Christian, Mummie):

+ Pour flour into a medium size plastic container
+ Pour in warm water slowly to mix
+ Place clean hands into it to start kneading
+ It should be sticky, yucky (for the young ones, maybe) and gooey at this point
Encourage them to go on ... oohhh they may take a bite to taste ... well in my case, i am fine with it since it is home made :P
+ Scatter more flour & continue with more kneading
+ It should be nice and dough-ie after a good 10mins of kneading, punching, and rolling ... with lurrve
**Optional .. you may take some part of the plain dough to mix with food colouring of your choice (the more the better ... variety of ingredients for masak-masak)


Extra Tips:
When attention span is getting low with young kids below 1 yr old ... just like Christian (44 weeks old)
Get the pots and pans, spatula, small wok (basically anything of stainless steel and can be used as drum set)
Start the BAND!!!
Be creative ... do a sing-a-long of 'Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep, etc while clanging on all the 'instruments' (you may want to ping your neighbour in case of out-of-tunes Karaoke :)

Have fun!!!

Do .. Re .. Mi ...

Chris ROCKAFELLA ...

Lent & Easter

Well, a year has come by so quickly .... it was jus 10 months ago Christian was baptized. Now ... very soon, we will be celebrating Easter and follow by Christian's 1st Birthday. Destination of Birthday party? Very much determined ... McDonalds!!! We (me specifically) not a great fan of fast food definitely and certainly not one to encourage children for it. But since Kiersten had hers there when she was ONE, so it is kinda a tradition and also not to be unfair though :p
I'll have to start planning very soon ... hmmm ... guess i'll start with the CAKE! Any suggestion for a boy?

Blading :)

Hahahaha .... we are blading ... as often as we could lar ... Well, i guess it is more fun than going to the gym! For me, needed to brush up some skills ... hope i won't be breaking any of the old bones!