Intrigued Baby, Horrified Mummy

The Mid-Autumn Festival is around the corner. *Ok... you can so see where this is leading...*
And indulging grandparents have already planned that their grandson should own a lantern. A note here that gabe is the first grandchild on both sides of the family.

My MIL commented that she would like to get gabe a lantern, and when I responded with a half snigger (read: yeah, nice to have one for him but then again, like he knows what it is) she quickly added that it'll be a simple one just for decoration on the wall.

Gabe's doting waigong was definitely on the same train of thought and when he saw this while walking along Chinatown one day, he couldn't resist.


Faint right??!?!?!??!?!?!? It almost "killed" me when it was presented to us. The choice of a pig was obvious for their 小小猪. The pattern was so cheena-fied and orbeet. Its trotters had this chinese sticker on it and worse, the choice of music that played when it's turned on is so no-way *shake head please* and can wake the entire neighbourhood. There is a second pig that reveals itself under a bobbing mushroom (and gabe's little toe was giap-ed under the mushroom at one point). My dad boasted that the lantern can run too. And man, can it really run. Those trotters were going at an amazing speed. It really looked like a rat scurrying across the floor. I have to admit that it's quite funny.

And gabe's reaction?