Happy 3rd Birthday!

We celebrated Randall's 3rd Birthday in Tung Lok Seafood in The Arena Country Club on the eve of his actual birthday with both sides of the family. Then on the day itself, both Daryl & I took leave to bring him to Changi Airport T3. It was the first time we went there since it's opened. There're many shops but we didn't get to shop much, only bought Randall's CNY new shoes from Cholette. We then took the Skytrain to T2 for lunch @ Swensen's. We received a free Firehouse ice cream upon showing the waitress Randall's birth cert. Birthday boys/girls get Firehouse for free on their birthdays! :D Randall had his junk food of fries and ice cream. Then we went home for his nap time. After he woke up from his nap, we went to IMM. Packed our dinner of Old Chang Kee fishballs, sotong balls and Poh Piah, and 3 small cupcakes from Four Leaves, and had our "picnic" by the koi pond in the open space. I thought it was quite a nice spot to have a leisurely picnic cos it's not very crowded, and since it was about 7pm, the sun was not glaring and hot, plus the fact that it was quite windy. We enjoyed ourselves so much that all 3 of us are suffering from our "Monday blues" today ;)

cheeky boy

Randall is getting cheekier nowadays, which makes him so adorable and fun to be with. Last Saturday, we had dinner at a Jap restaurant with my family, he suddenly laughed so excitedly no one knew what he was up to. Then we realized later that he stuck a Car sticker on my brother’s back without his knowledge. He’s also into hiding stuff from us. But when he has something up his sleeves, we’ll be sure to know cos he’ll be laughing in that “up-to-no-good” manner and running away as fast as he could to other spots of the house.. ha..

sticky sticky

I always hear people who have a son and a daughter say that boys are closer to their mummies while girls are closer to their daddies. I don't know how true this is, but I believe that the former statement is pretty true. When Randall was younger (about 1 yo), he clinged on to me like a plaster. To the extent that he was being nicknamed "koala bear" by Daryl's relative. Now that he's 3 days short of 3 yrs old, he's back to his stickiness. When I reach MIL's house, the first thing he does is to pull me along to his room and asks me to play with him. It'll usually take some persuasion/ negotiation (like I'll play with him again after my shower) before I can go for my shower. Sometimes while showering, he'll lose his patience and start banging on the shower door. I'll have to take a quick shower then play with him a while more before I can have my dinner. He will linger around to wait for me to finish dinner and when he sees tat i'm done, he'll immediately pull my hand and asks me to play with him. Like what happened in the past, he wants no one to sleep with him except for me. Generally, I don't mind him wanting to involve me in everything he does, since I think he must've missed me the last 12 hrs I'm not around with him. But it gets abit mundane after a while, cos I practically do not have much time to do my own things like watching shows. Often than not, I'll end up falling asleep with him at 9+pm. Fortunately, hubby just bought a LG portable DVD player as my V day present (Thanks, hubby!). Now, I can watch my shows on the way to work!