Update on garden

After several weeks of constant care and nourishment, the plants start to bloom. The purple flower bloomed this morning, what a lovely surprise as I wasn't expecting it at all :)

What I cook last night

Pasta with minced beef. This was what I cooked for our dinner yesterday. We cancelled our tingkat dinners this week as we were really sick of it.

I took about 35 minutes preparing and cooking this meal. I was carrying Aeon as I cooked. He was trying to get my attention as soon as I got home, therefore I decided to bring him to the kitchen to show him how his mama cook.

Suit for Auntie's wedding

We bought a suit for Aeon, he will wear it for Auntie YX & Uncle Jayern's big day this coming Saturday:

• Before the coat, looks like a waiter
• With the coat on and a straw, doesn't him look like a baby magician?

New fence

Here's a new fence we bought weeks ago. It is much better than a play pen. Here's Aeon trapped in the jail. He wore the blue plastic ring onto his right foot himself. Not sure how he did it. Aeon has so many toys to play with nowadays :)

• Trying to remove the ring:
• Looking tired and still stuck with the ring. We did not help him remove the ring as he removed it himself shortly after.
• Playing with the ring on

Aeon's first birthday

We have been really busy preparing for Aeon's first birthday last week. It was a major task for us because we are trying our best to make our house as neat and spacious for the guests. Finally, we went through.

Hello Aeon, sorry for not blogging about you last week. MaMa will make up for it really soon because we took many photos of you and I will narrate slowly.

Thank you Uncles, Aunties, KorKors & JieJies for the wonderful gifts:

• We took out some of the presents to pose with Aeon:
• Aeon was so busy with the presents, he didn't know which to 'taste' first. (His instinct is to taste everything in contact with)
  

  

For the first time

Aeon slept over at my mum's house yesterday because both me and Roland were tiding up the house till wee hours. You may think it is a good time for two however both of us feel so missing without this little one. I cannot sleep well at all, I woke up times to find out 'oh my god, where is Aeon?" . This is my separation anxiety. I missed the usual night where Aeon woke up and cried for milk.

Treasure Hunt Not Allowed Here!

We have been clearing out lots of unwanted stuffs lately making room for Aeon thus we have thrown lots of rubbish outside our house. To my horror and which is the 2nd time in a roll, I withnessed 2 people whom ransacked our rubbish looking for 'trasures'!.

Yesterday morning - this old Chinese uncle cycled and stopped outside our house and looked through our rubbish and lucky for him, he found a faulty vacuum cleaner. I was right outside at the garden watering the plants and he looked back at me, continuing his hunt. Suddenly he asked me to lend him a pair of scissors to cut the cord off the vacuum cleaner. Then he asked for some newspapers (which I do not have) and asked if could borrow my scissors till the next day! I was stunned and turned him down and asked me to put back the rubbish neatly when he's done. He promised that he would as he was not that type of inconsiderate people. He told me that he was jobless therefore this was what he did for a 'living' now and hoped that I can pass my old papers to him next time.

This morning at 8am, I heard a motorbike stopped outside and peeped out. There was this Malay man (old curly hair, pink striped polo tees) on a Transnational Express courier bike, he stopped and ransacked my rubbish for close to my minutes. I thought I saw him tearing out the rubbish bags to see what was inside! He left empty-handed.

Inside my rubbish this time - expired canned food, potted plants, Aeon's soiled diapers, old plastic bags, old tap remains (we changed our tap and pipe yesterday ),

There is no privacy at all. Feel like a 'superstar' with paparazzi team finding out about our lifestyles through our rubbish.

Wonder if there is anyway to stop these people. Can I put a sign on the bin and said "Treasure hunt not allowed. " or "Nice to see and touch, once broken considered yours, please bring home to ransack"

I hated these people ransacking through and leaving the mess behind.

Anyway, I did not run out to stop him because I was in my PJ and messy hair.

23 Feb 2008 is

Aeon's lunar birthday. He is turning ONE! See how he change .........

Photoshooting at The Studio Loft

Took our family photos at The Studio Loft today, photos taken by Maryann. It is Roland's birthday today! Happy birthday!!!

Gathering again

We went for a 'marathon' yesterday. We went out early in the morning for our health check up at SATA (with Aeon). It was quite a task because Aeon got teary and cried out LOUD whenever I was out of his sight, in the end I carried him everywhere I went. The whole SATA was filled with his cries.

In the mid afternoon, we went to visit Lawrence, Cynthia and baby Isaac. Then we went for another gathering in the evening.

