SengkangBabies, Author at Sengkang Babies

Reunion dinner with family and friends

We had our reunion dinner with a group of friends yesterday.
Not the Chinese New Year reunion dinner but a special occasion to encourage the Family to dine together, more frequently.

We do not need special occasions to dine together.
If we parents do not make an effort to dine with our young ones, how can we expect the kids to dine with us when they enter their teenage years?

Out of 303 respondents (aged 18 to 25), a survey indicated that today’s youth might not find dining together a necessity. Work, school and other distractions make it harder for a family to sit together for a meal.

We might have experience one of these scenes during our meal times :
– the parent who could not stop updating his social media status
– the child who needs an Ipad to settle down
– or the kid who refuse to eat if TV is not turned on.

Unfortunately, we are part of the 低头族 (head-bending community)
Yes, SengkangBabies’ parents are sometimes guilty too 🙂

(image credit – Pink Blue Photography provided families with props and photo printouts for a fun “reunion” dinner)

It was in this context that we gladly accepted “THE REAL REUNION (家肴) campaign” dinner invite.

To quote from the team :
The Real Reunion aims to strengthen family bonds through meals. By redefining the term ‘reunion dinner’, we hope that families can have meals together much more often and not limiting reunion dinner to any culture or special festivities.

Video : We can definitely do a “Reunion” dinner any day 🙂

Our reunion Dinner was held at Blisshouse Themed Restaurant, and the kids were more excited about the setup, props rather than meal time heh heh.

Great company, smiles and laughter ring out across the restaurant.

The dinner was even more memorable and meaningful with the presence of our kakis. Hello Cheekiemonkies, OurPrincessDana, aHappyMum, Edunloaded, Jbabies and WackyDuo 🙂

Group photo with the Reunion organisers (in Orange), and VIP Ms Low Yen Ling (Parliamentary Secretary MSF)

Thank you team, we really enjoy our dinner yesterday evening !
(from L to R Desmond, Jayne, Zhihui and Nathan)

If kids have a choice, ice cream will be a good excuse for Reunion dinner haha 🙂

The Real Reunion team is giving you more excuses to dine together 🙂
From now till 12Mar, snap a photo of you dining with your parent and stand to win Osim products ! More details here.

For more updates about Reunion dinner project, do pop by their Website and Fanpage.

(ps group photos credit to Cheekiemonkies)

Sorry, Andy is not a lactation consultant

We always wanted a blog name which people cannot forget easily.
Daddy thought we did it with SengkangBabies.

Our blog name has stuck with us, and it has generated so much Fun and Laughter in our home. And we are always happy when friends like our recommendations.

Even if we move out of Sengkang or when children outgrown their “babies” stages, we will still shamelessly call ourselves 盛港宝宝 🙂

Picture below, caption “What is so funny”?

In case anyone forget, our blog objective was to capture our kids’ growing up memories. The second objective was to Bring you Fun. We are proud to be part of Parenting bloggers Singapore.

Remember when someone emailed Daddy “Lactation consultant” about breastfeeding and fenugreek? Daddy was humbled and bemused at the same time. (is it due to our breastfeeding post, maybe?)

For the record, Daddy had to google about “G6PD and fenugreek”!

Then yesterday, someone wish to intern in our childcare kindergarten heh heh 🙂

Someone might have read about out baby-hijacking post, or assume our “bigger” family is from a certain Sengkang childcare centre. Parents now understand why we miss our babies, and would gladly pass their infants over during house-warmings 🙂

Talking about babies, have we told you the two most popular questions for us are :
– did we plan for four?
– did we wanted a girl?

Video : Catch Daddy’s confession on National TV …

So you see, besides bringing Fun to our Friends and Fans, we are having Fun along our blogging journey too 🙂

Daddy ask for volunteers to catch rabbit, and the girl return with a NTUC bag within seconds ! Our friendly auntie neighbour has a few rabbits on her “lawn”.

Yee donning a clown’s nose to bring a smile to us (thanks Daiso for $2 cheap thrill)

Wei the caring brother reporting news at Kidzania.

Daddy is rambling. We have much to be grateful for.
With the four cheeky kids at home, our home is never dull or boring.

And Daddy hopes our kids will grow up to appreciate that “Giving is always more Fun and Rewarding than receiving”.

Engage us online, let SengkangBabies bring a smile to your day 🙂

ps.. the above references are not meant to poke Fun at people, but just to remind ourselves that sometimes we are too stressed and too serious, with work, with family, and with life.

Take a moment, go back one step, appreciate the simple and mundane things.
Most importantly, never forget to laugh at ourselves.

IF you have ask Daddy whether we have envision to be part of Parenting bloggers Singapore 5 years ago, the answer is a flat NO.