passport finally

mommy has been contemplating to do a passport for me for very long.. but with my often sickness as well as the current H1N1 situation globally, going overseas has never materialised. thus no immediate urgency to do a passport.

however, she did try to take a photo of me good enough for a passport at home. but with numerous attempts, including make me sit on the potty with a white board behind, on the barney dvd and make me sit in the highchair with the white board, or even asking help from wai gong using his DSLR which supposedly capture my action faster... alas.. none of the above succeeded as all the photos with me either not looking into the camera or not 100% front view with two ears showing...even the cropping failed. whenever mommy tried to load the pic for the online application, all has been rejected.

the need finally arose when mommy saw the Club Med promotion and decided we should go for a short getaway as a family. so yesterday, she and daddy brought me to a photo kiosk to take passport photo. it's definitely a hard job. daddy make me sit on his shoulders and he squatted down to make me just nicely fit in the white background. mommy stood beside the auntie and tried to catch my attention using the photo frame... the empty albums on the shelf. finally, a small mirror for customer did the trick. i looked right into the camera and the auntie was fast enough to capture tat moment....

viola! this is the final product.

i do look a bit shocked though.. don't you think so? but i like this pic too cos i was holding it all the time when i was back at home.. and even laughed at myself.

now i am positively looking forward to my new passport. or even more so, the bintan trip at club med with daddy & mommy in September!

no.. No... NO!!! DARREEN!!!

tat's prob the most said phrase at home now. the close second being "darren, CANNOT...." who says it's terrible two, the "terrible-ness" starts at 15mth... or rather starts when the little one can start move around freely.

mommy is really amazed at how much the little one has grown overnite. at the 2nd week of my 15mth, i start to walk more on my own. i can drink from straw.. (FINALLY!!!) and i understand most of mommy's instruction. ok.. sometimes i just pretend not to listen... shhh... like when i want to open drawer repeatedly even though mommy said NO.. like when i start throwing things on the coffee table even though mommy said NO... like when i still like to stand just in front of the TV even though when mommy said NO...

think the little one is really at the stage tat whereby everyday will have new surprises.

this is something mommy finally caught me on video after numerous trys. mostly cos she has to keep an eye on me and try to video at the same time. and also partly cos i was too quick for her to catch. i just start walking unexpectedly and she has no time to grab the camera.

double happiness

i turned 15mth today! and today is also the national day!

but the happiest moment got to be i am able to walk INDEPENDENTLY for abt 1o steps myself!
yippee, tat's a great achievement...

and it happened quite unexpectedly. we just came back from supermarket, and i was as usual crawling around, then i picked up a plastic stick under the table.. stood up while holding it and just WALKED... right from the coffee table to the tv consol.

mommy was overjoyed and she didn't really count properly... so she estimated ard 10 steps....

but after tat magical moment, i am back to my usual.. crawling, walking with support again...

waiting for my next magical moment... shouldn't be long though...

Naughty or timid?

Although officially I still cannot walk independently yet, I just like to roam around in the house. Just a question whether I am willing to let go of the support. I’ve been practicing long and hard by pushing chairs all around the home.

There is this yellow child chair, the push walker, the red stool and now even my own high chair. Oh I attempted to push my own stroller too. The fav place got to be the kitchen, I will either lead mommy to walk to the kitchen or push a chair and walk there myself. Then I will let go of the support and turned to the drawers and start pulling and closing it. or open and close the cupboard door.. the expression is super funnie. When I am scared of hurting my fingers or the loud banging sound, I will close my eyes and with a very careful/scared expression on my face. Hahahah

caught in action!

Sometimes when I was holding mommy’s hand to walk, mommy will suddenly let go, and I can walk one or two steps on my own before falling on the floor. Now I know mommy’s trick liao, once she let go, I will lean back on her legs cos I know she is just behind me!

teething darren = cranky & whiny darren

Its’ been quite a while for me with 8 teeth. But recently I started teething again. And this time is not one, not two.. but at least 6 or 8!

