Barley Drink

Mummy made barley drink on Saturday morning. It's her latest attempt to make me drink plain water which I dislike. She's hoping to find a drink with slight flavour as a substitute first, then slowly "remove" the flavour day by day. In order not to disappoint her, I "entertained" her by drinking a few spoonfuls of the freshly brewed "1st batch", even though I heard it's her 1st time making this drink and Daddy telling her it doesn't taste very "barley". Hee. Subsequently, I rejected her cold version but took a bit more of the warm version in the bottle. There's still a small bottle (260ml) in the fridge. Hmm, I think barley is not my cup of tea. But mummy's still not giving up. She's thinking of what went wrong in her recipe and will try again this coming weekend!

My milk bag

We went on our usual weekend market trip. As we bought quite a lot of stuff, Daddy asked if I can help to carry something. I "volunteered" to carry my milk bag. To show that I am a responsible kid, I held it tightly from the carpark back to our house. Even after we are in the house, I still refused to let go. Hee

Busy Bee

I was sooo busy today...

Busy exploring Daddy's dvd player; what fascinates me is when I press the left side, the cover will automatically pop up. Then I will see small buttons which I like to play with. But strangely, it doesnt seem to work the same way on the right side. I have been figuring out the whole afternoon, even to the extent of banging on it really hard because I thought there's a correlation with the strength I use but to no avail. I'll need Daddy's enlightenment on this when he's back from biz trip. But mummy's expression seems to tell me I'm going to get a different type of enlightenment from Daddy. *Oh-Oh*

Busy crawling on the "outskirts" of the balcony, waiting for a chance to grab that pair of slippers in the balcony which I have been eyeing before mummy holds me back. Arrggh, why is mummy always so quick to spot me?

Busy cruising around my high chair and the sofa - stand up, take a few wobbly steps, sit down. The cycle continued until almost 9pm when it was time for milk. I was so tired that I didnt finished my milk and zonked out.

Sweet Memories

Note from Mummy

I came across this while searching pasta recipes for Xavier.

Recipe for Motherhood:

1 Heart Full of love

1 Head Full of understanding

2 Eyes in the back of your head

3 Heaping cups of patience

1 Gallon of generosity

1 Barrel of laughter

Mix well. Sprinkle with kindness, add plenty of faith.

Heat with sunshine and spread generously over a lifetime for a plate of joy and a cup of warm memories.

How true. Time flies. I'm a mother for 1 year already. Not an easy feat. Think I have more/less adjusted to motherhood but there are times I secretly miss movie days with mean mint, shopping in leisure, enjoying my meals (dont have to gobble my hot food down), watching the full episode of the HK serials without distraction, sleeping longer on weekend mornings, having a clean house without toys/ food stains all over the place and prata suppers in Jalan Kayu. Nevertheless, having Xavier is such an amazing thing. I never knew that I can derive so much satisfaction helping him get his smelly hard poo out. Never felt so sad when he cry and sweat buckets because his hard poo got stuck. So touched when he sat up on his bed, looked at me, smiled and said "ma"; his little hand holding my arm as he dozed off. So proud to see him wave goodbye to me after teaching him a few times. Amused by the cheeky look he gave me when he successfully climb down the big bed the right way I taught him. Melted by his warm daily welcome home screams and smiles when I come back from work. I like the way he rests his head on my shoulder and I can smell his head and ear. Not forgetting the way he laughs. Never fails to make me laugh too.

Happy Birthday Xavier Boy. Mummy loves you always. Looking forward to seeing you achieving more milestones and sharing more precious moments with you. May happiness, good health, luck be with you always...

Birthday Celebration II

Another round of my birthday celebration last Sat! It was lunch at Cathay Restaurant with Ah-Ma, Gu-Gu, 5th GrandAunt, 6th GrandAunt, Clarissa Jie Jie, GrandUncle and of course Daddy and mummy.

Birthday Celebration I

My birthday cake

My family

With Ye-Ye, Ma-Ma and Shu Shu

My birthday presents

Because of Daddy's work commitment and Mummy's enthusiasm to give me a special cake, we celebrated my 1st birthday in advance on Deepavali holiday. We had a small party in the function room. The highlight of the party was none other than my jungle theme birthday cake accompanied by 10 little cute cupcakes. However, I didnt get a taste of it as my timidity got the better of me. Hoho, I was contended with just my usual porridge lunch.

Inspecting


Testing

QC passed


Fun time

And it was on this day I had my 1st "swim" in the swimming pool! Errm, noticed the inverted commas? Hehe. Swim is defined as me sitting in one super shallow corner of the pool (note it's the baby pool) where the water cannot even fill my legs and beating the water with my hands. I enjoyed it as it's like pom pom time! Daddy brought me to the deeper part of the pool to explore but I didnt quite like it and before long was back to the shallow corner beating the water again. Happy.