Tessa & Meimei

Tessa loves to play with meimei. Whenever she sees Shihan, she'll be cheering so loudly "meimei meimei yeah yeah yeah!!!".

It is such a joy to see the two of them play together and how much Tessa loves to hug and kiss meimei. I just hope she'll love and dote on her didi just as much.

A Walk in the Park

Daddy brought Mommy and me for a walk at the Upper Seletar Reservoir. It was right after the rain and the weather's extremely nice and cooling. The best time for a leisurely walk.

Finally... 30 Weeks Down!

Finally, Didi is 30 weeks old. We'll be meeting him in another 2 months' time.

I can feel that Didi is doing well. He now kicks with alot of punch. We are all very excited and very much looking forward to his arrival.

Tessa & Her Jigsaw ABCs

A beautiful day at Peirce Reservoir with meimei

It was a beautiful day, Daddy and Mommy brought me and meimei to the Peirce Reservoir for a walk. We saw people cycling, joggline and flying kite. Both meimei and I had a great time!

First School Outing

Mommy and Tessa went on our first school outing today to Little O'zone at Orchid Country Club. Little O'zone is an indoor playground where the children can get to run around, play and even engage in music activities and hand painting.

We gathered in the Little Skoolhouse at 830am. At around 9am, we were packed onto the chartered bus and off we go on our way to Little O'zone!

Tessa had a lot of fun running around the playground, climbing up and down, jumping around with her teachers and friends. Mommy on the other hand had a tiring time trying to catch up with Tessa.

Tessa enjoyed the music activities very much!

Tessa - the savvy iPhone user

Daddy bought Mommy an iPhone. Mommy downloaded some educational applications for Tessa. Now, Tessa will cling on to Mommy's phone whenever she has the chance.

Within a short while, the little one has mastered how to use the iPhone. She knows how to swipe to the page with all her applications, pick the application she wants, play until she gets bored, press the button to exit the application and choose a new one all over again. The amazing thing is she knows when to swipe and when to tap to enter the application and manoveure her way through the application.

My two-year-old is now a savvy iPhone user.

人小鬼大

Everyone at home is sick. Yes, everyone. It first started from Tessa, then it got to Yeye, then it got to Daddy, Mahmah and Mommy.

Tessa has not been going to childcare for one and a half weeks now.

Yesterday, I was not feeling well on MC. Tessa came into my room in the morning after she woke up, saw me still in bed and said, "Lazy dog dog, wake up! Go work!"

**Notes from Mommy**
Somehow, Tessa associates everyone at home with an animal.
Tessa = Mouse
Yeye = Bear
Daddy = Pig
Mahmah = 蚂蚁 (Ant)
Mommy = Dog
Didi = Tiger
Lao Ma = Horse
Meimei = Moomoo Cow

We are one zoo family.

I saw didi again!

Today, I went to NUH with Daddy, Mommy and Mahmah. Mommy is going to have a ultra-scan and review with Dr Anna.

We are all anxious to find out how Didi is doing.

The sonographer puts the doppler on Mommy's tummy and immediately we can see Didi! She kindly points out Didi's head, heart, thigh bone, kidneys, etc to us. I heard Didi's strong heartbeat again!

The sonographer announces that Didi is growing well and is now 0.944kg. Yeah!

Dr Anna saw us after that and confirmed that Didi's well and Mommy shouldn't be too worried. Mommy has been worried about Didi's growth and development, so now all of us can put our hearts at ease.

I can't wait to meet Didi and carry him!

Sick again

Some kids in the childcare are running around with running nose and cough. I really think parents should be more considerate and keep their sick children at home. As a result, our little one is sick again.

She first started to cough and have running nose. Over the weekends, the fever came. Yeye and Mahmah had to bring her all the way from Clementi to AMK to see Dr Chong on Monday, which happened to be Yeye's birthday.

Her fever came on and off, which worried all of us. Finally, the fever completely subsided after we faithfully fed her paracetamol and ibuprofen. But the cough and running nose persisted.

Yeye and Mahmah suffered the most when Tessa is ill, as I am now in no condition to take care of her at night. Tessa sleeps with them at night and thus they are the ones to suffer from sleeplessness. Poor them.

Happy Mother's Day!

Sorry for the lack of updates.

We celebrated Mother's Day and Yeye's birthday on 7 May with a delicious tze char dinner at our favourite Malu Malu tze char stall. We had black pepper crab and chilli crab. Yummy!

Although we did not have a birthday cake for Yeye, Tessa still sings Yeye the birthday song, help Yeye make his wish, pretends to blow out candles, cut the cake and eat it. She knows the sequence of the birthday-cake-cutting ceremony so well that she wants to repeat it for every one in the family.

Mommy receives a heartwarming "Happy Mother's Day" from Tessa once she woke up on Sunday morning. Sweet Daddy is getting Mommy her new Iphone. What a blessed mommy am I.

Conversations with Tessa

The little one is learning words at an amazing pace and she is beginning to speak in sentences. She never fails to amaze and amuse us with her speech development.

One morning, she came over to my room after she woke up. She strode across the room and picked up my mobile phone. Looking at the photo of her and her Dad on the phone, she said, "Papa, morning." Then she passed the phone to me and said, "Mimi, phone, call Papa." I told her that Papa is at work and we'll call him later tonight.

She looked a little disappointed. Then she put the mobile phone to her ear and started her make-pretend conversation with her Dad. After a while, she put the phone to her mouth and give loud kisses before putting the phone back to her ear and said, "Bye bye Papa."

She then turned to me and said, "Papa working. Papa come home tonight."

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Since very young, Tessa has developed a special interest in mobile phones. We gave her a spoilt mobile phone so that she will have her own phone and will leave ours alone.

One morning, refusing to drink her milk, Yeye wanted to pretend to call meimei and asked if meimei wants to drink the milk instead (a tactic Yeye used to bluff the little one to obey him). So Yeye picked up her phone which Tessa quickly snatched away from him.

Tessa: Not yours! My one!
Yeye: 借我一下，我打电话给妹妹。
Tessa: No! Not yours, my one!
Yeye: ........

Cycling with Papa @East Coast Park

Today is Labour Day, so Daddy said a little exercise will do us good.


Putting on sunblock to get ready to head out in the sun.


All buckled up and ready!


Yeah yeah!!


OK, I'm the pillion rider, Daddy is the cyclist.

All set, can we go now?

Happy Birthday Tessa!

Happy Birthday Tessa!

Happy 2nd Birthday!!!!

Today we celebrate Tessa's birthday. She turns 2 today. If you ask her how old she is, she'll tell you "Meimei 1, Me 2".

She had her Barney triple chocolate cake. She even learnt to make a wish before blowing the candles. This time round, she managed to blow out the candles without any help.

Mommy will upload photos of the cake cutting ceremony later. After we have all enjoyed the delicious cake, Daddy and Mommy took her to KidsAmaze at Safra Jurong where the little one and Daddy had a good workout climbing up and down.

It's amazing how fast Tessa is growing. I can still clearly remember the day she was born and when I first held her in my arms. I can't believe that 2 years have passed since. All that we wish for is that she is healthy and happy.

Happy birthday baby.


A beautiful Barney birthday cake


A not-so-happy birthday girl at first


Daddy & his little girl


Waiting to eat her cake


Yum yum, a satisfied little girl now