my first lunar birthday

Today is a special day for me. I am ONE by the Chinese calendar. So daddy and mommy took a day off specially for the occasion.

My day started with a special breakfast. Instead of the usual porridge, today I had meesua with egg (mommy says I cannot eat egg white yet, so it’s only egg yolk) and some veggie. Hmmm I am a good boy when comes to eating, I finish the whole bowl.

Then daddy and mommy brought me downstairs to buy their breakfast, and they went to this stall and bought two ang ku kueh for me too. Mommy heard from her colleague tat it signifies longevity, so she just followed lor. after back to home, mommy put the two ang ku kuehs in a bowl. It’s the first time I see something so red. Initially I dun dare to touch at all. Then daddy took a bit of the skin and feed me. Hmm… just yi si yi si bah, cos the amount is so tiny, I couldn’t really taste it. then I finally sum up enough courage to touch it, heeheehee, it feels soft and oily.
Two ang ku kueh

After my bath, it’s the highlight of the day… ZHUA ZHOU (choosing the item). Mommy laid out 10 items in a circle and each item symbolizes a career I might take in the future. The 10 items are

1) pen – journalist / writer
2) ruler – someone with judgement
3) book – scholar
4) thermometer – doctor or in healthcare profession
5) ball – someone in sports industry
6) mouse – IT profession
7) calculator – accountant
8) seal – someone with authority /power to approve
9) $10 note – businessman
10) Handphone – telecommunication

And guess what I chose? Firstly, I took up the mouse, one glance and I threw it away. Then I crawled to the calculator, grabbed it and then I am more attracted to the seal. Oh tat one I have n’t seen before. So I played with the seal for quite sometime. Then I saw the thermometer, the tip looks chewy. But after I put in my mouth, I got distracted by the seal again, I got to take tat one again.. then I went back to the mouse and calculator again.. but in the end, I took the $10 note and crawled away.. maybe I find money is the most practical after all?

After lunch, daddy and mommy brought me out for a little family time together. We went to Goodwood park for hi-tea. But the naughty me cannot sit still and enjoy the food and music. After a good 10 or 15 min, daddy and mommy have to take turns to entertain me, if not I will scream on top of my lung and the rest of the guests keep looking at me.

our birthday boy getting ready to go out.

where is my order?

Then daddy brought me to the swimming pool and let me play with the water…
Eventually mommy gave up, she carried me somewhere there is carpet and let me crawl on my own..i finally found something interesting and happily crawled away. Then we realized tat the place is just outside the hotel’s office. And those aunties will stop and smiled at me.

finally get to crawl. better check got anyone catching me?

Haiz.. I guess daddy and mommy never really enjoyed the hi-tea in peace. After all they specially took leave to accompany me. Nonetheless, it’s good to spend the time together as family.

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Before mommy forget, darren did some of his firsts on his lunar birthday, first, he pulled himself up from kneeling position to standing position with the help of coffee table.

2nd, he finally poo-ed when sitting on the potty. Hahha but I still very angry over this. When the maid heard the noise, she just let him sit on the mat if not for the fact I asked her to bring Darren to the potty. But she never removed the pants and diaper lor. just placed him on the potty and held him still. My guess is tat she doesn’t want to clean the potty and darren’s butt. After all, poo on the diaper just need to throw away the diaper rite? Less work for her. sighzz…

Getting more active (naughtier) day by day

I love my new found freedom!

Now I realized I can crawl to any places all by myself, I am so happy tat I dun even want to be carried. The happiest time of the day would be when mommy put me on the mat and let me roam freely. I like to go to the toys corner and take out all the flash cards and spill them on the mat, then pick up those I like one by one. when I got bored with the cards, I will crawl to my potty, not sitting on it, but playing with it by putting my hand in. I am always interested to know what’s there at the bottom. Then after I am done with that, I crawl to the activity mat that I used to lie when I was a baby, but now I dun want to lie there, I am more interested to play with the tag.

see, i am so happy crawling!

When nobody notices me, I like to crawl on the marble floor. Yippee.. and play with daddy’s mouse and keyboard. And if I am lucky, I get to play with daddy’s blackberry when he is charging it. then I will sneak under the study table to play with the wire.. uh-huh.. most of the time, before I even touch tat, I got pulled out by one of the adults cos they say it’s dangerous. Hmmm. What does “dangerous” mean?

