Shucks.. No cycling but heh heh got lo-hei!!

shucks..

we are supposed to go cycling this afternoon.. But Aunty Celine called to say that it was raining cats and dogs at Kallang area.. So sad, cannot go cycling again.

Haiz..

rain rain go away,

come again another day,

Caleb and Celeste want to cycle.

Well, since no outdoor activities.. we decided to head for West Coast Mac cos Papa and Mami have not had lunch yet. Some random pics at Mac

Caleb staring at our food ...

Daddie tantilising Caleb with our food

Argh... gimme that...

Poor Caleb still have running nose

After this, we went to Ah-Ma's place and had lo-hei!

This is the 1st time that Caleb is joining us for lo-hei, he sure is more excited than us.

He stared at us when we started doing the lo-hei.. he must be thinking..what are we doing man.. this is mum-mum u know.. Hahaha.. he was influenced by us and also use his fork to lo-hei with us..

Cycling Date

Woohoo..
the long-awaited Cycling date finally happened today..
Met up with Uncle Chao Hui, Aunty Celine, Darling Celeste and also Aunty Nat at East Coast Park. We decided to have the cycling trip in the morning cos it always rain in the afternoon recently.
Before we kick start our cycling trip, we must fill our tummy 1st. We had Macdonald for Breakfast. **yum yum**

We had fun at the playground esp the slide. Guess its worth investing in a slide afterall right after seeing how much our darling is enjoying himself.




Caleb and Celeste enjoying themselves at Mac's playground

We went on to rent the bicycles..Aunty Nat was busy cleaning the babie's seat while the daddies were making payment. Talking about it, hehee.. there is a small joke about it. The daddies are saying that they paid $22 for the bicycles.. and the mums went.. hmm so expensive hor! The daddies were like scratching head, 'har expensive.. weird'

In the end, we finally knew that it was $22 split between 2 families. Breakdown of the cost is as such :
$6 for the bicycle with BB Seat
$5 for the normal bicycles
+1 hour free
+1 free drink




The macho daddies ferrying Babies
**But in the end,Aunty Celine ferried Celeste while Uncle Chao Hui filmed our cycling process (while cycling.. Impressed!!!)


Hahahass.. we had a good laugh at the mis-communications..




Happie Families... :)



Caleb enjoyed the ride very much. He was very relaxed throughout the ride except the end-part when he was getting sleepy and grouchy. He missed his morning nap so by the time we are almost he do not need much patting.. zoom off to la-la land..
Caleb in lala land..


Meanwhile, Celeste was still busy looking around and plucking the flowers.. She is so cute and adorable.. She goes 'wer wer' haha.. really very cute!!


Busy picking flowers

Aww... How Sweet!!

Ohh.. Caleb is such a darling recently.
At feeding time, he would be given a spoon and bowl to play around.
Now, I will ask him to feed MaMa mum-mum and he will 'shove' the spoon into my mouth..
So sweet of him hor...

All I want for my 1st year old birthday is.. .. .. .. ..Sore Eyes

We made plans to go Sentosa on 17th Jan~Caleb's actual birthday. Hmm.. instead of spending the day making merry with the sun.. sand ... and the beach, we had to make a trip to the PD instead.

The culprit who jeopardised all the plans is nobody else but Mummy dearest. Mummy got eye infection on 15th Jan. It is a very very bad infection. It's so infectious that almost everyone in the house, except Ah Ma and the very preggie Angie yiyi. (heehee in other words, they are strong!!!!)

It was really terrible for babies or ahem toddlers to get eye infections. They will constantly rub and rub their eyes. Initially it started with just 1 eye getting red, and sticky with discharge. Very soon, the other eye started having the same symptom. It was very painful watching Caleb suffering and knowing that I was the culprit that caused him all these pain.

We wanted to bring him to see Doc Ng, but his clinic is closed on Wed night. So no choice, we went to Doc JT Heng at Jurong East. The clinic is rather new and well.. a faint smell of fresh paint in the air. Well, need to take some measurements at the clinic. Caleb is 74.5cm and a whopping 11.6kg now. No wonder, all our backs are aching so badly now. Heehee now we know why. Anyway Doc Heng said its a good thing that the redness is in both eyes and not just 1 eye. Redness in 1 eye could mean something else like internal bleeding in the brain or something. Doc Heng said the infection could take 2-5 days to clear up. Sianz!!
But apart from the eye infection, Caleb was also down with slight fever. However it was controlled by the adminstration of Paracetomol. Caleb also lost his appetite. He puked out his porridge and Ah Ma decided, no porridge only milk to be given. Poor Baby!!!