The two big molar on the upper jaw are oredi out which mommy only realized recently and suspected it’s been out for quite a while. Then over the last weekend, mommy can see the two incisor on the upper jaw going to erupt soon. Then the incisor on the bottom jaw also going to erupt soon cos the gum has become hard and can see a bit of whitish under the gum. When I finally willing to open my mouth, mommy thot she saw a bit whitish on the bottom left molar too?

Even though mommy has been brushing teeth for me using the finger brush with the first teeth toothpaste, there is still some blackish stain on my teeth. So mommy was thinking when would be an appropriate time to bring me to see a dentist. Maybe soon.. when I can understand mommy’s instruction.

my signature move during the past week, while one hand holding a spoon to bite..the other hand pushing the chair and walking around.

SICK again…

It all started with mommy with blocked nose and phlegm in her throat… while mommy didn’t show any other symptoms, the bug was too strong for me.

I started with simple cough and a bit runny nose. So daddy and mommy quickly brought me to PD’s clinic in view of current situation of H1N1, it’s better to cure it early.

Who knows, the medicine didn’t work for me and the cough started becoming chesty and with a lot of phlegm. While the pd said throwing up is better since I dunno how to spit out the phlegm, it’s really very heart wrenching for daddy and mommy to see me merlion every now and then.

daddy and mommy brought me back to the PD on Saturday morning (25Jul). the PD suggested to do nebulizer once in the clinic, but given my previous exp, daddy and mommy quickly rejected the idea. So he changed my medicine to a stronger one…
Instead of getting better, I started to develop fever over the weekend. Daddy and mommy actually brought me to the TMC 24 hour clinic on Sunday nite, but looking at the long queue and with every visitor has to wear a mask, we eventually returned home without seeing the doc. Monday morning, daddy and mommy brought me back to the PD and this time there is no escape for me.. I have to be on nebulizer every 4hourly and again my medication was changed.

i am so used to the nebulizer tat i bit the tube...

So over the next two days before the review on Thursday, daddy and mommy took pains to come to the nanny’s place to do nebulizer for me during lunch time. And during mid nite, to pei me watch Barney at 2am and did the nebulizer at the same time.

When Thursday came and me didn’t seem to be any better, the doc suggested to continue with the nebulizer and monitored over the weekend, if not have to send to kk for H1N1 testing. mommy really had the urge to send me there straight away, but then would it be better for me? surely there will be a lot of sick kids around at the A&E, with the infamous long queue and inexperienced doctors, would it do more harm than good for me to go there? Scarly I catch another virus there? So in the end, mommy just shelve the idea.

The cough seems to drag on for a longer period now. And I have “successfully” passed the virus to daddy with daddy falling sick with the same symptoms. But daddy has to go to KL for a conference on Sunday evening. Sigh.. hope both of us recover fast.

tat's how much medicine i have accumulated over the last two + weeks!

Monday came with the scheduled review with doctor again, although the cough seems to be less frequent now, it still has a bit linger on. so the doc suggest to go on with the medicine, but no need to continue with the nebulizer and if I dun get better by weekend, then I have to go thru further test. But mommy feels it’s better for me to do it now rather than wait… so off we go to tmc to do the test.

Then there is a bit of confusion over there, the nurse at the clinic told mommy to go to the lab at tmc. So mommy went straight to the lab on the 4th floor. The staff saw the request form and said ‘we dun have the facilities here to do the test” with a few phone calls we actually supposed to go to the 24 hour family clinic on the 1st level.

Luckily wai gong came to accompany us. Cos the test is supposed to extract out my phlegm for culture test… the nurse said I better dun drink or eat.. but mommy smuggled some soy bean milk and pancake for me cos I am hungry liao and it’s my feeding time.

