National Day long weekend

This National Day long weekend has been a good break for both of us. We started the weekend on Saturday with a late afternoon swim, although the intention was to do a cycle in the morning at East coast park but the weather wasn't too coorperative. Thankfully we realised that Starhub channel offered all channels during this period so the TV kept us fairly occupied.

The swimming pool at PaPa's old place was so crowded. We realised that there were alot of swim lessons conducted at 5pm time slots and Mummy didn't have a chance to do a good swim.

On Sunday, we arranged to meet up with their best best friends, Aidan and Elliot, for badminton game and dry swim. Caden, Ethan and Aidan ended up playing soccer at an open field near the badminton court while Elliot stayed on the sideline playing his mummy's iphone. The boys had a fun time roughing out on the field and learnt to head the ball with the help of Uncle Brian's uncle. Great grand uncle commented that Ethan has a good ball sense and he kicked much better than the other 2 older boys. The kids also ended up picking up fallen tree branches and breaking them up.. this is the first time I think I have seen my boys playing without much interference from us (cos we were usually protective)at the nature.









one of the rare moments that Elliot was on the field (back-facing)



After lunch, the boys hang out at Uncle Brian's place while the adults interact socially via dry swim. Ethan and Caden were elated each time the father won and congratulated him with lots of delight.


On the last day (national day), we stayed full day at home while Mummy catched up on her Gold Coast scrapbooking and Caden did his homework and spelling test preparation. Ethan also tried to do some of the 2yr old books which Mummy had bought for Caden long time back (but not utilised) and he did it quite well and managed to stay on his seat for almost an hour working on the activities. The night ended with pizza dine-in at home with Mummy's fav drumlets and the admiration of the National Day performance on TV.

When we were young, we would always looked forward to National day because this is usually the day when the family gathers and watch the national day parade together. And furthermore, it's always a school holiday the next day for all students which doubled up the holidays, similar to chinese new year, with much lesser stress (in terms of home visiting).