It was just yesterday that I wondered if I'd get a chance to see you take your first unassisted step... And then you did just that when we were at Nai Nai's place just now. You were playing with Gor Gor's toys and Mommy was right behind you. You stood up and thinking that Mommy's holding on to your waist, you took a step... and another step... and as if you knew that Mommy wasn't exactly holding you, you sat down again. When I saw you take those 2 steps, tears almost welled up in my eyes. My baby is growing up so fast!

BTW, Mommy loves carrying you. I know that once you've learnt how to walk and run, you'd probably prefer that to being wrapped in Mommy's arms. But please remember to let Mommy carry you every now and then ok? You will never be too heavy for Mommy.

Bishan Park! Under lots of construction and wind-less, but we still had a great time there.

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After our little stroll in Bishan Park, we headed off to Calvin's mom's for dinner. We haven't spent Sundays there for quite a few weeks now. We love having Nigel and Gabby spend time together. Just yesterday, Gabby got so excited and literally pounced on her Gor Gor when they were put together. The handsome little boy cried and refused to be near Gabby... haha... he kept patting his chest to show that he's scared when he sees her. It was damn funny.

Just now, he did that chest patting again when he came into the house seeing Gabby having dinner on his high chair. hahahaha... But it didn't take long for them to warm up to each other again.

That was the cue to separate them again! hahaha... Gabby has this habit of showing love by "stroking" people's face. And of course she has yet to understand the concept of stroking, so all she did was use her mighty strength to show her love! We separated them before Gabby scares her Gor Gor again. :p

Our little girl started to walk, or more like inch along the sofa since 3 months ago and lately she has gone into the advanced stage of learning how to walk. She has been able to stand up on her own steadily for quite a while already too. However, she hasn't seemed to find the courage to take her first step without assistance.

She walks excitedly while holding our hands.

She pushes her walker around the house happily.

In fact, she's amazingly good at maneuvering the walker. She knows how to pull the walker towards herself a little and then turn it a little to change the direction. Damn cute! (I wanted to post a video to show her doing that, but don't know how come can't post videos... why huh?)

The teachers are saying that she's actually quite steady already, but just lack the courage to take her first step. Will I get the chance to see her take that first virgin unassisted step? She did a lot of firsts in school, without me nor Calvin witnessing them. Gabby, take your first step with Mommy and Daddy ok? Wait for us to be around ok?

Most of the time we don't get to pick you up from school. Most of the time when we get home, you're already sleeping.

When we do get to pick you up from school, you always make our hearts melt. When you hear our voices, your eyes light up and you start to flap your hands happily. And like getting to us in the shortest possible time is the only thing on your mind, you crawled like a champion towards us.

When we do get home early enough to catch you before your bedtime, you drop everything that you were doing (except when you were having your dinner...haha) and sprint towards us, hug our legs, grab our clothes and prepare to climb up into our embrace. You throw your arms around our necks and rest your head on our shoulders. You enjoy that precious moment as much as we do.

Gabby, this is all that matters at the end of every day.

We rarely have my mom at home on Sundays as she works on weekends too. Since she wasn't working today, we made an impromptu plan in the late afternoon to go for a stroll at East Coast Park.