Weekend wanderings: Time together

This weekend was a rare one where hubby was finally NOT on call on Saturday!  However, I was not feeling too well, and was feeling rather down too, especially since the boy has been rather difficult during meals these days, and also threw up his lunch on Sunday when we were out.  Despite the "down and out" feeling, I think it we had a really blessed weekend, especially when we got to spend so much family time together...

I met up with an ex-colleague, S and her little girl, A, for lunch and some shopping at Papermarket on Friday, and all 4 of us braved the heavy rain to make our way to Raffles City.  Had lunch over there before heading home for the boy's nap.  Then the hubby and I went for a walk at the Toa Payoh town park in the evening before dinner...

Walking the dog together...
I really love this park, as it has this old, tranquil feeling about it...

On the bridge, looking at the tranquil waters.
The boy spotted some terrapins (and yelled "TURTLE!").

We were supposed to have a packed Saturday as we had to attend a wedding in the morning, and a birthday party in the afternoon... The boy got all dressed up nice and spiffy for the wedding...

But he was really grumpy after the wedding and gave us a really hard time during lunch... so we headed back home to let him rest.  However, he decided that he'll wake up when we reached home, and he ended up going down for his nap pretty late, so as a result, we had to miss the birthday party.  I did manage to do up my very first album for the little birthday boy after a few days of cutting and pasting, and many cups of coffee (man, albums are really tough to do!):

The aftermath: scrap supplies all over my dining table...

And here's a sneak peek of the cover:

Can't post full pictures yet, since I've not passed the album over!

It was the usual for Sunday: church, where the boy learnt that God is everywhere, and had fun sticking petals on his craft piece...

... and lunch with churchmates, where we had the yummy Simpang Bedok yong tau foo... yumyum!

We popped by the Kite Festival over at the Marina Promontory after the boy had his afternoon nap:

We didn't have our own kite to fly, however,
we had a great time looking at the many kites that were being flown!

The boy learnt how to say "Kite!" and "Fly!" and
spent the whole time yelling those words...

Caught the sunset along the way for dinner...

... and had a yummy dinner over at one of our fav ramen places, Kyonichi Ramen...

The boy fishing for red beans using the straw.  For once, he finished his dinner!

All in all, I must say I'm feeling better.  Its Monday, my drafts have been vetted by my sup, so I think I'd better go back to editing them (big SIGH) before the boy wakes up...

I hope everyone had a great weekend... here's to a better week ahead!