Marbles

We had been cracking our head how to encourage Seth to go to school without crying...

KP had came out a brillant idea! He bought some marbles with 2 boxes.

If Seth did not cry when he go to school, he will be rewarded for 10 marbles. With that he will be able to exchange for 1 cartoon show for 5 marbles.

We had been sharing with Seth, he seem quite excited about it.

The following day, i sent Seth to school, reminded him about the "marble game". He listened quitely, and in my heart i was thinking, oh no it does not work at all.
I opened the classroom day, Miss Pam and Miss Susan were there.
"Miss Pam and Miss Susan, Seth is not crying today, he is going to earn the 10 marbles and exchange something very interesting..." The 2 teachers gave a big smile:)

Ha ha... u know what happened... IT WORKS!
Seth said bye bye to me and asked me to pick him at 1 pm, with a smile on his face....

No More Crying

Seth woke up happy and said "i want to go to school now, Now!!!!"
Wow thats was really unusual, the very first time.... but why... ha ha... there is a field trip from his school... "make your own bear".

He was really excited, guess he is more excited about taking the coach to the destination.
"mum be quick, i will miss the bus" and he started to cry again. I have to pretend to call the bus driver, " uncle, can u wait for Seth, he dress up very quickly today, he is on his way"
"Seth, uncle said ok" .... immediately Seth smile :)

Seth had made a brown bear with a blue t-shirt . "Mum, my bear is different from my friend. All the boys had a bear with pink t-shirt, only mine is blue.... but all the girls had a bear with blue t-shirt".... Guess i got to check with the teacher...

Full Day Child Care

Times fly, it had been a long time since my last visit ....

Seth had been watching TV at ah ma's house after school from 1 pm to 4 pm almost everyday, thats kind of worried for us. Thus we had decided to put him at the full day child care.

He had started the full day child care about 2 wks ago, it was really heartache to see him crying all the way from home to school. He will find all excuses ... eg. my shoe is too small, i want to eat butter bread, i want mummy to send me to school and stay with me.... just to delay some times. It was a "horrible" routine for KP and me every morning. He is the only one in class who will cry whenever we droped him in class. His helpful classmates will come and talk to him, clear his tears...

We will always look at him at the "viewing room" before leaving, he will be ok after a while. Thats kind of relieve for us, especailly seeing him enjoying his class when he is settled.

Seth will have a nap time in school about an hour. He had not been sleeping. I asked him why... he replied " if i sleep then it will be night time, the school will be my house" ha ha ha...

Pork and Popcorn

There are 2 security guards at our house. One of them is young and the other is quite old about 60+ yrs old. We call the younger one "handsome guard". Recently the handsome guard help us to mix the remote control, we wanted to buy him something as an appreciation.


I told Seth " Seth, handsome guard is a muslim. We can buy him anything except pork" Seth replied" Oh, then he cannot eat popcorn as well...." Both KP and I laughed.... " Seth thats a good one ! ha ha ha.....

Prof P C Wong

This is my gynae, Prof P C Wong. Im 17th wk pregnant and today is my routine check.





For the past months, we had been telling Seth about Prof P C Wong. We wanted him to share the joy and introduce him his sibling. He went to the clinic with us today.








Seth love to take picture, he brought a camera, wanted to take a picture of Prof. When he arrived, he behaved very well. Prof said " u know kaganroo? the baby kaganroo stay at the kaganroo bag, now yr baby stay at yr mummy's tummy.... Seth replied " yeah i know, and u know kaganroo can fight?" (For whose who knew about our Australia trip and the VCD that Ah mah had produced will understand what Seth is talking about) Prof gave him a big smile.




Seth do not like other to carry him, but to my surprise, he went to Prof and wanted him to carry during photo taking.


















This photo is taken by Seth.


After taking, Seth shifted to "play" mode and show it to Prof.


" Wow u are so clever, u know how to take picture?" Seth gave him a shy smiled to him, wave bye and said " Look, Im marching out.... left, right, left, right...." and out he went.




