My son's friend, Sanjay, invited him for a bowling as part of his birthday gift from Sanjay's Aunt. And so, we all tagged along the other day.

We went to Sunway Pyramid Mall at their Mega lanes and took two lanes for 3 families. One lane was for parents and one lane was for the kids. They sure had lanes for the kids, too, having boarders on the side to make sure the bowling ball hits the pins.

We were amazed at Samantha who did a strike once and a second top scorer among the other 5 kids, all of which were older than she was. She even scored higher than her father. LOL.






The kids had so much fun. I am sure we will go back there for more bowling sessions.

One of my favorite parts in Veggietales is the Silly Songs with Larry. Of course I love all the Veggietales stories. They're usually Biblically-based stories and teach kids on some values. The latest in my kids' collection is Josh and the Big Wall. And the Song of Cebu is also in it. Well, it's Silly Songs of Larry part... so don't expect too much. Here it is:

I wonder if Veggietales has promotional mugs? There are some products I know that use mugs for promotion. Or even a welcome gift.

Anyways... I got a bit off topic... but this I say, I love every Veggietales cd my kids have. I first saw Veggietales when I was in Phuket, way back almost 10 years ago and I thought I would definitely want my kids to see the programs. Now that I have kids, I am glad they are loving Veggietales too.

Yesterday, we went to Midvalley Megakidz to meet up with friends Steph and Josiet with their kids. It has been a long time since we didn't go to Megakidz. The kids had fun playing around. Will post pics later. I am actually just waiting for steph to post some pics. Her photos are a lot better than mine.

Anyways, we went to Nando's Restaurant right after Megakidz. The good thing with Nando's is that their sodas are refillable. And you know how much coke I drank? Three big glasses of coke! I just couldn't help it. I was thirsty and it felt so good feeling the ice-cold coke running down my throat. And yes, you bet that I would be seriously considering taking the best diet pills one can ever take. LOL.

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I'm doing a children seminar again tomorrow. It's so timely that the kids are not around. Of course, I'd be happy if they went with me. It helps them a lot when it comes to exposure... and to see their mommy teaching. But sometimes, when they're around, teaching becomes more challenging. I've been doing this kids' seminar in Malaysia for 6 years now. I use the same program over and over again. No matter how many times I have done this, I still get that public speaking anxiety. Not sure why. I thought before that once you do it many times, you'd definitely overcome the fear of speaking in front of people. But I still get that anxiety. Maybe it's because everytime I do it, I want to make sure that everything goes smoothly. And sure, everytime, it goes on smoothly. But I still get nervy no matter what.

Q-dees will have a FLIPTECH Showcase again on Saturday. They do this annually to show the parents what the kids learn for the first quarter of the school year. It will be my son's second time, my girl's first time. When we discussed about this today with the teacher, she told us she wasn't sure whether the kids could perform but they will anyway. I am excited. If ever this will be Samantha's performance. I just need to quickly buy sd card reader. My card reader has been missing and I have a lot of files waiting to be downloaded from my sd card. I will be taking a video of the presentations. So I am really hoping to get a new card reader.

We have finally started sending our boy to a drama school called Helen O'Grady Drama Academy. We've been planning to send him there the moment he was born. Oh... I think we did the moment I got pregnant. That's how determined we were. Of course, we wanna send him to a lot of "schools" for exposure. We don't mean to impose it on him. We thought we would try and if he's not interested, then we'd stop sending him. But my oh my... he's indeed a drama boy! LOL. It's obvious the acting thingy runs through his veins. He's the youngest in the class by the way but he's doing really well.

Today is his third session. The image above was taken on his second session. Apparently, they are given a situation. Then they would act on a situation, with facial expressions. They are taught how to speak loudly and clearly without sounding like they're screaming.

Of course, the sister is exposed to it as well. She imitates her brother a lot. She has a long time to wait for her turn though.

A couple of nights ago, I decided I'd start talking my language to my kids. It was just a spur of the moment decision because we were having fun on the bed with the Christmas story I was reading to them. Then I stopped reading and told Schenker "Tama na. Matulog ka na" (it's enough. you go sleep now). Suddenly he giggled. I turned to my girl and said the same thing. She giggled. Then my boy asked me: "Mommy, why are you talking in such a silly way?" LOL. I didn't know that my language could sound funny to the kids. The rest of the waking night the kids were just laughing.

Last night, my boy asked me again if I could talk Tagalog. I talked Tagalog and again, he was giggling to the max. Then he asked me to sing Tagalog song also. And you know what I sang? Our Philippine National Anthem, Bayang Magiliw. LOL. Lupang Hinirang, I know, I know. I was just kidding. So I sang the song... with my not-so-good voice. After I sang the song, the boy exclaimed: "Mommy, that's a very nice song!" Hehehe. What can I say? The Philippine song is just sweet to the ears. I am glad he likes the song. Now I know what Tagalog song to teach him.

I was actually searching for the song Lupang Hinirang in Youtube and I saw charice pempengco's rendition. It was awesome. I also saw Regine Velasquez' rendition of the Philippine national anthem and she really sang it beautifully. She has that soothing voice. But the best video of all that I've seen was that of Sarah Geronimo's. She just sang with passion and pride. I loved that.

Okay. I will be diverting my topic now from health to house safety. Having children around the house is not very easy. you have to make sure everything is children proof or children friendly. My boy is very cautious so it's not a problem having him playing around without supervision sometimes. But my girl... she's very adventurous. She would try her hands at practically everything. She wants to touch this and that, jump here and there, run around the house, etc. I always make sure that my kitchen is safe... meaning no knives or box cutter, or any sharp objects that's lying around. I know it's good for her to learn from her experience but when it comes to safety, we just can't afford for her to learn the painful and dangerous way.

We're going to Samantha's playgroup (Tumble Tots - Subang Parade) again tomorrow. It has been 3 weeks now since we have started sending her. She absolutely loves it there. One thing I regret about Tumble Tots is that we didn't know it has been in Subang Parade for 10 years already! We didn't know there's a playgroup there! We used to drive all the way to Bangsar Village to send our boy to Gymboree. If we have known about Tumble Tots before, we wouldn't have sent our boy there. Not that we didn't like Gymboree. It was just very far from where we live. This is Tumble Tots playgroup program:

Designed to develop children's physical skills of agility, balance, co-ordination and climbing, through the use of brightly coloured Tumble Tots equipment.

The programme is structured to develop children's positive personality traits including confidence and self-esteem.

Each 45-minute weekly session combines fun, excitement and challenge in a safe and caring environment. All sessions use unique equipment and are run by staff specially trained to get the best out of your child. It is structured according to the different ages and stages of a child's development. Child psychologists and educators agree that a structured programme in movement should be a part of every child's education

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