Brocolli carrot

Caleb seems to like brocolli. No matter how I mix the brocolli with another vegetable, he would finish them all.



Anyway, glad he eats veggies.

1st visit to Macs

Today was Caleb's first visit to Macs. We went there for breakfast just before our supermarketing. But of course, Caleb can only sit and watch us chomp the hamburger and hashbrowns down.



After our grocery shopping, we went home and I gave Caleb his first teething biscuit since he likes to suck and bite.



He is now capable of holding the food in his hands and feed himself.



So I can just leave him a while on his seat to eat by himself.



He didnt even manage to eat the whole thing. He was just sucking it and excreting lots of saliva as a result. Sigh.

Here's what I mean from this video.



I bathed him today and I do enjoy bathing him as I could play with him and make sure he is clean! Here's him after bath. I dunno why but I seem to think he hasnt change much. He still looks small and tiny.



After the bath, I gave him the same biscuit and look at how he can make a mess! Because of him, I have learnt to accept messyness and dirt. Because his saliva keeps coming out, it caused the biscuit to become very soft. So, the 'skin' of the biscuit came off and sticked to his face and mouth. Its really funny



Even after many many hours, the biscuit still remained almost the same shape but with the skin dropped out. Sigh..what a waste of money to give that to him. I shall wait for his teeth to start growing first before I give him again.

Spent the day playing with him and just watching him turn and turn.



This is how he crawls..with his head!



And he is also good at turning and moving his body to end up at different directions. That's why when he sleeps and wake up the next day, he might be facing your leg after turning.

Just for fun

Since this year, Vicky has been growing plants outside our house. Actually, it has been my dream to own a plot of land, preferably a single-storey bungalow with a big garden space to grow all kinds of herbs, fruit and veggie plants for my cooking.

But in reality, its difficult as it would def cost me few million to reach my dream. Anyway, Vicky has been growing bittergourd, lime, tomato, ginger, avacado all in this pot! haha..yup, thats the only pot I have. Will def buy more pots and soil soon.



The bittergourd plant has been growing well, creeping up the strings which we tied there for them to grow.

Just today after school, Caleb was on bed lying down while Vicky was folding clothes. So we decided to once again amuse ourselves, at his expense. We made him put on daddy's socks..



Now, he is dressed like a Japanese school girl with high socks up to their knees.



At night after dinner, CT and I would play with him as usual- giving him time to stand up as he loves to do that.



This is how Caleb looks like now. Does he still look like CT more?

Some people commented that his face is longer already. Hmm..I am sure he would look like me eventually.



What do you think?

Long and tiring day

This morning, as usual, CT dropped me off in school at about 6:30am. After a short while, I received a call from him on my handphone. Of course, I was surprised and thought I might have left something in the car. But in turned out that CT was involved in a minor accident just outside my school at the main road T-junction and told me to come out as the people in the car had alcohol-breath and were smoking.

So I brought along few of my colleagues out to support CT. Initially, me, Mrs Chan, Mr Peter Low went out and Peter helped to negotiate with the gang leader. He was of course very defensive and blamed CT for not stopping completely at the stop line. But CT said he saw that the traffic light was red and so, he made a right turn. Who knows there was a car that beat the light and so, our car knocked into him. But the gang leader insisted he saw amber light.

The guy talked like any typical gangster- very defensive, pointing his fingers at CT as he talks and its like he is picking for a fight. So Mrs Chan was afraid and went in to get more of my teachers out. So, my Operations Manager who has a warrant, Mr Ting came out along with 2 of my school's oldest teachers- Mr Lee (who is 72 years old) and Mr Thoh who is 60 plus all came out and talked to the gang leader. The gang leader even went on to threaten CT that he do not want to see him on the street if not... So when Mr Lee heard it, he quickly scolded the gang leader and said, " Dont you dare threaten! I know the law!" When Mr Lee scolded the gang leader in a harsh and stern voice, I was taken aback and afraid for Mr Lee that he would get bashed up by the gang leader. But at the same time, I was glad he warned the leader and gave him a good scolding...cos after that, the gang leader actually apologised.

