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Thursday 25 May 2017

Homemade Fruit Popsicles


Makes 4 popsicles

Ingredients:
1. Some cut fruits such as
- 2 strawberries sliced in half
- 8 blueberries
- 4 raspberries
- 4 pieces of bite size pineapple
- 4 pieces of bite size kiwi
- 4 pieces of bite size orange
2. 2 apples for juicing

Directions:
1. Cut some fruits into bite size (i.e. strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, green grapes. kiwi, red grapes, orange, pineapple, mango, peach, etc.)
2. Juice 2 apples in a juicer.
3. Place cut fruits into the popsicle molds.
4. Pour in apple juice just enough to cover the fruits.
5. Insert the popsicle sticks and freeze overnight or until it turned into popsicle, approx. 6 hours.

Additional Information:
Baby FECS is taking her nap. It is a public holiday today. Our Little FECS asked to do an activity. I prepared this activity the night before. I adapted the recipe from here http://www.marthastewart.com/357265/fruit-salad-ice-pops

Instead of using store-bought fruit juice, I prefer to use homemade apple juice. If you prefer it to be sweeter, you can add honey to the apple juice to sweeten it. If I don't have the time to make my own apple juice, I will just use honey water, as that will still be healthier than store-bought juice

To make it look good, think of using colorful fruits. I used pine apple here, but if you don't have the time to cut the whole pineapple, you can use fruit that require minimum cutting such as green grapes, blueberries, raspberries and peach.

You can also make this for birthdays :-)

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Flower Fruit Sticks



Ingredients:
1. Watermelon
2. Cantaloupe melon
3. Green grapes
4. food sticks
5. Cookie cutters

Directions:
1. Cut out flower shape from cantaloupe and watermelon.
2. Use a round cookie cutter to make a hole in the middle of the flower.
3. Swap the round shape around and place them into each flower.
4. Skewer through the green grapes as leaves for the flower.
5. Skewer through the flower 
6. Here you go, fruit flower sticks :-)

Here are the steps in pictures:








 I ran out of cataloupe and used dark purple grapes instead for the middle part of the flower.

Let Your Baby "Paint" the Wall


Age: From 1 year old

Materials:
1. 1 paint brush
2. 1 jar of water

Directions:
Let your baby/toddler paint the wall with water and a brush, or simply splashing the water and inspecting the paint brush.

25 May 2017 (1Y10D)

Wednesday 24 May 2017

J Summary (8Y2M19D): Sewing



One thing I dread doing is sewing. Whenever our son asked me to sew something for him, I will stress over it. It is because no matter how I try, my workmanship is just so rough and not up to standard, and I couldn't avoid pricking myself. With almost all other things, I could improve and get better, but with sewing, I seem so hopelessly bad at it. But I will still do it, because he equates Mommy's love with it, and because I love our son, and hope that he doesn't mind the poor workmanship. Mommy has tried her level best. The left scout label was just sewn by me. It took me quite some time - sewn, undo, sew, undo and sewn again. After a few re-tries and some sore fingers, this is as best as it looks. Don't ask me how long it took me. I look forward to the day that he can sew on labels on his own... most likely he will do it better than me. He came home and was elated to see that this label was sewn on his scout uniform. At 8 years old, he didn't notice the bad workmanship, whew :-) It is so nice to do your best for someone and to be totally appreciated for it :-)

Sunday 21 May 2017

Montessori Activity: Inserting Ice-Cream Sticks



Age: From 1 year old

Objective: To train fine motor skills in a fun way

Materials:
1. Piggybank with opening at the top
2. 5-10 ice-cream sticks
3. 1 tray (optional)

Directions:
1. Demonstrate to your child how to do it.
2. Invite your child to try

Additional Information:
Don't be discouraged if your child is not interested or could not do it. Each child develops differently. Our Little FECS only did this activity at 2 years old, while our Baby FECS is doing it at 1 year old.