When it’s my turn, mommy carried me to the procedure room. The nurse asked mommy to put me on the bed… at first I am still curious and looking around then the nurse drew the curtain and asked mommy to wait outside.. then I started to become scary liao..
Mommy didn’t know what the nurse did to me, but she can hear my cries even standing outside.. sigh…

Mommy’s note: I think it’s better for me to stay outside, if I am in, I sure will break down and cry with Darren and snatch him away from the nurse. Even now when I think back, my eyes will still be damp…my poor baby… hope the worst is over.

P.S. after the two days culture test, the test result showed tat there are two germs inside me.. no wonder i took so long to recover... now i am under house arrest until i fully recover...

see... i am quite busy at home actually... tat's my lap top..

or do exercise by pushing chair around?

The 2nd haircut

Officially this is only my 2nd major hair cut. First being at full month while they got me shaved botak while I was not able to defend myself. 2nd one was a minor trim just before the sean lau PS and I was oredi struggling big time. All mommy could say is this time was even worse.

At first I was quite alrite sitting on the chair, then once the auntie put the apron on me, I started to fidget liao. As my hair was quite a lot and getting very long and thick. The auntie used the shaver to make it thinner. But once I heard the “humming sound” from the electric shaver, I wanted to run away. The adults have to hold my head so the auntie can shave. But I still struggled a lot. End up, mommy had to carry me on her laps without the apron. But even like this, I still wiggled a lot.

So can you imagine the mess, all the cut hair are all over my body and mommy’s. and best of all, the hair was not exactly well cut. Some patches got shaved more and some less. And the fringe some short and some long. Sigh.. now I can only hope my hair would grow back soon… but then again, would I be subject to another hair cut?

Next time, mommy is going to ask the auntie to cut “Armani” style.. haha wat’s tat? Can eat?

before....

after... see the fringe is not evenly cut?

me and my yellow chair

pardon the orientation haha... my daddy doesn't happen to be very good with camera.

new updates

Mommy is getting lazy. She hasn’t really updated anything while I was making tremendous development in my own way…

At the end of 13mths.. going on to 14mths….what I can do at the moment.

1) climb to standing position with support, be it coffee table, tv cabinet, kitchen glass door, or simply a flat wall. I am able to pull myself to standing position with little support.
2) Walk with support or in another word “cruising”, along the coffee table, bench, tv cabinet, or while pushing the plastic stool in the bedroom. Recently I can walk a few steps while just holding one hand from mommy.

up to some mischief

3) Prefer to standing than sitting now which make bath time especially difficult. So sometimes mommy would do showering instead.
4) Like to use my finger to poke into small holes? Mommy presumes tat I am trying to practice my fine motor skills when I poke at her nostril and try to lift up her lips.
5) Loves to see myself in the mirror and laugh aloud. With a touch and a kiss too.
6) Able to babble a lot.. but still cannot make a word out of it. still waiting for the magic moment to call papa (dada) or mama, in whatever form.
7) Knows how to throw tantrum by screaming aloud. if taking away whatever I am holding, I will scream on top of my lung until the adults give in to me.

only quiet moment tat i can sit still is to watch my fav barney.

8) Can hold my own bottle but lazy. If mommy insists on putting my hand around the bottle, I can hold for a while. But after, I just drop the hand to roll my shirt or playing other stuff
9) Knows how to refuse food. I am no longer the big eater which just gobbled down everything stuff inside my mouth. If I dun like, I will use my hand to push away and scream to show my unhappiness. Even if I am hungry, now I will take longer to finish my food.

Last night (2nd jul) mommy is so happy over my improvments, it seems I have grown up a lot just over one night.

After wiping pipi after poo poo, I climbed down the sofa (where the changing mat is) all by myself in the correct manner – turned over and legs down first). Then I stood up using the support by the back of my yellow chair and walked around the whole living room by pushing it.

Then on the coffee table, there is a container with raisin and peanuts. Now I know how to hold it if I want to eat the raisins inside. Then mommy will open and feed me some raisins. Once I finished, I will look at her again, and she know it’s time for 2nd one. but sometimes, mommy refused to give me more cos it’s too sweet for me. And I just went back to my gerber star on the table instead of making a big fuss. I am a big boy now.

