Little Darling Had A Great Fall

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall! Humpty Dumpty had a great fall……… Just now our Little Darling sat on the edge of bed and had a great fall! Sob… sob… sob….

In the past when Little Darling woke up and saw we were not on our bed, many of the times he would crawl to the edge of bed and cry, then we would quickly rushing to him. Daddy and mummy had been telling and showing him do not sit at the edge of the bed after woke up or he will fall. Seemed like he did not understand what we said! Sigh! He did the same just now and fell from his bed! I put mattress on the floor but his right side of forehead still hit on the floor and got bruise.

I was heartache and worried, felt like to cry together with him when he keep saying ‘pain pain, pong, pain pain….’ I think his threshold of pain is pretty high, he smiled again five minutes later!

Daddy was heart pain also when I told him about this incident when he reached home. He was thinking if there is any solution to prevent this from happens again. And finally he decided to keep our beds frames away and place our mattress on the floor like tatami!

2nd Two Pearlie Whites Sprouting Out

I have been waiting for long to see Little Darling’s next pearlie white to sprout out! He got his first two when he was 9 months plus and the process seemed like stagnant after that. Last week noticed that there were two white markers on the top gum… So happy that this morning I saw two pearlie whites are sprouting out! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Little Darling has four little pearlie whites now! I can’t wait wanted to let him try yummy solid food!

Mummy Took Half Day Off

It must have been due to the tiring day yesterday, Little Darling was sound asleep throughout the night without waking up to ask for milk. He woke up late as well this morning.

After Little Darling’s bath, we left at 10am for our PD appointment for his 3rd pneumo-cocal jab. He is such a brave baby because he only wailed less than 10 seconds when the needle was poked onto his thigh!



To praise his brave and compensate him for the pain, we brought him to Botanic Garden for a short stroll. He enjoyed himself very much and surprisingly, today he did not complain sitting on the stroller! We did not stay long at the Botanic Garden as mummy took ‘time off’ in the afternoon to meet up with her friends!

Daddy slept early tonight, the reason? Hahaha….. must be the result of looking after the little rascal this afternoon lah!

Our Trip to Sentosa

Today is Friday, daddy took leave from work, we decided to bring Little Darling to Sentosa as he has not been there.

It was raining cats and dogs at our house here. We hatched a wet-weather plan. We would bring him to Vivocity if it rained there when we were at Harbour Front. Thank goodness, the weather was fine at southern part of Singapore. So many years we have not been to Sentosa! We were very excited when reached at the Sentosa gateway!

After parking our car at Beach carpark, we proceeded to ride on a tram for a short tour on this charming island.

We alighted at Pahlawan Beach first. We wanted to let Little Darling play at the beach. He was so happy when we put him down to walk (with our assistance), for few seconds only. He then started to shout and wanted daddy to carry him. He cried when we try to get him to play with sand again. He is simply too pampered, we reckoned that it must be that his two little feet was painful when walking bare on sand. The weather changed so fast, suddenly rain drops began to fall. We took the tram back to Underwater World station. Since it was still drizzling, we took our lunch at Delifrance and let Little Darling drink milk before moving on.

After lunch, we bought tickets to enter the Dolphin Lagoon and Underwater World. It was so crowded at the Dolphin Lagoon, many people were waiting to watch the performance. Little Darling was a bit cranky as that was his nap time and the place was slightly stuffy. During the show he was fine and continued to watch the dolphins’ performance.

It was about 4.30pm when we reached Underwater World, Little Darling was so excited seeing fishes swimming in the tanks. He seemed to have forgotten about his nap, he pointed at the fishes and mumbling a lot. He clapped hands, trashed his legs about, etc on seeing fishes swimming. But he was taken aback by the big fishes initially. After we consoled him and told him that was ok to touch fish tanks, he started to enjoy himself again. We rode the conveyer belt around the big fish tank a few times to let him admire those sea creatures till he was hungry and grumpy and our limbs were numb from carrying him.

We left Underwater World at about 6pm and proceeded to The Merlion for few shots before heading home. Little Darling was taken in awe by the giant Merlion. On the way home, Little Darling fell flat asleep in the car. The grown ups were also very tired because we took turns carrying him the entire journey (he usually refuses to sit on stroller). But we were very happy to spend a fruitful and fun filled day together with our precious Little Darling!

Happy 1st Birthday to Little Darling!

