Fully Awake...

... and SOOO ready for my Disneyland trip!
We were waiting for a call from Oma and Opa...
Hope they are going to call soon!

In the Taxi to the Hotel

After only 5 hours of sleep in the plane, Caden slept in my hands soon afterwards and woke up only when we arrived at the hotel.

At Narita Airport

The Beginning of our Journey

It was 8.30pm, time for us to go to the airport. I had successfully put Caden to sleep later and only to wake him up at 6pm from his nap. Therefore, he was still fully awake at 8.30pm.

But soon, I realize that I made a mistake. At 11pm, he still refused to sleep but looked a little grouchy.

In the end, he slept at around 12pm and woke up again at around 6am. He straight away looked for his aunt who was half way sleeping and woke her up to play.

Caden was so proud that he wore the same type of shoes (boots) with his aunt.

I am glad overall he was doing really well for the whole 7 hours journey in the plane.

Family Christmas Lunch '08

Although we knew that the food won’t be that great, we decided to have our Christmas lunch at Shang Palace, Shangri-La Hotel, because it is very close to home and the most important is, we don’t have to pass Orchard Road to get through it.

Orchard Road this Christmas is as crowded as usual. I wonder when newspapers and other media have been telling us about bad recession, lay-off, and economic down-turn, it doesn’t seem to effect that much for quite a lot of people.

We have been trying to avoid Orchard Road as much as possible this past few weeks. And when we really want to go there, we rather walk than take a car as it will take much longer time to arrive.

Tonight we are going on vacation to Japan. Can’t wait for it!

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

Being a big brother

Caden: "Sasya, DO NOT put your hands inside your mouth!!!"

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I am always surprised by Caden’s love to Sasya. He pats Sasya all the time (and I am proud to say that most of the time is a gentle one).

He is a good big brother for Sasya. I hope when he has his own brother or sister, he would treat him as good as he treat Sasya.

Christmas Lunch

Santa and his two Reindeers

To the Little Gym with the little ones

Ii Ani and family came yesterday so Caden and I brought Sasya to the Little Gym today. She enjoyed it! Didn’t cried at all.

Sending Daddy to the Airport

Daddy has been very busy these days. This week he only home for 1 day. He came yesterday morning and fly again today afternoon.

Have a safe flight, daddy and please come home soon!

Hair-Cut

The last time Caden’s cut his hair was just before his second birthday, about three months ago. Although I didn’t think that it is long yet, I see that his hair is a bit messy now.

Since we woke up early from his nap, I went earlier to United Square to cut his hair, before his music class.

Amazingly, Caden was able to sit through the whole process, all by himself, while watching a Barney show.

This would be the first time he had done that.

He used to be screaming and wriggling around so much, doesn’t matter if he was being carried or not, or weather if there was an interesting show or not.

This time, although he wriggled a little here and there and wanted us stop the whole process once in a while, his eyes were somehow hooked onto the TV.

Afterward, he looks so neat and so grown up. I am liking it! ^_^

Happy 18th Birthday ii Ali...

...may you grown to be a mature young woman who loves God and your family.
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PS: Oh yes...we put the candles in thw wrong order!

@ 6.30am...

…wearing my green pajamas and cap, I went to the market with mommy, my nanny and my maid.

Orchard Road at Night

Orchard Road is so pretty.

I have been telling myself that I want to bring Caden to see all the pretty lights when he woke up late from his nap.

And he did today! He woke up at 5pm. So we can go out until 8.30pm today.

It was raining at about 6.30pm. I thought we won’t be able to make it but then it stopped.

Oma dropped us at Orchard Road and we are supposed to walk back home while enjoying the scenery.

But in less than 15 minutes, Caden was pleading to go back home. I suspect it’s because he is seldom go out when the sky is dark, therefore he wasn’t feeling very comfortable.

In the end, we went home by taxi.

Caden's Baptism and Mommy's Birthday

Today is a big day for us. It’s Caden’s baptism and mommy’s birthday at the same time.

The whole baptism ceremony was great. Caden was doing really well. He was being quiet and didn’t give any tantrums or any actions that we didn’t want it to happen.

[Although after the whole ceremony I had to take him out for a walk or else he disturb the people in the church]

He was waiting patiently until his name was called and he was also keeping quite when a small amount of water was poured unto his head.

Then off we went to Shangri-La Hotel to have brunch at Shang Palace and to celebrate mommy’s birthday, too.

I have to proudly say that Caden can blow candles really well now. He couldn’t even do it at his own 2 years old birthday party back in September, but he surely can do it now!

Diarrhea

We brought Caden to our favorite Ramen restaurant yesterday and last night he got diarrhea – 5 times.

The worst part was to wash him up in the middle of the night, where he was still so sleepy.

He still very active and didn’t seem to be bothered by the diarrhea --- I am glad.

But I hope he will recover very soon and I hope it will not messing up the whole BIG event tomorrow.

[It’s going to be Caden’s baptism and my birthday at the same time. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.]

Goggles

Not sure why Caden seems to like his goggles (which he hates it and refused to wear at the swimming pool) everywhere.

He asked us to put it on at home while he was playing with Lego and Play-Dough. He wants to wear it in the car and while we are going to class. Luckily he let us take it off when the class start.

Baking Cookies

We watched the Sesame Street show last weekend at Marina Square. I also bought Caden a plate, a cup and a Sesame Street spoon there and two Sesame Street book at Kinokuniya.

I just found out that Elmo like to bake cookies and there is this big blue creature (Elmo’s friend) called Cookie Monster.

I thought baking a cookie with Caden would be fun, especially since it has been raining all the time nowadays.

Caden was very interested at the beginning, but when it came to the moulding part, he was just sitting back and looking at me molding the dough. He was not in the mood to make his hands dirty.

I asked Caden if he wants big cookies or smaller ones, he said, “big”. So then I baked some big cookies for him.

We also did some cookie decorating afterwards.

Bambini Playclub @ Kallang

Though I was a little disappointed at how small the place is, the kids had fun and the mommies had a great time with each other, too.