Being tourists for a day

Chinese New Year is usually a period of up to 4 days for visiting relatives and friends. But for myself, since stepping out of teenage, such "customary" visitings have been reduced to only on the first day! For Elliot, this meant lesser angbaos. To make up for this, we have decided to bring Elliot out, visiting local places of attraction. We intended to visit the Central Fire Station but to our disappointment, I didn't get the facts right before heading down to Hill Street. They are only open to public on Saturday mornings. Luckily, the Heritage Gallery was opened.   (Singapore Civil Defence Force - CD Heritage Gallery)

After going around the Gallery and up to the second storey twice, we left and headed for Cable Car Station for that long over due cable car ride.  Better take advantage of that "Free of Charge for Children under 3" before Elliot turns 3 in July...

Falling Sick

Elliot has been falling sick since as young as 4 months old.  Always starting with runny nose followed by coughing and wheezing.  At 6 months old, his usual ailment became so bad that it led to Bronchitis.  And that was really the start of very bad coughing and wheezing.  His visits to the clinics were fortnightly and visiting the hospital in the night every 3 to 4 months due to his wheezing.  Somehow, I felt that it's all my fault because I put him in full day childcare at such as tender age.   

A doctor specialising in children's respiratory illness has termed the sickly boy as "Bronchiatic".   Hopefully, he'll fall sick lesser as he grows older and his immune systems get stronger.

Daddy helping Elliot with the neubiliser 

" I'm 2 years old! "

We had wanted to invite friends and relatives to our new place at Park Villas for Elliot's birthday cum house-warming party. Unfortunately, we had a neighbour from hell and parking would had caused world war tiga... Hence, after many many sleepless nights, we thought best to just have immediate family over to celebrate Elliot's 2nd birthday.

One of his many birthday presents

"I look silly!"

Uncle Kenny & Eunice Jiejie

Sharing toys with Ethan

 Darren's Aunt Sue offered and came over to cook a sumptuous dinner for us complete with chilli crabs... Yummmy!

Baby steps

Elliot was trying to walk just after his 1st birthday.  Luckily, Darren's friend reminded us to take a video of his baby steps.... so here we have it... Elliot's first independent steps at 13 month old...

Elliot's 1st Birthday

We invited Darren's relatives and a few of my friends and their families to 老北京食堂 to celebrate Elliot's 1st birthday party because our place was too small to even have a place for the catered food fare... Most of the photos were taken by my dad.  If the photos appeared blur, that's because the camera, complete with very expensive lens, was a tad heavy for the photographer.. hahaha...

Speical overseas guest - Kenneth

Kenneth's little sister, Hayley

One of my favourite shots... But where's Daddy?! 

Birthday boy getting very sleepy! hahaha...

Most photogenic baby

This is one of my favourite shot of Elliot taken by Daddy. 

He was 5 months old and he's definitely a baby who loves to smile :)

Botak! 光头！

Elliot getting his first shave for his full month celebration the next day.  Though it's not necessarily to go totally bald, we decided this will be better for his cradle cap.

Rock-a-bye Baby

The little rascal is such a light sleeper... even the confinement lady commented that he's one of the more "difficult" newborns she had to take care in her career history!  Hands aching and tired after constant carrying him and rocking him to sleep, we got innovative and viola... an easier way to rock him to sleep! 

Hello World!

Daddy was the first to see Elliot since Mommy was still knocked out by the general anaesthesia while giving birth to the boy through C-section.  According to Daddy, the boy had pretty strong lungs! 

All cleaned and wrapped up cosily by the nurses.

After 3 days 2 nights stay in Mount Elizabeth maternity ward, we were back home.  See how "kok" the shape of his head is - front and back!  Old folks said kids with "kok-tau" are smarter .... we will have to wait and see...