**Sore eyes sore eyes go away**

1st Year Old Birthday Bash!!!

Event of the Year: Caleb's 1st Year old Birthday bash
Date of Party: 13th January 07
Venue: Home sweet Home heehee
Time: 12noon
Caterer: Neo Gardens
Cake Supplier: 3kg musical bear cake from Prime Deli
Balloons: Party City
Banners: Birthday Direct
Theme desired: Winnie the pooh (sorrie Darling. Could not do a full blown Pooh Theme party)

Wow Weee...time really flies..
We have celebrated Caleb's 1st year old birthday today. Phew!!!! The day was sure long and tiring but its definately rewarding.

Well, the day started early for us with Caleb waking up at 7.30am for milk. After drinking and lazing around, we decided to go Giant to make last minute purchases.
We were also desperately trying to get some coloured papers from Giant so that we can cut out Caleb's name and stick it on the wall.. Well, as expected the selection at Giant was really limited. There are only 2 colours to choose from. We got the typical blue coloured papers. We also made last minute grabs for packet drinks for our guests. When we reached home, the delivery guy from Neo Garden was at our door step. We are kinda shocked cos it was only like 9+. The guy was quite candied. He said, not to worrie.. i just come and set up first. Today too many orders, so if we have to make such arrangements. So we just left him alone to do his job. We quickly bathe Caleb so that he could take a nap before the guest starts arriving. He seems to know that it is a special day today and hence Daddy spent quite some time patting him before he really fell asleep.

After making Caleb nap, Daddy proceeded to work on cutting out Caleb's name and pasting it on the wall. Daddy really made an effort to make it look good. He still drafted out the words on a paper before writing on the actual blue paper. Heehee.. the end results look good ok! Hahaha.. appreciate him to work on that cos Mummy's arts in school was really bad.

To be fair, Mummy worked on the balloons. Mummy rented the helium tank from Party City at $30/day. We also had to pay an additional $5 to keep the tank till Sunday. The sales assistant was saying that we could pump about 40 balloons based on the tank that we rented. So Mummy choose the colours of the balloon the night before. But after pumping about 40 balloons, there was still helium gas left, so Mummy continued pumping.. and pumping.. and pumping. All in all, about 60 balloons are being inflated. The place look like a nursery hahaha.. with babies, toddlers, balloons and all...

However, there was a small incident which really kinda spoil the day (ok lar, not the entire day but initially lar) Prima Deli actually spelled Caleb's name wrongly. They spelt it as Caled... helloo... what are u guys thinking man. The delivery guy was still saying.. its ok 1, nobody will take notice of the name one! Unker, u must be joking right.. how can guest who are attending birthday never pay attention to the name of the cake... DUH!!!!! So angry. Spoke to the sales office people who called up the Jurong Point branch to verify. Hmm.. turns out to be, its their fault. When we order the cake, we already realised that the lady has spelt the name wrongly. We told her to amend which she did on the order chit. We did expressed concerns if the amendment is good enough, and she assured us that it is good enough. But apparently when she faxed the order chit over, the amendment was not clear and the chef went to do a beautiful D intead of B.
Hence, they have to collect the cake back and re-do the name. Was abit angry with them cos they called and ask if they can deliver the cake at 3pm instead cos they have no driver...Got real agitated and screamed, do u expect me to go up to every single guest to ask if they can stay till 3pm cos Prima Deli who screwed up my cake can only delivery by 3pm??? Heehee... upon hearing this, they say okok, we will send immediately. So, they really came at 1.45 pm which was slightly later than what we have planned but still acceptable. Hence we proceeded with our 'cake cutting ceremony'.

Caleb was rather lost during the whole birthday song tingie and cake cutting. But i'm glad that he did not cry cos he's not used to having so many attention on him at one time. Heehee.. maybe its all thanks to the 'prep work' that we have been doing. We have been singing the Happie Birthday song to him for like 2 weeks or so. Kiasu mummy read from somewhere that there was a baby who was badly tramuatised during his 1st year old party that he only dared to celebrate again when he was like 4 years old. Hence we decided to prep him for this huge event. Hence even though he did not clap his hands, we were just glad that he did not cry hahahaa....

Special thanks to Pius Yi Zhang who was the dedicated photographer! He helped us to take so many nice pics!!!

In the midst of blowing up the balloon.. .. .. .. .. ..



