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Ace 9 Mth Report

Ace went for his check up today....

Boy.. is he a huge baby.. he is alreayd 77.5cm tall and is 11.1kg heavy... and he is onli 9 mths! The nurse says that puts him at the 90th percentile... but not to worry, he is not overweight cos he is a very tall baby.

Basically, they just asked him to sit, stand, let him listen to sounds and see if he reacts. Ace passed all the tests with flying colours... the nurse said he is very clever cos she tried to let him listen to a high pitched sound on the right side.. and he turned around.. and when the nurse went to the middle.. Ace started turning to the right side to wait for her to appear already.. hahahaha ;)

Anyway, Ace had a few 'breakthroughs' today...

FInally, I can feed him VP wtihout having to crush it first. He can now chew VP and swallow without water even. THis is the start of Ace's love affair with Cai Cai Bing (vege biscuit.. tat's wat alot of children call VP) I think.. ;)

And then, there is a chinese saying tat says, gou ji tiao qiang.. which means the dog, when forced to a corner will jump over the wall.. and tat was wat Ace did..

Nope, he didn't try another flying stunt and jump over the wall. But you see.. he was crying for milk and so I asked him to sit in the living room to wait for me while I went to the kitchen to make milk for him. The moment i left, he started crying and he started to crawl towards the kitchen... so i ran back to carry him.. and tried to make milk using one hand while carrying him with the other.

Alas, I decided that was too much for my poor hand.. and so I deposited him into the playpen and went to make milk. To my surprise.. when I came back... Ace was standing in the playpen, with no support and crying while shaking his fists! The power of milk.. hahahahah.....

Past few days he has already been trying to stand but he alwyas can onli stay upright for like 2 or 3 seconds... maybe the tot of not having milk gave him extra strenght to perserveare on.. hahahaha ;)

Also, i noticed that Ace seems to like to sing. WHenever he hears music of people singing songs, he will start to make noises and clap his hands.. it is like his own version of singing.. but of cos, it just sounds like gibberish at the moment... he also likes to clap his hands when he is happy.. and my current hobby is to admire him when he claps.. dunno why.. once i see him clapping happily, i feel happy too...

I went to the library to borrow books for Ace and has been reading aloud to him. So now, he has taken to taking the book, opening it, saying gibberish and closing it.. and opening it and closing it.. all the while trying to talk.. it seems as if he is trying to read aloud as well.. ;)

I cant wait for him to learn how to sleep, change diapers, bath, change clothes... then I will have more time to be Angel and dun have to spend so much time to be MUmmy... ahahhahaha :P But maybe I will worry about a different set of problems then... hiaks..

Starring, Ace Chua

Was quite free while waiting daddy to come home to fetch me and Ace to Waipo's place.. so created the following... Enjoy..

Super Ace, Flying Baby

Ace can fly!

And fly he did when he saw Ah Yee coming out from the toilet.

Alas he is not a very good 'flier'... so he ended up with yet another bruised 'bao' on his head.

You see, me and Daddy had decided to grant ourselves a one day holiday and so we left Ace with waipo and went shopping.

Ace was initially happily playing on Waipo's bed and Waipo was just lying next to him...

Ah Yee decided to go to toilet and when she walked out from the toilet (which is also in Waipo's room), Ace saw her and got very excited. (Ace loves Ah Yee alot..) He then stood up and try to 'FLY" towards Ah Yee...

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... PLOK!

And he landed on his head again..

But the brave boy just whimpered for a while.

Maybe I should buy him a pair of wings the next time he decides to repeat this stunt... ;)

The Many Antics of Sleeping Ace

Well, we know that growing babies are lots of fun because they often have many tricks up their baby sleeves.

Ace is starting to understand more about the world everyday and he is starting to have the ability to react to things that are happening around him.

It is little wonder that he has many tricks like pretending not to look at me when I say goodbye... like trying to jump off the chair (he would if he wasnt securely tied to it).

But who would have thought that this cute little baby can even come up with tricks and stunts even when he is sleeping??!!

Rolling off to sleep
The other day, Ace woke at around 6am to ask for milk. He climbed up from his crib to my bed and then started to suckle away. He suckled for very long and didn't seem satisfied. When I took away the nipple, he was quite upset and started to make noise...

So I put it back again...

