My First Mother's Day Celebrations!

11 May 2014

Happy Mother's Day to me!  #yesimmamothernow

A Mother's day weekend with the son and family... lunch with my folks then followed by Nat's usual Saturday swimming & spa sessions and a 全家副 photo-taking with the family and lunch on Sunday!

ah Thiang got me a duo-string pearl necklace and a matching pair of pearl earrings - in the name of Nat for my first Mother's Day gift!  *so sweeeeeeet*

#day126 - Nathaniel's #ootd jumpers from OshKosh... my aunt from States got Nat a few jumpers sizes ranging from 6-9months, 12months and onwards!

#day126 - testing ah Thiang's new toy, the EP5 after Nat's usual Saturday spa session!  #coolstuff  #olympuspenep5

#day127 - some snap shots before the 全家副 photo-taking with the family!

*ps: #day127 ends on 11 May 2014

Growing up with Nathaniel; Day65-Day119

03 May 2014

... and the growing up of Nathaniel continues!

#day67 - mommy + daddy = Nathaniel Tan!

#day69 - he knows how to pose for me when I shoved my phone at him!

#day70 - HULLO PEEPLE!

#day71 - decked in his monkey backside leggings!

#day73 - posing for a selfie with Mommy!

#day78 - 1st church service with Daddy!

#day84 - Nathaniel's first swim and is enjoying every bit!

#day85 - sitting and drooling like a boss!

#day85 - my happy and photogenic baby!  snap shot from a video.  NICE right!

#day100 - Imma completely obsessed with my little man!

#day104 - church service on Good Friday.  Decked in "Mommy's little monster" attire bought by Daddy in HK Disneyland store during his last HK work trip...  RAWRRRRrrrrr!

#day106 - Easter Sunday with his Easter Egg surprise!  Nom nom nom...

#day108 - my happy baby smiling in his sleep!

#day114 - our lil' doctor, Nathaniel Tan!  #ootd

#day115 - grouchy policeman!  #ootd

#day117 - fire fighter in action!  #ootd  #whysoserious

#day117 - Nathaniel's first "overseas" trip to Sentosa with the must-have touristy shots!

#day119 - his first bicep flex!  #iwannachewthatchunkyarms

*ps: #day119 ends on 03 May 2014



2nd Wedding Anniversary!

12 March 2014

This year's wedding anniversary ah Thiang had to travel to Manila for work so we had our 2nd wedding anniversary celebration in advance.  Nothing fanciful (haven't decide what anniversary gifts to get yet...), just a quick dinner at the newly opened Jamie's Italian restaurant at Vivo City (ah Thiang's so-called neighbourhood mall) before Nat's awake for his next feed...

Hopefully we can enjoy our 3rd, 4th, 5th... and so forth wedding anniversary celebrations better when Nat gets older (by then no need to rush back for feeds or feeling 奶涨 throughout the dinner... buuuuu)!

Oh btw, the lamb rack for mains was very juicy and the starter don't know what-bake-mushrooms was so so so good... worth the try!  *yums*

*I am missing you (ah Thiang) while drafting this post already...  :(

 

两周年快了！

 

 

Growing up with Nathaniel; Day1-Day64

10 March 2014

Title says it all... "Growing up with Nathaniel"!

Every now and then I am gonna update on the growth of our Baby N!  We shall skip #day1 as this was updated at the previous post... starting from #day8!

 

#day8 - special moments capturing him smiling being satisfied after feed!

#day16 - "... I believe I can fly..."

ootd from H&M and the daddy say he looked super gay in this outfit. 

#day18 - baby N 的四连拍！

#day39 - his signature 'sun tanning' pose!

#day43 - it's tummy time!

#day43 - baby N's first excursion to Gardens by the Bay!

 

#day47 - my world now revolves around him!

#day64 - the communist look!  he looked super chubby seated inside the car seat... looks like his head will probably fit the cap better in the next weeks...

*ps: #day64 ends on 09 March 2014

Wedding Celebrations of Baby Bro & Geraldine!

02 March 2014

It's my baby Bro's BIG day today!

Woke up super early to pump milk, getting Nat ready then rush down for the tea ceremony.  Then pump milk again and getting ready for lunch-out nearby compass point mall with the external family and rush back to wash up Nat and head out again for the ROM ceremony and dinner.  ah Thiang was the VG for their ROM ceremony... he invested $200 on the RODE external mic for this event... finding excuses say next time wanna record his son's video with this mic to justify the purchase of the mic.  *tsk*

Dressing Nat up... only time he fuss and cry was while rolling on the newly wedd couple's bed and the rest of the time was asleep throughout the tea ceremony!

Peekture with my darling Nat before the ROM ceremony!

Another family shot!

