Baby G's 4th Birthday Party

Last Saturday was Baby G's 4th birthday. We had wanted to bring him out for some 'kai kai' and to buy his adidas shoes... but sad to say, he was hit by the flu bug, so in the end, we only went to Compasspoint to look for his shoes. No Adidas, so in the end, he chose a 'Bubblegummer' pair. Lunch was at Ajisen. It was a simple meal as he was coughing a bit. He also ordered his favourite fried chicken.

==> our lunch @ Ajisen

After lunch, we went home to let Baby G rest since we had planned for a steamboat dinner. He didn't really manage to sleep well because of all the coughing.

==> Our steamboat dinner

Dinner was a steamboat affair, we bought lots of food. In the end, we had quite a fair bit left and it looks like our next few meals would be eating all the steamboat ingredients.

Cake was from Island Creamery so it's actually an ice-cream cake. It was yummy, thanks GuGu. Baby G was more interested in putting the candles onto the cake than the cake itself. I guess he's still too young to appreciate the lovely cake. He only knows his Thomas & Friends, Pixar Cars, etc.

Besides the pair of shoes that we bought, we also 'upgraded' his current bowl & cup to a Thomas & Friends set. He loves his cup very much; more than the bowl, in fact.

Happy Birthday, Baby G.

San

Birthday Celebrations @ Zion

Baby G wanted a mini party at his school & even requested for the Pixar Cars birthday cake. The irony is that he has never watched the cartoon and neither have we bought the toys for him, he only asked for it is because last year, one of his classmates had this cake and he has remembered it til now. tsk tsk tsk.

As I only could take the afternoon off, I requested that the party be held during the afternoon snack time. The teachers told me it'll be a bit rushed because they were planning to give extra lessons as Friday was a holiday. Anyway, they agreed and requested that we go earlier.

Baby G was pretty excited on that day, he woke up without much fuss and did everything super efficiently. If only everyday was party day, mornings would be such a breeze.

We arrived at school at 320pm bringing the cake & party favours. His friends were also excited to see us. One of his friend, Eugene kept calling me "Gabriel Mummy, Gabriel Mummy, got presents?". I felt a bit like Santa Claus. The only one who didn't really seem excited was Baby G himself and that's because he just woke up from his nap and still feeling a bit groggy. hahaha.

The teachers arranged the children into their groupings (A & B) and the singing started.

I was quite impressed with Mdm Mou as she immediately offered to cut the cake & even knew how much cake to cut. Everyone had a slice, including me & Daddy. She even knew which child couldn't eat much & cut a smaller piece for her.

After the cakes, the children were supposed to drink up their water before they were allowed to get their party favours from Baby G. Everyone was very determined to finish up their water and even showed it to me as proof. So I asked Baby G to distribute the "party bag".

==> Baby G distributing the gift bags

I always try not to have sweets or tidbits in my party bag as I never did like the idea of just giving things to eat. So this year, Daddy came up with a cool idea. Since we were going to Chiang Mai, we decided to get pencils & notebooks from there. Not sure if the children will like it, but it's something different and hopefully, the little ones will find it unique. To make it a little more personal, I added a note there saying "To My Friend, Thanks for celebrating my birthday with me, Gabriel". Hopefully, the parents can appreciate this... hee hee.

==> My boy's 4 already.

Couldn't resist adding this photo of Eugene cause he's always been so friendly with me.

San

Party Party Party

An 'Arty' Day

We arranged to meet up with ES & YP to go to the National Museum on Saturday. We met for lunch @ Kopitiam (Bras Basah outlet) before going to the SAM @ 8Q (A new extension of the Singapore Art Museum).

==> Walking towards SAM

The only 'free' exhibit was on the 1st floor. So we only spent about 20mins at that place before proceeding to the National Museum.

1st stop :-
Every year that we visit the museum, this wall will feature different themes. The 1st year we went to the Museum, the theme seemed to be 'Plastics in Orange/Yellow Hues'. The 2nd year, I don't know coz it was Daddy who brought Baby G (as I was working that weekend). And now, the theme is "Public Power : Public Secret by Twardzik Ching Chor Leng ".

==> Our first stop.

==> This was when he just turned 2

Our 2nd stop was at "The Imaginary Story Land by Tan Bee Aye". The items were all handmade by the artist & made up of mostly fabrics. She even had some costumes which the 2 kids tried it out. Don't you think they look cute? Hee Hee.

==> Our 2nd stop

Our 3rd stop was at "Cartoon Mural by Cartoonist Miel". The kids were given papers and pen down their creative ideas & paste them up on the wall. Here's Baby G writing his ABCs. Good effort on the 'A', 'B' & 'C', but forgot how to write his 'G'.

==> Our 3rd stop

Our 4th stop is "Stories Alive By The Party Room", the theme is "Exploring Africa" where kids were given tribal masks to colour. Here's Baby G hard at work on his mask.

