Charlie Chan experience

We go to Charlie Chan like it's a routine pilgrimage.

The kids were excited even before we left the house when they know they're going to Charlie Chan. (oh note Agastya's new haircut)





Once we're seated, they'll want to play with stamps. They're pretty much happy at the moment knowing good food is coming soon. No stamps necessary, really, but we just do it to keep them occupied so mom and dad can have conversations about world peace and all that.





Other activities include hugging.



The food arrives after a short wait, and they'll start digging, or in Lila's case 'forking'.







This is cuttlefish cake, our all-time favourite and must be ordered every single time.



We usually order fried egg-custard buns for desert.





Look mommy food's all gone!!



I get a lot of kisses at Charlie Chan.




PS: I have no relations whatsoever with the restaurant, this is a mere appreciation of good food and service. I give a lot of credit for people who make me happy.

Lunch time and legos

Lila has been trying my patience this week. She's sweet most of the time, but throws tantrum sometimes when she doesn't get what she wants, being a stubborn little princess that she is. She's way more stubborn than Agastya. She knows what she wants and has a one track mind. However, when she's being sweet (which I reiterate is most of the time), she's extremely sweet, although I am slightly biased.

The look - She's a lady and she will give you this look.


I have given her first record last week, containing observations and photos of glimpses of what Lila had done in Playgroup. Here are some of what I liked to share from the record:

* At the end of the morning the children were asked to sit in the circle, Lila said 'Mummy coming now'. (awww.. Mummy misses u too)

* At snack time she was offered tangerine, pear and breadsticks but only take the breadsticks, saying a firm 'No' to the fruits. (of course, no surprises there).

* She enthusiastically agreed to try and go to the toilet. After she had been, she jumped up and down saying 'I did it, I did it!' (she does it every single time at home too, and refuses to use potty now. She never has an accident and I am going to try night time training soon.)

Lunch time when she's in her good mood, she'll be very good with her spoon. Her usual food is soupy, and she uses spoon to scoop up the rice and the soup.





She's been crazy with colouring at the moment. I've printed out lots of materials from various website for her to colour her favourite TV characters.







While Lila's been in colouring-craze, Agastya has been in Lego-craze mood. The day he came back from Duxford Air Museum, he sat for a loooong time in front of his Lego bucket and created aeroplanes, transformed it into rocket, then transformed it into helicopter.

This is the helicopter that I managed to quickly snapped before he transformed it into anything else:



A choo choo train. The stairs is where people go up and down. Why does it look like a rhino to me?


A boat, using as what he called a Crazy lego (Magnetix):


A big barn for Spiderman and other superheroes.

Past activities...

It's been a while since I blogged properly. Since blogger announced that they're going to stop their ftp publishing, I haven't been in blogging mood. I've temporarily fixed the problem, but I still need to do a few tweaks on the website because of these changes. *sigh* Okay, nuff ranting.

Agastya was star of the week last week in his class. He's got a laminated certificate saying exactly that, and that the children in his class think he's special because:
* he's kind
* agastya tells good jokes
* he's my friend
* he's good at drawing
* he's friendly

Yeah that's my son. I have an example of point number 2 in closing note, so keep scrolling until the end.

Here are some pictures I've been meaning to share since I've neglected my blogging duties...

Some of Agastya's designs: (train tracks & legos)



















Playdough time:








Having fun with Agastya's camera:



Closing note:
I've been working on 'minus one' (maths) with Agastya. He could pretty much do everything 'minus one'. 101 - 1. 1-1. While we were doing this, suddenly he was being silly like his usual cheeky self, and said, "I know what man minus one is."
Oh no. Man minus one? What is it, I dared to ask him. He replied cheekily, "A woman!"

Nagi was laughing next to me and I corrected my son that a woman is a man PLUS one. Huh. Where on earth did he get all these silly ideas from?

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