Jarrett's 1st bento box!

Jarrett's 1st bento box. I am so excited about it cos it says more exciting meal plans in future! He is slowly proceeding to more solid stuff, not porridge all the time. Just the other day, I made him tofu and egg custard. Faint..so excited to use my "culinary skills" (LOL).
So anyway, instead of puree fruit which I always give him when we are out, I have prepared wheatgerm bread and fresh blueberries. ok..so it's not a proper bento, more like a snack box, but what the heck, I am happy to show his cutsy box and his cool water bottle. He has refused to use his mag mag straw no matter how hard we tried, so we are going ahead and using his Shinzi Katoh bottle.

And he's 1

my little baby turned 1 on Tuesday. No longer a baby but a toddler. It's amazing how 1 year just flew past. The past year had truely been amazing for us. Jarrett brings with him so much joy and love into our lives. Parenthood has taught us many things. The most important for me - patience and I finally understand the unconditioned love parents have for their children. No matter what he does, we still love him, thou there are times I want to pull out all my hair in frustrations.
We clean his butt when he poo, wiped up his puke and still plant lots of kisses all over his face before we send him to bed. Even if he drives me mad with his fussiness at times, I'll forget all about it once he plants a kiss on my lips, or give me one of his "cannot see eyes" grins.

At times, I feel overwhelmed with the love I have for this little guy. It's like I just want to eat him up so he'll stay inside me..lol..for months I didn't dare to voice this out, thinking I'll sound like a manic..until one evening, Wx asked me if I have such thoughts, cos he feels the same too! Waahahaha...

We didn't hold a big party for him, just a small one for both side of the families. We wanted to surround him with people who loves him best and I'm glad we did. It wasn't too fussy and the little guy had fun showing off his new toys and his first few steps. Pics coming soon..

Reporting from Paradise

We are missing Jarrett.....alot....sobz...

3 times in 6 years

Wx & I are off for a short break this week. 3rd time in 6 years, we are truely madly in love with the Maldives. So maybe for the next 20 years, all we can show you guys of our vacation pics are blue seas and clear skies. No matter how hard we try to plan our vacations for other countries, we somehow still end up dying to go back. The last time we managed to get to Bali, we didn't really like it one bit, except for the lovely resorts we stayed in. The comparisons started the min. we left the airport..We did really try to pick another location this time, infact we went right on and booked us a 5D/4n at a really nice boutique resort, X2 Resort in Koh Samui. I was honestly looking forward to my pte pool and lounging in my bath tub. But darn..the protests in BKK made us cancelled our trip cos the folks at home threatened to disown us if we insist on going.

So well, it wasn't tough changing our plans. Infact, Wx was secretly very pleased with how things turn out and ahem, I am not complaining too. LOL..

And no...Jarrett's staying home with ah ma. This is a romantic trip daddy & mummy.