National Day Sing-A-Long (or "Pore")

Today is National Day, and Lleyton is super hyped up about it. He started screaming and dashing around the house with delight and excitement from dawn. He is not letting his spirits and energy level down, even when Mummy tries to put him to sleep for his afternoon nap.

The amazing thing about Lleyton for this National Day is that he has learned to take part in the sing along.
Mummy: Count on me Sing...
Lleyton: Ah Por (he meant "..apore")
Mummy: Count on me Sing...
Lleyton: Ah Por (he meant "..apore")
...

Hopefully, Lleyton will have learnt more songs come Singapore's 45th birthday.

Ready for the long weekend of National Day

Lleyton was all ready for his first celebration in the Singapore 44th National Day in school! Dressed in his red and white attire (a gift from Auntie LL), he looked so cheery in the morning and welcoming the day of the celebration.

Upon arrival at the school, he took a few shy shots with his classmate, Shanice. Indeed, he often takes a long time to warm-up before he is willing to offer his mega-watt smile. (If you look closely enough, you will see a small scratch on his cheeks. According to his teacher, he was bullied in school by another boy who pinched him on his face while they were having their milk). In school, they watched some performance and were each given a goodie-bag.. and one of the items (grape-biscuits) was contributed by Daddy and Mummy.

After school, Lleyton dropped by Mummy's office for the first time. Her colleagues were pleased to see him and he seemed to be rather at ease with the surroundings, touching Dawn's jie jie keyboard and drawers.

Thereafter, Daddy and Mummy proceeded to Vivo to have their dinner where Lleyton had a great feast of fishballs, noodles and thick toast at the "Central" Restaurant. Next stop was Giant - where they bought a 5-tier Toyogo storage cabinet to store more BB stuff. They also bought a box fan for the new domestic helper and stocked up on more groceries. Even though Lleyton fell asleep on the way back, he woke up again upon reaching home and decided to spend the night with Daddy and Mummy till 11+, knowing that it'll be a long weekend for all. That probably could justify why Mummy had to give up her movie date with the rest of her colleagues.

All about shopping

A friend of Mummy was commenting that she feels out of touch with the various pregnancies topics and was not up-to-date with the current "fashion" for mummies.

Mummy introduced her to the Motherhood forum website where she could make online purchases, including bulk purchase, overseas sprees and how she may be able to get good deals for family photoshoots, pregnancy or newborn photos. She was glad that the friend seemed to enjoy the "shopping" experience.

Even Auntie LL and Auntie LM seemed to get hooked to making purchases over the internet. Auntie LL bought some jibbtiz from gmarket and also some clothes for her kids. Wow.. suddenly both aunties have become more "hip"!

Meanwhile, Mummy has stopped shopping online for awhile.. not to mention real shopping. The last purchase (excluding grocery shopping) was about a month ago during the GSS, where she accompanied the same friend to shop for some kids' stuff. This time, Mummy decided to make an exception and bought some newborn clothes, occupying part of Lleyton's existing wardrobe. Guessed that's about all for now.. the rest can come later via online shopping again :)

Another not so recent wedding

Just another wedding quite some time back attended by the family... decided to snap a few shots with lil' cheeky Lleyton since he seemed so excited about going out.

He behaved relatively well and enjoyed the first few courses of the dinner. However, even though the courses were served at a relatively fast pace, the wedding dragged quite a bit due to the long slideshows and "games" meant for the bride and groom throughout the dinner. Can you imagine the tables were served dessert yet the relatives have not even taken the table photo-shot? Some kind of coordination..

As usual, Lleyton fell asleep only in the car on the way back. A late night for all.

At Auntie Yvonne's Wedding

Last Saturday, Lleyton accompanied Daddy to Auntie Yvonne's wedding. He was generally well behaved, and "entertained" Daddy's classmates throughout the dinner. However, that outing took a lot out of him, and he collapsed from fatigue the moment Daddy placed him in his car seat. He slept soundly the entire night.

Lleyton's First Project Assignment

Lleyton has an assignment to complete by the end of this week! He was given a note with instructions and it was to be completed with the parents' help. Mummy quickly sought help from Ah-Ma to obtain the various types of seeds / bean and got ready the stickers and container.

On her half day leave, she brought Lleyton home earlier from school so that he can start on his project. Lleyton was very hands-on throughout the assignment and carefully dropped the beans into the container. He chose his favourite character stickers and stuck them on the container.

Here's the final product! Applause please!

A Day Out on Fathers' Day

Poor Daddy did not receive any self-made Father's Day gift from Lleyton as he was away from school. To make up for this, Daddy planned himself a day out with Lleyton (with all expenses on Mummy) early in the morning of the special day.

They set off to Orchard for a leisure stroll and had breakfast at Paragon. What a lovely sight!

Lleyton has also started to learn his manners of "Please" and "Thank you", after constant reminders from Mummy.

The sickly episode

Some nasty bacteria / virus has hit Lleyton for the past few weeks. It wasn't too bad initially as all he had was fever for a day or two, coupled with running nose and cough.

Before he fully recovered from the first bourse, another episode hit him badly this time, sending him on a "3D 2N weekend stay" at KKH.

It started off with high fever, which did not really subside after 5 days. After some deliberation, Daddy agreed that they should visit KKH A&E just to get him a proper diagnosis and the right medication. Mummy steadily packed his overnight bag as she suspected that he may be admitted. Surprisingly, she wasn't panicky nor fearful when the doctor suggested immediate admission. He was diagnosed with Pneumonia after a full blood test count and a chest X-ray. A secondary condition of Anemia was also detected. After they "checked" themselves into a "luxurious" deluxe room, the doctor on duty made his rounds and examined Lleyton one more time. He was then placed on a course of stronger antibiotics which sent him off to dreamland.

Lleyton's condition improved over the next 2 days as his fever had gone down. However, his lack of appetite persisted. He was on a self-imposed liquid diet which comprise of milk and juices. When he was discharged, he was given 8 days MC and to continue with his medication. Sure enough, he is exempted from school and now he is well!

Sending Ah-Gong off at the airport

Ah Gong was flying off to Vietnam for holiday. The whole family arranged to send him off since the plan was to hibernate at Auntie LL's place in the east for the rest of the day.

Nothing exciting there for the kids so just some shots while waiting around...

Compare against the pic taken of them last August in Macau. How much they have grown!

A night at Conrad

A colleague commented that the blog hasn't been updated as regularly as it used to be. This was probably attributed to Daddy's busy night schedule and weekends, while Mummy has to spend most of her free time running after Lleyton or catch up on her work or household chores.

Nevertheless, there were some photos taken randomly to reflect the daily events that happened throughout the one month. Let's start with the night at Conrad Centennial:

Daddy's 3-day work event required him to spend those nights at Conrad Centennial. Mummy and Lleyton decided to pop by on his final night at his room, and went on with their own shopping agenda.

Upon seeing the different environment, Lleyton got all excited and started exploring the items in the room, including switches, lights, note pad, telephone and drawers. He even ventured into the spacious bathroom, attempt to throw things into the bathtub and helped himself onto the weighing scale.

After Lleyton explored the hotel room, Mummy decided to bring him out for dinner. They settled for Kenny Roger's before shopping around Marina Square. However, she did not have the luxury to shop peacefully as Lleyton was hooked to the Barney car ride (oh btw, he likes to sayang Barney tummy and says Mei-mei)!

They proceeded back to the hotel after Lleyton fell asleep in his stroller and had a good rest that night. Next morning, Mummy and Lleyton went for breakfast at BK.. here's the sleepy little prince!