The rabbit (who has now been replaced by a bear) is up and shining bright and... it's July 10 2012, Noah's birthday... we cross off the last night on his calendar...
First things first... opening some presents: some really cool train tracks and trains from GG and Grandpa.
I had never really played much with train tracks but when you have enough tracks (and lucky Noah got some extra tracks from his grandparents), you can really make some fun structures for the trains. Noah playing with his trains.
The week before his birthday, we had also gone to Ikea to purchase a craft table and some bins to replace his old changing table (which has been repurposed as Seth's desk). Below, Noah's "new room".
At Ikea, we also purchased a kitchenette for Noah (care of GG and Grandpa - thank you :) ) - Noah was SOOOOOO excited. He kept marching through the apartment chanting "Noah a une cuisine, Noah a une cuisine" (Noah has a kitchen).
Before heading out to the birdpark - Noah just had to make some food...
Noah with his meal...
After the meal, he baked some cookies - our little chef with his cookies.
We then headed to the birdpark. Because we are members, we got complimentary panorail (or monorail) rides...
Unfortunately, the monorail is no longer in use. Instead they have these little trams. Although Noah LOVES monorails, he was not too disappointed. In fact, he kept asking over and over to ride the tram - forget the birds... the trams are clearly the cool thing to do if you are 3 years old at the birdpark! On the way to the tram station, we stopped by Noah's old friend the ibis.
And went to a bird show where Amigo the parrot sang happy birthday to Noah... Noah got a kick from having a bird wish him happy birthday and still keeps talking about it.
He also fed the lories - when we first arrived in Singapore, Noah was a bit scared of the lories then he was unable to feed them on his own. But this time, he was very excited and was able to keep the little cup straight with the bird perched on top of it.
A new lory feeding technique: the kneel...
Finally, we got to the tram station and rode the tram...
and again...
Noah had specified that he wanted chicken rice for lunch so we went just outside the bird park for some chicken rice - he wanted to dig in and was not very happy about this photo session.
After lunch, we went to the penguin exhibit which is a bit cooler and covered and Noah took his nap...
After a refreshing nap and some penguin viewing, we headed back towards the exit which has arches full of orchids.
We figured that might be a good place to take his 3 year old picture.
Seth took the pictures and I got Noah in a jolly mood by acting silly.
It seems to have worked!
We then headed home to prepare for the birthday dessert with his friends (see next post for the pics from the birthday dessert).
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