萱萱 received her first scrapbook homework. She brought home a stuffed toy and has to picture and write about the weekend spent with the toy. Sounds easy but we have to deliberately bring the toy out with us and create 'events'. At their age, very few can write in full sentences so when I see all the write-ups from her classmates, I was pretty certain they were done by parents.
So as a good parent we helped 萱萱 with her homework too. I supposed we should start getting used to these since I would expect more to come as she goes to Primary school too.
We were surprised when 萱萱 started drawing a pyramid of food groups. She is clearly a visual learner and could replicate the pyramid through memory of what she saw in school.
The kids love the Paw Patrol cartoons. They will regularly sing the theme song and ask for youtube videos on them. As doting parents we bought them a lot of Paw Patrol toys, so much that 萱萱 was able to put together a parade for the pups.
We have been wanting to do this for the longest time. Our fridge has been giving us lots of problems with the freezing and the motor gets pretty loud often. I always suspected it was due to the lack of space around the fridge for it to dissipate heat.
So the base was extended by about 30cm and now we have a good 5-6cm on each side of the fridge. Hopefully this helps. This also gives us the flexibility to get a 2 door fridge in the future.
I have a staple order at Sushi-Teh, Chirashi-don and Yosenabe. So for the longest time (years), the only time I have Yosenabe was when we dine at Sushi-Teh. That has all changed, Meimei now makes a mean mean Yosenabe that hands down beats any other. This is the only Yosenabe I'll be having going forward, period.
萱萱 was excited to receive 'stickers' from school for the National Day celebrations. It's simple fun so we indulged her when she asked that everyone gets one on their arms.
I love the matching outfits. I don't think they can grasp the concept of national day yet. For them it's a fun day where they can play dress-up at school and potentially have extra snacks and gifts.
You would think all kids like the sweet and crunchy taste of Oreos. But no no no, 阳阳 only likes the chocolate biscuit and not the sweet vanilla filling. Usually kids will be so excited to get treats and pop them immediately into their mouths. But here 阳阳 is patiently peeling off the whites. We already knew he doesn't like sweet stuff but to see him splitting the whites out of the Oreo's is just so cute.
