Darrell 1st Lantern Festival

Its Darrell's 1st lantern festival and i am bent on bringing him down to the pool area to walk around with him "carrying" his lantern. So days before i was frantically trying to search for THE lantern but cant really find one that pleases my eyes. I wanted a airblown kind of lantern so that its not too heavy for Darrell and he wont hurt himself if he decided to grab and wack it towards his face. There are a few selections but not cute, so in the end, the fear of not having a lantern for Darrell drove me to grab a robot shape lantern from Cold Storage at Northpoint. Its a backup lantern. I finally decided on a Mickey Mouse lantern for him which is selling in Popular. I had initially wanted Winnie the Pooh lantern but thought somehow it looks abit "evil" so decided to give it a miss.

Me and hubby were out on friday afternoon for some "time off" to ourselves and when we reached home about 6.30pm, Darrell is playing in his cot. Mother in law had just given him his evening shower and suggested we let him take a nap before bringing him down as he has not slept since 4.30pm. As we notice him looking abit blur and his eyes are getting smaller we decided to let him snooze awhile first thinking that he will at most sleep for an hour. So we carry him to our bed and let him sleep there. What a mistake! Darrell slept from 6.45pm all the way till 1am and we had to wake him up for milk!

We were wondering if its because we put him onto our bed for him to sleep that he thought its bedtime now and end up sleeping longer. Anyway, to console ourselves (maybe mummy needs more consolation), we took some pictures of the lanterns and also decided that with the haze, we probably wont be bringing him either.