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...