Role Model

Being the youngest in the family, Jared tends to pick up some good or bad habits from us, especially from his jie jie. We noticed that whenever Emily screamed for what so ever reason, he will sure to follow suit. Each time jie jie dances her ballet steps, he will dance too. And when she plays piano, he will try to imitate her fingering movements too. Don't they both look adorable playing the piano together ? :)

Happy Father's Day

This post is to pay tribute to all the wonderful "Daddies" out there, especially to my darling hubby. Appreciate all the sacrifices that you have made to spend time with the kids. Thanks for being the SUPER DADDY to Emily and Jared.

Emily has also secretly made a greeting card for daddy, she is very eager to give daddy the card after finish decorating it but I told her it will have to be a surprise for daddy on the actual day.

Last weekend we already had a Father's Day lunch at Sarkies Corner with my dad and mum. Will probably have a simple meal tomorrow with hubby and kids.

......HAPPY FATHER"S DAY....

Holiday Activity

The two weeks school holidays will be ending real soon. This time around we did not bring her for any outings or holidays due to our busy schedule. sob.. sob...

Instead we took the opportunity to bring her to watch Toy Story 3 yesterday with another friend whose daughter is also her good friend. As we do not watch movie that frequent, she was really excited about it. Hubby and I had to take a day off as it was a working day and we can't watch on a weekend due to Jared is still too young to watch a movie.

It is a good movie, very entertaining and hilarious. All of us enjoyed ourselves very much. After the movie, we headed for dinner before leaving to pick up Jared from his babysitter's place.

Jared At 13 months.

Weight : Did not weigh, but can see that he is growing.

Teeth : 7 incissors ( 4 top and 3 bottom). Did not see any new ones growing.

Developments:

• He can walk really fast now, which means he is on his feet most of the time, I wonder why he never got tired :)
• Loves to climb up our bed and coach and knows how to get down on his own with his buttock going down first.
• Able to stack his mega blocks but still not having enough strength to push 2 blocks together
• Throws tantrums on the floor if he doesn't get what he wants or things that he likes are taken away from him.
• If he sees me or hubby hugs Emily, he will come to us immediately and wants to be hug too.
• Occasionally, he will say "dow" when I say "".
• Throws away his drinking bottle/cup when he doesn't want to drink anymore
• Sometimes when I was busy doing somethings, and I asked him to go read his books, especially his Barney storybooks, he will go to take his book and flip the pages.
• Able to follow my instruction when I asked him to pick up his socks and put them into a bag.
• Yet to call Mummy or Daddy :(
• He is very stingy in waving goodbyes.
• Whenever any of us left the house without him, he will surely cry till so pitiful.

Food

• 2 or 3 feedings of breastmilk and 1 or 2 feedings of formula (enfalac A+, Gain Plus).
• Mix grain cereal for breakfast and 2 portions of the same porridge for lunch and dinner.
• My babysitter introduced mee suah to him but he didn't seem to like it.
• Planning to introduce spaghetti to him this evening.
• Apple or banana puffs for snacks.
• Likes to eat cheese but I have stopped feeding him because I felt that it is too salty. Need to find the brand that has lesser salt.
• Loves to eat grated apples, pureed papayas and bananas. Can't wait to let him try durians.

The story of her Ponytails

Emily's hair texture is similar to hubby's, slightly curly and rough. Due to ballet, she needs to have long hair. Typically for most girls, having hair clips on their head, ribbons around their pony tail or even pleating hair are ways to look pretty. But for Emily, it is the total opposite. She will not allow me to clip any pins on her hair, neither will she want any pleats. Each time before we go out, I will have some battle with her trying to tie her hair. The first thing she said even before I started tying, "Mummy, make sure you tie tightly" and her definition of tight is her hair at the side of the rubberband must not be able to move. I guess nobody can understand what that means :). And the only hairstyle that she wants is 2 side ponytails.

When I went to her daycare last week, the principal wanted to show me something which she said looks like Emily. I didn't know what she meant, so I just followed her to the notice board. When I saw what she showed to me, I almost laughed my teeth out LOL... I will leave that judgement to you :)