Husband Flies Again

The Husband is on yet again another work trip. I've lost count how many times he's left us for work. This morning Junior woke up and asked where's his abah, and when I told him that abah flew off for work, he was so sad he whimpered a lot. My poor boy :(

Weekend we were supposed to cook nasi kabsa but it didn't materialise cos of other plans. Planned to spend the most out of the weekend we had before the husband flew. Just love spending family time together, I couldn't have asked for more. Am so thankful for a loving husband and son :)

We had a good time at McDonald's Parkway Parade. Junior was having his dinner of nuggets and fries and there was someone playing music, the breeze was awesome. Junior really enjoyed his meal! Even told me he wanted to take off his Crocs while he enjoyed his meal haha.

Junior enjoying the music as he ate. Love to see how kids enjoy life. It's so refreshing :)

Managed to squeeze in time for baking with Junior, 1 batch of cake makes 2 7 inch cakes, of which one we frosted with nutella whipped cream frosting which didn't set well sadly, and the other cake I offloaded to my mum's haha. This time round I let Junior sift flour (he's getting better at it) and crack eggs into the batter.

The way he cracked the eggs, macam pro! Haha. Didn't capture those moments though.

The cake turned out like a normal pound cake which isn't fluffy, but because the frosting wasn't set well I kept in the fridge. That hardened the cake a little. And since we were bunking in with my mum from today, I threw away the remaining of the frosted cake after Junior had his long awaited birthday song before cutting the cake.

Junior has been progressing with his speech, though mostly still mispronounced. But he has since said sudden bursts of words like "what's that?", "over there", "what is it". He's still shy when we ask him to repeat, have to find a way to overcome that.

Gonna run some errands during lunch and finally FINALLY cut my hair after work! I've been delaying this for possibly a year now HAHA.

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