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...

Baby has a Ku-ku!!!

Only the gynae is able to tell that the small white dot between the 2 thighs is the little machine gun! He has to actually point it out to me on the monitor.. hahahah...

My blood test results, also called the Triple Test, turn out normal, low risk for Down-Syndrome. I felt a great sense of relief as I had been anxious and worried ever since I read about cases of mummies having to abort their fetas tested positive for Down Syndrome. It was very heart wrenching reading about such things even though I don't know these ladies. 啊弥陀佛

On a brighter note, boy-boy has been quite active, moving around in mummy's womb. I can feel him sometimes especially after I had my meals and as I lay in my bed at night. It's a strange feeling, knowing a life is taking shape inside me.

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Taken at 13 weeks of gestation, the fetas has grown to almost 7cm! It's amazing! Can't wait till we're able to see if we're expecting a boy or girl... Daddy prefers girl but mummy wants a boy!! Taking bets now! Any takers??