Travis' School Year End Party

Travis and his classmates performing the song - "Mami, Mami, I Love You" waving the paper hearts in their hands and dancing to the tune.  The LMM seemed to know all the moves and was happily singing along.

The school's principal handed Travis a paper bag with his photo on it. Inside the bag was a CD of all the wonderful pictures he took in while in school!

No party would be complete without the hotdogs, sweet drinks, cakes and biscuits.... here's a picture of

Brennan and Travis enjoying their party fare in a little corner...

Spiffy Dresser

I like dressing him up.  I take pains to make sure he's well co-ordinated from top-to-toe to go to school, to the library, to the malls, to where ever we take him.  The clothes really last a long time as we usually get him stuff for bigger boys, and let him grow into them.  It's different for shoes though.  Too big and he'll trip over them, too small and we worry that he'll get blisters.  Feet really do grow a fair bit at this age.  Come to think of it, it's probably time to buy him shoes again.

Travis Cooks a Chicken

2 year old little milk monster enjoys role-playing. His favourite past-time seems to be cooking. Wonder who bot those girly toys for him...hm....

Anyway, this morning, he wanted to cook a chicken dish for Papa.  

LMM : "Papa, want eat chicken?"

Papa: "Yes"

LMM: "Wait arh..." (Singlish!?!?)

Papa: "Ok"

LMM takes the plastic chicken part and puts it in the pot, covers the pot and starts shaking it hard. He then opens the pot's cover and exclaims,"Wah!"

He transfers the chicken from the pot to a plate using a ladle (that yellow one in the picture without the handle!) and tells papa:"Wait arh..I make hot".

He walks over to his imaginary microwave and places the plate of chicken on the table," Tee Tee Tee...ok..."

Then he asks Papa,"You want CHILI??"

September is the Month of Birthdays!!

As the year trudges along, I always look forward to September.  The 22nd day is Papa's birthday and the 29th day is the LMM's birthday.On 22nd Sept, we celebrated Pap's birthday at Fort Canning's Jewel Box - a treehouse styled Chinese restaurant named Empress Jade. Food was fabulous. The LMM helped Papa blow out the candle as a dry run for his own birthday a week later.

On 26th September (Sat), we held a kids birthday party at the breakfast patio of our home.  With unstructured toys and games strewn all over the party ground, the 2-3 year olds had a lot of fun chasing giant bubbles, getting in and out of the castle and farmhouse, fishing from a pond, taking ballon animals for walks, eating children's fried rice, biscuits and cakes.  The adults have a hearty local meal of mee siam and chicken wings. (photos to be uploaded later)

In play school, Travis had yet another celebration on

 his actual birthday 29th Sep (Tue).  

More cakes!!!

And finally, we had a small party in the evening in the comfort of our home to celebrate the LMM's birthday AGAIN!! =)

The Little Milk Monster's New Den

And so we have finally moved to our new place.  The LMM certainly has more running space now and even has his own room.  He couldn't sleep on the first night we moved in (1st Aug).  He fussed around until 1am. And then it was mami's turn not to be able to sleep. It took us couple of days to get used to the new place. 

It's Mine!!

Like Mami, Travis also loves shoes. He's got better taste tho! This time, he picked daddy's Ferragamos to wear during his Uncle's wedding.

Fascination with Mirrors 21 months

 People say he takes after daddy.. some say he takes after me. I think the pictures tell you the truth. Ha.  The LMM loves the mirror. When he dresses up with a new cap, or ...erm frog... he race to the mirror to check out how he looks.  And after appraising himself, he may even say,"mei!" (*Pretty*)