Labour Day Cooking..

Did lots of cooking over the long weekend.. end up I was so exhausted that I couldn't get out of bed on time for work on Monday morning !

But the efforts are paid off as Lucas finished almost 90% of his meals and Des finished everything that I serve him for lunch. :)

I only cooked once for adult meal. Think it's easier for us to buy packed food back from coffee-shop rather than cooking. It's very tedious as I need to look after Lucas, do housework and do cooking.. never in my life am I so busy at home than at work.

Made some stock to cook porridge for Lucas hopefully it will make his porridge more flavourful. Every weekend when he is back home with us, he simply refuse to take his porridge even though I uses the same cooking method as my mum...

Stock cooked using chicken bones, potato, carrot & corn.. taste so sweet! Yes, it's oily due to the chicken bones, so we have to filter it before using for cooking.



Uses it to cook porridge with dried scallops, Japanese sweet potato (those with purple skin), pumpkin and fish / chicken. Added the carrot & corn from the soup as well. I tasted the porridge and it's really nice.. (WY, if you are reading this, trust me, slow cooker works, it does cook tasty porridge!)



Home made pasta sauce for Lucas's spaghetti, cooked using tomatoes, diced carrot, chopped onions & minced chicken.



Baby spaghetti for Lucas, he took about 3/4 of it. (had to cut the spaghetti into smaller pieces so that he can chew and digest).



Bought some salmon and decided to pan fried them for me & Des's lunch.

Salmon marinated with salt, pepper, lemon juice and herbs, oh my.. they look so fresh!!



The final product... Yummy & juicy pan-fried salmon!!
(oops... did you see the burnt salmon skin?? It taste nice actually though unhealthy..hee)



Tada! Lunch for me and Des. Spaghetti cooked with ready made pasta sauce serve with pan fried salmon.



Also tried out making this Mash Potato for Lucas. Thinks he is sick of porridge, porridge and more porridge everyday.. So decided to give him something different.

Mash Potato with tuna flake, diced carrot, broccoli and corn kernels. Added with some cheddar cheese before baking it in the oven.



Mash potato freshly baked from oven, only slightly bake to melt the cheese.



Mash it up & it's ready to be serve!!



Recipes source : Tona-mama & Little Gastronomy

Some changes to be made..

After much considerations, Mummy decided to make some changes to this blog.

It will still be a blog to update my growing up, but going forward Mummy will blog in her capacity.

She thinks that this is the best because at the same time, she can make use of the same blog to put down her thoughts as well (rather than keeping 2 blogs)

Of course, the main subject will still be me and on me.. and of course she will try to keep posting as much pictures / videos of me as possible.
Recently, it become more and more difficult to take pictures of me. I now seldom want to pose and smile at the camera...

She might be changing the layout and theme of the blog as well.

Stay tuned!!

By Mummy - Can anyone enlighten me?

Have been feeling very vexed over this issue... Whenever I bring it up intentionally or un-intentionally.. I was always end up feeling upset and at a loss of what can be done to improve it.
Worst is, can even cause cold war between me & Des... SIGH!

As all know, Lucas is taken care by my mum ever since he was born. After my maternity leave and back to working life, we would have to ferry him up and down from my mum's place.
The routine would be morning to send Lucas to mum's place followed by sending me to work.
Des will pick me up from work in the evening to mum's place for dinner and bring Lucas back home

Every morning is a torture.. I have to wake up early to pump milk, feed Lucas & change his diaper, prepare myself for work before waking Des up to get ready. (He usually wakes up at 7.30am)
Will leave the house by 7.45am even later depending on the speed of action of my dear chauffeur.
Yes.. yes.. he only needs 15mins to get ready.. so that he can have more sleep :)

Of course, if Lucas is good and did not make too much noise causing Des to wake up earlier than usual, then things will proceed smoothly till we are in the car. Otherwise, if Lucas fuss like 7am in the morning and cause Des to sleep lesser, he will start to grumble that this is too tiring and we need to do something to stop it..
Can I ask.. where on earth is there a baby who is consistently non-fussing every single day???

