Had loads of fun making this!

Saw this on Scrapbook Inspirations, just had to try it. Took 2 days (with interruptions by the boys) and yeah! Did it! Tho' the actual product is actually a lot messier than how it looks on the photo!!

Kiefer sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

M: Twinkle Twinkle little star, how I wonder what you...

F: Ah..!!!

M: Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky, twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you...

F: Ah..! 

M: :P :P

And oh yes, his 2 front teeth have appeared!! =|3

Fun in the sun!

Just got back from Melaka. We stayed at the Hotel Equatorial and the boys had a really great time frolicking in the hotel pool till they are all brown and toasty. Talk about being the TAN family!! =P

Stuff we did:

Eating...

More eating...

 

Some sightseeing..

Caricature drawing...

More eating...

Lots of swimming...

And homeward bound..

Weekend activities

It's been a really long time since we've gone swimming! Kiefer has even forgotten about the pool and he yelled his head off when we dumped him in!! =P Still after 5mins or so, he thoroughly enjoyed himself in there. And yes, today is Melaka day!! More sun and fun!!

And this is Kiefer's latest love...

We are going Melaka tomorrow!!

Holidays have come (and they are going really soon too..). With H1N1 everywhere, we cannot really go anywhere far and so we've decided to go Melaka again! Somehow, hubby and I love this small little historical town. Not there we really go and appreciate its history or anything, we simply love the simple short road trip out of Singapore. I really look forward to eating, eating and more eating. And hopefully, this time around, we'll get to use the hotel's pool, especially now that Kieran is skipping his afternoon naps already.

Holidays are finally here!!

Yes, it's ONE week into the June hols already! Cliche, but yes, time flies when you are having fun! So what have we been doing the past week? We've been revamping the study again. Not really a big revamp but we've added shelves in front of our tables to create more space. Ok, mine was to create more table space, hubb's to keep Kieran off his things on the table! :P

Some updates on the boys:

Kieran:

He is starting to go off diapers. He'll ask to "wear briefs" when we go out. He is not very good and letting us know that he wants to go to the toilet yet, but if we remember to keep bringing him to the toilet every hour or so, we usually do not get any accidents. :) He usually wakes up in the morning with his diaper fairly dry. If we put on his diaper just before he sleeps, the diaper is usually dry when he wakes and he'll ask to go to their toilet.

On the language front, he is getting very good at listening and expressing what he wants. Sometimes while we are talking in the car and we think that he is just dazing or looking outside the window, he'll suddenly repeat something that we were talking about! Thus we really try to be careful with the words we use these days. Yes, the expletive.  He actually used Fxxx couple of weeks back! I'm glad that we caught it early and he now knows that he cannot use naughty words. Actually for awhile, he says, "Mummy, cannot say Fxxx!" whenever he remembers that he was scolded for saying it. It was so funny and yet we could not laugh in front of him! Other than that, he is now really good. Like this morning, the I woke him up to change him to go out. As I was putting him in a shirt (he usually wears tshirts), he said "no school today." (cos his school uniform is a shirt and shorts). I said, "yes, no school.", and he asked, "where we going?". We are a long way from last time where everything was "nah. eh." :D We are so glad that Kieran is really improving by leaps and bounds since he started school. Of course, he is going into his terrible threes too!! (another post for another day.. again.)

On Kiefer:

He is such an adorable toddler now. He is getting more steady on his legs and can freestand for about 1s or so when he forgets and lets go of his grip. He is independent (when he wants to be), smacks his Kor Kor when Kor Kor take toys away from him :P and yells really loud when he wants something. And yes, this little fella has quite a temper. Whenever his is unhappy with something, he'll pout and do his "phoooooopht" thingy!! And he'll show his indignant face. On fours, he's a mean moving machine!! :P He moves around the house with great speed and yes, his favourite spot in the house? That'll be at near the main door, next to the shoe cupboard and eating shoes!! :P

Kieran is 3!!

Time flies when we are having fun! Kieran is already 3 years old!! In this one year, his speech and vocabulary has improved by leaps and bounds. He now uses phrases (and even slangs!) :P and yes, he knows expletives as well (and that's a story for another day!).

Here's a photo update of Kieran's 3rd year:

Kiefer is ONE!!