Anyway, after about one hour of negotiation, CT just paid him $150 to settle. I guess its really not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, but to settle it and get over and done with.

Initially when CT wanted to call the police, the guy was a little frightened because they were drinking. Now the law in Singapore is drink driving and not drunk driving. So it means that as long as you drink a sip, you are not supposed to drive! That was what my colleague, Sarah told me as she recently attended a police course to get a warrant since she is one of the heads of the discipline committee of our school.

IT was a rather eventful morning and after CT paid the money, he drove off to work. Our car front bumper is scratched and the number plate came off. So he got it fixed after work.

At night, drove to my mum's place and we went together to my brother's place for dinner to try out his hostel food. My brother and family stays in ACS(Barker Road) hall and so, he and Pam takes care of the students there.

Here is Janine playing by herself..



And this was what we had for dinner, including Papaya pork rib soup which my mum brought over and chicken nuggets and Jap eel which Pamela prepared to add on to our dinner.



My brother's place is quite decent with 3 bedrooms and a living room plus kitchen area. Here's Janine eating her orange sitting next to the TV.

Caleb was with us as well and he was probably wondering where he was.

After dinner, we went altogether to visit my cousin Wei Ee who just gave birth to a baby girl, Angelika. But before that, here's Janine seating on grandpa as he gets into the van by a lifter.



To my regret, I didnt take any pictures of the baby girl as I didnt bring in my camera. Next time... But she's really cute and small that I almost forget that Caleb was even smaller when he just came out.

Reached home close to 11 pm. Yawn..

Munch Munch

Tonight after dinner, I was eating apple for fruits and while eating, I was also holding Caleb on my other hand against my body as I watched TV. After a few mouths, I realised at the corner of my eye, that there was someone staring at my food.

Caleb was looking intensely at me and fine,I had to give up my food and let him try the apple to see how he would take it. In the end, he drooled all over my apple such that it didnt taste sweet and crunchy anymore.

But Caleb loved it! He was 'biting' it though he has no teeth, licking all over and just drooling profusely.



With one hand holding him, I asked Vicky to bring me my camera and I took these shots with my other hand.

A typical day

Now that I do not spend the weekdays with Caleb, I try to spend as much time as I can. So what do mums do best? They are great multi-taskers! I feel that is why God gave women better skills at multi-tasking as He knows we need it to take care of our children.

Anyway, here's my typical day when I reach home.



Yup, Caleb will be sitting nicely on his seat and keep me company while I do my work.

Of course there are times when I would leave my work to just give him my full attention by playing with him and reading books to him.

Here's Caleb admiring himself as he looks into the mirror...

Start of weekend...

In the morning, we went to Ang Mo Kio Hub for breakfast and to do our weekly supermarketing at NTUC Hypermart. I love to do my supermarketing there because its big and I can use my Link card to collect points. Now, NTUC offers the convenience of redeeming your points immediately when you purchase stuff at the cashier. So since I had about 2000 points, I could redeem about $19 off my bill today. Ok, better not say anymore as I feel so "Auntie". I can actually go on and on about supermarkets as I treat each visit like an adventure and love to do supermarketing.

In the afternoon when I was taking care of Caleb, after a while, my hands got so tired from carrying him. So, I placed him on the Bumbo seat while I do my computer work. So I left him on the floor of my study room where I can see him as I do my own things.

The good thing was that he was well behaved and he started to entertain himself.

Initially, he looked absolutely bored.


Then he kept staring at me as if he wants me to play with him or entertain him.



Then realising that I am seriously ignoring him, he starts to check out things around him- his favourite soft toy and the industrial fan behind him that is making a lot of noise.


Because he was so well-behaved and allowing me to do my own things, I couldnt help but take more pictures of him and showed it to him immediately. He loves that!



