Mummy's Day

Lunch was at Tetsu @ Tanglin Mall today, to celebrate Mummy's Day. My own mum couldn't make it, she had to work (of all days!) as one of their important directors was in town.

Julian just gets cuter each time we see him, breaking into this cheeky smile of his every now and then!


We took lots of pictures. It's been a while since we had lunch in such a big group, which could have been even bigger if my family had joined. And Julian has the funniest reaction when you feed him lemons!




All the mummies.... and the not-mummy-yet.


And I had my go at carrying him around, trying to distract him from his parents with anything that is "exclaimable" - WOW LOOK AT THE ELMO BALLOON!!

After that 5, 10 minutes or so of carrying him around, my arms were weak and trembling by the time I returned him to his parents. I'm amazed at how strong mummies can be, having to carry their babies around like that all the time!








We rounded off the afternoon with a nice cuppa at Oomphatico. I've always thought it would be a small cafe, as the entrance was quite small. So I was pleasantly surprised to see how big it opened out, into an al fresco verandah, upon entering. I was immediately taken in by the small artistic touches around the place - I love the chairs!! We'll be back very soon for sure, to check out their food.

Julian is 1!

Our beloved nephew Julian turned one yesterday, and we all celebrated his birthday at Go Go Bambini at Dempsey Road, complete with games and a lovely cake from Cherylshuen.

We ordered our 1st Anniversary Cake from Cheryl before and this time, she didn't disappoint again. Her chocolate cake was yummy!

It was such a cute place, with kids and babies everywhere. In the "caged up" play area, which I think was about 3 storeys high, kids were running around, climbing up and down, with their parents trying to catch up behind them. It was, erm, riotous!! It was a place that The Boy had always dreamed of playing in, so he was seen running around amongst the little ones.


I'm sure all of us remember our childhood days of "swimming" amidst the brightly coloured balls at Ikea. Here, it was a joy watching Julian playing around among the balls, he looked so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. It was so heartwarming to see how he looked as if he was in kids' paradise!






Lucky birthday boy got a "convertible" as a present from his parents - he sure was one happy little baby that day!


We also learnt that he was fascinated with the iPhone. He sure has the techno whizz genes of his daddy!


And with that, he's a year old already. Soon, he'll be walking and running around. Soon, he'll be starting school. Life is truly amazing, and we thank God for this addition to the Heng family, that Baby Julian has given us much joy and laughter. May the Lord bless him and watch over him as he grows and learns the way of His Word.

Never Too Young To Start

Never stepped into Zara at Vivocity before. Have always assumed that it's the same as Zara anywhere else, with almost the same collection. Yet 2 evenings ago, when The Boy and I were at Vivocity for dinner, for some reason, I decided to check out Zara.

And I was surprised (and super delighted) to see that there's a Zara section for babies and toddlers! All the baby girls' clothes were super cute, super sweet. Man, if I were Squarenails, having a baby girl, I would have gone oh so crazy. My daughter's Zara wardrobe would start from age 0!


Shopping aside, when we were shopping at Parkway Parade over the weekend, came across this at Challenger.


WOW! Guess I'm a techno idiot, but I was really surprised to see this! Gosh, how big is 1 TB? How many GB is that?! Can put your whole life in there lor!

Days 3 & 4 of CNY

The Boy has assumed a new role this CNY. He's my ang bao tracker - I can't remember clearly which kid I've given the ang bao to, and which kid I haven't. Especially when they are the kids of acquaintances whom I've never met.

This was over at his boss' place yesterday, lunch session #2. Thank goodness it wasn't steamboat anymore, like what we had (for the nth time) at his parents' place, where it was lunch session #1.

When I first heard that it was pratas for lunch at his boss' place, I never thought that it would turn out to be pratas made "live" in the comforts of your home!

They actually got an Indian dude from Casuarina Curry Restaurant to make pratas on the spot, in whatever way you like - plain, egg, cheese, tissue, whatever!!!


This is definitely a cool alternative to my popiah party. At $14 per head, for 2 hours, they would make however many pratas you like. There is also a selection of other dishes on the buffet line too, such as chicken curry, samosa etc, with teh tarik and lime juice. Damn cool right?

This CNY, we were playing with babies every other day. Here's another cute one, Gaddiel, son of The Boy's colleague.




Julian was super boy, super cute that day. He participated in the great lo hei too, where both my parents and Jen's parents gathered at the Hengs' place for that lunch session #1.


We ended off the day in the great company of our superhero friends, where we gave ang baos, for the last time, to Mudgod & Ms P, Mudfairy & Pamcake and Mudskipper & C - they are all getting married this year and next, so exciting!


And today, on the 4th day of the Lunar New Year, I'm not out visiting. Neither do I have the luxury of vegging out at home. I'm back at the office, on duty for the Sunday. Dammit, what a way to end the long "break"! =p

Now, when's the next long stretch of holidays coming up?

The 2 Days of CNY

Love the fact that we got to spend so much more time with Julian over this Chinese New Year holidays, playing with him to our hearts' content.





Also, this marks the 2nd year of giving ang baos to the siblings - they seemed pretty happy, haha.


It was a super tiring day - we went to 5 places in all, starting off with work early in the morning. The Boy was sweet enough to follow and helped take some pictures. Coupled with the hot weather, we were exhausted at the end of the day.


Very glad for day 2 - we did NOTHING. We slept, we watched dvds, we slept. We had afternoon coffee at Starbucks, we stocked up on groceries. We had a nice quiet dinner - simple home-cooked pasta (we really wanted something non-steamboat) with a nice glass of chardonnay. We truly appreciate and love such quiet time, we love time to ourselves.

Being Uncle & Auntie

It's update on Baby Julian time!


The dad said it always takes like a thousand shots before he can get a few smiley ones like these, cos Julian's an active boy. Haha.

It fills our hearts with warmth each time we see him. And each time we see him growing bigger, stronger and cuter. Only that we don't get to see him often enough, and now that he's starting to recognise people, it does wrench our hearts a little that he's not as familiar with us.

So the least we could do is to shower him with little gifts every now and then. Moreover, being in the infants' clothes section also unleashes the shopaholic in me, everything is too C-U-T-E. Heh.

Hopefully, this new year brings more opportunities to play with him, as we really want to be part of his growing up process, to shower Baby J with lots of love, from uncle Jem & auntie Ej.