Blast from the past - Sad bear

Is this the saddest bear in the world? Found this picture on an old memory stick...

Tyler school trip to Philippine Air Museum

Seems every week there is another school trip. This one to the Philippine Air Museum at least promised to be more educational than 'learning how to eat chocolate'.

I was pleasantly surprised that although it was a small museum with very few exhibits it was quite interesting seeing the displays (in particular the one on Hiroo Onoda) and then going outside to see the planes.

Tyler seemed to enjoy himself (who doesn't enjoy planes..) and we took a lot of pictures.

Here is a sample..

 

 

 

Little Tokyo

To get to Little Tokyo you can take a taxi not a plane (To Tyler's disappointment). Once there you can eat at many different Japanese restaurants and enjoy the garden.

Siew Gin with Tyler, Poppy with Julius and Rina with Ryu and I (as the token man) had the chance to go eat Japanese food..

Here we are waiting for our food !!

After we finished eating we went to explore the garden.

Check out Tyler and Ryu with a giant rabbit

The boys climbing on the bridge with Policeman watching on

And the ladies by the sign

1Malaysia

1Malaysia has been an ongoing program that stresses national unity and ethnic tolerance.

On our recent trip to Malacca we saw many example of the 1Malaysia official logo, but none bigger than the one below.

If you look carefully you can see Cody, Alira (yaya) and Tyler posing by the big number 1

Cody takes the plunge

Cody and Tyler often go to the park and during the last year we have seen finally go from stationary to mobile. He still doesn't have a good understanding of stairs (up or down) tending to launch himself forwards and relying on us to save him, but over the last few weeks he has been using the slide.

He has also learnt a few signs, and really understands that if he signs 'more' then he gets to repeat what he was doing.

This comes in really useful when it comes to slides. We have a ritual where he goes down the slide, comes out the other end, signs more, gets picked up and carried to the top, rinse and repeat (for hours....)

Here is a picture of Cody in the slide with his brother waiting to help

Tyler has progressed to 'Tummy one' slides, head first, feet first and all other combinations and has finally learnt to slide down the Firemans pole (illegal in Germany I am told !!)

Siew Gin the supermodel

Siew Gin has always been a supermodel, but now we have proof. At a recent launch of her book 'how to get your kids to eat and stay sane in the process' we got the opportunity to take a test to see if she officially qualified as a supermodel.

You can be the judge !!

Tyler volunteers for a picture !!

Lately Tyler has been joining his parents on their trips out to restaurants, and most days he eats without complaint. For the last few months he has also taken to hiding when we try and take his picture so many family shots are minus Tyler.

However occasionally he does surprise us by volunteering for a picture. This one is taken outside Ayala museum..