Update

Work has been keeping me really busy these few weeks. It’s still fun and I do get a little adrenaline rush from rushing all the work and seeing them through completion.

Christian went through his year end concert today. He was most cute, dressed up as a cat. We had a parent teacher meeting a week back, where his teacher said she has no worries about him, academically, but he has to work on his gross motor and confidence. Sigh.

We gave up the parent volunteer offer at St. Hilda’s, partly cos the expected amount of work we needed to do (design and create website, write proposal and canvass for donations for $2million art building, appear at every school event to take photos and create bulletin at end of year, on top of the weekly reading programs we had to turn up at school for) was very onerous, and partly cos P concluded that their results, after taking away the performance of the GEP students, is only as good as our back-up, Maris Stella.

(Sorry if this is greek to my non-Singaporean readers! This has to do with primary school registration..)

After deciding that, we made an offer for a freehold apartment near the future Beauty World mrt. The seller found our offer and revised offer too low, but we were not ready to part with their asking price, so it fell through. We placed a deposit for the leasehold Bartley Residences instead. It’s right next to Bartley MRT and opposite Maris Stella, so even though we are a little apprehensive about this from the viewpoint of a financial investment, we decided to go ahead because we can imagine our children being happy there. Christian can wake up just half an hour before school starts and walk across the overhead bridge to school. He will probably have many schoolmates living in the same development as well, so they can play safely in the playground below.

Oh Christian had his television commercial shoot on the 5th of this month too. That was a fun experience, and I felt my heart bursting with pride as P sent my pictures while I was at work. I could tell that Christian enjoyed it too, cos he asked if he were going back for shooting the following day. I can’t put pictures up until the commercial airs, but don’t worry, I will probably lapse into the proud-peacock-mama and spam everybody with the commercial.

Our new maid Vanessa has arrived from the Philippines. I am so happy for her cheerful help. Calista does not quite allow Vanessa to help feed her and I can see Vanessa stressed whenever Calista whines or cries, but I’m sure she’ll get the hang of it soon.

Calista scares us sometimes with her obstinacy, diva manner, and yet she can be so cute when she sings or hugs me. Yes, new development, singing. She went ‘wei wei…wa wa wa…” in the tune of “Wei1 wei3 bu1 yao2 pa4” just before sleeping tonight. I was puzzled and then realised she must have been singing the song P sings every time he puts her to sleep using the Baby Bjorn carrier. Oh…hearing her giggles at the end of a long day is really priceless. She giggled when I kissed her from head to toe and blew warm air into her ear. I try to remind myself to do that more often, cos they really do grow up so fast.