Story-telling

Do you have a kid who does not has not learnt to enjoy your story-telling, no matter how interesting you think you are?

I am one such worried parent.

Julien is becoming more restless…

And prefers to play catching with mommy instead of listening to her read. Anytime.

And so, desperate mommy is turning to other ways to tell him stories.

I tried the youtube.

It worked!

He was… captivated!

Not that I think I am less entertaining than her, but Julien really enjoys watching the tv and the computer….

Any better ideas?

Online purchases for toddler

The hubby recently stumbled upon an interesting website selling cool stuffs for toddlers. Prices are very affordable and the stuffs are I believe mostly unavailable in SG. Here are some of our purchases.

Organic toothpaste

Safe if swallowed. Very important since Julien still doesn’t know how to spit. In fact, it’s strawberry and banana flavored and contains vitamins!

And it came with a gum brush even.

Slot your finger in and brush your toddler’s gums.

Organic snacks

Delicious banana flavored snack that comes organic and full of goodness PLUS, it’s with my favorite Sesame Street!

Bowls

Julien has this bad habit of emptying the contents out of his bowl and throwing his bowl all over the place. So here’s our solution:

Colourful bowls of different sizes that comes with a suction base!

Just press the bowl hard onto the table and…

…it’s stuck!

We bought a whole box of snacks, vitamins and other interesting stuffs. Will blog about them soon.

Happy Monday and have a great week ahead!

Bye Bye Blackberry, Hello iPhone

Yes! I have finally made the decision to let go of the Blackberry and switch to the iPhone.

I got so excited I went online to shop for a new iPhone case even before I bought the iPhone.

Finally the box reached my home but what was inside was this instead.

Hmm… doesn’t look like my iPhone cover at all.

I was rather disappointed and dropped the shop an email. The customer service personnel was very apologetic and after 2 email exchanges assured me that she had arranged the delivery of the right item. The best thing was she told me the cost of returning the red pouch was not worth the time, cost and trouble so I could keep it. Double yeah!! And I was a very impressed customer.

So here’s my python patterned cover!

Inside the cover…

In the meantime, life is so much more entertaining or rather ‘busier’ with an iPhone.

I am currently in love with Instagram. Just so amazed to see the beautiful pictures that people take and edit with just the iPhone. Kinda inspired for now… So do follow me on Instagram if you are an iPhone/Android phone user.

By the way, as this post is being published, I am on the way to Bandung, Indonesia for Amber’s wedding. Will be back with photos of the trip and wedding!

Thanks for reading and have a great week ahead!

Kid’s haircut at Tampines One

Julien’s hair has grown into quite a round ‘bush’ and my mum-in-law had been complaining that he is looking like a girl already.

So we searched around for a kid’s hair salon near our place. We finally found one at Tampines One.

One last look at his cute round-shaped crop of hair… I honestly quite like it!

Off we went to the hair salon – The D’s Kiddy Salon.

It looked clean and bright. There were DVD players in front of each chair as well as a corner stocked with books and toys. To distract the kids I guess!

Doesn’t it look warm and cosy?

So, here we have Julien settling in…

That was the last non-unpleasant look of Julien’s that we saw then.

Once the scissors started snipping, even Thomas the train could not stop Julien from crying.

Mummy had to ‘comfort’ Julien… And it didn’t work.

We took toys and books from the corner to pacify and distract him. Julien just hurled those things away!

Next weapon… FOOD!

It worked for just awhile…

Thank God by then, the poor hairdresser had already accomplished quite a bit.

But as our little boy had LOTS of hair, the hairdresser still had a  fair bit of trimming to do.

Eventually, we ended up in this sorry state….

Daddy and Mummy had to take turns to carry Julien and all three of us had lots of hair all over.

This whole wailing episode made me wonder if Julien could FEEL his hair being cut. SIGH…

Well, even though it turned out to be a difficult haircut for us and the hairdresser, I must say that this is in our opinion the best kid’s hairdresser (in terms of place and skill) that we had been to so far.

Here are the rates and special promotion if you are interested!

Fearless Julien except…

Julien is our little unwitting fearless chap.

He struts into any lifts before any of us, he chases cats, dogs, birds, he smiles and waves to strangers of all races and ages (except when he is in a bad mood).

And so I thought of my little brave boy that nothing in this world could scare him. Until this….

One of the weekdays, the good papa and mama decided to bring Julien to the outdoor water playground at Tampines One.

We started him off by helping him play on the slide.

Then we proceeded to the water area!

Look at what this place had to offer… for FREE!

Daddy first placed Julien with the hippos….

But Julien stood there and looked quite lost.

Probably due to a lack of exposure? Oops, it’s time for us to start bringing him out to the play more often!

Julien then started to put his one hand out finally…

Nice.

Except that he stayed there for the next 5 minutes!

Daddy decided to help him alittle by carrying him to another area. But the water splashed into Julien’s eyes and he started wailing and running towards….

The same original spot… With the hippos.

So for the rest of our time there, little Julien stood at his safe spot… playing with that single sprout of water.

Not so fearless after all!