Raiyan the Explorer

This was Raiyan as a dinasour explorer during his school's annual storybook day when students dress up as their favourite book characters. ( Remember last year he came as Mucky Ducky?)

For this year we sort of found out about the day in the last minute so babah didn't really have the time to be laborious about it as he was with the duck costume. So at first we really hoped that Raiyan would just wear the readymade Buzz Lightyear costume his grandma got him all the way from EuroDisney. But unfortunately because of his issue in not wanting to look too different from what he's comfortable with (I guess his love for animals made the mucky ducky costume bearable), he absolutely refused to wear it. Naturally we were disappointed and slightly panicking of what else he could come as. At the same time, babah and I ourselves just felt it to be wrong anyway since he wasn't really into Toy Story and the Buzz character so we felt untrue to Raiyan to make him wear something he's not exactly a fan of..

Thankfully our creative juices started flowing when we realised the usefulness of the explorer set I just got for Raiyan from ELC! Coupled them with grandpa's safari hat from Australia and a dinosaur tshirt from NY's Natural History Museum and taaadaaaa!

Not only was it free (in the sense we didnt hv to buy anything new or particularly costumey which he would probably wear only once or twice at most), it is completely authentic to Raiyan's self and he LOVED wearing it!



And here is Raiyan happily sharing his stuff with his friends. When Anna asked if she can borrow his binoculars, Raiyan sweetly said 'of course you can!'



Sigh.. It's just so lovely to see him so happy like this!!

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