There was an old woman who lived in a shoe ...

I just HAD to take a pic of the girls with this ginormous shoe at Suntec City mall. lol ! Stanley says I am like this "suaku" tourist always taking pics ... I ignore him when he says things like that.



Heh ... forgot her socks .. they were in my handbag.



Love this new top ... ok, so her hair was a little messy ..

Love this tee ..

Yes, here she is sleeping and looking positively angelic ... but check out her top .. it says



hahaha .. and she was shrieking with happiness at IKEA today .. we were on the hunt for a new sofa and couldn't decide on a leather or fabric one. We've always had leather .. so we were wondering whether we ought to give the fabric ones a try .. anyway, we were sitting on the sofas we liked to try them out and Calista had a whale of a time sitting and standing on most of the sofas there. We came home undecided and still sofa-less.

Happy baby :p

Calista is about 10.5 months old now ... 9.2kg and has 2 teeth :p She can't walk yet .. but she's moving around really fast crawling and pulling herself up to stand when she's at the bench and table. And still climbing UP the bench to the table.

And she lurves putting everything in her mouth. EVERY DAMN THING. I've had to dig bits of balloon .. a piece of plastic broken off from something .. and a rubber band from her mouth recently .. she's so fast when she spots something she wants to taste. arghhh! .. I swear my heart stops everytime I have to frantically dig her mouth for non-food items. It's not that my maid doesn't clean the floor well .. but I do have 3 other kids .. and they have plentiful of teeny toys too .. like Lego and Polly blardy Pocket - those things are really teeny, man.

She's really a cheerful baby and will laugh at almost everything. And she's a good eater. She'll eat most baby food .. even the yucky (to me lar) multigrain banana cereal .. lol ! And she tries to talk .. and we've heard her try to say "bye bye" a few times already. And no, she still can't call me "mummy" yet .. she calls me "Eh" .. HAHAHAH ! .. Or she just hollers.

Over the weekend ..

The girls brought their lanterns down for the Mid-Autummn Festival on Saturday nite .. we walked around the condo for a while ... :p





Then on Sunday, Lauren's Sunday School class (or Silver Boxes class as we call them at our church) presented a song to the congregation during the 9am service. Lauren looked really nervous to be in front of so many people ... and worse still, all the girls were in the front row .. but she managed to sing the song and do the hand actions as well .. we were really proud of her !!

Bummer, it's a baby gate !

FINALLY, it's safe to put Calista on the floor. I got a baby gate and installed it at the kitchen doorway. Although the kitchen does have a door, it's not always convenient to have it closed especially when my maid is cooking cos it gets kinda hot and stuffy in there. And of course, it's not safe for Calista to go crawling in .. I had nightmares for days worrying that my maid might drop a knife or a pot of hot oil on her .. so I decided that the gate would be the safest way to go.

Cheeky Lauren :) nowadays EVERYONE wants to have their photo taken ...

It was a warm evening ... and we were all perspiring. Even with the fans switched on full blast. I usually wait for the maid to finish cooking dinner then I close up everything and switch on the a/c.