Tyler's Daily activities

Since Tyler started walking, he has been very active, always wanna go for walks at the park in our condo, therefore to combat his new found walking interest, daddy decided to get him some "mind toys" to distract him from going down for walks frequently. Daddy wanted to get him Duplo from Lego, however, it was more expensive so I decided to get him Mega Blocks... but he's more interested in taking all pieces out from the box and putting it back, rather than fixing something that comes from his mind.



In my office, he would play with anything that comes in his way, be it envelopes, dvd covers, his shoes, my keys n etc... This picture was taken while he was trying to "cook" his clean diapers. He took lots of diapers out from the pack and stuff into the pot! Then he would stir the pot and taste the diaper! Hahahahah



This pic below, trying to stuff more diapers into the pot! Not that he's lack of toys, his toys are a basket full in the lime green basket! Yet, he prefers to play with "non-toys" material things.



This is it when he's bored playing with them and waiting for mummy to clean it up. That's what I usually do after he goes for nap, picking up pieces of things lying on the floor :{



When he refuses to sleep in the afternoon, this is what happen in the car on our way home from work.

Tyler's watching tv while eating a slice of apple. He likes only apples and bananas at the moment, and the apple would have to be fresh and crisp when he's bitting, if not he'll just hold it forever till it turns brown for me to throw away.

He loves playing at the sink! Climbing up and down to the sink and come down again and up again and this goes on and on...

This is his little update for the last week of being 16 months.

Hair Cutting Challenge

We were told that a saloon in Spring have the facilities to make children adapt to the environment during a hair cut. There was this toy car which Tyler loves riding on, and also cartoon being played on the t.v For most kids, they would be amazed by the facilities and forget all about strangers trying to cut their hair. So, I was thinking of giving it a try since he has never liked getting hair cut.

At first he was fine, playing with the toy car and watching cartoon, as soon as the lady cut a towel on his shoulder, he began to panic and started crying. So, getting his hair cut was impossible at that moment.

Then we went home, and Tyler took a nap, a long one indeed, I wanted to wake him up at 4.00 pm because I want him to sleep earlier during the night. However, no matter how I try to wake him, he refused to wake up. Since he doesn't wanna wake up, I decided to cut his hair :)

This is the outcome of my hair cut on Tyler :) I'd say this was better compared to the first cut I had on him, when he was about 8 months.

Chinese New Year 2011

This CNY is Tyler's second CNY celebration and clearly, he enjoyed himself very much! This picture was taken before the reunion dinner and we managed to get the outfit during our last visit in Hong Kong. He looked like a little emperor, don't you think so? =)

On the first day of CNY, our first visit was to my in laws place. In addition to this CNY, Tyler started walking 2 weeks ago when he turned 15 months. It was a challenge to tail him around the house, worrying that he will knock things down. All morning, he would just guard the table full of CNY goodies. He loves the roasted anchovies, although it's a little spicy, he could eat non stop!

Our second stop was to my parents house, as usual busy guarding the table with goodies :) He was a good boy throughout all our CNY visiting, he was just curious of his surrounding and trying to explore all corners of the houses, that's why it's a challenge to follow him to all directions he wants to go. Since he started walking, he doesn't like to be carried any longer!

I got my early Vday and Bday gift =)

It's a 4 pcs Solitaire Diamond pendent. Love it! and loving my generous hubby too :P

For the first time, Tyler slept on his stroller while shopping in Spring today.

Tyler at 15 mths

Tyler could now walk baby steps and he's improving by the day, just that he may walk well today, but after he wakes up, he might lose his confidence. Weird ya...? When he was about 6 months, he learned to pray by watchig his grandad praying everyday in the office. Every morning, as he walked by the praying room, he would put his palm together and say "pai pai", even passing the temple by the road, he is able to recognise a temple and put his palm together and say "pai pai".


He insisted on praying with a joss stick and taking baby steps to the alter.




