Long Weekend 25th - 27th Oct

It was a long weekend due to Deepavali so we went for a 3D2N holiday in JB with Janice & family.

So who were there? Mummy, Daddy, Adelle, Janice, Gideon & Baby Yosher! Oh ya, forgot to mention that Karen & Edwin also joined us for 2D 1N stay the next day cos the resort was fully booked on 25th night.

25th Oct

We decided to travel via the woodland causeway though it may be jammed but we tot of eating at Taman Sentosa b4 heading to Pulai Spring resort which looks closer to 2nd link in the map. Thank God the traffic wasn't that bad afterall. Cos we left our house at 11.30pm and reached inside JB by 1pm. To us, that was fast and we ate at Taman Sentosa hawker centre cos Karen say wait for her to eat Bak-ku-teh the next day wor. The weather on that day was really hot and we ate herbal chicken, vegetable and frice rice.

After lunch, we made our way to the resort. The highway to the resort was kinda jam and we were little bit lost but managed to reach the resort at 4pm. We met up with Janice & family in the room and they haven't ate their lunch yet... Aiyo... they came via 2nd link at 12+pm and was also lost along the way though they have GPS leh. Janice was hungry so we decided to go to the nearby Jusco to see if we can find food and do some shopping. Before we left the hotel, we asked for directions but Janice suggest to use her GPS to navigate us to Jusco instead. So we followed behind Gideon's car and realised that we were heading back to the place where we came from! Oh no... wrong direction liao... the GPS must have told them the wrong Jusco - The BIG one near to Carrefour. So we quickly overtake him and signal him to stop. After discussion, we decided to hop to the nearby Giant instead and do some grocery shopping cos i need to buy pork to cook porridge for Adelle. But hor, the Giant there is muslim one cos cannot find pork wor so ended up buy chicken loh.

As we don't know the place well so we just hopped by to any "look-clean" eating place to eat our dinner. It was a cheap dinner.. cost us abt RM$20-30 for 4pax.

26th Oct

It was the first time that i cooked chicken porridge with my portable cooker and surprisingly, Adelle loves it! While waiting for Karen & Edwin to join us for lunch, we brought Adelle & Yosher to go for a dip in the pool. This time round, we didn't bring the mushroom float cos it was too bulky to bring along so we brought the nemo float. Initially Adelle was kinda scared but after a while, she was enjoying her swim. :) Oh we also managed to took picture of Adelle & Yosher together. And guess what? We were teaching Adelle to sayang Yosher so she gently use her hand to stroke on Yosher first then while we weren't paying attention, she pinched Yosher nose. Notti gal! :P

Karen & Edwin reached before noon time and we all went to nearby Jusco this time. It was pathetically small but can still find some stuff to buy for me. Wahahaa... :) We also ate at the Thai resturant in the Jusco for lunch. In the evening time, Edwin brought us to a fun-fair area nearer to the causeway. There are many kiddo rides but Adelle & Yosher are too young to try so we just see-see-look-look. After walking around, we decided to go somewhere else for dinner. We brought them to our usual dinner place.

27th Oct

As we were worried of the jam back to Singapore, we left the resort at abt 11+am. While checking out, we made complaints against the resort. What happen was Janice booked a 2 bedroom suite and we are given 2 bedroom for 3 adults ie 1 queen bed and 1 single. So Gideon ended up sleeping on the extra bed that we gotton from the resort. So we refused to pay for the charges of 2 bedroom suite but the manager smoked us off by telling us that he will compensate 1 night free stay for our next visit instead. Actually the resort was pretty nice ie facing golf course and have a mini kitchen but no pots?!?!?! ...

After we left, we went to Jusco(the BIG one) and then proceed to eat Bak-ku-teh. It was pouring when we reached and after lunch, they all head back to Singapore except us. Cos we are not in a hurry to go back and decided to go for car wash and go Giant to buy some more stuffs.. :P By the time we are done, it was about 5pm and it was very jammed. We reached Singapore at 8pm and I have decided to cook Nestle instant porridge for Adelle since I didn't cook in the morning. Well the porridge smells quite nice but i find a little salty for infant leh... However, Adelle finished up the pot of porridge which quite surprise me too! :)

Positive or Negative?

After 10 days of waiting, we decided to test it out to see if it is positive or negative. Well, the outcome is positive. The result caught us unexpected and we're at a lost for that moment.

I was telling hubby that some people tried for months and years but nothing happen. We didn't bother to try and it happened. Isn't life a joke sometimes?

Anyway, our planned holiday of a long trip to NZ this yr has to change to a short trip in view that we need to budget $ for Baby #2 and a maid as well..... 2009 is going to be another challenging year... Thinking of going thr the entire process of taking care of new born does give me cold shoulder sometimes.... :(

Adelle can crawl!

