Aaron is 1!

Aaron turned 1 on Saturday.

Maybe it's a 2nd child thing. The last 1 year with him seemed to fly by so quickly. And perhaps because we now have 2 kids, and we'd gone through the 1st year development of 1 child, so we seemed to have breezed through many of Aaron's developmental stages. But we were still excited whenever we see Aaron achieve a milestone, like leopard-crawling for the first time, then proper crawling, pulling himself up to a standing position, taking his first step, climbing up the sofa and tables, grabbing things, doing the pincer grasp, eating his first semi-solid meal, etc, etc.

Aaron's a little commando. Crawls really fast, loves tunneling under tables and chairs, and is a fearless climber. But he still is not comfortable with walking. He'll take a couple of steps, holding on to something, and then very quickly sit down and crawl instead. Perhaps speed is his top priority at the moment, rather than being upright!

While Jie-Jie was sickness-free in her 1st year, Aaron had fallen sick numerous times, no thanks to the bugs that Jie-Jie brought back from school; and even hospitalised once. So from being a chubby newborn, he became a rather lean baby - only 8.5kg now. A bit small for his age. We sure hope now that he's passed his 1st year, he'll be stronger and tougher, with better immunity against germs and viruses, and will bulk up a little!

This is a lovely pre-party family shot, taken by Mummy's ex-colleague, Uncle Noel (http://bynoelyeo.com/).

At all of Jie-Jie's birthday parties, very few photos were taken, coz Daddy and Mummy were always busy. Mummy really regret not capturing those special moments. So this time round, Mummy decided to hire a professional to take many many many nice photos! Looking at just these 2 awesome photos (yet to get the album from Uncle Noel), it sure was a good decision!

Blowing out the candle on the yummy rainbow cupcakes made by Mummy's talented intern. Another good decision - no need to cut the cake, easy to distribute, and easy to store away the uneaten ones!

Can't wait to see the rest of the photos of Aaron with the many friends, aunties and uncles who came to celebrate his birthday. So much love!