Yes, the first day of the Lunar New Year. This year, it came rather early, it was only the end of January and coincidentally Tong's birthday!
This was how tong looked when he was a wee 1-year-old toddler
fast forward 4 years, the 5 year-old cheeky one
Often dubbed as the handsome one who would surely break many girls' hearts
As usual, we went to Ah ma's house in the morning and had a sumptuous meal of longevity noodles
Catching them all looking at the camera was surely a tedious task
Jie looked so resplendent in that lovely bright red cheongsam...
while the two boys looked simply adorable in matching dragon traditional costumes
Ha, ah ma wanted to have a photo with her xin gwai-s but they were not very cooperative
tong requested for a photo with just his little brother
and jie definitely wanted one with just his little one
A family shot before we went out to papa's uncle's house at Serangoon
At Serangoon where the kids were totally engrossed in the gaming
Then we went to mama's ah gong's house at Ang Mo Kio...This had been our CNY day 1's routine for all these while
Back at home, we played the piñata game. papa was like the human sacrifice, the over zealous tong jumped and struck the piñata with the stick and hit papa's hand!
It was very orderly, the children had to line up behind the chair and take turns. Each could strike at the piñata for three times.
It took really long, the cardboard was surely hardy
Tong with the finishing touches...and all the goodies came flying out and the children scurried to fill up their envelopes...awesome game
Lau Yu Shen time...ha, this was the third time we were doing it
After dinner, we brought out this doodle house for the kids...ha, they were at it for a while, and xun complained that it would take a long long time to colour every empty space
What a cute sight!
Time for the ice cream cake
Jun now understood that we had to sing the birthday song before blowing out the candles
he could clap along and was totally enthralled
and when we said, "time to blow out the candles", he was there in a jiffy
and spewed saliva all over the cake
Scrumptious indeed - cookies & cream and milo ice cream cake. What a delectable treat!
While the small ones were wrecking havoc in the room....
The grown-ups were having a whale of a time playing with poker cards
Xiaoshu - the banker. He took out his secret stash of coins
Hoped jun gave papa good luck!
the annual photo-taking time, according to height
according to age
with all the spouses
There should be 10 of them, we were missing Kaysen and Shernice as they had gone to Malaysia
Da Biaogu always did up these nifty stylish collages...ha
The customary family portrait, all prim and proper
Crazy family portraits, wondering when Xiaoshu and Patsy yiyi would have their own bundles of joy too...could not wait! The Tay household would be bustling with life, joy and noise!
The siblings had a shot too
Our favourite cousins...I always wished we stayed nearer to one another, then we could reap economies of scale in things like coaching the kids in their studies, preparing for meals, buying household necessities...if only they would move to Linear or the hillview area
Yes, once mama hit 30s, it was like a blur...I could not quite recall how old I was when people asked...but this year, I was so absolutely sure of my age as it was the year of my animal!
With the fellow roosters and hen hahaha...er biao gu was doing the money sigh, while papa and I were in denial about our age...and er biao jiu...hmmm...doing the 0 year old sign?!
The children played till the "wee" hours, eh, 10 plus 11 pm, considering now that they had started primary school, all of them went to bed at 9, so this was considered quite late. All went to bathe dutifully...this photo was of them trying to look for tong's pokemon's missing arm. Well...the room was in chaos...the arm could be anywhere...tong lamented about the loss for a few days and made ah ma promise to find it when she cleaned the room...ah gong actually rummaged through the entire basket of toys for the arm...sigh...ah gong and his infallible love for tong tong..nope...still missing it
bei kor po and grand uncle brian were going for a short holiday in Hong Kong. The NKC, eh NO kids' club, went to the airport to send them off and reached home at 4 plus. Gosh...when was the last time I did that? My goodness...well...mama and papa used to lead happening lives, we would go pubbing with friends when we were in our early 20s, in our late 20s, we hung out for overnight mahjongs...eh...with the kids, my siblings still came over to play and stay over...but once they all got married and had kids, our gatherings would start and end really early.
ha...papa still occasionally had friends coming over to our house for gambling sessions...
We were talking about going for a holiday by ourselves when Jun turned 7...oh my...that sounded like a long long way ahead...
hardly believe that the CNY public holiday was gone in a blink!
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