Saturday, August 29, 2009

Introducing 陈律行

我们的心愿是律行成为一个有自律,行上帝律法的人...

His name is Tan Lui Xing Luke. "Luke" means "Light". May he be God's light in this world.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

At the Hospital
















Yes we are now all blissfully at home already.. zzzzz... Mama and I need lots of sleep..

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Boredpapa Reboots

As I type this, I am in hospital (for reasons of a fortunate nature rather than unfortunate). Yes if you had not noticed from many previous posts the bulge in Mama's tummy already, then this will be a surprise to you- I am in a hospital room next to Mama and our son Chen Didi ("little brother"for now- we're still fussing over what to name him) who was born on Monday 17 Aug 2009, 8:10am.

He decided to make his appearance right at the end of the weekend, which was good timing because (a) we were all together- meaning I did not have to make a frenzied trip from office to fetch Mama, or any other complicated situation we could otherwise have been, (b) Chunchun was already put to bed and (c) we were at home- we could then fetch our bags and head straight to the hospital.

Chen Didi is 3.445kg and 52cm tall. He (no pictures yet- the computer in the hospital cannot upload picture leh) has a head full of dense black hair and has a skin colour that is a healthy red for now. He also has a round round face. We are enjoying looking at the little fellow whenever he is wheeled into our room.

So far parenthood second time round feels fine. Perhaps because the factor of unpredictability is diminished (ahah- but not removed totally), and therefore less anxiousness and handwringing (for now- hah) for us. Take for example, when I attended an inhouse (or inhospital) demonstration workshop on bathing and breastfeeding this afternoon, I was quite relaxed; I wanted to listen to get a refresher on bathing. But the other faces at the workshop were grim. Probably because they were first-time parents.

And so we hope to be getting from hospital back home with Chen Didi (boredson?) soon. I was thinking whether to start another blog to record the new adventures, but the complications (like reacquainting family and friends to new blog, having to post separately for Chunchun and Chen Didi (HH Jr?) and what to call new blog (moreboredpapa? boredpapa begins? 2 bored 2 papa? boredpapa strikes back??? (at what?)) meant that it was not viable to start a new blog.

Hence the title of this post. Talk to you soon.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Chunchun's 2nd Birthday Party!

Chunchun turned 2 on Aug 1.. we had a small party at our place..


Note to self: balloons very difficult to set up.. next time consider banners.. But don't they look lovely?


















This was taken on the morning after. Chunchun tried her new shoes from Aunties Wendy and Lixiang..






Chunchun also likes the alphabet toy from Ah-Gong.. it's now on heavy duty usage on our fridge door.. a song plays every time a letter is inserted into the console- Chunchun sometimes does a little arm-wave dance when the song plays..

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The shrinking and disappearing balloons.. one or two went burst in the middle of the night.. some shrank.. the others still braving holding on(to their air)..


Chunchun had her own party.. got hat and balloon..