Let's Play TAG!

My son has a new cool toy! It's a LeapFrog Tag Reading System.

Do you want your kids to love reading books?  Have you ever wonder how to make reading with your kids enjoyable and fun?

I am writing this to share with you how enjoyable and fun reading with leapfrog TAG.  It reads each page to you.  It can even read each word one at a time if you point to them!  There are also vocabulary games, picture finds, and a few other activities built in for each book. When my son got the toy, he couldn't stop playing with it.  He points it to the words and pictures in the book.  He is so happy with
it, it's the first thing he looks for in the morning and the last thing he play before going to sleep.

Here's  some of the picture of his book collection :)

bought the books in amazon.com 

You can buy this device in AMAZON.COM

December 2011 Gateaway!

This is a long overdue post! I wanted to write this down, in case someday my baby will ask me about our experience there.

We spent our 2011 year end holiday in Turi Beach Resort, Batam.  It's 45mins ferry ride from Singapore so that's the obvious reason why we choose it.  We booked for 3 days and 2 nights for the price of 1 night (yes, 2 nights for the price of 1).  It was off peak (Dec 26 - 28), so that's probably the reason why they have a promo.

The resort's location is somewhat isolated.  No establishment, mall or store nearby so guest have no choice but to eat, buy water and other food in the resort and mind you it's a little bit expensive. The resort has two style, there's a modern rooms in the left side and balinese style in riani wing.  Our room is in riani wing and somewhere up in the hill. What i like about this resort is the ambience and very relaxing.  The beach is ok, clean and hmmm not sure what's the best word to describe it.  Let's just say that i have seen beaches so much nicer than this.  I maybe a little bit bias about beaches since i grow up in an island surrounded by beaches and i have seen a lot of very appealing beaches, one can't even resist in getting so close to it and feel the water.

Here's some of the pics:

The modern rooms:

Swimming pool near the balinese style rooms.

Riani Wing units has this terrace

bed fit for a prince, that's our little one sleeping after a day filled with activities!

in one of the small resting area near the swimming pool

have so much space to run around

a closer look of the modern units.

By the way, check-in is a little dis-organized and took forever.  My baby was so restless already and very sleepy yet @2:30, we still don't have our room key.  When we finally have our room key at almost 3pm, we rush to our room right away so our little one can sleep.  We booked an ocean view but was given a room somewhere in the middle, too tired to ask we decided to just take it. It was only after we charge our dinner we knew that our room is registered to a different name. Strange, since the room key envelope had my husband's name on it,  so it must be correct.  At first, they were not willing to lower our room rate and insist that we should pay the rate that we have booked for.  I tried to argue but to no avail until i asked for their manager's number... and finally agree to change the room rate.

For our meals,  Lunch is around 25SGD (not sure if this is the price now), dinner is around SGD30 while breakfast is free ( included in the package)

Overall, it was a great experience but not something i look forward to visit again.