Prof laughed and said " its so nice to have a child right?"

It's been a long time...

Hi everyone, I have not been writing on this blog for such a long time. Jaz had been asking me why did I stop writing, well, I'm just being lazy...... which is bad!!!

I am glad that my friend Pheobee introduced me into creating this blog. Looking bad at the past posts, I can really see how Seth grow and also remember tiny little things that we did together as a family.

It had been a while since I went to Pulau Ubin. We went there last sat, and it was fun.

This is our first cycling trip together. Seth enjoyed the cycling so much that when its about time to return the rental bikes, he said:"I don't want to give back to auntie...." haha!!!

This is auntie Jenny with Seth, and Jenny is not with WWF.

Happy family on the way back to Singapore.

Seth is very tired and its good. So that he will fall asleep in the car, then we can also sleep with him. It's very tired taking care of a "fully energetic" boy. Which means his energy never runs low. Only falling asleep in a moving car.

Today, we woke him up to go to Church. And he did not sleep until 830pm. In the car, he knew he might fall asleep, Seth pull his face with his hands, to prevent him from falling asleep in the car. Haha!

Club Med Bintan

KP had won a trip to Club Med Bintan.

It was a nice place, with friendly staffs to join u for activies and meals, food and drinks well provided for.

I love this picture, look at Seth... wow..... so lovely and a "happy man". He is always dancing, look at his hand movement :)

He wanted to play beach volleyball but refused to step on the sand. He is moving around on my feet .... Can u imagine?

Story Of A Man and A Boy

We had introduced some new words to Seth recently. One of them are Man. KP told Seth, " Seth is a boy, Papa is a man" Seth replied" Im a man". KP explained to him he is a boy now, to be a man he got to be as tall as him. Seth started jumping and crying " Why i cannot be a man, I want to be a man now" "Why?" "Why?"...... crying all the way............ "You are a big man, I am a small man"

Progress In School

Seth had been attending School House by The bay for about 10 months. I'm always wondering hows his progress in school cause we had missed out the meet the parents day. ( we never have the habit of reading the newsletter from the school). I managed to talk to Seth's English teacher, Irene, about 2 weeks ago. "Seth is doing very well, he is very persistent, full of curiosity, good in participation all activities... but he loves to cry over a small issue and it takes a while for us to settle him down" Ha Ha Ha.... that's exactly our Seth!

The school will have a monthly toddler's news (Seth is currently at toddler class, he will be promoting to play group in about a week or two time), there was a picture of Seth and that drew my attention, so i decided to read on.......

The school had organised a movies time for the class (sound of music) and when it starts, Seth asked the teacher "where is the popcorn?" " We don't have popcorn, Seth" said Ms Irene. "where is the popcorn?" Seth asked repeatedly ( I told u he is very persistent). "Seth, Ms Irene will bring my popcorn machine on Friday. We will make popcorn and all of us can enjoy the show as we are eating our freshly made popcorn. Is it all right with u Seth?" said Ms Irene. "OK" agreed Seth.

Ms Irene did bring along the popcorn machine, showed and explain the children the process of popcorn making. I really appreciate the teacher for taking the additional effort to make learning more meaningful to the children.

A Surprise " I Love You"

Seth had been very close with his father recently, i guess after the bonding time, taking shower together.... ha ha ha.

KP had gone to work yesterday afternoon and this little boy had been asking " where is papa?". He waited for the whole afternoon, when he heard sound of keys at the door, he was very excited, jumping on the sofa. When KP opened the door, he said "Pa pa, I love you" with a big smiling face. We were so surprise! This is the first time he said that. And of course i am jealous about it......

This morning, i had gone out to throw some rubbish (the cute is outside the house), when i opened the door, Seth was standing behind the door, "Mama, I love you"... Wow, that's really melting...... Its a "special feeling" only those are parents will understand, right?

Moving out - Jalan Batu

We had shifted out of our 1st home at Jalan Batu on 11 Jan 2008. KP and I were quite sad as its our first house and we had been staying there for 5 yrs and Seth was there 2yrs and 3months.

