Cool dude!!

Taken some weeks back at botanic's.... Look at that James dean cool dude look!! Hahahaha.....

Ps. Yes, we do bring his trusty old ride  around! Hahahaha... 

So glad we bought it!!

.... at the sale!! It now cost $89 and we bought it at less than half the price!!! Actually mama saw the last piece at the toy sale and was stalking the lady who took it just before me!! Hahaha..... But phew! They did a last round of replenishment of 15 sets the next day and my very quick sister in law grabbed it!! Hahahah we went nuts at the sale!! Hahahaha 

A simple, fun and engaging train track!!

I love how it works!!!! To make the train engine move, all he has to do is to place the driver in the engine!! :) driver out, engine stops! 

After playing with it for about almost an hour(!!), creativity sets in..... And he was adding his other carriages and cars and used the engine to push them all!! Hahahah..... 

Now I can't wait to show him the other same series construction set!!!! Another two weeks or a month later!!

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He woke early this morning and wanted to go down as soon as he washed up (usually we muck around for an hour or so before going down for breakkie)..... Guess no prize for guessing why!! Haha.... His train set!!!

He's tired....

... and he means it!!!!! Hahaha hilarious show of tiredness!!! 

http://youtu.be/HzyL4R_h724

He knocked out within 5 mins of car ride!! Hahahhaha 

Look who we found at the zoo!!!

There were the otters, rhinoceroses, giraffes, lions and..... Shin yi jie jie!!!!!! On an excursion to the zoo. Hahahha.... (And we later found out tore kor kor was next door at the river safari!! How coincidental was that!!!)

Our dear boo boo was a little braver today.... Haha... He charged to the entrance with the zoo card in his hand and handed it to the zoo staff at the entrance... And when the nice young lady asked if he wanted a stamp, he was a little hesitant but..... Handed his arm over!!!!! Ahhahahaha hooray for finally accepting the stamp!!! After that he was beaming and very pleased with the train stamp on his arm!! Kept looking at it!! 

* admiring the train stamp!

The animals seemed to have a TGIF euphoria!! Hahahah... They were ALL out to play!!! I'm serious!!!! I kept taking pictures of the animals which I usually won't!!!! 

* the rhinos walking in and out of the water!!!!! And not sleeping in the shade!!

* must suggest to the zoo... To have raised platforms in front of every enclosure or at least for most of them... All these little ones see are the animals' butts if they are standing on ground or in their strollers!!! Hahahha....

* the zebras were scratching each other's back!!! How cute is that!!!!

* and the lions wet BOTH basking in the sunlight on this side of the enclosure!!!! And AWAKE!!! They are usually sleeping on the other side near the glass panel!!!

* we finally got to see the "phantom" sloths!!!!!! And one of them actually had a baby on her tummy!!!! It's so hard to spot them and we saw 3 today!!!!

It was really a very good day at the zoo today!!!! Babe was in a very cheery mood too!!

* these were replicas... But the real otters were at their usual cute selves.... Coming up to 'greet' people together and doing somersaults into the water much to everybody's delight!! 

Cutest thing babe did today.... After watching the real otters strutting their stuff, babe walked to the little replicas at the side and kissed them on the mouth, one at a time and smiling!!!!! Awwwww...

* he surprised me with his sudden show of affection and good thing I managed to take a pic of this last kiss!! Hahahaha 

* patting and smiling.... 

We walked a long way today!!!!! Still refusing to the the tram..... Will continue trying tho... Haha... 

* another must-do thing - crawl into the igloo, do an igloo dance around, say igloo many times over, look out at the 'window', crawl out, run around it..... Out of the frozen tundra exhibit area. Duh!!! E.v.e.r.y T.i.m.e!!!!!! Hahahahha in fact the routine starts from the entrance of this frozen tundra exhibit!!! Will do a video next time! Hahaha...

