2 of us over dinner and movie night.

Earlier, before I executed the 3 dates plan, I would have thought korkor probably preferred to stay home and play computer by himself, well, maybe wouldn't have mind going for a meal outside with me, but probably NOT preferring to do anything else together.

Proves how wrong I was!

He seemed to me that he was looking forward to our "date", though he had almost a wholesome day otherwise without me barking at him at home to stop staring at the computer screen, watching porns. He even napped for around 2 hours in the afternoon!

As we walked out of the door, meimei bade us farewell with "Have fun! Have fun!", making this seemed like the day had been equally special not only for them but for me too.

Being next to him, I sometimes can't believe he's standing almost up to my ears now! And he's moving into being a teenager fast. I had to change my tone and voice slightly, in fact, quite moderately, when talking to him. This is a guy I need to be careful with in building a rapport. I wanted so much to be his friend, so he would come to me when he has any doubts or questions when being enveloped by puberty's emotions later.

Firstly, where to eat? He briefly muttered a buffet way earlier, but he had asked for Tony Roma's. I asked him why the change of mind, wouldn't he wanted a buffet, to which he replied no need la, saying TR would be good enough. I can sense that he thought it's way too greedy to ask for and that made me proud of him.

After some discussions, he decided on Sushi King anyway and off we go! To the same mall (for the 3rd time that same day! OMG! Crazily xiao, don't you think?)

He rattled off in the car on the computer games he is currently playing and I had to feign interest listening to his eager voice. Oh man! Can we have some serious discussions on feelings, girls and xes yet? Oh well... boys! What was I thinking?

Over dinner, bits and pieces from our chats :

- both him and meimei thinks that my favorite color is purple, judging from the purple color I chose for my Mii. For which I think I don't have any particular favorite color actually.

- he remembers papa and I started off with something to do with a hiking trip.

- he knows EXACTLY what to get me for my birthday, if he has the money. Haha! I'm thrilled already!

- he gave me a score of 90% on being a mother, of which I was giddy with happiness, and upon seeing that, he slashed it immediately to 85%! I said, once given, he can't take it back! Tee hee!

- on the score of 1 (being cranky) to 10 (being happy), he says i'm 4 most of the time. He saw my disappointment in my expression and he jacked it up to 7 right away!! Haha! I said there is no right or wrong to his answer and I appreciate his feedback and I would try my best to be a happier mom from now on. He was delighted, giving me his sweetest smile. Truth be told, I always feel he has a very sweet smile, which I think would attract girls later, if he plays his cards well.

I asked him if he knew what I love about his dad. I said though it seems to him that I would be always scolding papa, I do love him and rattled on the 4 BIG NO-NO(s) that he doesn't have. And that he is a very responsible husband and dad whom korkor should learned to keep up to. Of course, it would be good that he doesn't have his bad habits, but who's perfect anyway.

His appetite was really huge! I gave him part of my bowl of rice to him, and he had another serving of plain rice, and 1.5 plates of sushi. Burp! He was so satisfied with dinner! Burp! burp! burp! I was enthralled with his sweet smiles throughout the night.

After that, we went to shop for some stuffs to feed the guests coming over, that's today, and then to the bookshop where he wants to have Diary of the Wimpy Kid, its fourth book. He kept on saying what a pity didi had only had McD and to the bookshop for this special treat. Wasted! So wasted, he continued.

We scooted off to the cineplex at 9 and impromptu bought 2 tickets to watch the just newly screened "World Invasion" at 9.35! And it was sooo cold in the cineplex, we were totally under-dressed for that!

Seriously, I was a bit worried as the night inched nearer to midnight. I'm a "Cinderella" by nature *ahem*, I don't like going out at nights and it's certainly the first time I took my eldest son out till so late. When the credits started rolling, I hurried him to move on quick with the crowd and walked briskly back to the car. He wanted to pee and I told him to hold till we get home. We were home safe and sound, back in the comfort of our beds very soon after.

And that concludes our very special day today. Though it was so so exhaustive, but I had a very good day. Gotta love it!

p/s: Thanks to the anon Befriender for your support and idea!