Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

We’ve been to the Singapore Zoo for quite a number of times but I don’t think we’ll ever get tired of it.

We get to see and learn about God’s beautiful creatures – big and small, cute and weird-looking – AND we simply love its open concept where we don’t have ‘cages’ between us and the animals, as well as the fact that it preserves its ‘green’ landscape well too.

The kids and I took Wilson’s family there today and we were there for a good six hours! They loved it!

And I must say, one of the nice things about Wilson’s family is that they love photography!

I mean, when we go out, everyone except my sister-in-law actually brings along a camera! Even my mom-in-law carries a video camera with her during such holiday trips!

[Top photo was taken by my father-in-law]

And so there, thanks to my brother-in-law, I had that shot of me and the kids! [left photo]

It was one of those times when BOTH Anya and Vai wanted to sit on the pram.

They whined and argued about who ‘should’ sit and I knew I had to carry one of them in my sling. After all, we did walk quite a lot today.

Btw, I don’t usually carry my kids on my back with a sling. Somehow I just feel this position puts a heavier strain on my shoulder than carrying the kid in front and on my left side like I usually do.

Or, perhaps it’s simply because I’ve yet to figure out how to best wear the sling for this position.

Anyway.

We had HEAPS of photos taken today and here are some of my chosen ones.

[Last photo]
Vai personally asked me to take a photo of him sitting there by the ‘actual-sized hippos cut-out posters’.

Btw, here’s one interesting fact I learned today :
According to the info sheet, each pygmy hippo (the smaller one) is, on average, about 160 kg in weight, and it’d take TEN pygmy hippos to make one Nile hippo (the bigger one in the photo)!

AND, since Vai is now 15.2kg, that means it’d take ten to eleven Vai to make one pygmy hippo and about one hundred Vai to make just one Nile hippo!

Cool stuff!