The Days after Kakak Ning left us

After Kakak Ning left us on 27 Nov 06, there are some adjustment we need to make to cope with 'maid-less' days till Mommy get another new Kakak for me...

#1 adjustments: Moving over to sleep with Daddy & Mommy
Just two days before Kakak Ning left, I have moved over to sleep with Daddy & Mommy on their shiok shiok King Koil's king sized bed. And I really very blessed to occupy almost 1/2 of this big bed while poor Daddy & Mommy have to sleep to extreme left & right corner (taking the risk to break their brittle bones.. haha..), to give me space to toss n turn freely.

For the 1st 2 weeks, I knew that Daddy & Mommy sacrificed a lot of their precious beauty sleep to attend to me.. like patting me whenever I make some minute noise, making milk for me in the wee hours, change my soiled diapers or to carry me on their shoulders..

And me being a co-operative baby, my parents soon got used to my pattern and they are now enjoying their beauty sleep together with me.

Tell all of you a secret! I finally managed to sleep thru the night once I have moved over to bunk in with my parents.. And my best record was from 7pm till next morning 7am..

#2 adjustment: Mommy does the chores!
Now mommy has become the 'temporary' new maid.. She has to wash my clothes, wash & sterilize my milk bottles, clean my butts whenever I 'poo poo', prepare & feed my 3 meals and milk, bath for me and pat me to sleep. And also to do the normal household chores..

#3 adjustment: New caregivers!
Por Por & Kakak Rose have taken over Kakak Ning's to be my caregivers for the daytime when Daddy & Mommy are at work. And Kakak Rose has to travel from Oxford Road to our house every Mon-Fri and reach around 730am to take care of me while Daddy & Mommy enjoys another 1 hour of sleep before getting up for work.

Por Por will come over around 930am to help Kakak Rose to 'jagar' (in bahasa it means watching) me - 1 of her 6 'tun tun' (in dialect khek it means grand-child) and to play with me too..

Por Por is also my watch keeper. She will keep a tab on my feeding & napping schedule and liaise with Daddy when they take over the night shift..

I want to take this good opportunity to say a BIG thank you to Por Por, Kakak Rose, Daddy & Mommy for sacrificing so much for me during these 2 months and for taking good care of me despite me being naughty & cheeky at times.. I LOVE all of you dearly....

Latest update: I have 4 upper teeth now!

Good news!! I have finally got 4 upper teeth now.. Everyone are so happy that I have graduated from the 'bo gey' club... but this naughty 4th tooth gave me diarrohea problem which my parents have brought me to consult Dr Lee @ Kinder Clinic this AM.. BTW, my latest weight is 9.855kg as compared to 9.13kg in Nov 06.

Here are the evidence of my teeth and what I can do with them (all courtesy from Uncle Leslie)... haha....

Today is my 1st Birthday

Today I am so happy cos I am officially ONE year old!

And my Daddy & Mommy are on leave to bring me go 'jalan-jalan' in celebration of me turing ONE! Wow.. turning ONE really got privilege..

After my early lunch, we head down to Suntec City for eat, shop & walk day. We went to Toyr'us and I got to choose a birthday gift for myself. Guess what I chose?? It is a small car from Chicco which I like it very very much.

We went on to Carrefour to buy some ready-food for dinner tonight. And Mommy collected my birthday cake - Mango Delight from Prima Deli.

Daddy & Mommy, thank you very much for spending my 1st birthday together with me. And of cos, many more good years to celebrate together!!

Photographs taken by Uncle Leslie

It was very nice of Uncle Leslie (Shermaine's Daddy) to come over a day after my 1st Birthday Bash to take photos for me.

Here are some of his work: -

My 1st Birthday Bash

Hurray finally it is my turn to be 1 year old!

As my actual birthday falls on a weekday, so my parents decided to have my 1st Birthday Bash on 09 Dec 2006.

I want to say a big thank you to Mommy. Despite being busy with her work, taking care of me and household chore after Kakak Ning left us, she has put in a great deal of efforts in making my 1st Birthday Bash a memorable one.

Mommy has ordered my lovely 1st birthday cake from Pine Garden. She catered the food from Mei Hao 99 Catering and it received good comments from most of our guests (thanks a lot to Aunty Kelly's recommendation). And also the outstanding balloon bouquets from Twinkle Balloon (even though Mommy is super scare of balloon)!

Oh, nearly forget to mention that the birthday decor & goodies bags with loots are from Concourse and of cos must also say a big thank you to God-ma Jo for accompanying Mommy for the last minute shopping at Concourse on the day before the bash.

Also Mommy has brought two (2) handsome tops from Osh Kosh & Hush Puppies for me to wear on my birthday bash.

Here are some photos of the decor done by God-ma Jo, my dearest Maria & Jill jie-jies...

During my birthday bash, I am so happy to see so many of my friends - Avos kor-kor, Kylie jie-jie, Kaelyn mei-mei, Sheris mei-mei, Shermaine mei-mei, Javier di-di and not forgetting my cousins XinYi jie-jie, Kieran kor kor and his brother, JieYi jie-jie, Maria, Jill & Christie jie-jies.

It is a fun yet tiring day for me the Birthday Boy. So when come to cake cutting session, I threw a little tantrum and Uncle Leslie could not snap a nice family photo for us.

Thank you to everybody for coming to my 1st Birthday Bash! Hope you have enjoyed yourself as much as I did!

Here are the photos of my 1st Birthday Bash:

Mommy, tell you a secret, ok? I cant wait for my 2nd and more birthdays to come.. haha... I want to grow up!