Last night I asked Jack what he wanted to do today. He could go to Toys R Us (his fave hang) or Ikea (where I needed to buy a bunch of stainless steel household items - bin, bread bin, and utensil holder). Surprisingly he chose Ikea. This morning I posed the same question and he replied Ikea again. Anyhow, we went there and he had a ball of a time.

During his nap, he smiled and laughed many times. I wish I had a camera but I was trapped under a 12kg baby! Now I hadn't bought my new Nokia N82 yet (hubby said okay today, yay!) so I totally missed the moment. Hon, if you're reading this, you know what I mean! Anyway, when he woke I asked him what he dreamed about. He smiled and said, "Papada!" (Could be papadum since we had prata for lunch and he ate his Dad's papadum later at dinner but his Dad beamed so widely we all accepted it as fact.)

So this evening, we decided to go to Vivocity, eat at Sushi Tei (my fave), and take Jack to Toys R Us while I bought my bread-making stuff and research some ovens. I found halogen turbo broilers, turbo broilers, and convection ovens, all of which are made in China, so it really doesn't matter which I buy. Still the halogen one has a pretty light ring around the top but I am not sure what it does. Googling didn't quite help this time. I might try Wiki-ing it after this post.

Sushi Tei had a really long queue. I counted (okay I didn't but pulling up the mental photo I took...) 10-12 people ahead of me and at 7.40pm, that was pretty long. So hubby, Jack, and I went to the food court for yong tau foo. The cook was amused that Jack ate veg - it was almost as if all the kids she met didn't. But he heartily ate up the spinach, broccoli, quail's eggs, and noodles. We were all hungry again by 10. Low carbs, mused hubby. I ended up eating 4 slices of organic ciabatti nut bread with way too much butter and a glass of rice milk.

Jack was thrilled by the trip to Toys R Us. He wanted to play on the Thomas Train a while more but Giant's slamming shutters gave me a great excuse for saying we had to go. He noted "shop closing" and said goodbye to the train. We will undoubted be coming again very soon. Tonight Jack went to bed pretty much willingly. He had both his wishes come true today - well technically he chose to go to Ikea but he always wants to go to Toys R Us - so yes! Both wishes came true. If I had the N82, I could probably catch him now smiling in his sleep.

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