Last Saturday, my Parenting with Confidence group mates organized a Botanic Gardens Picnic and really thankful that the weather was very fine. And we managed to find a great picnic spot, near to the nest of the Swans! And it's a pot luck session and it's really very nice feeling to see them once again!
It's the time of nesting season for the swans. Just remember that two years ago, they too had laid eggs, which gave birth to close to 14 new baby swans! I wonder this season, how many did they lay?
The food present were fruits, crackers, self-made strawberry yogurt with blueberries, sandwiches and we brought our own popcorns! It's really very happy to enjoy a wide range of food, and both Josh and Kate love the company too. It's actually their first time engaging so many different adults and young friends too!
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| Our friend, Gerry saying 'Hi' to Kate. |
We are the youngest couple there and it's really very fun to see that these parents really make effort to come and their children too! And the very decision to attend the course, makes them a mark above the rest already. So happy to know these friends!
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| See my popcorn beside the green cover? I threw away this container after the picnic because it cracked! I wonder why. Maybe this stretchable container cannot withstand the hot temperature. Anyway, I really love the strawberry yogurt! Delicious! Taste so much better than commercial ones. |
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| Both Josh and Kate are so happy to come to Botanic Gardens! |
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| Kate squatting near the black swan. |
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| Nice picture? Really find that our very Botanic Gardens give a good feeling of having a human escapade. |
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| Jaydon and Kate. Isn't this picture look like those kampung pix? Jaydon loves to feed Kate food! And it's actually natural for him to love to take care of ladies! (according to his mum) Kate is so willing to have people to feed her! |
Bringing our children out with us is very good because it shows our children that we have friends. And we mingle with our friends. In turn, when they are in school, or when they grow up, they will also follow the same (hopefully)! And of course, not forgetting that children themselves can play with each other too! Sometimes, they just didn't talk, but they understand that it's time to follow each other to play bubbles, ball etc. It's so amazing that they can self run. Not forgetting that we, adults, have to supervise them!
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| Eve and Josh, and Josh ate so much crackers! Thanks! |
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This is an amazing toy!! Aqua doodle!! They write with pen soaked with water. And the mat will be soaked with water, and children can draw/write anything they want! They can rewrite once the mat is dried! What a good innovation!
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| Josh blowing his favourite bubbles. |
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| Children love to play ball time! |
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| Some of the parents on the picnic mat! |
The trainers are really amazing. One works as a councillor who helps to allocate parents to foster children. And she realizes that those children who lack parental attention, behaves in an 'attention-seeking' ways. The ways they get attention are very different, for example they will nudge you, poke you or even scratch you to get your attention. And also, the children she met are more independent ones. They get to do their household chores at the age as early as 4 years old! *gasp*
Another trainer works as a full time stay at home mum. And she prepares a lot of delicious and healthy meals for her son! She also have a blog (on my right hand side:
pebblejoy) and I have a lot to learn on the recipes she prepares! So yummy. She is the one who prepared the strawberry yogurt which the 4 of us loved it so much! Kate ate so much that we had to distract her.
Even though all of us come from all walks of life, we are similar in one thing. We are parents. We love our children and our spouse too! It's really amazing that admist all those things we have studied and work, we all will come to the same point: of becoming a parent (an occupation that has lots to work on!)
Hope we have more family outings!
