Rie...

Havent been browsing the Foto U thread...

And just realised that David had posted up rie's photo on the thread back in June...tee hee hee..

More pix....

Just found fresh photos off Blur's facebook.. This pix shouts " I'm the boss"

From Moonlight's facebook

Sigh...

Rie's down with bad running nose...

I guess cant be help when she has to attend shichida in a class with sick children.
It's unfortunate that she has to be sitted next to the kid that has extremely bad bad running nose. Sneezing countless times and with lota mucus...sigh...

what to do? I cant blame the mother. I can understand why they will insist to bring their kid to lesson despite being sick. Because each lesson is so damn expensive! So well..sigh..

It wont be long before reyes is down with flu in the next few days. I hope I will siam the bug.
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Reyes has been waking me nightly every 1-2 hrs that I hardly have a peaceful sleep. Sigh..he will wail wail. I'm sure he's not hungry. Fed him water, he also dont want. Then just toss and turn and wail. And I've gotta pat him to sleep. Once my patting stops, he wails and kicks in protests.

And now, he keep turning himself to sleep on his tummy, instead of his side. I really wonder why? But then it's nothing unusual either, as we often lay him to sleep on his tummy when he was younger. But we stopped when he was much older. Gee....

He's also becoming very sticky to me and refuse to leave me out of his sight! Oh man, I really dont know what's happening. He's not usually like this when hb is home. And because he's so sticky, I am neglecting my attention to rie. And she thinks by acting like her brother, I will shower her with attention too. Instead, it just irks me off!

The ba-ba baby talk that I dont know what she's trying to say, pointing to the direction/objects using her whole hand instead of just a pointer(which reyes still hasnt learn how to point using pointer. That explains why rie does that), wailing and kicking in protest, insisting that I cradle her to bed like a baby. (fortunately, reyes doesnt like me to cradle him to sleep! Thank god. He will kick and yell until I lay him down on the bed. He will just toss, turn, make some noise and doze off. haha. I remembered I had to carry rie and yao and yao her around the room until she was like more than a year old. And that was when I was in my early stage of pregnancy somemore...

I hope this phrase of her will pass by soon.....

About R & R...

I was very very sad on Saturday afternoon. While I was preparing milk for reyes in the kitchen, hb was supposedly to be babysitting the kids. But instead, he played with them and reyes fell onto the floor flat face and cut his upper inner lips. And it bled. LOTS OF IT! I was in great shock to see reyes crying and jerking in pain.

I didnt know what to do! I panic, and started to cry and shouted at hb and blaming him for the cause of it. I didnt know how to calm reyes down, needless to say myself. And hb said to bring reyes to KK. he got dressed and once reyes sees hb dressed up, he will want to tag with him and ignores me.

So there I was, crying and not able to comfort reyes. He stuck to hb and refuse to let me carry him. And stupid hb dont know how to calm him. So mad, so angry. I refuse to head to KK.

I got so fed up, I went to the room and pat rie to nap. Reyes fell asleep soon after. I took a torch and peep underneath. His whole upper lips was very badly swollen and when I saw what I shouldnt be seeing, I broke down again. My heart was so pain. It was a very very deep cut and was at least 2cm long. I can even see the flesh. So angry. I dont know what lead to the cut on the floor.

After that, I kept the playpen in the room to create a wider walking space in the living room. And I watched over reyes the whole night for fear of him falling down again.
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Now about rie...
Mum called me yesterday morning from office. She told me that the night before at her place, while she was going to shower for rie in dad's room, rie went to open my dad's wardrobe out of sudden and said the following to my mum :
"Grandma, come come see. Got ghost. Ee...so scary."
(while saying, she bent her head and peep underneath the lowest rack of the wardrobe where my mum keeps my niece's clothings.)

Of course my mum said no such things and you know, tell rie there's no ghost.
But rie kept repeating the same to my mum.

