Happy Birthday to our dearest Daddy! 29 Apr

The day started off not so good, school bus aunty msg me that she will come at 7.24am instead from that day onwards..so I ngeh ngeh laze at home till 7.20am..then start running towards school bus..Jared got angry and keep crying refused to go to school..In the end we had to send him instead.

After work daddy and me went for a good dinner at Buckaroo..to come home to be welcome by Jared excitement..he chose a cake for daddy!..He was so happy to wish his daddy Happy Birthday even when we were by the window..

Only when the head is pressed then he's willing to look into camera..

See how happy is daddy..

Birthday Parties for April and May

April and May is the month of Birthdays and party..



First we have taipo's birthday where we celebrated at wholeearth vegetarian restaurant








Then we had Caitlyn's birthday party with Kaylen all dress up




Jared was so happy to see clifford..but poor Caitlyn and Kenshin were frighten badly..



After the party I asked Jared if he wanna have a birthday party for his birthday with clifford coming? He said yes..and he only want clifford to come not Mcqueen or thomas train..hehe..


The birthday video

A fun morning picnic by the reservoir

Picnic at our favourite hanging spot the Upper pierce reservoir...

Jared has been talking about going to see monkey, and I wanted very much to take pics of the kids sitting on our table cloth picnic...hee..Cos I saw from forum babies sit on greens at the park, and pictures of them sit on bright color picnic mat...Then daddy told me that its the same pattern and color as our table cloth..hehe..But daddy very much resisted having food at the reservoir. Cos the last time we went, it was so crowded there..and we were the only family eating there..somemore ta pau food..

This wk it started a little rain when I went chong pang market to tapau food. Luckily it stop when we reached there..and not so crowded too.

So we had so many pretty pictures!


This is the best pic of Jared & Kaylen together..


they both like having discussion yeah..and see how good Kaylen can sit already...


they look so much alike leh.

finally i have a very nice pics with both the kids..

Oops..that tounge doesn't look that nice..too long, Kaylen..

I like this pic..look so sunny and bright...

Beautiful smile

she look exactly like me in thic pic..

so pretty of the scenary and kaylen's face yeah..both of us look so pretty in this pic..

Kaylen crawling and laughter

Her crawling forward is slow...and steady..hehe..I remembered Jared could only crawl forward at 9mth+...Kaylen 6mth+ already started crawling forward...

The kettle and the mouse

Another drawing



Hmmm...the kettle is really obvious...and when I asked

Mommy: What did you draw Jared?
Jared: a normal kettle lah and a mouse. *pointing to the handle*
Mommy:*Scratching head where where?*

After he drawn the kettle yesterday, today he asked to bath 3x, cos he wanna play with the kettle after we all compliments his drawing..hehe..

Thankfully the cheapest ABC shop sell watercolor at 90cents per set and drawing book at $1..so he get to indulge in water color drawing everyday..if using those ex brand like crayola..heart pain ah.

Update on Jared 3yr 5mth old

He's slow with academical development mainly cos he is so playful.
Recently he just suddenly got so in love with the leapfrog DVDs which I got him when he was <1yr...So he manage to learn all the phonics sound within 1 wk..and really good in them.

Nowadays he likes to go around asking: Jared: Mummy, Can you guess what sound does the letter U make? Me: boom boom boom.. Jared: no... He has also started to like leapfrog DVD part 2, which tell them how to make words...But since it is quite tough even for us adult to understand phonics..so not much improvement leh. He used to like to be Lao3 he2 wei2 (no study, poor man)...

But ever since we transfered him to TRBK, he always come home wanting to be a teacher..and a Good teacher! So he read more books nowadays, and finally willing to draw properly. See the first ever proper thing that he drawn, unassisted:



It's a tree!...and he used the correct colour for the leaves...I'm so happy!

For sometime he like to draw rainbow, but he will only take out all the marker pens...draw 1st line, and get my mum to complete it..Thats why I say seeing him painting a tree all on his own is such a big achievement.

