Birthday Celebration Part 2

After Lucas' birthday celebration in school, we did another round of mini celebration at Ah Gong n Ah Ma's place...

After his cake at school, he was telling me he still needed more cake... =.='''
See, he could hardly wait to cut the cake...
Was extremely happy when the candles were to be lit...

Birthday Celebration Part 1

Due to the HFMD, Lucas' childcare centre had banned parents from entering the school. We have to drop off and collect Lucas everyday at the door.

Mommy Me had requested to celebrate Lucas' birthday in school and we were rejected due to the HFMD. Disappointed but we understand the need to do so.

To our pleasant surprise, Teacher Phenice informed me that after discussion with the boss, they allowed us to go into the school to celebrate Lucas' birthday. But we have to confine ourselves to the eating area and cannot walk around the school.

Lucas was delighted at this piece of news. He even told his teacher that I will be coming to school with his cake and presents for his friends.. Check out the happy boy...
If you see the cake closely, there was an error on it. It says Happy 2nd birthday, Lucas...
Ah blur mommy had not done a check at the point of ordering... The staff at the cake shop must have made an error n I did not pick it up... =.='''

Nonetheless, Lucas was very happy.
Smiles is all that I like to see on his face...

Exersaucer for...

Bb Lewis has been able to hold his head up and prefer to be in a sitting position rather than lying in his play-yard rolling around.

Lucas has one exersaucer at Ah Ma & Ah Gong house but we have none at our place. Mommy Me decided to get one for him.. Ta-da...
He was very happy to be in there and able to sit n play with his toys..
Of course, there were times where he will sit in there watching Lucas kor kor play with his toys and he will also flash his bored face... ^^

Lucas' surprise prezzie

Auntie Sally called Mommy Me today and said she has a prezzie for Lucas...
And of cos the one who is the happiest is the birthday boy-to-be...
See how excited he was holding the prezzie...
Still want to pose an angry face when I said open on his b'day... ;-p
Ta-da, his 2nd birthday prezzie...
Hmm, I wonder who dunno Lucas likes Thomas the Train...^^

You cant stop me!!!

Like the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them...

Lucas went jalan jalan with Daddy Sky at Vivo while Mommy Me stayed home with Bb Lewis who was down with flu...He came home with a pack of stickers and according to Daddy Sky, he insisted buying the stickers.

His reasons: cos the house is too ugly and he needed to decorate it...

Oh well, we had fun time sticking the stickers on the doors of the rooms..

Here is the door of the Master Bedroom:
The door to the common toilet:
The door to Lucas & Lewis room
The door to the study:
Even Lewis' cabinets are not spared...
Lucky, the stickers are those kind which can be removed easily.. Shall leave it and not sweat over the untidiness of them... ^^

Lewis Can Flip!!!

Lewis has turned 5 months and Mommy Me was nagging him that he could not flip when he went for his gymboree classes. And his frens have all moved to Level 2 except him...

In the evening, he proved me wrong....
Check out Lewis' flipping attempt...


He was trying for a good 5 minutes before he finally did it...

Short Walk @ Vivo

Lucas was given a choice of going to Vivo or McDonald after his Shichida Class.
He chose Vivo... (of cos, Daddy Sky will say that it is an obvious choice =.=''')

We went to Toy 'R' Us and Mommy Me made Lucas promise no toys and only see see look look...
Well, Lucas did try his luck to see if I will budgle.. NO WAY... ^^
So he ended up checking out the toys and walking round the store...
Then we passed by Haagen-Dazs... Tried to walk fast past it but too bad, Lucas remembered my ice-cream promise and we retraced our steps to the store...
Studying the menu on what he wanted...He settled for one scoop of ice cream with a cookie...
And called himself a Xiao Hua Mao...
Ta-da... Satisfied...
As usual, he must go say hi to the little pets...

Where are my pants pants??

Baby Lewis and Daddy Sky played a new game last night while Mommy Me and Lucas have gone to lala-land aka sleep... ^^

Daddy Sky hid Bb Lewis' pants and kept asking him where are my pants pants...
This Bb kept reacting to him with his smiles and laughter...
Oooohhhh, so cute... ^^

After Breakfast...

After a breakfast of Teochew Porridge with steamed fish, Lucas asked for a bread... Yes, he passed by the Barcook Bakery and told us that he needed a bread cos he was not full... =.=''''

Wish granted... Here he is, enjoying his bread before class starts..
It was a Ham and Cheese Bun...
Must be a growing boy cos he ate half a bowl of my porridge and numerous requests of the steamed fish and sotong... Ya, you did not read wrongly. He is into sotong too...

