Jayden's 1st Birthday Party

We attended Jayden's 1st birthday party today. Time flies... It seems only like yesterday when we attended his full month celebrations.

As the party starts at 1pm, we got ready at about 12pm. I went to bath Daryl while Asty went to pack his bag. After his bath, I went to shower while Kel dressed him. Kel even gelled & combed Daryl's hair. Thus, when I came out of the bathroom, I couldn't resist taking some pics of Daryl as he looks so handsome in his outfit. Btw, I was the 1 who chose the outfit for him. :p

After that, Kel the doting dad applied the California Baby calendula cream on Daryl's face as there are some spots on his face.

The final result...



























Some pics with Kel.



































After that, we left the house to attend Jayden's party.

Jayden's party is held @ Guilin Restaurant, HomeTeam NS @ Bukit Batok. The venue holds special memories for Yvonne as it was where she & Louis held their wedding dinner 4 years back.





















The venue (pic courtesy of Yvonne)





















The Winnie the Pooh scene setter & part of the birthday decorations (pic courtesy of Yvonne)





















The loot bags filled with goodies (pic courtesy of Yvonne)

At the restaurant, we took more pics.































































Kel decided to wear the same combination as Daryl. Can't stand him... It's as if he's afraid that no one would know that he's Daryl's daddy. :p



























The bdae boy





















Daryl running off when Jayden cried





















Jayden's birthday cake (pic courtesy of Yvonne)





















Louis, Jayden & Yvonne (pic coutesy of Yvonne)

At about 3pm, we had to leave as Kel needs to rush off for his appts.

Here's wishing Jayden a very Happy Birthday!

Work Work

Yen Li & Xiao Xuan came over to our place just now after dinner as Xiao Xuan wanted to play with Daryl. While they were playing, Yen Li & I did some catching up.

After a while, my sticky boy came over to the sofa where Yen Li & I were sitting so that he can snuggled up to me. Yen Li asked him, "Di di, where's Papa?" Do you know what he answered? He replied, "Papa work work..." I was very surprised as it was the 1st time that I heard him said that.

Whenever Kel is out for an appt at night, Daryl would sometimes asked me, "Papa, where?" or "Daddy, where?" My reply would be, "Papa is working." or "Daddy is working." Sometimes, lazy me would just say, "Papa work work." I didn't think that he would remembered what I had said, thus I was very surprised when he replied Yen Li that.

This reminds me that I have to be mindful of what I said around Daryl already. I don't want him to be repeating my 'colourful' language to my friends when I least expect it. :p

Daryl & Zephan

Trina & Zephan came over to our house in the morning just now as she needs to pick up the California Baby Calming Shampoo & Body Wash from me. As she's on leave today, we decided to let the 2 boys play together for a while.

Zephan is so cute... When they arrived, I held out my hand to guide him into our house. He was so trusting that he actually held my hand when he came in. It was so heartwarming as Daryl would never do that with a stranger. When he entered the house, he released my hand & went straight into Daryl's play yard to play with the toys inside. Trina was laughing as she said that Zephan is very "automatic".

Just then, Daryl woke up. Thus, Kel went to feed & change him. After that, he came out to check out our guests. He took a while to warm up. Initially he was just standing outside the play yard watching Zephan play. After a while, he went into the play yard tentatively & started to play together with Zephan. I think that they had a great time judging by the pics.

Trina & Zephan had to leave about 1 hour later as Trina had to run some errands. Daryl was a little bit reluctant to see them leave. Let's hope that they can drop by again soon.

All's Well

Daryl's fever had subsided yesterday morning when he woke up. However, we are still keeping our fingers crossed that it stays that way.

This morning, when we woke up, we discovered that Daryl's fever did not returned. Therefore, we concluded that it had run its course already. However, he's been very sticky to me these 2 days still. Kel was saying that he probably still don't feel that well, thus we should monitor him & see how.

Wish me luck...

Da Yi's Birthday

Today is Pris's birthday. To celebrate her birthday, we decided to meet for lunch & shopping at Vivocity. She wanted to bring my mum to Vivocity to have a look as my mum had not been there since its opening.