He prefers water color, marker pen to crayon & colour pencil. Thank fully TRBK use a lot of water color...

His ah yi bought him a vtech laptop for his birthday...am so surprise that he is playing some of the word and shape game really well.


For eg. Word game
1) Whats the first letter of table? Igloo? umbrella? monkey? etc etc
He can get all correctly.

These days when we got home at night, he will be doing scrapbooking with his daddy. ...They will flip through newspaper to find vehicle pictures or any pictures jared likes..Then Jared would cut them out and paste in a book.

-> Vocabulary
I find kids nowadays very lucky..They have much better vocab as compared to us last time since there's so much exposure from tv, cds, games

For eg, I only learn the word accident at P5. But Jared haven't 2 yr old already accident here and there with his car...

His latest word is "presentation" which he learned from the same leapfrog cd. So he will go around and say, I have a presentation today...We are going to do a presentation for Prof Wiggley.

-> Techno savvy

A lot of ppl have problem operating new electronic device or gadget..But our Jared is super zai. He could load/unload camera battery and memory card...turn on and off camera on his own, also take out camera from the pouch and put it back after use. Once I took out the memory card and put into the adaptor, he saw it and wanted to use the camera, he actually plug it out from adaptor and fix it into camera to use it!...I was really shock!

As usual home tv and turning on/off DVD player is nothing to him

And his latest discovery was our laptop...He know how to open up the laptop, turn it on, luckily don know how to key in daddy's password yet...But once you login for him, he know exactly how to move the mousepad and open up his favourite CAR movie folder on the desktop..and choose the part 1/2/3 he wanted to watch..and finally watch it!! hehe..

He handle better with the mousepad on the laptop as compared to the actual mouse...He knows how to close the windows pop out blocking his lighting mcqueen show...he moves the mouse to the X, and click enter. (Thought by daddy)

The east coast trip with our talented photographer

Its been a mth + that we haven't been to east coast...Then on the Good Friday finally we made a trip there. Jared's bike on the extra 2 little wheel has been fixed, but since fixed he didnt dare to cycle on the bike anymore...so everytime we asked if he wanna go beach to cycle...He say.." I want to walk at the beach". Still he couldn't resist cycling..so finally his phobia is overcomed.

Then that day he kee siow...on the way back to car park, he cycle 2 round..stop, and say I want to rest, Can I have some water? ...and after that he would take a pic of us...
So most photos dont have him, only the rest of 3 of us....

All these pics are taken by Jared, very proportionate, and very nicely taken..I only need to adjust some pics brighter...

The east coast trip with our talented photographer Part2

Ok..these pics are what I took..

Everytime if he refuse to take pic, can always use the same tactic, ask him to hold on something and say...挡注你的脸了！Then he will hold the thing and try to look a bit at the camera...hehe..There at the beach we found the little dried fruit from the trees which he used in US to do this action, he could still remember...hehe

Smiley Kaylen @7 mth 1wk old

The moment you take out the camera she would smile happily to you...Arrrgggh..When is the nice Sean Lau photography bulk purchase!..I wanna join!

Jared & Kaylen Apr 2009

Its very diff to take their pic together..almost impossible nowadays with Jared snatching our camera the moment we take it out...

But 1 night they decided to sit together and sing songs...hehe

Can have good comparison between them like this...Most ppl will say Jared's feature are nicer than Kaylen

Kaylen is 7 month

-> Feeding
Only want and can drink milk when sleepy...when wide awake, she will ahhhh all the way if you try to insert bottle into her mouth...and If i try to latch her, she'll bite me even though she don't have teeth yet!

Drinks about 4oz of milk each time, never increase more than this

-> Physical
Can sit unsupport quite well now
Can crawl forward now...but slow...
First raise her butt super high...then leap like a frog, to move forward.
Trying to learn to sit from lying down, but still not successful yet.

-> Speech
I think much better than Jared at the same time...
Maaaa...
Daaaaa...
Mumm...
all kind..hehe..

