15 months and counting

Today Madison turns 15months officially!

The morning we spent in educational pursuit... Mandarin class.
After much consideration and some shopping around, we finally settled on a basic Mandarin class for Madison twice a week. Hopefully this will spare her the painful difficulties that I faced growing up when I struggled through the language in school. At least for now she seems to like the class, where the hour and 15 minutes are spent in singing, dancing and playing while the teachers direct in Mandarin. I wonder how much of it she understands?

After the class she was quite tired and we struggled to keep her awake getting home. Fortunately Warni was all ready and took over while we went out to town, first to the gym then lunch at the Coffee club. I had plans to visit Kinokuniya but of course, had forgotten to bring my privilege card so that was the end of that!

The rest of the afternoon was spent at the Zoo. We were lucky, by the time we got there and into the thick of things at around 4PM, quite a few of the animals were being fed. Madison was quite taken by the monkeys swinging in the trees, giraffe being fed carrots, white rhinos and zebras munching away on greens.

The new rainforest kidz world was packed with kids too.. this time we packed a spare set of clothes for Madison so she got to splash around with Chris.

By the time we left the skies turned grey and we missed the downpour just by 5 minutes! We headed back to the Novena house, where the adoring grandparents could take over.

Finally, to celebrate 15 months, Chris and I went out to dinner at Spruce. It's a fairly new cafe/bistro at Phoenix park along Tanglin Road, and has been favourably mentioned in the media of late.

The food did live up to their fame, with the burger taking the cake. The sweet onion crepes were fragrant too. The only flipside? The sizes of the dishes were a tad small for the prices that they were charging.

We shared a sticky date pudding for dessert and it came rather quickly which took us by surprise. There is a fine line between making a customer wait too long and food arriving too quickly, which always makes us suspect the MICROWAVE OVEN. We began to wonder if it was a frozen dessert, quickly thawed and served warm with ice cream (?? Walls ?? or fancier Movenpick/ Hagen Daz ? ) Dinner came up to $85 including 1 wine and an OJ.

The day passed all too quickly, and another one is upon us in a blink of an eye... and Madison grows yet another day......