When we hit the road and meet the jam.. here comes the nightmare.. Cursing and complaints will start to roll out non-stop from dear chauffeur's mouth.. From Bukit Batok (where the jam start) all the way to Jurong (my mum's place). After that, from Jurong to Alexandra (my work place) he will start to suggest all sort of un-constructive solutions to solve the problem such as hiring a maid at home to take care of Lucas or Des to resign and stay at home to be a houseHubby!!

Des just hate jams.. so do I. But this is not something within our control, everyone has to face morning rush, don't we??

The issue came up over and over again for the past 1 year and is driving me nuts. Of course, the both of us did sat down to thrash out the problem and we decided to put Lucas to childcare near our place when he reaches 2 years.
But I can foresee that by then I will definitely feel heart pain to let such a small boy attend childcare FULL DAY.

My mum also mention issue such as emergency call to bring Lucas back from childcare immediately if he is found to be sick. The need to specially prepare his dinner as he's still young, we can't let him have packed dinner everyday.

So I thought maybe I should place him at a childcare near my mum and he can attend it for half day only
But this will means that the morning jam issue remains unresolved.
Or I can bring Lucas down to the childcare myself, but can I really do that when the morning buses are all so fully packed like sardines?!?

This issue is really a big headache for me!!

PS: If anyone out there who has been in the same situation as me and manage to overcome it with a good solutions, do let me know..

By Mummy --- My very first Bento

After looking at so many bento blogs.. I decided that I should put my hand to it today....

Thanks to Tona-mama for the 3 little pigs inspiration
But my pigs seem to be much bigger... hmmm



I use ham & white bread for the pig head cut out from a bear rice mould / cutter. Also ham for ears and nose. The 2 holes on the nose are cut using a normal straw
Added 1 mini cupcake for Lucas and also included strawberries, grapes and flower & star cut out dragon fruit as deco to make the bento look less empty

Lucas only took half of the cupcake.. I reckon he won't like the dragon fruit cos it's tasteless!! Did not let him try strawberry as he might not be use to biting seeds on the fruits itself.
He only suck a bit on the grapes.. guess still not accustom to the taste yet.
So the rest have to be finish by Mummy..

There are lots and lots of rooms for improvement.. such as cutting of the face expression.. Still need more practice.. the eyes and mouth on the pigs aren't too nice.. :(
And my bento don't seem "full".... need to add more deco stuff or increase the quantity of food..


Something interesting on the table... let's check it out


I am coming... keke


Hmm.. looks interesting...

Let me take a closer look.. Oh.. is Little Pigs!!!

Can I play with them?!?!


Please Mummy.. they are for me right?? :)

My Favourite Playmate - Robot

I am One

Yes.. today is my 1st Birthday!!

I feel so happy today.. The morning routine was as usual with Mummy the first to wake up to get all the housework done, follow by me as we get prepared for my bathing time..blah blah blah

In the afternoon, Amy Yiyi and Jasmine Yiyi were first to reach to help out with pumping the balloons, while Mummy starts to prepare all the food for the kids.

Aunty Huiyin and Uncle Boon Leong also arrive shortly to help out with the preparation and the venue deco. While Daddy & Uncle Wai Khay bring the balloons to the balloon store to be inflate with helium gas.

The party starts at about 5pm with the guests coming in at about 6pm..

Mummy wasn't too satisfied with buffet menu (this task was taken care by daddy, so she doesn't know what's went wrong)
But she is very very please with the deco, the reception table layout and the cake cutting time!!

The 3 of us had a wonderful time and we would like to thank all our guests for taking time out to attend the party and let us had a very memorable event.
Also, a big thanks to all your cash gifts and presents!! Lucas love them all!!

Here are the photos of that day.. enjoy

Coming Soon!!

Wohooo!! Getting so excited!!

Tomorrow will be my BIG Day.. I am all geared up and ready for action!! :D

Well.. Mummy is very very busy with the preparation.. as usual.. she got 101 things on her to do list.

