Introducing our son, Teddy

I like to share with you some photos taken for Teddy, our youngest son.

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This is him at 2 weeks old, as a very inexperienced mummy I did not know how to change diaper and had at that time hit his head with my foot while changing (Oops!). When I told him this story, he said "You did that??!!"

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Last Christmas, I wanted Teddy to learn the fun of sending Xmas card to our love ones so we bought a post card photo printer to make the cards. Teddy picked this photo to send to my in laws as he wanted to show how happy he is.

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1 out of a thousand of my favourite photos of Teddy

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2 out of a thousand of my favourite photos of Teddy

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3 out of a thousand of my favourite photos of Teddy

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When preparing the Xmas cards, he picked this photo to send to his step sister and her boy friend. I asked him why and he said "Don't I look cute?"

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I just love to look at that facial expression. It says "Hey I have 2 teddy bears, including me, there are 3 in this photo."

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It took me a long long time to realize that he was showing off his first watch.

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Errrr.....how to describe this one?

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I think the facial expression suggests that it was the first time he saw a fountain?

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Teddy's finger was caught by the glass door when it opened automatically and he was crying his lung out before I took the camera out to snap a photo. If you look carefully, there's still the sad look on his face in the reflection.

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That day he was challenging his cousin to see who can come up with more funny facial expressions and I have a series of those.

 

In the early days after I gave birth to Teddy, I was traveling a lot for work and in my opinion did not spend enough time with him. Lucky I have these photos to remind me of those days.

An event happened around 2 years ago and that made me realized that if I do not start focusing on spending more time with him, it may be too late. But I do not know how to do this.

A very close friend suggested to me that I should create activities which Teddy can remember so I tried that method.

Ever since then I have weekly activities with Teddy so that we can enjoy the time together. I want him to have something to remember when he grows up. 

Things like baking a cake, go to a pet shop, he watches TV programs and I sit next to him reading my book or taking a nap, my husband watching Family Guys with him (and he understood more of the stupid jokes than me), my husband watching a movie with him while I prepare the meals, go to the zoo, go to the bird park, go to the zoo again, talk about nothing important, do nothing together…..

2 days ago, he initiated the cake baking activity by saying this to me :”Mummy what are we going to do today?” and I said :”What do you suggest we do?” and he said” Shall we do something which we did not do for the past 2 months?” and he pointed to a book of recipes which he had already taken out to put on the coffee table. :-)

 

PS: One day when I have the permission from our 2 elder children, I will show their baby photos here. :-)