Exhibit A (2 hard boiled eggs, broccoli, rice, carrots, fish), consumed at 4.30am after a recent school field trip, because Rockstar fell asleep before he could eat his usual massive dinner (albeit still after putting away an after-school “snack” that is usually shared three-ways with two of his playdate buddies AND almost everything he had packed with him on the said school trip.) On a hunch he wasn’t gonna make it through the night, I put his dinner in Tupperware and then placed that in a flat dish with a flask of hot water nearby. He got through about half of that before deciding to try and get back to sleep. He had most of the other half plus a small bowl of egg, macaroni and cheese the next morning before school.
Exhibit B (bowl of wantan and shrimp noodles with a seasoning of XO shrimp sauce from Shangri-La Hotel’s Lobby Lounge, meant to feed 2 grownups), consumed the evening after said school field trip, as a kind of reward. See, I usually pick him up from school one day a week, and this week it had fallen on School Field Trip Day and so this time I didn’t – and forgot to say anything. So he’d come down and methodically made his way to the bus when he couldn’t find me. When asked something along the lines of “What are you doing here, you don’t usually take the bus today,” he’d replied something like, “My mummy wasn’t in school today because of the field trip, which means she’s probably waiting for me at the bus stop near our home. So I need to take the bus.” (I got a call shortly after to check. Obviously I owed profuse apologies.) But that isn’t quite the end yet…
So I tar-pow the noodles, and Rockstar gets home from school and asks “Really? Those are really the Shang noodles?” (which makes me feel a bit bad – he likes them that much and I get them this rarely?) followed by, “Um…. Did you remember the XO Sauce?” followed hurriedly by, “It’s ok if you forgot!”
“It’s ok if you forgot.” Yet when I said I didn’t forget he was sooo happy he started dancing about.
And so you all know what I’m thinking right now, right?
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“I really need to get more noodles.”
So this is a random picture of Little Miss slurping noodles on a separate occasion
What a big bowl of noodles! The simple joy of life – seeing a child so happy over noodles.
Usually if I sleep without dinner and wake up early, I won’t be able to eat in the wee hours. Will just try to go back to sleep or just have a hot beverage. I guess Rockstar must be very hungry to want to eat a normal meal in the wee hours.
Wow, you managed to capture Miss Rockstar in action with the strand of noodle flying in the air. Or did you ask her to renact it for you? ;p
He’s been eating really scarily for the last 2 weeks thereabouts…. Which was why I kinda guessed he wasn’t going to make it through the night though he had a huge bowl of fish ball noodles (normally shared 2 or 3-ways among him and his friends) around 5…
No I didn’t ask her to re-enact that it was a lucky shot… she can understand a good bit of our regular conversation, but she doesn’t eat noodles or other grownup food that much, mainly because it doesn’t take a lot to make her throw up… maybe that’s still better than when she didn’t throw it back up and would get diarrhea…