Tiny Steps, Cutest Smiles

Doesn’t these beautiful smiles make your day?

Continuation of our trip to Hong Kong in June…

*while waiting for our delayed SQ flight

When we were there in June, we spent all our time at Disneyland except one of the mornings where we were at Ocean Park. This time round, Jae is able to appreciate the park more and enjoyed himself.

*on the cable car at Ocean Park

*on one of the rides

*another one of the rides in Ocean Park

This time, we stayed at Disneyland Hotel. It was such a nice experience because we were given free upgrade to the Kingdom Club. This free upgrade offsets the disappointment of the overwhelming crowd we’ve experienced at the park.

*Views from our upgraded room

We had free breakfast every morning. It was a small buffet with usual stuff like bread, pastries, scrambled eggs, sausages, juices, some chinese dim sum, yogurt etc. There’s mid morning snack such as bread and cookies with coffee and tea. Then there’s tea break. After that, there’s happy hour which serves free flow wines and beers with light snacks. Lastly, there’s bedtime story-telling for kids with some light snacks.

There’s a kids playroom, indoor pool, outdoor pool and a makeover studio for little princesses in the hotel too. We went for the buffet dinner at the Enchanted Garden. During the dinner, the characters will mingle with the crowd and take pictures at every table. This saves us time at the park, we didn’t have to queue to take pictures with the characters there.

Jaeden had lots of fun there. But i don’t think we’ll be visiting Hong Kong Disneyland anytime soon because the park is quite small and we’ve experienced both the hotels over there. Its a good place for young kids, a small budget and short holiday.

There was a period where we visited the zoo rather often. Jae loves the elephant show, the parrot and the water theme park. The last time we were there, he tried on the pony ride and seemed to enjoy it. Equestrian Jaeden?

More outdated posts coming up…

Jaeden had been going to the Central Fire station on Saturday mornings and he really enjoyed the visits. I think Daddy had brought him there for more than 10 times and he is not sick of it yet.

We went for a review of his fracture on the shoulder last Friday at KK. Finally, he is completely healed. Time to go bowling again!

Yesterday, Jae requested for sand playing at the beach and off to Siloso we go! Luckily we got there early because the weather was bad that day. The skies were grey and gloomy. It started pouring after we finished cleaning up. Usually after beach, we will head to the Luge. But it was raining, we head back to Vivocity for his favorite Sushi Tei.

Some pictures when we were at the Luge previously..

Was thinking i should do a post on Jae’s milestones and growth at 3 years old.

Weight: 18kg

Height: 105cm

Shoe size: 11 (Clarks)

Favorite food: Eggs(steamed, hard boiled, scrambled, tamago), Avocado

Favorite Drinks: Milk, Soya bean

He can now jump and run. Still learning how to ride a bike. He can “swim” with the aid of a float. He actually bounces and hops in the pool with a float in order to get to his destination. He is still learning to ride a tricycle. He can kick and throw a ball.

Jaeden can sing and speak in proper sentences now. He knows how to use present tenses and past tenses when talking, but sometimes will use the wrong one. He can understand chinese but prefers to use english to communicate. Whenever he does uses chinese, it’ll be combined with english to form a sentence.

Jaeden is very cheerful and happy. Always ready with a cute smile. He does throw tantrums occasionally but its been a long time i heard him cry. Most of the time, he only cries in the middle of the night when the growing pain in his leg occurs. He had dropped his day nap, so now he sleeps from 7.30pm-7.30am. His nursing days had ended slightly before he turned 3 years old. It gradually stopped when he started to drop his day nap.

My precious little boy is growing so fast. I love my little darling so much!

This week had been rather fun for Jaeden.

On Monday, we spent most of the time at home but visited Daddy at the office in the evening. Tuesday morning was spent at the dentist @ Camden for his 6 months visit. Everything is fine, no new cavities and weird stuff. He did scaling and polishing without any complains. After that, we had lunch at Liat Towers and bought some new books at Borders. Wednesday… i can’t remember, i think we spent the day at home as it was raining heavily. Thursday, we spent the morning at the gynae. After that we had lunch at his favorite Sushi Tei. On Friday, he spent the whole day at his cousins’ place having loads of fun.

Today, Jae went prawning at Punggol Marina with his cousins. He had so much fun there.

Jaeden is 3 years old!

On 27th August (Fri), we had a mini celebration for him in school with his friends. He loved his Thomas the train cake! We ordered some cute cookies for his friends instead of the usual goodie bags. The back of the cookie writes “Jaeden is 3!”.

On the actual day, we had a small party at Polliwogs with his cousins and close friends. Jaeden had so much fun! We ordered a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake for him and there were bags of goodies for everyone!

After the party, he even went for a drum trial and a dance trial. He fell asleep on the way home. So much fun in one day!

Presents: A bicycle from Daddy, a skate scooter and fire engine from Aunt, Thomas the train set from Grandma, a white/chalk board from Megan. And lots of hugs and kisses from Mummy!

Jae is finally going to pee on his own at home. When he needs to pee, he’ll say:” mummy cannot follow, I go to pee. I do it myself”. He is diaper free at home except during poop time and sleep time at night. He still refuses to poop in a potty or the toilet bowl. Everytime he needs to poop, he’ll say: ” mummy!! I need diaper!”. The next step will be going out without diapers…