So my mum kept thinking about it the whole night and called me to ask if rie often said things about ghost. I told mum there were few encounters where out of sudden, she will say things out of the blue. LIke the recent incident was about this uncle that died and looked so sad and funny.
The previous was saying bye bye to the toilet in our master bedroom each time after her shower.

So I think, to a certain extent, rie may be able to sense such supernatural things that we cant. And I asked if mum told dad about it. Of course she said no. haha, she said dad will get worried and cant sleep. muahahahahha.

So I told her to cleanse the wardrobe this weekend lor. Eee....

The case of the missing lobster

On Sunday morning, while I was getting rie ready to head for Shichida, she suddenly came to the room and asked me :

"Mama, what happened to the lobster?"

I didnt bother her, and just answered vaguely as she always asked me this question since we discovered that both the lobsters are of different colours/species and they fight.

So off we went to school and when back home, I dont know why, but I just took a glance at the tank when I opened the door and I thought my eyes were imagining things. Did I just see only 1 lobster in there???

I took a closer look, left right, yes, there's only ONE left!!! I screamed for hb and he rushed out from the kitchen. Darn! The other lobster has escaped out. The night before, hb changed the water tank and he must have just anyhow arrange the ornaments in the tank. There's this plant that is high enough to reach the top of the tank and I have seen that stronger lobster attempting to crawl out of the tank by hanging itselfs on the plant and crawling upwards.

So there! Gone liao. Searched everywhere the house, but not behind the tv console. No dead lobster found. Dont know where it went....Sigh.

And only one lobster left in the tank.

Kaelyn's birthday...

Finally, the last birthday party for the month...phew...Been so busy busy busy for this whole month.

This is the prettiest cake that I have ever seen! I wish I had known there are such pretty cakes on earth when I celebrated riesia's first year birthday...sigh...

Rie happily walked into the group on her own and stood at the corner..muahahahahah...They jioed me to bring reyes in, but if I do, I have no one to help me take photos. Hb just cant be bothered in taking photos...darn. Well..so poor reyes just sat on the table top and watched. Unhappily.
Here's her wishing again...After the birthday song...dear riesia was caught in the act....of trying to sneak a cupcake....

muahhahaha...

I'm still waiting for more photos from the other photographers....will update then.

I'm not working this Sat...so yes, I can tag along to playareas if anyone is going!!!

Sweet sis..

Just now I was patting reyes to sleep and when he dozed off, I told rie to be quiet as her bro was sleeping.

She said : I want to pat pat reyes.
I said okay.
and she sang lullaby to him while patting him.

It started with her singing a make up song that i created for my kids :
Little reyes want to sleep. Want to sleep, want to sleep.
Little reyes want to sleep. want..to ...sleep, sleep sleep.

then she went on to some fast lullaby..i cant help laughing inside..
She sang Jack and Jill, then I'm a little teapot.

then I called it quit, coz her patting was getting harder and faster as she sang fast tune lullaby..ahahhhah

I sure hope she will be a good mum next time too.

What can I do...sigh..

On Monday, while in the car to mum's place, dad just casually asked if the car just infront of us is our model.

It was a chevy sparks and so I told him, nope and that model is abt 1000cc or 800cc, blah blah blah. Then I found it weird why would he be talking abt such small models out of the blue...Got a very very strong hutch and it turned out that I'm right.

Anyway, we proceeded on and I told him similar models like Piccanto etc. Then he mentioned China models also not cheap, like cherry QQ.

And well well...as expected. I'm totally disappointed with what I heard.

I casually asked mum if dad is planning to get a car for bro. She kept quiet and then said, it's actually her idea. I immediately protest and questioned her! And what a stupid answer : Because his friends who are staying nearby here all have cars. DUDE!!!!!!

Then she said, I'm worried he will forget how to drive if he doesnt drive frequently. My hb hasnt drove a car since he passed his licence when he was 19 until 2 yrs back when we rented a car. And now, he is still able to drive a car. SO what reason is that again?

