A 1 year old toddler

 My 1st Birthday Cake! Celebrated together with Mummy and Daddy.

Happy Birthday to our little princess! 

Mummy and Daddy love you very much. You enjoyed lots of love from both your grandparent, as you are the first grandchild of 爷爷，奶奶，公公，and 婆婆.You are our little precious princess.

Today we measure your weight and height. You weigh 10kg and you are 74cm tall. You are developing very well, all thanks to your caregiver, 婆婆 and 公公, and not forgetting your part-time caregiver 奶奶 and 爷爷.

You used to be a little terror, maybe because you were trying to adapt to life outside of mummy's womb, and we were trying to adapt to life with you around. We got used to the "tireness" with you around, and we understand that with you around, its going to be 23 hours of tireness for the 1 hour of joy and its worth it. You slowly transformed to a sweet little darling and princess with all our love, tender and care. You have brought lots of joy and happiness to our family, and many more to come.

As today is Lunar New Year 初二, most of our close friends are busy with house visiting, we decide to hold your 1 yr old birthday party in march. Mummy have ordered a birthday cake of your favourite cartoon character Pocoyo from http://pinkgingerbynee.blogspot.com . Let's look forward to your birthday party.

We wish that you continue to grow well and healthy, stay cheerful and happy always, and be our 乖乖的小公主.

 

 Thank you for this surprise present when I went visit Auntie Zanne & Uncle Joo Kiat home today! And not to forget Jaymee mei mei for letting me play with her toys. 

 

 Gift from Daddy & Mummy.. So happy that I have got more than one present!

 

 After unwrapping my present, I am so happy to find a talking A-Z reader and a shape ball.

Alicia's first CNY

 

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Dear Alicia,

This is the first Lunar New Year that you are spending with Daddy, Mummy and our relatives. I wish you good health and grow up strongly.

Love from
Daddy

Dear Alicia,

Mummy is very happy to spend this Lunar New Year with you. Mummy love you very much. I wish you good health, grow well and be a guai guai girl.

From
Mummy (CNY 2010)

I just learn to crawl. I just love it !

I just learn to clap from 婆婆, after a while it comes naturally to me. Mummy and daddy also show me the way. It makes make proud when mum and dad say that I am good at something,
I will 拍拍手, clap clap hand.....

Let me show you, I can clap in my high chair.

I can clap on mummy's bed

 

When I am tired, I just put my palms together for a short rest.

After that, another fun session of happy clapping.

I am crawling faster than the camera could catch, not even Daddy's new Canon 500D in sports mode can't match my reflex speed. hmm.... impressive. That is why recently daddy gave me a new nickname - "little puppy" or "little rabbit"

See me ROAR..........hear me ROAR.........

Hear me laugh....WAH..HAHAHA

At times while waiting for my porridge to be served, seating in my baby high chair might seems boring......har.......sian.   Nothing to do. Nevermind, I will let my facial expression shows how displeased about the waiting time.

Baby Xiwen's most exciting seat is not her car seat nor her baby stroller.

It's actually the shopping cart at Sheng Xiong/Cold Storage/Market Place,

She can easily identify a shopping cart.

Her natural instinct will lead her to eagerly leap forward  towards the rear facing seat.

Mummy daddy, how's my pose ? Maybe I can be a shopping ambassador for Market Place.

Any one interested in the fresh fruits behind me ? Nice try baby :p

Mummy say Cold storage cold cold, that is why she dress me up as if I am going to South Pole.

Alicia Development

I have being singing the song "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" I learnt from Marina Square baby gym (in August) with her almost every weekend. I will hold her hand and point to her head, shoulders, knees and toes, as I sing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" to her. She will laugh out happily whenever I sing the song and do the pointing act with her. Today, she held my hand, as I sang the song again. She is totally in control, pointing to her head, as I sing "Head", shoulder as I sing "Shoulder". She even held my hand to point to her head to signal me to continue playing when I stop singing. I am really glad that she is learning from the play sessions with her. I felt so proud that my little precious darling knows how to point to her body parts. Now I am convince that it is effective to teach through playing.

