Saturday, January 03, 2009

Year end/ New Year activities

We've been looking forward to the December/January holidays for a long time. We needed a break and we needed the sale to happen as we have a home to start furnishing. On Christmas day, everything's closed. We took the opportunity to go to the touristy part of Cambridge. We weren't alone, many tourist were there too. It was chilly, but at least no Arctic wind threatened to freeze our noses off.

Tobey giving mommy his trademark kiss
Father and son
Then on boxing day and the day after that, we hit the shops. We managed to get several basic furnishing at half price. Maybe our expectations were set too high, but seriously, the high street sale this year were lame. Unless you are the type that changes the entire content of your wardrobe on a yearly basis, then there's nothing to shout about. I found more genuine discounts on the Internet instead.

Moving along, our friends came to visit the following day. Tobey had a great time playing to cutie baby Sam who's a month younger than him. It felt like a week ago that we've seen these two as weeks old babies.
Playing rolling on the floor game
making calls to Toys R' Us

Then SK went back to work for several days. On new year's eve, I fell sick, and he stayed home and looked after Tobey for the entire day, leaving me to sleep till 2pm and rest throughout. Thank God for him. On new year's day, we went up to Birmingham for an overnight trip in BIL's newly refurbished hotel. We got to stay on the Club floor where our room card allowed us access to this Club lounge for food and drinks round the clock. All these for a minimal charge ;P Tobey developed a runny nose on the same day, so he was quite cranky at times. Spent the day with BIL and his girlfriend.

My bar tender for the evening
Today, we had Saimun, Sukye and Dominic over at our place for lunch. It was nice catching up with them. Tobey had even more fun with "ko-ko" Dominic who's 3 years old. Dominic was very engaging and Tobey loved his company!

Henry is still the all time favourite of every kid that's seen it
Playing ball
I love this shot!!!
Tomorrow, Tobey will meet two pretty little girls, Shean Wenn and Kaka are their names... can't wait to see how his play would be with them.

4 comments:

Skye said...

You'll never guess this. In the car on the way back, Dominic declared SK as his friend. Get this - SK, not Tobey. He said "That uncle is daddy's friend." I said "Yes." He said "He is my friend too!".

chip-pea said...

@Skye: Ahahahaha! but SK didn't even want to scratch his back when he told him "Itchy, scratch please" (I found that SO adorable)! He must be the first kid that likes SK (other than Tobey of course).

Skye said...

I bet you're right! That husband of yours has no gift with children (except Tobey). I don't think I've seen him touching other kids before. Haha! I think Dom likes him only because he's a man (he prefers men to women). I suspect he sees women as the ones taking care of him or doing the *work* (like me and the nursery staff) and men are the ones who have fun.

Tsu Lin + + said...

That photo of Tobey kissing mummy is just SO SWEET! **melts**