2008 May 30

Indoor 18dC Chilly
We had choc milk, eggs and carrots for breakfast
We played with our train tracks and made lots of different tracks layouts
WW pee in the toilet. WW is improving
We watch Elmo Cookbook DVD


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2008 May 29

WE ate bread with butter, than potatoes and radish
We have yoghurt too
WW pee at the potty but poo in his underpants. still it was good effort.
WK say Calliou is his favorite
WW pee again in potty. more willing to use potty


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Kids Favourites

Chinese
Qin Qin Bao Bei - Chinese Stories 宝贝听儿歌
BBC Language - Chinese
61Flash
Learning Chinese Online 漢字讀寫
Chinese Character Canon
Chinese Character Writing Exercise Sheets汉字书写练习纸

Songs
Children's Songs

Education
Scholastic Classroom Magazine
TeacherVision Printable Lessons
printable connect dot
A to Z kids stuff Alphabet
Chinese Character Flashcards Java Applet
Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs

Sign Language
Handspeak ASL
Sign2me
Signing Times

Forums
Expat Singapore
(2004/12) Year 2004 December Mummies
(2004/09) Year End (Sep - Dec) 2004 Mothers-to-be
(2005/12) Dec 05 mums-to-be
The Bub Hub Australia
Huggies Australia Parenting Page

2008 May 28

Dark Clouds

We had potatoes for breakfast. pretzel rods for snack.
we played with our supermarket cashier toy.
WW pee using toilet insert today. an improvement
WK pee two times on the carpet.


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Earthquake preparedness

Have been taking my time preparing my earthquake evacuation bag. However the china earthquake does make everyone more aware of earthquake damage.

we have water enough for ourselves. crank flashlights and crank radio
we do not have enough dry rations though if roads are damaged and electricity is down

2008 May 27

Indoor 18dC Patio 24dC

WW pee in potty. 1hr later, he ask to poo in potty.
we had potatoes for breakfast
WordWorld teach "Nail", "Pail", "Sail"

We played Bob the builder vehicles on our train table
we played VSmile Scooby Doo until the batteries are flat. mum change to new ones
we are eating watermelon while watching the news.

2008 May 26 Memorial Day

Went to Daiso at Union City and than to Marina Foods.
Went to Office Depot and Walgreens
Went to Hobbytown to get kites but too expensive. Bought them at the Dollar Country store instead. Managed to get underpants at Target there. last few pieces.
Went to Traders joe and the sample was vanilla ice-cream with pecans

2008 May 25 Sunday

Went PW market
Went to Mervyns and Dollar Tree
Went to Eastridge Mall and went to Daiso. got three train tracks for $2

Favourites

Bank
Citibank
Citicards
Citimortgage
Thankyou Network
DBS Forex
DBS banking
UOB Forex
UOB Banking
UOB Rewards Plus
Annual Credit Report
Equifax
Experian
Trans Union
Plant
Bonnie Plants
Burpee
Chile Database
News
Mercury News
ABC7News
Deals
Fat Wallet Hot Deals
Frys Ad
Others
GSB Behavioral Lab
Global Malaysians Forum
Spring Greeting - Year of the Rat
Asiaone CNY 2008
Cooking
Asian Ingredient Guide
Malaysia Foodnet
Rasa Malaysia
Chinese Almond Cookies by Michael Chu
Banana Bread Recipe
Ikea Swedish Meatballs

2008 May 24

We went to Fremont Central Park for kite flying festival. we played at the inflatable slide and also at the jumping structures
We got a cap, two whistles and some coloring books
WK lost his balloon and he got another one from the store lady.
We went Frys where we ate chips and mum had coffee
Than we went food maxx and walmart before going home

2008 May 23

we played and behaved v well all day
we went to walmart to get mummy's pots and mum found some aphids on the pepper plant when we got home. we ate kids meal at walmart

2008 May 22

we had bread, biscuits and bananas today. we saw the news about the santa cruz fire on tv, it looks v bad.

we play with our trains and legos
we had choc milk and watch word world

2008 May 21

another potty training day
weather was not to good in the morning.

we went to the school open house and had ice-creams. we get to play at the school playground and visited a few classrooms
we went to safeway and they were out of most of the single wrap cheese.

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2008 May 20

Indoor 18dC Patio Sunny

We made sandwich for breakfast ourselves. We put a bread on the napkin, than put cucumber slices followed by sliced ham and another bread. Mum cut into 4 triangles for us.

Mum said that the delivery trucks were late today. WW said "Daddy went to office late too"
We waited for the postman and he delivered our toys at 11am. We were so happy.
WordWorld teach rhyming words, and "CART" "WHALE" "POOL","TANK","SUB"

WK wore underwear from 10-4pm

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Interesting Events coming up

The Berkeley Kite Festival July 26th & 27th 2008, 11:00AM - 5:00PM
http://www.highlinekites.com/Berkeley_Kite_Festival/

2008 May 19

We water our plants and watch mum transfer the bigger pepper plants to bigger pots.
Then we ate bread for breakfast. after that we fix our train tracks to play.

We had muesli, crackers and yoghurt for snacks. We wore our underpants today. Mum is v happy with us for the effort.

WK no pee or poo from 1030am to 5pm, now sleeping
WW no pee or poo since 11am

2008 May 18 Sunday

PW Supermarket - bought vegetables
Frys Fremont - bought hot dogs and soda combo for 50cents and we happily ate
Traders Joe Fremont - mum needed to top up her caffeine. we bought bananas there
Hobbytown USA Fremont - they have 4 train tables. we have a great time playing there and mum bought the tracks we need.
Borders Fremont - we went in and read a few books with daddy
Target Fremont - we got our tank tops and WW got his new boxers.

