Jacob Ballas Garden

A few weeks ago, we brought En to visit Jacob Ballas Garden with Mei Mei Sophie and Mei Mei Ashley. Here are some pictures of his fun time! Not sure if Mei Mei Sophie and Mei Mei Ashley's parents wanted their gals to be featured, so have not included them here for the time being.

Psalm 62

Psalm 62:1-2

¹ My soul finds rest in God alone;

my salvation comes from him.

² He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

There is so much richness in the Psalms. Whenever I feel down or need to read a bible passage that I know will help me be real before God, I go to the Psalms. King David was able to proclaim that his soul found rest in God alone and that his salvation comes from God. When I felt troubled and overwhelmed with the many things to do in the week, I read this Psalm. It really comforted me. Where can we find true rest? In God. Jesus himself asked us to entrust our burdens to him for his yoke and light and easy to bear. I could not find rest by just physically resting. But I found rest when I read this Psalm and was reminded that in all our efforts to search for peace, happiness, contentment, none can be found until we turn to God. God, the creator of this universe, the sustainer of life and the very air I breath. God, who provided a way for my eternal salvation through Jesus Christ.

Are you weary? Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Are you feeling weak? Find your strength in our rock and salvation, God. He is our fortress, in him we will not be shaken.

The Cat and the Dolphin

Last week, En was doing some finger painting on a cat. Was trying to teach him "C" for "cat". He really had fun with his fingers swooshing around in the fingerpaint. I realised that its very "safe" (no active boy running around the house threatening to paint my walls with his fingerpaint!) to put En on the highchair when doing painting activities. The mess is minimal as I lay a piece of plastic on his high chair table top as well as the floor.

Today, I decided to do "D" for "dolphin". I got En to try and colour some dolphins. He chose all the crayon colours for the respsective dolphins. He would start colouring them and after a few swipes of the crayon at each dolphin, would abandon them, leaving poor mummy to finish up his colouring for him. :) Here is apicture of the Dolphins swimming around in the sea (made up of a lid of a printing paper box). In case you are wondering, the fluffy white bits on the top right hand corner of the box lid are clouds. :)

The dolphins were supposed to hang by a thread so that they can be "jumping" around in and and out of the sea. However, my attempts to hang up the dolphins were met with vehment protests of "no", "no", and "no"! I am not sure why. But En preferred sticking the dolphins directly onto the sea! Oh well, its his craft so I obliged. I realised that it could be that he is more familiar with sticking items with glue and pasting them on paper. So, maybe a different method of crafting didn't agree with him! The same thing happened when I shifted some of his drawings around in the living room. He was quite upset that I had shifted their position so I had to re-shift them back! Todders.. hmmphh.. only God would know what they are thinking about!

En's Horse

Its been some time since I saw En play with his lego. Previously, he would only be interested in de-constructing any lego pieces that we built up (read "tearing them down!). However, today, I noticed that he was quietly playing by himself with his lego blocks and building them up. He was putting one on top of the other! En built this creature and when I asked him what it was, without batting an eyelid, he said, "horse".

Ehem, well, it does not really look like one. But, hey, this is a child's imagination! There is an eye, legs of a horse, and a certain long neck as well as a black tail. Well done, En!