Vesak Day holiday

We don't celebrate Vesak Day but Caden woke up this morning late at 9am! We decided to bring him down to Parkway Parade to see Winnie the Pooh and Tigger live in action. Caden was all excited when we told him that we will bring him there.. and Mummy has an hidden agenda as well.. shopping!

However, Mummy has not felt too well when we reached PP. She kept vomiting all over the dustbins, outdoors, and whichever convenient spots she could find. In the end, she doesn't have enough energy to shop too... but we did manage to catch Winnie the pooh live, but there wasn't any performance! It was just a picture-taking session. Caden was so amazed with the cartoon charaters on the stage and he was so engrossed looking at them as they posed for families.

Mandarin...

PaPa and Mummy have a different school of thoughts when it comes to introducing languages to Caden, he heard that we should teach him Chinese first, since he will be overly-exposed to English when it comes to nursery and school times. However, Mummy feel that becos schools are using english all the time, then all the more Caden should grasp the ability to speak and understand English language first before taking up Chinese..

I will never stop my mother-in-law to speak Teochew or Mandarin to Caden because I think he should be exposed to his dialect language as well, othewise, he will turn out to be like me (can understand easy Teochew but not speak at all!). Today, as Caden was watching his fav Barney show on TV, I was asking him to count the no. of houses in the show.. he started counting them in Mandarin!! And miraculously, he only missed a few numbers in between, but he managed to finished from 1-10!! I have not taught him this before, and certainly not PaPa as well... he must have picked this up from his Grandma...

At this stage, we better speak proper sentences to him, otherwise, he wouldn't have a good foundation in his language..

Updates

Mummy has been too tired nowadays to do a weekly blog update for Caden despite having special celebrations in the month of May - Mothers' Day! Mummy has been taking afternoon weekend naps together with Caden, on weekday nights, after putting our dear son to bed, it will be already 10plus. what I can afford to do is to lie on the crouch to watch another 45mins of TV before saying goodnight to the day.. excuses, excuses... anyway, here I am, not procastinating any more... more updates of Caden and my baby 2!!

May 13, Mothers Day
We decided to hold the celebration yet again at Peggy's place- becos she has a maid to help out to clean up all the dishes and she is a much better cook than Mummy!
It was a simple affair, but great to get together with Ricky's family on these occasions for the children to mingle (although Caden has always been playing daily with Kimi and Samuel).. Its a pity that Emma couldn't join us becos she was down with hand, foot and mouth disease..

Caden did a wonderful art work for me during his Zoophonics class earlier this morning, I liked it alot!

May 19, Gynae's appointment
We went for our gynae's routine checkup this day after 2 weeks break from the clinic(it used to be a 4-daily checkup cum treatment). Mummy had been worried abt the little darling swimming in her tummy and its development (since I still can't feel anything!). We were happy that Dr Cheng finally upgraded his uthrasound machine to the 3-D type and he was also eager to showcase us it's capabilities. As he was scanning, Mummy saw the stare at PaPa's eyes as if he was concentrating on something on the screen. Dr Cheng then asked me if I wanted to have a boy or a girl this time round. As soon as he asked, I told him, I already know the gender becos my baby has to be a boy, otherwise he will not be able to confirm the gender at this early stage (week15). He then said he was 99% sure that I am carrying a baby boy. PaPa was asking if I am disappointed, but I had always wanted this baby to be healthy, so gender doesn't really matter (although I think having a girl may signify higher degree of loyalty and caringness towards us as we aged). Anyway, its really fine, Caden's clothes and shoes can be recycled, and will definitely save more money for us!! Now we have to think of a name for our baby 2..

Some pictures of my vain-pot son..