Ah Gong and Me

Ah Gong and Me

When at Ah Gong's house on Weds - Fridays, he has a special bathtime ritual with me. After washing me up and drying me and putting me in nice clean clothes, Ah Gong loves to then comb my hair gently with the ivory husk comb that he bought especially for me, bring me in front of the full length mirror in Mommy's old bedroom (which is now MY bedroom), and make me pose for the camera for him to take a few shots of me. I will always oblige, and he is always tickled silly by the coy yet self satisfied expression I tend to wear on my face at this times.


Why is Ah Gong getting the camera in the picture? SSSSssshhhhh... he's showing off his new CAMERA lah, can't you tell???












Ah Gong actually invested in the LATEST Canon digital camera, the IXUS 70, just for ME. *Smug Look*. heehe, here's a few of the first shots with the new camera...



1st Time in my Safety 1st Booster Seat, minutes after Mommy brought it home from Taka Baby Fair. :P



Me in new clothes bought my 2nd grand aunty from Hong Kong. All of them said I look more matured in this. Do I?



My Uncle Parrot!!! Or is it Auntie Parrot? It's been 20+ years and they have NOT got that figured out....hhhhhmmm.... This is Mommy's pet parrot since she was 8yrs old. Poor him gotta be banished to the guest room whenever I am there, because Daddy Mommy thinks his screeches are too harsh for my vulnerable ears. Ah Gong likes to bring me into the room to look at "Jiao Gu", which means "uncle parrot" in Teochew, and I always kick my legs in excitement and screech happily at him, while he seems to be trying his best to put as much distance between us as his chain would allow. I do find him cute.... do you?

Gymboree - at 4 and 7 mths old

What a difference!!!

Back in Jan 2007, I went to Gymboree for the first time, where I was scared to tears by Gymbo the Clown. After the class, a few of our mommies and daddies went to the coffee place downstairs to chit chat, and we took this photo. Don't ask me why our Mommies were hiding behind us. That time, all of us were rather quiet babies, deceptively well-bahaved in fact. I mean, we were only 4+ months old! Sitting quietly where our Mommies placed us, more or less managing to face the camera.




And Then, coincidentally, 3 months later, the SAME 3 of us went to Gymboree again! and this time (*Ahem, proud look*), I played with Gymbo the Clown and kinda enjoyed myself but were rather tired towards the end. And, during lunch time, the mommies realised its the same 3 at the table and excitedly took another photo, trying to renact the old times. Even the positions are the same!!!

No such Luck. The babies have grown, and now they don't keep still for the shot.


Now, Arianne is a refined young lady, Der Nen is a super fast crawler, and me? ... Just wouldn't keep still for the camera.







Ooops, Mommy caught me sleeping with a beauty.......... its Baby Sophie... :)

High Tea at Orchard Hotel

It was to be a leisurely afternoon, 8 Mommies and their babies are gathering for an afternoon of starving themselves silly with the high tea at Orchard Hotel. It was actually organised for Auntie Angeline, pretty Trinity's Mom, whom is in Singapore for 1-2 weeks and flying back to HongKong 2 days later. So there's a lot of chatting, exchanging babies to carry, and photo-taking of course!

During this sofa episode, a few waitresses from the nearby restaurants heard the commotion and came out to admire us cute babies hehehe.

I am flanked by babes. One is holding my left hand, and the other clutching my leg! I am so popular already!


Playing with Baby Jac's socks.
Pondering over why Baby Arianne has a fetish with them. They look just like mine, just that these are pink....



And as usual, I am talking to myself when the photo-taking went on around me. Babies were frowning, calling for Mommies, or just quietly observing. But I am practising my current favourite alphabet and chanting "Aaaa.....Aa.......aaaaa....AAAAAAAA!!!!" at varying loudness and intensity. Auntie Diana insisted I must be calling Baby Arianne.







And our Mommies!!!


Finally, Baby Trinity arrived, I have not seen her for such a long time! :) Ain't she sweeeeeeet? :)

What did Auntie June did to me??

What did Auntie June did to me?

The result of Auntie June's multi-functional Sony Ericcson K800i. Lucky Daddy didn't do this with his own hp (same model), else I will end up worse. Actually, it was Mommy who wanted a similar photo when she saw DN's with a moustache. Auntie June kindly and excitedly obliged. And nope, they did NOT ask for my permission!

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After

A Pleasant Surprise from Jovann!

10 April Tuesday. So proud of you!

You gave Mommy a pleasant surprise tonight by showing me you could put the balls one by one into the Tiny Love elephant toy! I was amazed, and so was Daddy when Gong Gong showed it to him. We thought it was a fluke, a coincidence. But look at your determined look when guiding the ball to the toy. The elephant head has even been removed, so the hole for you to drop the balls in is even smaller. But you did it!!! You are 6 Months 3 Weeks old. :)

Mommy can't help laughing when I see this video. When you thought the orange ball had gone in, you actually braced yourself for the noise and music, and blinked your eye several times in anticipation of the drop. :P And when your left hand's fingers were blocking the hole, you actually know you are supposed to remove your hand before it can go in!!!