We were worried that Seth will be sad about moving out, thus we had been telling him a wk before our shifting . "This house does not belong to us anymore, we had sold to one of the Uncles and we do not have the keys to come in by next wk" He was all right at the begining, but the very last day of staying, we reminded him again, and he started to cry - " Mummy i dont want to shift out, this is my house, i want to come home" WOW.............. When i heard this i nearly cried infront of him, but of course i hold it bk.

The day had arrived for us to hand over the keys. I had arranged to bring Seth along, to show him that we had passed the keys to the buyer. The buyer brought along his 4yr old boy and he was running all over the house (which was very dusty and dirty after shifting out). He started to pick up some of Seth's toys and bks which i left in the cartoon and its meant to give it to him. Seth is of course jealous about it, and he started to snatch, cry .... " This is my house, my toys... give it bk to me" Its really heartbreaking........

We had shifted to Senn's house at Haig Ave, (Kp sister) yesterday when we drove bk from my mother in law house, we did not turn right which lead us to Jalan Batu, Seth started to cry again,"Mummy i want to go home, i dont want to go to Si Gu's house"

It had never come across us that Seth will be so emotional.

Selamat Hari Raya

It was so long ago that I actually write something in this blog. Jaz was nagging at me every now and then about me being lazy to write on Seth's blog. Ya, I admit that I was being lazy, and I promise her that I will post some lastest funny stuff about Seth recently.



It is the best time of the year again, well, for us, it is the best time. Remember our neighbour, Majik and Pajik, where Seth call them Nak Nak and Tok. During Hari Raya, Majik will cook her famous delicious dishes at the corridor outside her house. And tell you guys something, she will cook enough food for at least 70 to 100 over people.



On the actual day, you will see guest coming to her house non-stop from morning till night. The best part is, there will always be enough food for everyone. Her Malay dishes, hmm...... the best I had tasted in my life!


You can see in this photo, I kapo kapo, help out a but, and Majik will tell me all her secret ingredients...

So, what so funny about Seth during Hari Raya. On this photo, you can see Tok. What is so special about Tok today is his hair......

He was busy making Kway Tu Pat the day before, and his daughter Ernie dyed his hair. He was shock when everything was finish, to find out that his hair was well....... too red for Hari Raya! Ha Ha!!!

He came over to our house in the morning, and show us his red hair before he dye them back to black.

Seth was looking at Tok, and he seems a little amused by Tok's new look. After a while, he said:" Tok's hair look like rambutan...." Ha ha! We are all shock by his statement. Majik said to Tok:" Wah, even Seth make fun of you ah???!!! Malu Ah!!!" Ha ha! I was surprise Tok did not stop me from taking his photos. I guess he never expect them to appear on the internet.

Look at the cheeky boy.....

Seth's First Fund Raising

Our church is celebrating 100th anniversary in 2008. We had 3 events to raise $100,000 for charity and part of celebration. One of the events will be funfair, which is held on the 08 sept 2007. The committee had arranged a "art gallery" for all the children to particpate. They are allowed to draw any picture. And of course Seth took part.

Kp and I had bought some water painting material for Seth. This is the first time he drew on such a big drawing paper (compare to his size), I was quite worried what he is going to draw. Laid on the floor with lots of newspaper, he started to dip his brush with colour and mixed it with lots and lots of water. He started to "sprinkle" on the paper and he enjoyed doing it (laughing all the way). It was done in about 05 mins. To my suprise, it was really nice!

The day had came, the art gallery exhibition, Seth was so proud of himself, he saw his painting hanging up there, started telling every auntie and uncle "Seth's painting" and of course his painting was sold for $50. So to who? of course to Mr and Mrs Yeo.... Ha ha....

Beautiful Pictures .....

Bintan 22 to 24 Jun

This round again, the "Australia group" had came to this villa at Bintan. There is four bed rooms( with sofa bed at some rooms), a kitchen, a big hall, a dinning around and three,a private pool BBQ .....

There will be a buggi in each villa, one got to have a driving license before operating it.