-> Solid intake
*headache*
Seemed to be allergy to peas, and egg yolk.
I spent much effort to prepare fresh peas for her, open up the pod, and take out the peas. WIth 1 pack of fresh beans, i can only get 3 small cube of peas..Then when she take 1 cube...start rashes all over ...

Egg yolk too..but gonna try again in 1-2wks time.
She get choke with smallest grain...everything for her must be soft and smooth..if not she will merlion..I tend to get a bit phobia feeding her...The best food is probaly rice cereal+ breastmilk. Then only it is smooth enough for her.
She don't like having apple/pear puree on its own, I guess too sweet..can see from her face expression.

-> Weight & height
~8kg...not much gain from 6mth old ...Becos she fall sick and had to see doc at 6mth 3wk old.
She's doing better than Jared, Jared first see doc was at 6mth old.
Shortie, ~64cm only...wonder if my milk lack of calcium?

-> Say cheese
I just realised Kaylen would smile to the camera everytime we try to snap a pic for her...so cute!

2wks in new school

I think Jared enjoyed the school..it wasn't so hard to wake him up in the morning anymore..he is sleeping earlier about 10.30pm..compare to 11/12am last time..Like to take school bus very much...

The old pap school..I can't stop complaining... The other day we bump into teacher Jay, I was asking Jared to go up and greet the teacher...wah, the teacher saw him, fast fast enter the classroom, and close the door...Aiyo!..real jia lat..

Jared has phobia over the toilet bowl in the pap school, so during bad times, one wk he would pee on his pants for 3 days...my mum went to check once, the toilet bowl stuck, and its too big for him..and most of all teacher don't bother to ask if he need to pee. And pee nevermind, lin lao shi don't even want to change his pants..so he would soak in wet pants, and wet socks and wet shoes till go home..How can???... Haiz...

I think I haven't finish complaining...

The new school...Jared is found to change new attire, even if he just eat messily and dirty some spots of his uniform,...hehe..Once he wet slightly the underwear also got changed. When we went to the school to spot check on the 2nd wk, bump into Mrs Chai, so I asked her how was Jared? She told me , he is ready to join in and do the work now.

Once Jared asked her, No window? (at the hall)...So she went to showed him there's window just that it was covered by the curtain to prevent bright light from coming in. Since then, Jared had never cry again in hall. He's able to put his school bag and water bottle in front of classroom after getting down from bus now.

We were really happy to see it. Although he still look blur all time in school..hehe They would bring them to pee once coming down from assembly, before going home, after arts and craft session. All of them go together..which is very good right? Cultivate the habbit.

Most of all, the school fees are really affordable..$600 for 10 wk...together with the school bus, we pay $300 per mth..for rest of mind..Why not?

Kaylen started solid

Back dated posting for 1 Mar 09

Kaylen started pure rice cereal at 5.5mth, and at exactly 6mth old I let her tasted her first home made apple purree..She hates it when eating apple puree on its own, I guessed its too sweet for her..but if its added with potato+rice cereal she's fine.

Initialy when Jared saw her eating, he would ask for for some to taste....once, he asked to have her pumpkin puree..and eat until like very tasty like that..heheh..

But now after seeing her eating for so long, Jared is no longer interested in her food.

CHeeky Jared wanting to feed and clean up Kaylen

Lagging behind post...The whole of March

I didn't made as many posting in the whole of March as much as the stuff we did...though I would love to keep all the memories...

I'm still lagging behind postings for Kaylen's finals contest pic, our Singapore flyer ride, and we went back to Ritz calton again...also our March zoo trip, and science centre trip...aiyo...so many..

