Visiting Dr. Koh

I had been coughing for the past few days. And last night, it was pretty bad. It sounded like there was a lot of phlegm inside when I coughed. Daddy and Mommy felt that it warranted a trip to Dr. Koh’s place and they brought me down this evening.

@ Dr. Koh’s Clinic

As usual, Dr. Koh said that I had a slight sore throat and was given some medications for coughing and running nose. I got my weight and height measured – 11.9kg and 83.5cm. My weight had been maintaining at that slightly below 12kg mark for a long time but I had grown a bit taller. Mommy commented that the doctor kit that she bought was really effective. I am much more comfortable with Dr. Koh whenever I visit him nowadays.

After the consultation, we had dinner @ the foodcourt. Mommy gave me some of the fish meat from her fish soup. Actually I wanted to eat the mee from Daddy’s Mee Rebus but Daddy said that it was too spicy for me… =(

A New Semester @ GUG

New Semester @ GUG
Today marked my new semester @ GUG. I am attending the toddler class at 9.30am (for the next 7 weeks). Mommy felt that it was a much better timing – we still can do something constructive after my lesson ends at 11am.

The prefect scenario will be:
8.00am – I wake up and prepare for lesson
8.30am – We leave for United Square
9.00am – We arrive @ United Square and have breakfast
9.30am – Lesson commences
11.00am – Lesson ends and I can have my milk and morning nap
But I woke up @ 7.00am this morning instead… =P

We had our breakfast @ Uncle Donald’s place as planned – I had big breakfast and hotcakes.

Yummy hotcake… you want some???

The Lesson
As it was a new semester at a new timeslot, I got to meet a lot of new friends today (even the teachers were new as well).

And we started off with arts and crafts session first instead of the usual alphabets session. I was required to “make” a doctor’s bag that the teachers had shown us slightly earlier. Daddy helped me to apply the glue while I was in-charge-of sticking the items onto the bag.

My doctor’s bag

For the alphabets session, today’s letter was ‘Y’ and today’s animal was yak (an animal with a pair of long horns). Towards the end of the session, I started to get clingy coz it was about time for my milk and morning nap. We went home straight after the lesson. True enough, I started to get cranky in the taxi. And upon reaching home, I got my milk and knocked out for 2 hours plus straight.

The change of schedule didn’t work out well today coz Daddy and Mommy still ended up getting their lunch from the nearby hawker center just like any other Sundays.

Another Afternoon @ Home
The rest of the afternoon was spent @ home. I only went downstairs for grocery shopping in the late afternoon and to get Daddy and Mommy’s dinner (coz NaiNai wasn’t @ home this night as she went out to attend a church wedding). Today was one of those rare days that I had 2 home-cooked meals – sweet potato-based noodle (prepared by Mommy) for lunch and fried rice (prepared by Daddy) for dinner.

So boring @ home

Took out my doctor kit to play

TaiMa Was Sick

Breakfast @ Home

TaiMa Was Sick
YiYi called to tell Mommy that TaiMa wasn’t feeling well for the past few days. So, she decided to leave early this morning to pay TaiMa and GongGong a visit. We arrived at around 10.30am and started to fuss for my morning milk shortly. I drank the milk and knocked out immediately - only managed to wake up at 1pm. Mommy was much relieved after seeing that TaiMa was feeling better now.

We didn’t stay on for too long after I woke up coz we had a lunch date with Gabriel’s family.

Get another stuffed toy from YiYi

Lunching With Gabriel @ TM
We went to DeliFrance for lunch with Gabriel and family. My lunch was bites of Mommy’s tuna croissant, Daddy’s grilled fish and pizza crust (Daddy and Mommy are more and more relaxed on my meals now). After the lunch, we went home straight coz Mommy was complaining about feeling tired.

Outside Tampines Mall after lunch

Lazing @ Home
For the rest of the Saturday, we spent our time lazing @ home doing nothing much. I managed to do some reading though. In the evening, I had a mini AGM with all my “friends”.

