mf's mini world of mf-ism: Baby Yu is four!

We had a weekend full of cake!

1) Prima Deli Baby Shark chocolate cake for his friends

2) Prima Deli Pokemon chocolate cake for his brothers

3) Chateraise Strawberry fresh cream cake with WaiPo

4) Rive Gauche Strawberry cake for paternal grands

We started on Thursday afternoon in school. It happened to be a classmate's birthday as well so they celebrated together - with two cakes! The leftover cake was given to the K2s coz his friend's sister is Yang's classmate! Heard the kids were hugging the birthday boy and girl - so sweet :) Also heard that he had to be convinced that there should be four candles, not three - coz he said he was four only on Friday!!

Zhang Laoshi emailed me this and a video coz no parents allowed since COVID-19

I sat down for coffee downstairs after sending in the cake to wait for him coz he wanted to go home after having the cake. This boy wants many things...

Of course we had to buy some snacks and play on our way home

Friday was Children's Day for Kai. I took Yu out of school to celebrate his birthday. So only Yang had to go to school. Thankfully, he was quite ok to go to school; maybe coz he knew that he had concert rehearsal...

Watching his brother play Mega Man... Fun meh? :p

We finally set off for our excursion!

It took us three bus trips to get to the dragon playground in TPY. But it didn't take too long, or it didn't feel too long coz Yu was such a good boy! We read a few books featuring the dragon playground, starting with a book at home since National Day. Recently, I also found a few e-books with many local features and the boys love them!

At our final bus stop, we stopped for a little snack and to stick mosquito patches before taking a short walk to the playground.

Can you spot Yu running up the stairs? He dashed off when I pointed the dragon out to him :)

He bravely climbed up once I reached the playground

He took a while to slide down coz he was complaining about the sand...

With Mama!

Yup, brought our gear there!

Before the trip, I thought we could play at the playground for maybe two hours before heading to TPY central for lunch. But when we got there, I saw all the flies and ants, and started scheming how to get him away within an hour :p

Well, I needn't worry, for the heavens were willing! Yu told me he felt a drop of water on his arm. Later, the drops became a little more frequent. He was very willing to pack up and go :) He didn't fancy sand in his shoes very much even though the excavator and sand castles were fun, accompanied by the dump truck song on YouTube!

Spot the lizard on the tree!

We passed by many pretty flowers, a dead snail and this lizard. Yu said he was going to tell his friends about the lizard! Then he mentioned chameleons, which change colours :)

Passed by a regular playground

Had to whisk him off after this coz more raindrops

We passed by a supermarket and he wanted to go in...

We were walking along the shops on the other side and he saw an opening to the back - and climbed up a spiral staircase!

We also hopped into the library along the way to, um, wash hands :p He was hungry but the restaurant was not opened yet. So I gave him a second snack.

Balloons outside Macs while waiting for restaurant

And the restaurant, gosh... The Ichiban Sushi website said this outlet opened at 11.00 am. So we started waiting at 10.49 am. At 11.00 am, there was no sign of it opening. I called the HQ and was told it opened at 11.30 am on weekdays! So pissed. Sent them a screenshot of their website. Later, while paying, I found a notice of their opening hours on the cabinet behind the cashier. The cabinet was behind shutters just now - how was I to see it while waiting?! Sent them another photo of that notice.

By then, it was too late to go back to the BPP outlet in case of a queue - it was a school holiday after all. So we went to the bus interchange and bought some bubbles before going back to the restaurant.

Yu pored over the menu to decide between the car and the Anpanman kiddy meals, and glazed at desserts

Love it when he hugs me like this!

"Here's my meal!"

Left over half a bowl of udon, fries and two pumpkin croquettes (in Mama's tummy :p)

I was dead tired by then but there was still the journey home! We took two trains to get back. He seemed a little sleepy but he assured me that he was not. He had been resisting nap time for some months now. We agreed that he could drop his nap on weekends when he turned four. He was still awake when Sito and I got back around 9 pm!!!

On the other hand, I desperately needed a nap! But I promised desert. And I needed to go back for a meeting at 2 pm. I was running a bit late but meeting was pushed to 2.30 pm - I don't know if that was good or bad!!

Happy with his Yole! But he couldn't finish..

Before I could say anything, he dashed off to the kiddy ride *.*

Sweet smile when given his birthday present :)

That was before he realised there was no remote control, hoho! He had wanted one with remote control. But he had also wanted this car when I asked him. Yes, this boy wants many things!

Happy boy with happy yellow cake!

Sito came back earlier to celebrate Yu's birthday :)

Besides the napping deal, another deal is that he must not climb into our bed in the middle of the night anymore. In fact, we had three deals - the third being no more stroller but he had forgotten until our way home today :p All these deals are based on "I'm four years old already."

This was taken on 10 Oct so he didn't keep his part of that most important deal!

Ahhh, super cute, hoho! I do like to hug him, watch him sleep etc, but he's getting so big! And poor Sito suffers from 夺命剪刀脚 all the time... I thought he still came to our bed on Saturday night coz he didn't get the vitamin C candy on Sunday morning but he had his phone video leh... Confused...

Anyway, last night, he managed to stay in his bed for sure! I went through the bed+no funny video or no bed+vitamin C candy options with him a couple of times. Last night, I reminded him when he came in so he let me send him back. Early this morning at about 5.40 am, he came in and tried to stay on me. Took three tries to get him to go back and he slept through my 6.00 am alarm, phew!

Back to Saturday - steamboat lunch!

He happily sat on WaiPo :)

Where were the two kids looking?!

They were just watching Kai play Mega Man *.*

Then YQ and XW started some app on their phones - quite funny!

Kai was very happy to have JiuJiu there coz they could play Chinese chess. Even Yu who used to not get close to JiuJiu was happily sitting next to him - and putting booger on him! Yang was chatting with AhYee, don't know about what...

We used up the bubbles we bought on Friday - Kai made big bubbles!

These two made many small bubbles

Something was wrong with Yu's bike so Yang pushed him

Then Kai pushed him

Then both pushed him!

Kai and Yang asked for their bikes later. Kai's bike is also no good now. Only Yang's bike worked. Wonder if we should get new bikes since they're all taller now or just bring them where there are bikes for rental. We seldom ride these anyway.

Sito and I were still full from lunch so we decided to try to replicate our success at the foodcourt the Saturday before. That day, Kai had chicken rice, Yang had char siew noodles, and Yu and I shared cai fan.

That was our first time in the foodcourt in quite a long time

This time, Yu decided to have char siew noodles too - he finished everything on his own!

Next steps - variety and chopsticks! Quite glad we can move away from restaurants sometimes and just eat more local food. There's so much to introduce to them :)

All kids looking at the camera, yeah!