We went to feed the goats at the children's zoo as usual..... This silly goat was really rude and agressive!! Babe saw a baby goat kid and wanted to feed it but that silly goat kept pushing it away and grabbed the leaf!!!!! Babe went on to feed the baby again, that silly goat took it again!!!!!!! Grrrr...... But it was cute to watch our babe trying to inch his way here and there to feed the baby goat.. Hehee.... 

* watching the little midget horses...

Mama is just waiting for the day babe tells her that he wants to ride in the carousel.... :) She will gladly buy the tickets!!!! But for now....He would rather watch..... which we did! For a long long time.... Haha..

Tired out ... And asked to be carried on our way out.... Haha... Another great excursion day!!!

Jacob ballas children's garden

... is really a good place for kids to run and explore! Everything is so touchable here!! hahahaha... From the mint leaves (leaves a nice minty smell on hands) to the touch-me-nots (pun not intended haha).. From the fruits on the trees to the sand on the ground.... The busy little hands just wouldn't stop!! HHahah 

Babe recently discovered the joy (and purpose) of cranking the levers at this activity corner!!! He's been "blindly" doing it and walking away..... Haha.... Now, he anticipates and waits for the intended results - sprays of mist and the board lights up with continuous cranking!! Woohoo!!!

* waiting for the sprays of mist... 

The good ole wobbly bridge is still lots of fun!!! Yup, he had to prance up and down countless times before we could move on to something else!!!! 

Two things we haven't done so far on our countless trips here - water play and go on the slide!! Hahaha will attempt either one the next time!! Hahaha

Courtesy is for u and me..... HahAhaha...

Ps. We also hopped to the park next door to do some bird watching! This boy still charges straight at the birds/ducks/swan aka into the pond at sight!!!! This boy must learn limits on bird chasing!!! 

Pps. The black swan here is a little aggressive though.... It will charge at little people.... Had to lift babe off the ground when I saw it coming at a fast speed... It also did that to another child nearby!! 

What a huge difference....

.... one month makes to a little child!! 

We have been doing our regular things... Going to our regular places... But he seemed to have "grown" a little and is more in tune with the world... Ha..  For one, he remembers rather well and can anticipate things or even relate things he's seen on books to the real things! Especially apparent at the zoo... Hahaha... He knows what animals or things come next and will "decide" which animal or way to see/go. He will also tell the zoo staff at the entrance "no, thank u" when they want to give him a stamp on the hand and at times, without prompting too!! Hehee... 

* stroking the snake...

* very confidently feeding the goats now. 

* totally smitten by these crocodile eggs! Will mention these when we talk about crocodile or eggs! Hahaha

And he does rattle a LOT more now - sometimes gibberish and sometimes sensible... But we are always pleasantly surprised and behave like our son had just won the Nobel prize!! Hahahaha..... His latest antic : when we call him "small face", he replies, "big face" with a silly grin!!! We were dumbfolded the first time he said that!! Ahhahah 

Packaged with this growing up phase,  the whines and grumpiness are indeed much louder when things don't go his way.... Haha... Oh well, I guess it's just a 'beginner's' way of dealing with rules and limits... And also learn that life is not a bed of roses... Hahahaha May the force be with me when I deal with this too! Hahaha

* one of his tantrums.... 

* an outing with the boys... Random picture.. Hahaha.... @ the changi board walk.

We did an overhaul of toys for him during this blog hiatus... Noticed that he didn't really touch most of his toys when he was sick at home for a week. Well, it was about time too.... Even I was a little 'sick' of the toys haha... Had a crazy week of toy-buying hahaha.. Quite coincidental too cos there was a mega toy sale and mama tested the free amazon global delivery.. Hehee... Topped it off with a takashimaya sale!! Hahahaha....  Ok, enough toys for the next half a year!!! Haha will slowly introduce each toy of course.... 

* couldn't resist this at the taka sale!

* first day haul at sale! Haha

That's all folk, on this come-back entry.... 

xxx 

Peekaboo!!!!

After a month of cannot-load-photos followed by a string of hand foot mouth disease, runny nose and just being busy with dunno what, We'll be back soooooon!!!!! :))