Our Mini AGM

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father’s Day to all the daddies out there… =)

Breakfast @ Hawker Center
Daddy and Mommy wanted to have something more oriental for breakfast this morning. As a result, we ended up having our breakfast at the nearby hawker center. The seats have a little metal backing which is safer for me to sit on. I had wantan noodle, black carrot cake and butter/kaya toast (little of everything). I liked the noodle best – I would go “面 面” when I requested Mommy to give me more.

Yummy… yummy…

Grocery shopping @ NTUC after breakfast is fast becoming part of Sunday’s standard routine. But there will be some changes from next Sunday onwards as my new semester @ GUG will be changed to 9.30am session.

I am really a great helper when it comes to grocery shopping. I will help Daddy to push the shopping cart around and put items into the cart. But there is a catch – I must approve the purchase of the items. If I don’t like the item, I will refuse to let the item go inside the cart… =P

It is hard work…

Last Lesson @ GUG
Today was the last lesson of the semester and the teachers arranged for a mini farewell party after the lesson. Each of us was required to bring an item for the party - I brought sandwiches (egg mayo and tuna mayo).

Today’s letter was ‘X’. I was introduced to a new friend called Xavier. Xavier is a fox (an animal ending with the letter ‘X’) and he has a magical box with many stickers inside. Since there isn’t many words starting with the letter ‘X’, Teacher Evelyn taught us words ending with the letter ‘X’ instead. For arts and crafts session, my work was to paint a fox with brown paint. But the fox looked very funny coz there was a missing tail - I had to stick a tail onto the fox.

The party finally commenced after the lesson. There were a lot of things to eat – sandwiches, biscuits, jellies, fishballs and cakes. The cake was so yummy that that I was still holding on to it after the lesson. Mommy also had a great time eating the food… hehe.

Finally… the PARTY

Still holding on to the yummy cake… =)

My Second Haircut
Mommy felt that my hair was getting long and she brought me to a haircut @ the Junior League. I was a little angel as I stay seated motionlessly throughout the haircut – with Mommy coaxing me with a toy by the side. But Mommy wasn’t happy with the end result. She complained that the hairstylist wasn't good enough and my haircut looked ugly. Daddy might have done a better job… hehe.

Having a haircut

My new haircut – Nice?

I Know My Body Parts
On my face – Eyes, Eyebrows, Nose, Ears, Mouth, Teeth, Hair, Tongue, Lips, Head
On my upper body – Neck, Hands, Fingers, Elbows, Nipples, Belly, Bellybutton, Back
On my lower body – Legs, Toes, Feet

Evelyn JieJie's Wedding Dinner

Want to have some rock melon??? =)

It was a sunny lazy Saturday. What else is better than just lazing around @ home doing nothing??? Hehe…

Artist @ Work
In the afternoon, Daddy and I did some painting with the Crayola washable paint that Mommy bought for me last Sunday. The paint is a gel like substance that doesn’t mix well with water. And the end result looks pretty funny. However, the washable part is really impressive as it comes off pretty easily.

Great artist at work… Please Don’t Disturb

Painting is Daddy’s job coz he is a better artist (but the problem is that he only knows how to paint trees). Furthermore, all his trees look the same – add red dots and the tree becomes apple tree, add orange dots means orange tree, add yellow dots means lemon tree etc.

My masterpiece

Evelyn JieJie’s Wedding Dinner
Daddy and Mommy brought me to another wedding dinner this evening @ Orchard Hotel. It is Evelyn JieJie’s wedding (Daddy’s classmate).

