Happy Birthday to Mommy....

Thanks to Ima Nanny who has brought the birthday cake -- filled with Avocado's cream....hmm...yummy but so fattyy!!

Thanks to ii Ani, too, who has come by despite of her busy schedule.

hiks hiks...no daddy!!! He is still in Dubai until next week! It's okay... we'll just wait for the presentsss.... you knoww...the huge one for mommy and Caden.... ^_^

den den and do do moment...

Ii Ani was here for the day and she brought dodo (her faithful companion) with her, too. Caden has the first close-up look with the dog. He loves it so much that he cried when I told him to nap and would look for dodo again right after he woke up!

Too bad that dodo didn't like Caden as much as Caden like him. Maybe because Caden is a boy and has body size almost the same size as him (read: he may be jealous of Caden).

Such a coincidence that their names are very similar...dodo and denden....

hihi....

PS: Thank ii for taking the time to bathe dodo yesterday.... ^_^

moo....moo....

Idul Adha is around the corner, many people are selling goats and cows, for the Muslims to sacrifice them, not too far from our house.

This afternoon after Caden woke up from his nap, I took him there.

He knows cows by a different name, "mooo...."

So when we asked him, "Where is the moo, Caden?"

And he would answer, "eh...eh.." and pointing to the moo....in front of him.

applause for me!

Caden is into clapping his hand for him-self for the past few days. I think it's because we are meeting relatives that like to clap for Caden for everything; for being able to take a toy from the table and give it to someone, for being able to go down from the bed (leg first) without falling, for being able to finish his food, for being able to climb up the stairs, etc.

With those constant applaud for him, he is now understand the meaning of it (kind of).

After EVERY task that he did, he will clap for himself and look at me to clap for him, too. If he didn't see me clap, he will come nearer to me and sometimes touch parts of my body and make an 'eh eh' sounds to make me realized that I have to clap with him.... ^()^

He would clap for even things that he is not supposed to clap. Well, he is too young to understand. So now, I just need to tell him firmly when he is clapping at the wrong place (for example, when he clapped after he put his plastic table upside down) and hope soon, he will understand which one is good and deserves clapping and which one is not!

PS: In the picture, Caden was able to take out the middle parts of the number eight and put it in again in the correct place. So I gave him a clap afterwards!

a car for Caden

I has been thinking to buy one of this car for Caden for quite sometime but I was not sure if he is going to like it. Anyway, he still have lots of other toys at home to play with.

But we are in Jakarta now, with limited stocks of toys.

I brought Caden to Sports Mall at Kelapa Gading to check out Tumble Tots, a gym class for young children, but apparently the closed, at 4PM!! hm....I wonder if there is even any class going on now?

Well, in that very quiet mall, filled with lots of empty stores, there was a small playground. We have to pay Rp. 9,000 (about S$1.50) per entry for half an hour. I was not thinking of allowing Caden to play as I am not sure if the place was clean enough, but when he saw the pool of balls, he quickly pointed into it and make an "eh eh" sounds again and again to show that he wanted to go in.

So I let him play... for 5 minutes.

haha....

And I don't let him play inside the pool of balls as I heard bad stories about it. (There could be some other kids vomit or food or drink that fall into it).

But I let him play with the car and he seemed like it.

and since we don't have much toys here, I decided to buy one for him.

He loves it, I think! But he is still not able to make the car moves forward. Yeah, he could only make it moves backwards so far. hehe...

party

@ om Fofo's surprise birthday party + housewarming party

grocery shopping...

We opened the fridge last night andd…as usual, I found nothing in it! The fridge is clean!! That means, we desperately need to do some grocery shopping ASAP! So today, we went to Carefour nearby and bought lots and lots of stuffs.

After that we went to Kelapa Gading Mall food court to have lunch. Mommy ate her favorite ‘Sop Kambing’ (goat soup)…*it’s so goodd…* and Caden ate his usual porridge. hehe... "Wait Caden, when you are older, mommy let you try a little bit of it!!"

first morning in Jakarta...

Us playing peek-a-boo

"Where is mommy, suster???" , asked Caden

We arrived here last night! Caden adopted very well with the sudden change in everything! Suster and I tried our best to make him as comfortable and less confused as possible!

I am very happy with his reaction on this first day of our long holiday trip here in Jakarta. I do hope our past experience with our Bali trip won't happen here at all! *finger crossed*

all is GONEE!!!!

Here we were inside the plane, just before we land in Soekarno-Hatta Airport! This photo was taken right after he reformatted my PDA phone!

Yup! Caden was bored and almost started to scream, so I was entertaining him as much as possible. Knowing he likes my PDA phone, I gave it to him as usual to play with.

Within seconds, I saw a weird message on the screen. I quickly grabbed the phone back to see what’s going on.

There was a message, “Please wait while your phone is reformatting.” OH GOSH!! I took out the battery, hopping to stop the reformatting process.

I turned it on again after a few minutes andddddd….I was too latee!!! I lost all my data, including all my families and friends contacts. I was almost fainted! Especially after I remembered that it was last February since I synchronized it!

