Growing up with Nathaniel; Day426-Day471

20 April 2015

Now week 68!  My boy is growing up fast and furious!

Milestones from week 62 to week 67...

1. he starts to confuse-calling me as Papa, and ah Thiang as Mama and occasionally calling Nainai as Yehyeh and so-fro (don't know he does it on purpose anot)...
2. he can say more words like "ka" - car, fan, light (灯), book, 美美, 猫, scare, dirty, Yehyeh, pain, shoe...
3. he fell down from my parent's bed during one of the afternoon naps and bit his lower left lip - 7/3/2015...
4. he felt depressed, gave us that 放空的 look - 11&12/3/2015... (as we are currently busy with new house stuffs, almost neglected him for a straight couple of nights to meet up with the IDs and run errands... so for the two days in a row, he hasn't been calling me Mama but luckily we brought him out to celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary and won back his smiles and acknowledgement!)
5. he starts to walk more steps without support steadily - 12/3/2015... by now he can already walking non-stop at the hall, inspecting the whole house and walk in the malls with shoes - 16/3/2015...
6. he fell ill - vomited 3 times and seen SBCC doctor... apparently he caught some stomach virus and bill amounted to $169 and after medicine, he has been lao sai-ing the next few days and well recovered within a week - 19/3/2015...
7. he develops fear and will consistently pats his chest whenever he feels scare... ie: when a motorbike drives past, he will pats his chest and say "scare"... bus also scare... sigh  >_<"
8. he learns to take instructions after a few times... when I called out "come to Mama and hug me..." it takes awhile for him to register then think about it before coming over to hug me...
9. he manjas his Yehyeh when he wake up in the mornings, lie down side by side with Yehyeh or sometimes saw him hugging him from behind...
10. he was 'taught' to beat the object causing him pain, so when he knocked onto the cot... he will beat the cot or knocked on the floor, he will beat the floor and cry at the same time...
11. his foot now measures 13cm - 23/3/2015...
12. he has 12 teeth...
13. he now weighs 12.3KG - 4/4/2015...
14. he can read ABC and the rest of the letters are A to him... read to him and use his fingers to draw out the letters, then he will 'switch' using my finger to write the letter instead - 11/4/2015...
15. he calls any kids older than him 'jiejie' in regardless boy or girl... so just taught him the meaning of 'korkor' - 12/4/2015...
16. he holds (our) phones and pretend to walk and talk like an adult - in full conversation; meaning, he walk around and talk, then paused like listening to the caller then continued to talk then ended the conversation with 'bai~' - 16/4/2015...
17. he's more willing to give kisses (lips to lips), with him ahhhh his big mouth and wetting our lips then shy-away after each kisses - 18/4/2015...
18. he will fuss, cries and dash over when you get near to the pram in the mornings (moving it aside so that I can get my shoes from the shoe cabinet) and he will think you want to bring him out but realised that he's not going out - 16&20/4/2015...

#day426 - Hanging out with the Yeo's and my bubbly chubby boy!

 

 

#day440 - Weekend's wefie with the boys!

 

 

#day441 - Play date with cousin Livie! (picture courtesy from my SIL)

 

 

#day447 - Training in progress so that he can wave that 荧光耪 with style when I bring him to watch Jay Chou's last concert before he retired...  HAHA!

 

 

#day452 - Look Ma, no hands and walking with shoes on in the house!

 

 

#day455 - It's 外婆's birthday, but somebody's got present from Daddy!

 

 

#day456 - Inspired to be the next mat rock! #ikea

 

 

#day460 - Looking grouchy; bought a gate to prevent him from coming into the kitchen and now he will go close the gate and clap happily (like feeling accomplished with a mission impossible) when we left it open...

 

 

#day462, #day463 - Wearing shoes whenever we go out... now that he will go look for his shoes to tell you he want to go out!

 

 

#day463 - Fun time splashing at the pool today!  ah Thiang go buy new swim wear to hide his BIG stomach...

 

 

#day466 - FaceTime with the Grams!  When 外婆 says "saying", he will go pat his head... when Nainai says "headache", he will also pat his head...  -__-"

 

 

#day466 - It's been awhile since we had "us-fie" for a long time...

 

 

#day468 - Nathaniel 的四连拍，您喜欢哪一拍？

 

 

#day469 - The father and son moment! 你"傻痒"我， 我"傻痒"你！

 

 

#day470 - Us making trips to Ikea every now and then, almost 3 times a month so now he is making himself feel at home! #ikea

 

*ps: #day471 ends on 20 April 2015

Dawson - Home Renovations Part 1

15 April 2015

Renovations started this week!  So efficient - ID has already instructed his workers to laid the sheets on the floorings last Wednesday after our meeting with him on Tuesday evening...  Major lightings are all delivered as well... so now waiting for the rest of the items to fall in according to the schedule...

Let me do a quick run through of what we plan to do for each area in the house!

Living hall - TV console and display shelves (supposingly to build a loft book shelf with ladder on the other side of the wall but it's our "水位" so we have to replace the area with sofa instead)... still looking out for "the right" gold frame mirror for our "财位"!

 

 

Dining area - ah Thiang sitting against my featured wall aka brick wall!

 

 

Kitchen - featured here is a tall cabinet for the ovens and cabinets for hood & hob.  Service yard is on the right side of my hood & hob!  (yes, and see that my huart-cake moulding away one corner...)

 

 

Master Bedroom - pathetic and small, only can fit a queen size bed.  Only one L-shape wardrobe is planned to be built on the right side (single panel) window... so ah Thiang has to find other place to keep his clothing and stuffs...  no major renovation for the other 2 rooms except building wardrobes...

 

 

Living hall - photo taken on last Saturday, ah Thiang was doing his last round of checks before the real renovation kicks in...

 

 

Yesterday was the electrical works - rewiring all the wires, adding of new switch/power points and sound speakers points, trunking of the aircon pipes and re-wiring of network points...

 



Moma's 59th Birthday!

04 April 2015

My Moma, my ah Thiang's MIL and baby Nat's 外婆 turns 59 this year!  #punintended

Early morning went down to the florist and got a 3-stalks of carnation for the Birthday girl... wanted train Nat to present the bouquet of flowers to his 外婆 but asked him to hold, he held the bouquet, examined then threw it on the floor in less than a minute.  :(  #trainingfailed

Spent half of the afternoon catching some power nap at Moma's before we leave for her birthday dinner, booked at one of the Yakitori restaurant in Bugis.  Food was meh meh... I still prefer Shin Kushinya - at least they served my fave garlic fried rice.  After feeding Nat's dinner, he cried like a banshee and kept wanting to leave his baby seat, brought him out for walk but not willing to step into the restaurant for the second time.  So the family has to gulped down their dinner and take turns to walk him outside the restaurant.  We still couldn't figure out why and what causes his reluctant of being in the restaurant...

We called for bill and took another walk around the mall to find desert place while baby Bro went shopping for a pair of Oakley.  We settled down at Dolce Tokyo Café for deserts where they serve Japanese Italian menu - we should have just settled our dinner and deserts here!  Ok, so the contradictory was... the mains looked good but deserts were meh too...  Tsk, aiyah I eat until 很不爽 lah... hahaha!!!

Anyways, took a group photo before the deserts arrive and it turned out either one of them wasn't looking at the camera!  So ah Thiang whipped out his phone and did some edits and turned out most of us looked at the camera!  #verysmarthusband

And yes, somebody has new toy on his 外婆's birthday!  :P

祝妈妈生日快乐，要笑口常开哦！