As for the gerber star, I am getting better at it by opening the lid using my teeth. That was an old trick I learned long long ago. The new one would be I know how to tilt the container and shake it a bit so the stars can come out.. and mommy always says “one at a time” so I just put my hand inside and take one only and put inside my mouth. See I understand instruction now. But occasionally , I still like to tilt the container all the way and all the gerber stars came out, yippee tat’s a “gerber star feast” for me.

my fav gerber star

gymboree trial

Thanks to auntie Jessie from May08 thread who arranged this Gymboree trial at the HarborFront cos we got free trial voucher from the May birthday bash not long ago.

Although it’s early, was it 1015 on a Sunday morning? It’s good since there are only 4 babies in the same class and we had the whole playground to ourselves.

getting ready for the lesson to start

It started with some free play, but I was drinking milk at tat time. Once I finished, I joined in the fun. The teacher really had a very loud clear and angelic voice tat caught my attention, I was smiling all the way when she was singing.

Then it’s time for some physical movement, we were divided into two groups and climbed up the apparatus on the playground. I simply loved this part since I like to crawl all over the place.

climb climb climb...

chasing after the ball

climb again...

Then each baby took his turn to be carried in the parachute and rocked side to side. I was oredi laughing aloud when the other babies did it. so when it’s finally my turn, see how smiley I am.. I was mesmerized by the teacher’s voice.

see me in the big parachute... thanks to randall daddy to help mommy take photo

do you see randall and auntie jessie sitting on the mat?

my big smiley face.. i really enjoyed it.

Think the most enjoyable session is the part when all the babies were standing against a big log-shaped cushion and walked up and down. I was laughing so happily as I listened to teacher’s singing…

I really can’t bear to leave the place when it’s ended. As I still crawled to the toy’s corner and tried to take the toys and play.

oooppss. mommy caught me taking toys even the lesson has ended.

First trip to a park

Daddy & mommy think it’s good for me to learn to love and appreciate nature. But mot of the time we tend to laze around at home during weekends rather than venture further out.

The chance finally came when wai gong, wai po, yee-ma and tong tong jie jie came over one Sunday. Wai gong just got a new DSLR and was eager to show off its prowess. So we decided to go to fort canning park, and wat’s more, we are going there by bus instead of the usual taxi.

So here we go, we took a bus to the bus stop opposite liang court, there is a flight of staircase leading up all the way. So we all started climbing…

getting ready!

As I haven’t started walking, wai po and mommy took turns to carry me. as a heavy baby at 13kg++, I sure gave a hard time to mommy and wai po. Especially wai po bah, cos she carried me most of the time.

see wai po's clothes is wet from sweat... thank you wai po!

As we are in no hurry, we took a slow stroll and stopped along the way to appreciate the fallen leaves, blooming flowers and the refreshing air.

tong tong jie jie enjoying herself

It’s really an eye-opening experience to me. to see so many trees, flowers. I was so eager to look around tat I kept turning right and left to catch all the views. At one point of time, yee ma got so excited to see those red seeds falling from the trees which she thinks it’s Xiang Si dou. And she and tong tong jie jie started picking it up from the ground. How I wish I can walk and join them in the fun.

When we finally reached the legends, alas.. it’s under renovation. Nonetheless, there were still a lot of activities. Saw a couple taking wedding photos, a malay wedding with loud music blasting, and some pet owners’ activities on the lawn..

from my smile, u noe i enjoyed myself!

mommy and me

Not bad, it’s definitely a refreshing change to shopping malls.

oooo............ finally!!!

mommy has been trying to post new updates for me but the page keep having errors "javascript0" and cannot load up photos. a blog wont' be nice w/o photos...

hurray!!!! then the clever mommy went up to search and realised a lot of pple having the same prob.. finally someone posted a solution and it worked...

so now mommy is back in action.