Staccato Trial Class

Brought Adelle & Danelle for a trial class at Staccato on 19th Dec. I called up Staccato in early Dec and found out that they are conducting free trial until end of this year. So i quickly booked a date and the last date that they gave me was 19th Dec cos they will be closed for holiday from christmas onwards till Jan new yr. They are also very kind enough to open up trial classes specially for me based on the timing that i wanted. :P

Danelle is attending Baby Bach(for 6mths and above) and Adelle is attending Beethovan Toddlers. I managed to get abt 8 mummies from SMH June 09 and my fren Karen to join me for Baby Bach session and due to overwhelming response, Staccato open up 2 classes for me instead so that each class has 5 babies and we can enjoy the lesson better. As for Adelle class, none from SMH Jan 08 mum seemed to be interested cos no one responsed to my posting. But nevertheless, i managed to get my fren Janice and my colleagues Meggie and Jean toddlers to attend. However, the funny thing was on the day, only Janice's son Yosher turn up while the other 2 forgotton abt it! :D Luckily, there are other toddlers from somewhere else came for the trial as Adelle so i dont feel so bad to get them open a trial class for me and no kids wor... :P

My 2 darlings seemed to enjoy the class very much especially Adelle cos i left her alone inside the room to dance with the teacher and she doesnt have any more fear attenidng class! Good girl, mummy is proud of u! Anyway, i have yet to decide whether to sign up or not. One thing i like abt the class is the mini piano. It's sooo CUTE but they are selling it for $120 wor... kinda ex! :P

Danelle first food

The usual and safest stuff - Cereal! :) We decided to introduce Danelle semi solid earlier as she seemed to be waking up in the middle of the night as compared to sleep through previously.

The first attempt of cereal is during weekend with Healthy Times cereal. Well, glad that Danelle seemed to take it well and no allergy detected. After the meal of cereal, we still offer Danelle a bottle of EBM as the qty of the cereal is only 1 spoon so don't think that is enough for one meal.

I can still recall during Adelle's time, she simply hates it and we got no choice but to add the cereal into her milk. As for Danelle, she seemed to take spoon feeding well and we all enjoying feeding her!! hahaa...

Childcare centre

Lately I am busy looking at child care center for Adelle to attend in 2010. Initially i thought of putting her at Kids Colorbox Montessori Center(across the street from my parents place) for 2 hrs lesson. But after the saga with my mum and maid, i decided to go for a childcare center instead for contingency plan.

I spent abt 1-2 weeks to search the web for childcare center nearby and there are few relatively near to my house and my parents house. I also went for site visits and spoke to the principals. Sounds like i am looking for a primary school hor? :P

My site visit feedback :

1. PCF Moulmein-Tai Pei ChildCare Centre Just 2 blks away from my parents house and it's a void deck childcare center with non-aircon environment. Look reasonably spacious and clean by peeping through the window. I only spoke to the principal outside the gate and did not get to go in to take a look cos the principal say cannot. Generally the programme, curriculum and menu looks good. Price is super affordable too cos only need to pay $199 after govt subsidy for a full day childcare rates. However, there is no more vacancy until july 2010.

2. YWCA McNair It is a landed property along McNair Road and two storey house with it's own playground. Initially i was very excited becos I like childcare center in a landed house environment (like Pat schoolhouse). Until we stepped inside the building, hubby say it was very messy and stuffs are piled up everywhere. It was very old and kind of run-down. Thus, we didn't go for the open house and decided to drop this as one of the choices. Though the price is also quite affordable ie $299 after govt subsidy.

3. Cherie Hearts Little Angels This center is located along macpherson road. It was a landed property and has it's own playground, simple running tracks and sand pit too. Very well equipped as a center cos they have computer for teaching and very clean and neat place. I was impressed with the principal cos she took my temperature and made me sanitized my hand before going in. I went during the children nap time and they are sleeping soundly. The teacher look nice and committed. I was told that they provide salmon for the children lunch which sounds good! The only thing i dislike is the curriculum cos the principal told me that they don't teach phonics for playgroup as they felt they are too young to learn which i disagree totally. Cos Adelle has been attending zoophonics and has mastered quite a lot of alphabets phonics so far. So i don't think the principal statement is right as other CC are also teaching phonics to playgroup age. Anyway the price is $432 after the special discount and govt subsidy.

