A Cool Night

The cool cool season is finally here(I hope)! It's sooo cool tonight that it created such a christmassy feel and we're glad that we've already put up our tree, :D.

I hope the days/nights for the next few months will be as cool as tonight... :).

Shopping with the FlowerGirls

To settle the matter of selection once and for all, we arranged to meet today at Compass Point with the other flowergirl.

It was a fruitful trip! All of us(including my sis and the flowergirls) agreed on the pink dresses, pink glittery maryjane shoes, pink baskets and pink headbands! However, the ribbons attached to the 2 headbands aren't the same, so the staff has temporarily withheld the bands to reconfirm the availability of the same ones before we embark on the purchase.

How The flowergirls Connect...

Renee had wanted very much to play with Charlize, the other flowergirl when they met but as the latter seldom goes out(I was told so) , she was very shy. Renee waited and waited and waited, for Charlize to warm up but still... And finally she couldn't take it! When we were done with the flowergirls' stuffs, we were at G2k looking for a jacket, I saw Renee getting frustrated. When I asked her why, she said "she didn't want to hold my hand!" and began to walk away. So I asked Charlize gently why she wouldn't hold hands with Renee and told her that it's ok, can just play with jie jie. So, she slowly walked to look for Renee and there my little girl, standing at another corner, pouting, :D. I called out to her and told her to come back over, she said "but she didn't want to hold my hand", kekeke. I replied "but now she's willing to, why don't you come over now. You have to give her some time" and again she repeated "but she didn't want to", whilst coming over. I guess she'd meant that she has waited long enough, hahaha. Standing besides them, I noticed Charlize was peeling the skin from her finger and to lighten the 'situation', I teased her and also told Renee she can't do that but cheeky as she is, she grinned and started to follow suit. That sorta broke the ice. I then took Charlize hand and placed it on Renee's and then there they were, standing next to each other, both smiling away, :).

As for the rest, I think I need not elaborate any more, throughout the rest of the day, they were holding hands, smiling, giggling and finally, took nice photos together.

Sis commented : "now Renee knows how we felt during those times when we had to wait for her to warm up right?"(when she was younger), hahaha.

Annoying Phone Calls

Today, I've received, for the 9th time, a call from someone representing RBS and it is really super annoying 'cos besides this bank, I've also been receiving calls from a few other banks and even life insurance agencies, mostly by outsourced tele-marketing teams. What makes it worse is that these telemarketeers are mostly foreigners(asians) and it is usually very hard to listen to what they're trying to 'sell'/say. I just wish they'd remove my contacting info from all their lists and stop calling me...

A 'Sweaty' Experience

As hubby's driving the A6 to his golf game, I cancelled my cooking plans and took Renee out. I thought I could also check the availability of the dresses since we'd be there.

Surprisinlgy, the dresses, headbands and baskets are running out fast but there were new designs on rack and so I took Renee in to try them out. This time, I've brought my digicamera along for the last time, it was unexpected and we were only trying the dresses for fun, so, I've only taken pics with my mobile. I hadn't been able to upload the pics from my mobile and retaking them with my digicam from the mobile weren't clear enough.

I wasn't sure if photo taking is allowed and with 2 staff packing/unpacking right outside the fitting room, so I dare not use the flash and also, had to watch Renee's speech in case she blurted out "Mommy, quick, take photo, I'm very warm..." and so I've to hush her and she in turn, hushed me back as she'd thought that we aren't supposed to make any noise at all, hahahahaha.

7 dresses and boy, I was really sweating but good thing, Renee did not fuss nor complain too much since the dresses are very pretty, lolz.

On our way to pack dinner home, we passed by this X'mas decor house and Renee asked to take pics with it(she's now alot more willing to take pics and had initiated many times even, :D). Christmas decorations everywhere seem to be put up earlier this year, perhaps taking the cue from the Orchard Road's X'mas light up, which is alot earlier due to the APEC meeting.

Back to Bugis

Since there's no gathering at my mom's today, I made hubby take us to Bugis Junction again, hahaha. Why? 'Cos he's interrupted my shopping on Thursday and I just have to go back there, :D. Though we didn't get to browse the whole mall but it's been another fruitful trip, heee. We even tried a new restaurant(new, as in we hvn't dined there before), MOF, mmm not bad, :).

For Wear or For Play?

Renee has always liked to 'take over' my shawl when we're out and so I passed her both of the 2 shawls hubby's got during his earlier trip to Vietnam. She's been playing with them since and once she even wanted to wear 1 out but they're too long for her. Recently, it suddenly dawned onto me that I've actually forgotten about this little pink checked scarf I've got for her during 1 of our biz trips but when I took it out, though happy, she had not wanted to wear it out and instead, she played with it....

A Little X'mas Decorator II

We've put up our X'mas decor today!

Have actually planned to do it tomorrow when daddy's also home but Renee simply couldn't wait and when I've finally convinced her, I decided otherwise, hahahahaha.

A Little X'mas Decorator

I have a facial appointment today and when I received hubby's call just before I got to the salon, I thought, "oh no". True enough, he has to meet his client last minute, haiz... He asked if he could send Renee to Li's and looking at the time, I supposed it might be ok and that he could check with her. Good thing Li wasn't going out and he brought her over. This girl was sooo happy and as usual, when she's excited about an outing/meet-up, she kept asking him if he was ready to go, hahaha.

This evening, she excitedly told me(actually Li has alr told me when I went to pick her up) that she's helped aunty Lili on the X'mas decoration of her home and she again, asked to put up ours NOW! Hubby is not into the idea of having them put up so early but I guess my argument of 'put up earlier, we don't have to take them down after a short period' won over and we finally agreed to have ours put up this Friday, :D.

Getting Used To II

Ms Mok was expecting Renee to be still struggling with the new violin but it seems that after a week's practices, she is finally getting used to it... So, again, she asked if I'd made her spent alot of time on her practices. Haiz, I really wished I could do that! 'Cos though she's more or less adapted to all the new positions, she still will slack off a couple as she plays along as her hand is still short for the bigger violin. More time spent would be better, but I never am able to get her do that, especially with this new instrument, to play more than 35-40mins(incl breaks in-between to rest her aching arm....). In any case, I guess I should be comforted since the teacher had told us that there're students who took more than 1 month to get used to a new violin. Hope she could do better still...