2008 May 17 Saturday

Edenvale Library - we played at the computers in the library. than mum was hungry so she bought a bag of pretzels for all to share.

We went to cupertino library and mountain view library to drop off the books
Then mum went to Longs to get us milk before we continue on our car ride to Frys

2008 May 16 Friday

Indoor 33/91 Patio 41/106

WK asked to watch Jay Jay the jet plane

1030 Storytime with mummy
1100 SuperWhy - teach Wind, Pop, Found, Surprise
we have some cookies
we harvest the baby potatoes and mum cooked us one
230 WordWorld - teach Boat, Float, Coat,Goat
we ate another baby potato and noodles. WK was hungry as usual
than we watch Calliou together

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2008 May 15

Indoor 34 Patio 45
V hot day. mum wipe us with wet clothes to keep us cool.

there was no wind at our home. we are happily playing with our train tracks in the bedroom.

WW and WK just rolled a ball loudly in the living room and mum flew into a rage. Not the first time and finally mum gave up and kept our ball away.
4pm WK fell asleep

We went to Frys to buy a fan. mum choose a cute Vornado Flippi V10.
We were able to fall asleep with the fan blowing

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2008 May 14

Indoor 23/73 Patio 34/93
Today was a bad day for mum. we were cranky and throwing tantrum and mum became cranky too.

Maybe is the weather but everyone was in a moody restless mode. Mum ordered our favorite Thomas the tank engine roundabout for us. Now is the waiting time which is always so long when it comes to waiting for our toys.

We didnt want rice today so we had muesli for dinner
After dinner we played with our Vsmile

8pm - its 27C/81F now

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2008 May 13

Mum still not feeling well. we had choc milk and then mum played with us on our thomas tracks
WW built alot of great track designs

WK is happily playing with his car
WW is throwing tantrum because WK is playing with a car he wants
WK help mum cook dinner :)

2008 May 12

Mum fixed the tracks for us and we played while mum had a rest.
We played with Lego and made Lego mosaic pictures
We had vegetarian rice for lunch
We took a car ride to see train tracks but the seller was not going to sell to us. Mum was very dissapointed.

2008 May 11 Sunday

Learning Express Fremont to play toys. WW said its a different train shop.
Spice hut, Newark for lunch. We had bhattura and prata and finish everything
We walked 300miles to Lion Supermarket to get sardines

2008 May 10 Saturday

CSMA mothers day class we made a heart shape ornament, a bag, a poster and decorate a flower pot to take home
Traders Joe for samples
Walmart to have apple pie for tea break

WK didnt want mum to sit at the back and WW wailed all the way home
We went to Baja Fresh for dinner as mum was not feeling well.

2008 May 9

boysWW in underwear and WK in pull ups
Played lego than thomas trains
WW complain not enough thomas tracks
WW throw tantrum and throw all his thomas tracks

4.45pm WW & WK sleeping

2008 May 7

We played trains and argued over train layouts
We tested WK on colors and he named most of the colors wrong
WK got green correct and he also called yellow "gorgor's favourite color"
WK was able to sort the Legos by colors though

Then we went to post a parcel and WK fell asleep before we reached Safeway
We went home and WW played his Vtech
Now we are watching WordWorld "radio read-a-thon"
WK woke up from his nap and played one round of Vtech Cars after WW's turn

2008 May 6

we woke up at 6am today and are playing with our trains. we fixed lots of different track layouts. we had choc milk for breakfast.

now watching word world "a star is born"
it is teaching the sound of blend "ST" and the words "Stage" "stew"

WK put in most of the vegetables into the claypot for our vegetable soup dinner. Than he stir the vegetables in the claypot. no more meat in the refrigerator.

2008 May 5

we made roller coaster tracks for our train and played for a while. then we had choc milk, mangos and yoghurt.
we made two long trains with our Legos. while watching Super Why
Now we are playing trains again
We are watching Bob the builder

we went to baja fresh for supper. we had a soda and nachos and lots of mango salsa

2008 May 4 Sunday

we went to Train Town and took the train ride there. we also went on the roller coaster for the first time. we had a fabulous time running around the place

we went to oxbow market but not many shops there. we stroll over to the Napa Wine Train and was just in time to see the lunch train come into the station.

we went to the Copia gardens and touch the mint leaves

we took the downtown trolley to the Napa Premium Outlets. the trolley was late for our trip back to Copia. WW slept on the way home

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2008 May 3 Saturday

we went to USPS in the morning.

than we went to Twin Pines Park in Belmont. we met a kind old lady on the way there who walk us all the way to the playground in the park. we had a fun time playing at the playground

we went to the opening of the Kids Culinary Adventures in Belmont
we got to eat popsicles and watch children dance.

then we went to Ikea and ate meatballs and fries. dad bought us more fries as we wanted some more. it was costly at $2 per plate.

2008 May 2

We played Word Launch in the morning after watching Brum. We earned alot of gold tokens and build a roller coaster with a tunnel and 3 splash pools

Then we played legos.

2008 May 1 Labour Day

We went to Lucky supermarket to see the double decker bus in the car park. We bought apples, mangos and buns from there.

We reached the Cupertino Library just before it opened. We went to storytime and ran in the courtyard after that.

We went to Learning Game to play trains, than had chocolate waffle at the cafe nearby while mum had her coffee

We went to Whole foods and have briyani samples. We had cookies at the whole foods cafe while looking at the small fountain there.

Then we went to Target to play until dad drive us home. We bought a new game today there.

After dinner we went to Safeway to get batteried for our new game. Dad put in the batteries for us and we got to play.