Monday, December 18, 2006
A Zoo Trip - Just Mama and Matthew
Yes Yes Yes. I did it! Since Mike's on reservist and I didn't wan to "waste" a wonderful Saturday morning, I decided that we shall go to the ZOO. Yes, on my own with Matthew. I know I'm heavily pregnant at 29 wks, looking very HUGE, but I DID IT! YES! heee..
I woke up early that morning to prepare Matthew's lunch. When he woke up, we changed and went to the market for chee cheong fan, Matthew's fav breakfast. Half way through his food, he suddenly remembered that there is a playground nearby and insisted that he wanted to go play on the slide. I somehow convinced him that Mama needed to go and buy bread, so we went to the bakery to get his fav oatmeal buns.
Off to the Zoo we went. Matthew recognised the polar bear on the banners hang on the street lights and remembered from his last zoo trip that there was a pond at the entrance atrium. He hurriedly made his way to the pond and pointed at the stingrays.
Then we walked on to look at the flamingoes and monkeys and then to the Polar Bear enclosure to watch the feeding session. There was this little display in front of the underwater viewing gallery that had a picture of penguins. Matthew saw the penguins and insisted that we go and see the penguins. Somehow he remembered that there was an enclosure with penguins.
After the feeding session, we went to look at the rhinos. It is one of Matthew's fav animals, because Mike would also pretend to be a rhino, carrying Matthew and "gallop" away. Then the zebras.
>> I managed to get Matthew to stand still on a tree stump to take a photo of him with the zebras in the background.
Next to the zebras were the little Meerkats, then the big lions. Actually we only saw the lionesses. Then we crossed the road to look at the tall giraffes. We were in luck. It was feeding session at the giraffe enclosure and Matthew watched as the zookeeper Sarah fed the giraffes with carrot sticks and long beans.
YiXuan and her mummy, daddy were also at the zoo with her godparents. We met up with them at the penguin / pelican / sealion / manatee enclosure. YiXuan was having lunch and when Matthew saw the Tiger flask with porridge, he said that he wanted to eat zhou (porridge in Mandarin). Hahaha. I told him that we were going to eat macaroni at Ah Ma's house, so he said, "wo men qu Ah Ma jia chi macaroni." After looking at the penguins, we made our way out of the zoo and went to Yishun.
>> The penguins happily swimming away.
Matthew is quite co-operative these few days without Papa at home. He would walk with me, hold my hand and cross the road. He did not ask me to carry him in the zoo, except once to look at the flamingoes, because he couldn't get a good view. He was also diaper free on this zoo trip. I was hesitant at first and wanted to diaper him, because I wasn't sure if I could manage. He has shown me again that he is totally toilet trained and is able to hold his pee if I told him to. I'm so proud of you, Matthew.
I woke up early that morning to prepare Matthew's lunch. When he woke up, we changed and went to the market for chee cheong fan, Matthew's fav breakfast. Half way through his food, he suddenly remembered that there is a playground nearby and insisted that he wanted to go play on the slide. I somehow convinced him that Mama needed to go and buy bread, so we went to the bakery to get his fav oatmeal buns.
Off to the Zoo we went. Matthew recognised the polar bear on the banners hang on the street lights and remembered from his last zoo trip that there was a pond at the entrance atrium. He hurriedly made his way to the pond and pointed at the stingrays.
Then we walked on to look at the flamingoes and monkeys and then to the Polar Bear enclosure to watch the feeding session. There was this little display in front of the underwater viewing gallery that had a picture of penguins. Matthew saw the penguins and insisted that we go and see the penguins. Somehow he remembered that there was an enclosure with penguins.
After the feeding session, we went to look at the rhinos. It is one of Matthew's fav animals, because Mike would also pretend to be a rhino, carrying Matthew and "gallop" away. Then the zebras.
>> I managed to get Matthew to stand still on a tree stump to take a photo of him with the zebras in the background.
Next to the zebras were the little Meerkats, then the big lions. Actually we only saw the lionesses. Then we crossed the road to look at the tall giraffes. We were in luck. It was feeding session at the giraffe enclosure and Matthew watched as the zookeeper Sarah fed the giraffes with carrot sticks and long beans.
