Oh You Fickle Heart

Oookaayy, you all know Lucas is highly attached to 2 things....His pacifier and bolster. He thinks and asks for these 2 things every time and especially in the evenings he HAS to have these. Want him to be quiet? Give him the pacifier. Wanna see him smell and hug something like it`s so precious and wonderfully smelling? Yup, his bolster.

And the thing is, in Japan it is quite impossible to find a bolster, let alone a small one, with a cow like cover. So if we ever lost it, i think that would be the ultimate tragedy..or so i thought.

A few weeks ago, yes TRAGEDY happened. In that i mean, we were leaving a park from our playdate that afternoon and i was pushing Lucas in the stroller. It was drizzling, so i was going pretty fast but i clearly remembered bending to adjust the stroller`s cover and saw the bolster. Then, few minutes later we crossed the traffic lights and took the lift down to the subway station. Then, after passing throough the gate, i realised his bolster was MISSING. You betcha i panicked. ALOT.

So i went to the information counter but they didn`t see it,then i traced back my steps to the traffic lights....NOPE, no bolster in sight. Asked the police if anyone retuurned it, NOPE..nothing...TRAGEDY...so there was nothing left to do, it was truly gone. And yes, Lucas got a good scolding for losing it. Sigh...anyway off we went to pick Gabe and went home. And yup, he went looking for his bloster which he now calls `bao`. So what did i do? I threw him the matching pillow in a form of a cow...that was used by Gabe when he was younger. I expected some big drama meltdown....guess what..no drama, he took it, analysed it, then went on to SMELL it and there and then decided he had a new found best friend. I tell you, the way he smelled it and hugged it and then smiled was pure sweeter than what he did with bao....

Amazing...kids, fickle minded creatures they are..and so i think Lucas will probably be a player next time...old gf gone? No problem, new girlfriend come.

I`ll leave you with pics of his old fave and new fave...

We.Are.Back

The blog has been dead for like months..sorry about that. We`ve been kinda busy with the migration back to SIngapore for 2 whole months to escape winter here. ANd now, we have settled down back in Tokyo again, i think i can start to blog again...if i find the energy to.

We had a super duper time in Singapore, though maybe Grandma has some objections to using Super Duper since she developed a series of migraines while we were there???

Photos of Lucas` birthday photos will be up soon, once i get my hands on them from the lazy, slow motion Fat Yi Yi.

2 months....and Lucas has grown so much, he is walking so steadily now. Gabe, sigh a series of new problems, which i will touch on in coming posts.

As usual, the 2 rascals are fighting everyday, over everything and nothing. But they do seem happier seeing their huge stash of toys to play.

Gabe has gone back to school, so it`s just Lucas & I, struggling to get through the half day. The rascal is too naughty and is now always asking me to bring him out, by pulling my hands and leading me to the door, where he will sit down and point to his shoes. If I am so silly as to not bring him, he will just cry and whine n whine and lie on the floor to protest...Cute huh..

But the weather has been delicious past few days, so i did bring him to our nearby park for some cycling and sunshine. And here he is in Full Sunshine Glory

If you look at Picture #7, you notice him staring at the group of kids playing in the sandbox..yes, tons of fun, for them but it`s a total headache with all the sand. And he was actually staring at them for a long time, i could see that he wanted to go play, but i dragged him away before he actually made the move of going into the sandbox and then we will be having one of those mom-drags-screaming-kid-away scenario.

We`re happy here in Tokyo, spring is around the corner and so are the Sakuras.

Till next post, see ya!