I love my boys :)

Being the only female with a family of boys - dear hubby, dear son and of course not forgetting our cute and loveable dog, Snowy - there seems to be a constant competition to get my attention. I came to realise my boys are jealous creatures!

Let's start with our dog...Snowy always follow me wherever I go in the house. On days when Josh is back home, poor Snowy gets very jealous every time he sees me carrying Josh. He will try his best to come in between me and Josh or try to snuggle up to me. On weekdays when Josh is not around, I try to give him a little more attention by giving him a nice rub on the back.

Next up is Josh....just last weekend, we were playing around and listening to music on our king size bed. When Josh saw Daddy tapping his fingers to the music on my leg, he started whining and pushed daddy's fingers away. We didn't understand him at first, wondering why he was so upset, and the moment daddy resumed tapping his fingers on my leg, he started to push them away again. It was then I realised that Josh wanted mummy to himself, not even daddy could touch me! Amusingly, I recalled when Josh was 15 months, we tried to take some family photos using a timer. Everytime Daddy came back to join us on the sofa after activating the timer, Josh would push him away with his hands or kicked him with his feet. So we had a lot of NG shots before a good family photo was taken with Daddy holding on to Josh's feet!

Last of all, my big boy hubby....who is jealous of the dog! Everytime Snowy tries to snuggle up to me, hubby will roll up the newspaper to chase him away. Now my dog is super terrified of him...sigh!

I know my boys love me and I love them all too :)

Teary reunion

After 10 long days in Taiwan, I touched down last Saturday at Changi T2 at about 6.40pm. Daddy sent me an sms that he and Josh were waiting to welcome me back at the arrival hall. After clearing the customs on the way to pick my baggage, I was delighted to see Josh n DH at the other side of the glass panel. My dear boy broke into a smile immediately when he saw me...poor boy had viral fever for a week while I was away and I felt so terribly upset that I wasn't at his side.

I walked away from them to go pick up some things from the duty free shop and collect my luggage. I had envisioned a reunion with happy faces the moment I walk through the arrival gate, giving my son a great hug and lots of kisses. What greeted me were a dramatic sight of teary eyes with lots of yucky mucus flowing from his nose. Daddy lamented that the moment I turned away to get my luggage, he wailed super loudly and only stopped crying when I came out. Oh dear, guess my darling boy missed me as much as I missed him. And so with our family reunited again, we went home...and for the next 2 days I had a super sticky boy who wanted me to carry him all day long.

Missing my dear boy...

I'm now in Taiwan on a business trip for 10 days...today is just the second day and I am already missing Josh terribly. Thinking of his cheeky little face and infectious laughter, missing his hugs and calls of "mummy"...awww I wish the 10 days will be soon over and I can't wait to see my boy again. Hope daddy will be bringing him along to fetch me from the airport next Saturday :)

In the meantime, I have his photos on my mobile phone for company. Here's one taken of him at the Bukit Batok Nature Park playground playing with sand.

21 Months

Been a while since I updated Josh's blog cos we have been both sick the past month. Josh has been having a slight persistent flu and cough for weeks, and then it turned into a bad one and he was coughing throughout the night. I also caught the virus after having sleepless nites with a coughing and crying toddler on my left side and a snoring hubby on my right, so was on medical leave for quite a few days. I took 2 rounds of anti-biotics before recovering. Wonder why hubby's immunity is so strong that he didn't get the virus from a sickly wife and son.

Just realised my past post on Josh's development was back in May when he was 18 months! Now he's 21 months turning 22 in 2 weeks time. He will be 2 years old in Oct.

Physical growth
Height: 86cm
Weight: 11.8kg
Shoe size: US size 7.5

Social / EQ skills
He is starting to socialise with his peers at Cherie Hearts, and also more attentive in class. Since he is getting along fine with his friends there, I intend to let him stay there till end of the year, and register him either at Little Wings or Creative Thinkers at Toh Yi.

Gross Motor Skills
Still habitually tip toes, but it's getting better now. He can climb the stairs slowing by himself holding the railings, but still a bit wobbly. And now he likes to play the slide after overcoming his initial fear. I plan to bring him to the pool more often, as he is still a little afraid of the water, but is now willing to walk around in the baby pool.

Language Skills
Still super chatty and loves to sing. He picks up songs and words very fast even just listening once or twice. I was pretty amused when Daddy and Josh were watching YOG Opening Ceremony and he could repeat all the country names after Daddy. The longest word he can pronounce so far is Hippopotamas.

Baby loves to sing

What a joy to see my little darling boy grow! Josh is starting to converse in longer sentences and also repeats after what we say like a parrot. Plus we love to hear him sing!


Song: Do-Re-Mi


Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Let me enjoy this wonderful period before he goes on to the "Why" stage :)

ABC & Fruits

Took many tries over the last months to capture these videos....lots of NGs as he will run over and snatch the camera. Surprisingly Josh was very cooperative last weekend.

Josh Sings Baa Baa Black Sheep

This is a rare footage! We have been trying very hard to take a video of him singing but he's either very conscious when the camera is on him or will try to snatch it to view photos. Superstar in the making? :D

Please tune up the volume due to the background noise from the fan.