Daddy's random update of our little bundles of joy - Adric and Nelly

Well, I always felt Nelly looks like Adric. Even when Adric saw some of her pictures, he thought it was him when he was a baby. In any case, managed to have them in same pose (both carried by Gong Gong when they were 3-4 months old.)  

And Adric wrote a Father’s day message. The “Love Adric” was penned by him, at the request of Mummy, who was giggling when she saw this.

Recently, whenever I ask Adric why he only loves Mummy, he will reply “Because boys must like girls only you know?” In the past, I will ask him who he loves the 2nd most, which he will reply “Grandpa” or someone else just to see me in “shock face”. I think he’s going to be a humourous boy just like Daddy. Anyway, a few shots of him with the gals. Great job little buddy!

Here’s Nelly doing tummy time, one of her routines when I’m home from work. Daddy has changed to earlier hours to “Jagar” the 2 children. Nelly is getting cuter now, our little cupcake. She screams high pitch. Adric will follow too, and sometimes ask us what Nelly is saying.

And to end this short update, here’s Adric eating donuts. More of licking donuts actually. He will lick lick lick all the chocolate off the top, then say “I don’t want already. Throw where?”. Daddy can only give a shock face, while rolling eyes inside. But.. I really love you children, and also my dear!

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!

My birthday 2015..

It was a simple but beautiful birthday for me.. My last birthday as a family of 3.. Hee.. I woke up to a bouquet of beautiful flowers and breakfast bought by K..

We managed to have a slow leisurely bfast together, just the 2 of us..

The super pregnant me..

Lunch was at Tangerine at RWS..

Adric was really excited to be there.. The moment we were seated by the waiter, Adric immediately asked him, "Can I have some orange juice please!".. It was so cute, made all of us laugh, including the waiter..

Dinner and cake cutting w family..

How Adric takes care of Mummy...

Scenario 1 :
At Patong beach -
We recently went on a Royal Caribbean cruise on board the Mariner of the Seas, which Adric totally loved! Anyway, the cruise ship stopped by Phuket and we took the chance to go visit Patong beach..we rented a mat to share on the beach...I went for a walk on the beach, and when I came back, Adric excitedly waved for me to come over and patted the space beside him on the mat, "Mummy come, sit here", when he saw that I didnt have enough space, especially with my big pregnant belly, he immediately turned to Grandpa, who was sitting beside him, and said "Grandpa, you stand up!". He sure made sure that Mummy is well taken care of! haha

                                                   Adric and Daddy at Patong beach..

Scenario 2 :
During dinner -
We each had a drink and as usual Adric wanted a red straw for his drink (red is his favourite colour). Then he realized that Mummy didnt have a straw, so he said, "give mummy a straw", and i got an orange straw for myself, then he said " but you like green you know", so he made sure that Daddy change straw with mummy, so i get to use my favourite colour straw, like him!

Scenario 3 :
In the car -
Me: "The car is moving, you sit in your car seat, ok? You want to be safe, right?"
Adric obediently went onto his seat, and while I was buckling him in, he said "Mummy also clip (buckle in), wait Mummy dangerous how?". And he made sure I put on my safety belt...

Awww my sweet little boy... Mummy loves you so much too!

  

Adric is 3!

Adric is 3! He is turning out to be such a sweetheart! Cheerful, cheeky and such a joy to be around! He is really sweet to mummy and loves to make fun of daddy..

There was this once when we were in a lift and Adric suddenly said, "I want to kiss mummy!" Then he pulled mummy down for a kiss on the lips! Such a romantic boy.. 

With daddy he is always cheeky - he loves to "tell" daddy, "grandpa is second!"  (favorite person after mummy), and see daddy "cry".. 

We took a short birthday trip with Adric to Batam Turi beach resort on this birthday..  

This is him, eating his fried rice while waiting for check-in! 

The rest of the trip was spent relaxing in the resort, hanging out at the beach/pool and buffet dinner by the pool.. Always a fulfilling trip with Adric around!

Surrounded by all his soft toys!

Adric's current favorite game.. Being surrounded by all his soft toys! Everyday whenever K and I reach home, he would pull us into the bed room and say 'Daddy take all your soft toy!' (Your means my.. ).. N This is how he ends up.. 

His favorite soft toy is 'Friso' the bear!