Saturday, 31 December 2022

Year end festivities

It's year end again. This year really flew by. This December has been great. Sito was not on leave but his schedule was very good so we got a lot of him :)

Papa teaching them about centre of gravity at dinner time, after an episode of Beyblade mentioned it


Friday afternoon date with many pancakes!


Sito sat with the kids while I had a peaceful shower


This was Kai's fifth set since we got back from Legoland, all mini sets that Sito bought more than a year ago! But Kai didn't continue after the first couple of times. Too difficult, he said *.* This was way bigger than the four he did earlier. So Sito has been doing it while watching drama at night... 

Kai and Yu wanted to jog with Papa


He even prepared a sauce to baste our deli ham!


The chef carving the ham


Our Xmas eve dinner!


Our first Xmas tree shot at Guthrie House


My heart swells to see this as we walked towards the MRT station :)


Since it's Xmas, we got a log cake!


Yu popped a figurine into his mouth before I could take a picture *.* This was from Chateraise - very nice! We got the white chocolate one last year so changed to milk chocolate this year. Also got a second log cake from Swee Heng after Xmas - 30% off :p

"Can this be eaten?" "Is this edible?"


Bring them out to eat at Bangkit and cut hair for the new school year!


Very happy to see Yang choosing economical bee hoon instead of prata! Yu said he wanted that next time too. But the next day, Yang wanted prata at home, haha! Ok, eat more prata. Indulge them this season...

Also indulged them in Nintendo in the past few weeks. They get unlimited play time on weekdays! It's mostly Kai playing, Yang and Yu sometimes. Strange thing is the ones not playing often become very sweaty *.* I played with them only a couple of times though.. Mama isn't very good at this...

Very excited over Mario Party mini games!


Watching a busker performing magic tricks along Orchard Road


Brought them out yesterday. It was late but there were still Xmas lights! Went shopping at Decathlon and Kinokuniya. Finally got a second pair of school shoes for Yu. Also got Chinese comics for them, heh...

Our second Xmas tree shot!


Learnt to use the panoramic function to take the whole tree. Kai moved so he looks a bit weird in the above photo. The one below is taken by Yang - well done!

Yu decided to be the 第三者 again


We were in Orchard also for our end of year feast. Decided to bring the kids out for a buffet dinner - they've had hotpot and BBQ buffet, thought we would go for variety this time. Somehow the kids thought the silver dining buffet was better *.*

We spent two hours eating, which is very long for us! The kids might have had one hour of dessert haha! Don't think they ate much proper food but they seemed happy :)

The kids started on dessert before us


Gummy worm vampire!


"Oh, a flower for Mama?" "No, it's a drill in a drill." *.*


Kai made himself so at home by dessert time


They looked up for the 10th floor where we had dinner


Didn't know the bridge was accessible!


Us :)


To remind the hub of what he said years back before we were together, something about having to see the lights with just me... Well, it's me forever and ever haha!

Today, we just did our regular programming - playground and Ichiban Sushi. Had a little chat with the boys on what they learnt this year and what they would like to learn next year. 
  • Kai learnt to be a Beyblade mechanic
  • Yang learnt to write smaller words
  • Yu learnt to use spoon and fork to eat rice properly
It was very hard to get that out of them! I had to share what I learnt to get them going. So I had to help them with next year's goals:
  • Use chopsticks
  • Speak more Mandarin
  • Get along!
So that's it, 2022. See you soon, 2023!

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