At night, we went to a new Japanese Restaurant which just opened in Punggol! Yup, its a big deal because its the first Japanese Restaurant at our place and I really appreciate my place even more now.

There was a queue and so CT lined up while Vicky and I went to Cash Converter to look around. We spotted a small slow cooker which we wanted to buy in NTUC but it was too expensive, costing about $50-60. But in the Cash Converter stall, it was going only for $8. Though it was second hand, it was in good working condition and clean. So what the heck, we bought it.

When we finally got our seat after waiting for about 10 mins, we quickly ordered our food. Caleb was so hyper then..he couldnt stop jumping on the table.


The restaurant has an interesting layout as the kitchen is in the center, surrounded by the conveyor belt. So, our food is being prepared in the open where we can all see.



I only took 2 plates from the conveyor belt and ordered a proper rice set for dinner. Was tempted by the fresh salmon sashimi..so I grabbed it and it was so deliciously fresh! Thick and fresh ('crunchy')- just as how I like it.



I ordered salmon tofu with raw egg in hotplate, with rice. Very tasty. Costs only $8.90!



CT ordered beef rice which was also very nice. The beef was tender and very tasty. But too few slices. This costs $10.90.



Here's what Vicky ordered...it comes in sticks of different kind of food. There's brown Enoki mushrooms wrapped with bacon, some vegetable stems with bacon, grilled cuttlefish, as well as grilled chicken. Her rice dish also costs only $8.90.



We could have ordered only 2 sets if we had known how much rice they gave us. We were all so full. I really enjoyed my dinner. Hope to go there next time for the different kinds of sashimi!

First rice meal

Today is the day when Caleb has his first taste of brown rice with milk. I actually have a lot of samples of nestle products which I got from baby fairs in Expo or Suntec City. So, I finally used it today as Caleb is turning 6 months soon.

Here is his brown rice...



He really loved it as he finished all and even drank 60ml of milk after that. That is quite a feat considering how small an appetite he has.

Sit up!

One of the nights when Vicky was sponge bathing him. He actually sat up in his little tub. Its a development because he can never sit up on his own. So, I was pretty excited to take this shot.



But he still need to hold on to something to sit up.


Another time was when he was placed in the pram and he suddenly sat up. I know he has been trying to pull himself to sit up but to no avail. So this is one of the rare moments when he has learnt to do so.

I must say, he's smart enough to hold on to something to pull himself up.


Tonight at my mum's place for dinner, my mum gave Caleb something which she bought- a pair of sandles. She said she couldnt help but buy it cos it's so cute!



I tried it on for him when we reached home.


I really like it very much. Its the kind of thing when you look at it and your heart just melt because its so tiny and small.

Caleb does need a good pair of shoes/slippers since he jumps so much! Thanks mum!

More time with daddy

Since the start of this year, I have not been driving to work as CT drives instead. He has given up taking his company bus to Jurong Island as the bus journey takes about 2 hours per trip as it goes to many stops. I do feel handicap without a car as I love to drive and its just so convenient.

But nevertheless, I am not complaining as it is also quite convenient for me to take a straight bus home from school as its only a 20 mins ride and also, CT now spends more time with Caleb as he reaches home at about 5:10pm since he knocks off at 4:15pm from work.

So here's CT spending time with Caleb..



Oh well, not really as we were both watching TV at that time..so our eyes were glued to the TV.


Here's CT fanning Caleb occasionally as Caleb is a hot baby! Even in air con rooms, he can perspire.



That is why he doesnt gain much weight.


Here is Caleb trying to get CT's attention in a very distorted position ..



And here is he trying to flip even with obstacles..



That's my active boy for you. Think I'd better start conserving my energy for the day he can walk and run. That will probably be the start of my losing weight programme!



Ok, this is a video of CT training Caleb's legs as he does squats. The funny thing is that I took video after he has done about 20 over squats already and he is still going strong! My amazing boy!