Friday, November 28, 2008

Emily on her skate scooter ...




For someone who's 26 months old, I thought it was quite proficient of her to be able to go around the house pretty fast on her skate scooter .. lol. Here's a very short clip of her doing that. We've taken her downstairs around the condo too to practice - she can manage gentle slopes as well!


She of course, calls it her "coooo-ta" ... lol :) We have since added a bell onto it much to her delight ..


Friday, November 21, 2008

Bunny hair clips !!



Lauren loved wearing them when she was younger ... :) Now, Emily likes them too .. !

Daddy turns 34 !!



A day late ... and Daddy was really really tired after work ... AND it was a really cheap cake .. lol :)
But the girls were happy enough to sing the birthday song to their Daddy :)



Ah yes, Lauren and Emily BOTH wanted to blow out the lit candle ..



Eating cake ... yes, they are all in their jammies ...
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Enjoying themselves with good friends ..



We've known John and his little sister, Anna, since from wayyyy back when we were all posted to the States together ... :) Of course at the time, it was only Claudia ... lol. Here they are haing lunch after our zoo outing on Tuesday :)



Another good friend, Ker Wey ... also Claudia's pal from our time in the States ... -- we went to Suntec yesterday together :)



Here they are .. wayyy back in 2002 :) cute, huh?

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Claudia's Grade 2 Ballet Exam :)

Claudia, unfortunately, started her ballet lessons pretty late .. like in Primary 2 .. so as a result, she is currently in Grade 2 (she'll be in Grade 3 come Jan 09) ... She JUST took her Grade 2 exams on Wednesday. A few days before that .. they had a final coaching session and the ballet teacher let us have a look at what exactly they will be tested on .. ie what they have learnt this past year ...

The whole routine was easily about 20 min .. and boy, did it look tough ! They have this small segment where they put on a "character" skirt and shoes and do a little dance routine .. that's what I've put up here .. Stanley and I are so impressed with and proud of her :) Claudia clearly enjoys her ballet lessons ...

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Emily .. finally well !!



Emily had a viral fever on Monday .. poor girl had a HIGH fever for days .. and it usually shot up at nite .. I spent a few nites sponging her down cos she hit 39.4 degrees ... my poor poor baby ... worst thing is, she HATES takin medication. We have to force her and even then there's no guarantee she won't spit it up or vomit later ... SIGH.

I have never experienced this before .. Claudia and Lauren were and still are ANGELS when it comes to swallowing meds ...

Oh well ...

Anyway, on Tuesday we took her to the pediatrician to get suppositories and figure out what the hell she had ...

The doc didn't really say anything .. besides it being a viral fever .. but she subsequently had such bad diarrhea on Wednesday that we had to let her go diaperless for her very sore and raw bum to heal ... poor baby. So I'm guessing it was a rotavirus infection (so much for the money I forked out paying for the vaccination .. lol) ... Of course, I took the opportunity to get EVEN MORE paranoid about hand washing ... I'm the first to SCREAM "don't touch the lift button!" when we enter a lift ... hahahahaha. The other thing I hate my girls doing is holding the railings when going up and down stairs ... UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! I prefer they hold onto our hands instead ... anyway, I'm damn fussy when it comes to hygiene ... I go thru wipes like they're free .. lol.

I finally chanced upon a way to get her to swallow the medication meant for diarrhea ... it's this powder that you mix with a bit of water and swallow ... it doesn't taste icky by the way .. it's sweet .. she agreed to take it using those very slim straws that come with the Yakult bottles ..

THANK GOD.

You can tell she's lost some weight cos she feels lighter to me .. and her appetite was bad these last few days .. plus she wasn't allowed to take milk cos of her diarrhea .. so the poor baby was absolutely miserable ...

She's back to her usual self today and her bum is all but healed and her diarrhea is gone !! YAY. She was on her skate scooter whizzing about the house ... ah, yes, I must show u guys some footage of her on that thing .. Stanley went and bought Lauren a slightly bigger one and the pink one was handed down to Emily (they were fighting over it before this) ... and so now, every one of the girls has one ..
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Last day of school !!



WOOO HOOOOO !! And yes, that's ME celebrating .. !! Not Lauren. I was getting sick and tired of ferrying the girls up and down to school everyday ... I think the novelty wore off in March .. lol.

Here's Lauren on her last day of school today .. they had a class party .. this is her teacher Mrs Zahari :)
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Friday, November 7, 2008

An afternoon at Sentosa

Daddy took us to Sentosa on Monday afternoon :) the girls LOVED it .. especially the cable car ride .. here are some pics ..



Daddy and 2 of his girls :)









Cable car ride !!!










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Sunday, November 2, 2008

bored ...



We had a quiet weekend .. didn't really do a lot .. firstly, I can't really walk all that much .. and there was nothing to do .. *sigh*
We visited a furniture store in Bukit Timah to see some bunk beds .. and while Lauren was in the loo, I took these photos of Emily sitting on these unique kiddy chairs they had outside the showroom ...



This is how u sit on it ... the top piece u remove to become a foot rest .. when not in use u put it together and it looks like a soccer ball or in this case above, a basketball ... quite neat !

Sorry the pics are blur ... my N73 pics are beginning to suck ... I need a new phone ..

And yes, Emily is wearing SOCKS with her Gap sandals .. the little aunty REFUSED to wear the said sandals claiming they hurt ... of course she said it in her own words ... she claimed they were "ow pain ..." after I put them on her .. lol! That's her excuse for ANYTHING that she doesn't want to wear .. be it a dress or a tee or as in this case, a pair of sandals which she obviously doesn't like for gawd knows what reason ...

SIGH
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