His Homework, My Assignment - Fruit Basket

We thought this was an exception when there was no holiday homework for Evans during the one week's term break. Turned out there were 2 handicrafts which he was supposed to submit after school reopened 1) a lantern and 2) a fruit basket!!! The teacher communicated these through the parents chatgroup and somehow hubby did not get the message as his mobile is full with data.

SHOCKED. And super last minute to think of what to do. YouTube is my best friend. Despite feeling tired, I diligently searched for the easiest way to make these crafts.

Forgot to take a photo of the lantern we made but it's those china angpao lantern ball. Quite simple to do. And for the fruit basket, we tried the origami style. Managed to do it, though don't think it fits the using recyclables part.

Quite a Happening Weekend

By "happening", it's not like my younger days when I stayed out late with my friends for movie or clubbing or supper. Nowadays being able to go out is a luxury or rather happening for me.

The weekend has been quite fulfilling as we got to go out to Changi city point on Saturday for dinner and on Sunday, Suntec City for lunch and coffee. Then Tampines Mart for dinner. It was definitely an eye opener for baby Eden as he got to see the surroundings instead of staying in his pram the whole time.

By the end of the weekend, we were seriously exhausted. It felt like you have not slept in a day but I am happy because I had fun. I think the kiddos too.

Throwback to Last Sunday at One KM Mall

Evans has stopped his Heguru class. It was a lil sad for me as he started the course in 2013 with Teacher Rhian and now we have to say goodbye.

Anyway though there was no more class for Evans, we still went back to one km last Sunday for lunch and tea. Gotta use the Fika groupon before it expired.

We also met up with Teacher Rhian and had a short chat.

It was a good day out for me. Felt really liberated to be finally going out like we used to. Eden was considered quite cooperative too. I particularly enjoyed the tea time we had at Gelare. Wish that we can just take time so easily.

Bringing Baby Eden Out

We set a few challenges to bring baby Eden out, just like how we did for Evans when he was still a baby. We started off with BK Drive Thru., then a simple and quick breakfast at Hans, Bedok CC, then went on to lunch at one km mall. Yesterday we went to the airport for dinner! It was all good. I mean of course Eden did cry here and there but we could somehow manage. But bringing the kids out takes a lot of thinking and time to prepare and pack. So it really helps if the place we are going is quite self sufficient like a well equipped and clean baby room (with hot water dispenser).

I am very comfortable bringing the kids to the airport because it has the space and it's clean. Also it is pram friendly.

A Night without Baby Eden

Very thankful for my hubby for taking over the night duty with Eden on last  Saturday night. While it's quite safe to say Eden could sleep through the night, sleeping with him next to me disturbs my sleep because he fidgets and makes noise. And I will wake up to pat him or to give him the pacifier. I will also need to be quiet when pumping next to him.

Evans was very surprised to see me next to him and he was rejoicing when he knew I was with him the whole time.

Usually on Saturday nights, I will settle Evans for bed while hubby settles for Eden, from feeding to patting him to sleep. Then we will switch. Evans has made a request to hubby for me to sleep with him allllĺlll the way but hubby rejected previously. When Evans was talking about it last Saturday night, he still sounded sad. So you can imagine how happy he was when I was next to him the next morning.

Thanks to hubby for relieving me from the "stress" at night. Though I still did not sleep well because was bothered by the ants problem in the kitchen, I appreciate what he did for me.

Afternoon Out with Evans

A quick post while the 2 boys are asleep.

Spent the afternoon out with Evans today. It was simple but lovely outing for us. Thanks to mama for agreeing to help with Eden while the 2 of us could have some fun time together.

Was glad to see Evans boy enjoying himself at Sakae Sushi, East Point. Not his first to Sakae but he was definitely pleasantly surprised to see the games on the ordering ipad. He had a good time with the sushi games. I was also glad that we ordered the beef shoyu ramen as it was not bad. The ingredients were simple therefore not overpowering and the soup was savoury, light saltiness but good enough. It had the ramen, thin and springy beef slices, seaweed, thinly sliced black fungus and the half japanese egg. I recalled the last I had Ramen at Sakae, it was not good. This time I was satisfied.

After Evans had enough fun with the games, we went to Tom & Stephanie for a short while before heading to the Tampines Library. Or rather by right we should be going there straight but because Evans is always so fascinated by the mrt, we took a detour to Pasir Ris then back Tampines so that he could have a longer mrt ride.

I hope he had a fun day out with me even though we did not do much adventurous stuff.

Now I will see if I am lucky enough to catch some nap too.

Evans's 2nd Movie

Finally the day arrived. Yesterday was it. Evans was looking forward to it for "The Secret Life of Pets", his 2nd movie but his 1st with me.

I was too looking forward to it because I have been longing to go out and to bring Evans for a movie. Bro suggested ehub for its convenience and true enough, luckily we went ehub, if not, we would spend much time travelling, leaving my mama alone with the baby for too long.

We had a little stroll at the NTUC and a little game at the arcade before entering the freezing cinema. With only 6 patrons, it was no wonder it was freezing cold in the theatre but surprisingly Evans seemed comfortable in his sweater.

About the movie. Actually I didn't have much expectation since it was really just a break for me but I kinda enjoyed it for its interesting story plot and cuteness if the animals. Funny too. My bro thought it was better than Finding Dory but Evans thought otherwise. The movie was paced nicely as I didn't feel bored at all. But then again it will bejust another cartoon movie which I might forget about it after a while. Just a nice movie for the kids.

After movie, the hungry trio went Swensens for lunch before heading back. It was a tiring day for me though I didn't have to take care ofthe baby. How I wished I could nap!!!! Still, I am glad and thankful for the day out with bro and Evans.

Hopefully more to come...