Parenting Class Blog

My Cousin Brittany is attending a wonderful Parenting class and with permission of the teacher they created a blog of each class. I have followed it each week (on week 2) and have gotten so much out of it I thought I would pass out the site.

Thanks Brit for Sharing

Carleen Tanners Parenting Class

http://carleentannersparentingclass.blogspot.com

If you want you can read what she writes every week. The classes are on tuesday mornings so expect updates on those days...

Tatta!

Brit

Zoo and stuff

We went to the Singapore Zoo, which is about a 20min bus ride from our house. It was awesome. You know how sometimes when you go to the zoo you kind of feel sorry for the animals in the cages,. . . well not here the whole place is like walking through a Jungle the animals are barely in cages. And they have the Seal show, and the elephant show, and a water playground for the kids. So great. We got an annual pass so I we will definitely be back a lot! Tribute to KFC
Giant Tortise
You can barely se them but those are the Giraffs in there, their cage is on the edge of a beautiful river.
Oh and I was the star of the seal show, I threw a frisbee to the seal!
Orungatung up close and in the bear cage right above our heads was a bunch of bats just roosting.

Hanging out in the jeep
cute kids

Marianne wore pigtails for the first time today, I thought she looked adorable!

Marianne has been really into carring all her little

So Devin got me The iphone4 which is definitely the coolest piece of technology that I have ever owned, I have never owned an ipod and have never been in the music scene so this is pretty cool- and all the phones I have ever had were pretty basic. And did I mention it is soooo pretty white with a pink cover, so cool, and I can put a ebook on it and my few broadway songs- yep I'm pretty thrilled with it, thanks hun!

Wagisms- This summer

"Hey here's the good news I found the lion, now I've got lots of bad news there is a bsket in the way."

Hi, Moo" Marianne's response when we saw a cow.

"Look Out I'm going to eat the butter."- said by Spencer while waiting for everyone to sit down for dinner.

"Daddy, lets wrestle, thats a great thing to do on Sunday!" Spencer said this after I told him we couldn't watch TV or Computer games on Sunday.

"I don't want to get bigger, I just want to be your little boy forever" Spencer told this to me today, so sweet.

"I thought we were best friends"

"No mommy, you're on the girl team, and daddy and me are on the boy team"

"Jesus wants you to be happy Marianne" Spencer yelled this at Marianne when she was crying in the backseat.

"Look out I'm ganna eat the butter" says Devin at the table.

"Everyone in this picture is happy except that Macey doesn't have a very good Cheese"

Darlene, it's a sometime's day, thanks for bringing me junk food." (because junk food is a "sometimes" food, not an "anytime" food.)

"Daddy, you look beautiful in your Wrestling clothes. . ."

"Clear the wrestling field, Daddy is almost home" He is talking about the family room floor, if you didn't guess.

"Mom can I have a Hearts-boiled Egg" The day after Easter

"We can't wrestle with girls cause they are precious and made of glass" I have been trying to teach Spencer that we can't be too rough with girls, So it made me feel good that he said this.
"Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances." — Abraham Lincoln

Singapore

Well for those of you who have been waiting with bated breath. . . we made it to Singapore! Yes the flight was very very long, but we did it. Spencer was a trooper watching endless movies, Marianne even slept 5/14 hours of the long flight, we won't talk about the other 8 hours.


We have been in a hotel this week, but our shipment with all of our things arrived on Monday and we have been traveling about 45 min out to our apartment each day to unload and move in. Tonight we are leaving our hotel to go sleep in our own house which will be a first in about 8 weeks- so we are excited. But we will most likely not have internet for about a week or at least it will be shotty until we get it installed.

Everything has been fine we really like our apartment - a video tour to come- it has a some great pools including a children's pool and playground and our own personal Mall next door that has restaurants the MRT (subway), Library, Playground.

One thing that has been a pain is that we have to have an Employment pass, and Dependent pass to get bank accounts, cell phones, and we couldn't get an appointment until today so we should have that next week so that should be good.

The kids are getting used to traveling by bus and metro adn so are we. The weather hasn't been too bad, hot and humid but not too hot and very humid.

