Some months back, we were contemplating changing our ride but ... to cut the long story short, we didn't in the end. :)

And every year, especially during the New Year, I would dress us up as a family. We had our shirts personalised and I didn't let our ride get away this year.

We were attempting our mightest to follow the decal on the rear wind screen... hahaha

Nice!

We were kind of itching ...

With an afternoon to kill after C's swim class, Daddy and I went down for a little car-spotting.

 C loves sports cars! The minute she spotted it, she made a beeline for it and insisted on having her picture taken with her at the driver's seat. :)

But she spotted something else apparently, more interesting!

Cupcakes! She tried her hands on decorating 2 cupcakes.

Precious and her creation.

While Daddy was busy, she was colouring away too...

Ahh... it seemed she found her own love after all.

Our families had lunch together and we went for our F1 run.

Daddy and C clowning around before lunch...

Our turn on the tracks. Hee. The go-karts were slow. Ha ha! If not for the height limit, we were sure even the kiddos could do it.

Then it was Uncle Kai Wei's and Aunt Audrey's turn... while the twins looked on.

Daddy's been meaning to get this for some time but after much thought and deliberation, thoughts were put into action and car washing will never be the same again... .

Washing our ride has always been done with pails of water but today, with this little fellow, car washing has become more fun and even C wanted to join in.

Daddy and C took turns spraying our car and the best part, we didn't have to waste lots of water doing so. :)

Now that our Princess is older, she wants to help out whenever she can. She helped to dry the car too. :)

You will never believe the trouble we went through looking for this toy.

Daddy and I even contacted the distributor to try to make arrangements to bring this toy in and Daddy also tried to organise a bulk purchase.

Unfortunately, I guess our orders didn't quite match up to the expectations of the distributor and my numerous emails to them came to an abrupt end. Today, Daddy had to attend Townhall at Suntec and he had the opportunity to do a little shopping after the event and he found these little treasures.

Cheryl was equally excited when she saw these cars and she even wanted to help us fix them.

Even though the cars were tiny compared to other remote control ones, the attention to details was not overlooked.

The amber Stream belongs to Daddy and the whilte Crossroad is Cheryl's. Yeah, Daddy reckoned that C should have her own in case she went after Daddy's.

It has been a while since C had her ears pierced and I was reminded to change Cheryl's ear rings by the ladies at the gold smith. I was contemplating not getting new ones from the shop as the one that I saw and liked cost a hefty $69 which I thought was a little too extravagant for a little girl.

Besides, I know I would need help in changing her ear rings; need someone to hold C down so I procrastinated and it proved to be a terrible move because her piercings started to get infections. While we were at Grand Mummy's, I thought C's aunts could help me and Aunt Juliana was generous to give C 2 pairs of hers.

Initially, I wanted to let C wear those ring ones and although putting them through her ear holes was easy enough, I could not get them to close and C was wailing because it was so painful to have me twisting at her ears and uncomfortable to have her aunts holding her down.

I tried for a long time and it was not a pretty sight because her ears started bleeding quite badly. Finally, we succeeded in changing her ear rings to studs and by this time, she had cried so much, she vomited. My poor baby... She had been having so much pain because of the infections so we had no choice but to change her ear rings. At least now, her ears will finally heal.

Daddy was trying to soothe his little darling, so he told her that she could join us for our car wash later. C brought her tricycle down to keep herself occupied. And while Daddy and I wash our car, she decided that her tricycle; courtesy of Aunt Rina and Ayra needed a wash too.

Here, C giving her wheels a wash! She had initially wanted to help Daddy with our car (she tried to wash off the soap on the bonnet) but Daddy thanked her for her effort and gave her the clothe for her own wheels.

Her little ride, all clean and then she wanted to give Daddy a ride. She instructed Daddy to climb on board while she sat herself at the wheel, literally.

For 1 entire weekend, we had to rely on the good-old public transport as we had to leave our Stream at the workshop for the installation of the I.C.E.

... okay, ... I am still speechless because I do not know how to start. I will just let the pictures do the talking and I will add in a little here and there.

Here, the transformation begins...

The car was stripped down to its skeleton for sound-proofing. Everything, and I mean everything, from the dash board, to the door to the roof; was taken apart for this process.

The car is almost done. The speakers are finally in place, the wires have been nicely and neatly placed and hidden. All looks almost well. To get here, it took almost 5 days.

Daddy picked up a skill and two!

Cheryl was with us for the days that we were there. There were times where she was running around, picking up tools and wanting to help. And there were quiet moments where she sat at the table and kept herself busy.

Here, she proudly exclaimed, "Mummy, go away. Cheryl working!"

I asked her to pose for me and this is what I got!

We finally collected our Stream after 2 months of wait! Daddy and I were crossing fingers and toes that we would receive our car soon as there were some hiccups and ripples in the Stream forum.

But thankfully, we got our ride and Daddy took leave to go down to pick it up.

This is it! Our latest toy! Actually we have already seen it on Friday but it was dark and the car had not been registered so we could not lay hands on it literally. haha!

But it does feel good to see it. Just look at Daddy's mug shot; holding onto the new number plate and all. But the face was really good, although I would not say the same for his feelings and excitement!

Our little girl sitting by the side of the road as the sun was blazing at the other end of the building. When she saw the camera, ahhh... she posed immediately. Talk about being cheeky!

These are our parting shots of our beloved Hippo.

For old times sake, this is a picture of the very-pregnant me taken in September in 2004. *Sob sob* This car has served us well... we got it just before our wedding in 2003 and she saw us through our pregnancy, through the birth of Cheryl. And we ordered it when it was close to Cheryl's 2nd birthday. Daddy even joked that our Stream was his gift to our little girl. That is so sweet!

Once we got the keys to the new car, Daddy immediately drove it for paint protection! Yap, the stickers were still on the car and other than the mounting of the licence plate, nothing was touched or removed. We didn't even had the chance to explore the car. The car sat in the workshop for a good 4 hours while we had lunch with some of Daddy's new found "Honda; Stream" friends.

Some pictures I took of us having lunch. Our little girl was getting bored...

After lunch we went back to the workshop to collect our newly polished car and drove straight to an audio shop to get some measurements taken. Yes, after years of talking about getting I.C.E for our ride, Daddy finally will be doing it for this new car. Total damage, err... let's just say, when I learned of how much it was, I almost fell off my chair.