Neighbourhood Playgrounds

Remember these? Depends on which generation you belong to, a lot of us played in these sand playgrounds before and the "Dragon" and "Pelican and Tortoise" are pretty standard and popular back in those days. If you know what Yaohan is, you know what I am talking about.



Nowadays, its hard to find playgrounds filled with sand. Maintenance is a pain and most of it use some form of resin. Sand playgrounds also attract cats and dogs to do their business there. Anyway, I think the playgrounds nowadays are safer and more fun for kids. Today, Zoe went to Grand-aunt's place. There is a playground between the carpark and her place and it is one of those days when we HAD to let her play.

Posing for a picture before the fun begins!
There is a steering wheel thing...
And a tic tac toe thing...
Seriously, I don't think anyone ever plays tic tac toe on them... its so much easier to draw on a piece of paper then to rotate these... Kids just love to rotate them though!
And nowadays... these rocking things are very popular...
And there are loads of places where you can peek out from. The playground was totally empty this morning so it was our "house" for a while and this is Zoe's favourite window.
They have a lot of poles as well. The larger kids like to do the firemen pole slide... while Zoe is contended just to hug a pole with her hands and legs!
And of course.... the slide!
Overall, it was a lot of fun! Zoe totally enjoyed herself. There's no traditional see saws and swings but I guess the rest of the stuff made up for it.
Another random and blurry pic (sorry, but 90% of photos taken these days are using iPhone 3GS with no zoom and flash) of Zoe and her "other" family.

National Day at Sembawang Park

There was a book that we were reading for Zoe where the girl builds sandcastles at Sentosa and Zoe has been requesting to build sandcastles...

So we brought her to Sembawang park (somewhere not so crowded). She has this thing about getting sand in her shoes so initially, she didn't really want to get on the sand.

In the end, managed to convinced her to go barefoot... Mummy had to demonstrate how to build a sandcastle..



Then Zoe got into the act...

Getting the hang of it...
Job's done. Dust your hands!


And strike a pose.There is also a childrens playground there with nice bucket seats for toddlers..
Mummy and Zoe had fun at the swings!

More sandpit

Sorry for lack of updates... Zoe had her jab a couple of weeks ago (MMRV) and got fever around a week later. Then she caught a cold and lost her appetite so it has been a challenging couple of weeks. She seems to have recovered these few days so hopefully, will have more interesting pictures to post.

Here are more sandpit photos...courtesy of 爷爷!