The decor.. .. .. .. .. .. ..



The yumilicious buffet spread and also the kawaii cake

More pics later...

Rush Rush Day

Ohh... January is a busy and joyous month.
We will be busy attending Caleb's friends birthday party and also his own birthday celebration.

Well.. for a start, we attended 3 birthday parties today!! Woohoo!!!

Firstly, we attended Daren's birthday party at Boon Tiong Rd. Wow, his party was very colourful with all the pretty balloons lying on the floor. Aunty Sophia and Uncle David blew them up... puff.. puff.. puff... They also had a very interesting Elmo balloon that sings. That was really like a center of attention. Oh 1 interesting fact to bring up. Daren's Nai Nai kept Uncle David's 1st year old birthday outfit till now. So now that Daren turned 1, she let Daren wore it as well... very nostalgic right.

After Daren's party, we went home for a nap. Then we went over to Celeste's Party at Aloha Bungalow!!! Wow, the place is huge! Aunty Celine bought Barney VCDs to entertain Celeste but it kinda entertain Caleb too. Find it strange that when Caleb was first shown Barney at home, he did not show interest. He seem to appreciate Barney at Aloha. Hahahaa
Oh, there was also a doggie there, think named Yuki. He was really cute! Caleb loved dogs!

After the cake cutting, we pop over to Megan's place at Punggol. By the time, it was already 8pm+. Caleb was getting cranky already. But then, when he saw Aunty Tracy's doggie he seem to forget that its bedtime. He was happily chasing the dog. He was like touching the dog, or rather 'hitting' it. He was not scared of the dog at all. Aunty Tracy was very nice. She waited for us to come then she cut Meg's birthday cake. As usual, Meg was her composed self. She was clapping her hands happily while the rest was singing and watching her.

Well, hopefully Caleb will also be clapping his hands as we sing the Happy Birthday song to him. Heehee...



Couple and In laws meet together....


Couple time!!!

Cousin Ernest

Happie New Year to all !!!!

its been ages since we went to Marina Square..
Finally we are going to MS again.. Yipee..

But this time round, we are meeting Uncle Ray, Candice Yiyi and Ernest Didi there.

Before we reach there, Uncle Ray was 'expediting' Papa already asking how come we are so late.

Aiyah, BB need to nap mah, that's why abit later loh.

Ernest Didi has grown quite alot from the last time we saw him. Heehee see the pics for verification. His screams are quite loud as well haha.. very loud for such a young a baby.

We went to Sakae sushi for dinner but Caleb wasnt allowed to eat anything cos Mami says
no sugar no salt!!

Candice yiyi with 2 lil 'rascals'

Dun we love taking family pics heehee

1st Studio Shoot!!

Wow weee...We brought Caleb for his 1st ever photoshoot and guess what, all of us enjoyed it tremendously.
The studio which we selected is U-Foto and we choose the photographer, David. David was good and he clicked with Caleb almost instantly. He teased and played with Caleb and got him to loosen up. As some of u already know, Caleb is pretty dao, hence prior to the photoshoot we were quite apprehensive about it. But he cooperated with David and took good pics.

The only drawback was that, Caleb was quite cranky by the time Mummy's makeup was done. There was only 1 makeup artist, and hence Ah Ma went to do the makeup first. But nonetheless, it was still a good experience.

As for the package, think i will post it here even though I'm sure Angie yiyi will be reading it.
(ps: Angie yiyi, pls keep it a secret)

U-Foto
Premium studio portraits (B):
Family of 5 members, maternity, couple, makeover/glamour, kids, and pets etc.

1. Sitting fee $350.00
2. Make up for one head
3. All original images return in CD-ROM
4. Maximum 2hrs services
5. 1 x coffee table 8R album (16 to 18 pages)

There is another package available, but we decided to have an physical album hence we choose the premium package. The details of the other package is as below:

Family of 5 members, maternity, couple, makeover/glamour, kids, and pets etc.
1. Sitting fee $188.00
2. Make up for one head
3. All original images return in CD-ROM
4. Maximum 2hrs services.
5. FREE 5 x 8r prints.

OK, the pics are coming up now..

Bye Bye

Caleb always says something to shock us.

Yesterday, while waving good bye to Ah Mah, he suddenly blurted out 'Bye Bye'. It was so clear. As usual, we are very very excited when we heard that.

He is really picking up words fast. Think need to show him the 'Baby can read' Vcd more often for him to pick up more words!