For the past few weeks, Alicia had been very clingy to me. Whenever she sees me passing by her, she will lift up her arms for me to carry her. If I walk away without carrying her, she will cry and turn on the "tap" of her tears. Tears will continuously flow out just like how the tap reacts when its turn on. Strange enough, the "tap" will be turned on immediately after i carry her, the reaction is almost instantanteous. With such an instant response on the control of her tears, I can't help wondering if she was doing a performance of crying. However I still love her clinchiness, as she will lie her head on my shoulder when I carry her, as if she is enjoying Mummy's hug.

7 months update

Poor Alicia was sick, she started off with rashes that look like heat rash, and it doesn't gets better after few days. We brought her to KKH and PD gave her some cream, and mention that she should be alright. As she was still enjoying happily and drinking her milk regularly. She is also growing well, weighing 8.065kg at 6.5months.

Wearing her pink pilot hat

She is getting better, and her appetite is very good. Whenever she sees us eating, she will move her mouth and cry for food too. We gave her abit of bread, and she loves it. Even after having her milk, she will still cry for the bread when we are eating our breakfast. When Mummy is drinking Milo, she will also cry, as if she is hungry for more food. Daddy told her, "You cannot eat like this hor, else you will grow up to become a fat mei mei".

Our Quality Time

	Although Mummy and Daddy only bring you home on weekend, we spend the weekend together as quality time. All 3 of us are enjoying alot. Daddy & mummy love to hear your baby language "er.. arh.. oh..", love to see you smile "gee.. gee..", love to see you showing your tongue out to make cute funny face, love to see you having fun in your FP rainforest jumperoo, love to bring you for your weekly swimming, love to see you smile so sweetly when we bring you to Toys"R"Us. We just love to be with you. Daddy & mummy will be bringing you to more places for fun and enjoyable family time. Upcoming events for us : - Outing to Botantic Garden - Course on baby massage - Swimming competition in July
Daddy, don't disturb me. I want my milk..	Feeling tired after a day out. Zzz.....
Surprise look	Still look

Happy 3rd month!

My darling Alicia is 3 month old. Mummy have created this photo footage of her growing up process from week 1 to 3 month old. The background music is her favorite bedtime rhyme. She used to kick my tummy in excitement when she hear the song. Now she will put on a gentle smile while listening to the song in her favorite cradle.

Alicia, Mummy and Daddy love you. We hope you continue to grow well and healthy as each day go.

Alicia's 1st shave & swim

We brought her out for the 1st shave & for the swimming package that we sign up for her. She is sleeping during the shave, she seems to be enjoying the clean hair cut.
Daddy carrying me for the haircut. It's so comfortable.. Zzzzz....	What is this auntie doing? Why is she putting a bib over me?? Hm.. I don't care much, as I am just too comfortable in Daddy's arm.
Oh.. finally a clean shave. Now my nick is "little botak"	With the clean shave, I am all ready for my first swim.. Hmm.. so exciting..
Wow.. so shiok in the water.. I am enjoying this..

View my cute swimming video here!! ;)

Alicia Full Month Celebration

Photo taken and edited by Jing Ting jie jie.

Baby Alicia born on 15 Feb 2009

After my wedding, I have almost forgotten this blog. I am going to start blogging again, as our product of love is out. I am going to record down her growing process in this blog. My birth story :

14 Feb 2009
1900 - Start to feel some contraction, however its not painful
2200 - Seems like waterbag leaking
2230 - Decided to head to hospital to check
2330 - Arrive at KKH delivery suite

15 Feb 2009
0040 - Midwive examine my dilation and contraction, doesn't seems to be labour.
0100 - prepare for admission, due to suspect of waterbag leaking
0130 - admitted to my ward

0600 - nurse came into my room and wake me up to go down to delivery suite for checkup.

