All Xmas ready and other updates..

Adric is at such a cute age.. He is constantly surprising us with new skills that he is learning.. 

Like this morning, he learnt to shake his head.. We were going through our usual routine of me kissing and saying bye bye to Adric before going to work.. This morning Adric was abit more emotional, so he gave me his classic 'about to cry pouty face' that looks something like this.. 

Always makes my heart melt to see this face..

Anyway, surprisingly he held back his tears, and started shaking his head, asking me not to go! We've been teaching him to shake n nod his head for the past month, but he doesn't wanna do it.. N just when u least expect it, he does it, just like that! Haha.. It's like my baby is growing up - learning to control his emotions n using non crying ways to communicate his thoughts! 

Here's some photos from the weekend.. Was a great one after 4 days away from my baby last week (was away on work trips).. 

We woke up bright and early for our morning walk/breakfast..

As usual, It was non stop action for baby during the walks.. 

Playing w the vending machine..

Climbing stairs..

Trying to jump into the pool..

And throwing a tantrum when we don't allow him to..

He recovers pretty fast from his tantrum, and is up and about again looking for his next mischieve..

In the afternoon, we went Ivin's (again - K loves that place) for lunch..

And then we did some shopping.. 

We got Adric his first Lego Duplo set! A Disney n friends one (cos it was on sale.. Hee).. But Adric doesn't seem too interested in it.. Yet.. Hee

We also managed to get all our Xmas presents! So efficient.. Thanks to the Growing Fun sale.. Hee now our Xmas tree is complete with all the presents under the tree! 

Looking forward to Xmas now.. N our year end trip!!! Excited.. Keke

Adric's favorite activity with Grandpa

Adric loves birds - ever since he was a young baby, he loves looking at birds.. So whenever he cries for whatever reason, we would carry him to the window and show him birds - he would stop crying and sometimes (hopefully) he would forget y he was crying in the first place.. Hee hee

Recently, he and Grandpa developed a favorite past time, which combines 2 of Adric's favorite things - gai gai n birds.. Feed birds!

Whenever we mention the 2 words 'feed bird', Adric would simulate the action of throwing food with his hand - to show us how he feeds birds.. So funny..

Every morning when we are at Grandpa/grandma's place, Adric would start asking (by asking I mean screaming) Grandpa to bring him for gai gai.. So they would bring a piece of bread, n go downstairs to look for birds..

This is Adric and grandpa in the lift on the way down with their plastic bag of bird food..

On one of the mornings, i tagged along on their bird feeding trip, I realized that Adric only feed half of the bread that he brings down to the birds, the other half, he feeds himself! So he was actually having a picnic w the birds! Haha!

Updates on Adric

Woah, it's been almost a month since my last post... been busy, lots happened - some good, some not so good... but since I told myself I will only post good happy memories on this blog, I will not dwell on the not too happy... so here's some happy updates on Adric..

Adric did not win the PS Baby star contest, but we realized that he was selected top 30 finalists out of 500+ babies.. that's top 6%! haha... so it's considered a happy event! Adric baby, well done! You are doing a great job growing into a charming and cheerful little boy... you bring so much joy to everyone... everybody loves you!

Adric is starting to show some of his character, he is active, determined, playful and loves interacting with people! Last weekend, during Shichida class, Adric got bored in class (as he always does, he is the only baby in class who walks around the classroom the most, and refuse to sit on his chair for more than 5 mins), so he started playing peek-a-boo with the teacher, while she was conducting the class! He stood behind the table, and poped his head out and smiled at the teacher... the teacher couldnt help but started laughing.. so cute..

Here are some pictures of Adric interacting with the panda mascots at River Safari... he loves them! We couldnt get a good shot of Adric cos he was too busy playing and touching the 'pandas'.. hee

We also started letting Adric eat by himself - he loves it.. and he is quite good at it.. at 14 months, he can already eat quite comfortably with a spoon.. getting about 70% of the food into his mouth.. the other 30% lands on the floor or on himself.. some land on mummy too! hee

The bowl in the photo is an amazing invention - it has a non slip base, and a curved interior, very good for learning to eat with a spoon! We bought it at Mothercare - cannot really remember the brand now.. another sign of my deteriorating memory.. hee 



Last week, I had my first significant Awww moment with Adric... I was giving him his favourite biscuit as an after dinner snack - he loves the biscuit so much that he would cry like it's the end of the world when u take it away from him... So, after he ate some of the biscuits, I told him, 'Adric, this is the last one ok?' and I closed the lid of the biscuit bottle. So he took the last biscuit, looked at it, ate half of it, and guess what he did? He fed the other half to me! He was willing to share his last favourite biscuit with his beloved mummy! *Heart melt*