yz's bday celebration

both hubbi and myself took the day off today to celebrate yz's bday together with didi. :)

though on leave, we still have to drag ourselves off the bed to prepare yz's for his school (yup, school bus comes by at 720am sharp rain or shine...).

all of us promptly went back to zzz, including YR, for another hour. ha.

then it's time to set off for yz's kindy to do the "routine" = birthday song by his class, cutting of birthday cake and distributing of party packs...

hubbi doesn't think all this is of any significance but i know regardless of what we think, it IS a big deal to the little boy.

so from what go into the party packs down to the flavor of the cake, i tried to let him make the choices, within budget of cos. :P

and it was all worth it, to me at least, when i saw how his face lighted up when he saw us appearing at his class with the cake and stash. :)

photos with the birthday boy & his ben10 cake

with his class group - didi also want to join in. lol 

with the whole class! 

and they sang happy birthday song to him with some poking their fingers at the cake... haha.

blowing the candles - didi also want to be a part...

cutting the cake.. 

me & my 2 baobeis! - while waiting for the teacher to cut the cake for a class of 25 kids + 3 teachers!

we bought a 2 kgs cake and was a little worried if it's too big or small for the class - its really hard to gauge for little tummies...

luckily, with second helpings from some little ones, we were left with only 2 slices which the form teacher will be keeping in the fridge for other teachers if they want.

im sure it will be eaten - bengawan solo is v. yummeh!

photo with the husband while waiting for the kids to have some playtime before we set up to the next destination!

YR said he wants to come here for school after seeing the playground and tricycles around.. ha

happy boys

and then, we are off to USS!!

yes, YZ was here 2 years back for his 3yo bday and he requested for it again (mainly for the transformers  3D ride)...

Peanut's first time here - very excited him! :) 

Po was hanging around the entrance when we reached! so we took a photo with him. yay!

we went round the place in clockwise position, starting with "you got to move it, move it"!

the last time we were here, the river cruise for madagascar was not ready so we tried it this time round!

on board! the ride was not too bad - pretty entertaining for the boys 

next up - the carousel 

look at yr's forced smile. it was forced, indeed.

for once the ride started, he started wailing and demanded to get off it. lol.

i was seated next to him and like shifu wugui, i've to hold a wailing, fidgety YR to his seat with 1 hand, took off my own safety belt with the other and then climbed off my moving seat while it's bobbing up and down before finally carrying him off to "safety". zzzz

after these relatively "safe" rides, i went on the shrek's roller coaster with YZ!

it;s been eons since i last stepped on one!

during the ride, some of the adrenaline got to me and i found back some of the gratification i always craved in the past from such rides. :)

and YZ was pretty unfazed during the ride.

he said he enjoyed it but when asked to go for second round, he declined... LOL.

then it's the 4D shrek show which all of us enjoyed though i can still remember the content from last time round...

on board the potion ferry wheel ride 

lunch was settled at the lost world.

didn't take much rides here except the soaring dinos with YZ.

YR refused to board it after seeing how the dinos "soar" into the sky. ha.

with papa.

we pretty much skipped the mummy area - who wants indoor roller coaster, you tell me?!

and we tried the car ride the last time round and found it so-so so we skipped that for today.

finally, in sci-fi area!

we queued up twice for YR was napping during the first time so we let papa took the shot with YZ.

after YR woke up, he demanded to take photo with the autobot ONLY to back off at the last minute!

look at his scaredy cat face...

and both hubbi and YZ finally had the chance to try the transformers 3D ride that they looked so much forward to!

me? i was waiting with a sleeping YR outside. ha.

oh well, i guessed i will have my chance with YR the next time when he's older.

taking a shot with our fav. autobot!!

very lucky to see him walking out while we were in this area. :)

and again, i bought these photos much to hubbi's dismay.

i seriously think it is his tactic of dissuading me by deliberately not looking into the camera everytime the staff asked us to!

too bad, im still getting the photos! :P

again, we left around dinner time.

really, too tired to stay till the fireworks come out...

a long and tiring day for all of us but a very fun one too!

though im a little sick of USS now...maybe we can revisit in 2 years time. 

i hope there will be new programs/attractions then!

the boys were fast asleep by 9+pm. hehe.

and im feeling the fatigue too.  i hope i will zzz by midnight!