Let's play catch up

It's Daddy's turn to pen down some thoughts.

After revisiting my new year's resolution yet again and scrolling through the archives; Daddy must say that he has not been a good man. This year's entries are definitely less than the previous and after a thorough investigation, it only leads to one conclusion. Daddy is a facebook addict. To be exact, a Mafia Wars addict. Its silly because the game is in fact totally crappy, non conclusive and is not all that thrilling, but for some reason, Daddy sees the need to play it every now and then. Maybe Mummy should send Daddy to China for some technology cold turkey or something of sorts.

Anyways. Reading through the archives also made Daddy realise that you may not really understand the growing milestones in your life, since we hardly chart it in this blog. Somehow, I felt that we should rename this blog into enxi-parents.blogspot.com instead. While its important for you to know what we think, I think it is equally, if not more importantly for you to know your growing pains.

Let's play catch up then. We went to Phuket with Mummy's family 3 months ago. It was not the typical Phuket kind of trip, but more of a exclusive resort type with Mariotts. We had a great time cos (1) there's hardly anybody around, therefore we gotta use most of the resort facilities; and (2) its cheap cos your uncle got a great deal for all of us at a promotional rate.

Let's party with booze.

Mummy's papa trying very hard to look cool.

We went to the Dora show (free) at CIA. Not too sure, you were more happy watching the show or running around the vast open space or pretending to be a tourist.

Nonetheless, Daddy thinks your love for Dora has gone to a whole new level, where you could actually kiss and hug Dora more willingly than to me. Work for me has also being hectic of recent, which meant less bonding time between us. Daddy thinks that it has taken a toil on our relationship. Somehow, all the bonding that we had build up in the first 16 months has been slowing “slipping” away. So remember this when you have your own kids “When they are young, bonding is about quantity first before quality”. Lately, Daddy took some time off from work to send and pick you up from school, bathing and feeding you, playing with you and reading more as well. Things kindda improved and I'm glad.

Taking sharp and crisp photos of you proved to be difficult cos you never sits still. Coupled with the fact that I had to take my pictures in low light conditions only made it worst. Trying to bump up the ISO on lead to more grainy pictures. Opps, too technical, but you will get to it, just click here. Anyway, Daddy thinks Grandpa and Grandma are very happy with their grandkids in their toll.

Yupe, before Daddy forgets, some milestones between 16 to 19 months without elaboration.

1. Its extremely difficult to feed you and somehow you are bullying Daddy and Mummy when we feed you cos Grandma never seems to have any problems feeding you.

2. You are able to feed yourself, albeit a little messy.

3. You like to try different and new kind of food and will reject food that has been prepared too often with a firm 'No'.

4. Your speech has improved, but limited to singing rather than communicating with us.

That's about it for now. Yah and one more thing, Mummy is going for a DSLR Photography class and will be joining Daddy in capturing more of our happy moments.

Happy Teachers' Day!

We wanted to prepare a small gift of appreciation for this meaningful day, as we are really grateful for Ms Yu Kai and her team for their great guidance to Mei Mei. Having seen the painting works that Mei Mei has done at school, I was inspired to use that as the theme of the greeting card.

Marking the 1^st try with Mei Mei in painting, I was determined to document the whole process of this inaugural experience. I was visualizing how endearing it will be painting with Mei Mei and capturing the steps of preparation in Daddy’s picture perfect DSLR cam.

Here’s what Mummy was envisioning for the pixs: Mei Mei sharing a laugh with Mummy while painting happily away on the card. Mei Mei will patiently try out the different palettes of color and looking amazed with the output of her artistry talents. Finally the blissful scene will be complete with a grin to grin pose with the finished masterpiece.

In reality, that didn’t really happen :(

Mei Mei refused to sit still, and more interested in painting her whole hands than the canvass. We spent most of the time trying to stop her from planting her colored hands on the table and sofa. From what I thought was just a simple art and craft session turns out to almost a vandalizing disaster. I’m bewildered by how her teachers manage to do that (as I was told that she totally loved it whenever there are painting lessons!!). Instead of the original plan to design 3 cards, we decided to throw the white flag at the end of the 1^st card.

Focusing hard when she first started..

And started to paint the table than the card.

Somehow figure out that her fat little fingers will be more fun than using the brush

Finally added the finishing touch with her Hello Kitty stickers

We will definitely try painting again, but probably the next time, it might be more suitable to move it to the corridor I guess?