September '11 Holiday Play Date III

I finally got to meet up with mommy Janice(mummy of Renee's ex classmate from Kinderland) today!  She's moved from Chiltern Park to Grandeur 8 and now to Rosalia Park and we only get to meet up today, today's mothers are just soooo busy, hahaha.

Renee has made aunty Janice a card(rushing out, so din get to take a pic of it, :<) and when we arrived at their place, I was told that Jerome has also drawn me something but he didn't finish painting it, and thus I didn't get to have it, heeee.

The 2 kids played indoor games for a while but being of different gender, I guess the home toys don't really appeal to Renee much and so, when the boy told Renee about the playground, they both requested to go there.   Luckily it's already late afternoon and the sun wasn't that strong anymore, so we went there with them(with little Rachel in tow of 'cos :D) but not long later, the boy was distracted by other boys from the neighbourhood and poor Renee was left alone, so she began to feel bored...  However, although she didn't have as much fun as with the girls, she still got her fair share of snacks at aunty Janice's and guess what, she was finally persuaded to try a bottle of Vitagen and she likes it, aiyoh!  Now she's asking me to order from the school for her to take during snack time, :).

Lately, with my hormones adjusting/resuming, my naturally waved hair has become a mess and no matter how badly I needed the cut, I hadn't the 'freedom' to go for one.  So, when Janice told me that the place is actually rather near to the Nex mall, I was elated!  When papa arrived to pick us up, I told him about it and he said ok, hurray!  Aiya, I should have had my haircut before I embarked on all these playdates lah, fancy meeting all my friends in my mop of messy & pong pong hair, hahaha.

And today, not only did I get my haircut, I've also finally got to taste the Wendy's shrimp burger!  The 1st and only time I've eaten this burger was when I was a teenager, when my sis, Elsie brought me to Far East Plaza.  That was the 1st and only Wendy's restaurant  in Singapore then but it was soon closed down before we could enjoy more of their food.  However, as usual, I needed to hurry over my food due to the care of the kid(s), so though I've got the burger I wanted, I couldn't exactly savour it like I did before.....

Baby Dance, Baby Kiss

Baby Dance

There are a couple of my family members whom would know what I'm talking about when I talk about the 'dancing' act.  This is because they have seen Renee doing it when she was still an infant - One day, I danced with Re with her hand resting on mine and the next moment, all I had to do was say "dancing?", she'd automatically put her hand on mine before we begin the act... :)

Trying my luck with Rachel recently, I thought I would surely not receive the same kind of response, given that I'm trying it 'earlier' with her, but I was in for a pleasant surprise - she did it and with a grin each time!  And on the next few tries, I found out that she'd curl and shy away if I do this infront of the mirror, hahaha.

Baby Kiss

Today, before I gave Rachel her bath, I decided to try a new 'trick' - the kissing trick, :).  First, I said to her "mommy kiss..." and planted a kiss on her cheek, then I requested her to do the same but obviously she couldn't, she just kept smiling at my reflection in the mirror, heeee.

Then, with her still looking at the mirror, I did the same thing again and this time round, a little bit slower and she concentrated, then turned slowly, paused at my cheek, I leaned forward slightly and she gave me that wonderful kiss-she stayed still(though her mouth was still open)!  Thinking that it might just be a co-incidental response, I tried it 3 times and she did the same each time when I said "Rachel kiss...", I'm elated! hahahahaha.  However, when we got out of the shower-room, I wanted hubby to witness this wonderful act but she wouldn't do it anymore, she just made noise and turned away from my face when I said "Rachel kiss...", :(.

Still not trusting that she'd really do it, I tried it again this evening and yes, she responded the same way again!  But this time round, she's less enthusiastic about it(only willing to do it twice), maybe she got fedup of me making the same requests sooo many times in a day, kekeke  :)

Another thing, I've just witnessed her putting the pacifier(which she likes to pull out) back into her mouth, heee.

September '11 Holiday PlayDate II

It's been quite a while now since Renee last met up with Emma and I thought it's high time we pay my friend Karen a visit(has never been to their home since we knew each other!).

Despite not being regular playmates, they still played well together and Renee had a good time today at their home, eating, playing and exploring their toys, even their new bunk bed!(now she's open to the idea of us getting her and Rachel a bunk bed in the future, :D) lolz.

Mommies also managed to have a nice little chat although baby Rachel got the in-between attention with her cries(wanna sleep lor...), :)

When we got home, I was informed that Renee had left her favourite charm at their place!  haiz, this girl ar...