The only thing I'm up to date is Jared's new school experience...hehe

3rd Day and 4th Day in TRBK

3rd day: All on his own
- My heart was stomping so hard from the moment he got into school bus at 7.20am to 11.40am till I heard he safely got home again.
-He told waipo he cried because it's his first time in school
-He fall asleep in bus on the way home -Since he had nap in the bus already, he could not take any more nap in the noon, so he fall asleep at 7pm+ again till next morning, so I didn't have a chance to talk to him over school

4th day: Fear
-Finally I managed to talk to him while bringing him to wait for school bus. -He was so scared of need to assembly in the hall at level 2.
-I told him aunty say mummy need to pay if I want to take the school bus, so I'll meet him in school
-Daddy and me went to his school and since it was early we manage to talk to the teachers over his performance the day before

-We were told that he was temperemental in class. He snatch another kid's pencil, while another gal give her another pencil, he got angry. And refused to do the work in the chinese class -When he came over to English class, again he told Mrs Chai " I don't want to sit, I want to stand" and refused to join in handicraft time. But later on noticed that the rest were having so much fun pasting the egg shell to letter E, only then he started joining.
-I told the teacher over his fear of having to go to hall, teacher promised to guide him along.. -

Then Jared 's school bus reached school, saw Aunty had to hold his hand and pass him to teacher before leaving..hehe..He disappeared in sight for a while before we finally see him crying at hall at level 2..hehe...But Mrs Chai was with him all the time.

-We had to leave the school by now, cos it's almost 8am!..and i'm 20mins late for work..But my heart felt better...hehe..This is the first time I got so involved with his school, checking him up with teachers and bringing him there for so many days. hee..

So many worries

Tomorrow it will be Jared's 1st time taking school bus and school trip...I've been like a long tounge lady repeating and repeating the sequence of even to him.

1) Aunty said mummy cannot take the school bus anymore, so you had to go to school on your own.

2) When you reach school, show your hands to Mrs Chan, after that go to your class and put your bag, and then go to the toilet to wash your hands.

3) Then get a teacher to bring you up to the hall.

4) Then you sit by the blue line.

I wonder how much he absorbed. I wish I could be there to peep him to do all of these sequence correctly before I go to work..But daddy said, no worries, there will certainly be ppl notice him if he wondering around...

Also, Now I realised how bad it is to let him study in the big school. His classroom and the toilet, and the location to let teacher check his hands are all over. How could we expect a 3yr old to be able to find his way..and finally go to the 2nd level hall???

Kaylen @ 6mth 2wk

2nd day @ TRBK

First day he nap 20mins in school bus, so when he reached home he was all energised..and refused to take afternoon nap. So he slept very early at nite 7pm+. So waking up for 2nd day wasn't difficult..he also ask me to accompany him to school.

When the school bus came, aunty make him sit with another kid..so I had to sit behind...He was like totally forgot about me....hehe

As usual after put bag and wash hands, they have to gather at the hall, at level 2, while waiting for rest of kids to arrive.

Jared told Mrs Patrick he need to pee, when she came back, She told me he is very well toilet trained. He even asked her is this(pointing to toilet bowl) small enough for me? Mrs Patrick is very glad that no help needed for him. But I told her, at hm he need to be help all the time...hee

Later, suddenly he cried aloud wanting to go back to classroom...Chinese teacher helped to pacify him by putting him on her lap..after sometime he was fine..and I left the hall before him.

Cos the day before when getting fr hall to classroom, he kept asking for me..So I would like to see if he can cope without me..Glad that he was alright throughout, even breakie time...

He ate and self fed very well...Most of the kiddos doesn't seemed to particularly like the food...I hardly see them eat actually. But doing the prayer with the hand gesture is still like alien to him..hehe..

He is much happier in this school, the teacher are loving and caring also. Another mummy told me that she sent the kid all the way from Bishan cos of the bigger compound, lively environment...I had to agree...

Even more better that it's open concept..so from some distance apart, I could peep at Jared, yet because of the gate make us adult not that noticeable.

I made Jared quit fr the PAP school becos both Lin lao shi and teacher jay are absolutely no patience and not loving at all, I always heard lin lao shi yell at the students. She would even complained that Jared is walking around the class ..which I think is pretty normal for active boys, as long as doesnt happen everyday.