The other thing that is funny here is they use the English Vernacular so words like: Rubish, boot, bonnet, tissue, trousers, ect. . .

So here is me trying to use the correct vernacular this morning:

"Spencer please don't wipe your hand on your trousers use the tissue."


If I said "Spencer please don't wipe your hand on your pants use a napkin" it would mean: "Spencer please don't wipe your hand on your underware use a femine hygiene product." So yea kind of important to try to use the right words.


We kid of like it as it reminds us of the summer we spent in Cambridge, England when we were first married.


The Warren - our apartment

Singapore Skyline

Prince Edward Island and Anne of Green Gables

After DC we spent a week in Prince Edward Island Canada. This is the location of Anne of Green Gables. Visiting PEI has been on my bucket list since I was a little girl and fell in love with "Anne" . PEI goes to the top of my list as one of the most beautiful places in the world. We spent the week going to the beach and visiting everything that had to do with Anne of Green Gables including going to a Theater show named " Anne and Gilbert" we spent the rest of the week seeing the music from the show.

Grandpa, Devin and Spencer were such troopers through the whole week as we watched the entire 8 hour show of Anne of Green Gables.

Definitely one of the most incredible weeks to spend with my mom and all the sisters.

Every couple of years my sisters and I take pictures together "Sister Pictures" so here are this years beauties.

Darlene in blue, Katie in orange, Naomi in Yellow! I love my sisters! This one is my favorite

We climbed a beautiful lighthouse and here is the view.
Playing on a toy ship by the lighthouse.

The Avonlea Village was a little place that was set up to look like Anne's world. It had a place where you could dress up in old fashioned clothes and live music and ice cream.


Look how cute we are.

Singing at the Fishing Shanti in the Avonlea Village

Trying the famous Raspbeery Cordial that Diana Berry got drunk on in the book

The dad's in the potato sack race at Avonlea Village

Eating Cows Ice Cream they had great flavors like cowie wowie, messie-bessie etc
At Avonlea Village playground



Grandpa loves Grandma my dad drew that- cute huh
All the grandkids with Grandma

Marianne telling everyone to come in cause she doesn't want to go in the water
Cute toes!

Marianne just playing
Spencer and Marianne with Grandma and Grandpa

Grandpa with Spencer on the beach.

"These Red Roads are so peculiar" (quote by Anne) The Sand was red, one area of the island has red sands and one area had white sands.

Devin has a great eye for photography and captured some amazing photographs of the island.

Here she is Anne of Green Gables

After DC we spent a week in

Kissing in Lover's Lane

the cutest blue-eyed girl in the world
Playing on the porch
Devin and I ate a lovely Lobster Dinner

Being silly at the pier
This was our view of the ocean out our front door of our beach house. Here is Grandpa taking a walk with the kids.
Standing in the Parlor where Lucy Maud Montgomery got married
Hydrangeas were my Grandma Roots favorite flowers so here we are saying hi to Grandma!
Discovering the well
Daddy and Daughter
This was the beautiful countryside that was all over the island. And then surrounded by the ocean. One of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
In front of the house

Hanging out in the Swing Set
Siblilng Kisses, both of my kids have been really kissy lately. It is so cute. They always are puckering up to giver you a kiss.
She is not sad just playing Peeka boo


This is where Lucy Maud Montgomery spent some summers at her Aunt and Uncle's House
This picture was taken just as my mom served and then over corrected that seemed to happen a lot on this trip wiht the small roads
Marianne
Darlene flew in for the week at Prince Edward Island with the cutest fatest baby in the world. Kepueli- who I fondly call Kepaloopi" It was so fun having them!
Discovering the ocean, The water on this beach was so interesting some days the waves were big enough to boogie board in (when the wind was coming towards the coast) and when the wind was going against the coast it was like the bay as still and calm as glass.
Grandma in the Ocean on the first day their
Grandpa, Spencer, Devin building Sand Castles
Panaramic of our private beach
Grandma and Marianne playing in the water.

The kids in the bath with kepueli