Then all of a sudden, he pulled his mouth out, rolled over and FELL back onto his bed with a loud "PLOMP" and was asleep in that strange position. He wouldnt budge no matter how I nudged him and so I just left him in that position.

Sit and Reach
Then on a different occasion, Ace woke up suddenly (in the middle of a nightmare i assumed) and then cried and sat up on his own.. he continued to cry and cry until I walked over to him and asked him, "Why darling? What's wrong?"

Perhaps he felt safe after hearing mummy's voice and then he just toppled over from his sitting position into that sit and reach position and continued sleeping! Like that also can!

Babies really never cease to amaze me!

Ace goes swimming again!

We Won WW4!

World War 4 took place on 23 March during wee hours in the morning.

The result? Ace Chua signing peace treaty with his mummy, Angel, and peacefully sleeping at 5.30am.

For the first time in her life, Mummy Angel wanted to throw Ace into the rubbish bin or maybe just pack him up and keep him in the cupboard. She even contemplated just waking Daddy to pass Ace to him and then run away from home from this creature... this monster.. who just wouldnt let her rest.


It's 4am in the morning. I had an extremely long day and had been rather bz. I finally managed to rest only at 2am and when I was woken up at 4am by crying sounds of Ace, I just wished I could go back to sleep and ignore him.

Daddy had an extremely long week and was extremely tired. So, in order to protect Daddy and let him sleep better, I forced myself to open my eyes, sit up and carry Ace in my arms.

"What is it darling?" I asked him.. even though I knew his intent.

"Mummy rock you back to sleep okay? We will have no milk drinking tonight." And I started to rock him to and fro.

Ace started making muffled sounds and so I started to walk around and I started singing songs to him. Alas, he was getting more demanding...

If I stop walking, he cries...
If I stop singing, he cries...
If I stop rocking, he cries...

Finally, after 15 minutes of WALKING, ROCKING and SINGING, Ace decides to surrender and drifts off into lalaland.

I heave a sigh of relief and goes back to bed.

Two minutes later, I am woken up by the very familiar sound of Ace baby crying.

I repeat the process... I started to walk around and I started singing songs to him. Once and again..

If I stop walking, he cries...
If I stop singing, he cries...
If I stop rocking, he cries...

He finally sleeps after 15 minutes onli to wake 2 minutes after I put him back in his bed. The process repeats itself a good 5 times.

I told him that he is a good boy who cares for mummy and that mummy is really tired and would appreciated if he went back to sleep. Nope, that didn't work. He doesnt care a hoot about his mummy.. just his milk.

I then tried to appeal to his sympathy and empahty by asking him how would he feel if he were me. I described how the situation is making me feel and for extra measure, I tried to appeal to his fillial peity towards Daddy and asked him to sleep so that Daddy can have a good rest.

"Darn, who cares about your rest. I just want my milk!" he must be thinking cos it didnt quite improve the situation.

By that time, I was almost tearing hair out of my head. It didnt help that I had already been sleep deprived while training him to sleep without milk for the past few days. I was almost going insane and it is then when I started thinking funny ideas to amuse myself... After much contemplation, I decided that I probably could:
1) throw ace into the dustbin
2) wrap him up and keep him inside the cupboard
3) just throw him at Daddy, pack up and run away from home.. far far away from wailing babies

Anyway, I was starting to lose my patience. I decided to use a different strategy. I let him cry a while and let him play a while so that I could use up his energy and then when he seemed a little more sleepy, I told him, "Mummy is going to rock you one last time. If you don't sleep or stay asleep, I will leave you here and just go back to bed.. and I will ignore you..."

Finally... VICTORY at 5.30am. How did I know that I had won the battle? Well, he went all soft and wouldnt wake no matter how I nudged him or moved his limbs.

I put him back in his crib and dragged my tired torso back to bed. So angry at this baby. My mum and grandma keeps telling me tat Ace is a very good baby as compared to most children. I really pity the parents of children who are considered 'bad' babies...

Well, the enemy was good i tell you.... all he needed to do was to smile at me the next morning and all the anger melted away and is replaced with love...

Hao Lian Ace

Now.. we learn things from the people around us... I wonder how Ace learn to haolian... hahaha...
Me and daddy are not very boastful pple.. nor are we show offs...

