life in singapore … with baby (and bump)
Posted in baby stuff, home on Mar 7th, 2010
Our tiny treehugger always wants to explore the forest around the house. “Livvy wants go jungle see baby tiger” is the usual request. We haven’t seen any tigers yet but we did find a discarded snake skin this afternoon:
Posted in baby stuff on Feb 28th, 2010
Posted in baby stuff on Feb 21st, 2010
Posted in baby stuff on Feb 21st, 2010
At last night’s Chinese New Year steamboat party at Adora and Max’s house, Liz dangled Sandy’s wedding ring over Sandy’s belly to predict the gender of our baby. The ring swung from left to right like a pendulum meaning it’s a boy! Well done Liz, you’re right, it is a boy! (We could have saved [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Feb 21st, 2010
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 20th, 2010
Sandy: I spent my 7th wedding anniversary mopping up vomit! Both my babies are ill: the fat hairy one (”Don’t talk about Olive like that!” Phil) cannot control his bowels and has locked himself in the bathroom. The slightly less chubby whiny one is projectile vomiting. So far she’s only vomited over Phil, which is [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 17th, 2010
Olive is such a cheeky monkey. Recent examples:
Olive farted, looked around for a scapegoat and said “Daddy fart”!
Olive showed Sandy the Lego car that Daddy built. When Sandy asked her who built it, Olive replied “Olive build, Daddy help”!
Point to Olive’s big tummy and ask “Who has a big tummy?” and she’ll reply “Mummy big [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 16th, 2010
or just looking for a good place to hide
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 10th, 2010
Congratulations Karen and Aik on the birth of Ethan. The whole family looks surprisingly calm and Karen seems to be coping very well. Ethan’s so tiny, at one week he’s smaller than Olive when she was born!
As well as meeting baby Ethan, Olive also met lots of baby penguins this morning at Jurong Bird Park.
Posted in baby stuff on Dec 25th, 2009
Olive woke to find a Christmas stocking next to her cot. Thank you Father Christmas.
Posted in baby stuff, food, home on Dec 6th, 2009
My darling wife is three months pregnant! Olive will soon have a little brother or sister to play with! We’re so happy.
Olive’s granny was visiting from the UK last week and Olive’s two aunties were down from Kuala Lumpur so we celebrated with a Champagne breakfast in the Botanic Gardens. Croissants from Laurent Bernard Chocolatier [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Nov 24th, 2009
Oh dear, poor Julia — neighbour and playmate of Olive — has just been diagnosed with head, shoulders, knees & toes … I mean hand, foot & mouth disease. Julia was running a fever over the weekend and missed her own birthday party. Let’s see if there’s a streetwide epidemic. Hopefully not otherwise we might [...]
Posted in baby stuff, books, food on Nov 23rd, 2009
Bring the kids down to The Shophouse, Gillman Village (off Alexandra Rd, Singapore), this Thursday 26 Nov for balloon twisting and a magic show. The monthly bazaar at The Shophouse will be open late—until 8pm—to allow for some serious Christmas shopping. Bored husbands can grab a burger from the BBQ, listen to the live jazz [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Nov 16th, 2009
My first weekend alone with Olive didn’t turn out quite as I expected. Sandy and her Joy Luck Club Monday mothers meetup group flew off for a much-deserved weekend break in Thailand leaving babies with fathers. I had been really looking forward to this weekend of father–daughter bonding. Sandy had taken all the hard work [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Nov 9th, 2009
Olive donned new helmet on Sunday and joined her boy racer playmate Jordy for a spin round East Coast Park. Neither toddler broke a sweat though as auto-wallahs Phil and David and dabba-wallahs Sandy and Dora were hired for the afternoon to drive and dispense snacks along the route. This was Olive’s first time [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Nov 7th, 2009
Sandy forgot that 31 October is Halloween so accepted a lunch invitation with girlfriends leaving me to take Olive to her first ever Halloween party. I had wanted to buy Olive a cute pumpkin dress that I’d seen for sale but Sandy borrowed a hilarious Dracula outfit from a neighbour. Lucky for Olive she went [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 19th, 2009
Congratulations Jenson on winning the 2009 Formula One Championship! Olive xxx
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 8th, 2009
Poor old Olive woke yesterday morning to find everything still dark. Had the sun forgotten to rise? No, a mosquito had bitten Olive’s eyelids causing them to swell and partially cover her eyes! How horrible. Sandy took Olive to KK Hospital where she was given cream and antibiotics. The poor little thing looks as though [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 4th, 2009
Singapore grid girl Olive watches the Japanese Grand Prix wearing her Jenson Button/Brawn cap!
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 4th, 2009
Guess who wears the pants in this house?
Olive loves to play dressing up which usually involves wearing 24 pairs of Sandy’s bras and knickers round her neck. Very stylish, Olive, but I’m not sure this fashion’s really going to catch on.
Posted in baby stuff, holidays on Oct 4th, 2009
Last night we celebrated the Chinese mid-autumn festival with a mooncake BBQ-cum-lantern parade at Karen and James’ house down the road. Each of the five toddlers present carried their own lantern, from the traditional candle-in-paper variety to the battery-operated-musical-flashing-inflatable kind. I believe we were supposed to eat mooncakes but everybody was so stuffed after the [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Sep 23rd, 2009
We want to record down Olive’s first few intelligible words, other than the goo goos and ga gas, so we can have a good giggle in years to come. Olive could roar when shown a picture of a lion from ten months but didn’t start saying any intelligible words, the first being ball then mama, [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Sep 18th, 2009
That’s my question. Is Olive eating too much? This morning I realised she ate more than me for breakfast and she’s only 16 months old!
Daddy’s breakfast
1 slice toasted homemade wholemeal bread with Marmite or 1 bowl muesli with Greek yoghurt
glass of water
Olive’s breakfast
1/4 litre of cow’s milk
1 Weetabix with milk
1 banana
1/2 slice toasted homemade [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Sep 15th, 2009
Posted in baby stuff on Sep 13th, 2009
Posted in baby stuff on Sep 13th, 2009
Posted in baby stuff, holidays on Aug 28th, 2009
[Olive recuperating in Holly's back garden in London]
It’s been 48 hours since Olive was discharged from hospital in Nottingham and we’re still having trouble getting her to eat and drink. We’re now in London and we’re supposed to fly to France tomorrow to spend a week in a tiny four-house hamlet halfway up a mountain [...]
Posted in baby stuff, holidays on Aug 26th, 2009
I’m blogging from Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, where Olive has been hospitalized for over 24 hours following two febrile convulsions and dehydration due to a viral infection. Poor Olive was hooked up to an intravenous drip for about twelve hours but that’s just been removed and we’re hoping she will be discharged very soon. [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Aug 10th, 2009
Olive is in dire need of a haircut but we’re not sure which style would suit her best.
Posted in baby stuff on Aug 2nd, 2009
We popped over to Singapore Botanic Gardens on Sunday afternoon for a quick picnic and run around and we bumped into George and Kiki (and Sparky the puppy) and were entertained by the Singapore Youth Orchestra playing at the Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage. It’s afternoons like these that make me want to stay in Singapore. [...]
