Mummy's view of Me being dad

This is not an easy way out but Daphne's latest entry in her blog on AsiaOne brought so much laughter into my life that I have to have it here. :o)

If you do not know, Maegan and Daphne have been a regular feature on www.asiaone.com under Mummy's Diary. It's Daphne's blog and our daughter is famous. Just.

Her latest one is one I must share here.

http://justwoman.asiaone.com.sg/motherhood/diaries/20070123_001.html

Have fun reading. :o)

Shake, rattle and roll.

What's the best way to keep an active young girl occupied?

Enroll her into gym class. That's precisely what we did.

Since discovering her acrobatic abilities to climb, crawl and sit, little miss Maegan has been keeping everyone (especially her grandparents) busy preventing vases from falling and her from hitting her head at tables and chairs. To be precise, the legs of tables and chairs.

And boy can she crawl. Fast, focused and committed. Not just that, she climbs everywhere. From her cot to the sofa. From our living room to her bedroom, Maegan just loves her new found freedom.

Hence our grand plan of giving her a huge place to crawl, fall and roll. Gym class.


Every saturday afternoon, Maegan will be crawling with 13 other babies with parents in tow all shaking, rattling and rolling. Often, the parents provides more amusement than the babies. Us included.

Maegan loves it and I'm clocking that 45mins with her, running around, carrying her and crawling with her as my weekly exercise.

I certainly need it more than her. :o)

Daughter vs Daddy

Daughters have a way of getting the their dad's nerves. Agree?

Maegan surely does.


She has been upset with me recently because I make her sit in her car seat when she obviously doesn't want to.

She refuses to let me carry her, look at her nor play with her because she sees me as the evil dad who refuses to let her have her way.

You know how it's like, you will make all your funny faces, smiles at her, tickle her and when you stretch your hands to her wanting to carrr her, she turns away.

Worse still, when she knows that I'm upset and looking at her, she will look at me for a moment and stretches herself on the shoulder of her mum and cuddles her.

And she's barely 8 months!!!!!!!!!!

The life of being dad. I wonder what it will be like when she's 8 or 18?

Anyone has a crystal ball? :o)

First post of 2007

Now, how should I start this post?

Merry Christmas? Well, a little belated but still, a Merry Christmas to you.

Happy New Year? Well, could be. But I think I'll start my first post of the year with this ...

It's been great being dad.

2006 couldn't have been a better year for me. To be perfectly honest, it's been a trying year on the work front but to become a dad makes everything, every hard work, every sponsorship pitch, every leadership training I've done all worth it.

So many things happened in 2006 that you wonder how to pen everything down but seeing Maegan born tops everything.

I've enjoyed my last 7 months being dad. We celebrated our first Christmas together with Maegan. We woke up on Christmas morning with her on our bed and headed straight to our Christmas tree to open all her presents.

The truth is that she wanted the wrappers more than the presents but still, it was great just opening all our presents together and later in the night, family coming over for our Christmas dinner.

And now, the first day of the new year brings new adventures to come.

Daphne and I are talking about how we are going to celebrate our 30th birthday and how plan to celebrate Maegan's first. We talked about a McDonald's party (For us, not Maegan) and how wonderful the day would be when she turns one.

There's so much to look forward to in 2007. With family, with work. Most of all, I'm looking forward seeing Maegan grows up.

I think it will be fun seeing her start walking. Can't wait for that day.

So this first post of the new year, I'll start with "It's been great being dad."

Because it's true, 2006 couldn't have been any better. :o)

Happy New Year everyone!