School Outing

The above self-taken picture, using the secondary camera on my phone, was the only one I had with Joash since everyone, including me, was too busy looking after the "truckload" of kids for me to ask someone to take a decent one for us.

Yesterday, I joined Joash's K1 class for a school outing around our neighborhood. Since there was no one else to take care of Jaide, she had to tag along with me. I also requested for Jayna, who's in N1, to join us but was declined. Might as well. I had a blast being with my little angel darlings without having to listen to constant whining and deal with incessant fussiness. That said, us parents who came along, all pitched in to help out in guiding the children, it was a physically demanding trip, especially since on top of that, I had to carry Jaide the whole time. 

Joash and his chatty friend

Me and my babe

First stop was NTUC on the way to West Mall. The teachers were introducing to the children what was being sold there. It was quite redundant for Joash as he comes with me on grocery shopping trips all the time and probably knew the place inside out. He mostly looked bored.

After some coaxing,
he finally participated.

Joash: "Daddy likes to eat pineapples!"

After that, they were taught at West Mall what to do if they were to get themselves lost. Again, it was a reiteration of what I already taught my children. Joash totally lost interest at that point.

Next up, they were taken to the post office. Since Joash came with me a couple of times when I needed to send a parcel or post a letter, he was much more interested in the touch screen at the stamp dispenser. 

The climax was watching Ice Age 4 in the cinema while eating popcorn. That was the first time Joash got to enter the movie theatre and he was thrilled. Too bad that, due to some miscommunication regarding the drinks that came with the tickets, we went in late and missed the first 15 min of the movie. 

Joash asked me a lot of questions about it afterwards. One of them was, why the leaves the hamsters wind-glided on were so sharp in front. I took the opportunity to explain a little about aerodynamics, pointing out that birds and airplanes have pointed beak/nose in order to be fly-worthy. After school, I took my kids to the playground to fly paper airplanes so as to drive home the point. 

Jaide, however, was quite terrified of Joash's chatty friend who happened to sit right behind me. This sanguine girl kept wanting to talk to me and play with Jaide during the show. In the end, I was forced to stand up most part of the movie so that Jaide could have some respite from the disturbance. It was such a pity, since Jaide could have slept through the show if she were not woken up by the talking. The show time actually coincided with her morning nap time. As a result, she was overtired from the trip.

The grand finale was lunch at MacDonald's. Joash ate a cheese burger for the first time!

Having Ribena juice first

Here goes nothing...

Mmm... Yummy!