Christmas = Binging Time

Christmas Eve

By tradition, we spend this day with the Yoongs.

This time we spent at their home, warming ourselves up with hot, yummy steamboat. It's kind of different as one would think steamboat is more apt for CNY. After dinner, we played "Open Season" on Yin's new Xbox 360 and it was hilarious. Then we ate the "Pure Addiction" log cake we got from Emicakes. Megan & Kieran were thrilled as they got to blow the candles after we sang "Merry Christmas" to the tune of "Happy Birthday". The finale was gift exchange. While the mommies coincidentally got lingerie, the daddies got book, apparel & cookies. The kids were the happiest with their new toys.

The kids & the log cake

Christmas Day

As with the same tradition, my side of the family celebrate Xmas & Eugene's (14th this year) birthday on this day @ eldest bro's place.

The past days have been grey & wet and today was exceptionally sunny. Hubby decided to bring the boys to East Coast Park for a run. While walking to our carpark, an idea sparked and I told hubby we could detour to Parkway Parade to get fresh sashimi from Fish Mart Sakuraya for this evening event. And so we got swordfish, octopus, saba, salmon for the sashimi plate. We also got some sausages (bratwurst, cheese knackers & nurenburger) for ourselves from Espirito Santo Gourmet & Butchery.

Raeyen fell asleep in the car on our way home. Hubby & I had the sausages for lunch.

Past 6, we lugged all the presents, sashimi, diaper bag (and Raeyen) to eldest bro's place.

Binged all the sinful preparations - potato salad, sushi, beehoon, pineapple fried rice, chicken wings/drumlets, vege, soft-baked choc cookies made by Jenric (I called them cakies) & Bengawan Solo kuehs.

Eugene cut his log/birthday cake & we binged again with cheese bak-gua.

We exchanged gifts & went home for a well-deserved snooze! Ka-boom!

Footnote:
Hubby & I were so happy as Raeyen finally blurted out "Mama" and "Papa"!

Boxing Day

Happy 14th Birthday, Eugene!

Woke up this morning in a daze as Mother Nature decided to give a downpour again, duhh...

All photos can be found @ My Flickr Album.