RWS Festive Hotel stay - 6th Sept

While I was searching for some hotel stay for Andre's 2nd birthday which didn't materialize, I got to know about this website that provides cheap hotel price stay under their "Mystery hotels" category. It wasn't that difficult to decipher what that mystery hotel will be given their detail description of that hotel. As it was fully booked on Andre's birthday date, I decided to book a room for 6th Sept instead at 1/2 the original price. :)

6th and 9th Sept is EC's school teacher's planning day and their school will be closed. Therefore it will be a mini getaway for us for that long weekend. We didn't inform the 2 girls what we are planning to do on that day. This save our ears from all the excitement questions they will ask us... "Are we going to the hotel stay yet?", "Can we swim there?", "Are we going to stay there many many days?"...and the questions can go on and on till that day comes.

After 2 months of booking the hotel, the day finally arrived. The girls were still kept in the dark that day and was suspecting something because we left the house with a luggage and all the swimming toys with us. They thought we are going Port Dickson again!

We had a quick lunch at Vivocity, The Asian Kitchen, bought some items from Giant and proceed our drive into RWS. Reached Festive hotel around 2pm and had early check-in as the room was ready.

Basically it was really a NUA-ing getaway.
Day 1: Playing/swimming at Hard Rock hotel's pool, lazing around in the room, dinner at Macdonald (near the casino)
Day 2:  Playing/swimming at Festive hotel's pool, bathtub time for the kids and then check-out.

 Reached!

The toilet

Family Deluxe King. Comes with 1 King sized bed, 1 Loft bed and a sofa bed.

Their favorite place in the room. Cannot stop climbing up and down the stairs!

Room comes with 2 adults and 1 kid sized room slippers.

The kid size is so cute!

 Having fun at the Hard Rock Hotel pool with a man-made small beach area.

Nearly couldn't make it for the pool as it was raining when we reached. Luckily it turned to light drizzle and we just let the kids proceed to the pool.

Little Andre is scared of the sand! 

But enjoys a lot at the water play area and playing with his sister's goggle.

 Day 2 at the Festive hotel pool. As it was drizzling in the morning, so not much people were at the pool. We had the whole baby pool to ourselves for sometime before the other kids joined in.

 Andre is more daring now in the pool instead of clinging to our body and refuse to come down.

 After the swim, they had some fun bubble-bathing in the tub.

 The view from our room

Some last few pictures before checking-out.

Review of Festive Hotel@RWS:

- The hotel is undergoing renovation at level 8 and x (can't remember which floor). The staff informed us that from 10am-6pm, the hotel will be noisy as drilling works are ongoing. Yes indeed, as we stayed at level 7, the loud drilling sound is unbearable!

- It was mentioned reno works starts 10am daily but at 7+am, we can hear dragging of furniture or whatever thing they are dragging just right above our head. There's loud knocking sound too at 8+am! The streaking sound above is louder when you are at the loft bed as it's nearer to the ceiling.

- Not much facilities or things to do at the hotel except to swim. But the pool is not as nice as Hard Rock's.

- From the picture at the website, we thought the Family Deluxe King room is quite big because it includes a loft bed. But it's actually not that big per our expectation.

 * The renovation ends in Oct so if you intend to book a stay there, pls do so AFTER Oct! *

This will probably be our first and last time stay at Festive Hotel. 

Lesson learnt:

 - No use getting a separate bed (like the loft bed) where the kids cannot see us when sleeping. They will be afraid! During the day time, EC were so excited with the loft bed that said they wanted to sleep there at night. When lights off, they said they wanted to sleep on our King bed! Managed to persuade them back to their loft bed but middle of the night, Chloe kept climbing up and down up and down and requested to sleep with us. End up I slept with Elsie at the loft while Chloe, Andre and Hui slept on the King size bed.

POSB Passion Run For Kids 2013

Few months back, I received an email from company that they were going to sponsor 100 IBMers including their family members to POSB kids run event. Since it's free, I decided to signup for my family of 5.

I specially went down office early that day to queue in order to be within the 100 pax. After the sponsored 100 pax, we can still signup with company co-pay of $10.

I was lucky to be within the 100 including my family members to get the free registration paid by the company! It was snap up within 1hr+ after the start of registration.

I was all excited about this event because it's our first family run event. To be exact, it's actually a family 3.5km walk.

