Visit to the Central Fire Station

We finally get our gears together and brought SMALL FAN to the Central Fire Station at Hill Street the let him see a real fire engine.

Had our breakfast and took a cab there, reach there around 10plus (the station opens at 10am). The moment we reach there the registration guys ask us to go straight to the open space area where they display all the real fire engines and rescue vehicles. SMALL FAN got scared by the loud sound created by the generators there and started to ask to go home...sigh....

Well, we persisted and the daddy has to carry him as we went around taking pictures with the large fire engines and watch the visitors and kids trying out spraying water using the fire hose and the spray gun (not sure if that's what it's called) and also standing on the ladder as it goes up and down.



After that we proceed to the exhibition area where they displayed the history of fire stations and fire engines and also some see some exhibition about fire safety procedures. SMALL FAN likes there displays better then the real thing and was enjoying himself pressing the buttons of the displays and looking at what happen as the button was pressed.





All in all, quite a nice trip for us but when I ask SMALL FAN if he likes to visit the station again, he says "no" :( guess he is still too young to appreciate it, maybe we can plan another visit when he is older.

Service Review: Rent A Toy

I'm running out of idea on what I can play with SMALL FAN to keep him occupied at home. So, decided to rent a toy for him from Rent-a-toy.com. Excellent service, I placed the order thru the net yesterday afternoon, and he deliver it yesterday night and properly installed it for me. SMALL FAN really loves the slide, beside sliding down, he also use it as slides for his cars and bus. As for Baby FAN, she is enjoying herself on the swing. The slide also has a small basket ball net for SMALL FAN to practice SLAM DUNK. Cool...right?

Walker or Not?

Baby FAN is now getting really good at moving around in her walker. It starts me thinking about the argument on whether is it good to put your child on a walker. Many parenting books and children guides nowadays advised against putting child on a walker. Reason being that it develops a different set of muscle as that of walking and may slow down the baby's ability to walk. For some books, although they don't encourage a walker but they do give advise that if you were to put a baby in a walker, don't leave him/her in the walker for more then half-an-hour each time.

Personally, I actually loves the walker as it gives me the freedom to do my work while my baby has the freedom of roaming around the house without having to scream for me to carry her. My SMALL FAN grew up on the walker and he was able to walk independently by 13 months. As for my baby girl, she is now learning to stand up. So, personally I don't find that the walker has affected their walking ability.

However, I think I do make the conscious effort to avoid putting her on the walker for more then 1 hour each time and to give her time to crawl on the floor or just being held and cuddle by me.

So what do you think, walker good or not?

Teething Pain

My Baby FAN seems to be teething. Poor girl was feverish and wake up crying, seems to be in pain for the pass few days. My mum say she is teething and she can feel some eruption at her top gum, but I can't see anything yet. A lot of books says that teething and fever is not related, but this is not so for SMALL FAN's case as he almost alway get a fever when he teeth for the first few teeth, so I believe this will be the same for Baby FAN. Bought those baby teething gel to apply on her gum but doesn't seems to help as she is still crying. Guess have to just bare with the cry for the time being until her teeth comes out.