Happy Gardening

I've been always fonds flowers & plants. But....too bad, with limited land in front of my house, I can only plant some flowers & a few pots of plants.(The empty land behind at our house is under the management, so it is not recommended to plants anything on the land, unless you are planting them in pots.) Yet, this is good enough for me as gardening need lots of efforts & also time to maintain the plants.

The organic farm trip the other day inspired me again & my twins to plant vegetables instead, hehe. In fact I bought a few packs of organic seeds - Okra & Mukkhiya, this is my "green projects" with my twins! I planted Okra on 04/08/12 -the day we went for the field trip. Waited & waited, it's been a week plus, nothing "seems" appearing on my planting pot -Sigh! Or should I say, I've "wasted" the seeds instead? Well, lets cross our fingers & hope my "Okra" plant did success!

On the other hand, me & twins planted some "onions" at the organic farm.
This was the 1st activity when we reached there. It's good to exposed the kids to mother nature.
My twins learned to used a spade to mix the soil & to plant the onion.
It's fun & educating ^_^
We brought back 3 "tiny" pots of onions back to our house & placed them under shade in front of my car porch. Watered the plants daily & observed the growth of the plants.

Lets see..how our plants have grow :-





And, on the other hand, my mulberry tree at my back yard is "fruiting" now.
Its has been months since the last fruiting season.
See how nice the red small fruits on the tree.

My flowers were growing too :-

Family Trip - GK Organic Farm

04/08/2012, 双宝幼儿园举办了Family Day - Trip to GK Organic Farm.


(幼儿园团的收费 : 小孩 (3-6 岁)- RM40， 大人 - RM50)

Program Itinerary

9.30am - Arrive at GK Organic Farm

9.45am - Briefing + Welcome fruit + Drink

10.15am - Guided farm tour - barefooted

- Planting activity

- Harvesting activity

11.15am - Fruit juice / enzyme drink + Enzyme Making Demo + Talk on organic environment

12.15am - Organic lunch - simple luncheon of 6 dishes & 3 drinks

- baked sweet potato, banana cake, vegetable of the day & dessert

1.30pm - Leaving GK Organic Farm by bus (with harvested plant)

(按 : 假如是不同的团， 食物方面也会不一样 - 因为我们是"幼儿园"团， 所以食物比较简单)


看到绿油油的草原 & 菜圃 - 我家小孩很兴奋!
真的很不错 - 我家哥哥很享受， 可能因为平时都有动手种花，除草， 所以没有"怕脏"的感觉。
玩得最开心是种葱 + 挖番薯， 衣服都黑了， 可是却不愿意换掉 :-(

相比之下， 妹妹很怕走路 (因为要赤脚走一小时的，由于有ezcema, 所以一热了， 人就一只流汗捉痒)， 在挖番薯的环节中， 完全没有办法进入"状况"。

我觉得Mr Gan (GK 负责人) 很贴心 - 因为他把家长 & 小孩分开进行活动。
大概有30-40位小孩都只是由一位负责人 + 2位老师带而已哦!
家长可以尽情听着Mr Gan 讲解蔬菜的种植。

最另我惊讶的是他们种植的南瓜 - 是攀附在支干上面， 而不是一般我们看到的在地上!
而且他们的南瓜都很重 - 皮很薄， 很实心的!

我家双宝有了很多第一次的体验 : 第一次坐巴士， 赤脚走路， 和其他小朋友的互动。
而我， 败了很多有机蔬菜， 泥土 & 种子 - 我要开始我家的"种菜"计划 - 绿化环境!



他们的网站:-
http://gkorganicfarm.blogspot.com/p/home.html
电邮 : gk_organicfarm@yahoo.com

我想我下一回还会再去 - 等小儿子3岁多，因为我发现原来从我家去哪里<30>

期待着我下一回的 family trip ^_^

Origami

I saw Origami online from Early 123 forum. While I was surfing net on this website, KH sat besides me and we printed out a few for trial last week. There were lots of nice origami shown in the website, from animals, clothing, vehicles, boxes, flowers & etc.

We tried "Rabbit" as this is the easiest & lets see what did the twins did last week.
I tried folding the rabbit & shown them, but twins lost patience. At the end I folded for them instead - Sigh!
But, overall we had so much fun together doing crafts & colouring together. Twins draw & colored the rabbit with their own imagination & creativity!


