Happily shopping

Nice pic from Kelyn's blog

A little monster

Just wondering where she got the idea

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Post Birthday Celebration - Explorer Kids again

Natalie has always been asking to visit the giant slide again and again. But Pasir Ris is simply too far away for us to visit often. But for her birthday, we specially took leave to bring her there. She is jumping with joy the moment she saw the building. She just can't wait to start.

Lately she doesn't like to take cab, she wants to take bus / train. As she remembered cab always bring her back to grandma's house, while train / bus takes her shopping. My chubby girl has her mummi's trait, we love to shop!

Nicole enjoying her fries

Natalie and her Fire Truck lunch

Our chubby girl venturing out on her own for the 1st time


Our little girl still prefer the baby ball pit

Happy Birthday Papi & Mama's cutie

Our girl is 4!

It's only not too long ago that we celebrated her 3rd birthday where she don't enjoy all the attention on her that she cried. This year is totally different. Our girl loves the attention and even put her hand to her ear to hear if everyone is singing her birthday song.

There were at least 5 camera clicking away, hence it is more like a press conference and hence we ended up with pictures that each one looking at different camera.

Natalie listening if everyone is singing her birthday song!

Everyone looking at different direction

Close up of Natalie listening to her Birthday song

In deep thought

Here's a moment that Natalie is thinking of her papi on a bus journey home. Her papi was away for the weekend. Where is he?

Galilee 25th Concert

I believe all mummies will be extremely proud to see their children performing on stage. I am one proud mummi during last Saturday, during our girls' school concert.

Even though Nicole is a year younger than the rest of the pre-nursery children, she got to take part in this year's concert as well. During the rehersal, she is doing fine. She even practiced at home. However on the actual day, the moment, my helper left her on the stage she started crying, really loudly. The teachers have no choice but to bring her off the stage. There are mummies laughting at Nicole. Nontheless, i know my girl tried and I am still proud of her.

Natalie was searching for us the moment she stepped onto the stage. She looks so adorable and round in her costume. She found us and waved and show her thumb up to us. She even reminded her classmates to put down / lift up the signs that they are holding. Given her character, i will say she has done extremely well. And mummy is so proud of her.

Natalie in her neigh-neigh costume

Malacca

Over the long weekend, we were at Malacca together with my extended family. We were there basically to shop. During hubby's last trip to Malacca, he tried some very nice food and he is determine to bring us to try them. And there we were at Malacca! We tried Cendol, Carnation milk crab, kong ba bao, chicken rice balls. Yum Yum the food is definitely worth the trip there.

Hubby has not been into shopping ever since we got married. He would rather stay in the hotel room with the girls or his PSP. There isn't much shopping for me on this trip. I had like only 2.5 hours to shop. So basically we only eat and stay in the hotel room for this trip. However the girls had great fun in the hotel. As we had adjoining room, they had 2 rooms to play with. They ran around, played with the bathroom blind, hid wardrobe and pretend play with the safe, and watched plenty of cartoon.

Nicole feeding herself as the chicken rice ball restaurant as she just can't wait to be fed


View from our room. My cousins in the pool.

Daddy & Natalie bonding over TV


Daddy & Natalie bonding in the wardrobe



Natalie & Nicole just woke up & watching cartoon

Heroic Rendezvous

Aren't this cute. They seems to look like our girls.

This picture makes me want to draw.

Moments from Kelyn & Mavis's Blog

Their yi-yis have been taking quite a bit of the girls' photos and posting on their blogs. Lately I have not been taking their pictures and hence "kop" some from their yi-yis' blogs.

Nicole performing

I love this picture!

Kelyn yi-yi & Nicole

So-called Fabulous Mavis yi-yi & Nicole

Mummy tries to bake

Kelyn & Brandon are coming to our place to celebrate their birthdays. Instead of getting a cake for them, i wanted to try baking cuppies for them.

Hubby is telling me that I should not try on someone's birthday celebration, what if it doesn't turn out right? I was thinking the worst case scenario would be to rush out to get a cake.

Anyhow, i tried and with some help whipping out the icing. The cuppies turn out okie. They tasted nice and more importantly the cuppies are especially made for my dear cousins and they are happy!

