Corrective Work in Progress

This afternoon, shortly after giving me some Koko Crunch cereals and a packet of milk, Mama brought me to the playground downstairs. Please bear with me for 1 minute and 10 seconds as I take some time to clear the park of some fallen leaves. Mama captured this video after I started work for a while... ;)

By the way, this post is titled Corrective Work in Progress not because I was being punished and corrected, but Mama thought maybe I perceived it was wrong to have fallen leaves lying around and so set out to correct the situation.

Chances are, it's more of me exploring the world around me. :)

Pa and Ma's 6th Wedding Anniversary

Dear all, Papa and Mama had gone off to celebrate their 6th wedding anniversary and here I am, all alone by myself... ;(

Far from it!!! The fact is, Mama wanted to eat at a nice place like P S Cafe for their 6th wedding anniversary and Papa decided we will go to PS Cafe at Harding Road, near Dempsey Hills, for lunch. When we reached PS Cafe, there was a long queue and no one even bothered with Mama when she stood at the front of the queue, waiting for someone to offer her a table.

In the end, Papa and Mama had their lunch at nearby Dome restaurant at Dempsey Hill. Papa had a steak set meal and the steak was really nice and tender though Papa requested for it to be well done. Mama ordered a salmon set meal as she wanted me to eat some good fish. Turned out that the mashed potato that came with it was tasty too. Even Mama who usually only eat her potatoes in the form of French Fries think it was lovely.

Sorry, no pictures here as they were trying to take care of me and eat at the same time. :)

When Mama thought we were going to have lunch at P S Cafe, she thought Papa will get to drink his favourite onion soup and when we left PS to go somewhere else for lunch, Mama thought there will be no onion soup for Papa. It turned out that the Soup of the Day at Dome was onion soup! Praise God. He really knows what Papa likes. By the way, I enjoyed the onion soup too!:)

After the lunch, Papa and Mama brought me to Ben and Jerry's at Dempsey. This is where the above pictures were taken. It's kind of like a first time for me to be on a swing and so Mama took some pictures to commemorate. Here is me and Mama. Papa was not really in the mood to be photographed and so he took these pictures for us. :)

Self-Directed Potty Training

To help me get potty trained, Mama actually borrowed this book titled Baby's Potty from the library to read to me. It's a book that tells us what a potty is used for.

Last week, during one of the afternoons when Mama was reading to me, I actually chose this book for Mama to read to me. When she read about the potty, I actually went to the living room to bring my potty into the room for Mama. Of course, she is very pleased about it! :)

But she has been very slacked about my potty training for the past few days. When will I ever be potty-trained? ;p

I am A Good Boy

Mama has been going out to give tuition on Saturday mornings before I was born and after I came along, it was decided that Papa will take care of me on Saturday mornings and Mama will continue to give tuition outside.

Initially, Papa found it difficult to take care of me when I was very young, say a few months old. On weekdays mornings, I will usually be sleeping but when it comes to Saturday mornings, I will fuss as if I was intentionally making things difficult for Papa. Mama thought this might be so because I regarded Papa as my playmate and I wanted him to play with me. Whatever the reason, it was really tough for Papa to handle me on Saturday mornings in those days.

Now, it's a different story. As long as Papa is not tired, he is happy to take care of me on Saturday mornings. It's our father-and-son time. On one of the Saturday mornings this year, Papa actually took me to Yew Tee Central to run some errands and bought me a waffle to eat. Then we watched the MRT trains go by together.

Last Saturday morning, Papa and I walked to Yew Tee Central together.
Sorry, no real photos available as Mama was giving tuition then. This picture of me and Papa walking along the corridor in Malacca should suffice to paint the picture? ;P

Yes, we were on foot and not in a car. Papa said he held my hand and we walked there for Hotcake breakfast at Mac Donald's and then we walked back.

When Mama came home, Papa even had the toilet washed and some housework done. He said it was as if I understood when Papa told me to stay in my playpen to watch Sesame Street disc while he went to wash the toilet. I really stayed there obediently and watched the telly.