Yes, our little baby is growing up! He is now cruising all over the place and also starting to have some speech development. Here's some updates:

Speech/ language:

• a-oh.. (*hello*) with hands/remote/ phones to his ears
• eh.eh..eh..eh.. means he wants something or go somewhere
• get!/ duck! Don't know what this means, but the duck usually comes after a sneeze
• recognises some pictures like "duck, dog"

Dexterity:

• cruising very well, can free stand for 1s sometimes
• crawls really fast
• still puts everything into his mouth

Feeds:

• Direct BM 3x a day (6am, 6pm, 9pm)
• 1 120ml EBM (9am) + 1 120ml FM (230pm) Enfagrow
• breakfast - 1 scoop of cereal
• lunch & dinner - usually porridge with vegetables and fish/ tofu (1/2 - 3/4 rice bowl full)
• biscuits in between meals

Naps (Weekdays):

• Leaves the house at 630am, usually continues to sleep after reaching IL's place till about 830am
• Nap at about 10 till 11ish
• Nap after lunch till about 3pm (or whenever we fetch him)
• *if we are early, nap at about 3ish till dinner time at home
• Sometimes an evening nap before dinner (about 1/2 -1hr)

Naps (Weekends):

• Wakes at about 9am
• Naps at 11 till lunch (or no nap till after lunch)
• Afternoon nap from about 3-5ish
• Bedtime at about 930-10pm

Kiefer's 1st birthday!

Our little boy just turned 1 over the weekend! Yes! Our little May Day baby! Here are the highlights!

Ton Thomas!

M: What do you want to watch?

K: Ton thomas

M: Thomas?

K: ton thomas

M: thomas?

K: Ton-toh-mas! (to the melody of "Transformers!)

so it was Transformers.. and not thomas!! hee.

What a week(s)!

Everything started with Kieran being a little sick, then me coming down with a bad case of cough and cold and losing my voice and then Hubby with the hearing problem. Then Kiefer got a viral infection somehow last weekend and had high fever all through the weekend. The fever only abated after about 3 days and right now, he is still recovering from the post-viral rash! (and yes, hopefully everything subsides by tomorrow! It's our little baby's 1st birthday tomorrow!! :D) We simply went through cycles of being sick, recovering partially and falling ill again. :(

However, the most 'memorable' incident to happen this week would really be the one where Kieran puked right onto Daddy's face! I think he was nursing a mild flu bug (that was barely noticeable except for the lousy appetite) at that time. He was just finishing up his milk when he suddenly complained that he had a tummyache. As I was trying to get Kiefer to sleep at that time, I called for the Daddy to come in to take him to the toilet. The Daddy carried him and without any warning, from the corner of my eye, I saw this projectile spray coming out from Kieran and onto Daddy's face!! The next thing I saw was Daddy's face (nose, mouth, everything), shirt was covered with puke. The sheets got it, the floor had it, the comforter was also marked. In the end, both father and son simply marched off to the bathroom and hosed down. And me? I had to strip everything and start the laundry going at 10pm at night! It took 3 loads of laundry to get everything cleaned! Also, I had to mop the floor too! After this entire episode, all Kieran said was "Mummy, Yakult please?" :P

PS: it was such a Kodak moment, but if I were to go get the camera instead of attending to them, I was sure to get an earful!! :P

hate these bugs..

We just can't seem to shake off this virus/bacteria/mycoplasma thingy that is plaguing us. I lost my voice about 2 weeks ago and never really got it back. Now I am down with a runny nose and sore eyes again. Going to see a doctor later and just stay home.

Hubby also has some hearing problems that the ENT doctors do not know what it is. He is on loads of meds to tackle possible viral infection or hydrops (which is what we are hoping). He's gone for a CT scan and thank god everything came back fine. The meds are working but really slowly. The pressure in the ear comes and goes and he is still having tinnitus. We just hope that everything goes away.

Kiefer is 11 months old!

That's the funny face that he does now when the camera is pointed in his face. Haha.. he looks like he is in agony or something. But trust me, he IS smiling. :P

Updates:

• definitely cruising
• stands up with support very well, in fact, he requires minimal support when standing. sometimes he simply needs to 'touch' something to stand up
• hearty eater. can finish an entire rice bowl of porridge with meat/fish/tofu + 2 cubes of vegetables
• has 1 bottle of formula (enfagrow) on most days
• crawls quickly (esp where there is food or remote control)
• very vocal. will yell/whine for what he wants. try being feeding him too slowly, he'll yell to be fed
• does hello, big kiss, clap hands, shake hands, smack (when naughty), blows raspberry bubbles,  pray (puts his hands together), points at things
• still puts everything into his mouth
• has some idea of object permanence. he knows that the remote control is hidden away and not simply disappeared. will sometimes look under the pillows for the remotes.
• loves his pacifier very much still. we don't usually bring it out with us, but once we get home and he sees it, he'll put it into his mouth. he's not obsessively sucking it when awake, but when sleeping, it sometimes doesn't fall out of his mouth for the entire night
• He still gets awful mozzie bites that swell and blisters. Hopefully he outgrows that. His legs are quite ugly with all the mozzie scars. Each time he gets bitten, the bites swell and when they subside, they leave behind a darker patch (like a blue-black bruise). :(

naughty vs happy?

