Swimming Birthday Party

Marieann's classmate, Hannah had her birthday celebration at Singapore Island Country Club. Both Marieann and Juliane were invited to the birthday party. :) It was really nice of Hannah's mother, Sharon to invite Juliane as well. Thanks, Sharon. Since it was a school day, most of the girls departed for the party immediately after school. Thanks to another parent, Shawn who gave Marieann a lift to SICC. After my counselling, I went home to pick up Juliane for the party.

This is the first time the girls were invited to a swimming birthday party. The girls got a good work out as well as having lots of fun. :) They have recently taken to swimming or rather playing in the pool lol. The children were in the pool for almost 1.5 hours. It was a rather hot day but being in the pool, the children didn't feel the heat. :P I happened to meet a close family friend at the pool and we spent some time chatting away while keeping an eye out on our children in the pool. Around 4:30-5pm, it was time for the birthday song and birthday cake. :)


The girls were really happy to attend Hannah's birthday party and definitely enjoyed themselves very much. Both of them asked me if they could attend more of such swimming birthday parties. Well, only if you are invited to one again! Haha.

"Swalking"

After my staff lunch yesterday, I brought my girls over to my friend's condo for a swim. Since they didn't know how to swim, I bought them each a swimming float to use. I thought I could just explain it to them how to use it. Alas, they didn't understand how to use the float. Both of them ended up "swalking" in the children's pool. They were pushing and walking the float around in the pool, thinking that they were swimming! Sigh. I didn't bring my swimsuit so I couldn't demonstrate to them how to use it. It would have to be next time. Despite only "swalking", the girls had fun playing in the pool. :)

Swimming and Eggs

My good friend invited my girls and I over to his condo because the girls have been dying to go swimming when they were last there. We arrived just after 9:30am and the girls couldn't wait to jump into the pool after saying hi to my friend. The weather was perfect, a little cloudy and not windy. :)

The girls swam for a good 45 minutes in the pool, actually they were more like wading in the pool as they can't swim lol. I was in the pool too because I have to keep an eye on them, just in case. Better safe than sorry. While watching them, I was using the jacuzzi in the pool. Thank goodness for that, otherwise I would be bored lol. :P
While the girls were having their tea back at the condo, my friend set up his Dreamcast for them to play, besides his NDS. Both Marieann and Juliane are only interested in Streetfighter kind of games haha. Marieann is really good. She even managed to beat my friend several times when they played against each other hahaha. Friend, you getting old lah. :P

We later went to lunch at Hatched, Evans Road with my friend and his wife. Hatched serves mostly egg dishes cooked in various ways - boiled, baked, poached, scrambled, fried. We all had The Designer omelette ($10) where we could choose 3 toppings to create our own omelette. For dessert, we shared a Pancake Party and Summer Berries ice cream. I forgot to bring my camera so no photos :( but much to the delight of my girls as it meant they could eat the food at once when it arrived.

After lunch, my friend dropped us home. The girls told me that they had a great day for 3 reasons. First, they finally went "swimming". Second, they played Dreamcast games. Third, they love eggs. After deciding between themselves, Marieann and Juliane announced to me that they will be going back to my friend's place for "swimming", for Dreamcast and also to Hatched for the eggs! Wah, already made plans without discussing with me. Haha. Friend, so how? Lol.