Caden's 4th Birthday

Caden turns 4 years old today. We skipped all the birthday party celebration, simply due to 1 single reason - lack of motivation to organise a party for him. We had planned to bring him out to the zoo in the morning but the night before, Mummy fell pretty sick with fever and cough so the plan has been switched to indoor activity instead.

Anyways, it was raining heavily in the morning, had Mummy been well, the zoo trip would have been cancelled. We had lunch at his favourite restuarant at Ding Tai Fung at Tampines Mall and he had a good time eating his fav Xiao Long Bao.

Then we proceeded to Downtown East for a bowling session! Ethan had a good time playing with all the balls that he saw at the bowling ground and Caden got a baby's 4 pounds bowling ball for his game. We first knew that if kids are playing bowling, the centre will lift up 2 metal panels at each side of the lane so that the ball will never get drop into the drain - since kids cannot and do not have the strength to ensure the ball rolls in the centre of the lane all the time.

Caden had a fun time at the proper bowling lane, and we also let the 2 children played the mini-bowl where a smaller ball is used and the bowling lane is shorter. Ethan then behaved very restless thereafter and we had to head home for his afternoon nap.

The day ended with a birthday cake from Swensens and Kimi and Samuel were happy that its made of ice-cream!

Caden was busy with distribution of cakes while Kimi wonders when is hers coming

Ethan sticking to Grandma for his share of ice-cream

Auntie Wendy's birthday celebration

Mummy's friend, Wendy, celebrated her 3x birthday on Sat night at her place and most of the kids in the circle turned up for this gathering.

Ethan went with a full stomach as Mumy had fed him his usual porridge at home prior to this gathering. Hence, when he was there, he started mingling with Rou xuan and both were later seen fighting with balloons at each other! Ethan wasn't showing any signs of shyness and mingled with the crowd. Caden, as usual, stuck with Mummy like superglue but he was pretty cooperative at Wendy's place, eating 2 bowls of fried rice and 4 non-spicy otah!

As Caden saw how Didi enjoyed himself, he also quickly got warmed up and played with the rest - Ryan, Kelly, Randy, RX.. all of them were then later asked to do quieter activities in the room with trains and tracks + story books.

Obviously, the best part of the night was cake-blowing! The kids crowd around the birthday cake table and admired the big strawberries which Auntie Huijuan bought. And happy when the candles were lit up + song singing. Auntie Wendy graciously shared the cake with Caden, knowing that his birthday was only 2 days after hers.

The few bubbly stars of the night (can't get hold of RX cos she likes to take pictures, but not to be taken)

4 stitches

On Friday morning, Caden was running at the void deck downstairs with PaPa and failed to look in front as he ran. The frightful incident happened when he knocked into a corner of a wall pillar and got flew off a distance. This also resulted in a 2 cm cut and a 0.5cm depth on his forehead.

PaPa had to rush him to TMC in view that they probably have a good plastic surgeon to do the stitching. TMC actually rejected his case and referred us to KK hosipital. We waited for a long time at KK A&E dept and in the end, he was given 4 stitches for the wound. What a gift from PaPa before his 4th birthday!

This is the final pdt from KK doc.

Grandma on Japan trip

Mum has gone on her holiday to Japan for 10 days and the parents of the 4 kids have been taking turns last week and this week to babysit the children. Today is mine and I thought i would have a fair bit of problems since my 2 little boys love to cling on to me and cry more easily when I am around.

And that happened many times.

Nontheless, it is also a good chance for me to catch up with my kids at home with valid reasons + not logging on to my office network to work from home :)

morning, entertaining himself

after lunch, lazing around

Having their afternoon milk boost