Aleric First Chalet & Haircut

We brought Aleric to chalet last Friday and Saturday to celebrate his baby cousin 1 year old birthday. It’s his first time to a chalet and to the beach. Aleric was 4 months old on Saturday too.

On last Sunday, we brought Aleric for his first haircut since we did not bear to shave his hair when he was one month old. His hair was getting patchy. So, Aleric is a botak boy now.

Family Car New Tyres

With Aleric in the family, we have to be more prudent in our spending. After considering the safety of the family, I decided to replace our family car tyres since our car ride was getting bumpier and the braking distance seemed to be getting longer. I was doing some basic research online and chose to replace the tyres at Arrow Tyres. It was not the best deal in town but the location was near to parents’ home which was convenient for me. The service was satisfactory, nothing to complain or complement about. It was not as fantastic as what was described online. Their replacement was fast though, as 3 mechanics worked on the car concurrently. So, our car was fitted with new tyres (cost me $352) and I have been driving slower lately for the tyres to run in. I am glad that the ride was so much more comfortable driving it in the morning :)

Ikea Weekend Breakfast

I decided that we should try to have a family breakfast outing on Saturday morning since Mrs has completed the housework during the weekday. We woke up early at around 8 in the morning, bath Aleric and headed for Ikea Tampines at around 930am. I was afraid that the carpark might be crowded with a lot of breakfast diners as the Ikea restaurant was always flooded with people whenever we were there. The family carpark lot was taken up but the carpark was rather empty though. It had been a long time since we had time for a nice lazy breakfast and of course this time with baby Aleric. We managed to purchase the 2nd last bowl of longtong too. After about 2 hours walking around Ikea, we called it a day and headed back home. It was a nice simple breakfast in a nice environment. I guessed it is all these small simple actions which made a simple and blissful family.

Adpating

Mrs and I had been really busy for the past month thus we have not been updating our family blog for quite some time. We shifted into our home on 4 July 2013 and spent quite a fair bit of effort to unpack and clean up the house. We are still adapting to the new lifestyle since Fernvale is less accessible than Serangoon which we used to stay with parents. We are also learning to manage our small family.

 

There are a lot of changes in life recently. We are still finding back our comfort zone.

Aleric Full Month Celebration 2

 

 

Aleric celebrate his full month birthday with Mummy parents on 14 June 13. We wish that he grows up healthily & happily and sleep through the night soon. 

 

 

Aleric + Renovation

Our family blog has not been updated for quite a while as we were busy with taking care of Aleric Shen and renovation.

Aleric is taken care by his Grandmother and Mother most of the time. He can get pretty hard to handle at times. We had his early full month celebration last Sunday with his Daddy's family and will celebrate his full month this Friday with his Mummy's family.  

Renovation should be close to completion by this week. We had 6 paints colours for our hoome and I tried to capture 5 as below.

Day 5 at Mount Alvernia – Aleric 沈坊锦

We were anxiously waiting for the call from hospital to inform us if Aleric could checkout on the Saturday. We received the first name analysis report from Master Wu on the recommendation for Aleric’s Chinese name. After some deliberation, we chose 沈坊锦.   His daddy hoped that he could lead a wonderful and meaningful route of life in the future.

We rushed to the hospital early to register his birth as the birth registration ended at 11 30pm. We planned to visit him in the nursery if he still could not checkout of hospital. While waiting for our queue to register for the birth, we received the call that he could checkout. : ) After registering his birth and settling the bills, we set off back home.  Finally, the whole family was home.