While Nicole is busy entertaining our guests, Natalie help me to put on the rainbow rice and flower. She is good at it. I shall bake more often with my girls.

Pictures courtesy of Kelyn's blog

Sharing

Natalie's definitation of sharing it let Nicole touch the item and then ask it back. Nevertheless she allows her mei-mei to touch. And when asked to she will let her mei-mei play or eat the thing. Sometimes she is will get something else to divert her mei-mei's attention.

When we are shopping she won't forget to get an item for her mei-mei. For instance, on her weekly visit to 7-11, she will pick up 2 Hello Panda and says 1 for Natalie and 1 for mei-mei. Without fail she will definitely get something for Nicole whenever anyone want to buy her something. I'm glad that she is taking care of her mei-mei.

Nicole on the other hand defines sharing as giving to her jie-jie. It may be since young she has been giving in to her jie-jie. Lately she starts to aware that she has to fight for her rights too thus she sometimes resist in giving in. But there are times that she is more than happy to give in to her jie-jie. She must love her jie-jie to bits.

Our 2nd Zoo trip

This is our 2nd trip to the zoo and I must say we covered so much more than on our 1st trip which is daddy's company's family day.

Arrggghhh, the weather isn't good today. It rained the moment we stepped on the zoo's ground. We took refudge in KFC, having our lunch while waiting for the rain to stop. The rain never really stopped. It rained intermittenly and make walking around the zoo difficult. We have to get poncho to get around. Natalie doesn't want the poncho went around with her hat and umbrella.

Because of the rain, we are unable to watch the Sealion, Manatee and penguin show. Natalie is all excited about penguins, and it is something that I remembered waiting when I was at the zoo when I was a little girl. Lucky we managed to catch the zoo's latest show before the rain starts again. The girls are excited to see the primates and birds climbing / flying above their heads.

Most of the time we are going around on the tram, I lost count the number of times that we went around the zoo. The first round, the girls are excited to see the lions, kangaroo, zebra and giraffes. From the 2nd round, it is more about the tram ride than the animals. Highlight of the day is when Natalie saw 2 bats hanging on top of her while we changed her. She is so frightened and can't wait to jump off.

Daddy mentioned that it is so cumbersome to take the camera in and out with is poncho on, so there isn't many pictures for this trip.

She knows how to spell her name

I was looking through her homework and saw that she can actually wrote her name. I am so proud and amazed that she can spell and write her name when we did not even teach her.

Lately she is learning how to surf websites. We will on the PC for her and load Disney playhouse website. She is able to navigate and play the games on the website. Nicole will watch as her sister click through the site for her. It's time to get her a cutie mouse that fits her hand.

A simple piece of fun

Last night, Natalie came up with a creative idea of playing with her blankey. She got everyone to hold on to her blankey and flip it up and down. It's similar to what she had played with the parachutes during her tumbletots lesson. Amazingly she remembers.

Everyone has to hold on the blankey. Her simply tired papa did not want to participate, but Natalie went on to tickle him and get him involved. Both the girls can't stop laughing when they sit below the blankey and their papa flipped the blankey violently up and down.

It's only a simply piece of blankey but our girls have such fun playing with it. I totally agree with what their papa said this morning, our girls don't need expensive toys, all they want is our time and love.

Bird Park

Papa managed to get a pass to the Bird Park today and off we go to the Bird Park. Grandpa and Grandma were we us too.

The bird show broke the ice for Natalie, she was insisting to go home the moment she stepped into the park, but after hearing the parrot sang Rasa-Sayang, she changed her mind. Nicole on the other hand can't wait to get into the Park.

Papa with his 2 princesses in tow

Nicole looking sexy in her Pumpkin Patch top

Yakult break at the cafe

Argghhh lories on my head

Grandpa feeding the lories

Up close and personal with the lories.

Doesn't she look cute with her hat?

Dinner with their Botak uncle

After 2 weeks, my dear cousin is back from his camp. Everyone gathered at my grandma's place for dinner. The girls have a great deal of fun playing with all their yi-yis and grand aunts and uncles.

