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Safari Zoo 5K

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So I am the crazy mom that decides to sign herself and her four year old daughter up for a family fun run 5.5k. I saw a sign for a Safari Zoo run back in January looked it up and the Zoo was having some races for individuals, families and kids. I thought it would be fun to do it as a family, put the boys in the stroller and the rest of us run. When I read the rules it said that the kids had to be four and so I just signed me and Cosette up.  The part of the race where we saw Daddy and the boys. They cheered us on and gave us extra running power to finish the race. Henry saw me yelled "Mommy!" and ran up and gave me a big hug.  That was the best part, running through the zoo. The course took us through the Singapore Zoo, around the perimeter of the River Safari, and through the Night Safari. Running through the Night Safari was my favorite part. It doesn't open till 7pm which means it dark so it is completely different during the day. It was so cool seeing t

School Time: Cosette's Favorite Thing in the World

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I asked Cosette what her favorite thing in the world was the other day. She said that it was school. It made me so happy to hear her say that. She is so excited to go everyday and is making stronger friend ships with her classmates. They all say "it's Cosette!" when they see her. We have been out in the community and have seen class mates and they have said hi to her. It's been really great. I am glad that she loves learning. She got out one of her letter books from school about the letter "a" and sat Henry down and started teaching him about the letter "a". She says that when she grows up she wants to be a painting teacher. We will see. She has a while before she gets there. Her teacher sent me a few photos from class. It makes me so happy to look through them.  Can you find baby Cosette? The day after Chinese New Year they had a CNY part at school. They were supposed to wear their traditional Chinese clothes and school was in the morning

Henry Update

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Henry had an accident Monday night and had to go to the ER.  He hit head on the glass door on our entertainment center which cracked the glass and cut his head. I had to take him to the emergency room and he had to get stitches and stay the night in the hospital. Thank goodness Lyndon was able to meet us there after a while, and we have a good friend who lives just down the street who took Cosette and Raphael while we were dealing with this. It was scary. I have dreaded my first trip to the ER ever since I had children. I knew it would happen one day, and dreaded it. I dreaded to think what would happen that would cause them to have to be rushed to the hospital.  Henry walking down the hall with the top of his shirt drenched in blood was scary. I am grateful everything went fine. He cried when it happened and only whimpered instead of cried when we were at the ER. He really was fine. He has so much energy it’s insane! After everything he went through that night he was still ru

Chinese New Year

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Sunday, February 21, was  the  last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations. We had our last CNY over the weekend at our dear friend's house. When we entered the house we had to present tow Mandarin oranges to the host and wish her an abundance of prosperity in the new year. Plus during the new year it is important that you carry little red packets filled with money and give them to all unmarried people that you visit. So Cosette and Henry received packets too! We partook in the CNY salad, which is unique to Singapore. Other South East Asian countries are starting to adopt the tradition, but it started in Singapore. Our hostess went through all the ingredients that she added to the noodles and green leaf salad. Then when she was done everyone helped toss the salad. Then we feasted! My Singaporean friend told me that this is the time of year that they tend to indulge. All the grocery stores carried a bunch of different traditional CNY treats and snacks. Our favorites were pineap