So, chu san night...we had dinner at home with ah ma and ah gong...papa asked his cousins if they wanted to pop by and the triplets' mum agreed. so apparently, they had been nagging ceaselessly, finally at 9 plus, here they came.
Xun was waiting expectantly at the door to welcome them
Then, the partying started!
we kept the usual tupperware and tong's trains in the bedroom...if not...the cleaning up might just be catastrophic...
but you know, anything would be fun when you had the right company
the boys examined the cars...
the girls holing up on xun's bed
and then it seemed really quiet in there so mama went to check them out and found all of them huddled on the upper deck. HA
tried to take a group photo, now they would try to find a spot for their faces to be visible, yeh, what a great improvement...
after MANY tries, YEH, one GOOD shot. A pity JJ was exhausted and did not join us...ha we adults had a good time prattling about the upcoming malaysia trip and whatever came to our mind...and of course, gorging on the scrumptious goodies...ah....the fattening and sinful goodies...
On SUNDAY, at Joo Chiat Place
went to mama's xiaoshu's house. Oh a strata landed...
really spacious, he had a roomy yard filled with toys
even a sizeable swing...which had quaint looking chips pillows!
even a bouncy castle....*scream*
the interior was fully removated...
xun found a friend, mama's cousins' daughter, En En
Checked out the house. This was Desiree's room, all girly and immaculately packed
the study room which xiaoshu said could be converted into the second child's room. Oh xiaoshen was expecting!
their master bedroom, which was in shades of green as that was their lucky colour.
xiaoshu's house cost $2.3m and told us that the other smaller ones were asking for $1.8m. eh...my uncles encouraged me to buy one too..eh...where to get the money lei? Did they REALLY THINK ur papa was VERY filthy rich? Hmmm...
Xun and En had a good time playing with dough..though the cleaning up was nightmarish and they conveniently left the most excruciating part of picking up the tiny bits to me and yuan yuan,
the boys of our Tay family
oh mama's cousin, though just a tad older than you, you got to call yiyi?
Even Desiree (who was just a tad younger than tong tong) was ur yiyi
Before we left, we had YUSHENG AGAIN.
yummy...now on to...Ah ma's brother's house.
the kor kor was so adorable, was playing with tong for quite a long time
Then finally, the last part of the day...papa's D4 gang...
uncle erwin made xun sit on his laps to play the piano...the ever cheeky uncle junhao declared he was going to take a photo...and STOMP it or crap...
tong was sooooo eager, he kept repeating that he was HUNGRY
yup, these were the closest ones...uncle erwin and aunt johanna, uncle junhao, uncle huimin and aunt xiuming, uncle alex...uncle alvin and bobby were away..uncle robin too...uncle kewei had other stuff...
ah...a group shot of their gang members and spouses
so the boys started playing black jack
uncle huimin asked the banker, uncle Hao, what would happen if he got 3 7s. was pay out 3 times? uncle junhao, not believing that it would ever happen, flippantly announced he would pay out 7 times and take off his pants. We had an uproarious time when uncle huimin drew his card and it was really 7. Gasp.
then they switched to Poker...well...papa won some $100 over that night...
meanwhile, uncle erwin and aunt johanna totally enthralled the kids
uncle erwin was so sweet, he said they merely followed whatever you two brought out and thanked you two for allowing them to join you in your play
A thoroughly gratifying day...oooo...sure was late. tong whimpered and cried, muttering that he missed his friends, uncle erwin and aunt johanna. Well, it had been a total blast these few days...Chinese new year, definitely one of our favourite festivals : )