But tat day.. when Ace woke up, he tried to crawl over to my bed. You see, since he kenna a BAO on his head, we have lowered his cot so tat he is sleeping on step lower than our bed.. and since he cannot climb steps or climb up yet.. when he is trapped in his cot, he is quite safe ;)

Anywayz, he woke up and as usual started talking to the pillow, talking to the fan beside the bed... and then suddenly he realised that I had woken up and was staring at him and climbed over...

Using my bed as a leverage, he started to stand up.. and then after he stood up, he stared at me.. gave me a very brilliant smile and with a haolian smirk on his face, he slowly took away one hand from the bed...

When he realised I was still looking at him... he slowly removed the other hand so tat he was standing without support... he lasted for like 3 seconds and sat down hard on his bum and then he would smile happily...

I started to praise him, "Wah.. baobei can stand.. so clever..." and clapped hard for him...

And then he had the, "i-know-i-am-very-clever" look and he started to repeat the process again and again and again and again and again... till his legs were tired.. hahahaha

I must say he is really cute when he does tat... I took a video clip of him.. but i dunno how to put it up here for your viewing pleasure.. so for those who are interested, email me.. give me your gmail acc n i will send the file to you...

Ace Claps!

Ah Yee's blog is called Clatzz Claps.

Maybe I should start calling this blog Ace Claps.. hahahahahah :)

That because Ace has finally started to clap! yeah!

For the past two weeks, I have been teaching Ace to clap... it all started with the Your Baby Can Read VCD.. cos it teaches the word "clap". So I always do the action of clapping whenever the word comes on the screen.

Sometimes when he does something clever, I will clap and say, "What a clever baby! See, mummy is clapping.. can you clap?"

But he usually ignores me when I do that.

About 2 days ago, he started clapping along.. but he usually does so maybe 1 minute after I have already stopped clapping.. hahaha... and he would all of a sudden clap... but he wouldnt clap when I ask him to. However, once he gets started, all you need to do is to praise him, "Oh.. so clever... what a clever boy.. wah.. so clever... you can clap!!" and in addition to clapping, he will also start to giggle and laugh and make some happy noises...

Today, however, he has started to clap when i ask him to. All you need to do is say, "Clap, baobei!" and start clapping and he will happily clap along...

So proud am I of my achievement that I am starting to teach him to:
- Wave hello and goodbye (he has been doing alot of waving of the arms anyway)
- high five
- kiss me (he obliges sometimes onli..)
- hug me

Waipo Teach Ace to Crawl

Waipo, as you already know, is a child care teacher.. she teaches Chinese in school...

However, at home, she not only teaches Chinese.. she also teaches Ace many other things.. one of it is HOW TO CRAWL.. hahahha...

The other day, Waipo was at my place... and I was happily checking my emails and stuff in the study room..and then I hear Waipo saying, "Come, come, follow me..."

And when I went out to the living room, I saw Waipo on all fours.. and Ace on all fours behind her.. Waipo would crawl a few steps.. use a storybook as a bait and ask Ace to, "come, come..follow me.... good boy..."

It was hilarious.

But I must say it is quite effective ;) hahaha.. Ace has been crawling around.. albeit a little unsteadily..

It also amuses me that the clever boy knows the diff between the hard floor and the soft mattress.. when he is on mattress..he crawls faster and will pounce forward.. but when he is on the hard floor.. he will slowly take his time to crawl and will go back to sitting position when he is tired to rest.. ;)

PS: I wrote tat entry about two weeks ago. I am happy to say tat Ace is already crawling quite steadily and he is now able to crawl to his toy box to grab his toys and play (I regret buying him a see through toy box..sigh...)

Love Bites

I have a love bite on my arm.... and nope, it is not given to me by my hubby... (though I suspect if I let him, he will happily make his claim and mark his territory.. hahaha)

So who else should be so honoured tat I let him bite me? That will be none other than my son, Ace.

Well, just the other day, I was carrying Ace and rocking him to sleep.. i think he was sleepy.. and maybe he was hungry as well.. he suddenly started to suck my arms with much aplomb and gosh.. did it hurt.. when I finally manage to pry his lips away.. there it was.. a huge red patch.. a sign tat my son loves me.. hahahahaha ;)

Daddy, do you want a love bite from Ace too?? ;)

Foot Fetish

Ace has a foot fetish...