Video Demonstration:

Here is a video demonstration by our Baby FECS

21 May 2017 (1Y6D)


8 July 2017 (1Y1M22D)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

C's Lunchbox - Rainbow Fruit Stick


From left: Purple grape, dark purple grape, blueberries, green grape, galia melon, pineapple, cantalope, water melon, raspberry, strawberry

Clockwise from left: bread with peanut butter, frozen peas, frozen sweet corns, watermelon, cucumber, gojiberries

Thursday 11 May 2017

C's Lunchbox - Flower

 Danish rye bread spread with cauliflower puree (white), carrot puree (orange), broccoli puree (green) and parsley

  Clockwise from left: Sweet corn & peas, carrot & cheese, sweet corn & peas, kiwi, pear without skin, blueberries and strawberries

All packed :-)

Wednesday 10 May 2017

C's Lunchbox - Letter H


The Letter H Danish rye bread open sandwich spread with broccoli puree (green), carrot puree (orange), salmon puree (light orange), chicken puree (beige) garnished with cress (karse) and sprinkled with olive oil.


  Clockwise from left: Boiled broccoli & boiled champignon mushrooms, shredded carrot & de-skinned cucumber, sweet corn & peas, apple without skin, wholewheat spaghetti with olive oil and goji berries

All packed :-)

Tuesday 9 May 2017

C's Lunch Box - Letter C


The Letter C for Chastine Danish rye bread open sandwich spread with broccoli puree (green), red pepper fruit puree (red), sweet potato puree (orange), sweet corn puree (yellow), cauliflower puree (white), chicken puree (beige) garnished with cress (karse) and sprinkled with olive oil.


 Clockwise from left: Boiled broccoli & boiled champignon mushrooms, shredded carrot & de-skinned cucumber, wholewheat spaghetti with olive oil, sweet corn & peas, blueberries and strawberries

All packed :-)

Monday 8 May 2017

C's Lunch Box - Girl

 Rye bread spread with broccoli puree (green), chicken puree (beige), wholewheat spaghetti for hair, red pepper fruit puree (red), carrot puree (orange), salmon puree (beige) and black sesame seeds


Clockwise from left: Boiled broccoli & boiled champignon mushrooms, wholewheat spaghetti with olive oil, shredded carrot & de-skinned cucumber, strawberries, blueberries and sweet corn & peas

9 May 2017 (11M24D): Now it is all ready to be packed :-)

C's Lunch Box - Chick and Star


Clockwise from left: Rye bread spread with broccoli puree (green), sweet potato puree (orange), red pepper fruit puree (red), carrot puree (orange), sweet corn puree (yellow), salmon puree (beige) and black sesame seeds, sprinkled with olive oil; hard boiled egg, black sesame seeds, tomato and broccoli, sweet corn and peas; raspberry with raisin; blueberries and pear without skin and goji berries, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds

Thursday 4 May 2017

J's Lunch Box - Goldfish


Goldfish open sandwich made of rye bread spread with sweet potato puree (orange), sweet corn puree (yellow), red pepper fruit puree (red), cauliflower puree (white), salmon puree (beige) sprinkled with olive oil.

When J saw me making bento lunch box for C, he requested that I made a goldfish for him. But he refused to eat it and took it back from school untouched :-(

C's Lunch Box - Rainbow

Rainbow rye bread open sandwich spread with pea puree (bright green), red pepper fruit puree (red), sweet potato puree (orange), salmon puree (beige), sweet corn puree (yellow),cauliflower puree (white), carrot flower and cheese circle, sprinkled with olive oil.

 Clockwise: Carrot, peas, sweet corns, goji berries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, blueberries, raspberry with raisin and orange.

All wrapped up :-)

C didn't eat much of the rye bread today, but finished all others except carrots.


C Summary (11M19D): Empty High Chair


I came home, stared at the empty high chair and felt sad. I thought I will look forward to my freedom - some time to myself before I started work, and relish the chance to finally get to go through my to-do list, but I miss Baby FECS so much. She had spent the past 11.5 months everyday with me, sometimes driving me mad. But now that she has started nursery, I am missing her. still it's healthy for her not to be with Mommy all the time. It's good she is walking towards independence. That's life. I will soon get used to it and start enjoying my freedom.

Wednesday 3 May 2017

C's Lunch Box - Teddy Bear

 Teddy Bear open sandwich made of rye bread spread with pea puree (bright green), broccoli puree (green), carrot puree (orange), sweet corn puree (yellow), red pepper fruit puree (red), chicken puree (white), salmon puree (beige hidden below broccoli puree) and black sesame seeds, sprinkled with olive oil.

 Clockwise: Shredded carrot, peas, sweet corns, goji berries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, blueberries, raspberry with raisin and apple without skin.

All wrapped up together :-)

C ate all the rye bread today, making mommy very happy :-)