Me and my baby Bro, looking all drunk out!  Obviously he was already drunk during the dinner... and during the sending out of guests, he kept telling everyone passing saying "这是我唯一的姐姐！" so so loud... making me so paisei!  *reminding me the scene he say the "one million song" when he was drunk the last time*  #feeling meh!

马上长大 + Baby N's First Month Celebrations!

09 February 2014

Some snippets of what's happening over 马年's CNY + celebrating of Baby N's first month!

大年初一：马上发财！ Enduring my last few days of the confinement period!  Sucha smart boy... just coming to first month of his birth and he already know how to pose "恭喜恭喜"！

大年初二：马年吉祥！ His expressions are "pattern more than badminton"!

 

大年初三：马上长大！ Baby N's first month celebrations at Coasta Sands Pasir Ris Chalet!  *thank you all aunties and uncles who make time to turn up for my baby bash and not forgetting my pretty 姨婆 who spent so much efforts in making red eggs and decorated them up for this special day (they were the best sellers compared to my cupcakes thou')!*  :)

 

 

"Photo booth" at Nathaniel's first month celebrations!

Arrival of Nathaniel Tan!

01 February 2014

Welcoming Nathaniel Tan to the family!

*throws confetti*

05 January 2014, the day we became parents!  

 

Our very first 合家副, shot taken at the operating theatre!

Every sleeping child looks angelic, innocent and beautiful.  Our child, Nathaniel Tan!

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.  A shot of Daddy A and Baby N!

 

 

3rd Trimester - Me and Baby N at week 38!

04 January 2014

My seventeenth & eighteenth appointment - *calendar week 38!

Measurement of Baby N - his head measuring 9.61 cm and weighs 3870gm!  Me now weighs 65.3 kg!  So fat so fat!

Gynae advised us to go TMC for second opinon due to Baby N's weight is on the high side (then we can discuss how to deliver him...).  Everything during the scan was OK until this morning he rang us up to go down his clinic for "delivery" discussion urgently.

TMC phoned him personally the day before and informed him that the scan shows that the umbilical cord was located around his neck!  He advised either we monitor on the progress of the contraction (via CTG scan, which is not the long term solution...) in the next days or have c-section to deliver the baby soonest.  This is to avoid complication during normal delivery.  Also if the contraction starts anytime, it will trigger the "tightening" of the cord and will results in cutting blood/oxygen supply to the baby plus plus, Baby N's head is big and the process of delivering him naturally might take quite awhile or not possible (in the end might still need to go for c-section)...

It was hard to make a decision within/during the consultation... but in the end, we decided to go ahead for the c-section delivery tomorrow after checking on the 吉日 possibility for the better future for Baby N...  So, 5 January is a good day and it will be the day we become Daddy and Mommy!

Gonna go offline now... packing up stuffs for the BIG day tomorrow!

 

Last shot of me with my Baby bump at *calendar week 38!

2014!

01 January 2014

HELLO 2014!

As usual practice, we gate-crash Yeo's stay-cation (it's their 4th wedding anniversary!)... this year was planned at Conrad.  They booked the premier club room and this got us access to their club lounge.  We of course, nibble our bites and drinks at the lounge and had our burgers delivered to the room and waiting to welcoming 2014.

Just us at the lobby waiting to be escorted up to the room...

ah Thiang getting too comfy before the arrival of 2014...

Zhng the Stroller

30 December 2013

ah Thiang's 战车 is here!

Trying to fix the stroller and baby seat... next step is to "dettol" up the whole stroller including all accessories...  Procrastination in progress... because Imma being super cranky right now is super no mood for anything else - reason being; been waking up every now and then due to the cramps and mozzie attacks and... so this is a good excuses to 'take cover' for my lazyness to do anything now...  :S

Jolly Christmas!

29 December 2013

'tis the season to be feasting!

Gathering at Huihui's house - she prepared all the feast, me and Jade pot-lucked the Shepherd's Pie.  Very impressed with her DIY Christmas log cake!  She took lesson at Phoon Huat and baked this the day before from 7pm-12midnight!  Thanks for having us at your pad!

Feasting with the Yeos' - made a special anniversary arrangement with the restaurant staff for a cake for their 'advanced' 4th year anniversary celebration together with our yearly Christmas gift exchange event!

On Christmas day - attended Christmas service at HTC then went back for a short nap before feasting with the famfam at Lut's pad!  Noticed my new Kate Spade bag?  Hehe, just realized that I've gotten a Kate Spade bag for myself last Christmas too!  (isit gonna be a new tradition to get a new Kate Spade bag every Christmas...?)
 

Post-Christmas gift exchange with the HXDA - our yearly affair!  This year missing SF (attending a wedding lunch) and Jonette (在做月）... but we have newly additions to the gang - XX and Joel joining us for the gift exchange!  Luckily the package from Amazon.com arrived just an hour before we meet and I managed to have the kiddos presents wrapped in time!