At 3 months, he already liked to suck and eat his own toes.. now, he has already advanced furthur.. hahaha.. to wanting to eat MY TOES...

I dunno whether is it becuase I have bright red nails on my feet or he just loves feet.. everytime i carry him and sit down on his tilam, he will aim for my feet and crawl towards it. WHen he gets close enough, he will bend down and and try to suck my toes...

So to make use of his fascination with feet, i just place my feet somewhere and ask him to crawl there.. good training for his crawling..

Anywayz, Waipo just told me that he also likes to grab her toes and suck it.. so I guess it is not the red nail polish..

I wonder where he got this fetish from or where he learnt this from.. hmm...

PS: I changed my nail colour to a very dull shade of pink. Yesterday, he was playing on the floor and I was seated beside him.. he suddenly went towards my foot, aimed for my big toe and sucked on it!!!! What's wrong with my son???

Your Baby Can Read

I recently bought a set of VCDs that teaches babies how to read. It is called Your Baby Can Read. Based on the research of Dr Bob Titzer.. it is a video you watch with your child to teach him/her how to read. I actually quite regret buying so late.. cos the video says you can actually start from 3 month onwards... darn! should have started then...

THe video suggests letting your child watch like twice a day.. and says tat most children love to watch it again and again... however, Ace will only watch for like 2 minutes and his attention span ends.. he will start looking at other things and playing with other toys.. and will only pay attention during the song segment where they sing Twinkle Twinkle Little STar...

Or else, he will start to want to sleep and look really sian...

But i noticed a VERY STRANGE thing.. whenver the video ends and goes into the parent's segment where Dr Titzer starts to explain the what, how and whys... Ace will sit up straight and pay attention to EVERYTHING that is being said! I then emailed to Dr Titzer.. and the nice chap actually replied!

Here is his reply:

Angel, Hello.

In general, babies love watching our videos. I'm sorry that your son's interest is low at the moment. This sometimes happens for a month or so when the baby begins exploring more because he has learned to crawl or walk. I am surprised that he enjoys watching me!I recommend the following strategies..... I can't emphasize enough that this will work if you can find ways for him to see words while he hears them. Please keep me updated.

Dr. Bob Titzer

Anywayz, after showing Ace the VCD for about a mth or so.. he can now pay attention for like 20 minutes at one shot already.. he has also managed to learn how to wave and how to clap by watching the video...

I think he is starting to understand the meaning of words too.. this morning, I woke up and saw him standing by his cot next to the fan.. afraid tat he would put his finger in, I told him, "Ace, come here.." and then he crawled over.. after playing with him for a while, I turned over to rest and when I turned over, he was again at the fan...

"Yanfeng, guo lai.." he turned around and then happily crawled back to me... I feel tat he is starting to understand simple instructions like sit, stand, wait, no, yes, come, clap... so exciting.. wonder wat he will learn next! :P

Ace Has An Emporer Chair At Home Now

Remember my entry about Ace's Emporer Chair at his grandpa's place? He now also has one at our house ;) Courtesy of our friendly neighbour whom I dun even know her name.. i just call her Aunty...

Ace was crying and crawling around tat day and our neighbour who was about to go out saw him and said, "Hiya, my grandchildren is too big liao.. so got this chair I give to you, you let him sit.. then he wun anyhow crawl around when you do your housework..."

Wat a nice aunty...

In return.. I gave Aunty some food to eat.. hehehe ;) It is a great invention cos it is low.. when grandpa comes, he can sit down n play with Ace.. and Ace can sit and watch is YOur Baby Can Read VCD and not fidgit around...

Aunty is so clever.. even taught me to tie his legs to the chair so tat he wun raise it and try to stand up and topple over!

But even tat doesnt really stop him.. he will still try to climb out of the chair.. the other day.. he decided tat jumping will get him out of it and started jumping up and down in the chair.. and the chair just jumped with him.. sigh... Leng zhua is leng zhua.. leapord cannot change its spots.. leng zhua cannot change its scaley skin.. ;)

Vibrating Ace

Ace has this cute little toy that Megan Ganma bought for him. It is a little truck tat Vibrates when you pull on the orange thingy at the back and let go... Ace to only be able to slam it on the table when he played with it.

