C went for a haircut on Saturday. The moment that hairstylist whipped out her electric razor, C cried and cried and cried. He did not stop crying until we took him to the window and pointed out the bus, the cat, the imaginary dog, cece......

It really did not stop him crying for long and after 1/2 an hour of crying and lots of fallen hair, here is the result of the cut.

{before}

{after}

Guess, he did not like either of them.

This little guy is always picking up things around the house. Remote controls, pens, papers, newspapers, books, bottles, toys, boxes, his bamboo chair (yes!). It often seems that he does not know his own size and strength.

{picking up things again}

{this time an item twice his size}

Cupcake Pops

After reading Bakerella's blog, it so inspired me to make cake pops. And since there were leftover cupcakes from a customer's order on Saturday, it was the perfect opportunity. The cake pops were easy enough to make, you do need to practice a little because the first batch that I made were horrible.

{Cupcake Pops}

So, I tasted the cake pops and decided that I should just stick to regular cupcakes. The cake tasted horrible, all compressed into a mound and covered with choccolate. They are absolutely cute and adorable though, I must say.

{see how small they are compared to the spice bottle}

For the last one, there was not enough cake to make a mini cupcake so I racked my brain and came up with this. Do you know what this is? When I showed C my end products, he just picked it up and tried to whack it onto anyone who carried him.

{Guess what this is suppose to be?}

I understand, Mama

We brought little C to Jacob Ballas Children's Garden on Sunday but because it was an impromptu outing, we dis not prepare any spare clothings so he was not allowed to play in the water. It was so sad, looking at him watching the other kids play with a longing in his eyes. So, we had to quickly bring him away to other parts of the garden.

{wistfully looking at other kids having fun}

{C had to walk and walk and walk}
{miniature chairs everywhere at the garden}

It was a very interesting place and I am glad that the government thought to invest in children. I believe that C will probably enjoy it more as he grows older too.

Its amazing how much C has developed mentally. Physically, he has grown a little taller and leaner with more teeth in his mouth but he has really grown mentally. He is able to concentrate on individual items better, spending longer periods of time exploring how to open containers with screwed on tops versus those that just pop open. Exploring how my keys jingle together on my key chain. All animals are called "goog goog" now. We taught it to him to imlpy the sound dogs make when they bark but I think we overdid it cos ALL (fish, bird,bug, elephant, cat, turtle, etc.) animals are "goog goog" now.

He loves to open and close containers and I mean any containers. Powder cases, biscuit jars, his toy box, even glass covers. He is also able to repeat quite a substantial number of words. When he is in a good (learning) mood, he is able to repeat almost every word from his flashcards. What amazed me most is how much he is understanding without speaking it out.

Yesterday morning, I told him to get his shoes (spatu in Indonesian). When he did not repeat after me, I thought he did not get it, but he trotted right over to the shoe rack and picked up his own shoes and brought it over to me.

Yesterday evening as we went through the flashcards, I said the word "piglets" but he said "bobok" which means sleeping because the picture showed a mother pig lying on its sides while the piglets are suckling on her tits. He said "koko" instead of blanket because the picture showed a baby covered in a blanket and said "goog goog" instead of turtle, naturally. Hahaha!

Back from Break

It is sooooooo hard to comeback to blogging when you take a break. And I had to take a break from blogging. With all that has happened at home, I was not able to continue blogging and when everything went back to normal, it was so tough getting that first "back to blogging" post posted. Yeah, procrastination and laziness go hand in hand. Well, I am finally back and hopefully to stay.

First off, let's get an update on what has been happening.

Mummy (that's me) Front:

- Grandma passed away right after Chinese New Year, it is just not the same without her

- another run of Alpha Course has started and busy with that

- taking Precepts in church so 2 nights in church and 2 nights less with C

- taken over a colleague's job scope at work in addition to my own

- baking biz has started to see more orders

So, you can see that I am rather busy at the moment. But thank goodness for Baby C. He is becoming bigger, taller and more active now. I spend all my free time with him and he is the one who brings me joy.

{C swimming with Daddy}

Baby C Progress:

- taller, can reach things that are placed on the edge of the table

- walking, running all over the place

- able to walk up and down steps without help

- able to climb sofa and short chairs

- able to hold his own water bottle or juice box

- opens drawers and scatters all items inside

- says more Indo, Mandarin and English words. My sis says that he is a chinese baby cos he pronounces chinese words much clearer than english words

- opens and closes fist when I sing twinkle twinkle little star

- blinks eyes on command

- kiss and hug on command

- says "ah" at the end of the 2nd sentence of twinkle twinkle little star

I now know why every parents are so enamoured by their little ones. God designed it to be just this way so parents are so in love with their own offsprings. Parents get to see their children every single day and every single moment unlike others who see them once in a while. Therefore, parents get to see every single silly, cute, monstrous action that they perform. And of course, the resemblence to their own parents help.