Back to work.. I survived week1!

The things I'm gonna miss about being on ML:

(1) sending Adric to and from sch, n seeing his little face light up when he sees me fr the classroom window.. N of cos the chats in the car.. Usually we talk abt his sch day, the weather and his current fav topic, earthquakes and layers of the earth..

(2) hugging and dancing with Nelly after her morning bath when she smells perfect!

(3) the evening swim routine with Adric, (shallow pool to deep pool to jacuzzi pool back to deep pool to shallow pool).. The best was the deep pool where he'll hang on to me for dear life.. Haha

(4) the occasional outings..

Most of all, I will miss this face

And this face!

But the first week back at work was not as bad as I thought! Nelly managed to learn to drink fr the bottle the first day I was gone! I spent the whole of last week trying to train her to drink fr the bottle, but she would cry super loudly every time the bottle went anywhere near her lips! But once I'm gone, she immediately became a pro at bottle drinking! Hmm shows how resilient kids are.. U throw them into the pool, they learn how to swim! Well done Nelly! ( and daddy who took leave the first 2 days to train her up!)..

And what makes me really happy is seeing this scene when I get back fr work!

Adric & Nelly @ Juppy!

This is Daddy’s first ever post. A lot has happened since mummy’s last post in Dec 2015. I shall try to fill in the gaps. Well, Mummy has been really busy.

I found this picture on my phone. This was taken during our Cruise in October. Adric was wearing life jacket, with his concealed nervous little look. We were on an island hopping trip in Langkawi. Throughout the boat ride, we had his ears covered.

And our little buddy, wearing “leggings” on the cruise, and pushing his favorite car on the floor. So cute. I can recall him saying “Go Windjammer!” That’s the café there where we have our meals.

In November 2015, his annual concert. He’s an elephant!

Gor-Gor Adric kissing Nelly, 2 nights before she’s born. See the tummy being a little droopy, and so she’s named “Juppy” by Adric. Kind of unique. Corinne and I like it.

3-Feb-2016: Welcome to the family Nelly! She has natural spiky hair. It just stands. So far, she’s been a little cupcake. Corinne has been the main caregiver. She fusses a little at times but which baby doesn’t. One thing she detests is people touching her face or ears!

Adric “taking care” of Nelly. Other times, he will be taking away her bootie or mitten, asking us to put her down somewhere. It’s quite funny actually.

Adric getting ready to for CNY visit. Bee Jie asking him to smile, and he goes opposite, of course.

Our first family trip out to the national museum. Adric is delighted to take the train.

Adric posing with Yakult at Grand’s house.

So we went to Natalie and Regan’s birthday party in April-2016. Adric stood there, like his birthday. And before they cut the cake, his little hand stretched out for the candies on the cake. *Daddy sweats*

Adric is enjoying scooter now. Just that he likes to be pushed on it. And his favourite destination? Four Points hotel, and he goes there in home clothes. Well this picture wasn’t too bad. There were times he wanted “Red must go with Orange” combination. Corinne and I burst out laughing when we heard that. He is very serious about it.

Adric is into “layers of earth” and “mountains” now. His latest catch phrase is “Wicked”. He learned this from “Geography explorer - Mountains” on his favorite learning platform, Youtube. And I realized he’s quite a humorous person. See this exercise he did. 

And this morning, he made a tornado before going to school. Daddy told him to keep, which of course didn’t happen. And for once, since forever, he said “bye bye” to me before leaving for school.

Adric is also into drawing recently. He draws decent world maps and actually names the countries on the map rather accurately.  A picture says a thousand words.

Now, back to Nelly. After 4 months of super mum, mummy is going back to work. Daddy took 2 days off to make sure Nelly is trained to drink from the bottle. And we did it! This is how.

And a few other random pictures of our little cupcake!

Ok, that’s all from Daddy!