22.5 months: Kayden's 4th birthday party

Selecting a tattoo
Hey.. look at my Buzz Lightyear

All the children all engrossed with the entertainer. She's a balloon twister, venlitroquist, and she conducted many fun games with exciting prizes

The birthday boy (Kayden), Tiffany, Andre and Victoria. Really interesting, i wonder how these four kids will turn out and look in future.

Andre enjoys the slide...

Here i come mummy ...

Splat!

22.5 months: To East Coast Park

It is Hari Raya Puasa so daddy and mummy do not have to work. So we plan a trip to the beach in the morning followed by lunch at Joo Hing Restaurant. Mummy is craving damn bad for the steamed Teochew pomfret ever since her supplier brought her there one day.

Andre dug a hole and burried all his sand tools.

Having fun with dad

(Andre and Aiden: When you grow up one day, you need to realized that your daddy is the bestest in the world. Around out circle of friends, i never seen another man more hands on and willing to get his hands dirty to care for his children. This is really call LOVE.

And don't forget your mum, who is the one taking all these pictures to capture all these memories)

22.5 months: Bedtime

Statue!

Bedtime Hugs

Bedtime Milk...

Bliss!

22.5 months: Dua Yi birthday

We had dinner at mummy's favourite Ubin Seafood Restaturant at Sin Ming. Just love the egg yolk sotong and braised pork.

Po po specially light up a candle so that Andre can blow. Isn't it so sweet?
The Happy Tan Family

Happy 42nd birthday Dua Yi.

(Eh.. where is the birthday girl?)

22 months: Gadgets

Andre is really good with this tozzle game. He could match all the shapes in the puzzle. Really worth the US$1.99 i paid for this app

"Daddy, how come you play the big one and leave me with the small one?

22 Months: National day at West Coast Park

Holy Cross church organized a family outing day at the west coast park

Brekkie at Macdonalds. Andre finished up the fillet.
First time at jumping castle.

With Adelle jie jie

With Janelle jie jie

See how steadily Andre climbs the spider web

Andre picks up the leaves and threw them into the dustbin

Got really hot by noon so we headed home. But we really like the spacious playgrounds. we'll be back!

Ooh, and here's a picture of the picnic. Gong gong is doing warden duty distributing the food stuff.

22 Months: National Day in school+ alphabets

I decided i had it for work on Friday. The nonsense just kept piling up. There is simply no end. I can't seem to find a point to let go, but this final SRG nonsense is like the wake up call, ultimum. Had wanted to take half day on Friday, but ended up staying in the office till 6 pm, and stuck in a traffic jam for 1-1/2 hours. Right then, i made up my mind. Monday i'm going to take MC (heck care the 4 meetings i have lined up; i just need to look sick enough). And I'm going to start my maternity leave on the 3rd. It's 2 weeks early... i really need the break to stop thinking about work, be happy and slowly transition to welcome my new baby.

Saturday at Sentosa left me with a most excruciating pain at my right hip. Sunday, perfect (but painful!) reason to take MC. After many panadols, i finally feel better on Monday, and that's when i went with Andre to his National Day celebration at zoo-phonics.

Boy! I had been missing so much! School is so fun, and i could sense the enthusiasm and passion from the teachers. Hearing all the good comments really made me beamed in pride. Praises like how obediant Andre is in class, how fast he picked up the alphabets, how fast he developed in his speech, how Zara wanted to marry Andre! All thanks to Aunty Yuli for bringing Andre down to his twice weekly school. As the children sang National Day songs, Andre participated by clapping , and jumping and waving the flag wildly. He even got a little flag tattoo on his arm. I could see a more confident boy now, mingling with his classmates, showing me his favourite toys in class. Definitely, there is no signs of social issues. (Esp when he gave Zara a BIG HUG when asked to pose for pictures). I can see that he is happy to have me in class, choosing to sit on my lap all the time.

Came evening, we were playing with Andre with alphabets and i was surprised he could recognise so many characters. K, M, N, O, Y, E etc.. and i know all these will not be without the effort of Aunty Yuli, and the school. And i'm secretly jealous that i wasn't the one that contributed in bulk to Andre's educational development so far.

21 Months: Sorry

Andre was playing with his stack up rings when he got overexcited and hurled a ring at Aunty Yuli's head. I've seen a few times when he will purposely throw things at others. Without hesitation, i got up, grab his hand, and spanked it really hard. It wasn't hard enough to make him cry, but it was sufficient to shock him. "No Andre!, When you throw things like this, it will hurt people. Mummy do not allow you to do this again".

Next moment, he blurted out "Sorry". Coming from my less than 2 years old boy, i was shocked. These are times, when he never failed to amaze me.

On hindsight, he was probably bored and seeking new ways to play. And he has yet to discover, there are right and wrong ways to play. Spanking was probably too harsh, but at the turn of the moment, i really wanted to catch his attention. (It's really not something i advocate. I always believe the more you spank, the more this method becomes useless). I tell myself, if Andre repeats this again, i am just going to keep his toys.

Andre is overall a very obediant boy... i feel guilty sometimes for not being able to play with him more. He gets so restless and bored. I can see so much energy in him, but he has no where to channel his creativity in our small, small apartment. *guilt*