Monday, August 31, 2009
HFMD
Kaizer's having a bout of HFMD at the moment. He was feverish on Saturday while at por por's house, and had visited her usual GP. He was apparently so chatty at the clinic (answering all the questions that were directed at por por) that the GP commented he was a talkertive boy, and sent him home with a fever diagnosis and nothing more.
The fever was all gone on Sunday. However, since there were a couple of HFMD cases in school last week, we thought we'll better keep him away from school on Monday, just in case. In hindsight, it was a good decision as this was when the spots started to sprout.
At first, they looked merely like a serious case of eczema. But then they started popping out on typically non-eczema areas like the bum, knee caps and inner thighs. As you can see, his hands are really ugly looking now. Luckily for him, there probably wasn't any throat/mouth ulcers as he's able to take in liquids and solids without much problems.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
New way of snacking
We were reading and snacking last night when we realized that our Breakfast Os were sized identically as the alphabet 'o' on the cover of this Pooh book.
Kaizer is seen here planting Breakfast Os over all the 'o's he could find.
Apparently, the honey stars that we're eating are of the same size as the (bigger) stars on the cover page too.
We couldn't find a snack that looked exactly like the butterfly; guess the cornflake is the closest match.
Yikes, Zoe looks strange with the Breakfast Os on her eyes, nose and mouth!
Not that Kaizer minded, as he was only too happy to be able to eat his snacks off the books.
Monday, August 24, 2009
New bunk bed!
We just received our bunk bed today. It's definately the biggest item (in terms of size) that we've ever purchased online! With baby #2 due to arrive in a month's time, this bunk bed would allow the four of us to experiment with various sleeping arrangements just so that everyone gets to squeeze into this tiny room in our tiny flat. Well, this is prob the best arrangement until our bigger flat arrives next year!
By the way, in case anyone's interested to find out where the bunk bed's from, do check out http://www.beds.sg/. I must say that I'm very satisfied with this online store, cos the bed frames are really cheap (I hate going to furniture showrooms where salespeople usually overquote you), ordering is a breeze (since no online payment is required), and delivery is very prompt (we submitted our order online on Friday and received the bed this afternoon). Haha, the wonders of online shopping!
Singapore flag
August is almost over, and these flags are still hanging around. Why? Cos they weren't hung up by the residents in the first place. The number of flags that were displayed in the estate was quite dismal last year, so the town council must have decided that they needed to rectify the situation. Into the picture came workers who were paid to help put these flags up along every single corridor on every single floor of our block. Guess the residents must be waiting for the same workers to come about to remove the flags.
Brown huat kueh
Thanks to aunty leo's recommendation, we've finally found ourselve an egg-less and dairy-less "cake that we could prepare on our own!
We decided to use only a fraction of the premix, in case the end product didn't turn out too nice (proved to be a good decision in hindsight).
Posing with the premix.
Busy stirring the batter here, now that water has been added.
Dropping raisins into the batter very very slowly ...
Checking the consistency of the batter before mama took it away to be steamed.
Tadaa! Here's the final product. Both papa and Kaizer took one obligatory bite each, while mama was left to finish the rest of the kueh. The kueh tasted alright, but we could probably add banana at our next attempt to make it more palatable.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Yummy pasta ... slurp!
Kaizer wanted to eat pasta yet again on Friday, so off we went to Il Piccolo since we've already been to Fusionopolis earlier in the week. After the dinner, te actually told us that the pasta at Fusionopolis was yummier than the Il Piccolo one. Okay, so now we know.
The queue at Botak Jones was real long, so the adults decided to order from Il Piccolo too. The potato dumpling pasta was good!
The salad was alright, but we'll have to remember to tell the crew to serve the dressing and veg seperately in future.
We also tried the katsu curry from the Japanese stall. A tad too salty, well guess you can't expect much from a Japanese stall at a neighbourhood kopitiam.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Four syllable words
Papa bought home two Invitrogen soft toys on Friday (the pandas are actually sewn together). We decided to name the cow "niu niu", and the pandas "invi"/"trogen", just so that Kaizer could practise pronouncing more four syllable words. He's having some problems with "vegetable" still, just can't get the third syllable out properly.
Artwork for National Day 2009
Happy (belated) birthday Singapore!
Kaizer's contribution to the stash of flags handing in school. Don't you think the inverted crescent looks somewhat like an Islamic crescent?
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wallet, coins and cards
To stop Kaizer from rummaging our wallets, we gave him a wallet to call his own a couple of weeks back.
Filled his wallet with lots of bilibo pixel "coins" since he's learning about the concept of money now.
And he gets his very own cards too! Overheard him addressing the star alliance card as his "twinkle twinkle little star" card.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Elephant wants to eat up your daddy ...
Mama: A is for?
Kaizer: Apple juice!
Mama: B is for?
Kaizer: Boy!
Mama: Boy likes to drink apple juice.
Kaizer: Kaizer likes to drink apple juice.
Mama: C is for?
Kaizer: Cookie!
Mama: Boy likes to drink apple juice and eat cookies.
