Visit to Pastamania

Randall's first hand-made pizza from his school outing to Pastamania (23rd April). The box says "Not for consumption" which makes perfect sense since they can not guarantee the quality of the pizzas made by the little amateurs. We baked it and Daryl & I finished the whole pizza anyway. It actually tasted yummy!

Service with a Smile :)

I was tired from one of the working days last week and appeared to be grouchy while showering Randall in the evening. He looked at me straight in the eyes and blurted, "Service with a smile!" and pulled two end of my lips to a smiley face :) That sure brightens up the rest of my evening!

1 week of doing nothing

MIL is overseas and Daryl and I took a week's leave this week to take care of Randall.
I realise it's really a luxury to do nothing.
MOrning: Fetch Randall to school, had breakfast with Daryl (or jog before having breakfast), then watch DVD serial til 11am, then go fetch Randall from school
Afternoon: Either cook for Randall or bring him out for lunch. Go home and shower him, then put him to bed for his 1.5 hour afternon nap (I'll nap half an hour then wake up to watch my DVD serial while waiting for him to wake up). After he wakes up, we'll play half an hour of Rayman on Wii til we go out for walks and leisure dinner.
Evening: Randall will have his evening shower before watching some Bionicle music video with Daryl on his computer, then we'll read him some stories and he'll sleep after drinking his milk.
Then it's my personal time again and the cycle repeats itself the next day.
Ahhh... such LUXURY.....

Ultraman on WC

All cos of this ultraman we bought during our HK trip, Randall has taken the initiative to wean off his pink potty and start using the normal toilet bowl to poo. :) Thank u, Mr Ultraman!

HK Trip

We made our way to HK on 17th together with my parents, and stayed in Hotel Royal Plaza for 2 nites, and 1 nite in Hollywood Hotel. The airplane ride was fine except for the ear pressue Randall experienced while the plane landed. The hotel was pretty big but it was a 7-10 mins' walk from the Mongkok MTR. When we reached the hotel the 1 day, it was 1+pm and we just had some light tea at their foodcourt in the shopping centre next to the hotel (Grand Century Place). Surprisingly, the food pretty good, especially the stall selling egg tarts. After tea, we walked in Fa Yuen Street which is located behind our hotel. It's a great place to buy cheap stuff like the Ladies' Market. My mum and I had great time shopping and Randall bought his favourite 'Bionicle' at SGD8. He was so happy about his buy he had to ask Daryl to fix it up for him after we went back to the hotel.
On the second day, Daryl and I had the opportunity to go for a swim in the heated swimming pool with underwater music. Then we had dim sum breakfast in one of the Chinese restaurants in Grand Century Place. We headed off to the Ocean Park taking MTR and bus. Weather was pretty humid although it's stated 24degrees. Randall didn't really enjoy the dolphin show. The only time he got excited was when he saw the underwater creatures in Atoll Reef and the jellyfishes in Sea Jelly Spectacular. While Randall was napping, my mum and I went for more shopping at the Fa Yuen St til late evening and we had dinner at one of their fastfood outlets in Grand Century Place.
The third day, we were transferred to Disney Hollywood Hotel. Their check-in time was 3pm and we had to check out by 11am the following day. I thought this is quite ridiculous given the stay per day is only 8 hours. After checking our luggages in, we took their Disney bus to Disneyland. Randall was still in the don't-take-picture-of-me phase and became groucy when we started taking photos of him. He particularly liked the car ride and nothing else. Not even the Pooh ride. I guess he's over the Pooh phase. In the evening, we had Chinese dinner at Plaza Inn Restaurant and watched fireworks. It was beautiful except that Randall insisted that we go back hotel when the fireworks started to crack like firecrackers. Daryl had to close his ears for him.
Back in the Hollywood hotel, he was more than happy to just watch all his cartoons and lazed on the bed.
The following day we spent some time walking in the garden and playground while waiting for the bus to fetch us back to the airport at noon.
On the whole, I think Randall is still not ready for overseas trip given the fact that he still needs his afternoon naps and gets grumpy if he can not have his nap.
Oh, poor Daryl was bitten by bed bugs in his stay at Hollywood Hotel! Lucky thing is that only he was bitten since Randall and I slept on the other bed. We had since written our feedback to the Hotel. Can't imagine if kids were to be bitten...

School

From the various conversations we had with Randall so far, we know that he has been learning some things in school. Like the other day, he was eating a piece of cake and halfway through, he said he had enough and passed it to Daryl. We asked him if he’s full, he said, “No, becos cakes are Red Light food, so can not eat too much. Can only eat a little bit”.
He has also been asking me recently, what are letters for objects and names. Like, “What letter for Bionicles?”, “What letter for Mistika?”, “What letter for Fish?”

Happenings in School

Randall is beginning to know names of his classmates, after nearly a month. One fine evening, when asked who his friend was, he said, "Shuyi". Asked him if his friend is boy or gal, he said boy (although it sounds so much like a gal's name). Shuyi is his partner and the first person he claimed as friend. Incidentally when I uploaded my photos the other day, I finally saw this person by the name of Shuyi. So, it's not a made-up person. There REALLY is such a person is his class, only that she's a gal!
Now, with probing, he will share what happens in school. He shared that he painted the worksheet yellow cos the worksheet said "Yellow Lemon". He told me that Ms Lilian (his teacher) asked if they smell with their eyes, ears, nose or mouth, and all the classmates said "nose!". He shared with me what other classmates brought to their weekly show-and-tell session - transformers, power rangers, toy camera. He also said that this boy by the name of "Duke" doesn't talk to teacher. He said that "Duke has mouth but he doesn't talk". Hmm.. Randall also mentioned on two different ocassions that this gal named "Sanitha" (or "Sanathi"?) brought her birthday cake to school to celebrate her birthday but her birthday cake has no picture (oh well, the few celebrations before hers had pictures of transformers etc). He told me that he mentioned to the teacher that he couldn't take chocolate cos he was coughing, so teacher gave him a piece with "a little bit of chocolate". Hmm.. it's always nice to listen to what's going on in school :)