Playground Paradize

It was a very cool and breezy day. We asked Jaimie if she wanted to go to the swimming pool in her new swimsuit or go for a cycle around Jurong Lake. Jaimie chose to go cycling and off we went to the Jurong Lake opposite our house. Jaimie has learnt to cycle a little but she's not too good with the pedals yet.

After cycling for 20m or so, Jaimie hopped off her tricycle and declared that she had enough of the 3-wheeled vehicle. She did a little hip hop dancing and she thought it was cool.
Jaimie couldn't get enough of the stage so she decided to perform another song which she learnt in her childcare centre. It was something like "Red, red, touch your head, blue blue, touch your shoe, brown, brown, touch the ground!" and something else I couldn't remember. Apparently Clement could understand what Jaimie was singing because they were both singing together happily.
Just when I was rolling my eyes at Jaimie for not cycling and lamenting that we should have gone swimming instead, Clement saw a playground behind the pavilion. Wow! It was a big playground! As we walked further in, Jaimie exclaimed "Another playground!" many times because the playground had about 5-6 stations. Each station was one playground on its own and they were all different. So you can image, this place was huge and it was certainly a playground paradize for children!

There was a playground for younger children, a tall rope structure to climb for bigger kids, a maze for the young and adventurous ones, a pirate ship structure with slides, a trampoline structure etc etc. Wow!! Everything under one ...er... roof?
Jaimie was super excited when she saw the coulourful maze. She loved the little playhouse and the gigantic beads.

We had never seen this anywhere else and it took us a while to figure out the handle there was for us to pull so that the thing rotates. Boy, this thing needed some grease!
We realised that Jaimie was a control freak. She would instruct us (her daddy, especially, because currently she is daddy's girl) to sit down, stand up, hold this, turn here, take that, go up, squat down etc. If we defy her majesty's wish, she would kick a fuss and be very crossed with us. This was an example of her insisting her papa to sit down while she tried to rotate the little vessel.

And this was another example of her insisting her papa to sit down THAT side of the see-saw while she sat on THIS side. Then she would demand papa to rock the see-saw "FAST" and all of a sudden, without a warning, shout "STOP!".
This is the third evidence. Poor papa was instructed to place his hands on the knob and turn his back at Jaimie while Jaimie scooped sand and pour on the bench.
In case you are still not convinced that Jaimie was a control freak, here's one more evidence of her highness getting upset with papa for not following her instructions. If you need more evidence of Jaimie being a control freak, please do not hesistate to email me or contact me.
Jaimie always does this monkey trick before she goes down the slide.
Ahhhh~~~she realised that it was more fun scooping the sand and threw them on the slide.

She ran very fast on the sandy ground and fell down on the hole where an asteroid fell. Erm, no, perhaps it was where a spaceship had landed. Hmmm... maybe it was just a pit somebody dug for fun.

As Jaimie was brushing off the sand on herself, she realised that it was even more fun counting the grains of sand. She even offered to give me "a little bit of sand".
Bouncing on the sofa and the bed was not allowed at al times. Hence, the only place Jaimie could jump would be the trampoline.
There she was jumping and bouncing to her heart's contend.
Jaimie told us that she would like to invite her friends to play together in this playground. When we asked who were her friends, she rattered names like "ZiNi mei-mei, Cherrlyn mei-mei, Ezra gor-gor, Seraphine jie-jie, Izzy mei-mei..."

This structure was supposed to be for older kids (like Clement) to swing left and right while holding on the the handles and stepping on the board. Jaimie insisted she wanted to try too (another evidence of the bossy queen) so Clement had to improvise and swung her up and down seated instead.

This playground paradize must have rekindled the child in Clement. He took off his shoes and climbed up the structure suddenly, leaving me jaws-dropped.
He clumsily attempted the flying fox. We had a very enjoyable afternoon in this playground. We hope to have some friends over to join us here too!