(to his grandfather)
Zayden: Ye Ye! Good night! Harg!
(hugs exchanged)
Zayden: Kees!
(kisses exchanged)
Zayden: Mama! Good night! Harg!
(we hug)
Zayden: Kees!
(we kiss)
Me: Love you!
Zayden: Lob yew!
Me: Take care!
Zayden: Tak care!
Me: Sweet dreams!
Zayden: Shweet dreem!
(runs back to grandfather)
Zayden: Ye Ye! Tak care! Shweet dreem!

Aww *hearts*

Happy Birthday, my baby Zayden!

Happy Birthday to you, too, Zefeng!

This morning, his Ah Ma asked him, “Did mosquito bite you last night?”

He pointed to the bump on his hand.

Yes, he knows what a mosquito bite is

It was pretty easy to entertain people on Saturday since there was a wide screen TV and a home theater system. All we needed to do was pop a DVD in and hey presto!—people are entertained.

Totally into Avatar

Since Guan had to entertain his friends and his parents, their relatives, I just made sure that there are enough chairs, that people have taken their food from the buffet and making sure that everyone has a drink (or two). Inititally, when some relatives and friends came early, Zayden was pretty cheerful and socialized. But as the night went on and more people came, the crowd became a little too overwhelming for him and he clung onto me every now and then.

(While going through my photos, I realized that I am missing photos from my sister’s camera so there are a lot of photos that I can’t add to this post. I guess there will be another post on this event.)

Really yummy cake!

Lighting the candle

As the birthday song was sung, he got all happy and clapped along.

A few days prior to this celebration, Guan’s father tried to teach Zayden how to blow out his birthday candle. It wasn’t successful so on that day, we coaxed him to attempt to blow. As we were encouraging him, “Go on, Zayden. Blow the candle. Remember how to blow?” He suddenly stuck out a finger and extinguished the flame!

Everyone was so shocked! I quickly checked his finger but it seemed fine. In fact, he looked like he was about to cry with everyone’s outburst

Cutting the cake

Having his first taste

Yup, he loves cake

On Sunday, Guan, Zayden and I went over to my old home at noon to help decorate the house. I have to say I was rather surprised because I did not expect my parents to actually decorate! On my first birthday I remember not having any balloons nor streamers/banners hung up around the house. Grandparents really spoil their grandchildren, eh?

(After the party, my mom insisted that I should take a few photos of the decorations. It wasn’t much. But, still.)

Zayden was actually rather cranky because he didn’t nap. So when most of the guests arrived, he was napping away

My cousin’s kid, Cheyenne with Nicole

Cousins and second cousins

My sister with Dylan (Cheyenne’s brother) and Yoda

My family (minus my dad who’s the photographer) with my grandmother

My friends Tarmidzee and Li Lin

(Um, yes. He doesn’t really like to wear clothes.)

With Joel

At the end of the day, Zayden had a lot of presents.

Left: my side; Right: Guan’s side

We decided to let him open one

“Ooh, I wonder what’s the biggest gift like?”

“Thanks for helping me Daddy!”

“It’s a Winnie the Pooh airplane!”

“Awesome!”

Due to the size of the gift, Guan and I initially thought it was a car. But since Guan’s in the airforce, my cousin got him the airplane. Sweet, ain’t it?

Did I forget to mention that Zayden started walking?

Looking at cute little girl items from this Etsy store just makes me wish for a girl sooner than I’d like! Though I wouldn’t dress her up in pink or over frilly dresses and such, the images from the store just makes me want to stare and dream

The weekend was an exhausting one since there was a double celebration for Zayden Asher’s first birthday Here’s a sneak:

So the voting contest on Facebook got cancelled Here’s what the organizers posted:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF EVENT CANCELLATION

Due to continuous reported complaints of spamming and flaming of participants in this event to us and Facebook, we regret to announce that this event will be cancelled with immediate effect. We understand many of you have taken the time to commit to this event and we deeply appreciate your efforts. We wish to let you know that cancelling this event was a difficult decision to make and the final resort we had to take.

We thank all for supporting this event and we hope most of you have made new friends and had a fun time looking at everyone’s photos. This page will still remain as a platform for all to share their baby photos with each other and to befriend more friends.

Thank you once again for supporting us and do continue to tune in to “Precious Babes” currently airing Monday – Friday at 9pm on Channel 8.