OMG lor, I just couldnt believe it. Did my mum said that or was she just relaying what my bro told her???? KNS. He is just one yet to grow up individual who thinks he is still a primary sch kid. Want the sky, my parents will get for him.

I asked her.
Who's gonna pay for the petrol? You guys?
Where's his sch? At dhobby ghaut - SMU, ERP, who's gonna pay? You guys?
Carpark coupons, season parking, who's gonna pay? You guys again?
Season parking for 2nd car owner within the family have to pay more than the 1st car owner, you know?

Come on!!!!

His handphone bills, who's paying now? Them! Yes, THEM!!!! And I have been arguing with them over his handphone bills for years since he was in NS. His bills can easily come up to few hundreds okay and he can buay paisay just close both eyes and expect my parents to pay even though they nag at him why make so much phone calls. OMG lor.

Told him to change plans that time, he duno say cannot retain number blah blah, duno what stupid reasons. And now, his bills still remain high, but at least not few hundreds liao. I hate to walk to dad's room. Hate accidentally spotting his phonebills.

Till now, my mum worries about his dinner. Whether he has anything to eat or not etc when we are out. So each time we are out, she will always tabao food back for him. And it is always so pricey. Eg : He likes this astons black pepper steak which I ate once before and it was like so so and so little and yet so ex. Fish and chips? He doesnt take the chips. I really cannot imagine how can a guy be that fussy.

I have more to say, which I cannot finish within a post. People say NS can create boys to man. Did he? N-O NO. His NS? My parents also had to worry for him, send him to see specialist, spent hundreds of $ for him to downgrade, had special boots made for his feet, coz he has flat feet and say pain when marching or running. Duno what hell.

His own room? yucks, I hate stepping into his room. My mum is still cleaning up his room, mopping his floor for him! Goodness gracious.

Dishes after eating, he can simply leave it at the table and walks to his room, expecting my parents to clear after him. Or leave it at the sink and walks off. MANY MANY times, I caught him, but I never say him, because I know if I do, he will get mad and then throws his temper at my mum. But then, I never say him, i end up throwing temper at my mum too! ahahah...I told her to stop spoiling him. She is ruining his life.

Because of all the 101 reasons I can state, I dont maintain a good relationship with him.
I dont see why he should be treating my parents this way and live off their means when he is already an adult. My dad is still his personal chaffeur. When HIS laptop crashes, he comes smsing me where and how to send for repair. And the next message comes : Dad say he will send the laptop for repair for me as he will be heading near that area few days time.

How difficult is it to just hop onto the mrt and travel down to harbourfront and to HP? Even his dental appointment at NUH, my dad has to send him there! It is an honour for me if my dad ever gives me a lift man!!!

I cant wait for him to complete his studies and dump him into the working society to wake up his mind. By then, let's just wait and see, what other worries is he gonna give my parents again.

Poor reyes...

Reyes fell down thrice today and hurt his head thrice. The last was the worst...I think he slipped and knock head onto the TV console where there was a metal piece.

I could see a green vein swollen from his left temple...aiyo...cried like hell...sob sob.

Above is a pix taken during bath time. Reyes is very different from his sister. While his sister loves splashing water in the bath tub, he simply refuse to sit in it since duno when. Didnt take note.

And it was an unexpected discovery that he is happy sitting in the round tub as shown above! It was always a war getting him to shower, coz he would insist on standing outside the bath tub and splash water using his hands. It was dangerous as it was slippery on the floor and I had to hold his arm with one hand and shower him with the other.

So one day, I decided to bring this tub to the bathroom which I use to wash the kids bottles. Filled it up with water and was expecting him to sit on the floor to splash water, but instead he stepped into it and happily sat in it!!! And so the rest is history...showering him has never been much easier now...

Well, the hard part is to drag him out of the bathroom now without him struggling, crying and protesting to water play more.

Sad

It's sad reading everyday about little innocent infants and toddlers being punished, kicked, punched to death..