0700 - gynae check for water bag, do drip
0730 - gynae break water bag (3cm dilated)
0745 - drip oxytocin
0800 - start to have mild menus cramp
0900 - start to do epidural procedure (4cm dilated)
0930 - epidural procedure completed
0945 - no pain at all, however very itchy due to side effect of epi. start to sleep

1100 - woke up due to feeling of contraction

1145 - dr came to check epidural due to the pain from contraction, cos getting bad
1200 - dr increase epi doseage
1230 - no improvement from increase epi, midwive check and realise 9cm dilated. midwive comment i dilate very fast, they expect 1 cm/hour. no wonder the epi doesnt relief me at that time. use laughing gas for relief, which is better at that point.
1250 - dr came and add more doseage of epi and 1 other medicine to help me relief the pain.
1300 - midwive checked, 10cm dilated.
1320 - gynae came back to check me, he say baby very low position, can prepare to push.
1330 - start pushing with gynae help to push my tummy

1344 - baby Alicia is out. i think gynae helped alot with the pushing of my tummy, less than 10 push, baby is out. however, side effect is my left tummy abit blue black. haha..

1400 - side effect of epi start to come, fever, shiver, and vomiting. however, still worth it, as i think it will be extremely painful without it.

After gynae finish with my stitches, midwive saw that Alicia is sucking her thumb, so she bring her to me and let her latch on. This is the first time I have close contact with Alicia, I felt so heartwarming, however the side effect of epidural make me vomit while she is latching on. Hence, midwive got to bring her back to her bed. Alicia lie back on her bed, and turned her head to me, and she looked at me as if she wants to continue to latch on. This scene is capture deeply in my heart, she is so lovely.

First visit

Today I visited A.Prof John Tee from KKH. He did a scan to see the baby, and tries to listen to baby heartbeat. Dr Tee manage to see baby, and say that baby is about 2mm. However, heartbeat is too faint, cannot manage to hear it. Dr Tee asked me to return in 2 weeks time, and he expect baby to be 16mm, as baby need to grow 1mm/day. After seeing Dr Tee, I became very uncomfortable due to nausea, and no appetite. I extend my leave with my boss, stayed home and rest. Victor is very supportive, he see me in discomfort, he also extend his leave to take care of me. I am so glad that he is always so supportive.

Positive Discovery

Yesterday, I bought a ClearBlue testkit from watson to test, and the result shown was . This is the first time I use such test kit, so was unsure of the result shown. We decide to go to a GP to confirm on it. GP congrats us after doing a urine test, though the line is quite faint, he still confirms it, as he thinks its the early stage. I was given vitamin C and Folic Acid. This news really came out surprisingly, as we didn't really expect that. However we are happy to know about the news, and start preparing for our new member in the family. :)

11 days more...

I just had my Gou Da Li on sunday, Victor came with his auntie to give the gifts, si dian jin, and pin jin. My grandmum also came to help to make sure all the traditional gifts for us is in place. All my relatives came to my house for buffet lunch and took the cake with them. Although there are some minor hicups, the GDL went quite smooth. After that, I also went to JB to pray to Victor's ancestors and annonce our wedding to them. This is to show respect and get blessings from them. We also receive ang pow and blessing from his JB uncle. He and his family have always treat us very nice, really appreciate them.

Now left with 11 days.. We are both getting more and more stressed up with the preparations. Maybe due to the weather or the stress, the flu bug is with me right now. "ah chiu"... sneezing away.. While I was sleeping, I received a call from the Bridal Shop telling me that I got to change my appointment for the final fitting tomorrow. This week is a very busy week for me. Thursday meeting my Interior Designer to discuss on the design, friday I need to collect the funplates for my wedding. Saturday, meeting up with the florist and my bridesmaid for my hen's party. So I got no choice but bring the flu bug with me for the final fitting tonight. Hopefully, it will not spread to other people. Hm.. maybe i should wear the N95 mask with me. haha...

Next month is the day!!

Oh.. Time is running so fast, my big day is just next month. I am getting more and more anxious as each day passes by. Hm.. Seems like we have cleared quite alot of things in my wedding task list. Well.. thanks to my dearest HTB (hubby to-be), he has been putting in alot of efforts in getting the things done, and making sure that I can relax and stay pretty for the big day. Pipi, really appreciate all your efforts.


I have uploaded some more photos. These photos are edited by me, how's my skills? Haha.. It's still far from the professional. I am just doing it for fun.

My ang bao box and photo montage are done. The photo montage and ang bao box is very well done. Big thanks to Huimin and Weiyang. ;) You two really help me alot, thanks for all the hardwork and effort.