4. Creative Star KidsCampus This is another void deck child care center along Bendemeer Road which charges $360 after govt subsidy. Well, relatively high price for non-aircon environment as it is a private CC. I brought Adelle there during their lesson time and it was a small area for the children to sing and dance. Their outdoor activties is to walk along the void deck with 1 teacher holding 2 kids hand and the kids will hold another more few kids hand. Sounds a bit bo-liao rite? I also heard from forum that high turnover rate of teachers and mossies bites are common. So i decided not to go ahead.

5. Agape Little Uni
This CC is super near to my house. It's located at the multi-storey carpark (level 2) of my house. Read from forum feedback that a lot of Creative star kids left and went to Agape instead. So i went to check out the place last weekend and brought Adelle there too. We were impressed with the cleanliness and super spacious area for playgroup kids. They have toys that are maintained in excellent condition. The curriculum looks interesting as they have gym play on every tuesday and they are using Letterland to teach phonics. I also get to know from one existing mummy that it is a christian CC and i also see bible verses on the CC wall. Overall we kind of like the CC and will put Adelle there! But I need to change Danelle CDA from standard chartered to OCBC bank cos using OCBC CDA has $100 discount for the monthly fees, waiver of registration fees($100) and $50 discount off the products. So quite a bit savings cos the fees comes out to be $500 after govt subsidy and discount for a air-con CC. Hope Adelle will learn to be independent and have a fun time there! :)

While searching for a childcare center, i found out that OCBC CDA offers a lot of discounts and priviledges for quite a lot of childcare center like Agape Little Uni, Cherie Hearts, Little Skool House, etc and also can get discount for places like Go-Go Bambini, The Polliwogs, Peek-A-Boo, etc. So to my dear preggy friends, do consider OCBC CDA when you can't decide which bank to sign up.. I didn't do a thorough research when i chose for Danelle CDA previously and now need to write in to MCYS to ask for transfer of bank a/c. Waste of time! :P

Danelle First Christmas

Last year was Adelle first christmas and this year is Danelle first christmas. So what did the kids received from us? .... For Adelle, it was a pooh piano while Danelle received a F&P drum roller from Mummy & Daddy for xmas. They both loved their presents! :)

While i was doing my xmas shopping @ Metro City Sq in mid Nov, i got to know there was a xmas lighting bus trip organised by Metro. So i quickly queued up for the tickets and got 4 tixs becos i have the Metro credit card! It was a fun and exciting ride cos we hop on a open-top bus and drove down Orchard road to see the xmas lighting. The kids enjoyed it and the weather was cooling that day.

During of the weekend in Dec, we brought the kids to see Mickey Mouse show @ Vivocity and bought a xmas hairband for Adelle at the same time! :)

On xmas day, we bought a xmas log cake and a simple dinner at home. The gals are dressed up in animal costume where Danelle is in her cow costume and Adelle in the pig costume cos they are born in the year of cow and pig! hehehee... :)

After dinner, it was open present time. We received a lot of presents from our friends and family this yr. On behalf of Adelle & Danelle, thank U Aunties and Uncles for the prezzies!

Princess Danelle is 6 months old on 21st Dec

Danelle can sit on her own very well since 22 weeks and she also started her first semi solid 2 weeks back too! Reason being Danelle doesnt seemed like to drink EBM so Mummy decided to start introducing semi-solid earlier. Anyway, we are glad that Danelle is taking the cereal pretty well and seemed enjoying it too! :)

