We have been waiting for this day for some time...
First of all, he's supposed to start cutting his own nails in P3 just like Kai but he is still getting me to cut his nails! So the deal is ok, after nine. I just cut his nails yesterday coz I forgot but I'll shift the nail cutter to his room and let his teacher remind him to cut, hahahaha!
More importantly, he has agreed to make school trips on his own, without Papa accompanying him, on days when Yang couldn't be with him. This would really mark the end of the parents' school trips! Yay and nay at the same time coz it's really quite nice to have some one-one time...
And finally... He's nine! Each of our kids are growing up so fast! Too fast.. Sometimes very slow but ya, it always seems so fast at birthdays...
Yu wasn't feeling very well when he came home on Wednesday. His nose was a bit runny and as a result of the allergy, one eye was a bit red from rubbing.
On Thursday morning, his nose was better but his eye felt a bit swollen. He wondered if he should go to school. I left the decision to him, making sure he knew that he couldn't play phone games if he had a sick day. He took a looong time thinking and decided to stay home. But when he went to pee, he said, "Should I change my mind?" And he changed his mind *.*
All was fine in school. Yu came home looking totally fine. The three of them dropped their bags, changed their shoes and off we went to Clementi! At that hour, we could get student meals which are essentially the usual main course at a discount, plus a soup or a drink. But the choices are limited and only Kai chose from that menu. It's ok. The parents swopped with Yang and Yu :p
Ice cream all round!
We went to buy some snacks and a cake before going home. Bumped into Yu's classmate-neighbour on our way home who was on his way to his grands' with his father. They were on the same bus that morning apparently, and Yu told him where we were going so that they didn't have their usual playdate at the playground.
In any case, Yu wasn't looking forward to any play date when he had one hour of phone time on his birthday!
All in PJs for the cake-cutting
It was a late lunch and no one was really hungry at dinner time. So I didn't cook :p But Yu had two slices of cake! Think he was very full after that... Yang had only one but both boys reserved the remaining two slices for the next day so for the first time, Sito and I didn't have any of Yu's birthday cake!
Second cele with the grands on Sunday
Yu was looking worried in the photo as there were too many candles on the tiny cake and the cake looked like it was on fire!! I wasn't in the picture as I couldn't figure out the timer on my phone - first time trying to use timer on this new phone :)
Third cele, joint with WaiPo, yesterday
Yu put down his ✌️ when WaiPo mentioned it so she kena sabo-ed into giving a ✌️ hoho!
I must say Ajisen may not be the best place to celebrate with a cake. The staff brought us the cake in the original plastic bag without a lighter, and delivered only four plates and four forks. We had to ask for five more sets and this time, bowls came, haha! But the staff took a nice photo for us :)
One surprise - Kai ate the cake! He said just to try 👍 On the other hand, Yu didn't have the cake - he said in Mandarin so WaiPo could understand, that he eats chocolate and he eats cake, but he doesn't eat chocolate cake. Also, he eats strawberry, he eats cream, and he eats lollipop, but he doesn't eat strawberry cream lollipop!
We went out separate ways after lunch. But something funny happened - Sito asked the kids to give WaiPo a hug and WaiPo gave Yu a peck! Wth?! I don't even think she kissed me before!?! Sito and I had a good laugh. Last night, I told Yu he must give me a kiss coz I didn't get one, haha!!
Anyway, Mother they all went to buy an iron while we went to the library. We just nua-ed at the library for over an hour until Kai got bored. Then we parked them at Popular while we went to shop for toiletries and herbs.
Then we went to the pasar malam between J8 and the interchange to get our hands on our fave snacks, woohoo! This time, I got goreng pisang and shark's fin soup. I didn't expect Yang and Yu's reactions when they saw me buying the latter - you can't buy that, you'll cause more sharks to be hunted! Oh my... Apparently, they read that somewhere... I had to tell them that this shark's fin soup did not contain any shark's fin....
We were all quite full from lunch, especially Kai with his extra noodles and eight pieces of karaage! So dinner was easily settled with the food from pasar malam. The kids also had some ice cream while watching the Saturday night movie on TV. It's seldom that Kai watches a whole movie with us but it was Percy Jackson and the Sea Monster and he's now halfway through the first Percy Jackson book.
Anyway, so all the celebrations are over. Yu is properly nine now. Still a baby. Forever our baby :)
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