Claira knows how to climb down from bed (a.k.a. mattress on floor)

I was playing with Claira yesterday evening in her room, when I realized that she can climb down from the bed, down onto the floor... in the proper way of course!

"leg first, not head first!" we were always trying to teach her the correct way... Finally she gets it! Haha...

Thank goodness it is now almost second nature to her.

Birthday Celebration on actual day

Claira celebrated her actual 1st birthday yesterday!

Wanyin and i took some time away from office to bring Claira to a Baby Gym near Roxy Square in Katong area to take a look... We are thinking whether the gym session would make her more open to strangers, instead of crying and screaming.

At first glance, the gym looks ok... hygiene level, staff, toys, colors and ambiance feels ok...

We stayed for a while and asked quite some questions from the 2 young staffs...

Claira even get to play with the bubbles that one of the staffs blew at her... 

*good marketing strategy, i thought. win the child and you will win the deal.. :-)

We left the place with a good idea of what it will be if we were to come with Claira for a trail session next week... well, we'll see...

We hanged around in Parkway Parade for some time, before heading home with a.... well. tiny cake... *who is going to finish the cake of we bought a regular sized one???

And so, we had a birthday song singing session again and the regular photo taking session...

Now, Claira is officially 1 year old! "Graduation" i would say...

End of class "year 1" and start of class "year 2"...

Good job Claira!  :P

Claira Celebrates her First Birthday on Sunday

The day finally arrived... it's time to celebrate Claira's 1st Birthday!!!

Well, the actual day is actually on this coming Friday 12th of September, but we wanted to celebrate Claira's birthday on a weekend. So we choose last sunday to invite all the people to our house for a little celebration.

Not everything turn out the way we wanted, but on the whole, it was quite a good few hours of family get together and fun... Of course, Claira was the center of attraction! :)

Claira didn't have a good sleep the previous night(maybe she is a little nervous about this big event?!) and cried when she saw the many visitors...

We put her to sleep while we tucked into the food and watched some videos of her on the TV...

After 1 hour or so, she woke up and.... still didn't quite warmed up to the occasion..

Finally, we played her favourite music cd(some children songs she normally listens to before bedtime), and she began smiling and all is well!!! :) Phew...

We decided to let Claira try her hands at her "promising future", by placing some artifacts in front of her and letting her choose her "future occupation/interest".

Claira reached for and displaced the following artifacts in the order:

1) Calculator (which is suppose to mean that she will be good in Mathematics...)

2) Dollar note (which is suppose to mean that she will be good at earning money...)

3) Ruler (which is suppose to mean that she will be good at some measurement stuffs...)

Good job Claira!

We placed the cake on the table, along with all the gifts...

Happy Birthday songs were sang and there were the usual photograph sessions, cake cutting, and gift opening(a.k.a. tearing!).

We had a lot of fun and i'm sure Claira enjoyed the party too!

Zoo Trip

We finally went to the Zoo today!
There was the usual preparation for outings, and we set off towards Mandai!!!

Well, it wasn't the best start to the much anticipated trip though... it started to pour within 15mins upon our arrival...

"damn it!" we thought.

After standing at a pathetic spot, which by the way have parrots parading on trees, we decided to head for KFC to have an early lunch.

Oh boy was that a good move. As we were happily tearing away at the good ol' fried chicken, the rain stopped. And we can even see the sun!!!

"are u kidding me?" i thought to myself. Some things are just unexplainable... or is it coincidence? haha... whatever...

We cleaned up after out lunch and (of course) Claira's "lunch mess", before beginning on our journey.

Did i mentioned that Claira was scared to tears when the Parrots were "screaming" on their tree "post"? oh well, nevermind, we hurried pass the parrots and headed towards the otters station.

Monkeys, alligators, birds, Emu and Kangaroos later, we hopped on the tram(which by the way cost $5 for each ticket) and took a good ride around the main attractions like Giraffe, Rhinos, and some animals i can pronounce or spell properly...

Here's a picture of me and Claira on the tram ride below:


After trekking up and down the many many slopes/hills along the way, we rested our butts at one of the shows the zoo had to offer... "...fight back of the tropical rain forest..." basically apes, monkey, raccoons and birds coming together to stage a play with human trainers. Not bad.

While we thought Claira would really ReAlLY enjoy the show, she appeared to be more interested in playing with Wanyin's hair at times(i didn't have it on camera though)...

Here's good family picture while at the show:


One more show after this to see sea lions and penguin perform, we headed home.

good trip!

Claira goes East Coast ... again

We bought Claira to east coast 2 weekends ago... well, again... haha.
We dine at a hong kong styled restaurant/cafe and fed Claira during our meal time too.


It was really a challenge as Claira was not at her best performance. But who could blame her? It's the first time she had her dinner outside the house. She must have felt awkward...




We had a little walk at the mini-carnival near the beach and also brought Claira to see the sand and sea later...

Finally, we headed home to watch the Singapore ping-pong team win the silver against team China. It's the 1st Olympic medal for Singapore in 48 years! Well done ladies!

Day out to Big Splash + Down Town East

We had lunch at Carl's Jr(Big Splash) today... Here's picture of little Claira waiting impatiently for us to finish our meal... "Come on, let's go somewhere else to play..." she must be thinking.

Oh well, we did walked around the beach and had lots of fun together... family time...

If not for the heat, we could have stayed longer at the beach to enjoy "the sun, the sand and the sea", but we soon head for the comfort of the car and drove off to Pasir Ris, Down Town East.

After some difficulty parking the car, we arrived at the ai-con comfort of main shopping complex of down town east...
We decided to take the Ferris Wheel ride...and parted with $11.50...

See Claira taking pictures with the ticket, before the ride:


And Claira was elated during the ride... our fear of her turning pale in the face of such height soon vanished.



She was screaming in excitement and smiling all the way through the 3 round-turns on the little cabin...

In fact, she was reluctant to come down the Ferris wheel and sounded her disagreement when we tried to place her in her pram...

Luckily for us, being still a baby, she soon forgets what she was angry with... and she was back to her good smiley mood again... haha...

Playground

We went for breakfast at one of the nearby coffeeshop 2 days ago, after we fed Claira's morning feed. We dropped by the playground downstairs and let Claira ride on the "Spring thingy"... i think it looks like an aeroplane...

Claira seems to enjoy it.