The second day of Chinese New Year
We deviated from our usual practice, instead of going to mama's 3rd uncle's house at Jurong West to visit wai gong, we went to mama's 4th Uncle's house instead. Ha, he rounded up the boys for a gambling session and boy, did he have lucky hands! He was winning most of the time as the dealer.
Then we went to mama's god ah ma's new house at Keat Hong. Wow, it was really near to our house. God ah ma bought a unit next to her son's unit and rented out her unit. What a clever arrangement. We were knocking on god ah ma's unit when god ah gong popped out from the other unit to call us over. Ha, it was really funny.
The kids got on so amazingly well, they were running all over and even went down to the playground together.
Little jun was getting cheekier with each day. The tiny tyke was not one to be bullied. He would screech fiercely should anyone threaten his well-being, for example, taking away something he was playing with, or denying him something that he should not be touching. Insistent on wanting his way, he was getting into quite a bit of trouble.
ha, there was once when I remarked that I would punish jun by putting him in the kids' room to sleep by his own. The doting brother usually ended the night by reminding mama not to do that, stating that he was just being a little baby.
papa took these shots so that he could post your outfits on Facebook
The tiny one was making himself comfortable on the kids' couch
the two of you loved it when xiaoyi came home from her work early so that you could watch pokemon cartoons on her laptop in her room. She also coached jie in her homework and spelling. Nice.
The playground was fun...
Tong was scared initially by this towering climb but he made it and proudly demonstrated to daddy.
Ha, having a whale of a time with her "uncles" as they were actually my cousins...hahaha
Checked out the dudes in matching wear
I told Jun to freeze and he gave me this cute little look
Went back to Wai po's house for a sumptuous home-cooked meal, amazing how she could cook so well despite not being able to sample them? Yes, I was thinking of buying a rice cooker and cooking one pot dishes for dinner in future...time to whip up some easy and more nutritious fares...
3rd day of CNY
Uncle Yongsheng and Aunt Caifeng invited us to their house for lunch.
Their house was brightly lit and spacious, very tastefully done with many wooden fixtures...something we would love for our next house...if we did ever move down Bukit Timah Road to have a 4-bedder
Jun was so taken by the vacuum cleaner, he was hoarding it the entire time
Uncle YS invited his boss over and the 16 month old girl was trying to play with jun...eh...but she ended up hitting his face with the broom
well, they were very handy workers in the house, these two...
No prize for guessing which team they supported..haha. papa posted this on his facebook and his friends responded with hilarious answers to poke fun at him...
Went to Aunt Angelynn's house after that. The kids were very chummy and familiar with one another now, they started playing right away...then chilled in front of the TV
Sarah enjoyed Xun's company so much that she was rather upset when it was time to leave...so we invited her to our house!
ah gong, ah ma, xiaoshu, patsy yiyi, 4 kor po and xiao biao gu came over for dinner. Yumm..KFC and pizza hut!
Ah gong brought jun to play with the car and took these adorable pictures.
Ha, Facebook memory. Jie looked like a doll...wow, she liked making her own hairbands even when she was young...ha...at 7 years old, she would staple pieces of paper and drew on them, paste stickers and make her own hairbands...i did not know it started when she was a wee young one...ha
So 3 days were gone in a flash. One of day of school holiday...and it was back to routine life again! We went to tickle tickle with Biao Jiu Mu and JJ...then on wed, when jie went back to school, tong went to wai po's house. He developed a fever and swollen cheek on wed night...and...sigh...after seeing the GP and dentist...they both did not see major decays...just hoped the swelling would go down after the antibiotics and there was no major problem with his teeth.
Sign...Feb was upon us again...before we knew it, it would be Christmas once again. Utterly exhausting holiday..but yes...very thankful for family...very grateful for traditions...very blissful to be celebrating this together...Thank you, Jesus, for blessing us, our hearts were so full...
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