Mummy bought Healthy Time and Nestle cereal for Danelle to try but Danelle prefer Nestle cereal more. In addition, mummy also got a new expensive toy for Danelle! It's the Avent steam and blend machine. Thanks to one of the June mummy who works in Philip, mummy managed to get 40% discount off the retail price($199) for this machine. Making puree is such a breeze with this machine. All i need to do is cut the food/fruits into cube then steam for few minutes and finally blend it! Mummy has been doing fruits puree like apple and pear puree to add into Danelle cereal and of cos Danelle loves it! Other puree that Mummy has done are avocado, potato, sweet potato and carrot puree! Highly recommend this gadget to Mums who want to prepare baby food with minimum time. Previously during Adelle's time, I bought the silly pigeon food maker and that take long time to prepare puree thus Adelle & I never likes puree food. Unlike Adelle, Danelle loves puree food cos it is nicely and fastly done by this new toy! *Thumbs up*

3rd Wedding Anniversary - 16th Dec 2009

It was our 3rd wedding anniversary and we got 2 kids already! :) As 16th Dec is a weekday so hubby & i took leave to spend the day together. We went for spa session in the afternoon and ended up we signed a spa packages! Well guess that is the only thing we both enjoy doing other than eating now... whahahaaaa... :P

As usual, hubby will order flowers from his favourite online florist and this time, it doesn't have bear but chocolates instead. Coincidentally i bought alcohol chocolate for him so ended up our house is full of chocolate in Dec! :)

In the evening time, we brought the family out for dinner at Timbre @ Old school. Hmm.. kinda wrong choice of venue for our dinner cos they doesnt provide proper chairs and we ended up standing to eat. Of cos the kids doesnt have baby chairs too so they are behaving like "monkeys'! Haiz.... we didnt really enjoyed the dinner though the food is nice! We loved the pizza and margarita! So we quickly finished off the meal and headed home.

It was a simple celebration but what matters was we still get some private time together and we still love each other.. hehee.. :P To my dearest hubby, Happy Anniversary & love u deep deep... *Muacks*

Christmas gathering with SMH June 09 mummies @ Serene's condo

It gonna be christmas and the mummies suggest to meet up to celebrate christmas. This time round, the organiser is createjoy and serene host the event at her condo bbq pit. Reason being there is no function room at her Condo @ Regent's Park.

As createjoy aka Rosalind doesn't drive so i volunteered to help to buy drinks and snacks from Old Chang Kee using the agreed budget of $5 per head to buy curry puff, fish ball, sotong ball, spring rolls, etc and bring on that day. All of us brought our family there and we have some simple games organised by createjoy. The best part was we got pple sponsor the prizes for us. However, the sponsor was at the gathering and want us to listen to their product introduction and well hopefully buy some bb stuff from them. The sponsor is selling bb items like combi weaning bowl, baby walker, knee pad, etc. If i am not wrong, none of us bought anything except Createjoy cos she paiseh that the sponsor gave us 3 prizes ie a combi weaning bowl, cup and a baby walker.

The first quiz was guess who is the baby. We supposed to bring our new born pics and guess who is who. I didn't managed to guess them right cos some of the baby have changed so much since born. Then we suppose to have the next game - change diaper competition but everyone decided that it's too mah fan to change diaper at the bbq pit so we didn't proceed with the game. Then we have christmas present exchange for the baby and finally a lucky dip which is a baby walker. Guess what? I won the baby walker!!! Hahaha.... I was told to pick up a piece of crumpled paper by Createjoy and when she open up, she called "Debbie" and i say "Yes? "Then she told me I am the winner... hahahaha... I picked myself as the winner so funny loh... :)

It was a nice gathering as some new mummies joined in this gathering besides the usual ones like Katty and Regina whom i often met up with. :)

Planet 51 - Adelle first movie @ cinema

Yeah Yeah Yeah! I got free movie tickets, free popcorns, free hotdog buns, free drinks and movie premiums for Planet 51! Brought my nephews, niece and Adelle to watch the movie n 7th Dec at 7.30pm @ Shaw Lido.

Initially the seats that i got are all over the cinema. But i managed to swap some tickets with my colleagues and able to get 1 row of 4 and 2 sets of double seats that are quite near to the row of 4. So we can all sit together and Adelle can choose who she want to sit with too! Ha...