Finally the day arrived (8th Sept) with a bad weather in the early morning as it was raining. We left the house at 8.15am and reached around 9.10am. Our category starts 9.30am. Luckily the rain stop when we reached the venue and started drizzling when we were 1/2 way through the distance. But at least the weather was cooling and great for a nice stroll with the kids admiring the beautiful scenery at the same time.

I thought Andre would be our biggest obstacle as we did not want to bring stroller along. So we expected to carry him walking for long distance. Infact I didn't want to sign him up initially and thinking to place him with mum while 4 of us go for the run. I'm glad I changed my mind.

Unexpectedly, he was the most sportive one who did not complain tired and walked throughout the journey! We did carry him for just awhile to chase after the sisters as he's walking too slowly. But at least he did not ask us to carry at all and always wanted to get down when we carried him. The eldest was doing great too till the last 1 km where she complained that her leg was very tired. So Daddy carried her for a short distance so she can rest her leg awhile. My number 2 was the one complaining and nagging the most. End up Hui had to carry her on and off till we finished the whole journey. Truly a princess character! I think we had to bring her for more such outdoor activities!

Overall the experience was great except for the whining from number #2. I would love to participate more in such events but Hui said it's an expensive event unless we get to run for free like this time. So he suggest to do more jogging-by-the-park during the weekends with the kids. Yes, it's free to jog in the park and feed the mosquitoes! But it's more fun to see many people wearing the same outfit and jog/walk together mah!

Our number tag! This is important to the kids because behind contains information like the name, birth cert number, emergency contact num etc. So if the kids get lost, people can help to contact us.

The starting point. 10 more mins before the 3.5km family walk starts.

"Por Por"...the race started and it was very crowded at the starting point.

Andre: "Daddy, wait for me!"

WE are running walking for kids!

He's really my little idol. Enjoying the run/walk more than his sisters without any complain throughout the long distance. Yes, he's my 2 years old boy!

Some shots in between the walk/jog.

To motivate the girls, I started to have a mini race with them. 

Pretending to lose the race so I could take photos of them and let them be happy for winning mummy. :) 

 It started to drizzle and this little boy wanted to take the umbrella all by himself!

He pushed his sisters away when they wanted to share a place under the umbrella with him!

At first Andre was happily running towards the finishing line. When the people there started to cheer for Andre when they saw him coming, he stop running and stared at them. He got scared by their loud clapping and cheering! It was a funny scene! 

 Finally completed the 3.5km distance!  Little boy is more interested in the wafer biscuits on his hand which he took from the event crew FOC.

Free caps for the kids by showing my pass. IBM is one of the sponsor for this event. 

I can take as many as I want but I only took 3 for the kids.

Teacher's Day 2013

This year teacher's day the whole family contributed doing some hands-on stuffs for the teachers. I bought a box of sticky mosaics cards that allow the girls to practice their pasting and patience skills. This numbered mosaics are not new to the 2 young girls as they did it so many times. However this box of cards are slightly different than the usual ones they did because it includes some crystal stickers and some are rather small which means it takes some skills to paste it properly on the tiny numbered circle. I'm quite happy both can do it very well and they are very careful not to paste out of the circle. After finish with the sticking, they wrote a short message in the card for each teacher. Well, every card goes...

"I love you, teacher xxx", "Teacher xxx, I love you" because that's their most confidence sentences which they can spell out by themselves (but I helped in the spelling of their teacher's name). Their spelling and reading English words are that private limited!

 The cards before pasting the mosaics and crystal stickers.

 Chloe pasting slowly and carefully.

 Elsie is also doing a great job too.

 Done! It comes with very pretty envelopes too!

I did the main greetings to the teachers (printed on paper and stick to the card) 

while the girls use pen to write down their thoughts to the teachers.

Next comes the DIY flowers which I thought of to make for the teachers. Got inspired to self-make after seeing it selling at horrible price at some shops. With that price, I think I can make more stalks with that same amount of money. Finally found the materials at Popular and the art and craft begins the next day at home. Oh, I didn't know how to fold these flowers at all but my hubby definitely knows because he did a big bouquet for me during our pator days. So he was assigned by ME for this task. Of course I help him out a bit on the wrapping part. :)

 1 packet can make 12 stalks. 3 packets for 36 stalks.
Each bouquet 6 stalks, just nice for 6 teachers.

 Some samples. I wrap those netting around the flowers. Can pass right?