==> Our 4th stop

Finally, we completed all the 'free' activities for the day. Here we are taking a short but important break.



Last but not least, coffee break time. We walked over to Dome for some afternoon snacks & drinks.

==> Baby G enjoying his hot chocolate

San

A cultural experience

HairCut

We've been prepping him for this haircut for the past 2 weeks. We just kept reminding him that he needed to go to the barber's to cut his hair. Everytime we said this, he told "okay".

After lessons today, we brought him to the barber, which happens to be on the same floor. There was quite a crowd today but we only needed to wait for about 10mins before it was his turn. But the lady who happened to be free wasn't the one who cut his hair previously, so he didn't want and said he only wanted that 'che che' to cut his hair. So, we had to wait a bit more as she was still busy with another customer.

Finally, it was his turn. I reminded the lady not to use the shaver. Firstly, I gave him a packet of Wang Wang man-tou biscuits and told him he could only open it after the haircut. He held on to it and did not make a fuss when she put the overalls for him.

Throughout the entire haircut, the lady kept talking to him, praising him to keep him distracted. Although I believe it did work to a certain extent, I could tell he was feeling kinda scared. He din dare to move his head and had a very worried look. In less than 15mins, the haircut was over. A huge sigh of relief from him & ME.

PS : I told the lady to cut shorter than usual so that there's a longer time lag before the next haircut.

San

Proud of Baby G

Happy (Belated) Birthday Uncle Ben

Usually Sat mornings are reserved for Baby G's morning lessons @ Punggol Plaza but today, being a public holiday, there were no classes hence we decided to go down IKEA for breakfast. Guess everyone had the same idea as us; the place was super-packed. We had to wait almost 20mins for a place and another 15-20mins for Daddy to order our food. After breakfast, we trooped down to Giant for our groceries. Another huge crowd greeted us, we had to navigate around the place to get our stuff. I decided that there were simply too many people and quickly finished off our groceries.

In the evening, we went to LingZhi Vegetarian restaurant to celebrate Uncle Ben's birthday, albeit belated. Here are some of the shots from the celebration.

Baby G was pretty friendly with Kate. We played 'scissors, paper, stone', he even helped to wipe Kate's nose as she was feeling under the weather.

Overheard during dinner :- We were telling Baby G not to climb up and down the chairs as Kate was following him up and down. He actually said "maybe because she likes me". HAHAHA.

San

Bear & Chicken Get Ready for School

It was a pretty last minute decision to bring Baby G to attend a play by Act 3 called 'Bear & Chicken Get Ready for School". We only booked our tickets a few days before the play. We went with Auntie Stef & gor-gor Zac Zac.

The play started at 2pm, so we had plenty of time after Baby G's class. We stopped by at Ah Chang's Porridge @ Tiong Bahru for a light lunch so that Baby G won't be hungry during the show. We also dropped by Ah Ma's shop and checked out the aquariums at the markets.

We met up with Auntie Stef, Uncle Dan & gor gor Zac Zac at the SRT for the play. We had first-row seats and initially, the 2 boys were pretty afraid to be so up close to the stage. Zac Zac calmed down much faster and sat on his own seat, whereas for Baby G, he sat on my lap almost throughout the entire show. Only left the last 10mins then he told me "Mummy, I'm not afraid already, I want to sit on my own chair". I would say, overall, he enjoyed the show and til now, he still remembers bits & pieces of the show. He also told me that he would like to watch another show.

If time permits, I think we'll arrange to watch the next show entitled "Upstairs in the Sky".

San

My Birthday

My birthday has always been spent with loved ones. This year is no different. Daddy managed to take leave to spend the day with me, just the 2 of us.

Baby G went to school as usual. We dropped by Borneo's service centre to check on the air conditioning for our car cause it didn't seem as cool as previously, or perhaps it's due to the really warm weather. It took longer than expected and we left the car at the workshop to have our breakfast, which was already 10am by then. We took the free shuttle ride to Junction 8 & had Toast Box for breakfast. We went back & our car was ready for collection.

We decided to catch the 'Clash of the Titans' at Marina GV at 2:30pm. We decided to have lunch at Fin Seafood (place kinda small, food not that great, i wouldn't recommend anyone there) & then some shopping.


Movie was not too bad, but I prefer the predecessor, starring Harry Hamlin.


By the time the movie ended, it was almost time to pick Baby G up & meet my parents for dinner. Dinner was at Henderson Road and was one of the shops that was mentioned in the Channel 8 Show (Zi Char Lai Liao... or something like that). Again, the food was kinda disappointing but perhaps we expected too much.

The best part is of coz the traditional cake cutting.... where as usual, we would sing the birthday song 4 times... 1 in English, 1 in Chinese, 1 in Malay & the last one is by Baby G who 'composed' his own song to the tune of 'Happy Birthday'.


==> My cake






San