A whole day spent at the East!

Early in the morning, we made a trip up to East to send ah baa and ah mu's fam off as they are going off to US till CNY so prep Ian with some stuff to pass to gor2 and jie2 since we wont see them for some time and also so that Ian won't ask to take plane as he has been asking when we are going Aust anw Jiu2 and Aunty Lorraine are coming along so not so worried

Here are the folks sending the family off and we will see u all soon in 2 weeks time, have a gd time zooming ard US and spending real gd time at the parks!

After the send off, we were treated to yummy dim sum at Jiu2's pl coz they prep so much for us for the breakfast....it was really nice to be sitting ard with all the warm food in front of us instead of jostling at those eating place (so it was wise choice made by the host!) and they cooked porridge to go with all the dim sum, it was a nice time at the breakfast table =)

And here's Ian with his cheers with Aunty Lorraine with their egg tarts, porridge and baos....he was eating so much despite the fact he had some food on the way to airport hhmm growing boy huh

And then we had some card games and at merely 3yo, Ian has picked up some skills in playing Uno and it has been so long for us to play the cards, it was FUN! Guess we would be picking up a pack of the cards and playing soon everynite at home hahhaa

Before everyone gets sleepy with all the food in our tummies, we decided to go outdoors and we headed to Pasir Ris park since there were more stuff to 'entertain' the boy as he was asking for the playground! And as usual, he just love the swing and he actually took 3 times with other rides in the intervals!

A new ride he enjoyed himself tremendously was this sphere looking thing that went round with the weight of Ian and he loved it as he was going up and down in different angles, guess he shld be quite game for viking hahhaa

When we 1st reached there, Ian wasn't keen on all the climbing stuff he was into those 'effortless' stuff like swings and twirling round and round and then we made him do some climbing and here's the spider web which he eventually got up with Aunty Lorraine and daddy's help so that he could get on the slide which was so high but he couldn't quite slide fast as it wasn't as 'slippery' as we thot it to be

Then he took more slides and then we got to this 'rock climbing' bit and must say Ian was quite gd at doing it after a while and soon he got on to the top quite fast coz u gotta go up this way to play the slides on this little 'hill'

And then we found this carton box which was lying ard and this was a thing we wanted to do for some time which was like a 'magic carpet' (Ian calls it that!) and sitting on it, he just slides down the slope (this was an activity we did when we were little and have been trying to explore places on it) and here he was thrilled to sit on the 'carpet' tho he asked for a longer slope, we will find it again
Thereafter, we headed to Ikea for a lunch tho we were mostly still quite full but the chicken wings just did the 'trick' to make the little boy eat and also the rest of us

Then it was nap time so we bid farewell to Jiu2 and Aunty Lorraine as we fetched po2 and ah gong home and Ian was off his zzzz land

After his nap, we went back to the airport again coz daddy wanted to send his colleague who was going back to his hometown and so we took the sky train coz we parked at T3 and he was going off at T1 and we then took to T2 coz Ian wanted to play at the aviation gallery, after just chatting with daddy's colleague who was going back Qingdao, the boy couldn't wait and bug us to go off to his 'playland' sigh so off we went

And there he wasn't admiring the gallery but instead he was doing his stunts climbing up the carpeted slopes sigh and it took us a LONG while before he agreed to go....hhmmm now he's better at his grips guess he's doing more climbing of stuff than ever and then we finally went T2 for dinner and it was a gd time at the East and sending off pple at the airport really makes us (also Ian) want to take plane just somewhere hahhaa but it was a gd time spent with Jiu2, Aunty Lorraine, po2 and ah gong who despite bored at playgrounds but still accompanied us to do the stuff with the boy! Thanks for spending the day with us and making the boy feel so happy being the ONLY child!