Is she pretty or what?

This is picture taken during CNY... It think Claira is so pretty!
The little hair pin on her head looks like a sweet... haha.

No more camera phone

Due to my new job, i have to use a non-camera mobile phone soon.
As 99%(if not all) pictures in this blog were taken using my mobile phone, it could mean that the number of pictures that i could use for blogging may be reduced drastically.

I would have to rely on Wanyin's mobile phone for future "impromptu" photo takings with Claira ... which i find are more interesting.

Ok, mobile phone picture quality may not be as good as conventional camera images, but there is a certain fun(and convenient) element in using that little gadget from your pocket.

Maybe it's time to get a "super portable" camera... that fits my budget and pocket/bag. =P

1 year and 5 months old

To a great extend, i think Claira is a big girl now.

I remembered those days when , for a moment my eyes left Claira, she would somehow got into trouble... either falling down and knocking her head on the floor or falling off the bed...
100% attention focusing, not to get her into trouble.

There was once where i thought that "i got it all covered"... Claira was crawling on the floor in my room and i had both my hands a few centimeters away from her waist. Then, within a split second, Claira fell and knocked her head on the floor...
"was i too slow, or was she too fast??? what the hell?" i thought...

For the last few weeks, i was observing how my little gal have grown. All 17 months of growth.
I wow-ed at the fact that she is able to walk on her own, said "no..." with such cute-ness, dance whenever i sang the "hot dog song", points at things she is interested in, calls "Dad-dy", tell stories while finger pointing posters/books... among many other things.

At a blink of the eye, my Claira is 17 months old...

The recent stint at "My Gym" may have helped Claira to be more open to new environments and people. She doesn't scream at the first sight of a unfamiliar face now. In fact i managed to bring Claira to my primary school teacher's house (single handedly), during Chinese New Year period, without much trouble. But i'm quite reserved to credit this entirely to My Gym, rather than the nature process of growing up.

You are daddy's pride, Claira.

Stuck

I was taking of care of Claira last night in her room...

I woke up in the middle of the night and heard Claira crying... but i couldn't see her any where for the first few "drowsy" seconds. Finally, i found her stuck in-between 2 mattresses (both were on the floor)... i quickly carried her back on our mattress, and she was fast asleep soon after...

So, was i supposed to be laughing or worrying?
Although nothing bad happened last night, i just can't help but think of some *not so nice* scenarios...

We should be more careful next time not to leave a gap in-between the mattresses... and maybe even consider changing the orientation of the mattresses (since Claira usually sleeps with us on the same bed frequently now...)

Claira walks on her own today!

Claira walked her first 14 continuous steps today!
Steadily and unaided of course! =P

Here's the video:



I am SO proud of her! =)

Science Center Trip

We went to the Singapore Science Center last Friday...

Wanyin borrowed a membership card from her colleague, and that means we were able to enter the Science Center free of charge! (well, the entrance fee was only $6 for an adult on normal days)

Traveling from the east to the west of Singapore doesn't take much effort, especially when you have the car. But as i got a new nokia e71 last weekend (and i managed to get a GPS software to work), we decided to punch in the coordinates(or rather the road name) and give this GPS a try...



Well well well, it turns out that this piece of software is quite useful... they call it Garmin Mobile XT. The directions were clear, display was readable on the 2.6" screen, and audio was loud enough. Cool...

Anyway, we arrived at the Science Center in about 30 mins...

Here, we got the tickets, smile:



Besides having many exhibition halls and liveshows, the Science Center also have an outdoor water "theme park" where all the children were just happily and crazily jumping and screaming and playing with the water features...

We snapped a picture of ourselves using my new 3.2MP camera phone:



We then basically walked around the exhibition halls on level 1(we didn't got to the upper levels as it was time to go home for Claira's dinner) for a couple more hours before we head home.

These are some other silly pictures we took during this trip:

The First Kiss

Claira kissed me a few days ago...

Apparently, Wanyin and her mom have been teaching her how to kiss for some time already...
But on Thurday night, she peeked me on my cheeks during our regimental "Reading Time"...

"Baby, kiss Pa Pa..."

Since then, she is proudly showing off her new "skill/talent" to our family members...

Of course, she didn't kiss Wanyin's Dad for some unknown reasons.... haha...