New Years Eve

You didn't know it snowed in Singapore did you?


Just Kidding. Every year around Christmas there is a mall here that has it "snow" bubbles. We thought Elyse would like this so we made a special night of it (since the bubbles don't start until 7:30 which as you know is past our girls' bedtimes. Anyway...)

We were out around the big Christmas tree waiting for the bubbles to start and trying to explain to Elyse what was going to happen. She seemed pretty excited. Then it started. It was a little different than I thought. I thought they would start by blowing bubbles up in the air and they would accumulate on the ground. Nope. There were these blowers on the ground that created an instant blizzard of bubbles:



Kids dove in up to their necks in bubbles. Elyse... she wanted no part of it.

We tried all sorts of things to get her excited about the bubbles and when the bubbles did start getting blown up in the air we hyped that up too. We tried everything we could think of, but she didn't even want to touch the bubbles.

But then, something happened. She came over by me (I was by one of the blowers taking pictures) and "snow" was falling on her head and she thought that was funny. Then she thought stepping on the bubbles was fun and then the bubbles stopped and we cleaned up (they had showers to wash off the bubbles) thinking we had a small success.

Then as we were about to leave Elyse all of a sudden wanted to play in the bubbles. So, we headed into the bubbles (as everyone else was clearing out) to play.

By looking at this picture you would never guess she was almost crying a little while earlier and refused to touch the bubbles.

So, in the end, fun was had by all. Elyse and Toby were the last ones in the bubbles. The guy to the left of them in the next picture had water and was spraying the bubbles away. The circle of bubbles around Toby and Elyse kept getting smaller and smaller.

This just reminds me that Elyse needs time to warm up to things and if we keep at it, she will usually have a great time.

So that was our New Years Eve. We left the mall, put the kids to bed and then, so after, we were in bed ourselves. Although we didn't party it up this year we still had a memorable night.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!