Year 01: Tunnel Fun!

we bought a "tunnel" from Ikea yesterday and decided to let deng yun play with it today. check out the delight in toddler avatar's eyes:


"the tunnel of fun!" - TheAvt

Year 01: Excursion to Jacob Ballas Children's Garden

deng yun and i joined his childcare's friends and their parents and teachers to go on an excursion to Jacob Ballas Children's Garden at Singapore Botanical Gardens.

deng yun was having fun and sweating there, from sitting on a bench:


to playing with the slide:


to posing with a sign:


to playing with everyone else:


to finally pushing his fellow school mate:


and to the subsequent scolding from his father (no picture here, but you know it was not pretty!)

"nice excursion, except for the fact that there were no cups for the drinks!" - TheAvt

Year 01: Love-Hate Relationship with Duck Duck

i don't think it is a "Love-Hate relationship" between deng yun and duck duck. but watch this clip and judge for yourself:


" duck duck has been a valued member of this household, being there for deng yun for his amusement and torture..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Deng Yun's made his first dessert!

deng yun and duck duck:


and yeah! deng yun made his first dessert! check it out:


"i ate it and i was okay!" - TheAvt

Year 01: Say "Please"!

deng yun had started saying "please", of course when we told him to do so.

with that, he would sometimes demand something which we did not like but he would say "please" and it was so cute that how can we refuse??

"no videos because we were not in time to take him saying please!" - TheAvt

Year 01: Celebrating Mummy's Birthday Part 2

we had a cake cutting celebration for ting yee's actual birthday at home:


"toddler avatar and his tub of fun..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Celebrating Mummy's Birthday Part 1

we celebrated ting yee's birthday today, even though her actual birthday is tomorrow. first, we dressed up deng yun smartly:


then we went to Traders Hotel to have a buffet dinner. and deng yun got to eat his first buffet for free:


and later, deng yun was playing with the Barney car, where he said "i love cars!":


"i wonder whose birthday celebration was this?" - TheAvt

Year 01: Art work from childcare

here are some art work that deng yun did last month in his childcare. i think this looks like a house:


some poor woman's fabric got stuck here:


i think paper insects have been engineered already:


"art... the final abstract of life..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Deng Yun got bitten in school!

our little boy got bitten on his right arm by some brat in his childcare. see the teeth mark in this picture:


and deng yun said his first few sentences today: "i wan!", "i dun wan!" and "dun wan!"

"i think i wanna go crazy..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Pushing stools in Superboy uniform

instead of fighting crime and helping the helpless, superboy decided to push stools at home! check out the boy in cape:


"welcome to the fortress of 'stoolitude'..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Fever!

deng yun had fever today, but he was still eating and resting alright.

"no photos though..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Suspected HFMD! ARGH!

our worst fear had come true! deng yun was a suspected HFMD case! we brought him to childcare and they rejected him because he had some red spots on his throat!

so ting yee and i had to take leave on alternate days to look after deng yun for the whole week. however, he was not those kids that showed that he was sick. in fact, he did not even look sick:


"laugh and laugh... you call this sick?" - TheAvt

Year 01: High Speed Driving at home!

there will come a time when a boy will love the thrill of speed... and that time is today! check out the future high speed racer!


"with a little help from his dad!" - TheAvt

Year 01: Balloon as a football

this month saw deng yun as being very active, very strong and very vocal! here's how he would treat a balloon and how he found the lost city of the "things-under-the-table":


"getting ready for the world cup!" - TheAvt

Year 01: Highlights for the fortnight

deng yun started his 2nd musical lesson today. and the highlights of these two weeks:

taking a dinner break from saving the world:


rare picture of deng yun laughing because it seems like only my mother can make him laugh and take a picture of it:


playing mega bloks on his own:


apart of all these, deng yun also knows how to repeat what you say 90% of the time and starts to sing on his own.

and the best part: when i say "bye bye xuan xuan" to him, he says "bye bye daddy" to me!

"toddler avatar is becoming an interactive, self-entertaining, tantrum-throwing, daddy-slapping little boy!" - TheAvt

Year 01: First musical lesson

deng yun had his first musical lesson today! what what i heard, the teachers play some songs and the kids either sing or dance or run around or just sit there with a blank look. luckily, knowing my son, he does not belong to the last group!

"no pictures as photo-taking is not allowed at the childcare centre..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Relaxing with a drink

after a long a hard day's work as a toddler, deng yun was relaxing at home with a drink of water:


"fast forward to 30 years... then replace 'home' with 'pub' and 'water' with 'some drink'..." - TheAvt

Year 01: Deng Yun feeding Daddy!

while there was no photo of deng yun feeding me (since i was alone at home with him), here's a photo of him feeding himself some apples, his favourite fruit:


"because 90% of all the fruits we feed toddler avatar are apples..." - TheAvt

Year 01: First trip to the Zoo!

deng yun went to the zoo today, and it was his first trip! but because we went there after 1pm, there wasn't much time to tour the place. so we took a round trip on the scenic bus and visited several places like the incredible boring car-ride:


the big map of the zoo with his maid:


the scenic bus itself:


meeting some distance cousins:


the statute of the late ah meng, and the still very much alive gorilla in human clothing, while sleeping:


some cardboard sea cow and penguins, while sleeping:


the most exciting part of the zoo trip was after the zoo trip, when deng yun was driving a school bus at IMM Building in Jurong:


"yeah! how exciting and boring!" - TheAvt

Year 01: Numbers in Mandarin!

yes, deng yun can count from 1 to 10 in Mandarin! then, we went to eat in a chinese-china-owned restaurant where deng yun always welcomes food:


"i think toddler avatar's Mandarin will definitely be better than mine..." - TheAvt