it's been a long time since my kids have developed their daily routine: wake up, shower, food, (school for schenker, play for samantha), pick up time, lunch, nap, park, dinner, books/play, shower, sleep. it's been like this ever since my boy started his school. i am glad that both of them have the same nap time. i nap with them sometimes too. how did i get them to nap in the afternoon at the same time? i bribed them into going to the park after they wake up from their nap. no nap, no park. both of them like going to the park for many reasons. the boy gets to meet a few of his classmates there. the girl gets to climb up and slide down the slides. both of them get to eat ice cream. it's a good exposure for them in terms of sports too because there will be people playing badminton, basketball, football, and even a few get to practice playing golf. it's not a shooting range, and couldn't pass for one but residents somehow use the park to practice golf. my kids get to pick some Ping Golf balls too. there are also exercises bar, like the push up bars and sit ups bar. my boy could do 5 sit ups. my girl still tries to do it. so now, almost everyday, we go to the park. it's part of the kids' daily routine.

Just a couple of months ago, I was in church and during the welcoming of guests, the emcee was welcoming a group of people. There was a very loud and warm welcome to this group. It was crazy in fact. I didn't know why. I thought probably the church has transformed into something warm and more hospitable. Hehehe. I joined the welcome anyway. Then later, the emcee announced that they're Malaysia's Badminton team that will join Olympic Games - Beijing 2008 in China. Then the team was called to stand in front for prayer. Most of them were not believers but it was awesome to see them giving it all to God!

As of this writing, 8 more hours to go before Beijing 2008! I can't wait to see. I always like the grand opening. Somehow it's always very dramatic. Pips, are you ready for Beijing 2008? I am!

the amazing girl.

check my girl out as she's trying to swim/float. she really amazed us by being so daring enough to stay in the grown-up's pool. way to go girl! (she's that confident)

note: when i was in college, i saw on tv that you could train a baby as young as 3 months old to swim. when i gave birth to my boy, i asked my pediatrician whether i could send him for swimming lessons at 3 months old. his pediatrician was strongly against it as there are accidents that happen to kids below 5 years old when they swim. so we put on hold for our kids to go for swimming lessons at such a tender age. but looks like samantha is already doing the training herself! ... and she's only 1.5 years old.