Adelle will only crawl when she is tempted with food. :P

Office cleaner

Yesterday morning, i heard a voice going around the cubicles saying this statement : "小姐/先生, 你好. 我 是 Mdm Tay. 今天第一天上班. " I turned around and saw a new aunty. She is really polite and can you imagine she repeated this statement > 20 times?!??! Really amazing that she can go around self-introduce and take pride in her job also. :)

It's been a long time that i see a polite cleaner liao. I still recall the cleaner in my previous company very "attitude" one. If she is in a bad mood, she will come in to the office banging here and there with the cups and plates. She will expect us to keep the pantry clean, put away all the used cups for her and wash the oily stuff if we have any party. Sometimes i wonder what is her job if she expect us to do this and that??? As she knock off at 6pm, she will take away all the cup by 5.30pm. Wah so it means we cannot drink water ah? Crazy rite? Anyway she scolded my ex-boss becos the bin is under his table and she demand him to bring it out. Then my ex-boss bey song and fire her loh!!! Well, i don't pity her cos if she has been more polite, this will not happen right?

Maybe there should be a cleaner award to motivate those who really do a good job. :)

Adelle in a BOX

My colleague has a similar box but it's a Pooh than Piglet. So when i was @ Popular yesterday, i decided to let Adelle try it out! Look at her funny face and she is trying to escape! :)

Princess is 9 months old on 16th Oct

My baby Adelle is 9mths! So what are her achievements @ 9mths? :)

1. She can clap!

2. She can drink from straw of mag mag cup!

3. She can do leopard crawl(1 day after 9mths)

4. She can say papa, mama and mum mum.

5. She likes to make funny faces

6. When i say the word "Uncle", she will turn her head to look outside facing the gate. This is because every nite my neighbour will reached home ard 9+pm and call Adelle "baby" whenever he see us in the living room. Then i will tell baby Adelle say "Hello Uncle". And now she can associates uncle = my neighbour

7. She can identify her friends - baby pooh bear and hippo whenever i asked her where is "pooh pooh" and "hippo". She can grab the correct ones and hug it with saliva. :P However, she still can't differentiate between the froggy and giraffe.

Tumble Tots class - 12th Oct

My colleague Meggie has been asking whether i am keen to try out classes for Adelle. Since I have a $10 voucher for Tumble Tots trial class so i told her let's bring the babies there! So i booked a trial class for Adelle and Kyden on 12th Oct. However, Kyden was having fever on-and-off that week, thus couldn't go for the trial. :(

Anyway, the class was at Tampines Sports Hall. It took us quite a while to find the entrance of the Sports Hall. We reached there at 10.45am whereby the class starts 10.30am.. Haiz... So baby adelle missed out the first part which is the warm up session. The babies there all look quite big and seemed like they are at least 10mths and above cause they are crawling very well and some are attempting to walk already. Btw, the trial class that I signed up is Gymbabes and it's for babies from 6th mth to walking.

While all the babies are busy exploring around, i tried to let Baby Adelle to walk in between the pole. However, the teacher found out that baby adelle can't even crawl so they told me to teach her to crawl first then walk. She emphasize to me the importance of crawling and say it trained the coordination between the hands, legs and head also. Thus, she brought me to a mat area and put a round booster to support adelle tummy. The teacher also told me to massage Baby adelle legs and knees often so that it won't be so stiff as Baby Adelle is on walker during weekdays. Then she put a stick infront of adelle and told us to roll it to attract baby adelle to use her hand to reach for it. Well, baby adelle was quite cooperative and tried to reach for the sticks. Then the teacher rolled Adelle and put her on kneeling down position. She say this is to train baby adelle to learn to support her weight using her knees wor. Anyway i think my baby hates the class cos she was in tears becos of the "torture"... hehehee..

At around 11.30am, the teacher gathered everyone and blow bubbles. I can see all the babies are very fascinated with the bubbles. Lastly, the class ended with a bye bye song and the teacher bring out stickers and the babies crawl towards her for the stickers?!?!? Wow i didn't know babies at this age already LOVE stickers. Hmm... I wonder if it works for my baby? I don't think so cause her greatest temptation is not stickers, toys but rather FOOD! Wahahhaaa... :P

Clap Clap!

Yes, finally after a few days of training to my princess. She started to clap, be it on her way to my parents' house in the morning or at night when she watch her favourite VCD - "Your Baby Can Ready". She will just clap spontaneously when we say "Clap Clap". But of cos there are times that this little pig doesn't perform as planned. :P

Aquaducks class - 11th Oct

After a long wait, finally we are going for the Aquaduck trial class @ Pines organised by Mei from SMH forum! :) I took the first slot ie 10am cos it's better to let my princess swim early in the morning then can take a longer nap @noon before going for church nursery class @ 4pm.