1st Bus and MRT ride

We decide to be adventurous today and take the bus and MRT to go shopping.
Heehee its a white lie to say that we are adventurous lar, the fact is we are not sure of the way to Causeway point @ Woodlands.

Anyway, its Caleb 1st time taking the bus and MRT. I would say he was quite intrigued by the new surroundings. He kept looking at the aircon vents on the buses. He went screaming for joy hahaha.. some aunties are affected by his scream while some thought he looked darn kawaii!!!
Caleb is now more playful. He is now ok to interact with strangers. He will like smile, laugh to get their attention. The commuters are amused and will play along with him.

Anyway, taking the MRT was much easier compared to bus. I had to fold the pram and carry it up the bus which i thought was a hassle. For MRT just pushed in can liao. Somemore they are lifts from the lobby to go up to the platforms, this also made it more safe.

Some pics for our joyous rides..


Ah Mah with Caleb waiting for Bus # 51




On the MRT and Bus respectively

Angels in the Park Photoshoot

Together with some forum mummies, we organised a photoshoot for our BBs at the Botanic Gardens~Eco Gardens. The theme was Angels in the Park.

In order for them to look really like angels, we have to prepare some 'props'. They are the angels wings, a all-white diaper, a white rompers (in case it rains). Well, after getting all these ready, we thought our angels are all set to flash their white pearlies.

But the weather was something we could not control. Before our photoshoot, it was raining. Hence the weather became very humid. Our photographer, Jocelyn had brought along some plastic transparent sheets for the babies to sit, stand, roll etc. But the plastic sheet was not that good cos it sticks to their body.

Caleb did not quite like the plastic sheets. The minute i put him down onto the sheets, he started crying. No choice, i gota pick him up. I think majority of the shots, Caleb was not sitting down on the sheets. I sure hope the pics turn out well.

Oh yes, special thanks to Angie Yiyi, Eugene Gugu and Molly Yiyi. They specially made time to come for this photoshoot. Their help is appreciated!!!

Okie, enough said.. pics time.



Mummy with Caleb


Yiyi,Caleb with Mummy


Caleb with Eugene gugu and Molly Yiyi

All the angels and their mummies sitting down on the greens....

My smiley and cheeky angel..

1 naked shot of very sianz, and hot Caleb

Hah Nah?!?!?!

Gosh... I have been a bad bad mum.
I have been saying the wrong things in front of BB Caleb.
My pet phrase when my mum asked me questions.."Hah Nah Hah Nah"
BB Caleb has managed to pick up these words. So now, when we tell him dun do this, or this is so and so.. he will go hah nah hah nah...
Wow, its actually very frustrating to hear such replies. Now I definately know how my mum felt. I have to stop using this sentence...

New Hair Cut

BB Caleb's hair is very long already. It has overlapped to the ears area now.
And i think it must have irritated him quite abit cos he has been tugging and pulling it. So now, his scalp area has gone quite red from all the tugging.
Ah Ma decided to bring him down for a hair cut as she cannot bear to see him so uncomfortable. They sat him down at the barber, distracted him with mirrors, songs and conversations and was able to get a decent hair cut. BB Caleb only cried towards the end of the session. Well, he look like a big big boy after the hair cut. But partly it's because Ah Gong gave him a side parting.
Check out his new look!!

Swimming Escapade!!!

Brought BB Caleb to Arena Club to swim today. Made a last minute dash to Kiddy Palace @ Jurong Point and got him a bright bright swim suit... hahahaaa... Previously we also bought a car swim float with steering wheels. Finally we got a chance to use it.
We 1st went down to the baby or rather kiddie pool. The water there is cold because the sun was not able to penetrate in. Although BB Caleb did not display any discomfort with the cold water, we decided to switch over to the adult pool. Its much better with the warm sun shining, making the pool warm.
BB Caleb is not intimidated by the size of pool. He was his cool usual self, relaxing and leaning on his swimming float. Daddie decided to carry him out of the swim float and let him move the limbs. He enjoyed it much better and began to 'piak piak' the water.
Heehee.. we also did a dangerous act. We dunked him in the water.. he was rather taken aback but soon after, he regained his composure! Hahahaaa
EVIL EVIL PARENTS!!

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Standing Aid

BB Caleb has managed to stand with some support. But he is still not very stable yet. We are not so eager for BB Caleb to walk. Will prefer him to crawl longer. He looks very adorable when he crawls forward. Babies really develop so fast!


Looks kinda scared initially


Using the playgym to support.


Standing tall & proud!!!