There he is, "pai pai" with the joss stick but he was kinda rough with the lit joss stick and worried that he would burn himself.

Taken this morning during breakie, he now refused to finish his meal in the baby chair and always get distracted with things around him. He wanna get on the ground and walk! hmmmm... there goes mummy's and daddy's meal time.

Tyler lost this hat, which is one of his favourite! No idea where is it now, he had it only for a week and we bought it specially for him in HK, hopefully the shop owners will keep it for him if we were to have left it there. So sad ='( *sob* *sob*

Birthday (Back-dated Post)

This is a back-dated post for Tyler's 1st Birthday on the 21st Oct 2010, and also Grandma Ong's Birthday. However, we celebrated Grandma Ong's birthday few days before the actual day. That very morning of Tyler's birthday, he woke up to a big present from Daddy & Mummy. He likes horse very much and he would called up "beh beh" whenever he saw one.




I ordered a 3-D Hush Puppy cake, but it doesn't really looked like one, seemed like the Basset Hound is a crossed-bred with a Ducshane =p Jason ordered another 3-D Elmo cake as well. Being only 1 year old, Tyler had 2 birthday cakes! He's such a lucky boy. We celebrated Tyler's birthday at Mandarin Restaurant, Liwah Hotel and the celebration was attended by families and close friends, adding up to 4 tables.



Birthday Boy with Daddy and Mummy =)



He turned 1, so we thought we'd let him drink whatever drink he wants, guess what he choose??? Hahahaha, but he just like holding on to the cold canned beer!

Tyler's first family pictures with all his Grandparents....

My baby turned 1! how time flies....

Holiday(s)

This will be a little update on my recent holiday. Two months and half months ago, we went to Hong Kong in Oct 2010 and we bought the ticket even before Tyler was born. Then I got pregnant and postponed the ticket and finally after not traveling for so long, so really looked forward to a HOLIDAY, yipee, without Tyler and I could have a break from being a mummy a while.

So, we stayed over in KL a night before flying to Hong Kong as Air Asia do not have connecting flight on the same day. We had a chance to meet up with Cindy and Loon.


Hubby & Loon with his 'signature' pose

Cindy & I at Chilies, Midvalley

Both Cindy and Loon were very very hospitable, fetching us all the way from LCCT, and bringing us around the city and also visited their penthouse (currently under renovation). The next day, we would take our flight to Hong Kong in the afternoon and they were so nice again to fetch us to the airport and fed us well before boarding the plane. Oh yes, they brought us to this really nice dim sum place and they served a wide variety of dim sum, we enjoyed our brunch very much.

On the way to the airport, there was a massive jam on the road to LCCT, which was really near LCCT and we were worried that we would miss our flight. And Cindy was really really nice to call up Air Asia to inform them of our delay and told them to hold the plane, hahahahah isn't she a sweetie? I'd definitely not forget this incident!

Anyway, we arrived at the airport, and Cindy made sure we checked in safely and sent us to the boarding gate and then we began our holiday (second honey moon)...

We happily arrived Hong Kong International Airport at 5.30pm, then waited for our luggage at the luggage claim belt, waited... waited and waited... till around 7.00pm, still no sign of our luggage. Damn.... lodged complaint to the baggage services and we were told that they will send us our luggage, once our luggage reaches Hong Kong. I was stressed, really stressed, having absolutely nothing with me! What a holiday right?

Well, tried to keep the lugagge problem aside and still enjoy the holiday coz God knows when will our next holiday be? We had to buy everything new...

Hubby got me this LV handbag for our 2nd anniversary with my initials printed =)

I, however, got him an Ipad for our anniversary too =P

We stayed in Hotel benito, Tsim Sha Shui, which is located just 1 minute away from the MTR station, extremely convinient, with shops and restaurants at every corner!

We managed to stay a night in Hong Kong Disneyland Hollywood Hotel, and the rooms are so big and the decorations made you feel so young again, just like living on a fantasy world.