When Kieran is asked if he is naughty, he'll sometimes go "not naughty, happy!" He seems to think that 'happy ' is the opposite of 'naughty'. Wonder where he got that. Anyway, he is really getting quite naughty these days. He'll always take toys/books/things away from Kiefer, even though he is not interested in playing with them. He says that it's 'sharing' but in actual fact, his 'share' means he gets to hold the item. Very often, he also tries to carry Kiefer or attempts to stop him from holding on to drawer handles/ tables for support (when Fer tries to stand up). I don't know if he is doing so cos he feels that Kiefer will fall or he is just being naughty. Whatever the case is, it usually results in Kiefer falling down. :( Goodwill aside, there ARE incidences where he would purposely bully Kiefer. Just an hour ago, he waited for Kiefer to put his fingers near the drawers and then tried to close the drawers on Kiefer's fingers. That happened even tho Daddy told him not to do that. :( I think he is really trying to get attention but that is just so wrong. We really have to find a way to manage that!! I think we have to stop yelling at him/ smacking him cos he imitates our behaviour. He smacks Kiefer and yells at him cos we do that. :P However, sometimes that's our first reaction cos we are not near enough and we yell to get their attention. Gotta reflect on that.

Some great updates tho'. Kieran's language is improving again. He uses phrases like "it's not yours, it's mine!" (yes, when it comes to things that he wants) and he can express quite a lot nowadays. He is able to tell you what he wants (or doesn't want). Now we don't have to second guess him as often as we used to. Language-wise, he really has come a very long way. He now just has to improve on his bad behaviour!!

Well, we think we are entering the TERRIBLE THREES!

Trying to potty train Kieran

We can't say that we are really training him and we can't say that we are not either. Here's what we've been doing for the last week. 

At Grandparents:

He wears briefs and they are supposed to ask him to go toilet every 1/2h. When I was there in the afternoon, he usually has pee if he is asked to go toilet. But if we forget to ask, he will not say and he will go in his briefs.

At home,

In diapers, cos mummy has no time to clean up pee pee messes. But when he says that he wants to "poot poot" I will quickly bring him to the potty and he goes in there. And he's really cute, he'll go "Tada!" when he sees the poop in the potty. haha!! And then he'll ask for a star for his "Kieran is a Good Boy" chart! :D

Day at the Flyer.. again.. (P1)

 

Kieran finally sat on his own for a haircut!! No crying, no whinning. In fact, he was really happy to get his hair cut!! We've come a long, long way!!!

Since we had the Family Pass for the Singapore Flyer, we went there a couple more times this holiday. (We are at ride #12 already!!) Brought along out Nikon today and thus, some nice photos for memories (and scrapbooking!! :D)

 
 
 

Day at the Flyer.. again..

 

This kinda sums up our day at the Flyer!
 

C is for cookie...

It's the hols (and it's finishing soon.. :() and so we've got time to do stuff! Baked a bunch of chocolate chip cookies with Kieran last night. Yummy!! Kieran helped in the creaming and the folding and the scooping of the mixture onto the baking sheet! Yummy yum yum!

  

Kiefer is 10 months old!!

Another 2 more months and we'll be celebrating this little fella's 1 year old birthday!! Yay!

An update of the things he can now achieve:

• Crawl (belly up) all over the house
• Pulls himself up to a standing position, as long as he has something to grab on to
• Start cruising a little
• claps hands on demand (he could do this since he was about 8+ mths. Can't remember if I blogged about it.)
• waves goodbye (whole arm movement)
• says "alouw.." (*hello*) with his hand to his ears!! (in a low voice) :P

I've also started a little meat (pork) in his diet and am going to try beef later today. 

Kieran says...

in the car...

mummy: later you finish nai nai you gotta go sleep ok?

kieran: no. kieran work!

mummy & daddy: *eyebrows moved up* :D

mummy: do you have work to do?

kieran: *seriously nodding head* Yes. 

hahaha...