Prata...

G had 1 whole roti prata (well, except for maybe 2 bites?) for breakfast yesterday morning. Talk about big appetite! :) He also likes chicken rice, pasta with corguette and pancetta, tortellini, yoghurt, , shreddies/cheerios/rice crispies, juice (diluted with water!), ice cream, and chocolate. He also eats grapes by the punnet, blueberries (at one point he was finishing a whole punnet by himself), cherries and rice cakes. He loves fish (absolutely loves grilled salmon with oyster sauce and garlic), cod fish and chips (doesn't quite like the chips), mixed vege of carrots, brocolli, corn, peas. He's had onion bahji, toast.

Typical day:
Breakfast: Shreddies/cheerios/rice crispies/weetabix with milk. Sometimes with Toast.
Mid-morning snack: rice cakes, fruit, biscuits
Lunch: Pasta (tuna pasta bake, or pasta with corguette and pancetta, tortellini), fish and chips, chicken with rice and vege. + yoghurt, ice cream, cookie.
Mid-afternoon snack: rice cakes, fruit, biscuits.
Dinner: the same as lunch or anything else really.

Is that a diet for a 16 month old?!?! I think he'll have a bit of feast when we go back to Singapore for our summer hols!

More words...

George is a rather chatty toddler - except when he's confronted by the phone (and that's when he gets stage fright and doesn't speak - but still waves and blows kisses). Some of his words include "what's that?" (wahh zat), "hiya", "no... nono", "yes", oh doh", "duck", "dog" (woof woof) and the cutest one..."WOW WOW!" (when he's shown/given something he desperately wants).

His favourite books are 'The Gruffalo', 'The Gruffalo's Child', 'Going on a Bear Hunt' and any other book he can get his hands on. He loves books. When asked to show us where the X is, he knows where they are. He points to the Gruffalo, the mouse, the bear, the dog.. the monkey, the giraffe...

I'm sure he says other words too, but I can't remember them. But we sure do understand him...!

this brought tears...

to my eyes...

Sent to me by my old old friend since we were 4 years old.
She writes...
"What struck me was the mom knew about the Trisomy 18 diagnosis before baby was born and he attitude was:

"We knew from day to day that we had that day," Ginny says. "I would tell Matt a lot: 'I'll be sad later. I'm going to enjoy every second now.' So even though his diagnosis never changed, we just decided we were going to enjoy every second that we had."
http://www.oprah.com/media/20081001_tows_99balloons

Building Lego...

apparently G loves building with his lego/duplo blocks. Which is great. We've got photos of G doing that in nursery. His nursery teacher Paula thinks it's fab. We think so too... Paula then said, "aren't you impressed?"... we said.."sure"... she said, "no, you should be very impressed... building towers of more than 3/5 (I can't remember) is something babies of 30-50 months old do!"...

cogs starting moving... "oh really??!".. and G, bless him, is only 16 months old! hehehe...

Dan thinks G builder-meister of construction now - and of course, G got them building genes from him!

OMG...

this is such a sad story.... if you can help, do so... go to http://ourfeistyprincess.blogspot.com - I tried linking it on my sidebar, but I'm not good at such things so it may not appear. Go look... now.

G's nursery's been taken over...

by a Singaporean company!! OMG...

we got a letter a few days back saying that Busy Bees (used to be owned by ABC learning centres - an Australian co?) has been bought out by Knowledge Universe which is a Singaporean company! wow - apparently the Australians were in some financial trouble and had to hive off Busy Bees and they finally found this company to buy them out. Curious to know who/what Knowledge Universe is, I googled them (what did we do before Google?! - a question asked by one of my MBA students) and found out that they also run Pat's Schoolhouse!

Now, I hold Pat's Schoolhouse in great esteem as I know at least one of my friend's children is enrolled there, so I'm quite pleased that it's the same company with hopefully similar high standards..

well well, Singapore isn't all that small after all! Or maybe Singapore is physically a small island, but hey, its reach is far greater! Let's hope they don't change things too much, or if they do, they'll be for the better! Maybe they'll introduce Mandarin as one of their languages... hehehe

The future Liverpool star....

is born....! Ange and family got him a football lesson with Socatots as part of his Christmas present...we must thank them for supporting future Liverpool stars....:)

G's first parents evening...

at the nursery! It was held on Wed 3rd June, and we were the first ones to meet Paula, his keyworker.

It went well, heard that G was a placid baby (I was horrified at first, then realised that she meant 'serenely free of interruption or disturbance' - from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, as opposed to 'complacent/'sian-ji-puah'!! ), who was quite happy to get on with things. That he enjoys listening to stories - that he actually sits and listens now as oppose to wandering off after a few minutes. That he loves to eat (oh, we know that!). That he was very happy getting his nappy changed (WHAT?! that's never been the case at home!). That he was quite happy going off to sleep by himself on the mat (again, WHAT?!?! That's never happened at home!).

Oh well... Good to hear that he's very happy and contented at nursery, and that he's progressing very well too. We got to see his folder that they keep all about him, and there were a couple of 'developments' that indicated that he was beyond his age group (my child, gifted?!! lol...). Nah, we're just happy that he's happy there.

Well done G on a very good parents evening report!

Flights to Singapore...

have been booked! woo hoo...we're going back for nearly 3 weeks! :) I nearly gave up home the idea of going back to Singapore for a holiday in August (and also for Dad's birthday) as the flights were costing absolutely too much. I even thought to fly on BA (which isn't a problem per se, except for potential strikes and lost baggages...) but we're now booked on SQ, through ebookers.com (so if anyone wants to fly, perhpas they should consider going through ebookers first) and it's cheaper than booking through the SQ website (tsk tsk!).

we are flying 16th Aug-3Sept. Arriving just in time for dad's birthday. yay.