One bouquet was already handed over to the speech and drama teacher as she only teaches on every Monday. The rest was only completed on Tuesday. Pretty huh?

I also bought a packet of lipstick pens online which was selling real cheap at $5 for 6. My mum saw and like it. So I ordered another set. The size is just right for our ladies small handbag or wristlet and I'm sure the teachers will like it too. The bottom of the pens are stick with crystals and matches the card the girls did. Perfect!

Love these pens a lot myself and the pen refill can easily buy at any stationary shop. 

Since I bought another set, now one of them goes into my bag too :)

And so...here's the final product, all ready for the teachers today. All-in-all, it cost less than $50 for 5 teachers and 1 principal.  Not expensive gifts (which I heard from friend that some parents from other school bought COACH bags for the teachers. Crazy!) though but I'm happy and satisfied. They are little appreciation from us to the teachers from Agape! Hope they like it.

A great fall - 28th July

Elsie Elsie kick a ball, Elsie Elsie had a great fall....

This happened 2 months back and I wanted to blog about it but I forgot. I wanted to note down this incident which scare the hell out of me.

On 28th July morning, Elsie was playing and kicking a mini soccer ball with Andre. Somehow she missed the ball and fell to the floor hitting hard on the right side of her head. It immediately swell big and she was in great pain. As this was not the first time she fell, it didn't really bother us much except to apply gel and hopefully the swell will subside soon.

That morning the girls were supposed to have their swimming class and I forbid Elsie to go. Due to the bump on her head, I wanted her to rest at home instead although she was crying that she wanted to go swimming. I'm glad I made the right choice.

I message Hui Elsie's condition at the pool when Chloe was having her swimming lesson. Hui told me Elsie vomited. I panic and wishes for the lesson to end faster so that I could rush home to take a look at this girl.
When I reached home, Elsie was restless and still sobbing on the sofa. Hui had a friend's farewell cum birthday party to attend that day and he left the house with the 3 kids with me by lunch time.

I fed Elsie lunch and after half way, she vomited again. She kept complaining her head was very painful and she felt sleepy. So without finishing the balance of the macaroni, she lied on the sofa and fell asleep. Just 20 mins later, she was up crying loud complaining the pain again. This time I got REALLY worried!

I sms Hui's second sister to come over and help look after Chloe/Andre so I could bring Elsie to KKH. BIL was very kind to send me there while SIL jagar the other 2 kids at home. As usual, it's always long Q waiting at KKH A&E. While waiting, Elsie said she was hungry. So BIL went to get her sandwich from Delifrance. Before she even had a bite, she vomited again. I was worried sick and almost teared.

Hui came to KKH 1hr+ later. Finally it's our turn to see the doctor. She touched the bump, examine Elsie and said there seems to be some fractured. So a x-ray was done to see the condition. Result of x-ray was out 5 mins later and we went back into the room to hear the results from the same doctor. She took very long to look at the x-ray results from her computer screen and the longer she took, the more worried I am. I'm so scared that she will turned to me and say Elsie need to be admitted, condition not so good, blah blah blah...

End up......she said the x-ray look very normal. Cannot even see any fractured. Just a bump there which is normal due to the fall. My tense shoulder since this morning finally managed to loosen. My heart finally stop bumping so fast. I felt so relief. She gave me a brochure to read which listed all the possible symptoms due to a fall and said if Elsie went back and vomiting continues more than 4 times, had some symptoms listed in the brochures, I need to admit her immediately. She was given an appointment to see a neuron specialist one week later for review check.

After she went home, she seems to be her own self again. Bubbly, active and playing happily with her siblings. She could finish her dinner too without vomiting anymore. I stop her from school on Monday too so I could monitor her one more day at home. She was doing great except on and off complaining of the pain which the doctor say is normal as there were bruises around the bump. Once the bruise and bump heal itself, she will be fine.

1 week past and it was the review with the neuron specialist....

He did a few test on Elsie to make sure her brain is working fine. He asked her name, if she recognize me, walk in a straight line, hold something on her hand and ask her more questions to see if she can speak properly without mumble.

"Elsie is fine. She can be discharged with an open date for appointment". I told him this is the first time I see she had some signs after a fall. He told me it's normal because if the fall is hard, the brain is shaken and within the first 6 hours, the person will feel nauseous, restless and sleepy. Some might even be unconscious for that few minutes. Once the brain recovers itself, all these symptoms will be gone. He took a look at the x-ray that was done back then and said the results looks good. No damage anywhere.