To my surprise, Adelle behaved well throughout the show cos she gets to eat popcorn crumbs and she seemed to enjoy the show too. Good girl! Mummy can bring you go and watch more cartoon movie the nxt time. :)

Ideas for family friendly dining place

Bringing Adelle out for dinner is a challenge sometimes cos she finished her food faster than us. Thus, need to look for ideas where to go for dining. Saw the link and shall explore the recommendation when i am free... hehee... :P

Swim date with SMH June 09 mummies @ Derrica's condo

Received a call from one of my SMH friend last wk that they are organising a private swim date on a weekday so i took leave and went to meet them yesterday. I brought my maid and Danelle to the swim date and we took MRT to Compasspoint condo.

To my surprise, I was one of the few early ones who reached the MRT. Derrica met us at waiting area and brought us to the condo. The security seemed lacking as she only tell the guard that "I stay here" and he let us in without asking for her residence pass?!?! Hmm.. Anyway, we head straight to the pool area and there is another group (some MH gathering) too. So the pool was packed!

I changed Danelle into her swim suit and put her bath robe. One of the mummies Shannon say Danelle look like some hotel guest.. hahaaa... Then we brought the babes into the pool and only Kaley enjoyed it while Danelle and Sermaine were crying and thus, they only get a quick dip and then out of the pool.

Since Danelle and Sermaine don't want to swim so we went up to Derrica house to change them while waiting for the rest to join us. After shower, Danelle doze off as she is used to have morning nap.

Then came Noah,Genieve and Kaley and we put the babies together to take pics. It was funny how they grab things from one another due to the squeezy mat. :) It was a enjoyable gathering as we chit chat and talk about the new pple who joined the thread. When i was on my way to the MRT, i bump into my gynae and he seemed to recognise me and smile at me... ha.... :P

VS Lip Gloss

My colleague came back from USA for holiday last week and just now he pass me a "souvenir". I was very surprised that he show me a paper bag full of Victoria Secrets Lip Gloss and asked me to pick 1... hahaa.... So interesting... And i pick the swirl lip gloss cos i find the colors quite interesting.. :P

It was very nice of him cos these days hard to find single guy who went holiday and buy such stuff for colleagues or friends loh. The usual stuff that pple give are magnets, food or cute little stuffs... so it is something different this time.

The lip gloss comes in useful cos the one that i had was bought in 2006... :D

Zed full month celebration

My uni fren Soon Yeow's son - Zed full month celebration fall on the 5th Dec. She invited us for the celebration and I went over early that day to help to do up the balloon decoration. :)

I love the cup cakes that she gotton from Precious Moment as it is sooo lovely. She also made a customised magnet for Zed as a door gift! Happy full month to Baby Zed. May you grow healthy and happy always! :)

Babies of 2010

Hmm... Just being boliao and doing a stock take of the 2010 babies of friends! Will try to update this posting as there is still a long way to go b4 end of 2010 and know some frens r TTC mah... Good luck to the TTC couples!! :)

Due in Feb - Rykiel
Due in Mar - Julia
Due in Apr - Lifang, Suping & Doreen
Due in May - Janice
Due in June - Karen

Who else do i missed out? Pls tell me k! :)

Danelle can sit!

Yesh! Danelle can sit up on her own @ 22 wks old. A milestone that Danelle achieved earlier than Adelle. I recall Adelle only do so around 6mths old. :)

Outing @ Marina Barage

It was a public holiday (Hari Raya Haji) and we decided to bring the family out to Marina Barage. We didn't expect there are soo many people that day and waited a long while for the parking lots. So hubby told me to bring the kids out first while he wait for the parking lots.

We spend about 45mins there and Adelle enjoys the water fountain. However, we didnt bring extra clothing for her so she didn't get a dip that day. We walked around the ground level and also went up to take a look to see people flying kite there.

There was a restaurant(7th Storey) which we used to frequent when it was at Bugis area. However on that day, we didn't thought of eating steamboat so we just walked past and went somewhere else for dinner. :)

We will come back another day and bring extra clothing for Adelle to have some water play! hehee...

I hate NOVEMBER

It's a terrible November!

Hubby is having reservist the whole month and as a result it became a super busy and lousy month for me. The only good thing is my boss don't have issue for me to apply leave during this period except today becos of a stupid six sigma briefing that make me rush to office early morning!

