E Sweetest Gift Art Workshop

A healthy self-esteem is important, especially when kids enter the rocky turbulent teenage years. If one has a healthy self-esteem, peer pressure would unlikely be an issue.

That is why Mummy Eliz hopes that Princess Chelsea can develop a healthy self-esteem.

Mummy Eliz tries hard to remember to give her encouragement for her efforts in daily life, but sometimes focuses too much on the negative side, thus resulting in her feeling discouraged at times.

Thus, when Princess Chelsea gets positive feedbacks from people she meet, Mummy Eliz will try to record it down.

Her Chinese Teacher who taught her for a year wrote in a parting note to her:

祝:

人见人爱的昀静
健康，快乐地成长！

爱你的苏老师
２０１０。３。１１

Mummy Eliz never had a teacher telling her that she loves her.

And just recently, local artist Peter Draw said that Princess is the sweetest 5 year old girl he had met, after she attended one of his Art Workshops titled “The Sweetest Gift” at Ion Orchard Art Gallery.

Of course, that must be a courtesy statement made as it was just a day after Princess’ 5th Birthday, but it made her day nevertheless.

~ Princess holding up the portrait Peter did of her ~

PS:

More about Peter Draw can be found at http://www.facebook.com/peterdraw. He is certainly a young promising, humble and down-to-earth young fellow who got his feet planted firmly on the ground, with all the right beliefs and working hard to pursuing the things worth pursing in life.

“Peter Draw, born 1984, is a world record artist. Peter started drawing at the age of 3, began drawing professionally for income at the age of 16 and before the age of 21, he has drawn over 10,000 people.

From Oct to Dec 2007, Peter set 2 world records – The largest caricature in the world at 360sqm in 3 hours, and drawing 952 caricatures non-stop in 24 hours, without food or rest. In 2008, Peter travelled all over ASEAN to find out what makes children from different backgrounds happy with the support of the ASEAN Government. Peter was awarded “The outstanding young person of Singapore – for contribution to children and world peace” by JCI Singapore in the same year.”

Princess Chelsea’s McDonalds Party

Princess Chelsea invited 12 of her closest friends to her McDonalds Party, and what fun it was!

The party hostess was great with kids and with everything down from the cake and goodie bags down to the decoration being taken care of; it was certainly a great relief for Mummy Eliz and Daddy Tiong.

Princess Chelsea commented that she felt that it was her happiest day, and to see her brighter than mid-day sun smile, check out the birthday song video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwvvtRS9KTM.

~ Enjoying the game “Pencil, Ruler, Eraser” ~

~ Enjoying the game “Fruit Salad” ~

~ Princess Chelsea with Yi Xuan ~

~ The pair, looking eagerly at the cake ~

~ Group photo ~

BBQ BDay Bash for God-Pa Mervin & Chelsea

Princess Chelsea’s birthday falls in the same month as God-Pa Mervin’s birthday, thus when schedule permits, a joint celebration takes place.

This year, a BBQ BDay Bash for God-Pa Mervin and Princess Chelsea was held at West Coast Park for Mummy Eliz’s group of McDonalds’ friends. Our friendship lasted since we were in our early teens, when we all part-timed at McDonalds at the old Plaza Singapore.

A record number of 8 kids had fun together, with the youngest at 6 months old, and the eldest at 15 years old. How times flies, we were teens once, and now the oldest next generation is already a teen!

~ Thanks to God-Pa Mervin for the cake! ~

~ The birthday pair ~

Siblings’ Love - A Love-Hate Relationship

Times like this are as precious as gems and diamonds, thou Mummy Eliz’s two little darlings do not really fight, but like any other pair of siblings, siblings’ issues are plenty a dime. In fact, they enjoy a love-hate relationship with each other.

~ So loving! ~

~ Happily together ~

Reine – Princess Chelsea’s new best friend

Mummy Eliz has yet to get a picture of Princess Chelsea’s new best friend.

It must be fate – they clicked from the first meet-up at a social event at Grace Kids at Great World City, and declared each other as best friends from that point onwards.

Till this point of time, they have only met 3 times, so Mummy Eliz finds it unbelievable how Reine ranks higher than Prince Christian on Princess Chelsea’s best friend list.

PS:

Reine is a very sweet looking, well-behaved girl, thus Mummy Eliz is more than thankful for her company, but is also worried at the same time that Princess Chelsea might lead her wild.

The Gruffalo, Sentosa's Go Green Segway & The Wigglers Live!

The kids in our family had been really blessed.

Princess Chelsea was able to attend The Gruffalo play as Mummy Eliz won a pair of tickets to the play from Ikea’s online contest.

Then shortly after, as part of the National Family Celebrations 2010 at Sentosa, we got to experience the Go Green Segway as a family.

As it was a hot day, the kids chilled out at the water play area at Vivocity after we collected the Go Green Segway tickets.

~ The kids having a great time! ~

The greatest surprise was when a email from Innokidz and Today's Motherhood found its way into Mummy Eliz’s inbox, saying

“Congratulations. You are the winner of the Family Pack (4 tickets) worth S$272 to "The Wiggles Live in Concert" on 5 Jun 2010 2.30pm.”

What a wonderful surprise!

Singapore History Fun Day 2010

Princess Chelsea and Prince Christian skipped their usual noon-time nap today, and time past for them in the blink of an eye in the Function Room of Pandan Valley Condo.

A Singapore History Fun Day was organised by the Home-Schooling Group, and the kids went around the various stalls [tended by lovely mummies and enthusiastic daddies] learning valuable information.

There were information stalls providing information on the origin of National Service in Singapore and on the World War II events timeline. Video clips of olden days Singapore were also shown.

There were activities stalls that require the kids to decorate the attire of their own Peranakan Dolls, to participate in a Treasure Hunt for some quirky Singapore facts, to trace some maps of Singapore, and to taste some local food like Kacang Puteh and Nonya Kueh.

There were story-telling corners, which brought the kids’ imagination to live with accounts of pirates’ quests, of life during World War II and with accounts of Sang Nila Utama.

There were also sessions where traditional games like Zero-Point, 5-Stones etc were played.

Prince Christian loved the Kacang Puteh Uncle, who allowed him uncontrolled access to the delicious snacks, while Princess Chelsea enjoyed the Zero-Point and the story-telling sessions most.

PS:

A special thank you to Littly and Heather for the coordinating work, to Yam Yee for the Guidance book, and to Faith and Suvene for helping to tend to my Nonya Kueh stall while my little ones *fight* for my attention.