These pictures are from their Kelyn yi-yi that Natalie always can't recognise from photo. Amazing there is no photo of their botak uncle with a buttery head.

Grand-uncle and Natalie

Happiness

Kelyn yi-yi and Nicole

Happy and sweaty

Bye-Bye Tumbletots

After half a year at Tumbletots, we decided to stop. The girls are getting abit bored. And mummy and papa have a hard time chasing the girls during their lessons.

We got her hair cut!

For some time I have been comtemplating whether to cut Natalie's hair. She hasn't cut her hair since birth. Her hair is really long and thick. But I just can't bear to have her hair cut, I find it so nice and shiny. And I do not know how she is going to take it.

Finally we did it. The only place she decided that she wants to get her hair cut is Junior League at Vivo Toy R Us. She is good as she didn't make a fuss as we brought her there and sat quietly through the haircut watching Tom & Jerry. She looks younger now and her face rounder. She even asked her grandma is her hair nice? Hmmm it's only at bedtime, she asked for her hair. She got so angry that she started saying "Stupid xxxx (i didn't catch watch she says, she should be referring to the hairdresser), i don't want the ballon! My hair, my hair." For now we can only pacify her and tell her very soon her hair will grow back.

Her yi-yis are laughing at her yesterday after Ah San yi-yi broadcasted her latest hairstyle via MMS. The yi-yis were also chatting over MSN about her new hairstyle. One of them even used "we should follow her hairstyle" as her nick. Nicole laughed at her jie-jie when she see her sister got her bang chopped. When asked if she wants to cut her hair, she said loudly and annoyingly "NO".

Happily posing in front of Vivo

Getting ready for her hair cut

Almost done

Natalie and her latest hair style

Gals miss their daddy

"Where's papa?" Nicole asked. Natalie asked for daddy too. I told them papa is somewhere is the running in the jungle or hidding in tall mountain. It is exaggerating where on earth do you find jungle and tall mountain in Singapore. Actually i m trying to tell them that the daddy is doing his reservist. And both of them look sad. They MISS their daddy.

Afterwhich I took them at IMM and the girls are happy. Natalie told us that she is so happy on our way there and she keep showing us her happy face during the shopping trip.

DADDY WE MISS YA!

Nice pic taken by Natalie

Natalie took this picture of her mei-mei on her day of her assessment. Is this the moment that she has some fears about schooling that we didn't notice?

Pictures of Nicole's 1st day of school

Look at her smile, she just can't wait to get to school

Preparing for school

All ready for school

Nicole's trial session at Galilee

All pretty and ready for her assessment

Nicole showing her Dora backpack

Nicole playing with her Dora and can't wait to leave for school

Nicole having a great time with her classmates

Copy cat

Nicole has been copying what her jie-jie says and does lately. If jie-jie will lay on the floor and cry, she will follow suit. If jie-jie says "No", she will say that too even though we are not talking to her. She looks up to her sister. Even a momentarily separation seems so hard for her.

This is what happened the other day, we have to take separate lifts due to the lift's constraint, the moment the lift door closed and Nicole saw that her jie-jie and papa were not in the lift, she started crying. When we reached the lift landing, she refused to move, she waited for her jie-jie in tears. The minute the lift door opens she ran towards her jie-jie and both of them hugged together and started calling each other. After which they hold hands and walk together.

It's kinda dramatic. It seems that they have been not seen each other for ages. Though dramatic, i like it. Our girls are very close and it's proven.

Chupa Chup Moment

Here's our girls enjoying their chupa while watching TV. Yummy!

Nicole's 1st day of school

Nicole has always been an eager learner. She will pull out a book and sit on our lap and ask us to read to her. She knows her 1 to 15 and A to Z well. She is so into school, she likes to tag along when my mum sends Natalie to school. At school, she even join in some of the activities that the school does during the assembly. Hence we decided to send her to school 4 months ahead of her "offical" schooling year of 2009. She did well during her assessment to confirm if she is ready for school.

