Saturday, 6 June 2015

Growing up with Nathaniel; Day472-Day518

06 June 2015

Week 74, at 17 months old!

Hasn't got the time to sit down and blog properly so on and off update abit here and there, only now has time to publish!  Busy running errands for the house, back from business trip last week...  #findingexcuses but that's not the highlight...  Highlight is, ah Thiang buying mi a piano!  Digital version de lah, but hey also not cheap hor...  YAY!  I thank his 好意 but first and foremost, finish the house stuffs then have more time then we lucy lucy...  *wink wink*

Milestones from week 68 to week 73...

  1. he can say knock, shoe, egg, 鸡蛋,wet wet, por por (婆婆), tok kong (公公), dark, walk, close, drop, pick up, thank kew, 谢谢, 坐, press, where, 坐-gong (going to work)...
  2. he can say "bye bye" instead of "bai"...
  3. he will say "pad pad, ...pease!" when requesting for an iPad - 20/4/2015...
  4. I caught my baby boy smiling in his sleep on both mornings of 21/4/2015 & 26/4/2015...
  5. he will pretend to walk and slide on stomach backwards - 24/4/2015...
  6. he's training to be our little helper by use cloth and pretend to wipe floor or in his cot - 25/4/2015...
  7. he likes to play with cousin Livie, knowing that she's coming over, he kept walking to the door and repeating 'jie jie' and refuses to nap... he chases her from behind and hug her - 2/5/2015...
  8. he can show you where is ear, eyes, mouth and nose - 5/5/2015...
  9. he will pat pat his head when you tell him headache...
  10. he likes to hide his toys/stuff under the cupboard, table and play mat...
  11. he shows you (by patting his face/head) where he was knocked, and pat pat the area...
  12. he has been easily cranky, suspected that the 13th & 14th tooth budding - 13/5/2015
  13. he says 坐-gong when we bid him goodbye for work and he offers to close the door for you...
  14. I has upsized his shoe size to crocs 4/5 to 7 - 31/5/2015
  15. still maintaining weight at 12.8kg - 31/5/2015

#day473 - My poor boy got bitten by some bugs... swollen until don't know what!  *so heart pain*  Didn't see PD but using the steroid cream from last visit and it worked!


#day477 - One of our Sundays!  Too many expressions!


#day477 - Piggy rides on Daddy!


#day482 - Getting the hang of wearing Daddy's shades!


#day484 - 有没有点像陈奕迅(的发型)?我快要当星妈咯!


#day487 - Itz been awhile, wefie!


#day487 - Maintaining his cute chubby cheeks at 16+months!  He looked so round here, like a little monk!


#day489 - Just me and Nat holding hands... (on the way to library to check out the cute chicks... oops, books I meant!)


#day491 - 小小姑娘今早起床 出门前忘了梳头发。他的名叫 Natalie!  Doesn't he resembles the shi san yi from wong fei hong movie?


#day491 - Snapping some photos to submit his application to be a lifeguard (in the baby pool)!  *wearing size 2!*


#day497 - A glimpse of his happiness!  Another milestone achieved - sliding down on his own!


#day497 - Us, in a UFO!  That's his Grandma secretly hiding behind to ambush him!  LOL...


#day498 - Little lifeguard audition in progress!  Instructor demonstrating how to save a chubby floating baby in the waters...


#day498 - "I believe I can fly..." (singing...)


#day505 - Knows how to act dainty and cover up his big mouth when LOL!  #verydramatic




*ps: #day518 ends on 06 June 2015


Friday, 5 June 2015

Dawson - Home Renovations Part 2

05 June 2015

Updating the progress of constructing our humble adobe for the last 6 weeks!

  • Painting works for the house - touch-ups required after the window drillings...
  • Wardrobe installed for the bedrooms...
  • Hollywood style mirror vanity top for MBR...
  • Carpentry for the kitchen, kitchen sliding door, TV console and shoe cabinet are done...
  • Brick wall - completed with very very minor touch-ups to do...
  • Lamination for the storeroom door done...
  • Lightings are installed!
  • Installation of invisible window grills...

Pending to-dos;

  • Installation of roller blinds, windows at the service yard...
  • Cleaning all windows and carpentry...
  • Delivering of sofa, bed frame, dining table, study table, mirror with frame for 财位...
  • Coordinate with the movers for quotation and moving details...
  • Packing, packing and packing...!

Currently trying to resolve the power tripping issues (switches on tripped, no on also tripped)... but hey, ALMOST... almost ... and we are almost near to the moving-in date!  :)  Here are some photos taken over the past weekends on the progression...

Living hall area; (from clockwise) storeroom door, TV console, Brick wall and shoe cabinet


Kitchen; my most sophisticated area in the whole house... (don't cook like an expert, but must look like a cook expert!) 


Rooms; playing with colors!


Rooms; carpentry (watch out for my hollywood-style vanity top!)


Lightings; all up (almost spent $2K on lighting accessories)!