Living in Singapore

We've been busy the last couple weeks. Mostly just doing day-to-day living, but we have had some fun weekend activities. On the day to day front, Kahlil's school is going well. His class went to the Zoo and to a play (The Gingerbread Man) - he had fun at both. He had a school picture taken it was his typical Calvin-esque photo. Never ask that kid to smile if you want a good picture of him.

Langston has a couple weeks behind him at Superland pre-school. He is still not happy when he leaves in the morning, but he always has fun when he is there. Langston just takes a while to get use to something and he's getting there with Superland. One of his classmates, Elizabeth, lives in our building too. They get picked up and dropped off together on the school bus. This week I'm going to pickup a couple school t-shirt for Langston and he will be fully integrated!

We spent the day with the Abadilla family last weekend. They are another Corvallis family who just moved to Singapore in January and will be here for about two years. Audry and Theo are a bit older than Kahlil and Langston, but he kids had a GREAT time together at the pool, playing with Legos etc. While we were there Glory and Tom were talking about their spring break plans and I just smiled and nodded my head, not thinking about OUR spring break. (More on this later.) Here are the two families at the Newton Hawker Center (Audry is hiding behind Theo).


The day after the Abidilla's we went to Kahlil's schools Fun Fair. Every class / grade had some sort of booth for fund raising - water balloon toss, bake sale, temporary tattoos, etc. It really made me feel like we were a part of a community in a way that we never were during our time in Ireland.

This past weekend our apartment gave us tickets to see the Gazillion Bubbles show. It was cheesy and fun. There were some cool bubble tricks - smoke in bubbles, reaching inside larger bubbles and pulling out smaller bubbles. Bubbles rained down on us... Jay's hair was a bit of a bubble catcher. And there was a cool laser show at the end. If the show comes to your town, I recommend taking the kids.

On Sunday we went to the Jurong Bird Park. WAY cool! Jay, Kahlil, and my favorite thing was the Lory Loft - it is one of several huge walk-in aviaries. What made the Lory Loft special was that you got to by cups of nectar that the birds would then come eat out of your hand. Kahlil liked it so much he went back for a second cup. Langston preferred the exhibits where you just looked at the birds like the Scarlet Ibis and the pelicans.

Kahlil attended both birthday parties he was invited to... I'll have to do a post on those later.

It hit me two days after the Abadilla visit that Kahlil has spring break too... so I looked it up. It started in a week and it was a two week break! Rookie move! Guess this is training for when we are full time, school-aged kid parents. We quickly put together a trip to Phuket in Thailand for the second week. The first week of spring break is now and we are just kicking around Singapore.

A couple more lovely family photos from the Bird Park: