Life of a yummy baby ... and now there are 2!!!!!

We decided to go to London last weekend to visit some old friends who have recently become newly-weds. To wish them well, we brought Morgan along to visit and also to offer them a taster session of what it's like to be parents. I am glad to say - no one's complained about the nights and it hasn't put anyone off parenting totally yet, which is a reassuring.

Morgan's first trip to London on the First Great Western.







Got issued his first train ticket too - which didn't survive very long, not surprising!

LONDON : welcome to the bright lights and big city!



It was a brilliant afternoon, we saw people ice-skating outside the Natural History Museum though Morgan was too young to appreciate the dinosaur exhibits.




We went straight to the Science Museum briefly to meet Adrian for lunch and soon after to the V&A for coffee and cakes. Gone are the days when we would spend all day at the museum taking our time, roaming about till our legs tire before sitting down to a conversation about 'What is the influence on pottery in Europe during the rule of Genghis Khan?' or 'What constitutes a Turner Prize?' Now we count ourselves lucky if we manage to browse the exhibits.










We stayed with Richard and Sue in Wallington, South London - which is in Zone 5 (the farthest of London is Zone 6). I have no problems with taking the public transport if its anything like Singapore's. But trying to catch trains on a Sunday is a nightmare! Trains are cancelled last-minute or without any warning, and get replaced by buses that arrive late. Worse - when you have to cope with changing a smelly baby on a double-decker busful of people before getting to the train station. Anyway we sort of managed a-la ugly-Singaporean-style, to leave Morgan's bag of poo under the bus-seat because I had forgotten to keep the nappy sacks handy and it was not convenient to find them at the time, which grossed out some on-looking teenagers from behind. Nevermind lah, London isn't that clean after all, I thought to myself ....

Morgan also met up with almost 3 months old Kayla - new addition of Singaporean-Brunei couple Sharon & Matthew. Both me and Morgan are in full admiration of Kayla's vast amount of jet-black hair from birth. And I checked already - Sharon didn't shave Kayla's head nor her eyebrows during the confinement period. 婆 婆 suggested that rubbing alcohol over the baby's head can stimulate hair growth but I still feel that this hair-raising issue is all down to the genes.













Perhaps I could investigate further by looking through old pictures of myself and Lewis to see what sort of hair we had as a baby - but that would have to be another post!!