Dear Kendrick,

You gave Papa and Mummy a mini-scare last weekend when you suddenly decided to reject your milk! It started somewhere around last Thursday and Friday where you did not want to finish your milk at night before you went to bed. Then on Saturday itself, you only drank milk once in the morning and refused totally in the afternoon and at night!! Luckily, you still ate your porridge and food. But it was like you totally hated milk. The same thing happened again on Sunday. You drank your milk again in the morning as you were really hungry from the night. But the rest of the day, you did not want to drink at all. Although you still ate your porridge and other food, you still got us a little worried. At Ma-Ma house during the week, fortunately, you did not totally reject milk in the afternoon, though you did not finish your feed either. Gradually, this improved through the week as you began to drink more milk again and we were most happy to hear you asking for milk by the time it was Thursday!! We really wondered what happened over those few days. Was it some post effect of the MMR jab? Or just some sudden passing thing? Nevertheless, still happy to see you drinking your milk and taking your food as per normal again :)

Papa and Mummy are also very tickled by the way your communication skills are changing or improving. Nowadays, you always call out to the person you want attention from first before telling them what you want to tell them. You would say something like "Papa! Papa! Na Na" (when you want your Papa to see the picture of the banana you spotted), or "Mee Mee! Mee Mee! Tok!" (when you spotted the sight of a clock). This applies to the rest of our family members too, calling your Ma Ma or Gong Gong or Gu Gu before telling them things. And the fact that you must get our attention if not you will keep calling out to us makes you really cute my dear...

Can't imagine the day when you truly know how to talk...what would it be like? What would your first true sentence be about? We are looking forward :)

Bought some new sets of clothes for you from the pasar malam at Bishan recently and I really like this Elmo set. Cheap cheap too at 3 for $10 :)

Another hair-cutting day

Kendrick's hair was getting long again so we decided to all go for a quick hair trim today. At first Kendrick was not co-operative, but we managed to bluff him by letting him eat biscuit before he finally let his grand-aunt cut his hair....

Before cutting hair, Kendrick looks a tad serious and upset...

Still looking serious after his hair-cut. Trying to act cool izit?!

Just a slightly more close-up shot. Mummy's quite pleased with today's haircut :)

Kendrick at 15 months

Kendrick turned 15 months last week. This boy is growing more and more mischievous and I admit there have been times that I've gotten upset at his mis-behaviour. But as always, I can't stay angry at him for long as he's very adorable in his little ways.

Well, at 15 months now, he's been able to say quite a few more new words like 'wain-ing' (raining), his own name 'ken-drick' or 'drick-drick', 'hello', 'ton' (button), 'draw', 'nitenite', 'tree', 'moon' etc. Most of these he recognises the items too. In terms of numbers, he also seems to recognise 1 to 4 as well as the number 8 which he always says. Guess that's his favourite number. Haha. Generally, there seems to be a lot more that Kendrick understands but I can't really recall what else. He likes to imitate words we say and I guess his words are picked up from there. Like because we tell him 'no' to things, he also says no even though he does things we don't want him too. When he playfully hit me or poked me and I said 'ouch', he actually said 'ouch' the next time he poked me! Can faint.... Basically, he understands most of our questions and is able to respond accordingly as long as he is not being mischievous. Kendrick also recognises photos of himself and most of our family members.

He's been playing with his magnetic doodle board for a while now so he can do a bit of simple doodling on his own. On this note, I wonder if he will end up being a lefty or righty. Sometimes he holds the pen with his right hand, but sometimes he also switches to his left hand...hmmm...


During the recent Good Friday and Easter Weekend, I had a long weekend break with an additional day off that my company had effected. So we took the opportunity to bring Kendrick on outings again.

Downtown East - eXplorerKid: First time there for all of us so we signed up as members and Kendrick had a good time playing at the toddler play area, as well as the adventurous playground/gym

Kendrick attempts to make his way down this tunnel

The Cheek-y pose (pun intended)

Some rock climbing with the help of Papa

On Good Friday, we headed to Sentosa mainly for the Underwater World. It's been a few years since I've been to Sentosa so we thought it was a good idea to check it out. Unfortunately, Kendrick kinda misbehaved later in the afternoon. He was fretting a lot firstly because he wanted me to carry him, then later he wanted to walk when we didn't want him to, so he got upset and cried. His tantrum throwing behaviour got me really tired and we headed home by 3pm...which was also good as it rained shortly after we left...

Still looking bright and cheery on our tram ride

Kendrick wants to touch the starfish too!

Then on Saturday, we brought Kendrick for his MMR jab in the morning. He cried a little when the jab went in but the crying stopped soon enough. At this check, Kendrick weighed 10.9kg and is 81.5cm tall. Quite a good height and weight combo to be in the 75th percentile. In the evening, we had dinner with my extended family, partially to celebrate my birthday as well.

Well, the long weekend was nice as we could spend more time doing things together and we certainly hope Kendrick enjoyed himself somehow :)

Happy Mood Kendrick this weekend

This weekend, Kendrick seemed to be in a very happy mood. On Saturday especially, it started off with him sleeping in quite long since the night and waking only around 8.45am, which was pretty rare. Then during lunch time, we brought him to the Bishan library and I think he was really happy to see soo many books that he can choose and pick from! He was really elated to walk up and down, picking one book after another. Of course, he does not really know what he's taking, but he was enjoying the process. He slept really well during his afternoon nap too, so he woke up cheery. And by night, he was very playful even before he slept!

On Sunday, we popped by Bishan park in the morning to have a look at the Class 95 dog walk. In the afternoon, we wanted to go swimming, but the rain thwarted our plans. Nevertheless, this little boy was again in a very playful mood today and again so before he slept. We put him to bed at 10pm but he only fell asleep at close to 11pm!! He kept wanting to play with his father and also myself and refused to really sleep so fast. Some interesting stuff he recognised this week include photos of himself. When we asked him who that was, he would say 'drick-drick'...meaning himself. When he saw Dear's book on OBAMA, he would say 'ma-ma', although we know he really meant 'ba-ma'. Ha hah... He's also making a lot of noise lately in terms of his speech...although they are all babbles...but it's sounding more and more like a string of babbles as his way of 'talking' like us adults. Can't imagine when he will actually say proper sentences..must be quite an interesting and exciting day when it comes :)

Some photos taken at Sembawang Shopping centre

At the outdoor playground

We went to Changi Airport Terminal 3 recently too...first time there for Mummy and Son...Kendrick was really struggling when we tried to take this photo