I can't believe Jack is going to be 18 months already. My MIL has bought him a clay stampy thing to immortalise his hand and footprint, something I deeply regretted not doing when he was born. A girlfriend Pris warned me (with her husband as backup) that the clay dries real fast and don't dilute it either to slow the drying. They failed in their attempt and confirmed that it was the USA-made one they bought too. Well, we'll find out in a few days...

Tonight we did something different at bedtime. Instead of Jack and Mom reading, we had Jack's furry friends (not the cats but his stuffed friends) sit around and read together. He was so thrilled he spent some time arranging his friends in an audience and later, was thrilled when Kaku (tiny stuffed version of her namesake) decided to come and sit with Jack, followed by the rest of the friends. When I declared it was bedtime and his buddies waved by and hopped into the crib, he detained Mr Pterodactyl and bent into the crib to retrieve some of them back. It was real sweet!

He enjoyed the park recently, once to the Jacob Ballas park on Sunday, and to Fort Canning Park this evening where he emulated the joggers, to our amusement. At dinner he chomped on a handroll and helped himself to my ikura. At Popular, he picked out a nice small diary for me and was elated when I bought some Christmas decorations for the home. This Christmas will be one he will thoroughly enjoy.

Nowadays he loves looking at my face and watching my expression with a mischievous grin on his face. It is almost like he is thinking, funny mommy but I love her, as he points at my belly button and squishes my soft belly, laughing and giggling for all it is worth. Then he'll kiss my belly and make farting noises and shriek with laughter. Oh this boy really has my sense of humour. I grab and hug him and shower him with kisses and we have a wonderful laugh together.

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