1st attempt of chocolate chip cookies baking

These are hand mould de....hahaha....coz lazy to use cutter lor....then as I bake these batch later, so I bake for a longer time but only once, so it is softer then the 1st batch.


The only bear shape in the heart shape, coz I give up using the bear cookies cutter coz it is harder to remove the dough from the cutter lor....I bake this batch of cookies first and twice so these batch are harder than the 2nd batch.

Finally I found a cookie receipe online and decided to try baking it. Got all the ingredients on Friday evening from Phoon Huat then on Sunday, I finally try making and baking it during the afternoon while Shawn look after Daryl.

The result was not as ideal coz the cookies are not crispy as per stated in the receipe. Shawn say it is not sweet enough, my BIL also say it is not sweet enough and not crispy, and my colleagues who tried say sweetness is ok, just that it is not crispy enough.

Johhny's boy - Scott's 1st Birthday Party

We went to another 1st Birthday party in the afternoon again. This time is Shawn's army friend Johnny's son - Scott Birthday.

Daryl was attracted by all the balloons in the house. He keep trying to take and move those helium balloons weighted on the floor. Then later, he was attracted by Scott's baby cousin, a 6 months old baby girl and he will kuai kuai stand by the side of sofa where the baby girl was seating with her mum, looking at her and sayang her.

He will even call Johnny's mother ma, when we asked him and I think that make Johnny's mother rather happy. However, he refused to be carried by either Johnny or Hong Lai and he will cried until so ke lian when they does carry him.

Again, he was happy and smiling when he saw the cake, especially it was a baby Mickey mouse picture cake. But he cried when people are singing Happy Birthday song, coz firstly, we let him stand on the floor then secondly, he saw Shawn standing far away from him. Then he started to smile when Shawn move to stand beside him and we carry him up. Funny little boy.

As usual, we let him eat the cake and drink some of the lime sea coconut dessert, which he seem to like and enjoy. The joke of this event was that one of Shawn's army friend, whom I meet for the first time, tried asking Shawn in softly if I am expecting number 2 but stupid Shawn just replied : "No, she is FAT!!". However, I overheard it and I went up to Shawn hit him and say "You are not slim either lor". Muahahaha

We went off when Daryl started to fuss as he was tired and sleepy.

Daryl is partially toilet trained

Daryl's nanny told us weeks back that she have stop wearing diaper or the cloth diaper on Daryl during the day time at her house. But she will on and off let Daryl sat on the potty to pee or poo or when Daryl indicate that he want to pee. By the way, she also mentioned that Daryl refused to stand and pee lor.

We also realised that Daryl will point to his diaper when at home with us, and when I asked if he want to pee, he will nodded his head.

So this morning, I decided to let him go diaperless to try him out despite objection from Shawn who worried that Daryl will pee or poo on the sofa. Again I was right to insist, coz Daryl will really tell us he want to pee by point to his birdie.

However, as his nanny was using the traditional potty which is higher than the potty I bought, Daryl, does not like to seat on the potty at our house. So no choice, I put the potty cover on our toilet bowl which will make it easier for Daryl to sit and indeed, he is willing to seat on it to pee.

All went smoothly on his diaperless project until after Daryl finish his porridge and my mum spotted him trying to gek sai. We quickly bring him to the toilet and let him seat to gek. However, perhaps, his poo is too hard, so he is unable to poo out, thus he started to fuss and refused to seat any longer. So no choice, we carry him down and wear back his pants with diaper.

Then, shortly after he was playing with my mum, he suddenly managed to poo out and my mum saw the hard little poo in his pant and we quickly carry him to the toilet and remove his pant carefully. The pant was soiled but luckily, as his poo is hard and the pant was rather tight fitted, it did not fall out and did not make a mess on the floor, phewz. But being his mummy, I have to use water to wash his pant with my bare hand to wash away the soiled part before we wash it with the rest of his clothing.

Anyway, this little project on diaperless seem successful and I think we can really start to let him go diaperless during the day when we are at home. But still, he will have to wear his diaper when going out until, we are 101% sure he is fully toilet trained.

Nevertheless, we are proud of our little terror little success and we must proudly declared that ALL CREDITS GOES TO HIS NANNY!!!! We can see that our expenses on his diapers are reducing.......and we are more than happy that we can save alot of money since he is partially toilet trained.

The Hokey Pokey Dance

Daryl favourite song and dance. See how he enjoy turing round and round.

Sunday morning when daddy is out for soccer game

Thanks to Shawn who help me to rotate the video clip.

This manual motorbike was given by Esther during Daryl's full month celebration. However, it was until now then he know how to ride it and was able to 'move' it.

This walker cum push ride is given by Grace and Irene during Daryl's 1st Birthday. Now, Daryl enjoy pushing or pulling it around the house.

The quiet side of Daryl - Reading time!

Daryl call me ma

Ok, finally Daryl call me ma (mother) le....but it sound the same as ma (grandmother). In fact, he did call me ma when he learn to say ma. However, I say not counted as he did not face me and call. Likewise for pa (father), it is only now that he will face Shawn to call and not like days back, where he will just say pa while looking at other place.

It was confirm that he was calling me this morning when we woke up, as he just look at me and call ma without me having to ask him to call. However, I was not as happy as I should, since it sound no difference for him in calling mother or grandmother. Thus, I will still look forward for him to call me mummy, which is what I prefer instead. :-)

A rush and busy day.

Today Daryl wake up at 6.30 am together with us and after he finish his milk, we rush out to the market at Ang Mo Kio Blk 226 since the market nearest to our house was closed for renovation. We bought the ingredients for Daryl's porridge for the these 2 days then we have our breakfast there before we rush home to wait for our part time maid to come do the cleaning at 8am.

As we will be rushing to 2 birthday parties in the afternoon, we tried in vain to coax Daryl to nap at 9am plus after bathing him. In the end, he fall asleep at 10 plus and only wake up at 11.30am where we quickly feed him his lunch then rush out for Elliot's 1st Birthday (Shawn's cousin son) at Citylight function room.

We reached there about 20 min later then the original planned time at about 12.20pm, but no choice as Daryl's might be cranky if he did not nap earlier. My in laws were already there when we reached. My mother in law was so happy when Daryl call her ma after I told him to. However, she comment that the denim jumper Daryl wear make him look like a clown, as those clowns in circus alway wear jumper except that theirs are colourful jumper.

Anyway, Daryl seem to enjoy his short stay there as he keep laughing and smiling at everyone. He even generously give his water bottle to a jie jie whom he just saw for the 1st time. As we need to rush to another party, we did not for Elliot's cake cutting.

Shawn send me to Wendy's younger son Broderick 1st Birthday party at Plaza Market Cafe in Fairmont Hotel which is not far from Citylight while he wait for me in the library.

Daryl was consider rather well behaved, coz he will sit in the baby chair and wait for me while I go thru the buffet spread and take the food. Then when Daryl saw the Birthday cake he give me a big smile and was laughing away when everyone start singing Happy Birthday song, maybe he thought it was his birthday again ba.

I think, Daryl really must be praised for his well behavior today, coz when I bring him to the toilet, he actually did wait for me while I pee except that he try to peek out of the cubicle other than that, he did not fuss or try anything funny. Good boy, my darling!

Then my good darling fall asleep on the way back home at 3 pm plus and only wake up around 6plus for his dinner.