What We've Been Up To in Oct/Nov

Play Date with Zac, Elijah and Natalie at Uncle Eugene's and Auntie Amelia's house. That's me checking out Zac's cool toys.

That's me at Ikea playing at an activity booth. We like to go there for breakfast sometimes.

Daddy and Mummy popped by JB for a date with each other and with Mr Bak Kut Teh, Mrs Sesame Chicken and Miss Ginseng Chrysanthemum Tea. The coffee shop may be shabby but the food certainly isn't (so says Daddy and Mummy... I can't be sure about it cos they didn't bring me along).


We went swimming at Uncle Chung Jye's place except nobody was doing the swimming except me. Daddy and Uncle Chung Jye just sat around the jacuzzi pool and talked. In case they refute that, I've asked Mummy to post the picture of them doing so here.

We've been building things out of the Duplo blocks which Uncle Royston and Auntie Angeline passed to us before they left for Sydney. Actually, Daddy's the one who has been doing the building. Mummy only knows how to stack them up to make towers of varying heights (of which there can be only so many variations) and I only know how to dismantle the Duplo structures. Above is a picture of the giraffe Daddy made and had me pose beside.

Uncle James, Auntie Germaine and didi Gabriel came to visit us. :)

This is us riding the sky train at the airport. Daddy and Mummy brought me there to see the airplanes.

At the play corner at T3.


We thank God for each day we have as a family and for His providence and love for us. We're really looking forward to December when we'll be going for church camp at Port Dickson and also celebrating the birth of Jesus. :)

Chatterbox

Ethan has been picking up lots of new words lately, especially in the past month or so. We marvel at his ability to take in new sights, sounds, touch and tastes every day; basically we're amazed at his enormous propensity to learn! He's always exploring - touching, prodding, poking, throwing, spinning, examining, picking, patting, pushing, pulling and tasting (ok, this one we're not so wild about). His excitement and joy in exploring and discovering new things each day simply amazes me. There's a lot adults can learn from children in this respect. :)

Thought I'll just record down the words (besides daddy, mummy etc) Ethan can say so far. Here goes:

bye bye, cup, ball, cold, nana (banana), car, bear, star, pat-pat, wet, walk, please, go, no, bread (no surprises here), milk, flower, tree, grapes, cloud, cross, me, Amen, bus, apple, thirty (cos that's the floor that we live on), two (which the waitress at Thai Express taught him), baby, comb, peach, nose, eye, toes, spoon, key, cartoon, pen, cat, pear, button, bag, belt, albert (alphabet), man, blanket, circle, square, bubbles, up, down, press, keep, plants, kick, step, windmill, raining, so pretty, arrow, airplane, turtle, duck, moon, exercise, fish, orange, shark, rabbit, cheese, sleep, open, close, exit, leaves, penguin, train, water, yogurt, jump, book, tear, tongue, bottle, zhu (as in Mandarin for pig), bao bao (as in Mandarin for carry).

Ok, that's all I can recall for now! :)

A Most Disagreeable Day

It's 7.40pm now and I've already put ethan to bed so as to put an end to this most disagreeable day. I think he must have woken up from the wrong side of his bed (even though there is really only one side to wake up from - the one that is not facing the wall) because he was really grouchy the whole morning, the whole afternoon and the whole evening (until 7.20pm that is). So it has been essentially the entire day that he has been moody. Took much persuasion to get him to take his morning nap; woke up shortly. Utterly refused to take his afternoon nap - cried and wailed, threw everything out of his cot. Wanted to eat everything in the house except what I cooked for him - spits food out, flings food around. Demands "Bread, ah, bread!" throughout the day. Cries when put down in cot, cries when put down on my bed with me, cries when I put him down in his room to play with his toys, stares at me blankly for a while and then cries when I say in exasperation to him "Ethan! Mummy doesn't know what you want!". He flings his duplo harder when told not to fling it at all, grabs the dirty wheels of his pram at least 5 times so I have to heave him to the toilet to wash his hands 5 times, crawls around the house and switches on all the switches including the one for the iron (yup, HDB now caters for homeowners who are very very short), turns the dvd player on and off at least 20 times. Doesn't want to read his books, doesn't want to play with his toys, doesn't want to sleep. I think the one thing he probably would have wanted to do was to eat bread, which I already gave him. I can't possibly keep giving him bread the entire day, no?

I think towards the end of the day he was just really tired so the best thing to do was to put him to bed. Well, he's asleep now after much crying and wailing. I think I'm going to look for some really really dark chocolate..

Ethan Walks!

Ahh... Ethan decided, yesterday evening, that he would walk on his own much to the delight (for now) of his daddy and mummy. Ethan himself was pleased as punch to be able to take his first steps. Hurrah, ethan! Next up, somersaults. :)

Ethan's Favourite ABC Song

Ethan has been learning his alphabet (or as he calls it, 'albert') and he absolutely loves this version of the alphabet song which his daddy found on utube. So far, Ethan knows, reliably, the letters T (which he also calls 'cross' because the small 't' looks just like one), O, X and M, with the letter M being his favourite letter of all time (erm.. 'M' for Mummy? :) . He would sometimes make his own way to the study room and point to the computer and say "M" repeatedly which is his way of indicating that he wants to watch the before mentioned clip. When the song gets to the the letter M, he almost always says 'M' clearly and happily. Anyway, the song has been stuck in ben's head and mine and we sometimes unconsciously sing it to ourselves. But ethan will get a riff of it and it's like "Ding!" and he does his "M.....m...m". And we watch the clip for the 137th time of the day...

Can't seem to upload the video of him enjoying the clip. Will try again another time. :)

Daddy - Our Very Own Home Entertainment System :)

30 Minutes on the Southern Ridges

We decided to take a walk on the Southern Ridges one Sat evening as the weather was so beautiful and because the Hort Park was just a short drive away. This was our first time there. We had a lovely time even though it was a short walk - cos it was getting dark and close to dinner time. I liked the green and the quiet, ethan was captivated by the flowers and trees while benjamin kept looking down and telling us how high we were and asking if it was safe or not. hahaha.. We hope to go there again soon. :)