I couldn’t be angry with Caden cos’ I know he did it not on purpose! Oh well!! I just wish he knew what trouble he has cause mommy with!!!!

PS: People with small young kids, you better back up your files as often as possible!!

at Changi Airport

We went early to the airport so we could do some shopping and took some pictures!!!

So then, we did some shopping at Charles & Keith. Mom bought a pair of sandal and Caden was deciding which sun-glasses is better for him.

"So which one do you think is suits me better on my bald, round shape head???? brown or black?? brown or black???" *confused* ^_^

karina's bday party

We were supposed to go home on a 10am flight but we were invited to a friend's birthday party at the club house at our Condo. So, mom shifted the flight to a 3.30pm one to attend the very special birthday girl named Karina.

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Happy birthday again, cici Karina!!!

Caden and Daddy moment...

These are my two most important person in the world! So nice to see them play together, although soon Daddy would give-up because Caden is always contantly moving here and there!

They look very much alike, especially with that matching white shirt that they are wearing today!
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Believe it or not, they even blink at the same time....hehe..

very early birthday party...

Ii Valerie was having a very-early-birthday-party at The Line Restaurant in Shangri-La Hotel. Her birthday is actually on the 18th of December (she is going to be 17 years old this year), but she is going back to Jakarta soon, so she invited 17 of her friends for a birthday party lunch TODAY!!! 10 days earlier!

Anyway, the food was good! I think we all gained weight after the lunch!

Caden also enjoyed his time by trying different food (although most of them he refused to try) and looking at the squirrel at the pool side area.

He said "eehh…eehh…." and pointing at the squirrel all the time. He was trying to tell me, “mommy…look at the squirrel, look at the SQUIRREL! There...there...do you see it???"

He was soooo excited that he refused to go inside even when the rain started to fall.

PS: The squirrel is actually wild!

at the Vil'age

We had lunch at the Vila’ge (used to be Marche) today. I just found out that they are going to close down very soon; their last day will be December 31st ‘07!

Marche used to be mommy’s favorite place to hang-out and then later became mommy's first ever place to work as a waitress. It was a fun job, one of mommy’s best experiences ever. Mommy feels sad that they are going to close down soon. They said since they change the name of the restaurant last year, business has been no good (though they said everything stay the same!)

Yes indeed all the appearance of the restaurant doesn’t change much. The food is also pretty much the same. After 6 years, amazingly, some of the waiters and waitresses are still recognize me! They said I look different, especially with my long hair which used to be so short! ^_^

Nice to have a bit of chit chat with them! Sad that there won’t be anymore time to come by here and remember the good old days!

PS: All the very best for mommy’s friends who have to look for a new job!

Musical Shows

Here are the pictures from the shows that we went to! Most of them we went alone, but at Noddy show, we went with mommy Erly and baby Ainsley and of course with lots of friends yesterday.

It was fun watching those shows! I am glad that they have these shows here in Singapore. I surely hope they will have them again next year.

Caden enjoyed himself on my arm. I carried him throughout the shows because he is still too short to stand, especially with taller children in front of him. I always try to find the best spot for caden; at the middle but all the way back (so I can carry him without blocking other people), except at the Noddy and Looney Tunes shows

As I mentioned earlier, Caden would just stared at the performers. He was so focus that he would ignore us if we call him! (I wanted to have pictures with him with the shows going on at the back of us, but it would never happen!) Hehe…

And I laugh when I saw his head moving to the right and left when there are people blocking his sight… haha... I remember the feeling when something or someone blocked my vision when I really want to see it….ggrrrr…so annoying, right? Well, I would just try to lift him up as high as I could or if possible, talked to the person to sit down.

At the end of every show, my hand indeed sore for a while. I always give suster to carry him afterwards! He is getting heavier and heavier and very soon we would have to let him walk or use the stroller only! I will definately miss carrying him by then! :(

Looney Tunes Musical Show

I have been bringing Caden to free musical Christmas shows that are going on in most of major malls since last week, but I thought I will post all at the same time, after we are done! But, today was special; we went out with Caden’s friends, too.
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There were barely any crowd, so could we could skip the long queue line and we could sit at our own big space. Usually there will be people telling you to sit closer (again and again) to your neighbors to accommodate more people. Soon, it gets so hot and uncomfortable.
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We had lunch Crystal Jade Kitchen for $81.23, so we were entitled to have a group photo at the end of the show (minimum of $80 and have to be on the same day receipt). I would not even think about it for the other shows because you will have to queue for a long time to come up to the stage. Furthermore, you have to come much earlier to get the queue number for the photo taking; it runs out very fast!

I planned to take him to all the shows, thinking that they only have them in major malls in Orchard area. Then I found out that they even have shows at Parkway Parade, AMK Hub, Heartland mall (I don’t even know that this mall ever existed) and some other malls outside Orchard Area.

Caden always loves the shows so much that he used to just stare at the characters towards the whole show ==> This what motivates me to bring him to many different shows!

We definitely could not watch everything with the limited time that we have, before going back to Jakarta.