Outstanding items on our plate:

1. Finalize guest list (Big headaches for this)
   
2. Coordinate with hotel on wedding theme, favours, etc
   
3. Coordinate with Videographer, Photographer, and Makeup artist
   
4. Come out with actual day schedule and coordinate with brothers & sisters

Interview with MyPaper on 16-Mar-2007

Direction Map of Grand Plaza Park Hotel

Honeymoon in Switzerland & Italy

We went to the Travel fair at Suntec last saturday, there were lots of people queueing to enquire/sign up for the tour packages. We went to ASA, CTC, Dynasty and SA booth. After going through the different schedule and pricing, we finally choose SA Tours. We heard from our friends that their are the better one for leading Europe tours, and the tour schedule can meet with our requirements. Although its the most expensive among all, we believe that it will be value for money. Hm.. Now looking forward to the trip and saving for Rolex watch from Switzerland, LV and Gucci bags from Milan. Keke.. It's unlikely that we will have enough for the Rolex before the trip unless fortune god is with us. Haha...

So one thing off the task list. Oh.. its actually two things off that list - honeymoon and wedding car. Haha... We are honour to have Grace's long time friend cum buddy's boyfriend to provide the car and act as "Ahmad". Special thanks to both of them Huimin and Weiyang. Although I don't have a Mercs, I still want to volunteer myself as the driver for your wedding next time round. haha... Or maybe both of you can pray for me that I strike 4D, Toto, or Big Sweep, so that I can afford a decent enough car to be the wedding car. Keke..

Live Interview with Radio 1003

We just came back from the live interview @ Radio 1003 for their new 爱情马拉松 programme. We talked about our dating experience, our wedding preparation and the Marriage Preparation Programme (MPP) we attended. This program is sponsored by MCYS, so naturally we talk more about the good things of getting married, and about the MPP course. We really think that the MPP course is a very interesting session and couples who plans to get married should attend to know more information about marriage life. To find out more on MPP, please go to http://www.family.gov.sg. We were quite nervous at the beginning, but the DJs are very professional and lead us into the conversation. Both Wen Hong and Li Mei are very friendly, they showed us their equipment in the studio, it looked very interesting to both of us. Here's the photo we took with them inside the studio.


It was an eye-opening experience for both of us. Their studio seems quite new and well equiped. After the interview, we realise that its not easy to be a DJ, you really need to be quick-witted and be able to handle the machine well to be a good one. Overall we enjoyed the interview and will definitely be interested to visit the studio again.


This two 2530 的幸福 CDs are the door gift we got from 1003

3 months to the day

Outstanding task list :

1. Register with ROM for the solemnization
2. Source for wine to be serve on wedding dinner
3. Arrange for wedding car and helpers’ car
4. Printing of invitation cards
5. Come out with guest list
6. Buy new mattress & bed sheet
7. Gou Da Li stuff, eg. cakes, buffet, etc
8. Photo Montage (Pending my two dear friend)
9. Selection of wedding album photos and design
10. Coordinate with hotel on food tasting, wedding theme, favours, etc
11. Coordinate with Videographer, Photographer, and Makeup artist
12. Come out with actual day schedule and coordinate with brothers & sisters
13. Confirm with JP on solemnization time
14. Get emcee for dinner (Recuriting volunteers urgently!! Pls let me know if you have anyone in mind)
15. Book tour for honeymoon
16. Any other things that we missed out in the list
    

Photos from the Bintan shoot

Well-printed DVDs part 1& 2 from our Photographer, Peter Lim of Daylight.

Forget about the beautiful sea, with eyes on beautiful Grace only.



Striking pose at the beautiful green



Relaxing pose infront of Banyan-Tree BackDrop

Why are they not looking at the beautiful bouquet of flowers ? Beats me !



Wow.. that's a sweet look into the camera. Try to camouflage by wearing white ?




The Sun, the Sand and the Sea. Hey look, Victor is sinking into the sand

These are just some sneak previews of our wedding photos. To view more photos, please attend our wedding on 19th May 2007. For any comments, please email us at victorgrace.wedding@gmail.com .