For the first week of November, i took one whole week of leave. Every morning, i gotta wake up at the same timing then bring Adelle, Danelle and maid to my parent's house. The first week was super tiring cos Adelle refused to walk to the bus stop and insisted to be carried only. She is already 12kg and i have to carry her plus my milk pump and stuff! Can really break my bone. :( Despite I made several attempts to let her walk, she refused and just sat on the void deck floor then lied down there to protest. Then at my parent's place, i gotta look after the kids especially Adelle will cling to me whenever i am around. So i didnt have any time to do any work and I gotta sneak out during her nap time to head back home to clear office emails. Afterwhich, I got to rush back to my parent's place to pick up the kids and send them home. Once reached home, i gotta settle the kids to bed. By then it's already 11pm. Simply no time for myself to rest & dont have time to do other stuff loh. :(

Come the second week of November and third week of November, i took half day leave (AM) daily. Same thing as usual, i gotta bring the kids via bus to my parent's house. The only improvement is Adelle was agreeable to walk to the bus stop cos she gets to play at the playground while on our way to the bus stop. However, working half day makes me even more busy. Everyday after putting Adelle to nap, i gotta rush to office and then after work, I need to rush back to pick up the kids. Everyday rush here and there like mad woman! When will this end?!?!?!?! To add on to my 'pain', something frustrating happen! My maid (second maid) started to show "attitude" problem after being 2mths with us and of cos, my mum started to complain of the maid as well. My mum is simply pissed with whatever the maid do and everyday she sure got something to complain abt the maid. Then my mum told me to get the maid to cut her hair short cos the maid has been scratching her head lately which i did not noticed. Anyway, i informed the maid to cut short her hair at night and immediately told me that she don't want! I told her off that i will call agent to talk to her if she refused and she challenged me to call. So well, i called and after she talked to the agent, she hung up the phone, face super black and spilled some washing powder on the floor. The next day morning, my mum can't wait to send the maid to the hairdresser. When i told the maid let's go and cut hair, the stupid maid threw tantrums and say she doesn't want and that she has told agent she will tie her hair instead! Wah lau... She think she's the boss?!?!?!?! I was damn pissed and told her that if she want to continue to work for me, she got to cut her hair else i will send her back now. So she super unhappy, grumble abt she dont have day-off, don't have this don't have that and drag her feet to the hairdresser. Anyway that is just part of the story of her "tantrums". Another occassion happened on a sunday when we send Adelle for her zoophonics class @ Tampines Mart. Every sunday, the maid will follow hubby to Shop & Save while wait for us to finish the class. However on that sunday, the maid told us that Danelle is sleeping when we reached Tampines Mart and she want to stay in the car to accompany Danelle. So i told hubby to manage her accordingly. Who knows after the class ended, hubby was furious and told me that the maid was sleeping inside the car for 1.5hrs. She refused to get off the car and give the reason that Danelle is still sleeping. Then during lunch time, she claimed that she is having headache as the night before she slept at 12.30am simply becos she took her own sweet time to wash the kids clothes and then enjoy her biscuits before she goes to bed. Terrible attitude fellow! Anyway, my mum and the maid are both testing my patience. I have told my mum that if she continues to complain abt the maid for the trivial matters and she find the maid an eyesore, i will fire the maid and then i quit my job and be a SAHM. I will send Adelle to day time childcare centre while i take care of Danelle at home. I have enough of the complaints and nuisance that my mum & maid are creatingl. Why humans like to create problem for other people?

