CNY 2017 Reunion Dinners

The kids had school celebration and had to wake up at the same time as usual school days. Lil Shauna tried her luck and told me the night before that school was not compulsory. Sorry young lady, good try. In the morning, she couldn't wake up and repeated her request to skip school. It was not going to happen. Muahahaha.

She reused the qipao from last year. We needed a new set; it is getting a tad too short. Zaky's costume was a last minute buy; his old set that had been recycled for 2 years and is getting way too short. This one can hopefully last another 2 years.

More pictures before the kids got chased off for school.

Of course the kids must go to school bcos I didn't have to work and that 4 hours of peace was so precious. I got to mad chase after my Goblin, packed bag for the upcoming Batam trip and even moved my butt to do a run on the treadmill.

School wasn't too bad; Zaky excitedly told me that he touched some lions. We lazed around a bit before my brother fetched us to their place. The plan was 2 reunion dinners. See, I needed the run in the morning.

The kids had a great time playing and so did I pretending not to be around. My Goblin marathon was so successful. I also almost dozed off a couple of times on the sofa bcos nobody disturbed me much. That was bliss. Lol.

Reunion dinner was ready at 2pm. Popo must be really excited.

We only started at 4pm and continued for a long time. Daddy Lim joined us only at 5pm. Look at the spread.... I love steamboat.

All in except ah yee and at tioh C but ah yee watsapp and assured that she had a nice reunion dinner too with the multi-purpose rice cooker. I had to convey the message to Popo to put her at ease.

Round 2 took place at 6pm. We all had a full tummy and Daddy Lim was our representative. We had steamboat at gugu's house. Steamboat again! Yeah!

The kids didn't eat much except for plenty of desserts. They were bored intitally but learned to play the harp and was entertained for a good while.

Lil Shauna learned to play "twinkle twinkle little star" very quickly. Zaky preferred to play his own composition. Auntie J was so encouraging while Zaky's music just sounded like rumbling to me. Hahaha.

Gugu and xiao Shu were also very encouraging and asked me to send the kids for music class; telling me that the kids have strong Lim musical genes. I suddenly had flashback of the painful struggles with Lil Shauna learning and practicing the electone. I am sure that whatever Lim musical genes had been diluted by the Tan non-musical genes. Muahahaha.

The kids were bored at times but they are also at the age where they can carry decent conversations with the adults. Although we didn't bring along any toys, I would say that the kids werent too hard to handle. The handphones had to come in a couple of times though.

We left Gugu's place at 9.30pm. The plan was to send the kids to my brother's place for sleepover. Zaky wanted to tag along bcos Popo was staying over too. In the end, he was too tired bcos he woke up too early and fell asleep in the car. See, jiejie is so much hardier. I made an attempt to check if he was still keen in the sleepover. In his half awake state, he said that he wanted to go home with mummy.

Lil Shauna always had fun with sleepover.

Happy CNY!

Mummy Lim