His 9th birthday..

My son celebrated his 9th birthday a few days ago. We had a small simple celebration, just the four of us. He wanted to go to Toys-R-Us and before hand he had made a very looooonnnng list of toys he wanted to buy which came up to 400 bucks!!! Hello...ingat mommy cop duit ka?? Before that, we had to go and get his eyes check again!!! Apparently the glasses he's wearing now is not helping him to see clearly in class, we just had that made four months ago!!! Ni kes tengok TV and computer tak pakai cermin mata la ni...so we waited for nearly two hours to see the doctor, even though I have made an appointment earlier but somehow other people went in before us. Not wanting to make a scene (one of those rare days where I don't feel like scolding people..), we waited while my son was asking every five minutes when are we going to go to the toy store. My daughter was also excited to go because she knew she can tumpang her brother's birthday and get herself a brand new toy. That's happens every year...anyway, after all was checked and paid and done, off we went to Times Square. As usual, there was a sea of people, it was a Saturday and the weather was nice, even though a tad breezy. We went straight to the LEGO section and boy, he took his own sweet time in choosing which one to buy. I told him that he was not going to buy ALL the things he had on his list, and he could choose only one, a big ONE box of LEGO. So he had a hard time choosing which one to buy first. He was scared that the other ones would be out-of-stock the next time he comes here. The reason why he had that phobia is because, once we went to a different toy store and he wanted this Lego and we said we could come next time to buy since we didn't have time that day (at least that's the reason I gave him) and when we did go for the second time, the Lego he wanted was not there anymore. Not only that, most of the Lego was gone, a mistake to go that time as it was after Christmas...so he had the right to be scared this time around and worried that it would not be there anymore the next time. Anyway, as we were waiting and waiting and waiting (we were being extra nice since it was his birthday after all), I decided to bring my daughter to look for her toy as my hubby had the "hard work" of helping my son to choose. Well, our little girl didn't give me an easy work either. Since there were ssssooooo many toys to choose from, she was rambang mata already, not knowing which one to choose. After quite sometime, both of them decided on their toys, at last!!! Then, my hubby and me felt hungry from all the waiting and persuading, so we decided to go have lunch (a birthday lunch). Well, the birthday boy decided that he didn't want to go for lunch and he said he felt tired and wanted to go home. Old trick!! Because we knew that the reason why he wanted to go home so soon was to play with his new Lego set. So we dragged him to lunch and he was being such a grumpy boy, he complained that he was feeling cold and his tummy hurt and what not. Mommy's hungry and mommy wants to eat so your Lego just have to wait. But when the food came, he was enjoying his food all the same!!! Siap pau mommy's food lagi. Then we headed home and straight away he opened his new toy and he really like it so all in all, it was a good birthday for him...

All ends well..even though the journey was not that easy sometimes...