Christmas Morning In The Rockstar Household

Christmas morning, Rockstar learned to ride a two-wheeler.

No really, that was what happened. None of it was planned. You see:

Rockstar was waiting to unwrap his bike…

But Little Miss slept in…

Finally….. I-it’s….. a bike! A bike for Christmas! We would never have guessed

Little Miss on the other hand…..

Gets a butterfly tent Rockstar insisted on hanging for her

And so she hits him with a butterfly as a thank you (no it doesn’t hurt, it’s just made of tulle but he’ll “oww” anyway)

Note: We are about to take another trip, this one with the kids, and Rockstar packed….. That butterfly for Little Miss.

And so some rolling about is in order

“Thank you Ko-ko, for setting up my tent” (yes really, that’s a cuddle and an “”mmuah” sound)

And so on to the park (JD came with, but I just realized she’s not in any frames because she ran ahead)

Rockstar initially really can’t balance, and Kings has to hold him up all the way

But then…. this! Yes he can really do that now

Rockstar literally went from having to be held up all the way to this park, to completely not, almost from the moment we reached. We are very proud. Also astounded. It was much harder for me when I learnt to ride a bike at 7, and I still hate it <hangs head> Cycling is really not my thing, but it is Kings’.

Yay tiny little bundle of feistiness

Let’s see where else we can put Rockstar…

And then we spent the rest of the day at Christmas Funland in Cyberport. Very local crowd, unlike Stanley 2 years ago. I mean, on normal days our area has very, very, very mixed residents – but come Christmas many people went home or on vaccie and all the locals came over to enjoy the numerous bouncing castles.

Kings patiently (no mean feat for him) queueing with Rockstar…

So we can feed our eldest to a giant whale

Gobble gobble

And poop our child out the back

(Btw these rides average HKD 30-50 for 3 mins)

This one was a giant chameleon slide…

But this was Rockstar’s favorite

Because of the long queues to the popular rides, Kings came up with the brainwave of both of us queueing separately so Rockstar could go twice in that 40 minutes queue, instead of only once…

It works…

Though the hamster-wheel thing is exhausting, don’t know how hamsters do it… Rockstar was very happy to be thrown about inside the thing especially when Kings started vigorously rolling it all over the water….

Honestly lots of amusement rides are basically Let’s See How Many Other Ways There Are To Throw Your Kids About.

Around which time Little Miss woke up

Note positively gleeful face – with the Miss, it’s more about keeping her from getting trampled by older kids or grownups, or well, keeping her from flying off stuff, because she’s really, really active and fearless

So Rockstar went with

I uh, bought a child harness for this trip. You know, the kind with reins. Rockstar used to absolutely refuse to walk if we put it on him, but he’s always been very cautious and serious. Let’s see if the Miss allows it because otherwise we’re going to go crazy keeping up with her. Though we could always sic Rockstar on her, as he explains it, “Sure, but sometimes I’ve got my own things to do.” 

And so he had me take pictures of him riding the dinosaurs

And here as well

After which you really don’t have energy for full Christmas dinner anymore (lunch at our regular Delaney’s was awesome though), more like clean them up and crashzzzzzzzzz.

And that was Christmas.

ps: Yes, fans, that’s your shirt giftie he’s wearing. Merry Christmas and thanks again!