PorkChop lost his first baby tooth!

Time flies.... after taking him home from a walk downstairs, where he had a brief moment playing the kiddy slide at the playground, I was checking out something that was on the floor near his bed. I thought it was some dirt or a chip off from his rubber ball. To my horror, I found a bloody tooth. PorkChop lost his first tooth!!

I was afraid initially but I thought I'd read somewhere that puppies lose their tooth the same way kids do. Thank God it was true after some googling. So that is his first baby tooth that fell out. It was the back tooth on the right side.

It's very tiny and has blood. Eeeww. Apparently this is the first sign of my baby turning into an adolescent. I can't believe it's happened so fast. I feel so sad his puppyhood is almost over and he's becoming an adolescent. Sigh... I am so gonna miss my baby PorkChop.

Oh with that face, he'll always be my baby...

Our Celebration of that Day

Chris planned an early start to our day. I awoke at 8am.
After washing up, I saw my present on the table! The night before he had picked me up after a flower delivery and I saw a brand new Arai helmet inside the bike box and was like 'Is this my present? No right??' So I was happy to see the real gift there. Heh!

I took out my gift for him but I knew he already knew what was inside. He received the parcel when I was not around and the parcel indicated the contents! I gave him a coin pouch I got from Etsy. But I had painstakenly rubberstamped the wrapper and wrapped it nicely with a blue ribbon.

I unwrapped his gift for me and was simply ecstatic to see the mustard yellow Porter bag that I'd always wanted! I was so surprised and happy and just absolutely loved it. I never bought it cos it was too expensive. :P I told Chris he should've bought it in Japan where it was cheaper.

We headed off a bit late on Chris' new 'old' Africa Twin bike straight to the Causeway and continued our journey for almost 100km to Desaru. It was a long journey and very tiring and dirty. When we reached, the unfortunate thing was that the sky had turned gloomy and was already drizzling slightly.

Chris had planned a day at the beach there for us but the weather was just bad. We had lunch at Pulai Desaru which had the classiest looking logo of the lot. His Windows burger was bad while I went for the safe Malay food of Nasi Goreng with Sambal chilli. Mine was okay but could be better.

We took a short walk to the beach in the slight drizzle after lunch and took a few lame photos of ourselves at the beach. Hung around the lobby a while and then headed back to Singapore! Talk about being lame! Hahaha...

On the way back I was so lethargic I was dozing off and it got a bit dangerous. But thanks to God, we safely reached home and had to feed PorkChop immediately. He was very hungry by then (almost 5pm!). We had dinner at about 8plus and Chris surprised me to a place I've always wanted to go but have not gone in a long while - DOME! We went to the one at Dempsey. It's surprising that I did not guess that venue when I commented how I missed their sandwiches when we passed by it looking for a parking lot.

I was really happy and we had a nice dinner at a decent price. We finished things off with a gorgeous chocolate ice cream cake that had the perfect mix of cake and ice cream and perfect blend of bitter and sweet from the taste of the chocolate.

Reflections

Yesterday I did not do my quiet time with God because of a day filled with activities. It felt like a weekend.

Today as I did my QT, I stumbled upon yesterday's lesson from the Daily Bread. Whether it was a coincident or simply a message from God, I believe it to be the latter.

The lesson was from 1 Corinthians 13 and was about Love. The famous quote from this chapter "⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." just stands out.

I try to reflect and think of these verses and understand what the message is from God. Maybe it is to remind me to love. Especially since it was our 2nd year anniversary. Maybe I have not loved enough, even though I thought I have. Love.... 'Do everything in love' a friend of ours once told me.

Something to meditate upon.

2 years of marriage

On this day 2 years ago, my husband and I were worrying about his speech before going out to the dinner reception at Fort Canning Park. I was crying because my precious cupcakes which were meant to be our wedding cake was 'stolen' by some guests and ended up prematurely distributed to our VIPs.

I remembered how I cried so badly because things did not turn out the way they were supposed to. We weren't able to cut and eat our wedding cupcake on stage. Our caterer messed up on the number of servers and our guests ended up taking their own wine and drinks from a counter instead of being served.

These are things I still remember... along with my awful and humiliating rendition of 'You Make Me Feel Brand New' to my husband that very night as a surprise.

Now as I recall our journey together from that day forth, we've been through a lot. Well, not a LOT per say. But we've been through some moments were we fight, get angry, lazy, unhappy, etc.

Marriage is no piece of cake. Sometimes you see each other so often, you take things for granted and that thing called romance that once was there is no more. It's sad but true. Yet at times I still remind Chris to add romance into our picture. Especially on birthdays and anniversaries. We need to. Or there won't be anything romantic left.

Things really are different when you live together. No more home cooked meals (on a daily basis and cooked by someone else of course). Housework aplenty. Chores massive. And now a little baby pug to take care of.

But with these responsibilities come things that you appreciate and love. Like freedom. Independence. Your own home to do whatever you please (aside from getting nagged/black face for not doing your housework). We've had our fair share of arguments and lengthy talks. I guess this is all part of our growing old together.

Today is our 2 years anniversary. We're celebrating it in the meantime. And enjoying the day together.