The other day, Ace was playing with it and so I demo to him how to pull the orange thingy and let go... he was very happy to see the truck vibrate.

"Now you try..." I told him.. And he started to pull the orange thing. Alas, Ace didn't know how to let go!? so the truck did not rumble...

After a while, I think he figured that if he moved, the truck might to.. so he started to VIBRATE HIMSELF.. hahahha.. I dunno how to describe it.. he didnt just move up and down or left and right.. he literally just vibrated! LIke a PHONE on vibrator mode!!! hahahahahhaha....

I Exchange With You

I really marvel at the fact that Ace understands the meaning of exchange even at such a young age of 8 months.

Just the other day, I woke up and realized that he was already awake. So I greeted him and smiled to him and he started talking to me and playing with me...

Then I grabbed his mini bolster and asked him, "Can you lend mummy your bolster?" And then i hugged it and pretend to sleep... "Your bolster smell very nice leh.. lend to mummy, ok?" (His bolster is really very sweet-smelling lor!)

At first he tried to grab it from me but my grip was too strong... and then he turned to the side and grabbed my bolster and hugged my bolster...

After a while, he pushed the big bolster to me.. and then he tried to grab his small one again.. hahaha.. he also knows how to exchange and bartar trade ah! I think he is made for business ;) Hmm.. daddy, we can get Ace to inherit our biz liao.. hahhaha....

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World War 3

last nite.. I tried to go to bed at 2am and my son woke up asking for milk.. as i wanted him to break this bad habit of waking at 2am for milk, i refused to give him milk.. and so we started WORLD WAR 3...

2-2.15am: Ace cry loudly non stop.. have never seen such a CHEONG HEI babie i my life.. can cry at the top of HIS lungs non stop one.. it's a miracle the whole blk 422 did not wake up....

2.15-2.30am: Daddy woke up and started to carry him and rock him (still refused to stop) and then Daddy said I should feed him milk cos he cannot bear to hear him cry like tat... i refused and daddy said, "But i have never seen my mum do this to my brother also..." I was very upset :S suddenly it is my fault like tat.. i also want him to keep quiet and if we can settle things peacefully, i also want mah.. but if i dun break this habit.. i am the one who is suffering leh... i need SLEEP.. and i need ONE STRETCH kind of sleep.. not sleep 8 hrs broken up into 2 hr naps.. I am not baby leh...

2.30-2.45am- : I ask daddy to go to bed and i take over carrying him...he start to quiet down and then by 2.45am, he seemed tired and fell asleep.. i tried to put him back to his bed and he WOKE UP and CRIED AGAIN...

2.45-3am- carry gim n rock him to sleep..

3-3.15am: he decides that he wants to play with his toys...

3.15-3.30: rubs eyes and rock him... closes his eyes..brings him into the room and wake again when he saw the baby poster in my room and starts TALKING LOUDLY to the POSTER!!! Wah lau!

3.30-4am:brings him back to the living room and tries to sooth him.. falls asleep.. wakes a little while later to whine.. and finally falls asleep for good after i sing him twinkle twinkle little star using different languages.... i think i sang the song about a hundred times!!!

PS: I woke up this morning nearly wanting to die.. cos he woke at 5.30 am to drink milk (too tired to fight with him at tat time).. and then again at 9 to drink again.. 10am he is up and playing with my foot and talking loudly to the fan.. why isnt HE tired?????

The Great Imitator

People always tell me to watch my actions and words in front of my son "Because you really dunno what he might pick up..."

So far, Ace has been unable to repeat anything I did.. when I clapped and asked him to clap.. he ignores me... or at best, smiles at me... when I wave and ask him to wave.. he smiles at me..

Yesterday, I left Ace in the care of Waipo and went to office for a short while..

My son was in a super good mood lor. He was smiley and active. The best part is that he only napped once for half an hour inthe afternoon.

When I came home, Waipo started to report to me about Ace's doings...

"Your son is very hyper today.." she says... and went on to described how he crawled all over the place and attempted to grab everybook tat came his way so tat he could tear out the pages...

"I fed him milk just now and got him to hold his own bottle..." Waipo told me proudly... before adding tat Ace managed to hold his bottle and drink till there was about 10% of the milk left inside and he probably became full and started to play with the bottle...

"He pulled the nipple in and out and kept laughing to himself.." she said...