Take care

I know I should probably be angry with them (like how a lot of parents are at the moment, as they express it freely on the event page, and the organizers keep deleting those complaints. Actually, it’s quite hilarious.) But I don’t know why I find the whole thing rather funny

I personally feel that the whole thing wasn’t really well organized nor thought through. I mean, they didn’t even state what the prizes were! (And it didn’t occur to me until my friends asked what Zayden Asher would win.) There wasn’t a set of proper guidelines nor rules, thus, the spamming and flaming flooded the comments. (I wouldn’t really say flame but the spamming was just advertising, right? After all, they didn’t state that it wasn’t allowed.)

Anyway, I personally feel like I jinxed it by entering Zayden. It always happens to me

Ah well, it’s a nice tickle to a long day

Please help to vote for Zayden Asher by clicking “like” on this URL! (Do login to your Facebook account first.)

His photo entry. Isn’t he such a happy kid?

I have a lot of friends bugging me to enter Zayden in a baby contest and I’m just not that kind of parent. This seem like a pretty easy contest and I’ve entered him. So it would be greatly appreciated if everyone who sees this can vote and spread the word! (Well, just vote. I don’t think any would spread the word though! *lol*) If he doesn’t win I’m not going to enter him anymore (Yeah, once bitten, twice shy.)

Also, thank you everyone for your birthday greetings!

Now, go vote/”like” and spread the word!

ETA: Elisia has kindly created an event to make it easier to spread the word (and, get the correct link!) so it would be awesome if you could help too (by inviting and rallying everyone to vote)

(Please inform me if either links are not working for you.)

I’m not sure what this month can bring. After all, I have always quite liked June since I was young. The long holidays must have something to do with it. Or maybe it’s my birthday. Anyway, June is awesome!

Now that Zayden Asher is growing up, I sort of miss him when he was a newborn. All small and snuggly, not struggling to get out of my embrace, not-so-smelly poop (minus the watery parts and staining his clothes half the time), really tiny hands and feet…

It makes me feel like wanting a newborn all over again But that’s definitely not going to happen any time soon! Those who have met me over the past few months would know that Zayden just tires me out and I’m always complaining about not having time to do my stuff. (Not that I’m complaining about him. He’s such a dear.)

Anyway, I saw this on an e-newsletter and I am sooo tempted to get something for him!

How cute is this?!

and this?!

I wonder if they have this in my size

(Pause for a bit. I’m very distracted by an old re-run of a local drama serial (The New Adventures of Wisely). Casting great, old stars like Li Nanxing, Zoe Tay (I love her!), Phyllis Quek, Yvonne Lim (I love her, too!) and Hong Kong actors Michael Tao and Patrick Tse. ZOMG! They are actually playing Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” in this scene?! )

Anyway, ever since I was pregnant, I have some deep fascination with baby feet. They’re so tiny and cute and very, very smooth. When Zayden was born, his feet was smoother than his skin!

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Siiigh. Cuteness overload ♥

(Another distraction. Has anyone seen the new commercial for GATSBY’s facial wash? It’s so funny even Zayden laughed at it. Oh, Adventures of Wisely is back on again. I wish there was English subtitles on these midnight re-runs. I still can’t understand what they’re saying half the time )

I’m hoping for many good moments this month Wishing you a great June and summer/winter!

(If I didn’t mention, I’m taking an art journal class at the moment and it’s awesome! )

Zayden laughed when I opened this photo to edit.

My sister returned this whole stack of DVDs I’d lent her the other day and as they were sitting around the floor (totally not back on the shelf yet), I decided to watch them. Yesteday, it was Toy Story. But he got bored after the opening scene (I actually quoted every line out loud!) Guess what today’s Pixar movie was?

My poor cover…

Check out more photos here

Just a note: I love getting (relevant) comments everywhere

The funny part was that Zayden didn’t seem really sick. Aside from the high temperature on Sunday and Monday, he was still very active and happy. Well, he was crankier than usual and his appetite wasn’t that good but if you didn’t know he was burning up, he look like any other healthy baby

Anyway, he’s 8 months old today (it usually slips my mind whenever the clock strikes 12 on the 13th but I’m always reminded because my mom always text me to congratulate on the X number of months I’ve been breastfeeding)

The poor, spotty baby

Can you see his little tooth?