After church, we ran some errands and then proceeded to Parkway for lunch.
Random shots of us during lunchtime
Rare shot of ND with his 3 preciousss
Caleb and Sarah showing each other some luv...
ND and his 野蛮女儿
The Lee family monkeys
My sleeping beauty who allowed me to finish up my meal
After lunch, the two stooges tried to work out their energies by helping us push the stroller.
Look at the way they were handling the stroller! No way was I going to put Sophia in there with them.
We went home shortly after to take our afternoon nap and then when the kids woke up from their nap, we unrolled our grand plan of going to the airport. Initially we had planned to park at Tanah Merah MRT station and take a train to the airport but it looked like it was going to rain so we abandoned that plan and headed straight to the airport. Yeeyee had no plans for the evening so we invited her to join us at the airport with her brood.
We had dinner at the Kopitiam at T3 and with 6 kids and 3 adults in tow, meal time was a feeding frenzy.
We spread ourselves out over 2 tables. Caleb, Sarah and Nic sat with ND at 1 table and he supervised them and made sure they ate their food.
Me and Yeeyee sat at the next table with Nat, Nevan and Sophia. My job was simply to handle Sophia who's now at the stage of trying to grab everything on the table to stuff in her mouth. Yeeyee had the task of feeding her other two kids.
See, it's a messy affair. Btw, with so many young toddlers with us, we had a lot of stares from people at the tables surrounding us.
Once the kids were done with their meal, it was our turn to eat. Yeeyee had wisely packed writing materials with her so this was distributed out to Nic, Nat, Caleb and Sarah. We gathered them to sit at one table and let them do some drawing while we ate.
Artists at work
Haha, I think we were really a sight to see. Our tables were so messy and with the kids drawing away, we kinda looked like some tuition center.
After we were done eating, it was time to bring the kids for a trip to the toilet to empty their bladders. There were so many of them that we had to take turns to bring them. At some point, ND and me were left with Caleb, Sarah, Sophia and Nevan and ND was commenting that hey it's quite manageable to have 4 kids! I told him that he can continue to dream on... of which Caleb quickly chipped in and said,"Ya Mummy, I only need 1 more. Just 1 more boy pleassseee...." I really dunno what's with their obsession to have a 4th kid. I can hardly manage with 3!
Anyway, the real excitement for the kids came after we were all done at the foodcourt. When we first arrived at the airport, we noticed that there was this kiddy rides thingy set up at the basement. We've never noticed it before. Caleb was very excited and we promised to bring him and the rest of the kids after dinner.
Here we are, with our brood of 6 proceeding to the kiddy rides.
Ha, nowadays, the older ones like Nic would help with Sarah's stroller and Caleb would help hold Nat's hand.
The kiddy rides place. They have 3 kinds of kiddy rides. A F1 car, the normal sports car and a huge blown up animal balloon car.
As it was a Sunday evening, after dinner, lots of parents had the same idea so the place was slightly crowded and we had to wait for a short while.
After we had a mini conference, we decided that we would rent a double seater sports car for Caleb and Sarah to share, and 2 F1 cars for Nic and Nat. The sports car cost $7 for 10min whilst the F1 car costs $6 for 10min.
The kids at the waiting area, all revved up and ready to go.
Poor Nevan didn't get to ride on any car coz he was too young. He only got to sit in his stroller. Even then, he was SUPER excited and every time he saw any of his sisters or cousin zoom by in the cars, he'll keep waving his arms and squeal with excitement.
Caleb and Sarah got to ride on their sports car first and Caleb did a pretty decent job driving Sarah around.
Nat on the other hand got frightened by her F1 car and didn't dare to drive it so we got Caleb to swop with her. So Caleb drove the F1 car and Nat got to drive Sarah around. Obviously Caleb was very, very pleased to be able to try out 2 different cars.
Nat on the other hand, struggled quite a bit with the sports car. I think she's hadn't quite figured out how to steer the car and so she kept knocking into the barriers and jerking the car.
See this video of the 4 kids in their cars. At the far end, there's Yeeyee trying to hold on to the car which Nat was driving and trying to steer her to the right direction. Yeeyee said that if this were a real car, Sarah, who was Nat's passenger would have gotten whip lash like a hundred times!