And then when she tried to feed him water and let him hold the bottle himself, he took the nipple out, used his other hand to squeeze the nipple and squirt the water out while he opened his mouth to collect the water... once the water went into his mouth, he would slurp away happily and then laugh at himself..

I got a shock of my life as I listened because that is exactly what I do when I feed him water and he doesnt want to drink!

Ace has become the great imitator suddenly! Just in one day.. earlier on he imitated my "mmm mmm" sound with a crunched up face.. he imitated when waipo kicked her legs..

Okay people, no more nose digging.. no more swearing in front of my son! :) hahahahhah

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Rolling Shit...

Am sure you must have heard of the famous rock band, Rolling Stones...

So why is this entry named Rolling SHIT? No offense to the big stars... it is just named so because Ace managed to shit out a round ball of shit tat rolled around in his diapers!

Hahahaha... how cool is that?:P

(That's Ace acting as spokesperson for Fibre Plus.. a product I retail tat helps pple to SHIT easily.. muahahaha.. this picture helped me and my team sell $1040 worth of Fibre Plus for Charity within one day okie.. dun pray pray... )

Well, yday.. Ace was at Waipo's place mah.. so waipo fed him some veg for lunch. He usually has rice gruel or cereal for lunch one.. it is the first time he is taking so much vege..

Today, in the afternoon, Waigong asked me, "Ace shit is it? I can smell something smelly..."

I put my fingers into the waistband of the daipers and took a quick peek.. "Don't have leh..." I told him.. but I also smelt something smelly... so I put my fingers into the pants hole and pull them open to peep..but I still cannot see anything...

Finally, i opened the diapers out and saw a very round piece of shit.. rolling around.. muahahahaha..... ROLLING SHIT!

About an hour later, Laoma asked me, "Joo, is he shitting?"

Ace had his face all scrunched up. So I asked him if he was shitting and asked him to Jia You.. and then I demonstrate to him how to squeeze it all out by saying, "Mmmmm..." with my face scrunched up....

He concentrated and did it a few times and after a while, he started to say, "mmm..." in a sing song manner as if he was imitating me instead of really shitting..

When i opened up his diapers, i noticed that he had a HUGE pile of shit! And it was all green, leafy VEGETABLES! hahhahhahhaa....

Heng Ace is a vegeterian like ME.. dunno whether he will shit DUCK or shit CHICKEN if he eat meat or not.. hahahhahaha....

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Ace Has Fallen In Love!!!

Gosh, am i worried!

Ace has fallen in love.. with something pink.. furry... and smiley...

Yeap.. it's a CHEER BEAR... tat's the pink carebear with a rainbow on his tummy... Ah yee's bear..

For some unknown reason.. he will smile whenever he sees that bear. If he cries or is upset, just give him that bear and he will be "CHEERED" and smile.

We have lots of soft toy at home but he seems to only like this bear and so I am a little worried. Cos the bear is PINK in colour.. hahaha.. I certainly dun want my son to become a sissy :P

I have tried showing him all sorts of soft toys. Pink ones without the rainbow.. care bears of other colours.. etc just to try to ascertain what is it about cheer bear that attracted him so much.. (is it the colour, the rainbow on the tummy or is it the smiley face on the bear) and we have come to a conclusion that it is the conbination all things...

Because he loves the bear so much, ah yee said she will buy him one for him to play with. Alas, poor Ace has no affinity with the bear... when we tried to shop for a nice carebear for him.. we only found either:
- carebears with measels and leprosy (okay, it's care bear with leapord spots.. but lookes like leprosy or measels to me)
- carebear with super big heads and small bodies (looks like aneroxic bear)
- care bears with strange outfits

Sigh.. dunno wat the toy makers were thinking... In the end, we went home empty handed... i guess we will just make do with him playing with the bear whenever he comes over to waipo's house...

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Yeye Nanny

Yeye plays nanny for one afternoon today and did a great job! *applause*

Well, on Vday, I received a call early in the morning from Yeye telling me tat Nainai is not working today.. so she wanted to see and play with Ace...

As I was at my mum's place tat day (Max was sailing and will be back in the evening), I decided to leave Ace with my MIL when max come back so tat we can have some quiet time together and celebrate our Vday ;)

When we reached Nainai house, Yeye had already gone to work.. so he din get to meet him..

