A Day At The Gym

Today, I signed him up for an hour at the one of those baby gym just to try out if he is ready for playgroup.

At first, he was very excited and was exploring around by his own. Then, suddenly he started clinging on to me and crying, I was wondering what happen when I realised that a male gym coach was making funny faces at him (the coach is just trying to be friendly with him). He kept pointing at the coach and then patted his chest to indicate that he is scared. *sigh* and this goes on for a good 10 mins and I had to try all means to distract him from looking at the coach.

After some coaxing, he finally stop clinging to me like a Koala bear and started bouncing on the "bouncer". He loves it! He kept jumping and landing on his buttock and laughs. After the "warm up", he started exploring again by himself.

This is the first time I saw him climbing! (hmm...since when my timid little boy become so garang?!) He climbed the vertical bar effortlessly by himself to mummy's surprise! He also walk up the steps by his own without mummy holding....this is a big step for me and him as he had been very timid all this while...He kept climbing up the steps and sliding down until our time is up.

Think boys are boys...once they found their courage, nothing can stop them : )

Sibling's Love

18 months

Guessed his sisters are very eager to play with him again after the quarantine period is over. But I still have to remind them not to kiss him and not to share food with him.

Got this snap shot of his Dajie changing his nappy. As he kept wriggling, dajie uses a book to distract him. heehee..think from now onwards, I can hand over this task to her. : P

His Progress @ 18months

Finally, my boy is able to point to the correct body parts when asked to. Think it's a little slow as compared to his 2 sisters but some of my friends consoled me saying that boys tends to be slower than girls. Hope it's true...

He is now "talking" more but daddy still worried a lot about his progress. I'm now on a mission to look for a playgroup for him to attend so as to keep his mind "active". Hope to find one soon...

I still have difficulty reading with/to him *sigh* I only managed to read 1 page those big book to him (so discouraging). Hope to do more with him soon.

Vocab: Ding Dong, naining (raining), Bye bye, Thank tew (thank you) , Mami (Mummy), Loli (Lorry), daddy, parti (party)

Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease

My maid called me this morning telling me that my boy's legs were bitten by a lot of mosquitoes. I told her to apply some cream for him and take his mattress out for sunning, in case it's bed bug and not mosquitoes.

When I got home, I was shocked to see blisters and not mosquitoes bite marks on his thigh! As he had a slight fever the day before, the first thing that came into my mind was Chicken Pox. I immediately quarantine him from his 2 jiejie and told my maid to wash all his toys and stuffs with Detol. While she is at it, I brought him down to our family doctor to have him check.

The doctor suspect it to be HFMD instead of Chicken Pox as he found 2 small ulcers in his mouth and the blister only appeared on his legs and not body. But as my boy is feeding fine, the doctor just gave him some cream to apply on the blisters and asked me to monitor him closely.

Poor boy, he's really very weak as compared to his 2 sisters. Seems to be that he will fall sick every 2 months...*sigh*..Wonder what i can do to boast his immune system...

Jurong Bird Park

Its been a long while since we last visited the Singapore Jurong Bird Park. Think the last time we went was 2 years ago! We had totally no recollection of how the Bird Park looks like and when my sister passed us the map, we were so excited that to see that there are so many things we can do and began busying ourselves planning the route so as not to miss anything.

When we got there in the morning, we were a little disappointed that the distant between each exhibit is actually very short and nothing exciting.

However, we enjoyed watching the shows and also the feeding at Lory Loft. Think we stayed at the Lory Loft the longest and a little reluctant to move on when daddy called us to.

Our last stop was the Waterfall Aviary. The view of the waterfall was beautiful though we didn't manage to see many birds in there.

At 15 months

15 months and 2 weeks old

He is getting more mischievous now.

Also, finally able to convince him to wear a cap. Told him if he don't wear his cap, he can't go out. At first, he refused but later realised we meant business, he obediently put it on. : )

His vocab to-date: pa-pa, baby, drop, light, throw, on, fan, up

Heart Shape Egg

Men are funny being. When I was frying this egg, daddy came into the kitchen, have one look at it and said to his daughters that mummy is crazy!

But when I dished it out for dinner, all of them especially daddy went for it!

Thinks appearance really help as my 2 princess usually takes very long to eat their food but today they finished real fast!

Walking And Running

Fourteen months

About 2 weeks ago, this little one started to walk a few steps without support. And now, we have to go after him and he even started to "run".

We are so worried that he might tripped over and knocked himself but so far, "touch wood", it has not happen. : )

He is also getting very cheeky now... Loves playing "peek-a-boo" with us and he would laugh out very loudly when we "peek-a-boo" him.

His Vocab now: boto-bike (Motorbike), star, moon, ma ma (grandma), bear

He also make the roaring sound when the word "tiger" or "lion" is being mentioned and that makes us laugh. : )

Favourite Activity

Fifteen months

His 2 favourite activities now are eating and chewing. Whenever we eat, he will want a share too!

His vocab now: mom-mom (asking for food), dog, ball, bird, car.

Surprisingly, he can said this quite clearly.

1 yr old birthday

We had a small family celebration for his first birthday. Nothing fanciful. We had dinner at the Singapore Swimming Club. But his 2 Jiejie is so sweet, they went up the stage to dedicate a birthday song for him!