When Daryl woke up, it seems that he had gotten up from the wrong side of the bed. He was crying when he woke up instead of his smiley self. Hmm... that's not a very good start to our day. I had to carry him so that he would stopped crying. When I had to leave our room to attend to my client's call, he cried even louder. Kel & Asty couldn't pacify him at all. He only stopped when I came back into the room & carried him. He's such a mummy's boy... :p

As we need to shower Daryl, we took off his pyjamas & diaper. He protested very loudly when we did that. When we shower him, he cried. He only stopped when I carried him in my lap after his shower. Then Kel decided to comb his hair to distract him. The result...

Pris wanted to have lunch @ Sushi Tei, thus we decided to meet at the entrance. When she & my mum reached the entrance at about 11.15am, they found out that they were too early as Sushi Tei only opens at 11.30am. Therefore, they decided to go out of the building to look at the seaview. It was there where we found them when we arrived. Since it was still early, we decided to take some pics.





















Pris, me, Daryl & Mum. See Daryl's koala bear's pose...





















Daryl & Kel

Then it was time to have lunch already. While waiting for our food, we took some pics again.





















Pris, Mum, Daryl & me





















Family pic





















Mum, Daryl & me





















Kel & Daryl

Lunch at Sushi Tei was horrible! They actually forgot about our order for our main courses. Can you believe that? They only realised it when we complained about how late our main courses are. The customers at the tables beside us who came in later than us are already finishing their main courses wherelse ours have not even arrived yet. To top it off, the attitude of the manager whom we complained to sucks big time. Thus, we decided to award Sushi Tei a spot in our "List of Banned Eating Places".

Halfway through our lunch, Mum brought Daryl out to walk so that we can have our lunch in peace. When we finished our lunch, they were still not back yet. So we waited... & waited... & waited... Then we got worried as it's been a while already. We were afraid that Mum would be lost. We decided to ask for the bill & went to search for them. We kinda of panicked when we couldn't find them outside the restaurant. Then I got a brainwave... Toys R Us is nearby, so I have a feeling that they would be inside.

True enough, Kel found the 2 of them inside Toys R Us. It seems that Daryl had pulled Mum inside so that he can play with the cars there. It seems that our baobei is becoming a car lover as he loves to play with cars of all sizes. Mum said that whenever Daryl saw a car, he would stopped & played with it for a while. The funniest thing is, when he got tired of playing with a particular car, he would actually put it back in its orginal place when my mum asked him to do so. Mum was very impressed!

Kat called Pris when we were at Toys R Us. She had reached Vivocity already, thus she wants to know where to meet us. Pris told her to meet us at Toys R Us. When she arrived, we went shopping. One of our stops was the Nike boutique. Daryl was in heaven there as there was a Mac PC for him to fiddle with. Here's a pic of him with Mum while he was fiddling with the PC. See how happy he is...





















Our shopping was kinda of marred by Daryl coz he was quite notti today. He refused to walk & kept wanting me to carry him. When he walked, he refused to follow us or listened to our instructions. I even smacked him coz I was so fed up with him. Since he was not cooperative, we decided to cut our shopping trip short & headed for home together with Mum, Pris & Kat. Before doing that, we went shopping at Giant to pick up some groceries so that I can prepare dinner for them later.

During dinner, I was complaining to Mum about how notti Daryl is. She said something which got me thinking. She replied that Daryl is not even 2 years old, thus I can't expect him to be well behaved as he doesn't even know what is considered good behaviour. Mum got me thinking whether I am asking for too much from Daryl. With this thought, I resolved to be more patient with Daryl even though he drives me up the wall at times.

At about 7.15pm, Mum, Pris & Kat decided to leave for home as Pris & Kat still got to work tommorrow. I hope that Pris had a nice birthday even though her nephew is such a brat. Happy Birthday!!

Daryl is Having a Fever (Part II)

Daryl's fever has not subsided at all. Worst... his temp had increased during the night. I woke up this morning at 5am to check on him. To my horror, his temp is 40.8 deg! I was horrified! I went out to the kitchen to take his medicine. Then I woke Kel up & asked him to take a basin of water so that we can sponge Daryl down. Daryl was very upset at being sponged down. In the end, we let him play with the water in the basin. By doing so, we hoped that his temp will subsided. Daryl got himself, part of our bed & his cot wet, but we didn't mind coz his temp did subsided slightly. After that, we went back to sleep.

