Grandma the Whole Day

Dearest Little Skyler,

This is the last day before Mama takes her last examination paper tomorrow. Papa had to take you out again as it was very important that Mama could concentrate on giving a last burst in studying before tomorrow’s paper. Papa had actually intended to take you to East Coast Park to take in the beach and maybe meet up with an old Pre-U friend before meeting up with Grandma as she wanted to complete a chore. However, Papa’s friend could not make it. Thus, Papa decided that he will bring you to the beach any way.

While driving there, Papa telephoned Grandma to confirm the time that we would meet up and realised that she was still at home! Papa had thought that she had gone out. Since she was at home, Papa decided that we might as well meet up immediately and get the chore over with earlier, so we drove over to Grandma’s place to pick her up.

While there, we realised that Grandma needed something from Ah Pek to carry out her chore as she had left it with him. Thus, we needed to meet him. It so happened that he was at Ikea Tampines once again with Che-che Reika and Kor-kor Yujin. So, that’s where we went, once again.

We met up with them at Ikea Tampines and che-che and kor-kor were in the children’s play room. It looked quite big but as an adult Papa could not go in so I’m not sure how big it actually is. It looked quite fun though so maybe when you’re big enough you can go in and explore it.

We wanted to have lunch but once again we could not find any seats at the restaurant. It’s a huge restaurant but it’s simply crowded all the time! It’s amazing! In the end, Granma, Papa, Ah Pek and the others had to go to the deli counter to eat hot dogs for lunch. (You still cannot eat these kinds of food yet, Little One – next year, ok?)

After we’d had our food, Grandma, you and Papa drove to Sim Lim Tower to help Grandma run her chore. It took a bit of time but it wasn’t so bad because you got a teddy bear out of it. J The aunties there were very nice to you and they kept on playing with you.

As we still had time and Grandma had nothing else to do, we decided to go to Parkway Parade anyway. We parked at Parkway Parade and walked around for a bit. Papa had to feed you your afternoon milk. After that, Papa decided to bring us all to East Coast Park as the weather seemed okay.

We walked all the way across and sat on a bench for a while staring at the sea. You had fallen asleep by then and Papa didn’t want to disturb your sleep. However, the clouds started turning dark soon after and we quickly left to head back to Parkway Parade. The rain came down while we were heading back but by then, we were quite under shelter already so it wasn’t so bad.

Grandma and Papa then had a drink before we went back to Grandma’s place to feed you your dinner and then we also had ours. It was later that we went back home to Mama who had been studying all day.

Mama has been so poor thing these weeks, Little One. She couldn’t study during her term time as she had a lot of work to do. So, she had to rush her studies these couple of weeks to try to catch up with her readings. Therefore, even though we had to go out so much and tire ourselves out a bit as we couldn’t take naps properly, it was all worth it because we are helping Mama, ok?

Mama and Papa love you!