Our Little Darling turns 1 year old today! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah……. 1 year old boy already! Daddy and mummy wish Little Darling healthy, happy, 快高长大 and guai guai 听话.

Our initial plan for this special day was for merely 3 of us --- Daddy would take leave from work and we would bring Little Darling out to 'jalan jalan'. But it ended up: daddy tied up with his work, so we had to postpone our 'jalan jalan' plan to tomorrow. Anyway Little Darling has to attend lesson this evening, it would be good to let him have enough rest, otherwise mummy would suffer in the class! :P

As I hugged Little Darling in my arms, I recalled the day I delivered Little Darling one year ago, yes, one year exactly...... my memories is still fresh and I can remember vividly about the details on the big event that happened on this date --- how touched I was the first second I saw Little Darling, his look, his chubby and peachy cheeks, his soft and tiny hands and feet, etc………….. How he learned to latch, daddy’s funny posture when carrying this soft, tender and fragile little one etc. I believe I will remember everything happened on this date in my lifetime!

Time flies, one year has past, our Little Darling is a chubby, healthy, strong, active and stubborn big baby now. He has his own thinking and character, very hard headed, always refused to listen to daddy and mummy, always provoke mummy and get smack on his little puffy buttock.

He is good at acting too. He would shed few drops of tear and have them hanging on his chubby cheeks to soften mummy’s heart whenever mummy scolds him for being naughty. He would break into big smiling face immediately when mummy 'sayang' him. He is such a lovable, adorable and sweet darling!

His speech development is much faster then motor skill like walking. He started to say and recognize his favorite fruit ‘apple’ when he was 7 months old. This was then followed by saying and recognising bear, baba (banana), pear, papa, dad dad, mum mum (eat not mummy hor!) purple, pain pain, bite bite, bye, duck, etc-single word starting with b, d and p, with apple and mum mum being the exceptions. I am waiting for Little Darling to say ma ma..... :P

Birthday card and photoframe from Teacher Aishah (SM)

August Babies Birthday Bash

Today we had a birthday bash for August babies Sherise, Javier and Bernice. I am lucky to have my sister and her boy-friend to help me out, inflating balloons and decorating the function room for the birthday party. Our decision to display our Little Darling’s birthday present from his xiao yi – the giant Winnie The Pooh at the function room proved to be a good move. It was so popular that many of the babies, kids and mummies like to take photos with it. Thanks to xiao yi and uncle Steven for being so generous in giving Little Darling this lovely present. :-)

Thanks to all uncles, aunties and little friends’ for coming, the birthday party was a successful one. Thank you very much for your gifts, ang pow and spending your precious weekend afternoon with us! Hope everyone has enjoyed a wonderful afternoon!

Me & My Darling I - Ah Bear!

Me & My Darling II

Studio Photo Shooting

I have been thinking for some time of having our family photo shoot done by skillful professional! Thanks to Joanne’s help, I get to know about this studio. I signed up the package without a second thought.

We had to wake up early today as our session was scheduled early in the morning. Little Darling seemed quite happy on the way to the studio and I hoped he could maintain his good mood throughout the photo shooting session.

We decided to park our car at the PUB building at Somerset Road and walk from there to The Studio Loft at Devonshire Road. We lugged along a suitcase inside which it was packed with Little Darling’s clothes and some props for the photo shoot like the antique telephone, a small plush toy Winnie the Pooh, apples and a balloon.

Little Darling was enjoying himself during the first 10 minutes of shooting, he played, laughed, shouted and yelled! Photographer Maryann kept praising him " very cute, very energetic, very natural…". We also enjoyed ourselves very much taking family portraits with him!

However things changed when it came to the angel outfit. As expected he did not like the angel wings tied on his arms. He started to feel irritated and become grouchy! He frowned, wanted to be carried, and cried. He was in no mood to continue with the shooting and pestering mummy to carry him. No matter how we tried to please him, tempted him with toys, ball, balloons etc, he refused to face the camera and tears started to roll down his chubby cheeks. We could only try conforting him, take a few quick shots, comforting him again. Alas, no matter how hard we tried, we could not take the sulk from his face! Daddy and mummy-the two clowns- were dog-tired too! Maryann decided to stop after taking few shots of his crying face!

Little Darling turned happy again when the shooting session ended! He completely switched to another mode of expression! Sigh! What a character this baby is!

You may want to go to the following URL to view Little Darling's studio photos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/LokeQuek/LittleDarlingSStudioPhotos10thAug2007?authkey=9Moxq3fD6AE