KH is good at drawing, from eyes to mouth & etc. While EQ just wanted to color them & she even waited papa to come home and passed him the rabbit with"good night kisses" before she went to bed. So sweet, isn't it?

Reference
http://en.origami-club.com/

Mini Sports Day

Today is Mini Sports Day at my twin's kindie (3Q MRC Bandar Bukit Puchong 2). Since this Monday I've told them that there'll be Sports Day for them on this coming Friday. Last night I even put them to sleep earlier & explained to them to have a good rest so that they'll be energetic today.

Well, it seems that twins are still too young to understand the actual meaning of Sports Day, to them it's just a normal exercises where they can play balls, skipping, jumping, running & playing hula hoops. As teacher Yvonne has informed earlier that this Sports Day is only open for the students & no parents are allow to view the activities, so I try to reach kindie by noon time to fetch twins back home.

As I reached, I saw lots of students were queueing in front of the school compound. Due to hot weather, the students began loosing their patience & not queueing in line where they used to be on normal day. I saw my KH boy were standing at the back of the "J2" line with his classmates, while EQ was queueing in front of the line & I can't see her at all, as other students were blocking my view. It seems that the teachers were trying a very hard time to maintain the students & situation. "Prize Giving" session was just on time!

Under the hot sun, Teacher Yvonne begin to announce & distributing the medals to all the students. She was announcing blue team & etc, I can't remember the rest as I was busy tying to take photos for my twins & Ammerz - my neighbour's girl whom I need to fetch her as well to her granny place after school. Ammerz is a year senior than my twins, she'll come to my house to play with twins sometimes .Twins love to have her companion & most the time EQ would like to go to her house instead to play as she told me that her house has lots of toys which they don't have. Oh my - kids are just kids..toys never seem to be enough for them!

(My girl, EQ with her Teacher Chandra -she told me that the teacher is very fierce - hehe)

(My boy with our neighbour's girl, Ammerz. KH began to lost patience as he complaint it was very hot!)

When back in the car, I asked what did the kids did for the sports day. My twins were saying jumping, running & etc & I'm trying to link the info I listened to understand what did they do for the Sports Day. They asked me why the teacher has to give them medals & why they need to wait so long for the medals - Sigh!
Well, I'll asked twins to show their medals to papa later & asked papa's help to explain to them.

At least they enjoyed so much the whole day! Well, 13/07/12, Friday wasn't a bad Friday at all.

Happy Gardening

When try to recall back my childhood's memory, me & my brother used to help my mom planting vegetables, watering the plants & gardening. This is very enjoyable. When I was small, my granny & mom used to plant tapioca leaves, onion spring, chillies on the small piece of land at our house & bitter gourd behind the backyard. Mom will teach us how to harvest the plants as well.

However, nowadays the house/property's pricing was far to much, if compared to the olden days. A free hold entitled house at Puchong with a small piece of land is too valuable to purchase. When we decided to buy our house, this is one of the clause which we considered and we are very lucky to have "a very small" piece of land to plant some flowers & our backyard is actually a big piece of land, where our nearby neighbours planting sugar cane, vegetables, dragon fruits & flowers.

Gardening is indeed a very good opportunity to teach our kids about mother natures & taking care of our environment. I would let twins help me watering my plants every day. I would put half pail of water (recycled from washing vegetables during food preparation/cooking) in front of the car porch, and twins will use the small cup to water the plants. When watering the plants, I'll teach twins to observe the plants - if there's any insects around the plants, teach them about buds, flowers & stems. I'll also show them how to put fertilizer to the plants & explain to them that fertilizer act as "vitamin" / "supplement" for the plants fro them to grow stronger & healthier..just like us - human beings, hehe. Most of the time, my twins will be questioning me why, this & that & I enjoyed every moment with my kids explaining to them about this & that.

Can you see what is KH doing?
He is helping me watering my flower (hehe, bad example using a liquor bottle, as this is the recycled bottle where I normally used to water the plants - just the correct amount of water for each plant)

I love to see if there's any buds on my plants...as there'll be nice flowers to grow for the next few days.
I did my counting yesterday - there were total 6 buds..hehe

And this morning, when I went to carporch to collect the newspaper, I found this :-

Isn't it nice & happy seeing our flowers grow, just like our kids?



后记

亲子活动其实并不需要太多的金钱与时间， 哪怕只是那5分钟。短短5分钟里， 好好和孩子一起动动来活动， 接触大自然， 让孩子能感受你对他们的爱。显然， 这相处和回报是无价的 ^_^