The restort is big, this buggi really came in very handy. We go around with the buggi quite often, even to beach which is only about 2 mins walk from our villa.

We went into path where buggi are not allow, with grasses,sands and rock. And Seth said ' Rocky road!" :)

This is Desmond, KP's brother in law and his son Jiajun.

Its a lucky day for him, he went fishing and within 15 mins, he got this big fish! He never catch any fish for the day after this.....

We fried the fish and it was really fresh and sweet.... but just that the fish bone was green in colour,only a few of us ate it!

Photos........

Ha ha ha.... found these pictures while browsing our photos. Seth is 11 months old. Look at his naughty expression ... its really funny....

This phot0 was captured with all the struggling... thats because whenever we took picture or video taking for Seth, he would like to hold the camera or video. He is pointing to the camera I'm holding.

Seth own a digital camera now, which i bought it about 7 yrs ago. He enjoy it very much and so do i ..... :)

Photos - Port Dickson

Look at this happy boy...... Really thank God for his
greatest gift!

I love this picture.....my handsome husband and my cool son!

But at times
not as handsome and cool ...


My two lovable "monkeys"




Seth with Ah ma and gong gong

"Lar Lar"

Seth was sick when he was back from Port Dickson. He started vomiting when we reached home at about 11pm. Imagine KP and myself were so tired, need to unpack and this little boy vomitted on his bed twice. Got to changed and washed bed sheet at 12 am.... :(

Seth was not sleeping well, woke up a few times in the night. He was having high fever, he started to cry" Mummy, lar lar... water... water" KP laughed and said he must be having sore throat!

We brought him to Dr Yap the next day. During the journey, he was talking all the way " Good morning Dr Yap", " Hi Dr Yap". KP commented that when he reached the clinic he will not say anything. When he saw Dr Yap, he kept quiet and starred at him.... ha ha... the father know the son so well!

Seth was having fever, bad throat infection and flu.

Port Dickson 9 to 11 Jun

Jordan Huebner had organised a trip to Port Dickson. There was 26 of us, driving 4 cars. It was about 4 hrs journey with all the breaks. Thank God that Seth behaved quite well during the journey.

We were at Room No. 1011 and thats hapened to be Seth's birth date.

Wow, the room was really big, with a big bath tub, 1 king size and

1 daybed. Seth loves the room and been running around.

He loves the bath tub as well and wanted so much to take shower.

My parents in laws were with us this trip. When he is in his room, he will start asking "Ah ma and Gong Gong where?" but when we brought him to their room, he would want to go bk to his room. Its really tiring, following him all around.

Seth had been eating all kinds of food, especially lots of fried stuffs ( fish and chip, Mac, hash brown...) and cholocate biscuits and apple juice. He loves apple juice (2nd time trying) and asked for more " Mama buy apple juice, ok?". When he dont behave well, start bitting and hitting others, he will say " No more apple juice" .... ha ha ha....

We were shifed to a water chalets on the second day. Everyone of us were so exited about it. There will be a glass at the centre of the room where one can see all the sea creatures.

When we open the door, Seth were so exited, not afraid, went to the glass and said "Wow" He started jumping. As for me, i will try not to walk on the glass, a feeling of falling down any moment.

Cried In School

Oh Oh..... Seth started to cry on the 2nd day, it lasted for a week!

When the grandma left him, he will cry for a while. He began to stick to one of the teachers, Miss Goh, until today when she is not around, he will start to cry.

There is a window glass which is about 15 cm wide, we peep at Seth during story time. Its so funny, he will listen to the teacher and the next second he started to cry, cried for a few seconds, he stopped then started crying again.

Seth had never like to have anything around his body (neck, hand, leg, head), thats why until today he still refused to wear a cap. When i saw the teacher put his water bottle on his neck, i knew he is going to cry.... and it really happened....

First Day At School - School House By The Bay

Seth had gone to school on 14 May 2007.