Mommy and daddy said I am a determined young man. Cos whatever I catch the sight on, I will make sure I get it even though the adults put it away. Once they pull me away from the wires, I will try to find my way back! But the adults are as persistent as me.

now digging out my toys from the container.

Tat’s my usual routine at night, I must crawl to my content before I am wiling to go sleep. If not I will make a din and dun let the adults rest too. Sigh, daddy and mommy’s dark eye rings are getting darker. I am so happy to find my fav card.

But I am getting more fun to play with too. Whenever I crawl to the kitchen glass door or mommy’s dressing mirror, I will laugh aloud. Is tat the cute baby in the mirror me? Hmmm… not bad looking though… hahaha
first time sitting on the potty, still guai guai.....

but after that... hmmm... wat's inside? let me check....

Darren's first birthday bash!!!!

Yippee.. i am turning ONE in another month's time. the preparation has started long ago. and now it's in the critical finalization phase....

so uncles, aunties and frenz.. pls do join the fun with me. here is my invitation to all of you:

in case it's not clear, the details are as followed:

Date: 9 May, Saturday (Vesak Day)

venue: Children's playroom, The Grassroots Club
190 Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 (just beside Yio Chu Kang MRT station)

Time: 1130 -1500.

Hope to see you there!

many firsts in the first week of Apr

April so far has been a fruitful to me, I have learnt a lot of new things within the first week.

1) first of all, I finally know how to crawl. Although I can only crawl one or two steps, then I will lie down to rest a while. Tat’s cos I am too big size to support myself. But as I practice more often, (I even crawl with my eyes closed during mid of nite, I am hardworking hor), now I can at least crawl from one end of the mat to the other end… but I like to crawl on the marble floor more. When mommy put me on the mat, I will wriggle my way back to the marble floor. Even though I got knocked my head against the floor a few times, but I guess it’s more cooling

2) after much practice, now I know how to sit up by myself from crawling position. I surprised mommy one nite when she was too tired trying to pull me back from crawling to the marble floor and was lying on the mat resting. Then the next moment she saw me I was sitting up all by myself and was holding a toy and playing. And since then, there is no turning back.

3) My hair was getting long and in order to get prepared for my photoshoot on the Good Friday, mommy and daddy brought me to the kids salon at united sq after the GUG lesson. Firstly, mommy put me on the chair, then an auntie put an apron to cover me, suddenly I cannot see my hands, so I got a bit panicky and was trying to wriggle my hands out, then the auntie started using a pair of scissors to cut my hair… mommy was holding me to keep me still… so I got scared and trying to move my way out… at the end of it, the auntie was using a vacuum tube to clean my neck and arms of small hair, I was so scared by the sound and the tube moving on my body tat I really wailed… so in the end, mommy said the auntie never really did a good job, some parts of my hair are not really cut evenly.. hmmm… I wonder whether I will still be handsome in the photos?

4) Mommy think this is one of the most significant milestone of me. I started babbling with my baby language. Sunday morning, I woke up finding mommy and daddy are still zzz-ing, so I flipped around and playing by myself. After a while I got bored, so I went to pull mommy’s hair so tat she can wake up playing with me, but she didn’t move… so I decided to tell myself a story. It was rather interesting and I continued to babble throughout the day, It must have been the day tat I spoke most words eversince I was born. And mommy says it’s the most angelic voice tat she has heard.

5) Mommy is sad and green with ENVY.. cos she has to work OT for the beginning of apr as it’s the quarter closing. So these few days.. daddy picked up from the nanny’s. then last nite (7 apr). when daddy was playing with me, I was babbling “da, da,da-di” which got daddy so happy, he thot I was calling him “daddy”. Ok just let him be happy for a while.. maybe I just accidently made the sound tat resembled “daddy”?

separation anxiety

the adults called it separation anxiety, but to me, i just want to be with daddy and mommy. tat day when mommy went out of the door, i thot she doesn't want me anymore, so i just cried and stretched out my arms and asked mommy to bao bao... but then it turned out tat she just went outside to wear shoes... silly me....