This is the card she's made for aunty Karen, with a pop-up fairy, :)
(forgotten to take pic of e one she's made for aunty Sharmaine)

Rachel's 1st Cereal Feed

Rachel finally had her 1st taste of cereal today and she appeared to like it too.

First I fed her whilst she's on her rocker but we later transferred her to the bumper seat my friend has passed to us and it's sooo cute to see her in it, heeee.  Really reminded us of those times when Renee was sitting on one.

Although this cereal feeding has been practiced by many for a long time now, but personally, I'm not entirely sure if it's really that necessary for babies to have it but I thought no harm to give it, just one feed a day, not too much unless she likes it very much... :)

September '11 PlayDate I

It's the start of the September school holidays and knowing how busy my mommy friends are during such periods, I'd quickly text them last week to 'book' them, hahaha.  For today, we've arranged to meet up with Sharmaine, Shuen and her sister Lyn and Renee had woken up early excitedly this morning.  She even showed me the card she's made for aunty Sharmaine, I was surprised...(and she's gg to make another for another of my mommy friend tmrw, and was even more excited abt it just now after hearing aunty Sharmaine's comments, perhaps she felt appreciated, :>).

However, instead of heading to Sharmaine's house straight, we met up at United Square first, which is good, 'cos I needed to buy the Bellamy's organic baby's rice...(we went to the one at paragon on Sat but it's alr OOS...)

We've all arrived at the mall at about the same timing but as Sharmaine wanted to buy some clothes for her kids, I went in search of the cereal.  Then when I got back, I have to nurse Rachel and when I'm done with that, their friends came, alamak, ended up, I didn't get to chat with Sharmaine much 'cos soon it was time for hubby to come pick us up.  Luckily, we were all heading back to Sharmaine's house where I'm to pick up some of their baby stuffs.

Renee has had a good time running around their big yard and was reluctant to leave(we daren't impose on them for too long, plus we needed to get to J8 for dinner)...  Hopefully we'd have another chance to go over to their place again.

*Even Rachel was excited today, she couldn't sleep the whole while and when she finally KO, we were about to leave the mall already and she slpt all the way til we got home, how nice!

*Guess what, Renee's more excited about the baby stuffs and has already aimed at a couple of them, claiming that she'd wanna play wif them 1st hahaha.

Home Made Mooncakes II

Brought back some more today, with different paste and filling(this time round, they looked nicer even, heee) :

And Elsie gave Renee these(home-made by her colleague's mom):

Baby Talk

As we've changed our family gathering day to Sundays, our own family outings are changed to Saturdays instead.  And today, we went to Orchard road despite Renee's request to go to Marina Aquare(aiyoh...) - 'cos I want to get some cereal from the organic shop there.

When Re realised that the shop is located at Paragon, she's very happy, this girl is all about play only!  After she's had her fun time, she readily followed me to the nursing room when we got to Takashimaya, sooo good, hahaha.

Baby Rachel seems to enjoy 'friends' company too! :)  Midway whilst she's feeding, she heard another baby 'talking' and she stopped drinking, looked at me and grinned widely.  Distracted, she slowly began to lose interest in feeding and kept talking.  Another baby at the other side of the room also 'talked' and it's sooo funny 'cos it'd sounded like they were communicating with each other! hahaha.

Another thing -  I've started, a short while ago, to use sign language(just this one - the 'milk' sign) which I still remembered from Renee's time and Rachel seems to remember and recognise!  'Cos when I tried it again today when she fussed, what I did was to make this sign, and her reaction would tell me that she wanted milk(she'd eh eh eh ernestly the min she sees me when she wants milk, and it's the same reaction).  Hopefully this will work for us til she's able to tell us what she wants, :)

Lantern

It seems like we've been going to AMK hub quite often lately(Fri, after Re violin lesson) and today, we went there again, in hope to find the organic cereal for Rachel to start with but we bought a paper LED lantern instead and, only to realise that the holding stick wasn't in the package when we got home, aiya!

As we were settling down at home from the outing, the security guard came knocking and we thought "oh no, don't tell us we can't park 2 cars in the premise?" but instead, he passed us 2 boxes of malay kuehs and 3 green packets!  Hubby had given him 1 red packet in celebration of the Hari Raya festive the other day but he returned 3 to us.  Aiya, like that so paiseh leh, guess we'd better give to his children in return in this case...

The Lantern

Goodie Bag

It's been more than 1/2 a year since Renee's gotten a birthday goodie bag and today, she came home excitedly with these - her classmate's birthday goodie bag :

Rather unusual choices but very interesting and useful... Good idea!
(and juz nice, Renee's using e same toothrbush!)