A trip to the zoo and Amozozo

We had a very long day last Tuesday. Ummi took us to the zoo to play at the wading pool with our friends from the homeschooling group. It was fun walking in the pool and trying to catch tadpoles and fish. Christian and his cousin who joined us that day had the biggest haul.

After two hours, wow we didn't even realise it was that long, it was time for lunch and we headed home as Ummi thinks we are already very tired and should take our naps.Umayr did but I continued playing with my toys till Ummi told us that she's taking us to a special place at the National Museum, wherever that is. She decided to take us anyway, though she was very tired, as it was the last day of the exhibition.

So of we went, on a very long taxi ride.

The exhibition was called Amozozo by Architects of air from the UK. Apparently, the huge balloon structure was influenced by Islamic architecture as apparent in the domes, in red, green and blue and the segments in the structure which played on light and colour.

There's Umayr, sitting in one of the segments.After the exhibition, we went to Raffles City where we were joined by Abi for dinner.

Ummi had lots of ideas for activities today, she was up since morning on what we can do.First counting and adding with coins, then making flowers with circles, learning how to use a needle and sewing through the flowers, playground, shapes in Malay, tv, lunch....

However, soon after lunch, she was knocked out; especially after Sofiyya asked for her milk....hehehe...so I got to play with my trucks and cars without any disturbance as Umayr was also asleep.

When Ummi woke up however, I had to read my tilawati book and recite my surahs. I did something very bad to upset Ummi, so she was very strict with me through the sessions.

After that I did additions with the small number rods and a worksheet that Ummi printed out for me. I only got to the addends of 8, actually I was too bored and tired by then and eager to join Umayr and Sofiyya who were finger painting in the kitchen.

When we finished our finger painting, Ummi let us play in the pool in the bathroom.That was fun... I always love playing with water.While we played, Ummi scrubbed some dirty mats and looked after Sofiyya who joined us in the pool.

Then, I got to play games from the Sesame Street website. I was supposed to have that yesterday but as we went to Labrador park, Ummi let me play today.

I made Ummi upset again and she was very angry. After giving me a earful, we went to Lot 1 to collect some books that Ummi reserved.We had a very nice dinner of spaghetti and fish and chips with mango juice...After window shopping for a while, it was time to go home and sleep.

Hope, Ummi's more tired tomorrow...then I'll get to play with my cars more....

I'm not well today so ummi and abi took me, together with Sofiyya and Umayr to our doctor at Bukit Gombak, have the cold and a slight fever. We had brunch at Alif, my favourite prata shop and then went back without Abi as he had to go to work.

When we got home, ummi gave me my medicine, five in all. Later ummi showed us how we can get different colours from just three basic colours of red, yellow and blue. They are called primary colours.

She put them in these transparent plastic cups so we could see how the colours change. After that, ummi let us, including Sofiyya, paint with the different colours that we made. We even had a spray to paint with. Sofiyya truly enjoyed herself as this is her first painting session.

Ummi then let us play in the pool. We played 'rain' with the colander and our elephant water container. She also gave us funnels to pour water into our water wheel. After all that action, we had TV time, we watched Sesame Street and The Backyardigans. Then, its off to bed....zzzzzz....so tired.

a walk in the park

Yesterday we had a nice walk in Choa Chu Kang Park with Ummi and Sofiyya. At first we wanted to play at the sandpit playground but we decided to join Sofiyya at the toddler's playground instead.

After a while, Ummi called us to take a walk to look at the different plants that can be found there. She let us take photos of the Cempaka Hutan, lime, curry and lemongrass plants. Unfortunately, we were unable to take any home as souveniors, maybe next time we can plant some at home. After learning about the plants, we sat down for a drink and Ummi asked us to look at the different shapes of the plants around us. Some were triangular, some round and some looked like fans.


We then took a slow walk to Lot 1, stopping to look at the mimosas in the open field for a while before having our lunch there.We really enjoyed ourselves that by the time we got home we were too tired for anything else, much to Ummi's relief.

A week ago, a day before Hari Raya, Ummi let us in on the action that was abuzz in the house. We got to scrub clean our table and chairs, we've never seen Ummi wipe it that clean like we had.

Ummi sprayed the water, then, the cleaning fluid, she didn't let us spray coz she was worried that we'd hurt ourselves. She said there were chemicals in it that is dangerous to us. Adults; they get to do all the fun stuff.

We had fun scrubbing all round the table, sometimes Ummi will point out to us the parts we missed.After the table, we got to scrub the chairs. Thereafter, we wiped it with the kitchen towel and when all was dry we put them all nicely in our room.

Can't wait for the next spring cleaning. Then again, Ummi always make us clean up.Her most common quotes are "Never take another toy before you keep the one before", " If you spill; wipe." and "What are all these toys doing on the floor?!"

Assalaamualaikum wr wb

Hi! We are brothers Ihsan and Umayr on a journey of adventure and discovery.Come join us, together with our mummy and baby sister, Sofiyya, as we learn about the wonderful universe of knowledge.You can also read about Sofiyya at www.sofiyya.blogspot.com.