Finally this whole saga is over! Hopefully no second time of falling from any of the kids with such symptoms that Elsie encountered! My heart cannot take it!

Primary 1 registration

P1 registration is a scary process for all parents, especially if they have a specific school of their choice yet not affiliated to it in anyway and past records required balloting.

In Singapore, this is how the P1 registration phase works:
Each phase is further breakdown into distance between house and school: within 1km, 1-2km, >2km.

Eligibility	Primary One Registration Phase
For children who are Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents	Phase 1 For a child who has a sibling studying in the primary school of choice
	Phase 2A(1) (a) For a child whose parent is a former student of the primary school and who has joined the alumni association as a member not later than 30 June 2012. (b) For a child whose parent is a member of the School Advisory / Management Committee
	Phase 2A(2) (a) For a child whose parent or sibling has studied in the primary school of choice (b) For a child whose parent is a staff member of the primary school of choice
	Phase 2B (a) For a child whose parent has joined the primary school as a parent volunteer not later than 1 July 2012 and has given at least 40 hours of voluntary service to the school by 30 June 2013 (b) For a child whose parent is a member endorsed by the church/clan directly connected with the primary school (c) For a child whose parent is endorsed as an active community leader
	Phase 2C For all children who are eligible for Primary One in the following year and are not yet registered in a primary school
	Phase 2C Supplementary For a child who is not yet registered in a school after Phase 2C
For children who are not Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents1	Phase 3 For a child who is neither a Singapore Citizen nor a Singapore Permanent Resident

Example:
If I belong and register under Phase 2B after doing parents volunteering work:
At time of vacancies available under Phase 2B = 30
Total number of registration under Phase 2B = 55 (breakdown as below):
Within 1km = 25
1-2km = 10
>2km = 20
All those under 'within 1km' will enter the school successfully. Balloting will start for those under 1-2km and 10 people fighting for 5 seats. >2km? Sayounara! Those balloted out and stay >2km will have to register in another school or register again in the same school for Phase 2C which usually will end up balloting again if demand > supply. The same procedure apply in all phases.

For past history records, all schools under phase 1, 2A1 and 2A2 require no balloting and all registrants will successfully enter the school. Balloting usually starts at 2B onwards for those rather popular schools.

Ok............So............

Lately we had been pretty headache regards to the choice of primary school for EC. Since last year, I had been monitoring the trend in forums and MOE website during the P1 registration period. It starts between June-Aug period every year.

Since I had a pair of twins entering P1 together in the same year same time, I am really trying to avoid any balloting risks because if I did not get balloted, I had to find those balance schools with vacancy enough for 2 pax in the last stage 2C Supplementary if I wouldn't get a school in phase 2B or 2C.

Parents volunteering work to get into phase 2B is also something I want to avoid. I feel the school wants to cheat away our free services for something not guaranteed in return. For popular schools, mostly phase 2B will end up balloting and some parents who did 40-80 hours of services with the school did not end up with a seat for their child as they were balloted out.

So the only choice is trying to get into Phase 2A1/2A2. Phase 1 is out since EC are the eldest children. When it comes to Andre's turn, I will have no headache as he will successfully enter the same school under Phase 1 with EC still in the school.

We are considered lucky because Hui and my school are still up and running strong compared to other friends whose primary school had already closed down. So this makes us falls under 2A1 if we join the school alumni paying a fee or 2A2 as ex-students but not alumni.

Now here comes the hard part!

1. Maha Bodhi school at Ubi (ranked top 20, partial single session - P1/2 afternoon session)  OR
2. Nan Hua primary at Clementi (ranked top 10, single session - all morning session)

Distance between home and school is actually my first concern when comes to primary school. Of course, there's still the popularity (ranking), logistic plans, chances of getting in that have to put into considerations too. Both our schools are SAP school and had very good reviews of nurturing top students. SAP schools focus a lot on chinese language and culture and theses schools offer Higher Chinese starting P1. Such schools are actually my girls' nemesis because they are 'Jiak Gan Tang' (eat potato aka dun like/speak chinese)!