I woke up again at 9.30am. By then, Kel had already woken up & was reading the newspapers in the living room. Daryl was still sleeping soundly, probably due to the effects of the medicine. I got out of bed reluctantly to shower & change so that we can bring Daryl to see Dr Chua. When we were done, Daryl still had not woken up. Seeing his angelic face when he's sleeping, we couldn't bear to wake him up, so we decided to carry him up & go out. However, by doing so, we woke him up. He looked so cute with that blury look on his face... But don't be fooled by that blury look... When we told him that we are going out, he immediately perked up & even waved bye bye & blow a kiss to Asty. It was so funny...

At Dr Chua's clinic, he diagnosed that Daryl is suffering from tonsillitis which is causing his fever. On top of that, he also got a sore throat. No wonder Daryl doesn't have much of an appetite yesterday. It was so bad that he doesn't even want to drink his milk. Dr Chua prescribed paracetamol, antibotics & cough medicine for Daryl. We asked Dr Chua how did he fall sick. Dr Chua's reply is that viruses are very prevalent in the air these days, thus people with low immune systems then to get sick easily. As kids' immune system is not that strong, therefore, they fall sick easily. That was not very reassuring to hear. We can't possibly cooped Daryl at home the whole time. Well, we just have to take 1 step at a time...

After seeing Dr Chua, we went back home so that Daryl can rest. I am keeping my fingers & toes crossed that he'll recover soon.

Daryl is Having a Fever

I woke up this morning to a feverish Daryl. I went to take the thermometer to measure his temp. To my horror, his temp is 38.9 deg. I went to look for Kel to tell him the bad news, but I can't find him at home. I called him on his hp to find that he's downstairs washing the car. I told him the bad news & he replied that he would rushed back soon.

I went to take the liquid paracetamol & fed some to Daryl. During the day, his fever went up & down. It got us very worried, but we were not able to bring him to see Dr Chua as it is a Public Holiday today. Thus his clinic is not opened. All we can do is to feed him the medicine & hope that his fever would subside soon.

D.A.R.Y.L

We have been teaching Daryl the ABCs for a while already. Recently, we started to teach him how to spell his own name. To my surprise, today he managed to spell his own name for me.

Just now, after our dinner, Daryl & I were sitting on the sofa watching TV. Actually... I was sitting on the sofa watching TV while Daryl is sitting on my lap trying to bounce up & down while facing me. During the advertisements, I asked Daryl how to spell his name. I asked a few times, but he ignored me. Therefore, I turned my attention back to the TV advertisements. Then, out of the blue, Daryl suddenly said, "D. A. R. Y. L, Dah leh..." He couldn't pronouced the R sound, thus it sounded like "Dah Leh" when he said his name. It was so cute that I couldn't stopped laughing. I gave him a kiss & told him what a clever boy he is. Kel who was standing nearby heard what Daryl said & was laughing also.

Wearing the Pants

Daryl knows how to wear his shorts!! He had been trying to wear his clothes for a while already. He will take them out of the drawer & try to wear them. However, he had never been able to wear his clothes till today.

As per his morning routine, he was sitting on our bed watching Sesame Street while Asty was packing the room. All of a sudden, he went to his drawer, took out some of his clothes, climbed up onto his bed & tried to wear his clothes. He finally succeed in wearing his blue shorts after a while.

I only knew about it when I went into our room as I wanted to use the bathroom. When I went in, I saw Daryl who was wearing his romper with his shorts askew. Thus I asked Asty why is he dressed in such a funny way. Her reply was that Daryl wore the shorts himself, thus it looks funny. When I heard that, I laughed & gave my notti boy a very big kiss.

Kel the Doting Dad

I told Asty to steam our mattress & sofa today as I feel that there are dust mites inside. In order to get Daryl out of the way, Kel & I decided to bring him out when Kel goes to the office to submit his documents.

We waited in the car while Kel went up to his office. While waiting, I took these pics of Daryl. See how happy he is.















































After Kel was done, we went to Centrepoint to have our lunch & to do some shopping. I was thinking of getting a booster seat for Daryl as I feel that he is outgrowing his car seat already. We had our lunch at Noodle Place Restaurant where Kel the doting dad fed Daryl his porridge.













































































It was so heartwarming to see Kel feeding Daryl. He seldom feeds Daryl as usually Asty or me will feed Daryl. Today, he wanted to give me a break, thus he took over the feeding.

