Xuan Xuan learns to walk ...

Overnight, Xuan Xuan had decided that she is brave enough to walk with the support of only one hand. And she has been walking much steadily without dragging her feet in fear of falling down. You go, gal!!!

'There' stage

Xuan Xuan's vocabulary increased by 1 today. She learned the meaning and effect of the word 'there'. By pointing to anywhere and saying 'there' when in Mummy's hands, Mummy will bring her in that direction to where she wants to go. And she has been doing that to everybody who carries her. The 'there' stage milestone is met.

Estelle's 1!!!!

It's party time!! Our little 玄玄 is turning 1 today! The new toddler woke up and did her usual routine of calling out for Daddy & Mummy first thing in the morning, latched for her breakfast, played around on the big bed, made enough noise to pull her Mummy out of bed to bathe and feed her, played around when 姑姑，姑丈, Sean kor kor and Ning jie jie came, and blissfully fell asleep in Mommy's arms, unaware that everybody's busy preparing for her birthday party.

Soon, the cake arrived, the food too, 玄玄 finally woke up and gave Mummy a big smile. Guests slowly arrived while Daddy, Mummy and 姑姑 were busying arranging the tables and chairs, brightening the room with photos and decorations and setting up the kids corner with the castle of balls.

Daddy brought down her walker. She was delighted and started walking around

the function room. Dinner started. Everyone was busy helping themselves to the buffet and catching up with friends. Surprisingly, the little girl was at her walker for over an hour, touring around the tables, waving' and blabbering to her guests.

If not for Daddy and Mummy picking her up and bringing her to her cake, she'll still be walking around doing her 'royal wave'. Her cake is a baby pink No. 1 cake, decorated with a Minnie Mouse. After singing the birthday song, which she happily smiled and clapped her hands at probably because she likes music instead of knowing she is the birthday girl (or maybe she really does like the attention), blowing out the candles and cutting the cake, she went back to her walker and continued to do her rounds.

Then after a few hours of walking, she finally got tired and slipped and fell. That's when she ended her walking stint and sat on 奶奶's lap to peel her red eggs.

After which, she was whizzed back, wiped down and changed. Sean kor kor stayed over for the night and both of them listened to a bedtime story which she chose before being tugged to bed.

Estelle's officially 1!!

A trip to the newly open Woodlands Waterfront

Yesterday, 玄玄was so tired she only woke up at 11am. But nonetheless, there's still time for an excursion to the new Woodlands Waterfront. There is the longest boardwalk, 400m long. There's lots of people there too. Many with their fishing rods and picnic mats. 小玄子had some cool breeze in her hair before heading home.


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