His breakfast of steamed fish and sotong, plus fish cake costs us $18... As he is still on the lighter side, guess I should console myself that it is good that he has a big appetite!! ^^

Funny Conversations

Check out these funny (or should I say intelligent) conversations we had with Lucas...

#1
Mommy Me: I need to eat vegetarian today cos it's 15th of the month.. Later we go eat bee hoon...
Lucas: I can't eat vegetarian cos I am coughing... (coughs twice to prove his point)
Mommy Me: But it's 15th, I need to eat vegetarian... (suddenly throat itchy and coughs)
Lucas: Orr, mommy, you cannot eat vegetarian.. you are coughing too... we go eat fish.. fish makes us feel better...
Mommy Me: (speechless)

#2
Daddy Sky: tonight is mid authmn festival.. actually, we should eat mooncakes and carry lanterns...
Lucas: orr... where are we going??
Daddy Sky: no la, we are not going anywhere.. else no one looks after di-di
Lucas: hmm, put di-di with ah gong ah ma...
Daddy Sky: cannot la....
Lucas: no no.. ah gong ah ma must come with me...
Daddy Sky: Then who looks after di-di??
Lucas: Da da ah yee lor...
Daddy Sky: (speechless)
Mommy Me: (giggles....)

Weekend Stay

We had planned a weekend stay at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel and was worried earlier as we might have to cancel the stay due to Lucas...

Since Lucas was clear of HFMD, we went ahead to go for the stay... Brought Lewis along as well.. See he was lying on the bed in the room....
He was also enjoying the softer bed...
But he started to ren aka recognise the place at night and kept crying.. In fact he refused to sleep until he was tired from crying at 1 am ++... =.='''

Daddy Sky and Mommy Me were exhausted from taking turns to carry him and trying very hard to soothe him...

Guess only Lucas enjoyed himself the best at the hotel stay...
He enjoyed the buffet dinner and buffet breakfast and as we got 2 rooms, he enjoyed shuttling between ah gong & ah ma's room and our room... ^^

p/s: we met a tourist who stayed 2 rooms away from us.. And her first reaction was: is this the baby who was crying last night??? Aiyo, so paiseh lor...

Sea Creatures

Lucas walked into class and was so happy to find so many sea creatures on the wall...
Since Lucas was able to understand words, he always has a preference over learning things swimming the sea or water...
Guess it was due to the books he was exposed to as well as the fish that Mommy Me first bought him and subsequently the fish tank Daddy Sky got... ^^

p/s: He was able to name 85% of the pictures with the exception of Catfish, sea urchin and conch shell... ^^

Smurfs Craze

I love SMURFS... lolx... It was something that I grew up with and they managed to revive themselves after one decade... Jus got my first papa smurf from McDonald today... They have 8 characters for collection... looks like it is going to be a McDonald's month... ^^
Actually way before this, Mommy Me already spotted this set of Mega Bloks at Robinson when we were there to buy Lucas and Lewis stuff... Mommy Me decided to finally buy it today...
It is on sale somemore.. Happy Mommy... lala..lalalala..lalalalala... ^^

Relief

Brought Lucas for his review last evening and luckily the ulcers and fever have disappeared..
PD concluded that it is unlikely to be HFMD and wrote a letter so that Lucas can go for his speech and drama class today... Think he was pretty bored staying at home for 2 days and was telling me he wants to go gai gai... =.=''''

He was at Daddy Sky's office on Wednesday when he had to stay home...

It is a relief to know that it is not HFMD and Lewis was able to come home last night...
But before he could do so, he was at Dr Koh to check his cough n flu... faint lor...
And of cos once he was home, Lewis was coo-ing and ah-ing almost the whole night wanting to be cuddled and hugged.. YAWNS!!!!

Waiting & waiting

PD said to monitor Lucas for the next couple of days for spots... No spots so far but he did not want water... No idea why... Tried ling yang, barley, ribena and plain water.. Had to catch him and use a syringe to pump in the fluid...

But he is smarter than that, he will puke them out.... ARGH!!! I ended up spending time mopping the floor.. Sigh... Will be bringing him to the PD in the evening and hopefully, PD can clear him of HFMD...Still keeping fingers crossed....

Telltale signs??

Lucas refused dinner on Monday evening and kept complaining that his mouth was painful...
Mommy Me could not spot anything and rub some dentinox on his gums thinking it was his last 2 teeth coming out...

Sent him to school this morning and understood that there was a HFMD case in his class.. Sigh.. Have to monitor closely again...