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Picnic!!! At Botanic Gardens

It was a super impromptu spontaneous and last minute decision to go to Botanic Gardens. Around 3.30pm, Auntie BRenda msn-ed Mommy "Wanna go Botanic gardens for picnic"? After consulting Daddy, Mommy said "why not?!" ETA 6pm. And there we go, I have my first picnic! :)

Daddy Mommy brought Strawberries, nachos, beer, apples, the cold stuff were dumped into the ever reliable FTG. Auntie Brenda and Uncle Shawn brought Macdonalds! And we had a FEAST! right there on the old bedsheet Auntie Brenda bought, hahaha!



Aint I the perfect gentleman?


Still friends!






Ooh, and I get a Kiss in return!

I am officially a BIG Head

Your are Officially A Big Head - 6th MOnth Visit to the PD

This will be your last Hep B Jab. The next jab will be 2nd, 3rd and 4th dose of Prevnar (pneumoccocal vacinnation) at 7th, 9th and 12mths. Daddy and Mommy feel so xing tong that you have to go through so many jabs, while some of your friends will have 1/2 yr of rest before their annual jab. But we have weighed the pros and cons, and Mommy had read up too much about pneumoccocal (I was tested positive for Strep B in week 5 but cleared twice later during pregnancy) to risk not protecting you from it. So darling, be brave okie? Mommy is not scared of injections, so you must be like me, brave brave....eerrr or is it sadistic as Daddy would have me believe? :P

Well, here's something to cheer you up. During your developmental measurement at the clinic, you are 66.5cm long, 7.57kg in weight and have a head circumference of 45.2cm. You are officially a BIG HEAD! Hehehe, because though measuring in the 50th percentile for height and weight, you fall in the 97th percentile for head size!!! Oh WowW! Does that mean you have more brain mass? Which means you will be SMART? Hehehehe! Most importantly, be HEALTHY as well okie darling?!

Mommy prepared a long list of questions to grill Dr Ong with, and these includes any and every question on feeding cereal and puree and porridge. Only when Mommy has asked till her satisfaction did she leave the doctor's office. Oh, and did I mention, this time you did not notice at all when he jabbed you. Dr Ong said Daddy is so good at distracting you, but I suspect its coz Hep B jabs are not painful lah, right?

Mommy kept asking Dr Ong too why your weight only increased by 70g over one month! and to think that you have started cereals. He assured us that your weight is healthy and babies of this age should be putting on only a bit every month, since you are more active than before, and you should be reaching the ideal weight of 9-10kg at 1yr of age. He said you are on the way there. Though he has said that before, Mommy feels better hearing him say that again. And when asked around, Mommy learn that other babies of your age put on very little weight monthly as well.

Mommy bumped into her secondary school friend and her baby Cheryl in the waiting room. :) I have not met this friend every since we graduated 13 years ago! GOSH. I didn't even know she has a baby, who's around the same age as you. :)

Took leave to take care of you today. Temperature is fine throughout the day though it kinda hit 37.6 for a few seconds before dropping. All's well!

Korean BBQ at Ju Shin Jung

Ah Gong Ah Ma wanted to bring Mommy out to celebrate my Lunar birthday. We brought forward the celebration because on the actual birthday our family has the tradition of eating tung hoon soup with hard boiled egg (in teochew its called Dao Ciam Neng). So dining out will have to be another day. Mommy took the chance to suggest the Korean BBQ Jun Shin Jung that I have been itching to try! This time fussy Ah Gong cannot reject me. :P

We looked forward so much to having a BBQ with you sitting beside us. So we brought the bumbo. You slept in the car, when we push you to the restaurant, and for the first part of the dinner in your stroller. Look at the spread! Mommy's pleasantly reminded of my favourite show "Da Chang Jing".


Then you woke up! :)
You amused us with your newly acquired habit of blowing raspberries. You were pretty well-behaved when you sat on the bumbo, and you look so cute sitting on the bench with us.






Birthday girl and her love of her life. :P


Mommy especially like it when you suddenly leaned close to Mommy, held my right arm, and sorta rub or bury your face into my arm, as if you want to be close to me or for me to carry you. That's so adorable I asked Daddy to video it down.
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By the time you make noise, we were more or less done with the dinner, and we took turns carrying you while the the others finish the food. The waitress and waiters played with you too, and one nice waitress brought you some candy, which of course you are too small to eat. Mommy eat for you kae? :P

Mommy is glad Ah Gong and Ah Ma enjoyed the dinner very much. that is no mean feat, because Ah Gong has a VERY discerning palate that is so hard to satisfy. Hehehe.


Well, perhaps your presence made the food sweeter, not to mention your saliva that you blew all over our dishes.
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My Friends - Joshua and Enzo

Joshua's 1st Birthday at Costa Sands Downtown. Daddy mommy didn't know that is actually the NTUC Pasir Ris Chalet renamed, and went to the Costa Sands Pasir Ris instead! Turns out they were not the only ones who went to the wrong place. heheh. I managed to wake up in time to take pictures with the birthday boy! :) I heard he has a lovely birthday cake in the shape of a car, how nice! But it was gone by the time we reached there hehehe. Nebermine, ask Mommy to buy one for me for my birthday. :)

You see lah, silly Mommy, expose me until I zhao geng like that.


The day Enzo came to our house to play. :)
Boy meets boy.