Princess Danelle is 5 months old on 21st Nov

It's teether time! There is sale going on so Mummy bought a few teethers for Danelle as Danelle has been drooling non stop like tap water! :P One of the teether that Mummy bought is known as "Chicken wing" cos it has a handle that Danelle can hold and bite from all angles. * Taste Yummy*

5 months Danelle can roll over in both directions and can sit momentarily without support! :)

Danelle third injection & rota dose - 22nd Nov 09

We brought Danelle for her 3rd jab of 6 in 1 injection on 22nd Nov. Danelle didn't cry much when she was "poked" this time. Mummy also very forgetful these day and forgotton to take a snap of her reaction that day. But only some pics of her after the injection... :P

Danelle is growing well @ 5 mths old though she is not as chubby as jie jie but still healthy... :) She lost some weight due to the fever when we came back from Genting trip. Hopefully she will put on some weight again and catch up with jie jie... The problem with Danelle is on and off, she will refuse milk via bottle feeding so how to pump her up though mummy has more than enough supply to feed her? :(

Genting trip - 26th to 28th Oct

Yeah, finally we are going holiday again! We brought the whole family including Adelle and Danelle out for a short trip in Genting from Oct 26 to 28. It was a last minute decision cos hubby say he is only free during these period to go holiday and after that, cannot liao. So this is the first overseas trip for Danelle and we managed to get her passport done up within weeks. :)

I happened to know some of the jan 08 mummies are also planning for Genting during that period so they shared info on the various packages and what hotel to stay etc. After getting their advice, I went to the travel agent at Lavender (recommended by them) to book a F&E package to Genting which include 2 nights stay @ Resort Hotel and a super VIP coach ride to Genting. Initially i requested for First World Hotel Superior Deluxe or World Club room but unfortunately it was fully booked due to some stupid concert. Thus, we got to stay at Resort Hotel deluxe room which is cleaner, bigger but no bathtub! :( So prior to the trip, we also bought a baby pool which will be used a bathtub for Danelle.

26th Oct

It's not easy to bring 2 babies for a short trip. The bag is packed with diapers and milk powder. Well the good thing is i am still breastfeeding Danelle so no milk powder required. :P However, the amount of clothes to bring for them still takes up a lot of space as the weather in Genting is cold so we brought extra clothes for them. The night before Adelle was sick and we are worried if she can make it there so we also brought along her medication. Thank God when she woke up that morning, she was better and off we go.

We gathered at Lavender MRT at 6.45am and it was a 8hrs coach ride. Danelle and Adelle was quite cooperative thoroughout the coach ride and we don't have much issue to keep them occupy though we brought along our portable dvd player for Adelle in case she is bored and want to see her favourite shows. The coach that we took was a double decker with 22 seaters so it was very spacious. In between, the coach stop for coffee/breakfast break and we bump into our friend Jack's mother who travelling up to Genting with her friends. :)

Finally we reached Genting at 2+pm and the queue to check in was super loooong. It was another 50+ numbers b4 our turn. Of cos i won't be that silly and sit there to wait loh... ;) I went to a queue that meant for those who missed their turn and tell the recept that i have 2 hungry and tired babies so wonder if they can give us a room first. To my surprise, my request was granted! Yippeee!! So we quickly checked into our room and we do get quite a nice view overseeing the outdoor theme park. It was 3.30pm by the time we settle down and we quickly head for our late lunch @ some soup restaurant within the hotel vicinity. Adelle doesn't have much appetite so she ate very little. After lunch, we just walked around and see where is the first world hotel and theme parks.

For dinner, we decided to eat the zi char stall in Genting that was located near the mushroom farm. We told the hotel staff that we want to go to the zi char stall and they gave me a number to call. We happily took the mini van that came to fetch us and ended up at the wrong zi char stall. The one that was recommended by the web was Mei Jin but we are forced to eat at 9100 cos we took their van so must order from them!!! Anyway we are super unhappy so didnt take any pics though the food was ok lah....

After dinner, we took the van back and request to drop off at First World Hotel so that we can shop around before heading back to our hotel rooms. We only get to walk around a few shops before Adelle start making noise as she was still kinda sick so we decided to go back early to rest. Along the way back to our hotel, we found the shortcuts to walk to-and-fro to First World Hote. After settling down the kids to bed at 10pm, we went to the casino and only back to our room at 1am. Hubby only play the jackpot and as usual donated some $ to the casino. :P

27th Oct

Next morning, we went for our breakfast buffet but Adelle doesn't have much appetite so she didn't eat much. After breakfast, we went back to grab our stuff to go for the outdoor theme park. Adelle had lotsa fun playing the rides and finally see her smiling despite that she is still recovering. :) We managed to play most of the rides before it start to drizzle around lunch time. So we went to buy our lunch at KFC and go back to our room to let the gals take a short nap. When they woke up at around 4pm, we went to the indoor heated swimming pool. It was fun as the pool was warm and Danelle especially enjoying inside the pool.