After lunch, we went to Mothercare & Robinsons to check out Daryl's booster seat. We didn't see any which we like, therefore, we decided to shelve the idea for the time being.

Cheeky Boy

Daryl drives me up the walls sometimes! E.g. I was on my way to the kitchen to find some food for lunch just now when I saw him dancing on our coffee table. I told him off & asked him to come down from the table. He refused & still gave me a cheeky smile. Asty, who was coming in from the kitchen, quickly carried him down from the table & put him down on the sofa. I told Asty off for not looking after Daryl while I was working.

Then I turned my attention to Daryl. I scolded him & told him that he's a notti boy for dancing on the table. The cheeky boy pretended not to hear me & fixed his gaze on the TV. When I told him that when I am talking to him, he is not supposed to ignore me. Do you know what he did?

He actually used both his hands to cover his ears!! When I saw that, I don't know whether I should laugh or cry! What I did was that I removed his hands from his ears, smacked his hands for covering his ears & smacked his legs for dancing on the table. Then I went back to our study room. Once inside, I was laughing coz it was so funny!! I can't believe that a 21 months old boy knows how to do that.

I told Kel about it when he came back from his appt. He laughed & said that our notti boy is getting to be cleverer already. I hope that this is not a prelude to Daryl's discplining problems. :p

Running

Daryl kinda of knows how to run already. Well, I think that it's more of a jog coz he's still not that steady on his feet yet.

We went to Plaza Singapore this afternoon to exchange Kel's hp battery & to collect Asty's repaired hp. The notti boy was very active, kept running all over the place. During our lunch at The Mahattan Fish Market, instead of waiting for us to finish our food, he kept fussing as he wanted to come down to 'exercise' his legs. Kel had to take him out of the restaurant. I heard from Kel that he 'jogged' around the level like 3 times & stumbled a few times coz he's not that steady yet.





















Daryl & his lunch. He's wearing the set of top & bottom which I bought from Mothercare in my previous post.





















Daryl trying to feed himself. Did I mentioned that he's been doing that very often? He always try to take the fork or spoon from us so that he can feed himself.

After lunch, we went to the Motorola service centre & the Starhub Customer Service Centre. While we were at Starhub, Daryl was wandering all over the place. In order to keep him still, I told Daryl that I want to take some pics with him.





















Daryl & Me. The clever boy did something which warms my heart when I was about to take this pic. He actually turned to me & took my glasses off. I got this habit of taking my glasses off when taking pics, I am very amazed that he remembers it.





















Another pic of Daryl & me.





















Daryl sucking his index finger.

When we were home, he practically 'jogged' everywhere. He looks so cute jogging coz all his baby fats were jiggling. :p Luckily he's still not that steady yet, so we were able to catch up with him. I can't imagine if he 'mastered' the art of running already, then we would have a hard time catching up with him already. On the other hand, maybe I should treat it as a good chance to exercise?? :p

Cool Boy

We went to Plaza Singapura today to send Asty's hp for servicing. After we had dropped off Asty's handphone at the Motorola service centre, we decided to go shopping.

1st, we went to Mothercare which is having a sale. I was thinking of buying more pyjamas for Daryl as he's outgrowing his ones already. However, I didn't managed to find any nice ones in his size. I only managed to buy 1 set of top & bottom for him which is on offer @ S$16.

After that, we went to John Little as there is a sale going on. We planned to let Asty see whether there are any clothes that she might want to buy. While Asty is browsing, Kel decided to let Daryl try on some sunglasses.





















Kel's choice of sunglasses. Doesn't Daryl look cool in this pair?



























Daryl striking a pose...



























Daryl making his own choice...



























I like this pic the most as it shows Daryl looking pensive in his chosen sunglasses.

Like Po Po, Like Daryl

My mum has a habit of squatting on the floor to do her stuff. I think Daryl picked up this habit of hers during our visits. Evidence? Pls see below pics...





















Daryl squatting on our bed while playing with my laptop's mouse. I was doing some work while he was reading his books on the bed. Think he got bored, thus he crawled over to disturb me.






















