Fiona recently could tell us that she needs to poo poo. She would yell for "toilet bowl" if it is time for poo poo. Toilet training Fiona for that was a breeze. I never expect her to be able to do it so soon. I remembered that Aaron only managed to do that at the age of 3 yr 3 mth during our trip to Korea... must thank the Koreans for their super clean and comfortable toilet :p

I know many parents r sending their tods to extra lessons ...but with Arianne's needs to take care and logistics issues, unfortunately, I couldn't. It is not that I dont want to but with 3 kids, logistics is a big issue n it's really so tiring to take care of all 3 of them.
However, during these 2 mths of my maternity leave, I feel that Fiona had picked up quite a lot. She had learnt quite a few nursery rymthes, could name the vegetables on the flash cards, recite her A-Z, 1 to 10 in English and Mandarin. I'm trying to teach her colours and reading 1 - 10 but everytime I ask her "what is this?", she asks me back the same question :(

Just nice that my maternity leave is during the June hols. School's out for Aaron. As much as possible, I tried to arrange for him one exciting activity per week. I need a break fr staying at home lookin after the kids too. We went cycling, up the Singapore Flyer, underwater world n dolphin lagoon. June was also the time we celebrated mei mei's 2nd birthday... was fun! I wish Arianne would grow up soon and join in all the fun. I love such outings with the kids but bringing Arianne out at this moment with 2 other active ones was really tough.

Can't believe Aaron is so Brave! He insisted on taking a pic with this white snake outside the Underwater World. Creepy.

Fiona's 2nd birthday celebrated at home with her cousins on our usual Friday family gathering. My kids love parties especially Aaron. We bought Fiona a Barney cake n bought some tim sum fr Yum Cha. Actually, Fiona fell asleep even before the cake cutting session. All we had to do is to whisper to her "Barney Birthday Cake here" and she was wake again. Power of Barney on kids. Fiona loved to sing. She could sing happy birthday in English and Mandarin and had been practising her vocals the past 1 mth. How old r u Fiona? "2 years old"... we taught her that few months back and only recently she was willing to give us the answer.