Skyler Darling,

Today is Papa’s birthday, and it’s also your 3rd Month celebrations! Hooray!!

Since Papa was at work, Mama and you spent the day making a card for Papa. You were a very good girl and contributed a nice little footprint for Papa’s card. Mama also took a picture with you and printed it out immediately so we could paste it on Papa’s card. What a labour of love for the most important man in our lives, Baby Skyler! =)

Later in the day, we all travelled to Kow-Fu and Kow-Moh’s house to celebrate Papa’s birthday with them and with your Gong-Gong and Po-Po. Being the sleepy little baby girl you are now, you slept through most of the dinner and cake-cutting! =P

Birthdays used to be more elaborate affairs before you arrived, Baby Skyler. In fact, Papa and Mama used to have a week-long celebration that stretched from Mama’s birthday to Papa’s birthday. Now that you’re here and just a little baby still, we’re content to simply have a nice simple dinner together. When you’re a little older, though, I’m sure we’ll return to having big bashes on all our special occasions together.

Papa and Mama do so love to celebrate. So once you’re just a little bit older, Baby Skyler, we’ll celebrate every little triumph and victory in our lives together! After all, we always need a little excuse to have ice-cream!

Happy Birthday, Papa! Mama and Baby Skyler love you lots! You’re our man!

Dearest Skyler,

Today, we celebrated Mama's birthday. Wow! It's such an interesting experience for Mama and Papa. We'd always celebrated each others' birthdays alone - just the two of us - but now there's you!

Papa feels so guilty! Papa has been so busy with work and taking care of both of you and Mama that Papa has had no time to get Mama a birthday gift or even a card. Feel SO bad!!! Then, to make matters worse, Papa had to work so long today that Papa had to rush straight home to help take care of you that Papa didn't even stop to buy Mama a cake! So terrible, so terrible!!!

Anyway, we had a simple dinner at home with you watching us (since you can't eat the same food we do as yet). Then, Mama asked Papa whether there was going to be a cake! Papa's heart dropped all the way to the floor (or it felt like it). Papa had been so horrible - did not prepare for Mama's birthday at all and then did not even get a cake for her. So, Papa immediately rushed off to the stores to get a cake before they closed.

Papa managed to get a chocolate-based cake in time as the store was going to close for the day already. Thank God!

Once Papa got home, we set the cake up and took photos together as a family to remember the occasion by.

Thank you for behaving yourself so well today. And for making Mama's birthday so special.

We love you!

Papa and Mama

Dearest Baby Skyler,

What a week of FUN we had! =D Papa had his 1-week break this week, so our little family of 3 went all over Singapore to enjoy ourselves.

The highlight of this week was, of course, our trip to the “Art of Star Wars” exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre on Tuesday. This was particularly special for us as Papa and Mama are huge Star Wars fans. Being able to bring you along with us to this exhibition and share our likes with you meant so much to us.

Star Wars is a significant film in pop culture. Created by George Lucas, the first Star Wars movie in 1977 – “A New Hope” – wowed the audience with its huge space vehicles and many interesting characters. What was most impressive, though, was how George Lucas made such convincing space scenes and dogfights with the limited technology in the 1970s.

We also went all over the place to eat this week. We visited Goodwood Park Hotel, Delifrance,

Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Borders,

Swensens,

and even Sakae Sushi at Changi Airport Terminal 2. Boy did we have fun! =D

Papa and Mama love bringing you all over the place, Baby Skyler. You make every experience special! =)

Papa & Mama

Dearest Baby Skyler,

Look how much you’ve grown! =)

Today, we brought you for your post-delivery check-up at The Children’s Private Clinic at KK Hospital, the hospital where you were born.

The paediatrician who saw you, Dr Tan Keng Wee, was a kindly elderly doctor. After he asked about your development, he did a series of checks on your motor skills and found that you were growing very well indeed! He was particularly impressed with how strong your neck was. =)

The doctor also commented on how talkative you were, since you were merrily talking to yourself while he was writing up your report.

So, Baby Skyler, you’re now 5.23kg and 59cm long. Though you’re still very small in size, Papa and I can’t help but marvel at how much you’ve grown since your birth. You were only 3.44kg and 51cm long when you were born!

One day, precious Baby Girl, you’re going to be taller than both Papa and Mama! For now, though, while you’re still light enough for us to carry, we’ll treasure the feel of your warm baby-soft skin against ours as we cuddle and hold you in our arms.

Papa & Mama