Dennis and His Songs

Dennis loves singing and he's diplayed a passion for singing from young. Even though he still can't pronounce his words properly, he's already singing his heart out. He creates his own versions of all the songs he likes - singing some bits correctly and the rest are just pure gibberish.

It's so cute to hear him sing and as his mum, it's gratifying to see him having such confidence of himself. There was actually one point in time when he became very self concious and stopped singing completely. But slowly I've managed to encourage him to sing again and now he's singing his favourite nursery rhymes songs every night. He may be singing gibberish but I'm proud of his singing and I love listening to them too!

Here's a video of Dennis singing Old King Cole,one of his favourite songs.




And here's him singing My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.

Mommy, a thousand times over!

I’ve lamented several times in the past about Dennis not being able to talk and not calling me mommy. I’ve also blogged about how happy I was when he uttered "mommy" for the very first time. It was the moment I had been waiting for! And 2.5 years is a long time.

But now I don't find the whole mommy thing so thrilling anymore, not when he calls me like 200 times (or more) a day! For every little thing, he’ll go “mommy, mommy, mommy”! Mommy this, mommy that. It’s a bit overwhelming now. But I’m taking it in stride and trying hard not to show my annoyance to him for I know I should feel blessed that my son is finally calling me. And he's probably making up for lost time! =)

Dennis has made much progress in his speech actually and he’s now started parroting a lot of things that I say, even though he doesn’t pronounce his words clearly. Instead of saying “cry”, he says “try”, “air” instead of “hair”. But the thing that surprises me is that he knows his numbers! He knows after 1 is 2 after 4 is 5 and he can say 8,9, 10. That I’m quite impressed – or maybe my standard’s just very low.

Dennis turned 3

Dennis turned 3 three weeks ago and we held a small celebration for him on the Saturday before his birthday, which fell on a Monday. It was a very simple do, intended for the immediate family members. Mummy is not much of a party organiser so can’t do anything more than immediate family.

Unfortunately, ma ma and yeye were not well on taht day, as a result they couldn’t attend it. But the show must go on, as we’ve already bought the cake – a Thomas cake- so we proceeded with the “par-tee” amongst ourselves and luckily, “seh han ee” (youngest aunty) was in town, so she and uncle Andy joined in. I cooked some pasta and daddy fried some lamb chops, and the dessert was obviously the birthday cake. Dennis was delighted to see his Thomas cake but didn’t eat it cos he was too obsessed with his presents.

Dennis cutting his Thomas cake


What presents did he get? Seh han ee and uncle Andy gave him Master Shifu and Po soft toys(Kungfu Panda), Mah mah Penang got him some trains (a set of 3 consisting of Percy, Toby and Thomas) and the cheap skate parents got him a train set – from Tesco! Hehehe...but guess what! He likes the Tesco wooden train set the most! After we opened up that train set, he never looked back. He stayed up until 10+ playing w the train set and we let him cos it’s afterall his BIG day!

Dennis with Po and Master Shifu

Dennis showing off his new choo choo trains

Dennis playing with his new train set - with the older boys helping him to build the track


On the actual day itself, he had another small celebration at school. I took time off from work to attend his birthday celebration at school, since it’s the first one and I thought he would be happy to see me. Boy was I wrong! He started crying the moment he saw me... I don’t know why, maybe he was feeling all shy and manja! He just stuck to me the whole time and refused to listen to the teachers’ instructions. He was crying during the birthday song, blowing of candles, when we cut the cake together....what a bummer. Perhaps he would have had a better time, if i didn’t show up. I guess I ruined his first birthday celebration in school!

The only decent shot we got from the entire celebration- one which he didn't look like he was crying.