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.