This year was no exception.
Our usual birthday guests reached our house at 1145pm and we sang him his customary birthday song and finally, on this one special day of his, Jaden decided to eat one of the cupcakes I made for him! After several times rejecting my baking skills, he actually ate one whole cupcake down! I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!
We invited Gynette and PeiSan too but the boy got his date all wrong and ended up sleeping instead of appearing up at my doorstep. *slaps head*
It was rather a quiet affair, with just 4 of us adults singing Happy Birthday all over again for the boy who enjoyed the moment tremendously.
The next morning, I woke the birthday boy up rather early and out both of us went to Aquaria KLCC.
We met up with two of his therapists who has made some time in their busy schedule and agreed to come along.
As Jaden has never stepped foot on a train/lrt before, we took the LRT from Kelana Jaya station all the way to KLCC, 30 minutes train ride. Jaden was of course very curious and amazed at all the sights zooming past him and at every single stop, he wanted to get down and out of the train, only to be restrained by either me or his therapists. All in all, we had 14 stops before KLCC, you do the math! =p
Luckily I brought the stroller along, so when we reached KLCC, we still have quite a distance to walk over to Aquaria. Lets just say, the stroller is one of the things I am most grateful for when bringing a child out. Just strap him in, stroll him along and no whining, no chasing .. bliss!
We had lunch before heading into Aquaria at the nearby foodstalls. It is RM35 for Malaysian adults and RM25 for Malaysian kids. This time, the lady at the counter just asked if I am Malaysian and did not bother to check for MyKad but if you are planning to head on to Aquaria, its always best to bring your MyKad along, just in case they decide to charge you tourist price instead.
Jaden just could not take his eyes off the animals and aquatic life featured in there. After a walk around, we ended up at the Aqua Theatre where there is this huge glass panel where one can stand in front of the glass and take pictures with the fishes swimming by and Jaden was particularly amused with this one school of fishes which just kept swimming in front of him.
We waited until it was the tiger-shark feeding time and two professional divers will dive to the Aqua Theatre while bringing food for the fishes. Since the tiger sharks were fed at 12pm earlier, and we were told tiger sharks only eat 2% of their actual weight so we are guessing that they are still full from their earlier feed, thus the non-responsive behavior towards food in their face.
BUT there were other hungry fishes and stingrays and the sea turtle. It was so cute to see them feeding out of the divers' hands.
We left soon after, to escape the after-working hours crowd at the LRT and the boy? well, guess the trip tired him out and he fell asleep as soon as we went aboard the train heading back to Kelana Jaya.
.. and he slept all the way home, despite being moved from his stroller up into the car, back into the stroller when we reached home and out of the stroller onto the bed...
Birthday boy slept from about 3.30pm till 8pm that day. What a birthday right? =) I am glad I was able to bring him out like that as his birthday treat! Although daddy was a no-show that day because of work, well, if it wasn't for him, we would not have the moo-lah to go too so oh wells.. daddy did play a part in his birthday trip after all. =p
Targeting a zoo for him next year now that he is more aware of his surroundings and could relate some things he watched on TV or taught by his therapists.
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