Baby G's First Full Day @ School

Today (29th Dec), which happens to be GuGu's birthday is also Baby G's first day attending a full-day childcare. Previously, Baby G only attended half-day childcare in the mornings and he's back by 1pm. Now, we feel that it's time for Baby G to attend a full day childcare as he's getting to be a big boy and also, the school no longer operates under a half-day session, so we've got no choice.

First day today, although I have more free time, I must admit, I do miss my little boy in the afternoon, feels like something is missing... but I'm sure I'll get over it pretty fast. Heh Heh. Now when I take leave, I have the whole day to myself and can do more things instead of rushing to complete everything by noon time.

According to the teacher, Baby G didn't sleep during nap time when the rest of the kids were catching their 'Zzzz's, he was up and about, walking around the place. How I wish I was there to see what he was up to. I suspect he's walking around, expecting one of us to pick him up from school. The good news is that he didn't cry nor look for us throughout the entire day. When we picked up him, the teacher told us that he only went to sleep at about 145pm and woke up about 4pm. Hopefully things will get better, else he'll be missing his afternoon lessons.

San
hugs & kisses

Happy Birthday YeeYee!!

Today is YeeYee's birthday. We decided to try out Friends@ChompChomp along Serangoon Garden.

Kinda disappointed actually. The portions were very small especially for my family's usually large appetite. I even had to tell MaMa to cut smaller portions so that her tenderloin can last longer. HaHa. Even Grandpa commented that he could've have finished his Veal in 3 mouthfuls. So you can imagine how little the portions were. As for my Parrot Fish Fillet, well, the portion is ok, but it was very salty. I wonder if Parrot Fish is a saltwater fish and they forgot to wash it clean. I think only the pastas did not have any complaints from the respective diners.

=> Daddy's Vegetarian Linguine

==> My parrot fish


==> From L->R, Grandpa's Veal, YeeYee's Bacon Spaghetti & MaMa's Beef Tenderloin.

Instead of the usual cake that we would buy to celebrate, this time, I decided to just get a small piece (about the size of 1 slice) so that it won't go to waste.

In the end, I found out that MaMa wasn't full and she went to eat her favourite Wan Tan Noodles @ Dunman Food Centre. HaHa.

Happy Birthday, YeeYee!

San

Feeling thirsty from the salty fish

Potty Trained!

This post is dedicated to Baby G's daddy. After about 2 weeks of "training", we can safely say that Baby G is finally potty-trained. All this is the effort of Daddy who patiently gave encouragement to Baby G, even though there were times when Baby G wet the floor and Daddy had to clean up.

Baby G can now tell us when he needs to go to the toilet for a leak. We have stopped putting on diapers for him already, except at night when he's sleeping. In fact, Baby G prefers not to wear diapers. What's next for us is to buy undies for Baby G.

Baby G is no longer a baby already, he's getting to be a big boy.

Well done, Baby G!

Kudos to Daddy for his success.

San
Proud of her 2 boys.

Christmas Day!

On to much more happier things after the last unhappy post.....

On Christmas morning, Baby G came over to wake me up, asking me to accompany him to watch his Barney show, so even though I had less than 5hrs of sleep, I was determined to wake up and spend time with Baby G, to "compensate" him for not spending the previous evening with him.

We watched Barney for about an hour and then we went to wake Daddy up. Then we proceeded to open all the gifts that were given to us. Baby G showed me the "mini-laptop" that Grandpa bought for him, he was really enthralled with it. But later when he realised we bought him a cash register with sound effects, he started playing with the toy and lost interest in opening the rest of the gifts or the laptop.

<= His laptop until he found the cash register =>

I took a video of him opening the presents... I found it funny cause when he saw me holding the camera, he thought I was taking a photo of him and smiled for me.... quite funny.

Merry Xmas to one & all.....

San

Lousy Christmas Eve

We were supposed to go to MaMa's house to have Christmas eve dinner with both families. But because of work (go read the newspapers for more details), I had to stay in office til 2am... what a drag! This is the first time in my entire life I did not get to spend Christmas with the family, to say I was disappointed is an understatement.

San
Fuming/Disappointed/etc

Welcome, Baby Ashley!

On 22nd Dec 2008, baby Ashley (not Rick Astley as what Uncle Alan said) is born. We decided to visit both Ashley & family on 23rd as some of the uncles & aunties were not free on the 22nd.


When we reached, Ashley was being breastfed, so all the adults & kids waited outside; the kids were running up & down, especially Gwyn. One minute you can see her running into the room, the next minute she's running outside into the hallway. I think our group was one of the noisiest bunch, lucky the nurses did not chase us away.


Baby G also joined the kids at the mini-playground at TMC; he really enjoyed himself. The most surprising part is when Uncle Dan arrived. When Baby G saw him, 1st thing he said was "Uncle Dan, come play". Then Baby G kept talking to Uncle Dan, he even 'asked' Uncle Dan to carry him. 1st time was not successful, but after Zac was distracted, Uncle Dan managed to carry Baby G.


<== Awww... what a lovely (and rare) shot.....


Uncle Alan also came back from AUS and brought chocolates which the kids happily munched.

<= Gwyn's not as messy as Baby G =>

When we went home, Baby G didn't want to leave Uncle Dan. Kept wanting to follow him home... hmmm.. what a thought. Uncle Dan, do you want to help baby sit?

Congratulations to Ben & Pat on the birth of their lovely daughter, Ashley!

San
Feeling happy for her friends

Snip.... Snip.... Snip....

On Monday, I finally made the effort to do something about my super long hair (just before Xmas & my cousin's wedding). Come to think of it, it's been more than a year since I last visited the hairstylist. Finally went down to Kimage to snip off my long tresses and re-bond my hair again. This time, the whole process took about 4.5hrs, an improvement from the previous year of 5hrs. But every year, it's the same complaints from the hairstylists, my hair is simply too thick to allow re-bonding to be done any quicker.

<== Before & After ==>

I do feel like a burden has been lifted... but I do miss my hair.

San

Head feels lighter....