Chase is speaking so much more now..

Just a few months back I was so worried that he is not going to speak to me in Mandarin at all. All worries are redundant! Once we are back in Singapore with his gong gong and po po, he just switched to and fro English and Mandarin like magic!

Some stuff which left a deep impression on us like:

Gong gong giving Chase a body massage

Chase: Hao shu fu! (So comfortable)

)))

Last night, there was lighting and thunder. Chase woke up from the lighting.

Chase: Ma ma, go to bed. turn off the light (all in Mandarin)

Even in his groggy state, he speak to me in Mandarin..wowowow

 

 

A trip to Ang Mo Kio

29 Sept 2011 – Chase asked me “You have fun today?”

At first, I thought I got it wrong..he repeated thrice and Im so surprised to hear him said that cos its such a mature thing to say.

I guess its cos usually I will ask him if he has fun at the end of the day when we went to the zoo or something.

Then I collected myself and asked him back if he has fun with mommy too. It was a short trip to Ang Mo Kio but we ended up spending 4 hours there, swimming first, dinner, shopping and end up buying a scooter for him.

Going across Bishan Park to AMK swimming pool usually take up almost 45mins (u only need 10 mins) due to numerous activities that attracted Chase. E.g. Babies, Kites, Dogs, Music….

Chase has to dance to the music (in front of Mc Donald) all the time

Chase cant resist petting doggies that cross his path

The terrible? two?

I love Chase at 2.5 years old. Yes, I dont think its the terrible two.. here are 10 things I love about Chase at two..

1) Just yesterday I told him we are going to My Gym and as I was picking up a t-shirt for Chase, he said “No..no” and he picked up his My Gym t-shirt cos he wanted to wear that to My Gym. Cool! He is growing up so fast and know what I am talking about.

Chase's fav tee

Chase’s fav tee

2) He said “Ice cream ke ke”..means Eat ice cream will cough..”ke ke” is cough in Chinese, everytime he cough. There was once when he requested for ice cream so I told him before that if he eat ice cream, he is likely to get a cough and if he still want ice cream? He said yes ice cream. So I figured he need to go through the consequences to learn so  we had ice cream, he started to get a cough a few hours later. Then I started brainwashing him every time he cough. I told him ice cream caused the “ke ke”..hence nowadays its “ice cream ke ke” when he got a little cough.

3) He go pee by himself..how cool is that? When I told him its time to go pee, he will go switch on the light, lift up the toilet seat, standing on his tippy toes and pee. He will also flush the toilet..hooray!

4) He has his own meals without help (yes, its messy but totally worth it).

5) After having a regular routine of fruit juice first thing in the morn and smoothie the next thing in the morn. He will request for these. Hehehe..he used to refuse smoothie but now he will ask for “smookti”..how cool is that!

6) He like to help out at the kitchen. So I will put him on the countertop. I will cut up the vegs and he will put them into the pot. I will also ask him for his opinion e.g. “Chase, do you want corn in your soup?” He will tell me “yes or no”.

7) He love birthday parties..ALOT. He will groove, dance and clap his hands to the birthday song..so u can guess one of his fav songs is “Happy Birthday”. He enjoyed Mymo’s 1st birthday party and anticipated in the games.

Its like Chase's birthday!

See how he dance to the music

8) He carefully piece his words together. “Want..to..watch..tv” “mama..wake..up” “go..away” “come..back”..its amazing I did not tell him to say these words but he picked up by listening to us.

9) He demanded I wear the necklace he made.

Necklace loaded with Chase's toys

10) I was previously worried that he doesn’t like to read cos when he is less than 2 years old, he said “no storybook” everytime I ask him. Now, he must read storybooks before tuning into bed. He will even cry if I told him storytelling session is enough after 1/2 hr. Curious George, Richard Scarry’s, 1001 sea creatures/ wizards/ towns to spot..he love them all

His current fav book

So who say its the terrible two? its the Terrify Two!

A little mouse did some serious chewing

A little mouse chewed off this toy..

 

Is this cheese bits?

