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I'm looking for a ballonist for a kid's birthday party.  Any to recommend?

Tks!!

 

I bought a box of finger paints for Dylan from Takashimaya today. After we paid for those paints, he's kept bugging me with the word "pain, pain, pain". I thought he was telling me that he's in pain and stopped to ask him what was wrong. Later did I realise what he wanted was to paint with those new paints.
I didn't think that he would be intereste in painting at all since he's always been very particular about his hands getting dirty. He was never keen on paints when in school. Today was an exeption. He painted happily with the brushes, and even gave a new meaning to finger.

 
This is how he does finger painting. He paints his own fingers before painting the papers. Not wrong technically, I think. 

Dylan and I went for our weekly train ride session last evening. He's obssessed with trains lately, and has been requesting to go on the "choo choo train" when he sees the MRT track. So last night we took a train down to Raffles City to meet his father for dinner.

So happened that Raffles City was staging a fashion parade in conjunction with the Singapore Fashion Festival. Dylan was first attracted to the loud music and flashy lights when we entered Raffles City, and insisted on checking out where those lights and music were coming from. And then he saw the models parading on the stage. I carried him away as the music was terribly loud for my comfort, to which, he violently objected and told me "I want to see, aunty nice!".

Eventually, we landed up on the 2nd floor of the mall watching the show. His father later commented "At least now we know that he likes to look at girls."

Dylan gets ferried home from school daily at 1pm by Uncle M, the owner of the childcare centre.

Yesterday, Uncle M related what the monster did in school that morning to Dy's grandma. Apparently, Dy had gotten hold of Uncle M's glasses (which I do not know how he did), and he put it on himself. After which, he paraded around school briefly and even asked the housekeeper to take a good look at him. 

Gosh... this boy gets away with A LOT of nonsense in school. 

Take photos randomly... and afterwards, post them onto the blog.

Since I'm quite free lately, I went on a snap happy mode. My cocker spaniel, Gigi, is an excellent choice to take photo with since she doesn't move much. She laps up all the attention that we shower on her, unlike her shih tzu friend, Urchin, who basically runs away to hide under the sofa when he's had enough of the manja.

And not forgetting photos of my very challenging boy. I finally am starting to understand what the "Terrible Two" entails. He and I have at least one crying match daily (he cries, I shout, he cries and screams some more and the cycle goes on). My husband has given our daily matches a very apt name - Stubborn Match. Dy refuses to apologise for the wrong things he has done, and I refuse to "forgive" him if he doesn't say sorry. These matches can go on for hours at times... and they are really making me quite tired physically and emotionally.

Last week, I was so angry with him on a few evenings that I didn't even have the mood to have dinner. However, these unhappy episodes do not mean that I'm not enjoying Dy, he's chattering so much now! What he says never fail to amaze me on a daily basis. Just this morning when I was giving him his morning shower, he told me "I tired... I sleeping..." and he proceeded to lean his head against my shoulder while I was still showering him. How does I 2 year old kid understand what tired mean?

Over the long new year holiday, we trooped down to the nearby market and bought for Dylan 2 baby red-eared sliders. He was truly excited when he saw those sliders at a friend's place some weeks ago, and being indulgent parents (we admit), we decided to get him a pair as well.

Yes, I know these sliders live till a ripe old age and they can grow pretty big too. No worries, I have a little fish pond that I still kept in the storeroom, hoping that one day when Dy is older, I can start keeping fish again. The pond will come to good use when these 2 sliders grow :)

Seems like I'm the one taking more interest in the little ones than the boy. I've changed the set up of their tank at least 3 times after I brought them home. The aquarium owner told us that these sliders need very little water and we shouidn't fill the tank with too much water in case they drown... I somehow don't see much logic in what she said cos if these sliders are gonna drown so easily, then how about those we see in the ponds of the botanical gardens and reservoirs? After doing some research, the sliders now have a tank that can swim and bask happily in.