Seth's grandparents had bought him to his cousin, Jiawei school everyday. He started to cry once he left the classroom. Thus we enrolled him to the class. We thought he is able to go to school once we paid the school fee but it was on a waiting list of 10 children! Fortunely all his other cousins had been studying at School House By the Bay, we are able to "jump quene".

Seth did very well on the first day. He did not cry at all.
Being curious and worried on his first day of school, KP and myself went to visit him at school. Secretly peeped and took some pictures of him. He is so independant, he played with Jiawei and other friends, eat by himself.

Music Class

We had finally enrolled Seth to a music class. He had started about 3 wks ago with Kindermusic.
He loved the class so much.

KP and myself had gone together for his 1st lesson. Unfortuneally only one parent is allowed in class, thus KP had to wait outside the class. The 2nd lesson was brought by me along, which KP suggested and its the first time i had drove Seth with such a long distance. I was so worried that he will yell in the car as what he had always did, and i prayed to GOD!!

We sang his favourite songs, talking all the way. He said and pointed "mummy, big lorry" I was so amazed, he speaks well at his age. He behaved so well through out the journey. Seth, mummy is so proud of u.

He was very reserve during the 1st lesson. Observing what the friends are doing, cause he is the youngest in class, most of them are about 24 months. The teacher request a hug from him after the lesson but he refused :( . She commented he had done very well for his 1st lesson and encourage me to continue to communicate with him during the class.

Today, the 3rd lesson, he began to open up. He played with his friends, went infront of the group and he gave the teacher and the friend's mummy a hug. But he only did to those "ang mo" mother ... ha ha ha

Botanic Garden

Finally we are at Botanic Garden!

KP and myself wanted so much to bring Seth for a stroll at Botanic Garden during weekday.

We had brought some bread to feed the birds, swam and tortise. Seth really enjoyed it! He is not afraid at all with the swam so near to him.

It was Seth's nap time when we were on the way to Botanic Garden. I was trying hard to make him awake when he is in the car.

He seem quiet after all the feeding, Kp put him on his shoulder instead of him walking around.

Look at him ....... so tired, falling asleep soon ..... zzzzzzz

So funny :)

Ha ha ha

LOOK .... That KP's chin!

Chinese New Year

This is the 2nd Chinese New Year for Seth. He was only 3months old last new year.He looked and behaved so differently. He will do "gong xi, gong xi". Whenever he took a mandrain organge, he will threw on the floor and said "throw, orange" and we had few damaged mandrain organges around our house.

Seth new outfit and shoe. He refused to wear the shoe saying "Stuck, stuck". I was quite angry with this fussy boy, he is very choosy about the fabric of a cloth and shoe.

Then KP took a look at the shoe and found some papers in the shoe! ha ha....

Always trust yr child !

Sunday School

One of Seth's lastest photo...



This is the first time Seth had attended to Sunday School. The class are meant for children of age 3 yrs and above. The teacher do welcome Seth for coming to the class although he does not really understand what they are doing. But when it come to singing, this cute little boy start to sing at his own words, dancing, clapping and he really enjoy himself! All the big brothers and sisters were laughing at him.

When it came to tea break, after saying grace, all the children were queing, waiting for their turn to eat. Seth saw the bread on the table, hold my hand, he rushed all the way and obviously he is the only one not queing, grabed the bread and put right into his mouth... (KP and myself were laughing all the way and we really hope we have a video camera with us)

One of the teachers commented " Wow yr son is fantastic, u dont need to worry that he will get hungry ... Hahaha..."

Seth at 14 Months

Our friends had been reminding us of not updating at this blog and we felt guilty about it! :)

Seth is 14 months now and he had really grown within these 2 months. He had started to call " Mama, Papa (all the times), ah ma, ah gong, jie jie, gou gou, gu gu, ah pai, nak nak, ah tok, car, ball, nana(banana), bra(zebra),frog(his favorite), duck, roo(kangaroo), bear and many many more.

When we show him pictures of different animals, he is able to name them and of course his favorite animal frog which is the animal that I am most afraid of ! ha ha ....