Preparing songs to be play during the party.. hopefully it can be hear loud and clear :)
Getting the goodies bags ready (with daddy's help)
Printing of banner cos she thinks that there's not enough mickey mouse banner around, so she downloaded some from website
Preparing cover for my photo album
Prepare a big lable to stick on my high chair (so that I can be easily identify as the Birthday Boy!!)
Wrapping up cake stand, boxes and trays to contain balloons and goodies bags,
DIY my big birthday card for guests to leave me their well wishes (as it's a real challenge to find a nice big card, not to say in Mickey mouse theme, so Mummy decide to DIY herself)
DIY a photo display to show some of my personal best shots
Preparing food picks as well as getting ready food stuff and drinks for the children

Here's some sneak preview of the party stuff! And see you soon!!

PS: Mummy's camera spolit at this very last min... so some of the pictures are not clear..

Lucas Baby Talk

My little skills

Ever since I am 10 months old, I have started to learn pronunciations.

I watch how Mummy and Po Po pronounces the words and I mimic the way their lips move.

So far I have learnt how to greet Mama & Papa when they are back from work to fetch me from Po Po's house.

I have also learnt to pronounce Apple, Tree, Car & mum mum (for food)

Just yesterday, I learnt how to greet Po Po, but I call her...mmmmmmm....MAH!! (as in Ah Mah).. keke

Of course, there are more things to learn like Gong Gong , Yi Yi, milk milk etc etc...

I enjoy reading the board books that Mummy bought for me. I love to use my little fore fingers to flip through the pages.

I would sit on my high chair and reading out aloud each page of the book...

Reading out aloud means talking loudly in my baby language...hehe

I have my cute actions too...

Like patting my chest (it should be tummy actually but i just simply don't know how to push my hand down) when ask if I am full (bao bao)

Putting both hands on top of my head to indicate "OH NO!!"

Touching people's faces to 'sayang' happy

Closing and opening of my ten little fingers when I hear the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars

And lastly HI-5!!

Everyone is so proud of me!!!

PS: The above are only done when I am in my happy mood. If I don't feel like doing it, I will shout BU YAO!! My favourite quote now...hahahaha

Please don't disturb me, I am reading my book!!

Sun... Moon

I love my board book

See... I love to read so much till the book had become torn and tattered

Some Thoughts

Times really flies.

I am reaching my next milestone in another 20 days. I will be 1 year old soon.

Mummy is busy preparing for the celebration. Surfing net to get all the party wares, booking of venue, drafting out the deco setup, ordering of cakes & buffet, keeping track of the guests list and making sure that the 3 of us will be dressed accordingly to the Micky Mouse Theme which we are having for the birthday party.

Over the last 1 year, Mummy did alot alot of things for me, from feeding to changing diaper, to reading, to playing and to rocking me to sleep. All these work being done without complaints! (well, except for complaining Daddy not taking enough initiative to help.. hee)

The greatest thing that Mummy did for me was..... Breastfeeding me since Day 1!!!

She's really persistent about it and she succeed despite being her first time. This allows her to save on the milk powder cost and spend it on toys, books, clothes and classes for me.

Of course, she have to pay a price for it too, which is lesser sleep, lesser shopping time, lesser self grooming time and no overseas trip.

In the past 1 year, Daddy & Mummy had changed many of their living habits.
They had to change from staying out late lifestyle to stay at home lifestyle, from movies goers to DVD rental VIP, from sleeping in late to waking up early on Sunday morning.
Daddy had learnt to help out with more housework and to tolerate the nagging and scolding from Mummy.
Mummy had to learnt that I don't live according to schedule and there are times where I am naughty and that's because I am a kid.

I am glad that I am the biggest source of strength for them (at least for mummy).
My laughter makes them forget all the stress and trouble they faced at work.
My cute action makes them realised that I am worth all the sacrifices
My little movement makes them realised that I am a gift from god to make their life so much fuller and amazing!
Best of all, my baby language that makes them laugh :)

Daddy & Mummy have come so far together with me going through the up and downs, the laughter and the quarrels. Watching me from learning to turnover to crawling and now to stand.. (erm..i abit lazy.. still not intending to learn to walk yet).

They enjoyed every part of it and looking forward for more to come.

I love you Daddy & Mummy and let's bring more joy to our bright and wonderful future!!