Father's Day 2011

I read back the previous year's entry before writing this, and I realised we celebrated Father's Day one day early again this year...just like last year! :) It was an eventful Father's day (eve) this year. We started off the day early, waking up and preparing to attend Ryan's birthday party. It was a long long drive to Rochester Park, but the place turned out to be surprisingly nice! I think dear and i were both delighted to see that there was a big play area for the kids. I think Le Xuan really enjoyed herself there. Especially with the big pool of balls and micro-oven with loads of fruits and food. :) I think the place was so fun that Le Xuan literally forgot to take her morning nap. But she fell asleep the moment we went back to the car. 

After the trip in the morning, we were all tired and decided to rest awhile more before we go out to celebrate Father's day proper. By the time we were all rested and ready to go out, it was already close to evening time. We decided to go Nex for dinner at Din Tai Fung again! ;) Before leaving the house, we made sure to take a nice family portrait as we hadn't taken a family photo for some time. After we're finally satisfied  with the photo taken, we set off on our journey to Nex. It was quite a long trip and dear had to entertain Le Xuan on the way there.

Just as we were reaching Nex, Le Xuan decided to give a little pressie for us. Yes, she gek sai and poo-ed just as we were going into the carpark. So the first stop for us upon reaching Nex was to look for the nursing room to change her diapers. When that was finally done, we headed straight to Din Tai Fung for our dinner. We waited awhile outside as the restaurant was quite packed. After placing our order, we decided to take another family da tou zhao before the food arrived. 

This year's Father's day was quite different from the previous year, as Le Xuan is now older and can eat along with us. We ordered steam layered Chinese cake for her, and she totally enjoyed it. She was happily asking dear and me to feed her one after another. "Mama wei, Papa wei". :) Of course, we also ordered our usual delights of egg fried rice, pork chop la mian and xiao long bao. 

I must say it was a very eventful Father's day this year with Le Xuan and dear. It was also more interesting as Le Xuan is now more interactive and had more funny expressions and phrases. It was a totally enjoyable Father's day out with dear and Le Xuan! 

A great step forward in potty training!

For the first time, Le Xuan managed to pee and poo in her potty today!! So in other words, just to pen this down clearly, Le Xuan officially started potty training when she was 18+ months :) 

It wasn't an easy feat for mummy and por por, as Le Xuan would usually shout BU YAO whenever we asked her to sit on the potty.  Come to think of it, the potty that she's currently using was my potty 29 years ago! Omg, and it is still very much in good condition, all thanks to por por. And of cos it doesn't look a least like those fanciful cute potties that they sell at departmental stores nowadays.

An account of what happened this morning:  We came back from Dr Seow's clinic as Le Xuan developed an allergic reaction again and was itchy all over especially her scalp. Then it was time for her bath but me and mum decided to ask her to pee in the potty again before she bathe. It's been some time since we tried to train her. The 3 of us were struggling outside the bathroom as Le Xuan kept sitting on the potty and stood up the very next minute. Thereafter, I asked her if she wanted to pee in the bathroom instead (in the potty of cos).  To my surprise, she said yes and we went into the bathroom for a trial. At first, she did the same stunt of sitting on the potty and standing up again. But after a short persuasion, she did not retaliate and I could hear her pee-ing sound. Yayeee! We did it! Mum and I shouted in delight and gave Le Xuan a round of applause. Haha she must be thinking how funny it was that mummy and por por could be so amused by her pee. And according to por por, when i was out in the afternoon to work, Le Xuan made another successful attempt in pee-ing and poo-ing in the potty and she did not wear diapers the rest of the day. So proud of this daughter although it's also quite amusing to hear from por por that Le Xuan found that she wet herself in the evening and shouted EEEeeeeee =P 

Potty training operation will resume tomorrow morning. Haha.