Family Portrait- 02/12

February 2012

Ryan, at 10 months. Taken at Studioplay.

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I feel happy…

January 2012

because of many things.

Like how I am at home alone at 6.21pm, able to blog because E is at work and Baby Ryan is with my Dad at the park. Yes, my dad is Ryan’s new playmate. He cycles Ryan to the Pasir Ris every evening. They will cycle off to the playground to watch little children play and possibly visit the horses at the stable in the park. It is their time and Ryan especially looks forward to evenings. Often I see him throwing his whole body towards my dad.

Another reason to be happy about would be that we have officially moved to Pasir Ris, just 1 minute drive from my mother’s place and a 5 minute bicycle ride to the seaside. It is just plain awesome.Because I get to stay near my family(yes, I am super sticky to my family). Because we no longer have to travel 2x 35 minutes in a car with a screaming/wailing baby. This just means a happier Baby Ryan and a more rested us.

Thirdly, I love my new house. Yes, I know I have told almost everyone how I love my humble abode at Telok Kurau, how cosy the place is, how fond my memories are of that home because E and I had to do everything up from scratch with very limited budget, how I will miss the vibrant neighbourhood with all the awesome food and my favourite I12katong. Now that I have been staying in Bluewaters for my 3rd day, my verdict would be, it is a good change for our family. My new place is bigger(but of course, not as big like those people who lives in landed properties or penthouses or anything similar), but it is sufficient for now. I recall how I had reservations of my Bluwaters place especially on the space issue- bomb shelter too big, balcony took up too much space, master bedroom too small… However, after moving in, it seems like everything worked out nicely. Like how the bomb shelter is a good store room since we apparently have wayyy too many things. Our balcony, now decked up looks fabulous with the outdoor furniture- can imagine how we will have many nights chilling out there. The bay windows which were thought to be a waste of space had storage cupboards built on them, so it is not so bad after all.

Anyways, we have been sleeping without air con for the past 3 nights and it is great. The night wind is chilly enough for us, and we wake up to really crisp fresh air. This is one factor that beats Telok Kurau home hands down.

E and I just collected Baby Ryan’s photos that we took at some Baby Spa’s studio. Well, it was free. We took the photos in December and trust me, it was really tough. Ryan was really uncooperative. Other babies took 45 minutes to 1 hour for their photo shoot. Ryan took 2 hours. (-_-)”’ The happy part of this story is that the photos turned out not as bad as we imagined it to be. Here’s one of the 12 pictures of my darling boy. Anyways, we will be bringing Ryan for another photo shoot in February by Sean Lau. Let’s see how that will turn out…

Talking about Baby Spa, Ryan went for two swimming contests in the month of December. He did pretty well for the first time- no tears and was quite active for the entire duration. Hence, he got into the Grand Finals. Unfortunately, in the Grand Finals against 15 other babies, he was competing against much older babies and he was less interactive during the contest. So, he ended up with consolation prize along with the other 10 babies.

Another good news is that I am officially 50kg! I am making wayyy slower progress than what I wanted myself to. But still, I am looking forward to me losing more weight and finally being 48kg first followed by 45kg. Yes, I am standing at 1.58cm. I am expecting something that is of healthy range for my height.

Next up, Chinese New Year is around the corner. I love steamboat and all the yummy goodies. The only part that I do not look forward to is being overly tired after all the festivities. *sigh* It will be Ryan’s first CNY and I hope it will be wonderful and memorable for him.

Okie dokes… that’s about it for a blog post. Really busy. Waiting for E to return home with my dinner now. Later!~

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2011 into two-oh-twelve

5 January 2012

As of now, I am feeling awfully sick. I was hit by the flu bug around the Christmas season which developed into a nasty sore throat and fever towards the end of 2011 and into 2012. Not exactly how I really want to be feeling like in this festive season. On a side note, I highly suspect my sore throat is triggered by wayyy too much chocolate and chocolate cakes which I indulged in too freely.

Anyways, hello everyone! This is my new blog address. I had to get a new blog address because my old one did not have any more space for me to put up pictures and I did not want to pay USD99 yearly to increase space for a blog what spells the word truly with an e. Heehee.

Here’s a picture of my small family during Christmas at Uncle Amos’s place. The picture would have been perfect if not for the dustbin in the background. Heehee.

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8 months

10 December 2011

Happy 8 months, my lil’ prince!

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Mortons, once more.

December 2011

While packing the house into boxes, to be ready for the big move in January, I stumbled upon the photos that we took at Mortons over the years. Suddenly, I realised that I was/am still quite young. *laughs*

Ever since the birth of Ryan, there are times when I feel so overwhelmed by the many things I need to do or be responsible for and I just forget to let my hair down and live in the moment. *sigh*

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Happy Birthday, Mister E!

8th December 2011

E’s special day started off with late breakfast at Carl’s Junior with me and our lil’ one. We then headed to Pasir Ris to leave Baby with my Mummy while both of us went for a 90 minutes couple massage at Soul Spa. I bought 3 sessions of the massage from Groupon at $25 dollars each for 60 minutes session. Quite a sweet deal eh! (Anyway, I have just found out the wonders of online shopping! Very very addictively and sinful…. ) We topped up $18 each for another 30 minutes. I thought the massage was a-okay, nothing really spectacular ala Jari Menari at Bali. According to E, his masseur was really forceful and his back hurt like hell throughout the back massage. Hmm…

After the massage and shopping for Ryan(we got him new Carter’s rompers and shorts), we went back to Telok Kurau to slack and wait til it was time for dinner. We love Ryan alot, but sometimes, we hardly get time to just do our stuff- surf the net mindlessly, read a book/newspaper without getting interupted at times. It was good that we got time-out for 2 hours. Heehee.

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Dinner was at Bedrock Bar and Grill for E’s birthday.

Super yummy roasted garlic with bread. This is the first time I am having garlic bread in this manner.

Porterhouse steak. Nice, but not as juicy as Morton’s. Anyways, I read from reviews that the Tomahawk steak(apparently only Bedrock serves Tomahawk steak in Singapore.) is the real deal typically ranges from 1.3kg to 2kg. but it was supposed to be real big and I highly doubt both of us could finish it.

Mac and Cheese.

Huge onion rings.

Baby enjoying his onion rings.

Happy Birthday Baby! I love you!
I wish you health, wealth and happiness.
May you dote on Ryan and me always for forever!

Making many many birthday wishes!

Apple crumble with vanilla ice cream.

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