The greatest and most touching moment in life when you have a child is when he or she says “Papa, I love you so much!” and give you a gentle, sweet little kiss on your cheek.
This is a very priceless sentence as the little one really ‘endorsed’ your love, care and time being spent together with her.
If your child says that to you too “Congratulation!”
Mommy has borrowed few other titles from the library for little Prisca. They are “Dora the Explorer” and “Blue’s Room”.
It is really good to know that the library keeps updating and importing new DVDs for the children. Very good job!
Read about Dora’s adventures from the books long time ago but we have never watched its DVD right until now. It is a 2D style of animation but the contents are good and educational. It is full of reasoning and analytical stuffs (just like the Mickey Mouse’s Clubhouse). One downside of this movie is that it does not have any subtitle; this is bad as some Spanish are incorporated inside the series and we have to guess its meaning.
“Blue’s Room” on the other hand is quite dull but some educational and analytical elements are within. It is basically a puppet show embedded inside a story tale. I personally prefer “The Wheel on the Bus” which is livelier as a puppet series.
“Papa, I want nine sweets. Pink sweets. Can you buy it for me?”
Yes, letting your child eating sweet things may be a “taboo” or straight “NO” to some parents I guessed.
I heard that some children have not taste any ice-cream or sweets before; even when they have reached an age of 4 years old ++ (in Singapore)! That is really a deprived childhood to me.
I think eating sweet things moderately are alright for kids provided you must ensure that they brush their teeth daily.
Yes, do remember not to feed them sweet things 1 hour or so before meal time as these sweet things will fill up their small stomach and lower their appetite for food; other than that should be ok I guessed.
These are the “pebbles” Prisca pointed to me. She also created lots of “carrots” for the rabbit too with the playdough.
Look how serious she is; she looks like an advisor planning for some kind of strategies or formulation attack in a battle yeah? Ha-ha.
Frankly speaking, I don’t quite like this kind of “soft” toy as it dirtied my floor with those tiny pieces of “cow dung”. =(
But these kinds of playdoughs are essentially important to a child’s creativity and imagination. So I have to bear with it.
But parents please take note: buy those proper types of playdoughs for your kid. Those ‘plasticine’ (cannot remember how to spell it) types we used in our olden school days are not that safe for the child I heard. And beware of some imitation brands too! Take care.
After several months of searching and waiting, when Mommy is just about to give up any hope in borrowing this Little Einsteins “Race for Space” series in the library – miracle happens ha-ha.
Mommy showed Prisca this DVD last night and our little princess looked at it and gave out a smile. She opened up the casing and starts to spin the disc; smiling to herself during spinning.
Disney’s Little Einsteins is one of Prisca’s favourite DVD movies. She (or rather we ha-ha) learnt a lot of musical knowledge from this series. We learnt about different musical instruments; some famous composer’s music and lyrics; and also different countries’ icons or structures.
Tempos terms like ‘adagio’, ‘moderato’, ‘allegro’ and ‘presto’ were aliens to us initially; but after watching the complete series of Little Einsteins together they seemed to become our daily languages ha-ha. For example, when I pushed the stroller slowly (adagio), she will ask me to go for ‘allegro’ (fast).
So parents who seldom watch children DVDs together with your kid may consider sacrifice some time for them. Laugh and enjoy the process of watching DVDs together; your child may bond to you better.
P.S. Why the title “Mission Completion”? It is a slogan in Little Einsteins whereby Leo (leader of the team) will say after each mission completion. ;P
Do you know why IKEA is so successful in their business?
Yes, yes…I know that their chicken wings and meat balls are yummy ha-ha but that is not the real reason.
One of their successful strategies I guessed is their ability to focus on “children”.
Prisca is sitting on a big table. She looks gloomy because Mommy and Daddy cannot come in and play with her.
Look at the Smaland in IKEA. Although it is not that big as compared to some of the commercialize playscapes; but it is definitely good enough for parents to do some shopping after they leave their kids in there.
Did you see the big black clog? This is the item which caught my immediate attention when I walked pass it.
But one comment is that, they may not have enough staffs to take care of these children in there when the amount is huge especially during weekends I guess.
Did you see the ball pits at the rear end? Last visit were yellow balls and now they have changed to blue balls; well done for IKEA in maintaining very good hygiene standard!
After reading so much fun things at Downtown East, we decided to bring Prisca for an exploration.
I think this must be the well known great icon of the E!Hub at Downtown East – The Ferris Wheel. It is quite an expensive ride I would say for just two miserable rounds. Price: 1 person (S$6.50); 2 people (S$11.50); 3 people (S$15.50) and 4 people (S$18.50).
The Ferris Wheel during night time. Hmm…we should have taken the ride at night; it looks more magnificent.
Another attraction would be this Mini Bowl. It is located inside the adult bowling alley. S$2 for five games (i.e. 10 throws). Do remember to bring along S$1 coins if you intend to have a game. Btw, you can change some dollar coins at the counter.
It is really a nice game; Prisca is too shy that day and we (my wife and I) complete the whole game.
After dinner, we were out for another great adventure at the Explorer Kid. The price is S$18 for 3 of us. Remember to sign up membership for your child (if you are an existing NTUC member); it is much cheaper during entry. Yes, do remember to bring along socks! Socks are always expensive at this kind of playscape.
Prisca is so excited that she took out the shoe before we even bought the tickets!
Wow! It is really a big playground for the children. This playscape is at least twice the size of the one we went to at Go!Go!Bambini.
We are going to sweat it out at this playscape I guess!
I always think that climbing the “cliff” is nothing. But I was wrong after I tried it myself at here.
This is for the bigger children. It is definitely a “No-no” for little Prisca. Hope that I can shrink down myself and join in the fun ha-ha.
This ball pit is different from the others. These balls are translucent and they illuminate different lights which make them look mysterious.
These kids are completely ‘wild’; they screamed aloud which scared Prisca off ha-ha.
This is the area for little toddlers. It’s really safe games; there is also another mini ball pit next to it too for smaller toddlers.
Just when we about to leave, we spotted another amazement area which drew us back to it. This merry-go-round is very attractive to the children I would say. It costs S$3 per ride - yeah, the price of a bowl of wanton mee
This Care Bears train ride was the last ride for the day. Prisca was totally exhausted ha-ha.
“Hi Madam, let me help you out with the shoes. How? Are they comfy?”
When a child is young, we parents often complain that our child always “stick” to us.
They follow us whenever we go and cry whenever we left them at home with grandparents.
We often complain that we don’t have our own free time (not like the usual life we had before); we feel frustrated when they are cranky and temperament; and etc.
I had lunch with my colleagues last week and somehow we chatted about children.
Some of their children are teenagers right now; they as a parent yearned so much to have their children to “stick” to them for a simple dinner during weekends. Some of their kids even quarrel with their daddies for not joining the outing with the family. Sad.
Sometimes it is really dilemma to be a parent yeah? Ha-ha. So do treasure the “sticking” time (or periods) that you spend with your child.
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