I'm Learning Ballet!

After hearing feedback that ballet is good for ensuring good posture, Mummy decided to look around for ballet classes for me. It was fortunate that we recently explored the newly opened Anchorvale Community Center and realized that ballet classes are conducted by DancePointe, located right within the CC!
Mummy finally managed to sign me up for a trial class after enquiries with the school. During the 1st lesson, it was interesting looking at the other little children who are around my age all dressed up in their gear. I was rather scared during the class but Mummy was standing at the back of the class, ensuring me that all is fine. She did step in and out of the classroom to look for Daddy who brought Bevis for a walk. The lesson ended after 45mins and what I can say is that it was fun. Mummy asked if I’m interested to go back again, I immediately said “YES!”.

Now, I’m attending my ballet class on every Saturday and I’m enjoying every minute of it!

My Bakes

For the past few weeks, I’ve revived my passion for baking, all thanks to SMH forum with a group of mummies who are enthusiasts in baking & cooking!

The History
Before the girls came along, I have regular meet-ups with ex-colleagues where we would do baking and cooking stuff. We tried things from making soon-kueh to sushi and mee-siam. On my own, I would bake cakes, chicken & mushroom tarts and biscuits. Edy’s all-time favorite is my American Cheesecake and biscuits! (Well, simply because he has a sweet tooth!)
Just recalled that we attempted to do our own cake and decoration for Vivian’s wedding (Edy’s 2nd sister)! Using the concept of marzipan, we did many trial rounds but decided to give up as we were just too inexperienced to shape it nicely then.
Soon after, Bella came along and I can only manage to bake my favorite American Cheesecake for certain occasions and it’s still very well-liked by Edy’s family. Now, with 2 girls, I barely have time to do proper baking!

Now and Future?
I’ve always like to cook and bake, not so much for the food itself and I definitely don’t enjoy the washing up but it’s the end product that keeps me interested. With the SMH forum, I’ve definitely re-ignited this interest and have started my bakes!
I started off making muffins using pre-mix (ok, I know it’s cheating, but I just wanted to bake muffins!). Bought all my muffin cups and ingredients and did it effortlessly :P one afternoon. The muffins tasted great, which should be because they are pre-mix! Hehe…

The next I did over last weekend was baking mini-donuts. Yes, donuts can be baked and I did not know that until I saw it from the forum. The tray is an interesting one and I did not know it was meant for baking mini ones until I saw how small the tray is. Haha… In fact, was walking around the shop looking for the tray and did not find it until I asked the shop owner for it!
These are my ‘fruits’ of mini-donuts, baked and decorated! Since I made so many of them (about 42 mini-donuts), they were given to both Edy’s mum and siblings as well as my parents and siblings. *Phew* I really dread the fact that I bake and no one wants to eat! Luckily this time round, there are still people who ‘give face’… Kekeke

Well, this definitely prompted me to try out more muffins/cupcakes and do decoration on the cuppies!

The other things I would be trying to bake would be custard cream puff, egg tart (done it before but failed on the custard part), a decorated birthday cake and cuppies with decoration (hoping to do it for my darling Bevis’ 1st birthday). More to come! JOh, forgot to add that in order for my baking to be more successful, it would really be nice to have an electric oven (currently using only microwave oven with convection function) and a Kitchenaid mixer! Hahaha…

My 1st Swim!

I had my first swim at the Anchorvale Swimming Pool last Sunday! It was great fun… I enjoyed ‘swimming’ and kicking in the water… Mummy had me clad in Jie-Jie’s swim suit which she used when she was a year old and it fitted me well! Hehe… *Hmm, when I grow up, I want to have a bikini like Jie-Jie!*

Actually, before I started swimming, I spent the journey (just 5 mins drive) as well as another good 30 minute after we reached the swimming pool, sleeping! Mummy had already changed me into the swimming suit but I slept with it throughout… it was a nice nap… Keke… After I woke up from my nap, Jie-Jie, Vince and Lex Gor-Gor were already playing in the pool, Mummy decided to feed me my porridge first before she take me for the dip in the pool. I only spent like 15-20 mins in the pool, playing with water, taking pictures and after which, it was off to shower! Mummy was scared that the sun is too strong which could burn my skin, so she had actually applied sunscreen for me.

Today, Daddy and Mummy brought us to the Safra Yishun Swimming Pool for a swim again! Today I had my own float to sit on… Hehe, it was so enjoyable!

In my swim suit before the swim!

In Lex gor-gor's float!

Swimming at the new pool

Last week, Daddy and Mummy brought me to the newly opened Anchorvale Swimming Pool. Auntie Amanda, Uncle Cheng Khoon, Vince and Lex di-di went too. The water’s pretty cold even though it’s around 10+ in the morning. My body was shivering from the cold and my mouth was chattering. Mummy said my lips turned a little purplish too! On and off, Mummy brought me up from the pool to be wrapped in the towel to make me warmer…
It was a fun morning although I did not really dare to explore any of the slides… they look too intimidating with all the water pouring down!

Today, since it’s a replacement holiday for National Day, I don’t have to go to school, neither did Mummy and Daddy have to work, so we decided to go to the pool once again… Who knows, the pool is closed on Mondays! *boo hoo* so disappointed! Was looking forward to play there… Since the pool wasn’t open, Mummy and Daddy decided to bring us to Safra Yishun Swimming pool instead… We had lotsa fun there too!

The picture on the right is me sitting on the staircase with Vince di-di...

Bevis also went to the swimming pool on both occasions but she spent half the time sleeping! Hehehe… (see her post).