While on our way there, we packed MacDonald breakfast and ate in car. Yummy.. it's been a long time since i had MacDonald breakfast. :P When we reached the place, we were trying to locate the entrance to the swimming pool. * Very confusing *

It was a bright sunny day and all the babies looked very excited. Mei was very kind and gotton Huggies to sponsor our babies Huggies Little swimmer diaper. When i was in the midst of changing my princess, Victor (another dept colleague) walked over and say Hi to me. Singapore is really small cos his wife is also in the same SMH forum Jan thread as me. ;) His baby boy Benjamin was borned on 13th Jan and now weigh 10 kg! 1 more kg than my princess. *WOW*.

Soon it was 10am and the instructor gathered everyone, give a shorten briefing and off we hit the pool.

As usual, my princess loves the pool and enjoyed the lessons especially the part where she swim to chase the rubber froggy and performing stunt when the instructor swing her in the water. The instructor gave us some ideas on how to help babies to swim and to build their water confidence. Overall it was a good experience to learn and see my baby is a potential swimmer! :P

After we reached home, my darling KO until 2pm. It's been a long time that she takes a long afternoon nap on weekend.

Here's are some snapshots of the lesson. More picture will be posted in my FB. :)

Baby Day Out Event - 5th Oct

It was a bright sunny sunday!

We woke up @ 8am wondering if we should still go for the Baby Day Out event @ Hort Park. Since the weather looks good so we decided to go!

By the time we reached there, it was 9.30am cos we are not sure how to go there! Thank God that i have this good gadget call iphone which is preloaded with Google map + directions. So it managed to guide us from somewhere to Hort Park. ;)

It was a long queue at the carpark and we managed to get into it eventually. Seemed like a lot of people went and left early too. So we managed to find the event hall and collected the door gifts. Not bad leh cos got huggies pullup pants, kodomo shower gel, baby wipes, huggies hat and best of all - Nivea Silhoutte cream... hope it can help me to regain my waist line... :P

I think one of the main sponsor of the events must be huggies cos there is a huggies photo taking booth & huggies play tent at the lawn area. We put baby adelle inside the tent and she looks happy!

Then we proceed to queue up for balloon sculpting but I give up waiting cos super long queue and it's hot under the sun. So we decided to take a normal balloon and walk around the Hort Mart before going into the multipurpose hall for the fans & other activities! :P

Finally we took pictures @ the Huggies photo booth and with the lion @ Wyeth booth. :) After the photo session, we tot of walking around the park but who knows it rained suddenly wor. So we decided to leave after collecting the Huggies photo which takes about 45mins. It's printed from a HP photo printer and seemed like very slow leh compared to the canon photo printer that i saw during my friend daughter birthday party. :(

After we left, we went to eat roti prata that is near NUS. The prata ok only leh... i still like the crispy prata along thomson road. :P

Oh ya, to my surprise i also won a Gaia Baby Gift set worth $29.90 when i checked my mailbox on monday nite! :) I didn't expect to win prizes cos hubby say don't want to stay there to wait so we left at 11.30am. The draw was at 12.30pm and the registration guy say MUST be there to collect prize when i drop the form leh. Anyway doesn't matter as long as they decided to give me the gift but need to collect from mediacorp in techpoint - amk during office hours.... Hmm... far leh! ;)

Adelle First Children Day - 1st Oct

Princess Adelle celebrated her first children day with her friend Caleb. We wanted to let her play with Caleb and swim together as well. But by the time we reached Caleb house, he was in la-la land already so my princess proceed with her swimming session @ the pool downstair. It was 4pm and no one using the pool at all. So we have it all to our ownselves. Shoik! :P

The water was cold but no impact to her cos she was enjoying it as usual. :) This time round Daddy was in the pool with her. Since no one in the pool, they swim around the entire pool. Of cos, adelle using her favourite mushroom float to suppport her while daddy pushes behind.

After the swim, princess adelle mood swing...didn't want to finish her milk nor porridge too. Haiz waste my effort to cook loh... :( Anyway, she did enjoyed herself cos Caleb house has lotsa toys!! :)

Swing is FUN!

We were @ NTUC AMK hub and saw this Lucky Baby Swing. So I tot of letting my princess to try it out and see if she likes. Well see her expression and you'll know what she thinks!

It cost $39 (offer price) but we didn't buy cos the seat looks small and i bet she can only use it for another 2-3mths max so don't want to waste $ loh. :P