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