Anywayz, just when we were about to go home after our rendevouz (shhh.. dun ask us wat we did.. it's a SECRET!!), Nainai called us and asked for HELP!

Apparently, seperation anxiety had striked again and Ace was crying and crying and crying non stop. No matter wat nainai did.. he just wouldnt stop! WHen we reached and I carried him, he just hugged me very tight... erm... my fault.. I forgot to tell him that we were going out for a few hours and coming back for him later.. somehow.. whenever I forget to tell him tat.. he gets cranky.. when i do remember, he is okie...

So by the time Yeye reached home, Ace was back home with us as well...

This means tat Yeye has not seen Ace for like 2 weeks... Today, after his doc appt, Yeye came to visit Ace. Since it was lunchtime, i asked Yeye if he wanted to feed Ace.. he gladly agreed...

He looked so happy while he fed Ace and he told me that this is the first time he is feeding a baby.. cos when Max and WIlson were babies, he was bz making money and rarely had time at home to play with them or even feed them ;)

Anywayz, Yeye gets a 8/10 for feeding skills... Ah Yee, you gotto jia you orh ;) you got more chance to practice but still do worse.. hahahaha ;)

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Ma Yi On My GGJ!

I have declared WAR with all the ants in my house!

Since my confinement, there have been ants attacking my house... tat's cos confinement nanny said that my pipe did not flow properly and instead of fixing it and telling us.. she just removed the bottom and collected the water with a pail and then throw the water from the pail into the bathroom...

This has somehow attracted alot of ants. In addition, there is this pipe thingy outside my bathroom that has a little hole in it. In the morning.. nothing happens.. but at nite.. the ants will gather together and hold a party right outside the hole... (still waiting for grandpa to bring the putty to seal up the hole)

I am a buddhist so most of the time.. unless the ant comes near me or irritates me, i just let it be as I dun want to kill more lives...

Some of them manage to, however, travel all the way across the kitchen into my living room and when tat happens, too bad for the ant cos I will sure to kill it in case it gets to Ace.

I was just reading an email that day (dunno true or false though) about how some ants crawled into a child's ears and end up building a colony inside the brain. The child died in the end.. so scary...

And I decided that it is either I am cruel and protect my baby or I am lenient and harm Ace indirectly...

What made me decide even more firmly to kill all ants I see is what happened yesterday..

Yesterday, me and Daddy were in a hurry to go out.. Ace had poot poot and as I was halfway through making up, i told him to wait for a while before I come and help him with his pampers...

He seemed to understand and was quietly waiting.. all of a sudden, he started to be really unhappy and started to whine and whine and whine.. and when I unwrapped his diapers, I found an ANT on his SCROTUM!

I immediately crushed that darned ant with my fingers!

At this point, Daddy came and asked, "Why is he whining so much?"

"WOuld you whine or feel comfortable if there is an ant on your GGJ?" I asked Daddy...

Luckily the ant did not bite Ace.. if not..he would die a death worse than giant fingers crushing him! :) humph!

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Yeye, I Dun Wanna Become Stupid

Dearest Yeye,

Mummy is very tired cos yday she was bz last nite and so here I am to take over here today...

YeYe, I know you love me and love mummy very much too.... I hope you not angry at wat mummy did that day...

I loved it when you and Nainai feed me toufu... even though it was late and Mummy actually did not want me to eat too much too late at night, she knew you were happy to feed me and so she just gave a go ahead...

But being able to feed me toufu is not equivilent to being able to feed my ANYTHING..

Yeye, why did you feed me beer? Yes, I know it is just one sip.. but it is a parenting issue that Mummy is very sensitive on... cos mummy read that alchohol will actually make the baby's brain slow and stupid... I am sure you dun want me to become stupid right? ;)

Pls forgive mummy for saying that if you feed me again, she will never bring me to visit you. She did not mean any harm.. she just wanted to protect me. She knew that if she said it out, she would make you unhappy or even angry.. but given a choice, she chose to protect me and make you unhappy even though she also respects and loves you very much.. i feel that she is a great mummy, don't you?

Anyway, Yeye.. i like visiting you and like to play with you.. and I know mummy means what she says.. so please dun feed me anymore alchohol okie???

Love you deep deep,
Ace

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