This is suppose to be a toy rocket, put this over a rod and the air pressure will push the yellow foam up. The little mouse’s record for destroying toys is 1 min, this toy took 3 days to be destroyed..not bad at all. Not that Im proud of the little mouse’s destroying ability, it is a skill after all..hehe..

Chasinsunshine springs back aft 2 months holi!

Sneekin a peep at Chase in class

Howdy!

Chase is starting to talk more these couple of months. He will repeat one word out of every sentence i ask him. e.g. “Chase, do you want strawberries?” He said “strawberries”. lol…

We have a conversation today. He do not just repeat the words. He know to reply in Yes or No.

It goes like this
Mama: Chase, today is the 1st day of March. Do you want to go school?
Chase: No
Mama: Chase, you like your teachers?
Chase: teachers (this means yes)
Mama: you like?
Chase: Yes
Mama: Do you like your friends in school?
Chase: Friends (this means Yes)
Mama: You like your friends?
Chase: Yes
Mama: *Attempt to confirm if he like sch* You want to go school?
Chase: NO!

lol lol lol…

My little man really does know what he like and dont like now..he is growing up so fast..*teary*

Anyways we did go to school today. After I told his Teacher Melody about this incident, Teacher Melody ask him as well. “Like Teacher Melody?” “Yes”…”Like School?” Chase frowned..

lol lol.. I decided to extend his trial lessons for another 2 weeks before pulling him out. He does seems to like school, doesnt cry when I left him there and always the last one to leave when I go pick him up.

p/s A couple of days ago, he was searching for his marbles..and he said “Where is it?”

A full 3 words…not repeating after me..wow..just like mama had said it before..cool cool

Merry Xmas!

Hello all!

There will be no updates here during the holiday season. Chasinsunshine will be taking a break in the winter and see ya all when the sun start to warm the earth again!

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

Happy birthday, sunshine! 28 Oct 2010

Happy birthday my dear sunshine!

This is the 2nd time u are celebrating your birthday.

For your 1st, you have no idea what was going on at your birthday party. But being Dada’s precious baby, Dada decided that we need to have a blast on your birthday and blow away USD600 on the party. Mama also do not allow you to eat any of your birthday cake at all. We hired a clown to entertain the other kids (you are not impressed) and catering food and beer for hungry adults (you are still 100% breastfeed). The birthday party is more for the sake of photography memories. So mama decided to post up some pics of your 1st birthday here.

Goodies for the kids

Except for one or two other babies, Chase is the youngest at his party. These goodies are for the older kids.

Food glorious food

Food prepared by mama

Mama decided that she shalt be hands-on for your birthday and prepared all the sweet snacks. There are egg tarts, brownies, oatmeal cookies, pineapple tarts.. the chick -eggs and flower – carrots (inspired by bento style food, took mama 3 hrs to make). FYI, mama only learnt how to bake these goodies when she arrived in Guyana..how daring is she to serve these to guests! Hehe.. and of cos there is the birthday cake baked by yours truly.

Chase's 1st birthday cake

The “clown”, yes “clown” that has a few smear of makeup on her face and call herself clown entertained the kids with 1) chalk drawing, 2) funny balloons, 3) face painting and 4) box that is too sturdy to break open.

Chalk drawing

Cutie pie Elliot got a hat

Face painting

The-box-that-does-not-break-open-despite-serious-smashing

So kids are encouraged to box-the-box to break it open

Chase with lots of pressies but he love the boxes the best!

P/s: Yes, thats the pretty “clown” in pink, she was late for the party (called her and she was still at home when the party already started, claiming she need to put on “makeup”), forgot the box and her dad has to send it over and went off early. Sheesh.. almost half of the party’s budget went to her and dont ask me to recommend a clown to you, I have threw her number away. Mama think she will even be more hands on next time and entertain the kids herself!!!

Early birthday celebrate for sunshine

Celebrated Chase’s birthday a month in advance. Dada was here in September and we wanted to celebrate as a family. We headed for Crystal Jade at Vivocity after I surfed the internet for good restaurants. Crystal Jade at Vivocity has lots of rave reviews and it definitely did not let us down too! WE decided (or rather I decided) that we will do dim sum at 10.30am (this is the earliest timing) and then rush the kids (Chase and cousin Maitri) home for their afternoon naps.