Hence here we are her 1st day of school, she was so happy to be in the same uniform as her jie-jie. She smiled as we teased her about going to school and we have no problem getting her ready for school. She even carried all her bags and water bottle by herself. She is so excited that she even forget to say goodbye to her dearest auntie after bidding farewell to Milo Lee.

Even at school, everything seems so easy for her. She went into her class and start mingling around with the children and start exploring around the classroom. When the class start, we have to hide and peek so as to make sure she don't get to see us. Though we are fairly sure, our lil Nicole would have no problem in school. We stick around to sneek and peek to make sure she is doing fine.

All went well until when we came back from lunch and heard her crying. We peek in to look for her. But alas she saw her papa and started screaming for her papa. We were signal to leave by her teacher. The next time we sneek in we can't find her. We were very worried until my dad highlighted to us she might be sleeping. True enough, she was sleeping soundly on a teeny weeny bed in the classroom. Looking at her, sleeping on the bed, makes me feel so bad. Thoughts of me being a super KS mummi, sending her to school so earlier came, am i ill-treating her came flooding in. Luckily a chat with her teacher is so encouraging, she said she is doing well except for those time need her meal time and sleeping time. We need to do some adjustment and she will be doing fine. She even commented that Nicole knows her alphaphets very well.

Surprisingly Natalie is equally exciting as well. She went around asking people to see her mei-mei. As her class walk passed her mei-mei's class, she point out to her clasmates "MY MEI-MEI".

Hidden Talents of My Gals

Here is some of the hidden talents of my gals.

September school holiday outing

After having such a great time after our 1st visit, I have decided to bring the girls back for another visit. Esp since I have not bring them out for the entire school holiday. I told Natalie about the giant slid that she will visit, however she has no clue we are going. It's only until when the taxi reach the E'hub building, she remembers. Joy beams on her face, she is so happy and exciting. She can't wait to show her grandma and grandaunt where she played before. Nicole is happy as well.

There are so many people there when we arrived. Both girls can't wait to get into the playground. The moment we are in, Natalie speed around, we have a hard time chasing her. Nicole is happy playing in the toddler area. May be the giant super slippery slide has frighten her the other time, she declined going to the mega-play. Natalie enjoys the slide so much she went on in for many many rounds. Poor mummi had a hard time following her, scaling the structure and sliding down the slide.

In the end, i hurt my arm as a results of 2 girls banging onto me right after i slided down. Here's the danger of the structure, there is no one to guide when the next person should slide down and the slide is super slippery meaning if the next person come down too quickly after the person in front, they will probably bang onto each other. And the impact will be great as the slide is extremely fast.

Natalie was so upset when we were to leave. She wants more. I promised to bring her back again. So we happily went to have a drink, that's where Natalie has her 1st taste of making purchase. We gave her $2.00 and ask her to get herself a drink. She is extremely shy but she tried and luckily we met a nice saleslady who guided her along. She got her Sprite and she is really proud of it. It's time to teach her the value of money.

Cuddly Nicole

Nicole loves to cuddle her dearest daddy. Last night, she spent a good 10 minutes cuddling her papa, lying on his tummy and wriggling around him. She then wriggled around him just to find a comfy spot to lay beside him and she lay happily for quite a while.

She is more into her daddy than her mummi. When she heard, mummi is here, she will go "where's my papa?". and start searching for her papa. She knows papa and mummi always come together.

Interestingly, she is very quick at picking up what we said. Yesterday, she sees that I am eating a tapioca dessert, she asked me "chilli, you want chilli?" in a sorta of threating tone. That's what some of my relatives said to Natalie when she gets really notti.

Phone

Our elder girl is into talking on the phone now. She'll ask either my mum or our helper to call me and chat with me. Last night is the ulitmate one cos in order to stay on line she even sang to me every song she knows. And we literally go singing over the phone. She even called her mei-mei to the phone and ask her to call mummi, she then ask to speak to her dearest daddy. This made so happy that she kept laughing and screaming.

She has progressed from asking me to "see" over the phone whichever she is watching to communicating over the phone. Hey, i have another gal to chit chat with.

Being a working mum, it's good to keep in touch with our girls. But i do not intend to teach our girls how to dial my number anytime soon. If not i am probably be getting countless calls.