A very busy and full week

We ate so much last week!

Monday, 18 Dec - a la carte buffet at Peach Garden

It looked good and it was good! Sito and I finished up five bowls of chicken / shark fin's soup; Kai and Yang each tried a spoonful of chicken soup. We also had five half-lobsters. Surprisingly, Yang liked the garlic lobster :)

Each kid liked different meats - chicken chop for Kai (and the rest too coz yummy), sweet and sour pork for Yang, and roast pork for Yu. Sito and I had these plus black pepper beef, pork ribs and wasabi prawns. Oh, and a very nice fried soon hock - even Yang said that was yummy!

The staff said the fried rice was for four pax but looking at the size of the serving bowl, we ordered two plus a bowl of fried noodles. Kai had a lot of fried rice and some noodles.

Surprise - Yu can use chopsticks now! Wobbly but ok!

Monkeying around when done with food

Another surprising thing was that Kai liked the lemongrass dessert!

Kai held Yu's hands on the way home 🥰

Tuesday, 19 Dec - hotpot and tea at YX's place

It must be the first time in a long time that we decided on a gathering so quickly. And on a weekday coz YX and Kel were supposed to work from home, um... 

At first I thought we were going to be late. Yu had a baluku for no reason on Sunday night, at the same spot as previous baluku. It subsided to his usual uneven head due to past baluku (😢) on Monday morning, but swelled up at night again. I could only get an appointment at the polyclinic for 11.10 am on Tuesday - so many sick people with fast fingers at 10 pm on Monday night!!!

Sito brought Yu to the doctor so that I could finish up housework at home and bring Kai and Yang to lunch on time. But surprisingly, they were called very quickly and came home in time to shower and rest before we had to set off for lunch!

Doctor said it looked like an infection. Later at night I saw some dried blood. When I asked Yu whether he scratched himself, he said he bumped his head near the baluku during dinner on Monday! No wonder I found two bumps on Tuesday morning! I'm afraid the doctor might have overlooked the baluku due to the scratch bump, sighs... Anyway, the baluku is no more so we shall monitor...

Anyway, we got to lunch at YX's on time. The adults caught up over lunch and house tour and tea, while the kids had fun playing board games, hide and seek and even phone/iPad games.

Older boys playing Chinese chess before lunch

Younger boys never finished this game of monopoly!

Happy faces! They were chatting throughout, very cute

Eating cupcake

We had so much food! SF is a really good cook. And she prepared so much for tea as well - cupcakes, ice cream, cakes and fruits. The kids enjoyed pinching grapes and keropok.

Older boys playing weiqi while a song about weiqi was playing

When we left, A even sent us to the bus stop and waved bye. It's nice to see friendship blossom among the next generation :)

Our bus ride was shorter than expected coz the boys wanted macs. We stopped at Serene Centre to grab their dinner. Sito and I couldn't eat! We only had some nuts later at night while watching drama.

I was outside the whole time coz it was too cold inside :p

Wednesday, 20 Dec - Paradise Dynasty

Sito signed the kids up for a workshop at the Apple Store at Orchard. The kids learnt to use Freeform on the iPad to brainstorm and design an invention with cool features to solve a problem.

They were given T-shirts for the workshop

Little vampire!

Lucky I captured this shot coz his tooth dropped later on our way to icecream! Good boy had been teasing the tooth the past few days so it would drop off asap. And it dropped off without blood, yeah! 

But Kai reminded me of a tooth he dropped at AhMa's place, for which he didn't get any fairy money. I thought I did not take it out of my bag and lost it! But I just checked my memorabilia box - found the tooth :) He's just too old for fairy money already!

Anyway, the workshop needed some creativity and speed as well. Kai managed to do it quickly enough while Yang and Yu couldn't be ready in time to present their invention to the group. We got all their work saved via Airdrop though :)

Kai explaining his invention to the facilitator

It was a brain installer for his slow phone, haha! Yang invented a machine to count sheep so that he could fall asleep more quickly, while Yu invented a dentist machine to remove his tooth and give him candy!

Must take picture at the Taka Christmas tree :)

Kids too :)

Dinner was at Paradise Dynasty. As it was very cold, I decided to order a bowl of hot and sour noodles for myself instead of snacking at dim sum and leftovers. My four boys had their usual - ZJM for Sito, plain noodles for the kids plus a pork chop fried rice for Kai. And of course XLB for all. Very full...

But that wasn't all! We took a walk to Centrepoint to check out running shoes for Sito then walked back to get ice cream from a cart outside Ngee Ann City for Sito, Kai and Yu. Yang wanted to try Turkish ice cream. We found the one outside Ngee Ann not as exciting so we went further up to Lucky Plaza.

Yang had a lot of fun!

Thursday, 21 Dec - homecooked fare

Thankfully, no big meals today! I made Taiwanese egg rolls to wrap arabiki for lunch, and a one pot stirfry and soup for dinner.

Friday, 22 Dec - three full meals!

Breakfast was at the hawker centre for the second consecutive week. And again, I offered extra phone time - 20 min if they chose food other than prata and bee hoon, or 10 min if they chose bee hoon like the previous week. All chose wonton noodles :) I knew Yu wouldn't be able to finish his so I didn't order food for myself, or I would have too much food!

Forgot what the kids had for lunch :p But they had to try a tang yuan coz it was winter solstice! 

I boiled 10 tang yuans - five sesame and five peanut butter. Kai and Yu chose sesame while Yang chose peanut. Kai managed to eat his with much drama. Yang spit it out into the toilet bowl along with some vomit, no thanks to Kai talking about puking *.* Yu took maybe an hour before he tried half of it - verdict: normal.

Seriously, these kids are too picky. They refuse to open their minds to new foods! Let them starve when we go on holiday next year...

We left for Bishan in the afternoon to return and borrow books, and buy school shoes and stuff. Kai had to wear size 41 and Yang 39!!! But I think Yang's feet were not that big... A few days later, I bought 37 online for him - if they are too small, I can keep for Yu. 

Dinner was with WaiPo. Sito was right about there being nuggets and I was wrong about the vege - there were green leafy vegetables instead of lettuce! There was also extra hot Japanese curry but thankfully diluted so it wasn't too spicy for Kai and Yu; Yang passed :p And Yu finished his soup in no time... Why why why won't he drink my soup?!

Showing rubber band magic to WaiPo

There was more food but I shall write separately coz Christmas!