YiXuan and her mummy, daddy were also at the zoo with her godparents. We met up with them at the penguin / pelican / sealion / manatee enclosure. YiXuan was having lunch and when Matthew saw the Tiger flask with porridge, he said that he wanted to eat zhou (porridge in Mandarin). Hahaha. I told him that we were going to eat macaroni at Ah Ma's house, so he said, "wo men qu Ah Ma jia chi macaroni." After looking at the penguins, we made our way out of the zoo and went to Yishun.
>> The penguins happily swimming away.
Matthew is quite co-operative these few days without Papa at home. He would walk with me, hold my hand and cross the road. He did not ask me to carry him in the zoo, except once to look at the flamingoes, because he couldn't get a good view. He was also diaper free on this zoo trip. I was hesitant at first and wanted to diaper him, because I wasn't sure if I could manage. He has shown me again that he is totally toilet trained and is able to hold his pee if I told him to. I'm so proud of you, Matthew.
Labels: diaper-free, zoo
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
A Date at Botanic Gardens
Last Saturday, Matthew met up with his little friends, Cayden, Joshua and YiXuan from the SMH Feb/Mar05 thread. It was National Day when Matthew last met them; Matthew was recovering from gastric flu at the last Pasir Ris meetup for the Mid Autumn Festival. All the toddlers have grown up quite a bit and their characters are quite different.
Joshua is the "Lao Da". He's the oldest of the gang, borned before CNY05, so that also made him the "monkey". The rest are roosters. He seems to have enormous amount of energy, ran and ran and ran all over the place, playing with balls, even chasing dogs!
Cayden is the sociable one and the youngest of the four. He got the other kids warmed up with his Vitagen bottles.
YiXuan is the lady of the gang. Grown more feminine and so sweet and demure. Hope our little gal would be like her.
Matthew? He is the most shy, reserved, hesitant, but give him a ball, he would be all over the place, kicking, throwing.
>> all kids love balls!
>> bubble time!
>> oops, Matthew got his hands dirty
>> YiXuan, Joshua and Cayden waiting for another wave of bubbles. Where was Matthew? he was answering nature's call in the bushes!
Yes, Matthew was diaper free for the whole Saturday, even when we went grocery shopping at Carrefour Suntec. Looks like we can save the diaper money. Only a piece a day for bedtime. heee..
Read Miini-World for more on our BG outing!
Joshua is the "Lao Da". He's the oldest of the gang, borned before CNY05, so that also made him the "monkey". The rest are roosters. He seems to have enormous amount of energy, ran and ran and ran all over the place, playing with balls, even chasing dogs!
Cayden is the sociable one and the youngest of the four. He got the other kids warmed up with his Vitagen bottles.
YiXuan is the lady of the gang. Grown more feminine and so sweet and demure. Hope our little gal would be like her.
Matthew? He is the most shy, reserved, hesitant, but give him a ball, he would be all over the place, kicking, throwing.
>> all kids love balls!
>> bubble time!
>> oops, Matthew got his hands dirty
>> YiXuan, Joshua and Cayden waiting for another wave of bubbles. Where was Matthew? he was answering nature's call in the bushes!
Yes, Matthew was diaper free for the whole Saturday, even when we went grocery shopping at Carrefour Suntec. Looks like we can save the diaper money. Only a piece a day for bedtime. heee..
Read Miini-World for more on our BG outing!
Labels: BG, diaper-free, SMH
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Fun Sunday
We decided to pop by at the Zoo for a short outing on Sunday before picking up Mike's sister and father at Yishun for his grandfather's birthday lunch.
Matthew was excited. Along the way, he kept saying in Mandarin, "I want to go to the Zoo." When we reached Mandai Road, there were banners of Inuka the Polar Bear on the lamp posts. Matthew saw them and exclaimed, "Polar Bear". There were signs of animals for a letter representing each row of parking lots in the car park, such as G - giraffe etc. As we drove through the car park, looking for a suitable lot, Matthew would exclaim the name of the animal he saw.
The zoo entrance atrium has been revamped with a pond etc. This was our 2nd time since they reopened the atrium. He remembered the stingray from our trip to Sentosa and arowana (jin1 long2 yu2) from the fish shop at the market.
>> What are the 2 boys looking at?
>> Stingrays and arowanas. Can you spot the arowanas?
We went straight to the Polar Bear exhibit to catch the show. We were in for a treat. Both polar bears, Sheba and Inuka, were in very good mood. Many times we were there, only Inuka was in the water. That day, Sheba was also entertaining us and waving! Inuka showed us his prowess and height, standing on his hind legs, clapping his paws, at least 4-5 times!