An incident happened when we were trying to get to the ballroom from the first level via the lift. The lift was very packed, Daddy couldn’t find any space to get in while Mommy managed to squeeze in. So Daddy ended up taking the next trip with me. When the lift door closed in front of me, I bursted out in tears suddenly and started screaming “Mee Mee… Mee Mee…” It took Daddy a minute or so to calm me down. When the lift door opened again, I bursted out in tears for another round coz I didn’t find Mommy inside and started screaming “Mee Mee… Mee Mee…” again. Finally I got to see Mommy when the door opened again. Fortunately Daddy was immune to such incidents already… =P

Posed for some pictures

Actually wedding dinner is such a bore for me (especially when there isn’t anyone else to play with me). I fell asleep when they served the first dish and only managed to wake up when dessert was served – missing out the whole dinner again. I think it has become a routine for me during wedding dinners. Daddy was wondering if it would be a better option for him to leave me with NaiNai @ home for the next wedding dinner. If he would to ask me, I would surely say no… =(

Recharging in process…

Wake up fully recharged after the dinner

Since I was fully awake and it was extremely difficult to hire a taxi on a Saturday night, we took the MRT back home. We even had a stroll along Orchard Road.

Taking the train home

Hamster Show @ CC

Latest “lipstick” in town – Cherry Red

Hamster Show @ CC
We were back @ Amara Hotel for breakfast this morning (since it was the nearest). As usual, I had toast but this time round, Daddy ordered an extra piece especially for me.

Breakfast @ Amara Hotel

There was a Hamster Show @ the Community Centre and Daddy and Mommy brought me there to take a look. And we were a little bit too early and had to wait for the show to begin. The hamsters are the private collections from a KorKor who stays in our estate too. He has over 40 hamsters in his room. And he was giving away some to anyone who was interested in keeping them. Mommy said I could keep them only when I am older and able to take care of them myself. I even pat one of them after that KorKor assured me that it doesn’t bite. But I still prefer cat… =P

Waiting for the show to begin

First close encounter with a hamster

After the hamster show, we went to NTUC to do some grocery shopping. Just when we were leaving, we ran into GuGu and Aidan. Mommy and I hang around for a little while with them. They just came back from a short vocation trip to China and GuGu bought me a pair of shoes and some mandarin books. =)

GUG Session 7
After being excused from pervious session, Daddy was back with me attending the GUG session.

Today’s letter was ‘W’. I was introduced to an animal with long fury tail (a weasel), water and wheels. Some of us had whiskers drew on our faces (with marker) by Teacher Evelyn. But there was no way that she could lay her marker on my face, as I kept on saying “no no”. I got to know a new insect too – a worm. And we even said a song about “A Thousand Legged Worm”. Some yummy watermelon (a fruit which begins with the letter ‘W’) was served just before the break. It was really sweet but too bad there wasn’t enough for me to sample a second piece… =(.

For arts and crafts, we made watermelon out of a paper plate – I had to print the side of the paper plate with green paint (the skin) and paste the “fresh” (red colour paper) in the center of the plate before gluing the seeds onto the “fresh”.

Eeeeeee… a worm

Mommy was hungry and we went for a bite @ the food court. Since the school holiday was here, United Square was packed with activities during weekends. Last week, MoMo (Elmo) was here. This week, three JieJies came here to visit us – the Power Puff Girls. We hanged around to take some photos before making our way home.

Catching a bite @ the Basement food court

Catch a glimpse @ the Power Puff Girls

Catch of the day – a new paint set

GuGu was back for dinner tonight.

Ting’s Vocabulary

“mai”, ”no” - referring to something that I don’t want
“mee mee” - Mommy
“di di” - Daddy
“sing” - requesting Daddy to sing to me
“bit bit” - rabbit (missing the “rab” part)
“more” - requesting for one action to repeat or more food
“ah ah” - duck (“ah” = duck in hokkien)
“pao pao” - bread, bun or bag (depends on visual signal)
“meow meow” - cat
“bear bear” - my favour terry bear or pooh bear
“poo poo” - break wind
“key” - requesting to go out of the house
“walk walk” - requesting to get down to the floor to walk
“bye bye” - indicating that I am leaving