Quiet Book

For Sharize's 1st birthday present, I made a quiet book for her. 

It is totally hand made by me! I sew it and kind of design it based on what i think she like! 

So based on that I decided to do a underwater theme where by there are mermaids, fishes, and the sea and so on. 

I got most of the stuff from DIASO! Cheap & good! 

Anyway here is the end product. 

Some places which i got some templates! 

http://quietbookblog.blogspot.com/p/template-directory.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlBydPfCFRI

https://cutesycrafts.com/2010/12/evans-quiet-book.html

Hope this help you to make your own quiet book for your kiddos too! 

Sharize's 1st Birday Party

To celebrate Sharize's 1st birthday, we had a party at the function room of Tung Lok Seafood Orchard Central. 

The little function room can sit up to 30 guests, so it is a small cosy little setup for our close family friends. 

Got the cake from Edith Patisserie. 

Super thankful for everyone for being there with us to celebrate this milestone! To more wonderful celebration in the future! 

Batam Bay 2017

Visited Batam with the little one, Stayed at Swiss Bell Hotel at Harbour Bay. this travel is with stanley's side of the family. 

was a simple shopping and eating trip for us to just spend some family time. 

 

RC Cruise 2017

This holiday, we head off for a cruise on Royal Caribbean for 5D4N to Phuket, Penang and Malacca. 

Bringing my parents along with us and also my bestie and her sister. 

Hop on the cruise and the first thing we did was to settle in to our rooms! We got balcony rooms so there is a nice bed with sofa for chilling and also a lovely balcony which overlooks the sea! 

After which we walk around to explore the surrounding of the cruise! 

Christmas deco as it was nearing Christmas! 

with my parents! 

Open Pool Deck 

Highlights of the cruise was really the super nice dinner we had ordered by just adding $34 per pax. It was 5 course and it serve super yummy fine-dining food! 

Pork Belly - Starter

Chocolate Lava Cake - Dessert 

Steak - Main 

Ice Cream - Dessert 

Pudding Cake - Dessert 

Lamb Shank - Main 

Family Photo - LOVE 

Other highlights would be the fact that we get to have breakfast in our room, sitting by the sea in the balcony of the room. 

Breakfast - in room

Out of all the port we depart and head to Penang; Gurney Shopping District and Phuket; Patong Beach Front Area. 

Phuket Mall 

On the mini ferry to Phuket; Patong Beach 

Good Morning! 

On a cab to Gurney Shopping Mall 

Diner Cafe on the curise! 

Serious about food! 

Overall, the journey and the experience was great, but as Sharize is still super young, she cant go for much of the cruise activity planned for the kids. so with that I guess we will probably have a cruise getaway again in the future when she is older! 

 

Baby S Learns to Swim!!

Baby S started swimming at 4 months old. Seeing how she loves the water and happy and excited she is each time during a swim session was what makes us decided to sign her up for swim lessons.

There are many swim school for babies now; Happy Fish Swim School, Aqua Bambinos, Little Swim School, Little Splashes Swim School, MoovSwim and so on. Like all things we do, we did our research, read the reviews did some key comparison before making our decision.

Some key consideration are, LOCATION, Class size, Coaches Reviews, Price and Lesson Progression. After comparing these, we decided to go with Aqua Bambinos, who have 2 locations, one in Seletar Hill and the other in Serangoon Gardens.

Baby S started her lesson in Term 4 of 2017, till date, we have done almost two months of lessons and it is really amazing to see how she picks up different skills and learn the different instructions!

Here are some photos to share!

Will update and share more another time!! =)