Day 151 or “The Day Stormy Turns 5”

Today starts like any other day. Stormy wakes unreasonably early and the breakfast battle begins. However, the day takes a rapid turn away from normal. Today Stormy turns 5. Today I have the day off work. And today we are taking Stormy, and her best friend, to Kidzania — a massive children’s theme park and role-play city. But first things first. A delivery of birthday flowers and balloons arrive from her mother. Stormy is so excited when she sees that the flowers have been made to look like cats. Seriously, look at the photo — it’s pretty amazing.

After a special breakfast at ToastBox, we pick up her best friend and it’s off to Sentosa. The two chatter continuously for the entire taxi ride. I am constantly amazed at the neural connections small children make. Phrases like, “I’m not scared of anything, except a T-Rex” and “Knights are brave enough to wear a helmet on fire” emerge from their brains and somehow make perfect sense in context.

The next 8 hours are spent inside this theme-park. It’s 50% role-playing and 50% waiting in lines and they love every minute of it. They start in the hospital as mid-wives before moving onto the sweet factory where they pack lollies into bags (I actually thought they would make sweets — very disappointed). Then it’s off to shop at 7-eleven before taking up a job as window washers (and looking very bit like council workers). They wander around for a while before discovering the ice-cream shop which, like the sweet shop before it, doesn’t actually let them make ice cream. They do get to eat ice-cream so it’s probably just as good for them.

The hour long queue to become fire fighters turns into their lunch break. From there they become bank couriers, then police officers before finishing the day as paramedics.

Now that I write it all down, I’m actually amazed at how much they did. No wonder I’m so tired. By the end of the day we also managed to burn through the batteries of two phones and one tablet — so there was a lot of waiting around as well.

The announcement that the facility is closing encourages us to leave. We slowly make our way to the taxi rank and say good bye to her friend before walking across the road to the mall. It’s McDonalds for dinner (“it’s my birthday, it’s my choice”). We eventually make it home and get her to bed. I won’t be far behind.

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