Of Melbourne and Roseola

I've been meaning to blog for awhile now, but haven't had the chance to, coz I've been sick!

More on that later, first let me tell you about my Melbourne trip. We went there over the Easter long weekend, to visit grandma, grandpa and aunty Pegjee!

Here are some pics of our trip, din take many coz mummy's camera ran outta battery on the 2nd day! Can see more pics from aunty PJ's blog here!

On Day 1, we went to St Kilda, had some spanish churros at San Churros Chocolateria,

and walked around the area. It was nice to see all the bakeries, like this one, for example!

At night, we went back to St Kilda for some spanish food.. Hmm, notice a theme here?!

The next morning we had brekkie at Southbank Promenade (free brekkie!)

And after that, we took a road trip to Mornington Peninsula, which was about an hour away from Melbourne. Very pretty and scenic, luckily the weather was good, and didn't rain! Spent the whole day exploring the different places in Mornington, like this national park...

A market in Rosebud,

And this quaint chocolate shop! Forgot to take pic of the chocolate display, very yummy choccies (or so I heard)...

The last day, we just walked around the city (all the shops were closed coz it was Easter Sunday - even Coles!!!) and had lunch at Collingwood Children's Farm. It was Grandpa's birthday! I saw a peacock for the first time!

A few days after we got back, on Thurs night, I suddenly came down with a high fever, 39 degrees. The fever lasted for 3 days, each day, subsiding a bit. By Sun my fever was almost gone, but then I had a few red dots on my tummy. On Mon, the red dots started spreading all over my body and by Tues, my whole body was covered in rashes!!!! Mummy got so worried, and took me to see FOUR doctors who all had the same diagnosis for me --- Roseola, aka "Fake Measles"!!!

It's caused by a viral infection, which only attacks children below the age of 2.

Here are some pics of my rash:

Back

My pitiful face

The good news is, the rash wasn't giving me any discomfort, it just looked bad. And better news, the rash is all gone now. And apparently I will never get it again, I have immunity now!

Here's a pic taken just today, no more rash!!!!

OK, mummy is tired now. We will blog more another day!

See useful article here for more details on Roseola.

Walk walk walk...

YAY! I'm getting better at this!!!! Managed to take 12 continuous stumbly steps!

The big tummy sure doesn't help with the balancing!!!!

Al fresco dining

Daddy decided that we should eat and mess up the outdoors today, so we headed to the bbq area downstairs for some "Al fresco" dining.

It was so much fun flinging all my food around that I ended up licking my bowl clean!!! Mmm... finger licking good, but I "accidentally" broke the bowl as well.. Uh oh! Looks like mummy needs to start buying me some babyproof plastic bowls :)

Some messy pics of me, with food all over myself
^__^

Fake crybaby

Here's a video of my FAKE cry! Mummy and daddy ain't falling for it though -_-

Bankstown Basketball

We ventured to Bankstown to watch daddy play basketball in the annual Corporate games.


Unfortunately, by the time we arrived, daddy was finishing his last game, which he lost!

It was a loss of 40 to 12 (poor daddy, captain of the team summore ^_^).



Here we are, inside the stadium. I was the youngest spectator there!!! Every other kid there was at least walking age already!



Oh, look carefully at this pic, becoz mummy sneakily cut my fringe shortly after whilst I was asleep!



Ta-Dah! Fringe is now shorter by an inch!!!

Were it not for the pink stroller I would definitely be mistaken for a boy! I look just like daddy when he was young!

Here are some pics of the action on the court... Try to spot daddy, I'll give you a hint, he's No 23!

Pic of the BATA All-Stars team! With a fan!

More wedding pics

Here's some more pics from Aunty Justine's wedding dinner!

That's me, looking all princessy, hehe.
Mummy with Aunty Flin, the all-important bridesmaid!

Table pic, I was fast asleep already...

15 months old

YAY! Happy 15-months to me!

Unfortunately, mummy and daddy didn't do any sort of celebration, the day passed like any other for me... did my 8 hours in childcare, ate the usual porridge for dinner and slept by 9 pm!

Mummy on the other hand, went for a driving test and FAILED! Poor mummy.

She made a few mistakes (not using her indicators when doing a 3-point turn) and failed by ONE LOUSY POINT! Looks like she'll have to re-sit the test in April.

Anyways, here is a pic of me from Aunty Flin's camera. Sigh, the SLR takes such nice pics!

Me with my pensive look :)