Throughtout our stay in Hong Kong, we did not manage to get our lugagge back, so we came back home with new sets of clothes, our electronic chargers and everything is new, and we made complaints to Air Asia, but their services was so bad that they pushed me from one department to another and I ended up lodging a complaint against them to NCCC (National Consumers Complaint Centre) http://www.nccc.gov/ and boy, they responded to my case almost instantly and they found my luggage on the 1st November 2010 (3 weeks) late. The funny thing is my luggage got to travel all the way to Hong Kong too... hmmmm...

Definitely I was not satisfied even I got my baggage back 3 weeks late, complaint to NCCC again for compensation and they compensated me with free ticket to Hong Kong again! heheheheh that's why my recent trip was to Hong Kong again in Jan 2011.

It was winter in January 2011, with the average of 10 degrees everyday while we were there. I love the weather! However, after I got back, I've got cracked skin on my legs =( Hubby was feeling feverish on the second day, staying in bed the whole day, while I strolled along Tsim Sha Tsui alone.



On the third day, hubby recovered from his fever and started out adventure in Hong Kong. First, we had breakfast in Pret A Manger, hubby has been saliva-ing to eat eat there since our last visit in Oct 2010. They are known to served freshly wrapped sandwiches and that breakfast cost a bomb too.

After that, we went to take the 'Big Bus Tour Company' at the Central Pier, where they bring tourist to places of interest. For more information, you may go to this site http://www.bigbustours.com We took the Stanley Tour (Green Route), there were also Central Tour (Red Route) and Kowloon Tour (Blue Route). We've covered almost all of Kowloon and also Central, therefore Stanley Tour would be appropriate for us to venture around. That package cost us HKD180.00 per person and it's a hop on and off (free and easy) tour, in an open deck bus.

We went through Aberdeen, Repulse Bay and we stopped by Stanley Market. There are variety of shops selling gifts and souvenirs as well as clothes. We bought most of Tyler's stuff there and the prices were reasonable.

After the tour, they dropped us back in the Central and Hubby wanted to try this famous restaurant known for its Roasted Goose, so we took a cab there. We had lunch at Yung Kee Restaurant (http://www.yungkee.com.hk/whatsnew/whatsnew-e.html). Being a tourist, we didn't know what to order, so we thought ordering the set meal would save us the hassle of going through each and every item in the menu. We took the HKD860 set meal, coause Hubby said eating there might cost us HKD1000, so we thought the set meal was a good deal. The food was good, but not worth the price, at the end of the lunch, the total bill cost HKD1001.00 Apart from the set meal, we had 2 dim sum dish as well. But we went back the next day for lunch again, this time we ordered from the menu, we had 3 main dish and 1 dessert cost us HKD535, with bigger portion and it was a better deal =)

Tyler was super clingy the next day we were back =)

Finally Tyler starts walking

My apologies to my long overdue post, have been busy with attention-demanding baby Tyler :)

However, as for today, no matter how tired I am, I have to post this update, finally Tyler starts walking unaided at 14 and half months. Hubby saw him walking on his own around 4.00 pm, for a few steps (about 8 steps) before this, he would only walk 2 steps, that's also when he didn't realized he was walking. He would immediately stopped when we watched him and lose his confident.

So, today, after dinner and my parents came over, he continued to show off his new found skills and started walking to and fro from one person to another. My baby boy is finally growing up and he's no longer a baby.

Over the past months, he babbles a lot, and majority of it, I don't understand, hehehhehe

He can now sit in his baby chair in the car, provided he watches his favorite show ELMO and he'd keep quiet for the journey to the office. Basically he can understand things around him, he shows interest in board books and he can immediately point out on pictures of dogs, cats and bananas :) Also, he refers all edible things as "bak bak" and he'd show his cutest impatient face when food is served in front of him, but normally I'd need time for the food for cool down or cut into little pieces before feeding, and he'd shout out loud "bak bak!!!"

Will update again soon...