The tooth fairy visits

While we were out shopping yesterday, the tooth came out. Just as well, as she couldn't eat anything much for lunch except for soup and bread. She was complaining that her gum was hurting. It's a real novelty to her and she feels excited about the missing tooth. Well, there's more to come. Haha.
Before she went to bed last evening, we washed out the tooth and put it in a cute little pouch for the fairy. I bought this pouch when she was very little and just can't believe, in the blink of an eye, she's already all grown up and the pouch has come in handy.

A little gift from the fairy. She was all happy this morning when she checked that the fairy had taken the tooth, but she didn't leave any money! Told her to look on the back and sure enough, there was a little gift. She was delighted and said, 'I got my own money.' :)

Happy Children's Day!!

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A very busy day we had yesterday. Sent princess to school for a couple of hours, as she didn't want to miss school. Then picked her an hour before classes ended and rushed to pick up Mum's friend and kids and went to Ikea Tampines for lunch and an hour at the playground cum ball pool. The crowd at the cafe was alright, but the queue to get into the play area was madness. A half an hour wait. Was very happy that the kids played very well together. There will be another playdate planned soon.

After an hour of fun for the kids, during which we mums got to go shopping, we headed off home to change then rushed down to the Swan Lake dance appreciation at Esplanade at 4pm. Thank God for my mum who drove us around. Thanks mummy!


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The dance appreciation wasn't really a performance but rather to introduce kids to ballet, although a friend did feel that it was rather commercialized and not too suitable for very young children. Pas de deux (dance for two), although I think what they did also comprised of the Pas De Deux, grand (dance for two, grand), was what they featured yesterday. The dancers were wonderful and I believe they make up the actual cast of the full performance of Swan Lake this December. Whoever thinks males who dance ballet are girly, think again! They need plenty of strength as they are the pillar with which the female dancers lean on, and oftentimes to carry them. A lot of upper arm strength is needed. And the amazing thing is that they make it all seem so effortless. Am glad that my little girl enjoyed the performance at the end where they showed a little of Swan Lake. She was like, 'wow', as she's not seen proper ballet before. Although I doubt she can sit through 4hrs of Swan Lake. Neither can I hahaha. We went with her little friend Cheyanne and bumped into a few other friends, 2 of whom are from her ballet class.

After the performance we stayed back to take photos with the dancers. Odette was the most popular as all the children liked her sparkly white costume.

Children's Day Mass

Today we had a Children's Day mass. The kindy kids have been practising the last couple of months in anticipation of today. The hymn they performed was 'Everybody ought to know'. Princess was very excited about it, although last night when I tried to take her away from bbq party, she was having too much fun and bargaining to stay on. She even said she wasn't going to perform because I wanted her to go home to sleep and get ready for this morning. So I told her to call her Cathechism teacher to inform her that she won't be performing. Of course, having said that, she quietly went home with me, but amidst some displeasure, complaining on the way home that 'it's not fair'. Hahaha.

They were very cute and I think they all did very well. Of course there were nervous ones, and princess couldn't put a smile on her face no matter what. I think she was worried she'd forget her actions. The first communicants did a great job too with their number but unfortunately I didn't take any photos of them. 'Mary' was adorable in her specially sewn costume, and 'Jesus' refused to put his robe on. Haha. The crown will suffice.

It's party time! Wow, look at the wide spread of food! I'm happy to say that my cuppies were all snapped up. Hehe, princess being guilty of having 3 of them. Everything was lovely and the most popular being the spaghetti, baked mac and cheese with mashed potatoes, fishballs, sugar donuts and of course the sweets.

A special pre-Children's Day dinner. Thanks Karen, for the fishcakes. They are adorable. They were the first things she ate on her plate. She was of course thrilled with the set. The jelly drink she was eyeing right from the start but I insisted she ate her veggies and rice first. She didn't take too well to the sake (salmon) rice flakes in the rice. So first and last time using it then. And popped some corns for her as well. Was easy to do, thanks Pam for the tips.

Easy Peasy Apple Cake Recipe

Easy Peasy Apple Cake

Ingredients -

6 tbsp caster sugar
8 tbsp sr flour
2 large eggs
125g butter (I would cut this down as it's rather oily)
4 green apples, peeled, cored and sliced thinly
4 drops vanilla essence
1/4 cup slivered almonds

Method -

1. Melt butter then add the sugar and the rest of the ingredients. Mix well. Place in a greased tin.

2. Sprinkle with extra sugar, cinnamon and slivered almonds. Bake at 200 deg C for about 30mins. Allow to cool before cutting.

Chock-a-block day

Just sneaking in some time before I am out the door again. Had an invitation this morning to a bbq this evening. Gosh. What bad timing. Am having an ulcer at the bottom of my mouth right where the gum meets the teeth. Have rubbed salt but not seem to be helping. Hope I can eat tonight.

A pretty mad day for me. Rushed from class to supermarket then to buy lunch and came home. Rushed to eat lunch and then started baking.

Princess got a performance tomorrow followed by a potluck lunch. So made some mini cupcakes. But in my haste, put them all together and guess what I got? Square cupcakes. Haha. Have you seen them in this shape? Hehe. So funny. Hubby says, just tell them you specially made them in that shape. Hahaha. You think they'll buy that? ;)

Also baked a loaf of apple cake, easy peasy except for having to slice the apples. That took the most time.

What shall we eat today?

Mummy : What do you want for lunch?

Princess : CR

Mummy : What's CR?

Princess : Chicken Rice, no no, CSR

Mummy : And what is CSR?

Princess : Char Siew Rice

Mummy : Oh hahaha.

What have we done to our children? Acronyms have become such a big part of our lives, even the kids are picking up on them. What with ECP and SLE and PIE. Even I get confused sometimes. ;)

At the junction of Joo Chiat and East Coast Road, there are two coffee shops diagonally across from each other. In the coffee shop, if some of you might know, where they used to sell the famous tau kwa pau, there is a fishball noodle stall. The coffee shop is pretty rundown despite the fact that they had a renovation not too long ago. I also find that old dirty-looking places tend to have the best foods. Hehe. Anyway, have not had the fishball noodles in years so just felt like having it today. For $3, I got a big bowl of noodles with 4 fishballs and plenty of fishcake, plus minced pork and beansprouts. Was nice, except there was plenty of crispy pork skin which I don't quite like.

Note - The former tau kwa pau is no longer at this coffee shop. Another stall called Mary's has taken over and sells the same thing, and in case you are wondering, it's not the original one.

We next went over to the other coffee shop diagonally across and picked up a packet of CSR. This stall also used to be at the coffee shop where the fishball noodle is now (am I confusing you yet?), and they have a lovely soya sauce chicken noodle. I have that sometimes.

And the once famous tau kwa pau stall can be found here. A pity most customers do not know this and Mary is benefiting from it. They sell not just tau kwa pau but duck rice as well. So if you happen to be around that area, check them out.