*sigh* I wish I could travel later!!! I don’t even know where I should bring Caden out that he would have as much fun as in Singapore…

PS: It's not that this Looney Tunes show was bad that it wasn't much crowd there. Maybe it's because of the location (in Suntec City Mall, where mostly are offices) and, we were just lucky!! ^_^

Fighting with Flu

Caden has recovered from his flu for quite sometime, but 3 days ago, he has a runny nose again. Thanks to mommy who has been sick since about a week ago! It started with a cough then runny nose and Caden eventually got the germs, too (luckily without the cough).

I am a little stressed out! Our trip to Jakarta is this weekend and if we are sick, it’s gonna get worst when we are there. Not to mention the very polluted air could make it worst by blocking up our nostrils and Caden would be so uncomfortable.

Thinking thinking thinking what should I do to make his flu get better ASAP!

Then, I decided to sleep without AC. Daddy, who is a very experience person in allergy, nose blocking symptoms and flu, always said that, if you experience those three stuffs, who should lowered your AC so that it won’t be too cold for our body.

With this in mind and the very strong wind in our place this December, I decided to try out sleeping without AC by myself. I tried it for 3 days an….it’s true!! At least for me, my nose wasn’t so congested when I was sleeping.

So when Caden started to look like he was having a runny nose (read: almost flu), I told suster that he will sleep in a non-AC room from now on, until he is better!

And… it works for him, too!! Caden looked very gloomy and has a tiny winy bit of temperature cos’ I think the body if fighting with the virus. But by the second day, he was much better and by the third day, the runny nose and sneezing is reduced tremendously! (although mommy still has hers! *sigh*)

I wish Singapore has the weather like this the whole year (but minus the heavy rain, though!), so we could just sleep without AC whenever we want to! I remember one time when our AC broke-down (around March—June area, and OH MY GOSH!!! It’s was impossible to sleep! I almost went to a hotel nearby! ^_^

Camp Day

After that shocking experience earlier, we went straight to The Little Gym for our very first camp day!

Every time a kid enrolled in a full term class, he get one free camp day at the end of the term. The difference between regular class and camp are, there is a whole lot more of stuffs going on in camp, and the duration is 90 minutes compared to the usual 45 minutes.

Currently we still have 2 camp days that we can use (and can be carried forward) as we were always away on those camp days.

This time we were lucky! They have one early time slot available; the rest are only after we are going back to Jakarta on the 9th.

Camp actually is interesting and different. We have longer play times, a little snack time and art & craft afterwards.

To my surprise, Caden tried Ritz cookie today. Being a never-want-to-try-new-food kind of boy, I didn’t think he would try it, but after sometimes, he grabbed one and put it in his mouth and ate about one-third of it (two-third goes to mommy ^_^).

I think it’s because he saw other kids eating the cookies; especially CaMden, who was sitting in front of CADEN, whom seemed to like the cookie very much.

HE is watching over...

Something miraculous had happened today. Oma, suster, our maid and I were in shocked when we heard a loud ‘bang’ sound from my room.

So here’s the full story.

Caden was playing in my room. As usual, he went straight to the small cupboard next to my bathroom and as usual, too, I let him played with it. He likes to open and close the drawers so many times and occasionally took everything out of it.

As he has done this so many times, I let him play by himself while I was choosing which clothes I should wear for the day.

But this time, he opened all the drawers at the same time. As there is no support at the back of the cupboard, it could not hold such heavy weight that was concentrated in tip of all the drawers [imagine: when you open a drawer, the weight tend to fall slightly towards you].

In the end, the whole cupboard fell forward. Luckily Caden was not in front of it!!! Thanks GOD!!! I know he used to play at the side most of the time, but there were times that he played in front of it, too. Fuihh…. fortunately, today somehow, SOMEONE told him that he HAVE to play by the side!

All of us seriously didn’t know (and I would not even want to imagine about it) what will happen if … just if… he is in front of it.

I just thank HIM a zillion times for watching over my precious little boy twenty-four-seven.

study vs. tennis

I have been thinking to buy Caden a set of table and chairs for quite sometime, but never seemed to have the time to search for it.

Today, daddy was teaching Caden how to sit on the small chair (that Oma bought for him) and taught him to write something on the writing pad that I have bought for him earlier.

And he was actually sat nicely and quietly there for quite sometime! I am amazed! So I might need to find a small table for him, soon as I think good sitting habit and good table manner are never to young to be introduced!

[Oma said, Caden has already have a good pen gripping skill ^_^]

While mommy is busily thinking of where should we buy a table for Caden, Oma thought that she should buy a tennis racquet for him.

Caden has been spotted playing with Oma’s tennis racquet and balls a few times; bringing it everywhere around the house. And for Oma, someone who is addicted to tennis thought, it was a sign that Caden will follows her footstep towards becoming a professional tennis player!!^_^

[Oma is disappointed that none of her 3 daughters did not have the passion for tennis like her, but there's hope in this little guy]

We actually came down to Toy’s R Us and tried to find a tennis racquet for Caden as Oma insisted that she wanted to buy one for him, but unfortunately they didn’t carry it.

Oma once said, she will enroll Caden into tennis lessons once he is old enough for it. Hehe…