Papa also said I am a joy to him because I like to keep things. Although I like to throw my toys out of my playpen, I usually keep them once Mama lets me out of the playpen. This means I am a neat person like Papa. Mama likes to say I looks like her on the outside but I really have Papa's traits such as being cautious and neat-loving on the inside. :)

One Eyed Jack

Today, I turned one week older. But when Mama saw me in the morning, she had a surprise. I had become an one-eyed jack!! This is really what I looked like. No camera tricks, no special effects using cosmetics. I had a swollen eye-lid!

I was bitten by a mosquito or some unknown insect when we were waiting at the doctor's clinic yesterday. Mama did not apply any medication for me for fear that my eye may get irritated if I rub it and so she had left it alone.

This morning when I woke up, the eye lid had become swollen! Mama thought she will leave it to heal on its own but when we went marketing, we met my classmate, Queenie's grandma, who said it's better to let a doctor take a look for fear it may affect my vision.

So Mama took me to the GP clinic nearby. Doctor Benny Lim took a look and gave me some cream to be applied thinly when I sleep. Mama forgot to ask if my vision will be affected and it also did not cross her mind to ask the doctor to check if I was still wheezing. She just told the doctor that she wanted to be sure it was not a drug allergy although she believes it is quite unlikely as I had not eaten any medicine from the time I went to sleep til I woke up in the morning.

But no worries, I was still very active today. In fact, more active than yesterday when I was nebulised. See, I was checking out the touch-screen on this ticketing machine after going marketing with Mama.

When Papa came home, he was also very surprised to see me in this state. He kept saying I looked funny and even jested that this is not his son because this is not what his son looks like. ha!

Nevertheless, we still had some fun together in the evening.

After dinner, we went to Yew Tee Central where Papa returned some discs he had rented and he paid for my ride on a kiddy-ride machine.

See how different this machine is from the one in Malacca? :)

Nebulised!

Dear all, this is me undergoing nebulisation at my pediatrician's clinic because I was wheezing. It's actually a process when vaporised medication is sent via the face mask directly to my lungs to help me open my airways.

It was my second nebulisation during the same visit. If I had to be nebulised when I go and see Dr Winston Ng, it's usually done once for about 5 minutes or so. But yesterday, I had to be nebulised twice as I was still wheezing after the first round.

Mama tried to distract me by showing me some video clips on her handphone and then it occured to her that she should take some pictures and so here we go.





As you can see,I was certainly not enjoying it. In fact, I cried during the process and Mama felt very sorry for me. She also felt very bad that she had not been more vigilant to keep me away from the dusty roads during the Malacca trip. You see, I had been coughing for the past week since coming back from Malacca and that was why Papa and Mama decided to send me to the pediatrician. I had not recovered even after seeing our family doctor and had taken medication for an entire week.

After the second round of nebulisation, I was better and Papa said he could really tell the difference as my breathing was no longer noisy but very silent like a car engine that is silent. I will be going for a review this Thursday and hopefully I will get better. ;)

Potty Training Day #2

After the first day of potty training, Mama bought me this new potty the next day. This new potty cost $1.90 from a sundry store at Yew Tee central. This is the "old-fashioned" kind that Uncle Quan, Mama's cousin, used when he was a toddler himself more than a decade ago.

Mama bought me a new potty because she thinks the one Papa bought me has a rim that is too thick and makes it difficult for me to stand and pee into it. By the way, I took the photo above with Mama's help. She held her handphone camera and tried to explain to me about the idea of "point and shoot" (we are talking about photo-taking here ;p) and I pressed the shutter button. Cool, yah? :)

I regard the new potty as another toy I have.

In fact, I like to sit on it at times but not for more than a minute or so. And it always kind of topple over if it's not held to the ground when I try to get up. Hopefully, if it should ever hold my waste, the contents will not spill when I try to stand.

Still, she didn't manage to catch anything with this new potty. sigh. Tomorrow, Mama may try to resume training which was stopped due to the weekend and we were at the doctor yesterday. ;)