Life Priceless & Precious Moments.

Dearest Gabriel,  

 Since mummy having you in my life, I have experienced many true happiness through spending time with you. This feeling is I had never experienced before which will made me feel so precious of having you…Below are some of my Life Priceless Moments:

1) When you first open your eyes and look at me, like telling me “ I know you, mummy! ”

 

Gabriel at Birth

2) Breast-feeding the little you during the quiet night
3) Kisses from you on my cheeks and mouth
4) You giving me a big hug
5) Seeing you just catching up all the vocabulary, so cute!

When mummy ask you who you want to marry to when you grow up, you will said ”YOU”

6) Lying down in bed talking and singing to you
7) Watching you sleeping

 Thanks for giving me all the priceless & precious moment!

 

 

 

 

 

Little Prince

Dear Gabriel,

Your favorite game now (near 3+) is role play. The role play stories usually are spiderman, snowwhite, bad and good people. You will always asks mummy or papa to be the bad people and when the bad people attacked another one…you will be the hero to save papa or mummy. We have suggested you to be the bad people, but you will definitely reject the proposal!

In another role play, snowwhite, papa will always be the witch and kills the snowwhite( mummy). Then you will be the handsome prince rides on the horse and kisses mummy. Then mummy will pretends to wake up from the dead.

Yesterday night, we went to uncle Bart’s house. Uncle Bart and auntie Angie have given you a party pack. Inside the party pack got one paper crown. Mummy pursuaded you to wear on it so that you look like a prince. Afterthat you went to the mirror to have a look of yourself. You were smilling…I think you were thinking: “Wow! I am so handsome.”  Afterthat you refused to remove it till you went home.Here is your prince look.

Is prince Gabriel charming?

How to Grow Small?

Dear Gabriel,

Yesterday you had fever again : ( but it was low grade fever. Today was 2nd day you had fever, so you rest at home. Due to yesterday papa stayed home to look after you, you have been attached to papa very much. Early morning you asked mummy to go to work and papa to stay home with you, but papa got training today and unable to do so… in order to avoid you feeling sad after sending papa off, I brought you to the lakeside park, your favorite place to run about, play at the playground and feed the fish.

After you climbed up the stairs of the slide, you asked mummy to climb up too. So mummy told you, mummy cannot do so as is too small for mummy. Then you answered,” Wait for you to grow small first huh!” I smiled. Mummy always told you, wait for you to grow big first, then you can play badminton, go fishing and etc. So you just copied mummy way of saying.  Then mummy said “No, mummy will only grow old and will not grow small again, and then I will die”. I showed sad face after that. Gabriel said “I will kiss you like the prince and you wake up”. You were referring to the snow white story..  This conversation really made me felt so funny and touched…

From Baby to Toddler

Hi Gabriel,

 

One of the weekend we went back to Ipoh. Ah Po was surprised of your development. Early morning, when Ah Po took the joss-stick to pray, you warned Ah Po. “Don’t play fire, will burn your hand one…” You also told Gung Gung not to touch the mosquito repellant, it is poison and function is to kill the ants…: )

 

Gabriel you are a lucky boy, same to mummy… When you were born, mummy and papa can’t find a SUITABLE baby sitter to take care of you, so Ah Po and Grandma came up to Penang from Ipoh in alternate month to take care of you. They sacrificed a lot as they left Gung 2 and Grandpa alone..

 

In the first 3 months, you didn’t know how to differentiate day and night, you cried a lot at night. You started to cry at 12a.m. on and off till 3a.m. for about 3 months. Ah Po, gung 2 and I were really stressed and we had many sleepless nights to pacify you. We tried many methods, on and off the light, fed you milk, rocking with songs and even went to ask “sin se”. The “sin se” asked to rub your body with corn flour and Chinese tea! Surprisingly that night you really didn’t cry. However the next day, the crying cycle began again : ( Then we have tried out the bouncer and pacifier too…so you were taking the pacifier till about 2 years old. After you went to day care, you have totally weaned from the pacifier.

 

When you were baby, grandma every morning would sing the “Little Boy Blue” and whenever you passed motion, all of us would be running around to get the tissue and etc..Grandma said we were your servant . When you were 2 years old, we have sent you to day care. Reason was Ah Po had fractured her hand and couldn’t take care of you since then. And we didn’t want to separate grandma and grandpa for long period of time. Therefore we have made the decision to let you go to day care. It was a suffering for us to see you crying everyday when sent you off. However, you have finally overcome it.

 

And now you are a toddler already and you don’t like me to call you baby. You will clarify “I am not baby!” : ) Sometimes we learn from you in certain things too. We are proud of you!

Games that we played 27-Jul-08

Dear Gabriel,

We played make believe at night. You put the pillows and blankets on the mattress and said it was your boat and the floor was the sea. There in the sea was a big shark. First you played fisherman and papa was the big shark. The fisherman took a gun (bolster) and killed the big shark and brought it up on the boat. Then he chopped the big shark to pieces and put in a pot to make soup, adding potatoes and tomatoes. Then we switched roles. You played the big shark, papa played the fisherman. After the fisherman put the shark meat into the pot, the big shark asked “where is my tail?”. Then the fisherman took the tail (small pillow) and stitched it bak for the big shark. Then something happened to the soup – there is no fire. What shall we do now? Then you called out “Oh Toodles!”. What can we use to fix the fire? Is it a screwdriver? Is it a tank of cooking gas? Is it a pail of water? Or the Mystery Mousketool? Then you chose gas. That’s right! If you have ears, say cheers! You enjoyed the game and you kept on saying “Again!”. Then papa said, “OK, it’s time to say goodbye.”, and sang Barney’s ‘I Love You’ song. Then you started to cry with tears rolling down your cheeks. Papa then quickly changed the mood and sang Barney’s theme song and asked you to follow the train. You smiled and laughed again.

Love,
Papa

1st Letter from Mummy

Hi Gabriel!

This is mummy first diary to you. Since you were born, I hardly have any free time to do some write up. Now you are 2 years 8 months old and you are more understanding now. I hope it is not too late to leave some good memories for you. After you grow up, we hope to leave some childhood memories for you. Like mummy, I couldn’t really recall my childhood life before kindergarden (6 years old)

Most of the time, you are a good boy. You always listen to mummy’s teaching. After I told you one time of the teaching, you will remember it. For example: I told you story this morning as usual when you sit on your potty. The story is about the Gulliver in Liliput land. You saw the soldiers in the book holding the sword, you told me “ I cannot watch the fighting one!” J Then I told you” Yes, mummy told you cannot watch the fighting movie but story book is ok.” You are in doubt.”

For example: One night you pulled down mummy’s clothes from the hanger. When I scolded you, you said ”IS PAPA”. I told you “You have to be honest. When you made mistake, you shouldn’t said is other people” You cried and still insist is papa mistake. I showed you the moral book ‘yi yi’ bought for you….And the next day, you kept telling me few times, “IS ME, cannot said IS PAPA” J

Gabriel, you are so cute and pure!