Mooncake Festival Celebration

My family brought Charis to Punggol Park for the annual Mooncake Festival Celebration. Punggol Park is always filled with the "lantern" & "sparkles" festival mood, crowded with families & children playing lanterns, candles, & sparkles together.

We brought Charis some lanterns (light bulb kind) but she wasn't interested in them at all, but she was very excited at the traditional paper lanterns instead! She kept wanting to hold them so we let her try it, but with alot of supervision of course. She kept swinging the lantern around I was so worried it would catch fire... so my hands were over hers all the time. Tiring... imagine one hand carrying her, the other holding a lantern for her...

There were balloon sculptures & the balloon maker made a flower as tall as her & a flower "bracelet" especially for her. She loves them! Charis & her flowers...

1st Time at Playground

Before I had any children, I always told James I wanted to bring them to the playground as young as a few months old to let them have fun. That was how my niece & nephews started out their play. But the wierd thing was when the opportunity comes, I find the playground extremely dirty for a baby who can only crawl around the dirt... so I hesistated & never brought Charis to the playground till today... So she was really like a "mountain turtle".

Charis still can't walk so I was still a little hesistant at first because she will have to crawl around the playground, but I decided to give her a "proper" childhood by letting her get dirty then bathe for her afterwards. It would be tough to bring her alone since James is still overseas & I had to pant much to chase after her as she climbs up and down the slides. It was also dangerous in my pregnancy state. Thanks to my sister, Serene, who accompanied us & chased after an active playful toddler.

She was very happy once we reached the playground. At first, she was quite hesitant & just sat at the end of the slide. But less than 5 mins later, she mustered up her courage to explore the new environment & then, it was catching time. She enjoyed herself so much that she cried & kept shaking her head to say "no" when I told her that we are going home already.

When 2 Little Ones Get Together...

Don't ever leave 2 little ones alone... You can never imagine their creativity...

I think Zander was imagining Charis to be a pet, trying to lock her in her "cage"... oops, i meant playpen...

Updates for Dear

Know you have been missing her, so here's an update of how's she doing :)

She still loves cereal time but now likes to say her favourite word while eating.

She's trying to show "good, delicious" but she don't know how to put her thumb up, so she's using her fore finger instead ;)

She's even more inseperable with her Eyeore now...

She enjoyed herself with swimming (no crying this time). She even tried to crawl inside the water! She didn't want to get out of the pool too...

She still get excited over balloons at Siqi's birthday party. She'll yell at them excitedly & would want not just one... but all the balloons!

Charis' 1st Birthday!

It's another milestone in her life! On 25th Aug 10, we want to celebrate Charis for being a God-send gift to our lives!

Thanks for being the little cheeky Xiao Bu Dian, always smiling so cheekily & readily for us.

You have been so easy to take care of & so understanding for a baby that whenever you see Mummy working on a laptop, you know that I'm busy & will not disturb me but will be contented to play on your own.

You are so sweet for always hugging me when you wanna express your love for me.

You have been so independent that we don't need to carry you in our arms for hours to sleep and you are brave because you never need the lights on.

When it's night time, you would not cry because you don't like to disturb our sleep even though you may be awake for hours. That's so sweet of you!

You love to go out with us & your favourite word is "gai gai"! Your face would lit up at the word & you would cling on to us once we'd changed our clothes. How smart of you!

You are simply insepearable with your Eyeore bear. You would kiss it so many times a day that I have to wash it weekly now. So now, we gotten you 3 duplicates in case you lost any of it & lose sleep...
You love hanging around us, just being around us, in our company & we love yours too!

We love you because you are you & there's only one you! You are so special in our eyes, & thank you for being our child!