Like an adult!

Kayla's words of wisdom.. Unedited!

Daddy drove over a small kerb..
Kayla: Papa, please drive carefully. How can you drive like that?

Daddy had one hand on the steering wheel..
Kayla: Papa, please use two hands.

Daddy massaged mummy & Kayla's feet. After the massage..
Kayla: Well done papa.

Daddy & I cannot stop laughing!

Happy 1 month, Russell!

This is the 2nd baby shower we attended this month! Our dear friends, Eleanor & Eugene's baby boy's full month party.

Ready to go!

Daddy's good friends. Lil' Kieran blocked by daddy! Cannot see him.

Mummy & baby Russell.

After the party, we headed to Padang to see Mika Hakkinen in action. It was so crowded and HOT! Poor Kayla & Kieran perspired like crazy.

Fussy no more

Milestone: Eats everything

I do not know if this can be considered as a milestone but I am so happy Kieran is no longer a fussy eater! He loves bread especially, just like his po po. In the past, he would give me a puke face when I introduced new food.. now he eats almost everything, with a grin! Soon he will fight with Kayla for food!

Kieran's buddy is..

..Gong Gong!

Car wash

.. and so my parents returned from Taiwan. They "complained" about the food (too oily) and nothing much to buy.

After school, we went for a car wash. Can you see the white foam on the windows? Kayla was so excited.. "Snowing!!"

Great Wednesday

My parents will be back tonight! Hooray!
Kieran & his date at tumbletots:

"Hey, dont leave me leh"

Getting ready to sing "Row row row the boat". Kieran joined in too.

A big fan of Dora

Other than Noddy, Kayla adores Dora. Bought tickets to watch Dora live at the Singapore Expo, on the 25th May.
Bought this apron today. She likes it so much, she wore it out!

Busy busy Monday

My mum is on a holiday so had to bring Kieran with me when I sent Kayla to school.

Kayla has not attended school for 2 weeks (1 week school holiday & 1 week mc). Luckily she settled down quite fast so I managed to sneak away to do some marketing with Kieran.

After I cooked & fed the kids dinner, we went to pick up daddy from Hougang point where the private bus drops him off.

The whole family is addicted to Cornetto strawberry kisses ice cream!! (strawberry & white chocolate flavoured ice cream topped with strawberry syrup & almonds). Sinful indulgence!

Happy Easter meal!

We had a sumptuous easter day meal at Jerlene's place. Actually its her girl's 1 year old birthday party

Buffet from Yum Cha. Delicious Dim sum.

Birthday girl... sleepy

Charlene's son, Kayden.. Oooh so cute!

Haha.. Look at these 3 men.. trying to "fix up" the birthday cupcakes! Steady..steady..

What a lovely birthday cake!!

Jerlene & birthday girl Jenelle.

Yummy!

The Red Devils

Check out the young & old red devils supporter!

Jiu Jiu

Good Friday

God has been really good to me.. Kayla recovered completely overnight! Miracle! He knows my mum will be going away tomorrow & I wont be able to cope.

One mummy's pain

Sleepless night again..

Yesterday afternoon, Kayla's temp was within the "normal" fever range of 38 - 38.5 but it went up t0 39- 40 at night. Between 12am to 3am, my mum & I were sponging her like crazy.. and she cried & cried. Finally her fever went away at 6am..

I felt so helpless, angry (with myself) & depressed.

Her constant whining was stressing me out.. I couldn bathe, eat in peace, or stay out of her sight for more than a min.

..and then she said the most heart wrenching words to me, "Mummy sorry. Mummy sayang me." I hugged her and cried.

Sleepless in Hougang

Just when I thought Kayla was on the way to recovery, she developed a high fever (temp. 39) at 10pm, last night. Temperature continued to go up at 12am. No choice, I had to use the insert to try to bring it down. She was shivering so I hugged her to sleep. You can imagine how my painful my heart was..

We took turns to sponge her and the temp. dipped slightly. At 3.30am, it went up again to 39. We couldn do anything but to continue with the sponging & giving her sips of cold water.

