Wink Wink! Living life with Meaning and Inspiration
Getting into the spirit of YOG, K wanted to change into his swimming gear and participate in his own segments;
Weight-lifting with my bolster
See the grit and determination in his expression…
His attempt at backstroke swimming on my bed.
The springs on my bed has taken a beating from his constant 'diving'…
Beautiful day, clear skies….what is best way to spend the morning?
Outdoors, at the park with friends of course!
In the late afternoon, as the family was feeling a little rather adventurous, we took a walk in Dairy Farm Nature Park and went to explore Grand-dad's latest discovery from the park.
We ventured a little off the beaten track and took a short hike through overgrown grass and shrubs to the place where Grand-dad wanted us to see…
finally we trekked our way to a bridge over-looking these tracks.
While waiting for the train to pass, K kept himself busy,
And he was not the only one who was kept occupied while waiting …
K probably had more fun throwing rocks towards the train tracks, rather than anticipating for the train to pass.
Apart from this train discovery from the park, we have also discovered that K quite likes the challenge of seeing how far he can throw the rocks.
Finally, we got to see what we were originally here for…the train!
Which passed too quickly and was not that exciting, at least we got to see what we came here for that evening.
And K surely did not mind the wait one bit!
K has always seem to prefer playing with water to sand, and I tend to keep those 2 elements quite separate (for play at home) for the convenience of cleaning up thereafter. However, I did not know what came over me about a week ago when I gave him both sand and water to play with at home.
It was only then I realised that sand and water is a good idea at the beach or in Jacob Ballas Children's Garden, but it is never a good idea to be explored at home. I reminded him to restrict his area of play to the balcony and not to venture to my sofa or the living room, however forgot to mention the walls in the balcony. He is at the age where it is safe to leave him by himself while he plays, or so I thought. When I left him alone at his sand and water table for 10 minutes, he discovered the thrill of making mud balls and threw it all over the walls and the floor of the balcony. He made such a huge mess that my helper and I ended up scraping the sand off the walls and floor for the next half an hour. Being the budget conscious mom, I made sure that we collected the sand in trays put them out in the sun to dry, so that K could play with it again.
So for this week, I made sure that sand and water play is restricted to the outdoors at Jacob Ballas. He hasn't reach the age of building sandcastles and had more fun filling the buckets, mixing water with the sand, pouring it all out and then filling again.
We have been to Jacob Ballas countless number of times, however we have never ventured beyond the water and sand area. It never fails to rain every single time after K is done with water play, it is quite strange really, how we tend to go there when the weather seems perfectly fine in the morning but will be pouring in the early afternoon.
Will probably be finding more excuses (especially when dh is away and I have the car) to skip school in the mornings and visit Jacob Ballas a little more often in the next few months.