Since I was not working today, I picked him up from school.. Feeling a little peckish, we went to Peppery to have a little snack before returning home... See how happy he was at Peppery..
When we got home and he was showering himself, he suddenly told me his mouth got ulcers.. ARGH!!!! Alert alert..

I pried open his mouth and true enough, there were 2 ulcers.. and suddenly he was having a fever... This was all too sudden, I rushed him to his PD immediately...

Dr Edmund Koh checked him and was not comfortable to confirm if it was HFMD cos it was way to early to tell... Asked me to keep him home for 3 days...and prescribed all the medications to address his fever, cough, flu and ulcers...

We are keeping our fingers crossed as the spots (if it is indeed HFMD) will show in these couple of days...

p/s: Lewis is kept at Ah Ma's house as we are worried that it might spread to him... I miss LEWIS!!!

No breakfast

Lucas woke up in the morning and told me he did not want to go breakfast with me...
He said he wanted to stay at home and sleep... Asked me to bring Baby Lewis to ah ma's house...
Told him that he has school today and he assured me that he will go after he slept enough... =.='''

Ok lor, so I went to work.. At 8++am, I got this picture from Daddy Sky.. They are still at home... Aiyo, lazing on the sofa and watching Diego... =.='''
Almost half an hour later, he was in the childcare centre happily having his breakfast... Faint...
Asked Daddy Sky how come he din want to go for breakfast... Cos he napped abit too much on Sunday and could not sleep on Sunday night... Den in the middle of the night, he woke up and asked for milk so he did not have enough sleep...

Hmm, cos of that, I had no breakfast (was thinking of my char siew wanton mee) and had to eat bread... =.='''

His Diecast Collection

Lucas was busy arranging and naming his die cast collection... Daddy Sky said must take photos after he was done.. We have never counted the number of trains he has..
A quick count from the picture... about 60++... All contributions from Daddy Sky, Mommy Me, Ag Gong, Ah Ma, Yeye & Nai nai...

Of course, the happiest one is Lucas...
He is such a lucky boy...
I dun recall having such expensive and many toys when I was a kid... I guess Daddy Sky and Mommy Me add our toy count together and probably still lose to Lucas..

A Typical Weekend

Our typical Sunday begins with Mommy Me and Daddy Sky getting the boys ready to go out for breakfast... We can begin at 7++ am and only get to leave the house at 9++ am...

Then it is breakfast at Vivo or Harbourfront or Song Fa Bak Kut Teh opp Central... After breakfast, it will be walk walk at Toy R Us and then grocery shopping at Giant...

We will then be home sometimes with or without lunch depending what we had for breakfast...
Then it will a short nap time... And before I know it, it is time to prepare dinner...

Dinner these days are simple rice with soup or pasta dinner.. Whipping up a 3 dishes with soup seems to be a thing in the past.. =.='''

After dinner, we will just laze around in the house...
Fat hope, only the boys are lazing around.... with Daddy Sky..

Mommy Me is busy preparing Lucas' school bags, Lewis' diaper bag and my own working bag.. in the meantime, the clothes are washing the machine and floor needs to be mopped too...

Tough to be a mommy to 2 kids... =.='''

I can build this too ^^

Usually all the track formations are built by Daddy Sky... They will be dismantled every Saturday morning for the part time cleaner to clean the house and in the evenings, Daddy Sky will build a new track formation. This repeats every week...

Until... this weekend... Lucas asked Mommy Me if I can build a track formation for him using his latest Sodor Search and Rescue Set...

Ok, I attempted.. Here is my formation:
Cool, isn't it??

Daddy Sky says my track is very nice... and Ya, I thought so too... v(^.^)

Back to Class

Lucas' Shichida Classes are getting more and more challenging these days. They have recently incorporated a weekly mini test component which at the end of 4 terms will translate into points and in turn qualifies as cash scholarship prizes...

I dunno if it is considered good or bad cos Lucas realli focus much better these days but the downside is he will get real kan cheong and less confident if he gets the answers for the mini test/quiz wrong.... =.=''''

Anyway, not photos to be taken during class time.. check out these taken well before the class started today...He was flipping through his worksheets to make sure he completed the set...
He placed the Teacher's Day present for his sinsei on the desk waiting for her to come into the classroom...
Then he checked out his 'bbq pit' for the pretend play segment...
Of cos, he could also point out all the numbers on the penguins' bellies...
Well to go, son!!! Pls relax too...

p/s: He scored full marks today in class for his ESP quizes.. Am super proud of him... ^^