After the show, we saw the rhinos, giraffes, zebras and lions. Then the rain clouds decided to open - it started to drizzle. It was also about time to leave, so we quickly made our way to the zoo entrance. Then me, the preggie me, smelling the fried chicken from KFC, decided that Mike and I should share a 2-pc meal. When we walked into KFC, Matthew declared that he wanted to eat Hotcakes! Goodness, the last time we went to MacDonald's to eat hotcake was long long time ago! Mike managed to buy an ice-cream wafer cone from Ben and Jerry. When Matthew saw the cone, he said it was ice-cream!?!? Now, where did he learn that from? We seldom eat ice-cream cone in front of him...
We went to pick up Mike's sister and father and proceeded to AMK for his grandfather's birthday party. Matthew remembered quite a few of Mike's aunts and cousins and took a wee short while to warm up. He had his lunch and was keen to play.
>> Matthew sharing rasins with Mike's cousin and nephew
>> Singing birthday song for Great Grandfather
>> Enjoying the birthday cake
What a fun Sunday! Matthew almost didn't want to go home! He wanted to stay and play more.
Matthew was excited. Along the way, he kept saying in Mandarin, "I want to go to the Zoo." When we reached Mandai Road, there were banners of Inuka the Polar Bear on the lamp posts. Matthew saw them and exclaimed, "Polar Bear". There were signs of animals for a letter representing each row of parking lots in the car park, such as G - giraffe etc. As we drove through the car park, looking for a suitable lot, Matthew would exclaim the name of the animal he saw.
The zoo entrance atrium has been revamped with a pond etc. This was our 2nd time since they reopened the atrium. He remembered the stingray from our trip to Sentosa and arowana (jin1 long2 yu2) from the fish shop at the market.
>> What are the 2 boys looking at?
>> Stingrays and arowanas. Can you spot the arowanas?
We went straight to the Polar Bear exhibit to catch the show. We were in for a treat. Both polar bears, Sheba and Inuka, were in very good mood. Many times we were there, only Inuka was in the water. That day, Sheba was also entertaining us and waving! Inuka showed us his prowess and height, standing on his hind legs, clapping his paws, at least 4-5 times!
After the show, we saw the rhinos, giraffes, zebras and lions. Then the rain clouds decided to open - it started to drizzle. It was also about time to leave, so we quickly made our way to the zoo entrance. Then me, the preggie me, smelling the fried chicken from KFC, decided that Mike and I should share a 2-pc meal. When we walked into KFC, Matthew declared that he wanted to eat Hotcakes! Goodness, the last time we went to MacDonald's to eat hotcake was long long time ago! Mike managed to buy an ice-cream wafer cone from Ben and Jerry. When Matthew saw the cone, he said it was ice-cream!?!? Now, where did he learn that from? We seldom eat ice-cream cone in front of him...
We went to pick up Mike's sister and father and proceeded to AMK for his grandfather's birthday party. Matthew remembered quite a few of Mike's aunts and cousins and took a wee short while to warm up. He had his lunch and was keen to play.
>> Matthew sharing rasins with Mike's cousin and nephew
>> Singing birthday song for Great Grandfather
>> Enjoying the birthday cake
What a fun Sunday! Matthew almost didn't want to go home! He wanted to stay and play more.
Labels: diaper-free, sunday, zoo
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Diaper Free Outing
Whoppie, Yuppie!!! We decided not to diaper Matthew for our Zoo trip on Sunday and we made it through incident-free! We should do this more often. heee... Check back here for update on our Fun Sunday...
Labels: diaper-free, sunday
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Toilet Trained?
I think Matthew's almost there in toilet training. This morning, my mom brought him to the bank without his diapers. When we visited Dr Ong in the afternoon, again he was without his diapers. We got him to pee into plastic bags twice and both times he did it.
He would go to his potty and ask for help with his shorts or he will bring his potty to us. Occasionally we remind him to shee shee. There are still accidents, but getting less, perhaps 1-2x a day.
So proud of you, Matthew. Keep up the good work!
He would go to his potty and ask for help with his shorts or he will bring his potty to us. Occasionally we remind him to shee shee. There are still accidents, but getting less, perhaps 1-2x a day.
So proud of you, Matthew. Keep up the good work!
Labels: diaper-free
