Clad in red to usher in 2009 year of ox

New hangout at Clarke Quay

Oliver loves the fountain playground at Clarke Quay. The playground is great. We love the quietness it can offer on a Sunday morning. Oliver has the playground all to himself.

Eczema & Oliver

Bright red scaly patches started to appear on Oliver's cheeks towards the end of last year. We totally have no idea what caused it. We eliminated eggs from his diet. The school suspected dust mites and we changed his pillow. Our preventive actions seemed useless as his condition did not improved. The red patches continued to recur almost once it subsidised.

We decided to seek medical assistance after months of seeing the "red cheeks" Oliver. Dr Veronica Toh prescribed steriod creams for inflammation and recommended us to monitor for a month. If the condition does not improve, we willl probably have to go for skin testing.

Although Oliver's mood is least affected by his skin condition, our precautional measure to have the diet of egg taken out from his diet did however affected him. He felt ostracized when the teachers gave him bread instead of muffin. Poor Oliver. Now that his skin improves with the steriod cream and physiogel, I am considering resuming his diet of egg.

Here is a picture of Oliver with better looking cheeks. But still imperfect.. Oliver was frustrated with me putting the cream on his face one morning and scratched his face so hard that his nail cut his face.

Oliver loves fountain

Oliver loves fountains, but he is also scared of getting too near them. It will take a while for him to watch the fountain before going near to touch the water.

He spent almost half a hour watching the fountain at the basement of Raffles City (near Olio pan)

He always love this one at Canele and we decided to dine there. He threw tantrum there as well as the napkin from the cafe into the pool.

Oliver at Botanic Gardens

We bought a second hand twin stroller and had our first outing with the stroller at Botanic Gardens. The stroller easily weigh 20 kg, and it is quite cumbersome to carry it. But on wheels, they are great. The seat is too large for Heidi and she kept falling to her side.

Oliver seems to like the stroller in the beginning but he still prefers to be on his feet. He walked quite a fair bit and fell asleep on his way back home at around 8pm. Right through the night he slept and until the clock struck 8 the next morning that he cried and woke up.

10 out of 10 call Oliver a girl

Without fail, anyone on the street will call Oliver a "girl" or "xiao mei mei" and without any hesitation. When we say Oliver is a boy, they will say his hair makes him look like a girl. But take a look at those hair, they are too beautiful to snip away.

OH (Oliver & Heidi), my dears!

"I want it my way"