And a stupid mother actually said this statement :
"I did not go into the kitchen to stop my husband as I thought that was the way he wanted to discipline Nikie," the wife was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Is basically, she cant be bothered and it must have happened many times till she is so used to the beating that she cant be bothered. I hate such parents.

Just the weekend, was reading about this other father who bashed his kid to death as well coz he had soiled his diapers or something and was crying for his mother...How sad.

Coincidentally or not if you had been following such news, it always happen to a certain group of ethics.

Hahah..

OMG,
I just saw blur's blog and she was talking abt Ris Low and the dressing..
I saw the PCK's teaser abt ris low, but I never knew what it was about, UNTIL I saw blur's link to the youtube interview done with Ris Low!

ahahahah, And I finally got the whole pix on PCK's teaser! And wah liao, her english really cannot make it leh.Pengz

One more pix...

Thanks to Willy for helping us take this shot..great one!

Pic of the day....

Thanks to moonlight, she showed me some light to the question mark on this photo...

I was wondering what rie was doing in this pix, shutting her eyes so tight. I thought she was gonna sneeze...

But clever moonlight said, she looks like she is wishing something really hard and it's true! Rie is right now sitting on the study table with me and she saw the photo too. And I asked her :
Me : Riesia, what are you doing?
Rie : Close my eyes and make a wish
Me : What are you wishing for?
Rie : I make a wish for reyes, happy birthday...

How sweet right!!!! Everybody, go Awwww........

Apologies post...

Forgot to add on yesterday's blog.

Want to apologize to all too for not being able to spend much attention when you guys were asking/talking/passing ang baos to me. Was either being cut in between conversation by someone or I really had to attend elsewhere urgently.

Especially to willy...when you guys arrived, my granny came. I really had to attend to her, coz she has NEVER stepped out of the house for years except to hospital visits. Age's catching up with her and she is always cooped at home, home alone with the maid.

That's why I was very surprised when my uncle told me that granny is coming over. So really very very paisay to ask you hold back the CD first....

Especially to blur...when you were asking me about the flat if it was 5 rms or bigger, I couldnt talk longer, coz mum was rattling off something to me, which I cant recall....

and especially to the rest whom I cant recall...poor memory...

Reyes 1st Birthday Party..

I just want to say "I'm so glad that it's finally over!!!"

I'm dead tired.....Really tired. Thankful that I had it during lunch time instead of dinner time, otherwise I wont be able to rest early..phew.

Want to thank all for taking time off to drop by despite your busy schedule.
Kani & Shirley : Thanks for coming. Kiat made it a point to entertain you guys, coz he said both of you are the best of the best, always onz on gatherings.

Gin & Darius : Pei fu you to bring along darius alone from so far away just to attend Reyes birthday party. Really really happy that you are here, been a long time since we met up. Definitely wanna meet handsome fabian sometime soon.

Blur & family : Wish you guys were here earlier, so much to catch up so little time. Didnt had time to play with cheeky wilber too

Moonlight & family : Wish I could play with Kae more, (If only I didnt have to bbsit reyes). She is sooooo cute and chubby and aiyo, when she cries for you, she was just so adorable and I just want to shower her with more love!!! Sorry har, paisay that you had to self help to the kitchen for Kae's porridge...Thanks blur for informing moonlight..hee hee...heng you all will just go ahead to take, no need ke ki.

I hope little kae and wilber enjoyed the porridge.

Law and Kim : Law, thanks for helping me to take great shots and to rush thru your lunch. Thanks for the patience and time, despite having a late night the day before.

Guys, I wish I had more time with you all to catch up!!!! I was so torn man, mum said must say hi to relatives and such, and I just wanna be with the kids...argh....

Apologies for delaying the cake cutting session, as birthday boy was just dead tired, waking up at 9am....

