Our Baby Princes and Princess

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Chinese New Year 2010!

It's Chinese New Year 2010! Daddy & Mummy will have their annual family photo shoot...this year, Leanne is now part of the party. Here's the family portrait for 2010 CNY!

Lleyton Swinging Again, Leanne too!

Just as Lleyton had the chance to, Leanne was given her first chance at playing with the Swing when she's three months old!
Watch her swing...

Lleyton had lots of fun on the swing too, and he certainly loved it a great deal. This was at a swing near home, as Daddy has decided to bring Lleyton and Leanne to try out this swing. The impetus was a uptick in the surrounding's cleanliness, as the the nearby park's construction is now complete, thus the area is now much cleaner.

Home with the Kids

Lately, Mummy have been rather busy at work, especially after her return to work after Maternity leave. In contrast, Daddy has a lot more time with the kids, now that he has completed his MBA. Hence, there are many days where Daddy is home with Leanne and Lleyton. The pictures here are taken on a Friday evening.

The following Morning, Mummy was again at work, and Daddy brought the kids out to play...literally, play! They shopped around Vivocity, but all (not most, but literally all) the shops are closed. So Daddy brought Lleyton and Leanne to the play area on level two, where Lleyton can have some fun. The video below depicts Lleyton's zeal in playing with the slide.

Ready...Let's Go!!!

Hiking Resumed (with Leanne also)

Daddy had decided that Leanne is old enough to start going on hikes. Hence, the family resumed their hiking...this time with both Leanne and Lleyton.

Here is a shot of Daddy with Lleyton and Leanne, not too long after starting on the hike. The route started from the back gate round to SINDA, down Lavender Street, through King George Road to reach Lavender MRT. Using the underway, the family crossed over to the ICA building, before making their way to the food market beside SouthBank. The entire leg took close to an hour.

Breakfast was taken at the food market, before the return leg through the new PA HQ and Jalan Besar Stadium. Enroute back, Daddy bought Lleyton a waffle, which Lleyton proudly carried all the way back. He was so gallant in protecting his waffle that he held onto the bag, even when he fell and hurt his finger. Brave boy!

This hike is one of several that was taken recently, including another along Jalan Besar to have Tim Sum, and a third to have Chicken Rice (Porridge) along Balestier's Loy Kee.

Chinese New Year is round the corner. Hopefully, the hiking can resume after the festivities... :)

Friday, January 15, 2010

Made it finally...

Mummy finally made her way out to Orchard herself with Leanne! That was after much contemplation as there was this jacket that she saw at Uniqlo but didn't get it the other day at Ion. She decided on 313 Somerset as it was probably one of the last chances that she could sneak out to town before she returns to work.

Yes, going back to work. That will be 3 days from today. As much as she misses her colleagues (okay.. maybe not the work but the "qian bian" questions over coffee after lunch), there is still this reluctance and unable to accept that she had utilised 3.5 months of leave. The satisfying part was of course how she was able to watch Leanne grow over the past few months from a petite baby to a rather chubby one. This was unlike Lleyton's time when she had to go back to work when he was only 1.5 months old.

Back to the shopping bit, Leanne suddenly decided that she wanted to do her 'business' while Mummy was making payment at the counter, and started crying. Mummy had to quickly locate the Parents' Room to change her and nurse her thereafter. Even though it was a short 2 hours trip out, it was sufficient to make it a fulfilling day. Here are some pics taken at the nursing room of 313 Somerset and the MRT.

After the late morning/noon event, Mummy went for her appointment with Auntie LM for some further upkeeping activities and more shopping!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Family trip to Malacca

The family's on the move again! This time was a driving trip to Malacca and A'Famosa Resort with Leanne. It was Leanne's first overseas trip! First stop was the famous Chicken Rice Balls at the Malacca, followed by Ice Cold Chendol and Ice Kachang.

The night was spent at Cowboy Town, in which the folks caught a 4D movie "Underwater World". Lleyton sat quietly throughout the whole show and not stirred at all even when the seats shook vigourously. Then the family proceeded for dinner followed by the Red Indians show and the Carnival Parade. Leanne sat through the whole Red Indians show, but fell asleep after that. The highlight was of course the fireworks display. In fact, that was the first time seeing fireworks so up close! It was fantastic!

The next morning, the family had breakfast at the Animal World Safari before going for the Elephant Show. Daddy bought a bunch of bananas for Lleyton to feed the elephants. However, Lleyton was so traumatised by the elephant who used its trunks to touch him that he kept saying "scared scared" after that and refused to take any rides nor go near the elephants. Daddy decided that he will bring Leanne to take photos with the elephants instead.

Next was the Safari truck ride. Daddy was educating Lleyton on the animals which were close to the truck. Lleyton was excited on seeing the live animals which looked different from those that he has seen on story books, especially on the size!

Mummy took a photo with Lleyton and Leanne after the Bird Show. See how Lleyton tried to imitate the flamingoes by raising one of his legs! After the shows, he was so thrilled!

The last event before the family left the Animal World was the visit to the Chicken Farm! Lleyton and Daddy had a great time feeding the little chicks. Lleyton was careful not to step on them, so most of the time he had his two legs curled up against Daddy.

Back at the villa, the folks had a dip in the private pool in the backyard. Then they proceeded to the sports centre to have a game of paintball and archery. Even Lleyton had a go at it!

After a long day at the resort, Daddy drove the family out to the Tampin town area for KFC. That night, Daddy and Mummy had a great game of Gin Rummy with Ah Gong and Ah Ma after waiting for the 2 kids to knock out.

It was indeed a great trip!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Additions to the corridor

Daddy and Mummy decided that it was about time to do up the piece of empty wall which has been sitting along the corridor for the past 4 years. Previously, the corridor only had the photo montage of Daddy and Mummy's wedding photo shoot, thus it is about time that the photos of Lleyton and Leanne are also framed up as part of the family!

After the visit to Uncle Alex's and Auntie Hester's house, they proceeded to Ikea to get frames and HP Print the next day to get the work started without any hesitation.