Stephan swimming

Stephan is having a great time swimming with Coach Ken. After the initial obligatory cry, he took to it like a fish in water...........

The SICC pool is a tad-bit cold since it's monsoon season so all the kids are blue around the mouth!!!

Tourists in Singapore (Dec 07)

December was a month to get to know Spore..............

Dr Fish - BL + friends from Mauritius brought us to Dr Fish (@ Novena) to get all the dead skin eaten off our feet & hands. The boys were too ticklish to do it, but it was very therapeutic!!!

Playing in the fountain @ Clarke Quay.

Pose a la Japanese Tourist!!!

My Baby is a Big Boy!!!!

Stephan @ Barker Road Kindergarten (w/ cousin Mark!!!)

He is very proud that he is going to Kor-Kor School now!!!

Ski 2007 - Club Med Sahoro

The TAY FAMILY had our annual holiday @ Club Med Sahoro. No, it is not a typo. It is Club Med Sahoro and NOT Sapporo. (And it is not the same thing!!!. Sahoro is a god forsaken little mountain with club med and some other small resort and nothing else.....)

The ski-ing is nothing to write home about (2hrs and you'd pretty much have covered the whole mountain), but we had a great time anyway......

Steph learnt to ski like a real PRO!!! Since he's only 3, they refused to take him @ ski school so Steph & I spent bonding time on the slopes. (Club Med has a great Petit Club for kids below 4, but they do not teach them how to ski.)

Day 1 with harness & reins (to make sure he stops.............) and after that, he ski-ed on his own. Didn't fall at all!! For those of you who are teaching little ones to ski, the wedgies and harness work wonders. Steph will be ski-ing better than his brothers soon!

Mum started ski-ing again too and that was really great!!!! She says that it was much easier on her knees than the snow trekking expedition. Jasmine ski-ed a little too, but she won't be voting for a ski holiday next yr!!

The "better" ski-ers were @ the Teong Eng Guan Ski School. (FYI, Club Med Sahoro is an all inclusive resort and all day ski lessons are included. Quality of the lessons depends on the instructor.) Our own TEG Ski School was of course much better!!! :)

Apres Ski was good!! Drink and eat all you can......... family time........ funny shows............ pool........ ping-pong............
Mum at the bar waiting for Margaritas...

Dad having a "talk" with Nic.

Other than the slopes being none existant, the only other problem with Club Med Sahoro is that 90% of the resort was filled with Sporeans. Sad to say, many were not on their best behavior (especially @ the buffet lines). Very embarrassing.

CASSANOVA STEPH II

Darling Steph can't decide............

Blondie Brookie OR Sultry Sara!!!

Garage Sale

We had open house 2nd Dec to sell all our "junk"!!!


It was fun (and hard work!)

The boys are natural marketers.

a. they made signs to put outside the house to attract passers-bys.


b. they set-up a fruit-punch stall outside the house to attract traffic. (This is a slight modification from the American Lemonade stand cos they felt it needed to be adapted to local taste!!)


c. mat decided to offer "Free tit-bits" to sweeten the deal!


d. nic ran a promotion " Free drink for every 2 items bought".


For VIP customers like Veron & Monica, Mat offered a "Sit-down" service. (They told him what they may be interested in and he brought out the goods..........)

When that didn't work, he tried the "BUT, IT IS MY BIRTHDAY.... YOU HAVE TO BUY SOMETHING!" :)




Nicolas got tired....... and decided to do a product demo....









Steph was woo-ing the girls (as usual). But Sara didn't look too impressed!!!









Steph playing with Johann (after traumatising Farah and hitting her on the face!!!) Poor thing.

Stephan misses school!!!!

Stephan & Brooke @ KLPAC after Storytelling.......








Stephan having tea @ Brookie's place

















Stephan back in school to give kisses to teacher Intan & LaoShi









Stephan with Aunty Maggie in the Reading Room