Both kids fell asleep straight at 10pm. I sure hope reyes enjoyed himself today. **but I think he doesnt seem to know what's going on too..muahahahha**

And Thank you everyone for your generous ang baos and pressies.....Till then, we shall meet up again.
To end, this is the most expensive birthday cake that we splurge today. I never had such expensive birthday cake either. Hope you guys like the cake...

My dear reyes, I hope you enjoyed your first birthday party. May you grow up to be smart, down to earth and filial and be happy always. Love mummy always

New pet.

Hb bought a pair of lobsters last night at PS...It's his new pet and the kids are really excited about it.

Double joy

Just received a phone call this afternoon from a close friend of mine.
And she is gonna expect twins! I'm so happy for her. It is totally unexpected.

My hb often wish that we would have twins running in the family. I do wish too. Double joy, double trouble, double fun. Of course, double expenses and headaches and fights too.

I cant wait to see her babies soon next year..Meanwhile, enjoy your pregnancy okay and take great care!

New shoes...

We've finally managed to get the pair of shoes in size 6 for Reyes.
Went down all the way to compasspoint. I like the fact that, Bubblegum has sizes in halves.
I think reyes should fit a size 5.5, but you know, hb was grumbling that his feet will grow fast blah blah and we should get size 6 instead.

Fine, let him decide. I cant wait to let reyes wear his new shoes out exploring!

He's been really cranky lately, I dont know whats the reason. He was a little warm this evening and I fed him paracetamol. Seems much better. I sure hope is coz he's teething.

Lazy weekend...

Brought the kids for a haircut on Sat.

Rie has been complaining about her hair to me. She's really weird and I think to a certain extent being so fussy and picky! Wonder who she takes after.

She hates her hair being stucked under her neck whenever she lay down to rest/drinks her bottle/during bathtime. The funny thing is, coz her hair is long enough to reach under her armpits, sometimes it gets wet and it reaches under her armpits and she cant get the hair out, she screams hell..hahaah, it's so funny to see hair sprouting under her pits!

Hb was more keen to get it really short, but not me! I was kind of upset that her hair is now shorter as compared previously, but of course still can tie up lah. It took so long for her hair to grow so long....

I too took the chance to head for a haircut on Friday. Oh boy, it's been 9 long months since I had a haircut in Jan!!!! And now, I needa rebond man.

Reyes had a trim too. But he wasnt as co-operative this time liao..tsk tsk...

Finally settled...

I've finally managed to persuade hb to get a nice birthday cake for rie.

Somehow funny, I didnt know why I didnt get those really pretty cakes for rie's first year birthday. I think because at that point of time, I hardly had any friends who had kids celebrating 1st year birthday and didnt share with me on nice pretty cakes. If only we can turn back the clock.

SO this time, I'm gonna have a pretty cake for Reyes. In fact, he's not young to not realise what a pretty cake is! I showed him a couple of cakes and whenever he sees cakes with cars, he gets so excited and makes the sound " zrroom zrroom" and move his hands left to right rapidly...

So for the past few afternoons when the kids are up, they are up with me surfing for pix of pretty cakes and rie requested to have a strawberry shortcake..sigh..I wonder if we will have the budget to get 1 for her next year for her bday.

I'm disappointed with myself for not planning much earlier. There are actually many home based cake makers who do really very very nice decorations at a much cheaper price as compared to those shops. And they are really popular! Maybe I ought to book one of them for rie hor...

And also, regretful that The Patissier dont have time to do up 3D designs that we had in mind for Reyes cake..sigh..no time!!! See, lesson learnt, book early in future!

I sure hope I will like the cake and so will my guests.

My fault again..

Reyes fell in the bathroom yesterday afternoon while I was showering for Rie.

he insisted on coming into the bathroom and I couldnt stop him in time and he slipped and fell. Knocked the back of his head onto the floor tiles edge where the sliding door was. There was a metal piece in the center, for the sliding door. Got me sooo damn worried!

