his daddy has been asking him the same question again and again, everyday, “nak pegi swimming tak?” and the little one would guilelessly nod his head and go “nak! nak!” each time and start pulling at his shirt to take it off.

till lately, i think he’s stopped believing his daddy coz he started saying “tak!”, hehe. you see, i said, it’s like the boy who cried “wolf!”, or rather, the daddy who cried “nak pegi swimming tak?”. empty promises, so stop asking him, for heaven’s sake!

but he really meant it this time, so he asked the little one the whole day. so irritating hor, little one?

so are we or are we not?!

we woke up nice and early and were out by the unearthly hour of 10am (heh), headed to downtown east for a mac brekkie, only to find out that the place we were supposed to go to didn’t open till 1pm on weekdays! gah, imagine the extra time i could have slept in!

anyway, the sky was unforgivingly cloudless and the sun was starting to beat down on us, so it was just as well. (and of ALL days, i realised the red flag was raised just as we were leaving.)

we took our time running errands and having lunch and letting him nap first, before heading back again at five. looked up at the sky, yup, nice billowy clouds and a low-lying sun. perfect.

time to get wet, like, finally.

wow, he *really* brought me swimming this time. can’t believe my luck.

hey, those people in baywatch didn’t need to wear THIS!

dang those height limits.

if it weren’t for the little one, we’d have tried out all the adult rides, like the tsunami one, fwah. but we did manage to take turns down the long slide on the raft while the other waited with him at the bottom.

other than that, we pretty much knocked ourselves out at the kiddy slides over and over again, him squeezed in between us, and went round and round the winding river on floating tyres, him covering his face with his hands during the water shower parts.

at this point, i realise that every new experience for him is also a new experience for us, or at least, a fresh one. it’s like seeing and doing things for the first time, from his point of view. and if not for him, we would never have bothered to go to places like this. (well, it helps that we get free tickets of course, hehe.)

perhaps it’s that ‘first-time parent syndrome’ again, i don’t know.

in any case, it was, for lack of better words, really fun lor. (i love slides!) we were the last few to leave the place at 7.

husband, nak pegi swimming lagi tak? nak? nak?! please get free tickets again, thank you…

(and yes, i did get myself wet and wild, red flag notwithstanding. am officially no longer a t****n virgin, gasp!)

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