Last year 2012, we were almost fix to choose NHP because it is just within 1km to my mum's place. I have to do a statutory declaration with MOE first to use my mum's address at point of registration in order to be under "within 1km" category. So the logistic plan will be us staying over at mum's place from Mon-Fri and go back our own home every Friday night to Sunday. Sunday night we will be back at Clementi again so the girls can go school on Monday easily. This plan will continue till our house reach 5 years from date of purchase and we are able to purchase a flat at West side (hopefully near mum's). Andre will also has his pre-school education at a school nearby mum's. Hui kept asking me to join the alumni in order for us to move up one level under 2A1 but I refused. Reason being we are not really 100% firm on this plan and things might change when it's time for us to register P1 in 2014, especially our house is still in Hougang now. Also base on past history, Phase 2A2 had equal chance of entering successfully without balloting too and mum's house is within 1km which means we have highest priority in this phase 2A2.

This plan was brought up again for discussion this year at around the same time because of this year P1 registration. Few weeks ago, a second option was raised by mum which now causes a big headache because both options have it's pros and cons (Luckily I insisted not to join NHP alumni)!

I need a third party opinion!!!

Option #1: Per the plan as in 2012 above.

Option #2: Totally the opposite. Mum move over to stay at our house Sunday night - Fri, go back home Friday night or Sat morning.

CONS:
MBS is like a 10km drive from our house. If the kids were to take school bus, they could be the first-in-last-out situation. This is the main point that keep me thinking and thinking if it's worth to have this option as I feel spending a lot of time in the bus is a totally waste of time which can be replace with more sleeping hours and doing homework or relaxing at home!

Hui did mention I could be the "bus driver" to send and fetch them from school since I work from home. But what if I need to go back office? What if I had conference calls during that certain hour. Also not to forget Andre's preschool which we plan to enroll him with Kinderland@serangoon (if we choose this plan) requires me to send/pick him up from school too. If I can't, mum will have to take a straight bus 101 to help me fetch him. Then what about EC if mum is out of the house? MBS is afternoon session for P1 and P2. Class starts 12.20pm to 6.20pm. Kinderland starts 8am to 11am. Also CCA for MBS starts in the morning for those in afternoon session. Looking at this plan, if I am the one to be the chauffeur for everybody, the whole morning I will be damn busy with the kids and no time to work at all! And sometimes I do have calls at 7pm which I will not be in time to fetch EC because Ubi area is always jam especially after office hours. Then what if I decided to change job which requires me to be in office and not working from home anymore? Or maybe Andre go childcare instead? Still many open discussion and things to plan here.

PROS:
The plus point would be we need not worry about moving house 2 years down the road, which involve again a huge amount of $$ for renovations. Clementi is such a matured estate, the price of the flat will definitely be more than what I sell from current flat. Also we have a lot of friends/Hui's family staying at the East/NE area which is quite convenient for any gathering and visits. Mum intend to rent out one of the room to earn some passive income if we go with this plan so she had more pocket money to spent and save. These points are the reason why we are keeping this option open too.

If you were me, which option would you choose?
(Hui actually prefers option #2)

Andre's 2nd birthday

This is a very belated post which I wanted to post right after Andre's birthday party. But laziness came over me as usual when comes to blogging on time!. :(

Andre's party at Costa Sands Resort @ Pasir Ris for 3D2N (from 3rd-5th Aug) was planned really last minute. Our initial plan was not to have party and go for a trip. We thought of Taiwan but threw away the idea as the expenses for a family of 5 were over budget, considering a cruise trip is coming up in Nov. Then we thought of Bali and utilize our Krisflyers miles but all flights during that period were in "waiting list" status if we were to buy using the Kris miles. Then Bintan came to our mind but somehow we didn't choose it either. Then it was some hotel stay in RWS but all rooms under the package deal were fully booked on that Sat, 3rd Aug. We also thought of just a family outing to Sea Aquarium but as his actual day falls on Saturday, the crowd might be unbearable. Discussion were ongoing weeks and weeks with no conclusion until beginning of July, we finally decided on this chalet with Duplex room (2 story) after doing some checking on availability.

So after venue is booked, subsequent plans would be the theme, goodies bags for kids, birthday cake, food and decorations. Theme was another headache because Andre doesn't seems to have a FAVORITE. Everything he also like for just that while only. Then crazy me thought of Tayo the little bus theme because he always asked me to play the theme song in iphone youtube for him. This Korean cartoon was introduce to him after a poly friend gave Elsie/Chloe 4 bus toys characters from this cartoon as birthday present this year May. I sort of regretted after fixing this theme because I can hardly find any decorations items and goodie bags with this character! Hence, I had to go for customize and DIY-ed!