Upon inspection, there was a red mark on the back where the fall occured. So upset. Learnt my lesson, always dump him in the playpen when I am not able to supervise him.

Reyes New Love...

We brought the kids to United Square after rie kept pestering me to bring her to ToysRUs to see Strawberry shortcake.

Was trying to shop for reyes shoes too and spotted one at Bata, but too bad they dont have his size. And gosh oh gosh lor, he's gonna wear a size 6. Big foot.

He was pretty interested in me putting on the shoes for him to try and when I took it off and placed it back on the shelf, he gave me a disappointing and confusing look. Must be thinking "arh, not buying for me?"

Anyway, the kids had great fun at ToySRUS. It's reyes first time offically exploring the floor on his own. Yeah, I finally had the courage to let go of him and walk with his shoes in public. Was initially worried he would fall off, you know, not used to wearing shoes. But the moment he saw those toys, he went Ooo ooo and started walking. I can tell he was very happy that night.

When it was time to go home, as usual lah, kids make noise and so did Reyes. Double the screams from Riesia when she realise it was time to head home and she have yet to rob us off a present. She simply grab this strawberry shortcake car and doll which I know she will not be interested in few days time and told us to buy. Of course no lor.

My dad dotes on her the most. Spent $30 on this Woody doll from Toy Story. Initially she brought woody everywhere we went and also to bed together and she would talk to him. Then, few days later, he's lost somewhere in the living room until Reyes found him. hahaha.

Then dad spent another bomb on this Thomas Train track and extension. I saw at ToysRUs, not cheap leh! Must have spent at least $150 man. Xiao. And as usual, I asked her today if she's gonna play with the train and tracks, she just walked off without answering...sigh...She doesnt know that she is such a fortunate grandchild.

And so Reyes will get all the hands me down from her, excluding dolls lah. muahahahahha

Make way make way...

Now that reyes has learnt to be more daring, I'm starting to see less of him crawling around the house, and more of stomping around instead!

And he has yet to walk steadily and he wanna try to run and chase his sister! End up, he does what's the fastest mode of transport. Crawling and his sister ends up crawling, racing together to the living room and back to the bedroom. Haha.

It's quite amusing and fun to watch the 2 of them playing. It's amazing how reyes knows how to play with his sister. Maybe being #2, thats the benefit. Having a playmate to be there when you are still a baby. No one had such racing games with rie when she was a baby. All we had was just catching you and hide and seek.

I've been trying to let reyes walk in public with his shoes on. But he doesnt seem to get the balance as well as being barefoot. And he has found a new love - climbing up the stairs. Faint. Yeah, good exercise for me, pity my poor back....Shoes getting too tight for his huge feet. *are boys feet really that bigger as compared to girls?* Gotta shop for his new shoes soon. Maybe tomorrow if we are in a good mood.

Today's the Lunar 8th month, 15th. It's an unhappy day for us whole family. Hb going through PMS, pissed me too. We went to collect reyes passport this morning and my new IC. Oh thank god man, I can finally ditch that old awful fatty photo that I've been hiding. And each time I'm required to produce my IC, the other party gives me a 2nd look and seem to be wondering : Is that you?" KNS.

And the bad news? I've gotta apply a new passport for rie. Her photo is her infant photo and it's still left with 3 yrs validity and ICA is only able to carry fwd 9 mths to the new passport. What is this leh? Last time, we could simply produce a new photo and just stick onto the passport and have ICA declare that's the new photo. But now with the biometric passport, no such thing. $70 leh. Argh.

Gotta bring rie to take photo again.

Tremors...

Felt the tremors yesterday evening around 625pm.

Was home alone with the kids in the living room and I felt giddy. First thought, earthquake! I tried to look around the house to see if I can see anything swinging, nothing caught my sight.

Was pretty sure it was tremors, but just had to double confirm. Went to Kitchen and saw the water in the jug swaying. I was right. Rie was pretty curious and kept following me around and asking me what's happening. I told her earthquake, but she cant really understand.