Just Me and My Son

I reserved today for my car and Ziv.

Mind you, this is going to be LONG LONG post.

Since, today is not a working day, Kevin had made an appointment for me at Subaru for car servicing. Woke up at 930am and realised that Ziv was still in land of Nod with Barney.

Digress a little here, the thing about kids is that, they seems to be able to differentiate weekday and weekend. My current job requires me to wake up slightly earlier than the other jobs which I have had. And I noticed that Ziv is waking up earlier and earlier each day, and somehow, he is adjusting his sleeping timing to match mine! These days, instead of waking up at 830-9am (usual timing), he will wake up as early as 645am to 715am! Why? So, one day, he woke up crying and hugging me tight. Usually, I will shove the pacifier into his mouth or quickly get the maid to make him milk to hush him up, however, both tactics failed severely. Then, I realised, he was trying to make me stay at home with him! He did not want me to go to work! He was probably also angry that he woke up without me for the past few mornings. To diffuse his anger, I had him to sit beside me, putting his hand over my shoulder while I did my makeup, man, that was really tough. After minutes of coaxing and acrobatic acts to make him smile, he finally agreed to let me go. So, today a weekend, he somehow knows that Mummy is not going to work, and hence he is getting a longer sleep.

So yes, we drove 2 cars to the car workshop at TPY, while waiting for my car to get serviced, Kevin brought us to TPY Crystal Jade for dim sum. At around 1230pm, my car was ready for collection and Kevin drove us back and then I was alone with Ziv. I decided to bring him to Bishan J8. Frankly speaking, I don't have the courage and capacity to bring Ziv out alone cause I deem it as a chore. I remembered bringing him out to Hyatt to meet a friend for lunch, and in the end I had to carry the sleeping boy, looking all unglam on the streets of Orchard Road. I still had to even ring up Kevin to send us home.

Nowhere will be as 'safe' as Bishan cause I KNOW the way from TPY , and to home and I need not look glam in Bishan. So all criteria met! First stop, shopping center. Every hanger that I took, Ziv had to touch. He wanted to get involved with my shopping. So, change of venue. Next up, library. Headed straight to the children section, thinking I might have a good rest there since Ziv liked to flip books.

Wrong wrong wrong. This boy was enacting the role of a Librarian. He stumbled on steps, crawled and did everything which I do not allow him to do. He disturbed other young readers, snatched their books, piled up books and then moved them away from one shelf to another, one crate to another... non stop. For almost half an hour or so, I saw him repeating the same actions.

All of a sudden, I felt like going to the loo. I looked at him and I thought, "How am I going to the toilet with Ziv?" That's the problem when bringing a toddler out. How to go to the loo? Anyway, no point delving into details of how I managed to struggle to the toilet and how bad it was in the cubicle. Argghh... you wouldn't want to know.

After about half an hour or so, we left the library and headed back to the mall. I brought him to the toy department and he played with the toys and then I decided to go to the confectionary to buy him some cakes for breakfast. Shucks! On the way, we saw a Barney car and Ziv was pointing excitedly to the car and wanting to sit on it. Unfortunately I did not have any 1dollar coin and he was crying when I dragged him off the car. Every one in the mall looked at me, as if I was an abusive mother. Ignoring the stares of others, I brought him to Crystal Jade confectionary. Before I could actually make it to the counter, this boy demanded me to open up the packaging so that he could eat the cake ON THE SPOT. I paid for it and let him have the cake. I brought him back to the Barney car since I managed to get back some change and the boy was a happy boy with Barney and cake.

Carried him back to the car and onto his car seat, the boy was still eating the cake. When I drove the car out to the main road, I turned beside me to see the boy fallen asleep with crumps all over his face and shirt. It was a very adorable sight. Despite being so naughty and demanding, I think I will still bring him out alone in future, perhaps to somewhere nearby. As for Orchard, hmmm... we shall see.