Saturday, February 28, 2009

Calista is ALMOST 3 months old ..





She is a happy, quiet baby .. I cannot believe that she is already almost 3 months old !!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Waiting for Daddy's taxi ...



Taken downstairs while waiting for Daddy to arrive back home from the airport on Monday .. :)

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Calista is 11 weeks old !!





My darling precious baby is 11 weeks old and she weighs about 6.3 kg !! She is a smiley, happy baby :) all her older sisters adore her (well, right now she's just too small to snatch toys away from them hence the adoration) .. Calista loves being cuddled and talked to and she loves her baths !!

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Monday, February 23, 2009

More pics of my dotter napping NOT on the bed ... lol!






I don't get it, man .. I'm not a bad mother. I always tell Emily everyday at a certain time that it's nap time .. most of the time she agrees to go and lie down and falls asleep almost immediatedly.

Then there are those times where she insists she's not tired and then around 5 or so, she'll just fall asleep where ever she is. She can be having her snack or drawing .. and then the next minute, she's out like a light. We've tried to move her .. but no, the little aunty will kick up a fuss and then she's cranky for awhile after that cos her nap was disturbed such that we've taken to just leaving her where she sleeps ..

The pictures above .. ya, that happened on Saturday .. she slept like that for about 15 minutes then got up refreshed. lol.








This happened today, Sunday. She was drawing at the dining table. Next thing I knew, she disappeared from sight and there was SILENCE. Claudia was also seated at the table and she whispered to me that Emily had fallen asleep.
I ran to get my camera to take a few shots ... she slept like that for 10 min. After taking the shots, I did try to cajole her to go to the bedroom and sleep on my bed .. she mumbled out a "no" ..
*sigh* she can be very stubborn. Fyi, she gets that from her Daddy. REALLY.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

lazy Saturday at home ...



Since Daddy was away this whole week and will only be back on Monday, I decided to stay home on Saturday and sleep in till late ... it's been tiring being the only one shuttling the girls up and down .. and also taking care of my littlest one but I thank God that I have my car (I see many parents sending their kids to kindy by bus) and my helper. And it doesn't help that I have insomnia so I can't fall asleep early at night .. *sigh*

Haslynda came by in the evening and hung out with me and the girls watchin tv .. and then we chatted on after my girls had gone off to bed .. it was a very pleasant evening :)

Friday, February 20, 2009

Which Joseph ... ??

I was driving Lauren back from kindy one day .. and I was telling her excitedly that her friend, Joseph was coming by for a visit .. well, not really Joseph .. he's in school in the afternoons .. his mother and little sister, Ellie were dropping by for tea ... they live in our block and last year, Lauren and her son, Joseph was in the same PAP class ... They're from England and Joseph and his little sister are the cutest blond and blue-eyed kids around ...

Anyway, Lauren went on to talk about something else and then a couple of minutes later, she started talking about Joseph again .. she asked me, "Mummy, you know which Joseph I'm talking about, right?" .. I nodded my head (and rolled my eyes) .. then she said, "I'm talking about Joseph who was in my class last year ... not Joseph, the one who looked after Jesus"

Well, DUH ...

Anyway, I told hubby about it that night and his response was, "At least she knows who Joseph was" ..

hahahahahahaha !!!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

It FINALLY happened ...

Lauren and Emily were playing - running in and out of the waiting lift at our lift landing today .. we were on the way out to drop Lauren off at school. My maid was holding Calista while I was still in the apartment looking for something ...

I heard my maid scolding and telling them NOT to run in and out of the waiting lift ...

Obviously, she was speaking in Spanish (not) cos the rascals ignored her and continued playing ...

I walked out of the apt fully intending on scolding them .. but I was too late.

The lift door had closed and the lift was on its way down with my 28 month old girl in it ALONE.

sigh.

No point panicking. My maid got into the other lift and went down hoping to find Emily on the 1st floor (we live on the highest floor - 14th).