Kaizer: Kaizer likes to drink apple juice.
Mama: D is for?
Kaizer: Daddy! (Looks very pleased)
Mama: Daddy is a boy who likes to drink apple juice and eat cookies.
Kaizer: Emm (Nods in agreement)
Mama: E is for elephant. The elephant wants to eat your daddy, who is a boy ...
Kaizer: No!!!! (Gets emotional, and conversation
always ends at E)
Animal puzzles
We bought a box of animal puzzles over the weekend. There were four puzzles in all, ranging from 3 to 6 pieces.
Kaizer is seen tackling the 5 piece chicken puzzle here.
He always gets a little flustered when he can't get the 5 and 6 piece puzzles to fit together after he's been on it for a long time.
There, it looks like the 5 piece puzzle is going to be completed soon!
Dinner date
Told Kaizer this morning in the car that the two of us will go on a dinner date as papa had to go out with his friends in the evening. He decided there and then that he didn't want to go to school; asked to go for dinner immediately even though it was only 8am! Anyway, he remembered our dinner date when we picked him up from school, and was chirpy on the way to Fusionopolis.
We hooked fingers and made a pact that he'll walk the entire time while we're on our date, and that he'll be carried only when we ride an escalator.
Ho, he kept his promise! Plus, he was ultra cooperative during dinner. So we've had a fun dinner date =)
Umbrella
Looking very "auntie-ish" with his barang barang in this picture. He was asked to carry his sleeping bag to school, and insisted on lugging his umbrella along too, even though it was not raining yesterday morning.
Hungry after school
Kaizer
always asks for food when we've pick him up from school around 6pm. On Friday, we didn't have any snacks left in the car, and he was rambling non stop about eating pasta on the way to IMM. He ate like a hungry person when his food eventually arrived, finishing the small amount of pasta in his kid's meal, a portion of his papa's rice + mackarel, 3 nuggets, 2 slices of watermelon and 1 small cup of jelly.
(PS: He was so hungry when we collected him yesterday that he actually finished half a slice of plain bread, including the bread skin, before papa drove off from the school carpark.)
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Sugar overdose
These pictures were taken last Saturday when we drove over to West Coast Macs for breakfast. Kaizer was happily lapping up the grape jam that came along with his softmeal bread.
Why bother to squeeze the jam out ...
... when it's easier to just eat it off the packet?
Breakfast was followed by a walk around the park to work off the sugar. Actually, the walk didn't really help much cos the sugar overdose kept Kaizer hyperactive throughout the afternoon. he actually feel asleep for his nap two hours later than usual!
Pictures outside INSEAD
We crossed the road to Fusionopolis for dinner this evening. And for no apparent reason, we decided to hijack a couple of strangers to snap a family portrait for us outside INSEAD.
Had fun snapping "self-portraits" too, this picture on the left being the best of the lot!
We haven't been visiting our fav Eighteen Chefs Cafe for a couple of weeks. It's nice to think that the service crew is happy to see us today, cos this happy plate of marshmallows arrived before our spaghetti did!
Hooray for big eyes!
Both eyes were back to their normal sizes on Wednesday evening. Goodbye to slitty eyes and hooray for big eyes!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
AM leave?
Am thinking if i should apply for AM leave in a couple of hours time, and return to the office only in the afternoon. Reason being that Kaizer slept really late (close to 11pm!) just now, and I am super tempted to let him sleep till as late as he wants to in the morning, before feeding him a good breakfast and sending him back to school.
Poor boy had a severe allergic reaction in school because we packed NAN HA 3 instead of NAN HA 2 into his milk powder container on Tuesday. Today's reaction caused his eyes to swell till the double eyelids were gone, caused discharge to ooze from his eyes, and caused his nose to drip perpetually. He was made to skip all of his milk feeds thereafter, and he decided to skip most of his dinner too. He took some fruits after dinner, but puked them out about 5 mins after consumption. We gave his tummy a good hour to rest before feeding him some ribena and dry crackers. That's why he ended up in bed sooooooo late.
On the upside, he was super pampered in the evening. He received lots of sympathetic kisses from me, sat on my lap throughout story reading time, and basically read whatever he wanted to read for however long he wished to read.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Grass cutters
Kaizer asked to eat nuggets for dinner, so off we went to NUS Macs. He finished six pieces on his own today, but only because his fav corn cup were sold out at NUS Macs (this is the second time already!) ...
We sat at the outdoor area, and Kaizer was so fascinated by the three grass cutters at work. He lstood on the high chair throughout dinner so that he could keep his eyes glued on them, what they were doing, where they were going etc.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Il Piccolo
Waiting for my pasta at the Botak Jones coffeeshop in Clementi.
Note to readers: Pasta dishes are going for $4.40 at all Il Piccolo outlets this August!
Checked out the playground at Clementi Ave 5 after my dinner, which consisted of half the portion in the previous picture.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Three little pigs
Papa was trying to teach Kaizer to use the correct names while pointing to the correct pigs, but somehow Kaizer just couldn't get the porky, piggy and pigstyle right.
