Akachan's Birthday Cake

Akachan's birthday cake just arrived... its beautiful. It is rather large and luckily it fits just nicely into our fridge.

Ok...an exclusive preview of Akachan's birthday cake...



and looks delicious.

Today's Akachan Birthday Bash

Its Akachan's birthday bash today and the weather does not look too good for a outdoor BBQ party. Hopefully it will stay cloudy and cool, and does not rain.

We got everything ready. Ordered the BBQ food and related stuff online. We also order a cute 3 kg Circus Train cake from Prima Deli. All set to go and let's pray hard that the weather will stay just fine.

Now its time to bathe and change Akachan, and get him ready for his first birthday bash.

Akachan's Birthday Wishlist

Akachan will be celebrating his first birthday this coming Saturday although his actual birthday is in mid August. We will be holding it at grand aunty Amanda's place (remember the sweet young thing? - see here). As we are supposed to have a family gathering there before grand aunty Amanda leaves for Hong Kong, we thought it will be a good idea to celebrate it on the same day since the whole family will be there. Furthermore, grand aunty Amanda will be leaving early August and she wouldn't be able to make it to Akachan's birthday. We will definitely miss aunty Amanda and we have promised to visit her in Hong Kong together with Akachan next year.

or

Both available at Toys 'R' Us.



or

Both available at Kiddys' Palace.

Nice hair cut

Akachan's hair is too long and I brought him to Derrick (our usual hairdressor) for a quick hair cut yesterday. We decided to cut his hair a little shorter this time so we do not have to trim his hair too often. Poor Akachan yelled, screamed and cried in my arms throughout the whole ordeal, causing obvious stress to Derrick and his wife. Luckily amidst the crying and yelling, Akachan did not struggle too hard and we were through in about 15 minutes. Amazingly, Akachan stop crying immediately after that. And me, I was perspiring and covered with Akachan's fine and ticklish hair.

Akachan looking fresh in his new hair cut.

Deciphering Akachan's vocabulary

ahh baa baa baa baa.. - he is singing
Oooh..Oooh - attemp to communicate, as if saying hello
ber - bear, whenever he watches Big Brown Bear in a Big Blue House
ber - birds, he like watching birds
aa mah aa mah or aa mah mah mah - he is hungry, sleepy or wants attention
mum mum mum - he is hungry
nen nen nen - whenever he sees his milk

Washing machine back in action

Finally, our washing machine is back in action. Our 3 year old washing machine stopped working last Friday evening and we could not get it fixed because the service center was close on Saturday. Service is never available when we need it most aren't they?

Called the service center on the next working day and got a service apppointment on Thurday, between 12pm to 3 pm. What a time! Who's going to be at home waiting for the repairman...and what if the repairman comes at 3pm and takes 2 hours to get it fixed? I do not really have a choice.

So at about 11.50am this morning, I got a surprise call from the repairman telling me that he will be at my place at 12pm. Surprised, because I do not expected him to come anytime earlier than 1 pm. Serviceman they are never never on time and we learn it the hard way. But I was wrong this time. I have only 10 minutes to get home from my office. Rushed to the car and slammed on the accelerator. Nope I did not speed, I am a safe driver, especially after we have Akachan.

Reached home at 12.05pm and the repairman was waiting at the door. We exchanged greetings and I brought him the the washing machine. I noticed he carried with him only a small toolbox and a small carton, probably spare parts. He appeared to know exactly what was the fault, took out the control panel and replace it with a new one in the carton. Turn on the power switch and viola!

And the bill...$181.9
$40 for service
$130 for the new control panel
plus 7% GST.

Time taken is 10 minutes.

New toy!

The Great Singapore Sale is on going and last Friday evening, Sarah and I decided to drop by Robinsons Centre Point to grab a couple of items and probably some toys for Akachan.

We saw that the PlaySkool "Walk & Ride" baby cart was on offer and this was something we wanted to get for Akachan but waiting for it to go on sale. It was really nice as Akachan could sit on it and it could also be easily converted to a push and walk cart. Its bright and colorful and comes with all the usual baby rattling stuff. So we were very sure Akachan is going to like it. The nice thing is we pay using Robinson Vouchers without using any cash. The vouchers were part of the new born gifts we received when Akachan was born.

The most wonderful thing is that Akachan loves it.


Akachan siting on his new toy cart.


Akachan eating apple on his new toy cart.