Dearest Little Skyler,
IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!
You’re one year old today, Little One! Wow! Time has really flown by! Papa and Mama can’t believe that you’ve been in our lives for one whole year already!
It’s been a real experience for us, Little One. Being our first child, you really had to bear the brunt of our inexperience and ignorance. Thank God that our ignorance was ameliorated somewhat by the accessibility of information on the Internet! Mama spent so much time surfing the Net for all kinds of information about how to take care of you that we actually did not feel like we were unsure of what we needed to do most of the time! :D This is really a vast difference from when your grandparents had us. They depended almost solely on the experience of other Papas and Mamas during that period of time to guide them. And if they did not have any wiser, more experienced parents to guide them, they were left on their own to raise children with little information or none at all!
To round off your birthday celebrations, we brought you to the Globetrotters Restaurant in United Square for dinner. Of course you couldn’t eat the food there but Mama had read that this place catered for children i.e. they designed the place with families in mind - there was an attached playroom for children to play while the parents ate, they had dedicated children’s menus and the whole place was brightly lit. We had invited Kow-fu and Kow-Mo along as they really love you and wanted to be with you on your birthday too. Kow-fu got you a balloon to play with. We also took turns to bring you into the playroom to look around. (Mama and Papa were a bit discouraged by the look of the playroom so we took you out quite quickly - it wasn’t very well maintained.)
Surprisingly for Papa, Papa met up with his long-lost secondary school classmates and their families there. Uncle Sang Chong and Uncle Craig were Papa’s secondary school classmates and Papa had not seen them since we completed our secondary education in 1984! Papa and Mama had bumped into Uncle Craig and Aunty Samantha (Uncle Craig’s wife) a couple of times over the years but we never really had a chance to catch up with each other. Both Uncles have three duckies now. It was really cool for Papa to have met them. They were quite close friends of Papa’s when we were in school. :D
After we had had our dinner, we moved over to Swensen’s for ice cream. We had their Firehouse Happy Birthday Sundae in honour of your birthday. Mama fed you just a bit of it since it’s actually yours. :D But we were afraid that you might not be able to take it so we limited it to just a bit. :)-
Happy Birthday, Little One! Papa and Mama are so glad that you are our Little Baby Duckie!
Papa and Mama
IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!
You’re one year old today, Little One! Wow! Time has really flown by! Papa and Mama can’t believe that you’ve been in our lives for one whole year already!
It’s been a real experience for us, Little One. Being our first child, you really had to bear the brunt of our inexperience and ignorance. Thank God that our ignorance was ameliorated somewhat by the accessibility of information on the Internet! Mama spent so much time surfing the Net for all kinds of information about how to take care of you that we actually did not feel like we were unsure of what we needed to do most of the time! :D This is really a vast difference from when your grandparents had us. They depended almost solely on the experience of other Papas and Mamas during that period of time to guide them. And if they did not have any wiser, more experienced parents to guide them, they were left on their own to raise children with little information or none at all!
To round off your birthday celebrations, we brought you to the Globetrotters Restaurant in United Square for dinner. Of course you couldn’t eat the food there but Mama had read that this place catered for children i.e. they designed the place with families in mind - there was an attached playroom for children to play while the parents ate, they had dedicated children’s menus and the whole place was brightly lit. We had invited Kow-fu and Kow-Mo along as they really love you and wanted to be with you on your birthday too. Kow-fu got you a balloon to play with. We also took turns to bring you into the playroom to look around. (Mama and Papa were a bit discouraged by the look of the playroom so we took you out quite quickly - it wasn’t very well maintained.)
Surprisingly for Papa, Papa met up with his long-lost secondary school classmates and their families there. Uncle Sang Chong and Uncle Craig were Papa’s secondary school classmates and Papa had not seen them since we completed our secondary education in 1984! Papa and Mama had bumped into Uncle Craig and Aunty Samantha (Uncle Craig’s wife) a couple of times over the years but we never really had a chance to catch up with each other. Both Uncles have three duckies now. It was really cool for Papa to have met them. They were quite close friends of Papa’s when we were in school. :D
After we had had our dinner, we moved over to Swensen’s for ice cream. We had their Firehouse Happy Birthday Sundae in honour of your birthday. Mama fed you just a bit of it since it’s actually yours. :D But we were afraid that you might not be able to take it so we limited it to just a bit. :)-
Happy Birthday, Little One! Papa and Mama are so glad that you are our Little Baby Duckie!
Papa and Mama
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