A few minutes went by, and suddenly I could her faint wailing .. then the wails were getting louder ... the same lift reached my floor and the doors opened and there stood Emily WAILING .. and she had tears streaming down her face ...

She ran out and I picked her up ... my poor poor girl.

When we got to the ground floor, my maid told me that when she got to the first floor, she saw that the lift that Emily was in was on the way up ...

SO we surmised that when the lift reached the first floor with Emily in it, she pressed "14" and it took her back up. Thank goodness she hadn't run out of the lift ...

And yes, thank goodness she knew which button to press .. we have been letting her press the buttons when we go up and down and have been showing her repeatedly which one to press .. "1" when we want to go down and "14" for home.

I would like to think that this is the last time she'll play in the lift .. but I'd be kidding myself ..

lol.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Emily can really nap ANYWHERE .. lol!



I was with Claudia and Lauren at the dining table helping them with their homework when I realized that Emily who was playing by herself on the floor with some cushions was rather silent ... this was around 3pm ... of course, the little girl had fallen asleep on the floor!!

I decided against carrying her to the bed primarily because I knew she might get up and be cranky the rest of the afternoon so .. lol ... the evil mother left her on the floor to nap for an hour or so ... lol !! Well, at least her head was on a cushion ok?!!!



Lauren. looking all fresh and neat .. in the lift on the way up to her school ..

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Emily is 28 months old ..



Here is her cheeky face ... u can just make out her skate scooter in the background .. she is quite good on it .. whizzing here and there ... with her toys in the little basket in the front ..

Another sleeping beauty ...



Calista enjoys napping in her MacLaren rocker :)




See how peaceful she looks :)



See her pouting .. lol.




I love the brown and red combo ... so sweet !



After her nap .. see her little adorable face :)

Monday, February 2, 2009

Emily napping ...



Actually, Emily fell asleep at the dining table while reading her book .. lol. It was really funny ... I couldn't whip out my camera in time to get a shot .. if I had gone for my camera, she would've fallen off the chair .. lol

An afternoon out ..



Sembawang Shopping Centre has reopened after extensive renovation. It is a really nice new mall now .. the carpark still sucks (it's so small with so little lots) but the mall doesn't have ANY escalators in it .. only TRAVELLATORS ... (gosh, did I spell that right?) .. so it's really convenient going up and down ... :)

The mall also has a an outdoor area like Vivocity ... we haven't seen it yet cos it hasn't opened but it's called Splash Park so I guess it'll be something like that ... how fun! ..

We went there today cos I needed some stuff from Giant and also we decided to have some cheng teng at the foodcourt ...






This is the Kopitiam foodcourt in SSC .. it's really very bright in the afternoons .. lol.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Claudia's 10th birthday !!



We went to Earle Swensen's AGAIN on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year .. this time at Vivocity, to celebrate Claudia's birthday ... here she is enjoying her cottage pie :)



Emily loves eating ketchup ..



Calista ... :)



After that, we headed to The Icing Room at JP2 to decorate Claudia's cake .. we had placed the order for the 8 inch cake a fews day back and had indicated that we were coming down that day ... they were one of the few cake places open that day btw .. I had called up a few places trying to place an order for Claudia's cake only to be told that they were only going to open either on the 28th or the 30th ... so it was kinda the last choice to do this ...



Here is the cake .. the BEFORE pic ..


Here is the AFTER pic .. lol. Claudia enjoyed decorating her cake with help from Daddy (of course) ...


Here we are at home with the cake .. it turned out not too bad, I thought .. lol. Quite nice :)



Happy Birthday, my darling girl :)

1st day of the Chinese New Year !



The girls in their cheongsams ... :)



Emily is always on her skate scooter ..



Here we are at the airport .. Terminal 3



The first day of the Chinese New Year .. we decided to take Stanley's mom out for lunch .. since most places were closed, we went to Earle Swensen's for lunch ...
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