BBQ

It's been a long time since we've had a BBQ at home. Gwendolyn was asking for one 2 weeks ago, but it was a last minute thing and Papa and Mama didn't ask for any friend to participate. It's rather difficult to have one with only the 3 of us. Then so happen that Mama, Auntie Adele and Auntie Tricia met up for lunch on Tuesday, then on the spot, they've decided to meet up for a family gathering on saturday. Hence, the organising of a BBQ!

Within the next few days, all the mums communicated and came up with a list of food to prepare, assigned tasks and organised the BBQ. Everyone was sooooooooo looking forward to it and finally, Saturday came...Gwendolyn couldn't wait for 5pm and started preparing for the stuff to bring for the BBQ to play with all the kids, as there'll be Auntie Adele and Uncle Kim Siong's family, Auntie Belle and Uncle Chee Leong's family, Auntie Carolyn and Uncle Thomas's family, not forgetting to mention our own family!

We met directly at the function room downstairs, as there are 3 small babies and 3 running kids! Whilst the dads are out at the pit preparing charcoal and BBQ-ing the food, the babies, kids and mummies are inside the function room, enjoying the air-con! Just look at the photo account of the event...I'm sure that whoever is reading this blog post will agree that it was really an enjoyable gathering!

Lyn Lyng brought her entire bubbles collection to the function room to play and Ashlynne was so excited about all the bubbles flying around...all the while, she was chasing, catching and shouting "ball ball"...whilst Lyn Lyn kept using different bubbling tools to "generate" bubbles of different sized and compositions to lure Ashlynne...the funny thing about the whole event was that eventually, Ashlynne has gotten herself with bubble solutions all over her hair, face and body and she had to take a shower to wash up before going home, just in case she fell asleep in the car journey home and ended up being sticky and smelling all bubbly! Not forgetting to mention that Lyn Lyn has splashed the glass panels with bubble solutions all over...Mama didn't hear any complaints from the Management Office, so we supposed that it was okay and someone else had cleaned them afterwards...

For Lyn Lyn, one of the key learning points from the event was her learning how to peel prawn shells from Auntie Carolyn. It started when Mama was busy taking care of a whailing Geraldine and Papa was busy BBQ-ing the food and Lyn Lyn was asking to eat prawns. Auntie Carolyn took the chance to teach her about learning to peel prawn shells and the idea of persistent learning and practising to perfect on a skill that she's just learnt. In the end, she peeled a prawn each for Papa, Mama and Auntie Carolyn and all accorded her achievement and praised her for doing well. The prawns that she peeled tasted so nice...that even Uncle Kim Siong de-shelled some before BBQ-ing was not as nice as the ones being peeled by Lyn Lyn!

What's more during the BBQ? Geraldine fell asleep...Uncle Thomas and Auntie Carolyn took turns to carry Liv to try and make her sleep the whole evening, but she only managed to nap for 5 minutes?! Lyn Lyn was trying to take picture for everyone...All the Papas were trying to catchup, since they haven't met for quite a long time (they used to be colleagues and worked together)...all the babies and kids trying to get to know each other better...etc...

AND...the red M&Ms "family" clothing is finally put into use, as Papa and Mama have bought them even before Geraldine was born...see, such a lovely family picture!

After eating all the BBQ food, we went home to proceed with desserts and fruits! Lyn Lyn was so excited in showing off her drum sets to Frederick Di Di and took them out to the living room to play in front of all the guests! Uncle Thomas was wondering who's bought the drum set and Papa reminded him that Auntie Carolyn's bought the drum set for Lyn Lyn's birthday...if you wonder where Ashlynne was...she was swamped in the toy wonderland in Lyn Lyn's room, playing with the kitchen and tea set!

What's at the end? Lovely family pics of all the families involved...but...where's Geraldine? As it was way passed her bedtime, Mama has already bathed her and prepared her for bed!

I'm sure everyone would agree with Mama that it was one of the most enjoyable evenings so far this year! What's more? Auntie Belle told Mama that Ashlynne played so hard that night that she woke up and cried at 5am the followng morning, coz she was too excited!