Then Kieran woke up for his milk & refused to sleep till 5.30am!

Finally managed to catch some sleep at 6am. At 730am, my mum woke me up. Kayla's temp was at 40! Daddy & I quickly brought her to TMC to see Dr Ong. As the appointments were full, we had to wait. One of the nurses told us "fever is not considered as an emergency.. so no priority".. SO ANGRY! Luckily, her fever had subsided & we didnt have to wait for long to see doc.

By the time we reached home, had our lunch & settled down, it was about 2pm. I was both physically & emotionally drained.. Mum, Kayla & I managed to catch a good long nap.. while daddy jagar Kieran. How sweet..

Papapapa

Milestone: Can say Pa pa
Lil Kieran surprised us again when he said "Papa". My man was so happy. The same thing happened with Kayla.. she learnt to say papa first. So unfair right. Humph..
Way to go son!

Bye Bye

Milestone: Wave Bye bye
Kieran has extremely short attention span, very easily distracted & super active. My mother in law always say "a busy bee like his father".

He will run or look away whenever daddy & I try to "educate" him. We wonder how much he absorbs. Finally, today he waved bye bye to my uncle.. and I thought I heard him said "bak bak" as he waved (bak bak = bye bye? or a nickname he gave my uncle??)

I couldnt believe my eyes & ears! So I waved at him again and he waved back. :)

My no.1 is down..

Past 2 days were extremely tiring for me..

My mum had a minor sprain on her lower back so she couldnt help me out with the kids.. and yesterday, Kayla was down with stomach flu (my cousin said greedy people always get it. I think so too!).

This is how my Monday went:

Mum went to see a doc. in the morning. Due to some timing issue, Kayla had to pon tang school (she was ok in the morning). After her nap at 3pm, she had fever.. then vomitted twice. Of all days, Kieran chose to be exceptionally sticky to me. He refused to be carried or entertained by my maid. So I had to carry him & attend to my girl.

Brought her to see a PD in the evening. Mom drove. My two Koala bears clung on to me at the backseat.

I noticed Kieran was quite different.. He is a very independent little boy but yesterday he will scream for me when I am out of his sight. I saw him walking to every corner of the house looking for me. What an unusual but heart warming sight.. cant wait to hear him call Mama.

Anyway, both old & young are much better today. I am so happy!

"Mummy, I am alright!"

Bandage again!

Back to my bandage days...

2 days ago, Kayla kicked on my left big toe nail and it started to swell. Today I went back to my manicurist to get my left nail extension removed. Brought my little culprit along.. she sat on my lap to watch the "painful" process. She kept telling the lady, "dont cut my mummy's nail..dont cut." Her hands waving No No.

Kiddy ride before going home...

Happy 1 month, Caden!

Post dated: 15th March 2008

Some photos taken at the party. Enjoy!

Like father like son

"Dare to challenge me in a game of pac man??"

Mum's new notebook!

My current notebook is about to give way, so daddy bought me a new pink notebook from the IT fair last week so that I can continue to work & blog.
Finally it arrived..

Shopping!

Post dated: 14th March Friday

I really love shopping.. I no longer indulge in clothes, shoes or handbags but find enjoyment in shopping in children's departments, Toy R us ... & supermarkets.

Wed & Thurs we were at Vivocity. Today we went to OG sales & Botanic Gardens. Bought a stylo pair of Clark shoes for Kieran.



Ever since my aunty told my mom about the delicious muffins at Botanic Gardens, she cant stop thinking about it. The first time we went, we couldnt find the cafe.. the place is SO BIG.. and there were a few carparks. Today, we tried to look for it again.. mission failed.

1,2,3.... Up!

Milestone: Climb
Today is the first time I saw Kieran climbed up the chair.. and very fast. Wanted to capture him in action so I made him climbed up again, by blocking his path with the chair Ha ha ha.

1,2,3...

Kelly's Wedding

Post dated: 12th March 2008

Attended Kelly's wedding at Noble House. Food was great! So glad to see some of my ex-colleagues.