Food: We wanted to do a BBQ instead of buffet as we wanted to make this party a small affair with close family members and a few group of friends only. Some staple food were ordered too to keep the guests tummy filled while waiting for the BBQ food to be ready.

Overall it was a good party, relaxing and no rush as we did not have to check-out the next day morning. But we didn't stay for another night either because we didn't take leave on Monday and the girls' had school. So we did a key drop at the reception on Sunday evening and went home to unpack and rest.

Some decorations done around the area. Kuddos to Hui for DIY-ed the Tayo bus backdrop for cake cutting. Majority of the pictures of Tayo bus cartoon characters were gathered from the internet and printed out. It's really not easy to find Tayo Bus characters decoration items. Also the sand arts I bought from Taobao last year finally can put into good use! It's really expensive to do these sand arts at our local retail stores which cost about $5-$7 per piece. I bought a set (with 200g of 10 colors sands and 20 sand art templates) for about SGD$13 only!

Cookies baked by me, Nutella Cuppies by Gek Eng and Jelly hearts cheesecake by SIL (Jessica).

All baked with love and oh-so-yummy! Goodie buckets (top left pic) were also specially ordered and customized with Tayo stickers stick on it. Of course the food items inside were from supermarket.

The men (and little man!) behind the scenes for decorations and starting the BBQ! Thank you guys!

Tayo the little bus theme cake. The 4 little bus toys were specially bought from qoo10.sg to be used as cake toppers. So after the cake cutting session, they belong to Andre as his play toys!

The guests that were present for the party. Missing were SILs and BILs. 

They were busy taking photos for us.

 Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you....

Andre's new friend. Both passing the luminous ring to each other, again and again.

See his trademark "cheese" pose?

The girls kept nagging they wanted to open DiDi's present. 

So after the guests left, it's present opening time!

 Day 2 at the chalet. More sand arts and BBQ food left over from yesterday.

Happy 2nd Birthday, my dearest 老三! May you grow up with happiness, be healthy and successful in your life! Mummy, Daddy and your 2 elder sisters love you so much! But that doesn't give you the authority to bully your sisters in giving in to you always and become a spoilt child, ok? :)

See how much the kids had grown in just 1 year! 我们也老了!

Happy Father's Day!

He's a son to his father, a husband to his wife and a father to his 3 children. Except for the 1st, I would think he had fulfilled almost 100% of his duty for the 2nd and 3rd role.

It's the 5th year he is celebrating Father's Day. A day that he can truely calls his day because he well deserve it.

Most of my friends who know him said I'm very lucky because as a husband, he is very hands on with housework and keeping the house spack and clean. He likes to use dettol around the house until it smells like hospital! But he does it all due to the health of the family to keep us all away from illness.

He allows the wife to go out and has some ME time during certain wkend while he stays home look after all 3 kids by himself. He does laundry most of the time at night and when wife wants to help, he will usually push the wife to look after the kids or asked her go watch TV. 

As a father, he is also very hands on and willingly to feed his babies and change their dirty diapers. He learns from his wife how to cook baby porridge after #3 is born and has now take up the task sometime during wkend to cook for his children. Ever since #3 is born, his attention seems to be more on him and scolded his daughters more often everytime the 2 put Andre at risk of falling down. But when the kids are sick, his concern towards them display what a loving father will do.

No one is perfect and there is no perfect father too. Everyone learns along the way to be a better one in his/her role. My husband is not perfect either but there's nothing more to ask for with a husband that is so hands on leaving me less stressful and busy with work and kids compared to my other mummy friends. I had heard countless complain about their husband like a dua pek gong sitting infront of computer playing games or infront of TV watching show w/o giving a helping hand to the crying child. Some told me the child is already few years old but never did the child's father changed a poo-ed diaper or bathe him once. 

Having a child is the responsibility of BOTH mother and father, not a one man show! I am blessed that my husband shared all the parenthood tasks with me, especially when I had TWO at one go. Seeing him being so dedicated to this role, I agreed to give him another in 2010. Otherwise, Andre would never had come to this world.

I love my husband. ECA love their father. Their father need to love their mother more because....

A greatest love the father can give to their children, is to love their mother.

That's my beloved SECA. My family.

Happy Father's Day, Dear!