1. Kiddy Palace!

So i brought Big T to Kiddy Palace (and whipped potato before that) and as you can see, he was mighty pleased!

He saw all the new Fisher-Price Thomas trains and went into a frenzy checking all of them out - that's him (in the first picture) fiddling with Sir Tottem Hatt's musical caboose which plays the Thomas theme song everytime you press the button on top. I can so imagine Big T pressing this a kazillion times just to make Little T boogie (she loves the Thomas theme song and will shake her lil' booty everytime she hears it!). Just last Saturday, Little T was sleeping soundly in her cot when she heard this tune because Big T was watching Thomas and Friends on the telly. To my utter amusement, she got up from her belly down position into a kneeling position and started to shake her body (with her eyes half-closed some more)! The moment the tune ended, she just plopped right back into her sleeping position to continue her slumber!

If there's one thing i really, really love about my son and am really, really proud of him for, he's never ever thrown a tantrum at the toystore demanding that we buy this or that. Sure, he may hanker after a new train but when we ask him to put the toy back on the shelf and leave, he will do so no matter how disappointed he is. If we tell him he needs to wait till his 5th birthday (or Christmas) to get a new toy, he'll do just that.

Anyway, i'm glad to be able to strike one place off my list! Birdpark's on tomorrow and i'm wondering if i should make reservations for us to have lunch with the parrots...

School's Out

...for Big T! I've applied for a couple days' leave over the next few weeks in June because i want to spend some quality time with my dear son. Even though he has his moments (and i have my moments when i just want to stuff him inside the cupboard so he would stop talking, that little chatterbox!!!), he's actually a sensitive (he's a snag alright...:)), sweet little fella and i don't think i can ask for a better son than him.

Anyway, these are the 10 things i want to do with him this holiday and i hope that by the end of the month, i can put a tick beside each of them and proudly declared i've taken the time and effort to bond with him.

1.  Go to Kiddy Palace. (I promised to bring him there yesterday when we were at Lot 1 for lunch after church but because i was rushing the kids home for their afternoon nap, i forgot. Big T reminded me in the car, with a crestfallen look on his face and it made me want to knock my own head because i pride myself as a mother that NEVER breaks the promises she makes.) :(
2. Go to the Zoo.
3. Go to the Bird Park.
4. Go kite-flying.
5. Have a barbecue. (Big T always looks on in envy when he see people having their barbecues at the poolside pit so i promised him we'll have one this holiday especially for him.)
6. Bake together. (Need to buy Thomas cookie moulds!)
7. Sandplay at West Coast (We haven't done this for a looooong time...)
8. Go to SPCA.
9. Go to Botanical Gardens/Jacob Ballas Children's Garden.
10. Go to the animal/fish farms at Lim Chu Kang/Pasir Ris Farmway.

That's him on his very first day of school. :)

Post-blogging thoughts: I just realised, with the exception of 1 and 6, everything else revolves around animals and the great outdoors! I guess that's how i want to bring up my kids - i want to make sure they soak in God's amazing creations and appreciate the wonder of it all.