The Weekend in Summary

Snippets of how our weekend went.

1. Most significant of all was of course the arrival of me and Mama Toh’s nephew, baby Arthur! Grow up happy and healthy, little boy!

Born on Sunday, he is also Summer and Zavier’s second cousin in 4 months. Yes, we have very productive families on both sides.

With that, let us also fawn upon the formation of a new super group, one of the most devastating in recent history-the Fearsome Foursome.

Top: Adventurous Arthur. Bottom (L-R): ZOMG Zavier, Sensational Summer & Cherubic Chloe

I am quite convinced that the motives of this group are to collectively:

– Rid the world of peace and serenity
– Push the human limits of patience to greater heights
– Fool the world of their mis-doings by giving angelic looks

As much as everyone loves them, let us observe a moment of silence for our ears and sanity for the foreseeable future.

2. For what seems like the longest time to me, Summer finally learned how to cycle on her own.

Gong Gong bought her a kiddo bicycle more than a year ago (it’s kinda disintegrated now due to wear and tear from neglect), and I try to make her ride every 2 weeks or so. I admit that there is a slight competitive streak in me trying to get her to learn cycling because:

– Some of my friends who have kids at that age are already cycling independently.
– I have always wanted to cycle alongside my kids.

As much as she tries her best, in all our attempts at getting her to cycle always ends up with the same result- she cannot complete more than 2 revolutions and inevitably pedals backwards.

And my slight frustration coupled with her disappointment usually ends up with her giving up and scurrying to do something else.

I had initially half given up on this endeavour, but when we made a trip to Decathlon over the weekend, I encouraged her to try riding one of the numerous kiddo bikes on sale there, just for the fun of it.

Amazingly, she managed to travel quite a distance! Well done! I think she was mightily proud of herself as well, given that we had to physically stop her from cycling beforw she crashed into the counter.

Now to get this little boy started

3. As my in-laws were busy prepping for Arthur’s arrival, we didn’t visit as we usually would, and honestly it gave us quite a bit of excess time to burn off between the 4 of us.

We didn’t really plan much, apart from visiting Sentosa so that Summer can say her goodbyes to her Little Ponies who were ending their exhibition event there.