Today even the school ride is slightly better for both of us..I hope tomorrow onwards, when Jared is on his own..He would still be able to handle everything..

Jared's new school

Jared started his new school today in the 2nd term at Thomson Road Baptist Kindergarden, its beside united square. But this time he had to take the school bus to school..

Now everyone had to adjust the clock 15mins earlier including Kaylen..I had to feed Kaylen slightly earlier, and all ready at the bus stop by 7.15am. The school bus turn and turn around Whampoa, Balestier, TTSH..finally arrive at school around 7.45am...By then I already giddy.

Every morning the will go up to the hall to assemble follow by church song...and today I even saw ex-celeb, He yong fang bringing her daughter there.




Jared had 2 serving of bread...the only one who ate so much!


The school compound...much bigger than his previous one...he got so happy when knock off...
Fall asleep on the bus immediately after got on...Then got frighten and keep crying when he knock something...and said don't want to go school anymore..hehe..

When we got home, I shared with my worries when he was cutting out the elephant all by himself, that he might cut the trunk. Then he continued to tell me, some one cut the nose..and the teacher said "Why you cut away the nose?"...and after that we all burst into laughter...

Baby Idol Contest-Final clips

Kaylen is 6month old!

-Eating & feeding
On 2 meals of rice cereal+puree. Loves water and cereal much more than milk. She likes to be seated on the high chair, it meant meal time for her...glutton gal! Jared last time even now can't sit still on high chair...simply cos he dun like eating.

-Physical development
Flipping on 1 side all the time, and can crawl backwards. Make me phobia of leaving her on bed. Sit unsupported for 10s for good days. In term of physical development she is so much more advance than koko. Koko can only do push up at 7-8mth and crawl backwards at 9mth.

Had her first fall on 19Mar09, 6mth 2wk old....I latch her on my parent's bed, and she manage to fall asleep at 8pm which she normally don't..And I was happily playing with Jared & watching tv in the living room...Then we heard a loud cry, when mum rush into the room, can't find Kaylen, later on she found her on the floor..hehehe...Lucky head on another mattress...She was alright, when she mum found her she has stop crying..hehe..

-Verbal
Very noisy when she "talk", yelling loud all the time -Relationship with koko poor gal being no. 2, the naughty koko would use toy airplane to hit her head....and she no feeling, no cry or anything..

When koko trying to disturb her, flip her over, she would smile happily thinking koko is playing with her...

Know how to fight toy with koko now...wah...Jared was playing a toy train that move with battery, after a few round letting the train move to Kaylen,she was angry when Jared took the toy train all on his own...So she yell & cry...and each time if Jared let her play, she's happy..hehe Must be a notti and more fierce gal next time..

-Weight 5mth: 7.3kg 65cm
6mth: 8kg 63.5cm (Her height up and down from mth to mth, wonder what's wrong..hah)

Interesting Conversation with Jared @ 3yr 4mth

Situation 1
It's mummy fav show time, Perfect Cut,..Thomas Wang, Wang tien chai...is just so handsome..and he is our neighbour too!.. So I got so engrossed watching and watching till Jared yell

Jared: Mummy, I want to pee pee, mummy pee pee pls...Mummyyyyyy...... pee pee pls
Me: sorry sorry sorry..

I'm glad he is saying pls at least..


Situation 2
My mum added thaw frozen breastmilk to Jared's milk

Jared: Waipo zhe shi xin de nai fen ma? Bu hao hei4, mai3 jiu de nai fen (Is this new fm? Not nice, next time pls buy old brand)

Situation 3

Jared going to start new school after the school holidays. He said he don't want to go new school , want to back to the pre-nursery at Blk 85, because Wo3 you3 yi4 dian3 pa4 (I'm a bit scared!..no one would believe this little kiddo think so much about the new school)

Situation 4
We are on the way back to Sembawang, listening to Jared's cd collection content songs and music. But lately he likely to listed to songs more.

