Babylet's Activities

Here are some activities that Babylet and I do at home.

Painting with Magic Painting book. Just apply water and the colour appears.
Do not disturb - Artist hard at work. Babylet in intense concentration.

Practising fine motor skill with scissors and punchers, colouring, and pasting work.

Here, I put bento tools to good use. *_* Helped Babylet as she was not strong enough to press the puncher. But she cut out the grass herself with a scissor, and paste all the cutouts onto the picture. Also insisted to colour the girl's hair green. Hmm.... she'd better not dye her hair green when she's older.
Babylet with her weapon of choice - glue stick.

Creative play with Sand.

Couldn't resist adding Boylet's pic too. He's so skinny now compared to the two girls that you can count his rib bones.

New Stock at 100Yen Kuchai Lama & Taman Desa @ 6 May 2009

Emily texted me about the new arrival at Kuchai Lama on May 5. Needing a break from stressing over Girlet's first exam, I went the next morn. The retail therapy helped, and I swung by Taman Desa's branch after, and they were unpacking new stock too - pretty much the same stock as Kuchai Lama. So here are the pics. (To see an enlarged pic, just click on the pic itself)


Alphabet & Numbers cutters, punchers & small containers. I took the last number cutter in Kuchai Lama, but there are more in Tmn Desa. If you don't have alphabet cutters, this is a very good & cheap buy!! I've already have a set, so I called my sis to persuade her to get them. *_*


New picks!!! Girlet adores the ribbon, crown & hat picks (2nd pic from left). Just imagine quail eggs' faces with a crown - sounds cute!

Tomotomo bento boxes. My young kids prefer boxes with snap handles, easier to manage than bento belts.

Matching belts and bags for the Tomotomo bento boxes.

Character hangers. Babylet 'forced' me to buy the Minnie Mouse hanger for her.

Happy Shopping!!!

Bento # 134 - Cheesy Baked Pasta

Thanks everyone for your prayers and good wishes for baby Amelia. So far, reports are well. She had a hole in the heart, but it mended by itself (Praise God!). Have yet to check her eyesight and hearing. She has opened her eyes, so we are hopeful.

Anyway, I'm taking a break from studying, erm, helping Girlet revise for exam to post outstanding bentos. It was an easy bento from (yup, still) Feb. The telltale item was the lunchsheets which expired early March.

This bento consisted of baked pasta (made individual portion while making dinner). I decorated the pasta with cutout cheese (obviously it would melt, which is all the better for the pasta). There were nuggets under the deepfried lotus root (which Girlet complained had turned limped by recess), grapes, cherry tomatoes and flower lunchsheets.

To my dear Janet who requested for the 'recipe'. Well, as usual, I don't have fixed recipe, just by estimation, and what's available. But this baked pasta is ridiculously easy to make.

1) Boil your fav pasta shape (I used shells here, but have used elbow macaroni and spirals).

2) Meanwhile brown some minced beef (I used a small pack of Aust Weight Watchers from supermkt) and chopped onions, then pour in a can of tomatoes, some water, a dash of oregano, salt & pepper to taste. Let simmer and thicken.

3) In an oven-safe dish, pour in half the cooked pasta, layered with half the meat sauce and plenty of cheese, then repeat the same layers.

4) Make (and later freeze) individual portions for bento.

5) Then dump into preheated oven for 20 - 30 mins (I used 180`C as my fan forced oven is rather hot). Use higher 190`C if yours is not.

Note: For cheese, I put cheddar & a little powdered parmesan in the middle, and topped with mozzarella as my kids love the cheese to be really gooey. But you can put in any processed cheese you like.

Easy-peasy and less work than fried rice!!