We had teaching him to say grace before his milk time. He will say "Amen". One of the day, my mother in law passed him a bottle of water and he said 'Amen" to her, that really amazed his grandma with a big laugh!

Seth had 6 tooth right now. The upper 4 tooth came out at the same time last month. We were quite worried cause the bottom 2 tooth were out when he is about 8 months. That means there is no growth at all for the past 5 months! He look really cute, will try to capture some pictures and post it later at the blog.

Nak Nak had wore some gold bangars on her hand. This morning when Seth saw it, he started playing and said "wow".Tok was beside them and everybody started laughing, how can a 14 months old baby know that gold is so valuable! Sometimes I just wonder how does this boy knew about all these stuffs!

Today KP's friend,Lulu and Wenna came to our house. I met Lulu at our house downstairs while on my way bk from my mother in law house(fetching Seth),Seth was quite shy when Lulu started to play with him in the lift. The minute he came in the house, he "allow" Lulu to carry him and had been playing very joyfully. How tricky he is, love to hang around with pretty girl at such a young age!
He used to sleep around 830pm, but today when I tried to put him to bed, he refused and wanted to join the rest of them. At the end, Tok brought him out for a car ride, to fetch Nak Nak from club and Nak Nak came bk with a baby felling asleep on her shoulder.

Australia Tour

It has beed a long time since I last update this blog. We just come back from Australia last week. Here are some photos of our trip. More will be uploaded in hopefully 1 or 2 weeks time...

Drinking milk on the beach, wow, really an enjoyment! Feeding milk on the beach...... haha! I'm enjoying myself very much too!

Look at him, he didn't finish his milk, can't wait to join in the fun at the beach.

All in a day's work. Part and parcel of parenting... I have seen and experience 'shit' of 2 nieces and 4 nephews before Seth was borned. However, whenever my mum or my sis's maid changed the children's soiled diaper, I would normally stand at least 3 meters away. Before Seth was born, my mother and my brother sometimes ask me who is going to change his diapers next time. I would normally just replied "Jaz loh"... But to my surprise, one fine sunny morning. Seth soiled his diaper, Jaz was in the other room, and I'm all alone with him. I just open his diaper and begin to change him. Haha, don't know where I got the strength, the fear of "shit" just disappear into thin air... Now, sometimes Jaz could not even bear the smell of Seth's waste and I have to do it!

Seth, Our Beautiful Child

I had brought Seth to Kallang River ( just next to our house) for a stroll for the past 2 days after dinner. KP is not with us due to work schedule, what a waste! But I really enjoyed the time we spent together, the quietness, sunset, beautiful scenery....

Seth picked up things really fast, the first day, there were lots of birds flying around, I pointed the sky and told him"Look Seth, birds are flying up in the sky" he looked up with a beautiful smile and kept watching. Today we were there again and I asked him "Seth where are the birds?" He looked up the sky with his hands pointing towards the sky. I was really amazed!

Seth loves pets especially cats and dogs. Whenever he saw them he got really excited. We were in the river, a golden retriever passed by, he wanted so much to get up (cause im pushing him on his bicycle). The minute I carried him he was so excited, kicking his legs,swinging his hands, smiling. He wanted to touch the dog, not afraid of him. I'm the one who is afraid, afraid the dog might bite him, his saliva... I'm recalling, Am I being too protective? (KP will definitely say YES! Ha ha ha...) I hope he did not miss out his fun because of me.....

Give thanks to God for this beautiful child!!!!!

My Baby

The minute I walked away from Seth, this is how he will look. How adorable.... Hahaha !!!

Seth had been very "sticky" for the past weeks. Perhaps he had too much attention from me. Even at his grandma house, when I looked at him, is a must for me to carry him. We tried to distract him but failed.

We had left him at Nek Nek's house and went for dinner. He loved to play with all the family members (he had been playing everynight at Nek Nek's house) and i thought that it would be all right to leave him for a while. When we got back, his eyes were teary wanted so much of our hugs. Was told that he was looking for me, he does not want anyone even its Nek Nek and Tok, perhaps its bedtime!
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