{"id":2840,"date":"2010-12-22T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T09:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2013-04-02T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T03:06:24","slug":"during-the-school-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=2840","title":{"rendered":"During The School Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the school holidays, the girls spend most of their time watching TV, playing iPad, doing drawing, etc etc. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ipad playing1.jpg\" alt=\"Zaria Playing with iPad\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daddy has been deligently coaching Zara with her BM to prepare her for Standard 1. Zara dreads each class. Today, she even went hiding (and took us 15mins to to find her) when Daddy called her to start her BM revision. o.O&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weekends when we are not working, we bring them out to check out Christmas decorations.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Christmas.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Decoration\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Christmas1.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Decoration\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bring them out for ice cream,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ice cream eating.jpg\" alt=\"Zaria eating ice cream\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meet up with their cousins.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ice cream eating 2.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha eating ice cream\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4160.jpg\" alt=\"Zaria hugging Sam\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the fun thing they did was to join the Christmas Carols organised by our BEC. We had 2 rounds of practice and then went around singing in people&#8217;s house on the weekend.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4130.jpg\" alt=\"Girls doing Carolings\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To Zaria, the nicest thing about carolings is going to people&#8217;s house to &#8216;collect&#8217; packet drinks, sweets and chocolates.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/caroling1.jpg\" alt=\"Girls doing Carolings\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The girls of course sometimes play together, and do all sort of funny stunts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4169.jpg\" alt=\"Girls playing at the stage of a restaurant\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We made a weekend trip to Melaka as well, but didn&#8217;t spend much time outside, as I wasn&#8217;t well, and the girls preferred to stay in the hotel and watch cartoon and enjoy the aircon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/having fun.jpg\" alt=\"Girls playing at Jonkers Street\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, look here, see who came to have a play date with the girls?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ashley.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mom2ashley.com\/blog\/\">Dinah<\/a>, myself and another mutual friend, C, has been organising this play date, and it finally materialised yesterday. They started with drawing&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/play date.jpg\" alt=\"Play date\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the highlight is actually doing cupcake decorations.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/play date1.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley decorating cupcakes\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/play date3.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley at work\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/play date4.jpg\" alt=\"Zaria's turn to have a go\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our youngest member, Kaine (C&#8217;s son), at work. He&#8217;s kind of torn between eating the sprinkles and putting them on his cake.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4293.jpg\" alt=\"Kaine doing cupcake decoration\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a while, Zaria preferred to <strike>play with water<\/strike> serve her friends water.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/play date2.jpg\" alt=\"Zaria serving water to her friends\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 450px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Slightly more than a week to go, and then it&#8217;s back to school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=2840\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 223776;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the school holidays, the girls spend most of their time watching TV, playing iPad, doing drawing, etc etc. Daddy has been deligently coaching Zara with her BM to prepare her for Standard 1. 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