Daryl squatting to play with the keys on my laptop.

It's amazing what our kids can pick up without our knowledge. Think Kel & I got to be more careful in our choice of words & actions already. We don't want him to be picking up words or actions which he is not supposed to. :p

Waking Up

I woke up this morning to find Daryl sleeping on my shoulder. As he looks so angelic, I couldn't resist taking some pics. :p





















Daryl sleeping on my shoulder





















Daryl stirring...





















Daryl woke up & gave me his cheeky smile.





















Daryl yawning...





















Daryl sucking his thumb

Verbalisation

Today is a very, very hot & humid day! Therefore, Kel & I hid in our aircon study room to work while Daryl was in our bedroom helping Asty to pack our room & watch his Sesame Street at the same time.

Usually, while we were working, Daryl has this habit to come into our study room to check on us once in a while. However, this morning, he didn't do so. His doting daddy missed him & went to check on him. He came back & told me this...

Kel told me that Daryl actually pulled Asty to our bathroom, pointed to his bathtub & said. "Put put..." & pointed to the floor. This means that he wanted Asty to put his bathtub on the floor so that he can bath!! As our room got no fan & Asty didn't switched on the aircon as she needs to pack the room, I think that Daryl must be feeling the heat. Thus he wanted to have a bath so that he can cool himself down! Kel was so amazed when Asty told him that. He came back into our study room & told me all about it.

I had a good laugh when I heard that. Partly coz of Daryl's actions, partly coz of Kel's expression. He got this amazed look on his face when he told me that! I retorted that he should spend more time with his baobei so that he can see more of his antics. :p

Vitagen Time

Yen Li & Xiao Xuan came over to our place this morning as Yen Li wanted to pass me the brochure which she had obtained from Carpe Diem. She is thinking of placing Xiao Xuan there should her mum-in-law is unable to look after Xiao Xuan anymore. Reason being that she is probably going to shift in with her eldest son to look after their baby gal. I was also thinking about placing Daryl there should things don't work out at home as the centre is very near to my place.

Yen Li & I had a very nice chat whereby she told me about her observations about the centre. She feels that the centre is quite good in terms of the environment & the activities, however, she feels that the fees are slightly on the high side. Thus she is still thinking about it.

While we were chatting, Daryl & Xiao Xuan had a very enjoyable time playing in his playyard. Even though Xiao Xuan is already 6 years old, she still enjoys playing with Daryl's toys. This shows that toys got no age limit. :p

As it was quite a hot day, I gave Daryl & Xiao Xuan vitagen to drink. They were so happy judging by the big smiles on their faces.



































Note that it's not my photography skills that were lousy, it's coz they were moving around so much that it's very difficult to get a good shot of the 2 of them. :P

Open Sesame

I noticed that Daryl had grown slightly taller recently. He used to have to stand on tiptoes so that he can reach the knob on our doors, nowadays, he doesn't need to. This is very useful to him especially when he wants to play with the door knob by locking it & unlocking it. Oh, did I mentioned that it's 1 of his favourite activities at night before he sleeps?

Today, I discovered that Daryl knows how to open the door!! After his evening bath, we were in our room watching his new Sesame Street disc. As the disc had finished, I went out to take another disc for him. As I didn't want him to get himself hot & sweaty by running about outside our room, I closed the door after me when I went out.

On my way back to our room, I heard Daryl locking & unlocking the door, then to my surprise, I saw the door opened & his cheeky face peeping out to see where I am. When he saw me, he went, "Jiak..." with a cheeky grin on his face. I was so surprised to see him. Asty who was nearby was also surprised as it's the 1st time that Daryl managed to open the door by himself. I went to tell Kel about it. His reaction, "Jialat... now we got no means to keep him in 1 place already!"

It then dawned on me that it's true. Previously, when he was being a brat, I would put him inside the room so that he can "reflect on his mistakes". Note that it doesn't work that way, coz he would be crying & screaming when he's inside the room. After a while, when I go in to "rescue" him, he would be so "grateful" that he would behave himself. Hehehe... Since he can open the door by himself now, this method would not work on him anymore already. Sigh... now I got to think of another way to discipline my little emperor already... Wish me luck...