When it's dinner time, we went to a restaurant call Hao You Ji recommended by my colleague who frequent Genting and the dishes were yummy. Coincidentally we met Jack's mum there again. Genting is indeed a small place. :P Adelle appetite start to get better and she ate a bowl of rice that evening.

After dinner, we went for the indoor theme park as we paid for the whole day (indoor and outdoor) theme park price. Adelle loves the ferris wheel ride and doesn't want to get down when it stopped. There isn't much rides that Adelle can take except those family rides. So we completed most of the rides within 1-2hrs and we slowly head back to our room.

28th Oct

Time to say Goodbye to Genting and head back to home. The gals behaved well on the trip back and we reached Singapore at 8+pm. It was a short trip but thank god that we survived though Adelle was sick and a little cranky when she was there. As for Danelle, she didn't get to play the rides but she get to play with us cos she slept in the same room with us while Adelle was in another room. :P However, the next day Danelle fell sick with fever and that is the first time that she got to take medication. Poor baby. :(

SMH June 09 mummies gathering @ Derrica Condo

It's time to gather the mums & babes together again! The babies have grown so much and some are very chubby now. :)

This time the host was Derrica and both she and her husband are my ex-colleague many yrs back. So singapore is indeed very small. Interestingly, she stayed at Compasspoint Condo and we had the same gynae cos our gynae clinic is just nxt to Compasspoint... :)

Initially she planned to order buffet but as it was a 2pm gathering so we decided to do away with buffet and she prepared some finger food like crackers and dessert instead for us. Very nice of her to host the gathering and prepared food for us too. It was a short gathering as most mummies came late and we are rushing off to go church at 3+pm.... So only managed to catch up with a few mums and took some pics.

Princess Danelle is 4 months old on 21st Oct

Danelle loves to smile and can sit up in the bumbo seat. She can roll over from tummy to back and grasp a toy too! She loves playing catching with jie jie too!

Carrefour Happiest, Most Positive Smile Online Photo Contest

I have submitted Adelle photo last week for the Carrefour Happiest, Most Positive Smile Online Photo Contest. Pls vote for her via this link

Top 3 highest votes will get Carrefour voucher.... hehehe... :P

Danelle passport

Danelle has a passport now so we can go holiday!! Yippee...

Here's a picture of Adelle passport picture and they look quite different now... Looking at when Danelle was first born, she was just a exact dup of her jie jie... :)

Here are some pictures that I took for Danelle to prepare for the passport photo. It was rather easy as i just put her into the bumbo chair and there i goes clicking away with my iphone camera.

Buffet List

My boss is treating us lunch so i did a search on buffet and found this link - Buffet List

Baby poop: A visual guide

A useful guide to know if baby poo poo is healthy :

http://www.babycenter.com/baby-poop-photos?scid=momsbaby_20091006:3&pe=2UuNkAd#1254887043500_10

Mid autumn festival

Meggie and I decided to meet on the eve of mid autumn festival to let Adelle & Kyden meet! :) The kids have fun running around outside Esplanade while there is some performance going on. Meggie keeps telling Kyden that Adelle is jie jie due to Adelle is much taller than Kyden but in actual fact, Kyden is 4 days older than Adelle. ;)

On mid autumn festival day itself, we only brought the gals to our house multistorey carpark to play with their lanterns. :) Adelle have fun running around and watching older kids playing with candles!!!

Pregnancy photo

During my pregnancy with Adelle, i have complimentary anniversary wedding pic hence i captured my tum tum of Adelle @ 36 wks.



While this time round with Danelle, i happened to get a complimentary photo session from Coverlook - gift from Dumex mama club! And here is my tum tum of Danelle @ 36wks old.



In comparison, this time the tummy is much smaller and sharper. Many pple including the photo studio staffs tot it's a boy but na-na-nah.... Never be deceived by the "shape"! :D