CNY 1st day at A's Mum's & Aunt's

leanne has progressed beyond her baby clothes and mrs s couldn't resist getting her the tulle skirt.

CNY 2nd day at M's Relatives'

leanne lounging after a hard day of work of crawling all over...

this sexy little modesty cover comes as a good relief from the heat

this photo was taken when leanne first arrived at piew yee 's ma house when she was so well behaved....

CNY 3rd day

Year of the Tiger Chinese New Year

ang pows from daddy and mummy

leanne's pets

leanne squealed with delight when she saw the balloons that i brought home. she greeted the animals with a growl. she touched one of them, which is almost the same size as her, and quickly turned again as it moved. she tested it out several times before she was convinced that they won't harm her. now she enjoys holding the ribbon and bringing them for walks. she doesn't quite like the cow, maybe because it has too many black patches.

joyce lamented that her mother should have got her these when she was four.

happy 1st birthday

happy 1st birthday leanne sweetie!

waking up to her new tricycle (pressie from yee po bought one month in advance) and lots of ballons and two pets.

dolling up for her big party later....

wow! so many people singing a song and clapping their hands for me....

lots of love

yummy strawberry shortcake with japanese fresh cream

me and my bugaboo bee

tatami room

we finally got to go to a 'hot spring', though not exactly how i imagined it to be from what i saw in japanese shows. nevertheless, i got to soak in natural spring water in a big concrete tub for four people with our own tatami room that leanne could roam.

we really like the tatami room and were thinking that it would be the perfect room for leanne.

just sleep ximending, taipei

it's a cool little boutique hotel right in the heart of ximending. well done mr s!

taipei with 2nd yee ma and joyce

our little angry nara

it's the first time leanne met her 2nd yee ma (xiu yee ma) and the second time leanne met her cousin joyce. leanne took to them immediately, as though she knew they were family. leanne called joyce - jie jie on the very first day. perhaps she remembered joyce's face whom she saw when she was just two days old.

we whisked off to taipei with them the next day after they arrived. it was a good trip with lots of food and night markets, the yummy beef noodles, the mee sua, the hua zhi, the jamu...yum yum...

and the people in taipei, from the young to the elderly, love babies. they never failed to exclaim 'what a lovely wa-wa' when they walked past us.

backlog- leanne's baptism

leanne with her godpa

japanese chef...?

we finally got leanne baptized on the 3rd of january, just before she turned one.

leanne woke up with a high fever that day and we had to bring her to a GP at Raffles Hospital as it was a Sunday. After that, it was a maniac rush to try to keep her temperature down before getting leanne dressed for church.

we chose ihm, the church where we got married. leanne was very brave and didn't cry when the water was poured over her head. instead she just gave a very indignant look when we went back to our seats to show everyone behind that she didn't really liked the treatment...