So when the song cd finish, and music cd started...

Jared: Did I say I want to listen to music?

Wahhhh..noti boy

Situation 5
I was reading the rainbow fish book to Jared while carrying Kaylen on the sofa. But sofa turn grouchy, so I had to stand up to pacify Kaylen

Jared: Mummy, don't go away. I want to read books.

Situation 6
Jared: Can I play with clip daddy?
Daddy: No, you haven't clean up the mess
Jared: Don't worry daddy, I'm keeping

*Again we wahhhh, wonder how he learn to talk like this!*

Angry and angry and more more angry

I submited Kaylen's pic for Sean Lau's photography which they will be shooting for an adverstisement.

And just got a call that she got short listed!

But but...they looking for baby who can crawl!!....Kaylen still can't ...arrrghhhh

So i told them if you want to look for baby who can crawl steadily, pls find those 9mth! arrrghhh...Kaylen can't even sit on her own steadily yet...

Another thing, I'm flattered!..It looks like every contest they we try to submit her pic in, she will get to be short listed...hehe.. The lady who called also say she very very cute...and she would put her in profile in case next time ppl look for baby model again!...

Ok, she normally don't look as good as this pic...hehe..I cheated a bit to send in the best pic hehehe..and lately she's getting a little too fat to look good also..Haiz..

The day where everything is wrong...The Finals 1 Mar 2009..

The day started with Jared & me taking daddy's car on the way to Sembawang...We didn't get to go back for the weekend, because daddy is extremely bz. So I took Jared back with me since the camera battery need to re-charge, no matter what, I had to go back Sembawang..

I brought him to NTUC to get the Gain Kid offer with the voucher, but one of it expire!...I even bought together a shopping trolley..but now I'm only buying 2 tin of 900g gain kid instead of 3. I still go ahead to get the trolley, since Jared had a good time pushing the trolley...hehe...I didn't have to touch it, he push them all the way home.

Then at home, he asked for some drinks, so I let him have the meiji strawberry milk...to my dismay he pour it every where on the floor...So I had to clean up the floor... After his lunch, we left for Whampoa.

We had to take the MRT ourselves, it's probaly the 1st time ever i brought Jared out alone for such long train ride...Guess what? nobody give out seat to us despite Jared said loudly he wanted to sit!...He requested me to carry him on some part of journey...and his 15kg weight is really not an easy task...

Finally when we got a seat at Bishan, he fall asleep...My god, it's even big trouble now..I was carrying my pump, cooler bag with ice brick, a new 900g Gain kid, and my own bag...PLUS now a 15kg Jared...hehehe...

So I position myself properly way before train reached TPY...carry him with me, together with 2 other bag,leave the MRT, and tap my EZlink and heads to take bus 139. Luckily I could get a seat, and quickly call my mum to come to bus stop to wait for us...

Then everything was fine till super big rain with super big thunder...daddy came back to pick us to expo. I got shock how nice each contestant are in the finals...then after a long wait finally the contest starts. When we are at the backstage, Kaylen keep crying non stop..and she was the only contestant who cry..the rest were they happily and smiling all the time...

I had to call daddy to bring us water..and while she drinks she even close her eyes wanting to sleep...At the same time I also noticed her dress's stictches came off!!..It's such a big mess now...

So when it's time to go out on stage..I talk rubbish, and Kaylen bo sim keep looking at the table instead of judges... Arggghhh..

My mood was really bad at that time, I'm angry with daddy who's able to make her smile refuse to go up stage, and prepare script for me to say, yet don't want to say himself...Angry plus more angry.. Anyway, even we do our best, we won win the contest...Cos the judge by chubbiest cheek only..And not overall balance and pretty looking...

The good thing was we weren't the 1st to be called out during consolation prize annoucement..hehehe...Quite dissapointed with the prize though, it just some Gaia samples + 1 teether...worst than their early bird goodie bag...