The crispy pork is a MUST order, cost like $9 for 4 pieces only? I would never put a piece of fat into my mouth. But Mum who is a Cantonese and a pork lover voted for it. Its pretty hard to get my parents to praise any food we eat outside since they go with CHEAP CHEAP food is more important than paying for nice setting etc..you got what I mean. The custard bun is also good, the juice just ooze out. My favorite is the prawn dumpling, a whole prawn in each dumpling

I also like to compliment on the staff serving us in Crystal Jade. They are always on hand to change our plates and serve us tea. Then they also provide the lighter and plates for the Birthday cake. Lastly, they also helped to pack our unfinished cake for us to take away.

Pressies for Chase

Mama is very boring: for Chase’s 2nd birthday, Chase is represented with books and only books! Grandparents (most practical) gave him ang bao money and Aunty Shellin gave another ang bao and a sandwich set play dough. Chase love it and requested for it for almost everyday for a couple of weeks. If you recalled my previous post on Salt dough aka Pig skin, Chase did not like Mama-try-to-be-smart-and-DIY-play-dough very much. [Hint hint: Thanks Chase, I got your message loud and clear. You prefer colorful and nice to feel doughy to cheapskate Mama's homemade sticky pig skin]

Chase choose this Barney design

Chase love Barney..yes.. he is a TV addict like his mom used to be. Now, Chase has taken over the television set and Mama has to give it up Anyways, we went to Prima Deli and Chase choose this design. Good choice Chase! The kids eating at the other table besides us were envious. Hehe, we offered them a piece of the cake too, you should see their happy faces!

Love birds set 1

Gong gong and Po po “ni yi kou, wo yi kou” meaning in Chinese, you give me one mouthful and i give you one mouthful. Lovely dovey.. they have an exact picture like this at their wedding dinner.

Love birds set 2

Aunty Shellin (my elder sister) and Uncle Bryan very spontaneously pose for me.

First family pic on this blog!

Oops.. Chase caught eating the cream off the knife

We always bring Chase’s trunks with us when we go to Vivocity. This time is the same, Chase enjoyed the water site at Vivocity playground after dim sum breakie.

Lastly, HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY, Chase! Mama and Dada are so happy to have you in our life for 2 years already.

Happy Birthday sunshine!

Sorry for the late of updates (has been 2 months since my last post)! Time flies when you are having fun, time flies when you put off blogging to “Oh maybe tomorrow” then its “maybe tomorrow”…

Trev was here in September 2010 for 3 weeks, we have so much fun. Everyday is like a REAL holiday. We woke up at 8am, made juice, made smoothie, packed these up and out we go. Come home at noon to put Chase for his nap and out again once he wake up. Everyday we treat my parents’ place like a motel. lol..

I am pleasantly surprised that when we went to the airport to pick up Trev, Chase was able to recognise his dada after a 1 or 2 sec pulse. Chase immediately wrapped his arms ard dada and lied on dada’s shoulders. He refused to let go and held onto his dada for dear life. Afterall, Chase has not seen dada for 3 months. It is also strange but relieved that Chase did not ask for his dada the day after dada left. He simply accepted it as a way of way when he saw his dada on skype a few days later. He talked and smiled to his dada like nothing happened. This is for the best.

This month on the 28th will be Chase’s 2nd birthday. Indeed, he is growing up fast. I have so much updates to do here! Things that will bored others but meant so much to me like him training on his potty 2 days ago and having some achievement already. lol.. like him asking to play play-dough when he refused to get his hands dirty a few months ago (see earlier blog on pig skin)..lol.. saying his hello, bye, sorry, …lol.. will leave these for the next posts.

Strong bond btw dada and Chase

Mischievous mouse

This is Chase’s first handicraft on the walls and its on grandparents’!

Art

Chase has been storing his stuff (for rainy days??) in Gong gong’s hi-fi set. First time I see Gong gong slightly annoyed at his grandson when he is trying to retrieve everything out.

Found these in the hi-fi set!