Here's the evening shots:

• Aeon with auntie Jeslynn
• Lucky Roland being fed with cake
• Happy birthday, Roland!
• The free Breadtalk cake from Ding Tai Feng
• Our group photo

Gathering

This coming Tuesday is Roland's birthday. His great buddies helped to celebrate for him on Saturday evening:

• Father and son - Aeon was more curious at the birthday cake than posing for me
• The delicious birthday cake

• The great buddies for years

How we celebrate our Valentine

Finally we get to celebrate Valentine this year. I planned a surprise for Roland this time as I got him his ideal Valentine's Day gift: A XBOX 360! Also my dream gift because I can finally get to play the out-dated N3 (Ninety-Nine Nights). I played this demo game in a game shop in Japan during my honeymoon and I was fascinated by the game, the nice graphics and the killings! (A great game to vend my anger).

Roland was very surprised and curious when he saw me carrying a big present on Valentine's eve. It was wrapped in a Best Denki wrapper and he kept wonder what was in it.

• See his happy face (he was already guessing it may be an XBOX). See the tiny arm on the left, this Aeon was also so curious and he was standing and staring intently at PaPa opening the present.

• Roland is unwrapping his curiosity slowly with care. Aeon is puzzled what is going on.

• Wow it is really an XBOX 360 and it is a limited Halo3 edition, yeah I can play with Old Man liao, I want to call him right away. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
• Now we need to rush to AMK hub to buy the HDMI cable!
• Aeon was amazed by the bus trip, so many things to see (except posing for me). PaPa still looked so happy.
• Back home and finally checking out the console. Yeah, so happy!
• 14 Feb 2008 afternoon, waiting at the bus-stop going to PoPo's house. Aeon is spending his first Valentine with GongGong and PoPo while both of us spending some personal quality time together. Is Aeon trying to show the 'V for Victory' sign?
• My turn to take a Valentine photo with Aeon.
• Our family Valentine photo
• On the bus - again Aeon was fascinated with his surroundings.
• Our Brunch at Phin's Steakhouse at Liang Seah Street, the coleslaw was already sour. The cashier gave us a cold reply when we tried to feedback to her that coleslaw tasted sour, she replied "Sour ah?" and ignored us. I don't think I will go back there hehehe... I like their Valentine deco.
• Proceeded to Cineleisure for a movie "Sweeney Todd" & KTV session at KBOX. We took the Valentine's Day promotion package which came with 2 cocktails. I am a out-dated mummy and I was fascinated with all the colourful test-tubes so I requested for the KBOX staff's approval to take a photo of him. He is a really courteous, patient, passionate guy waiting for us to choose our cocktail concoctions.

Red one - cranberry, sprite, cherry brandy, Blue one- orange juice plus some other mixes that we couldn't recall

• Ktv-ing....

• Ending with a dinner at NYDC . See Roland's mouth.
  

Not sleeping well

Aeon has not been sleeping well these past few days, he will wake up many times a night crying out. Not sure what is wrong with him, his cries sound as if he is very uncomfortable. We tried many ways to pacify him - pat pat, singing, bottle feed him, pacifier, on the lights etc., I wonder if it is due to teething? He's been really cranky.....

Happy Valentine!

Happy Valentine's to all!

Teeth Development

Aeon has 8.5 teeth now , there is a 0.5 because we can see 0.5 of it popping out soon. Guess Aeon must have felt really uncomfortable and itchy - just imagine the feeling of something popping our/forcing out of the gums. Guess it should be painful too.... It has been getting more and more difficult trying to take his photos nowadays, so we have to force our way through. See the way the evil parents trying to hold his face, squeeze his face, force open his mouth:

爱心早餐

爸爸做的! Our lovely breakfast french toasts to break the fast! :-*

Aeon's ride

Today we let Aeon play with the toy bike, a gift from Auntie Rachel, Uncle YiYou and Cousin BinBin. PaPa is standing behind him trying to protect him in case he fell.

Drove again

I drove for the 4th time this couple of days, hee hee! So excited and nervous. Today I was horned for the first time while trying to exiting out of Bridport Ave (I sweared I never see that car, of course Roland saw it!). Yeah, my fault. It's me that lady driver :P (I always said other lady driver when I saw cars drive too slowly, making mistakes etc., etc.,) & now it is my turn. **retribution**

KungFu pig

His own invented RuLaiZhuQuan (RU LAI Pig Fist)

On Mama's fat belly

Mushroom Pot at Serangoon Gardens

We went to celebrate Godsis's belated birthday at Mushroom Pot on Tuesday, so glad that we went. I never know that mushroom s can taste so nice since I am not a mushroom person.

• The beautifully decorated table (colourful stones/pebbles)
• The various types of mushrooms!

• Their 8 treasure drink - contains red date, orange peel, some other treasures that I cannot recall now.

• The boiling pot of mushrooms

• Mushroom Sashimi, my favorite! Next to it are mushroom floss , fried mushrooms (taste like potato chips)
• Herbal soup base

• Mushroom paste (to be turned into mushroom balls)
• The fresh beef and fish slices

• The hungry Aeon