Kindy Graduation Photo Shoot

Suddenly remembering that they'd be taking the photos today, I quickly reminded Renee last night, to put on the requested attire(white collar shirt with black skirt and black shoes), and told her to take her medication Before changing into the white shirt, hahaha.

I had wanted to wake up earlier today, to tidy up her hair but I'd lost track of time when I resumed my sleep after feeding Rachel(whom was good to sleep through last night), haiz...  By the time I remembered, Renee's already getting out of the house, :(  Then I worried myself if she's managed to tidy her hair up by herself... I used to do up her hair before her school's photo taking sessions and this time round, she'd be shot in her graduation robe leh, hahaha. Anyway, she seemed to have, 'cos I saw her walking in with her hair neatly held up by a hairband when she came back from school, :).  I only hope the photos would turn out nice.(they even shot the class photos in the park!  If my girl told me correctly that is, :>.  How interesting...)

More Goodie Bags...

Yesterday, Renee came home with a birthday goodie bag from her classmate and today another.  Today's goodie bag gave me another set of selections/idea(a nice story book, pack of silly bands, a nice pink cupcake, 2 girly rings[for the girls], etc etc) that are worth considering, especially if the group is not that big.  Even papa whom saw the items also commented that the goodie bags given by friends in this school seem to be more meaningful/interesting(like GUG's?), :).

Bye Bye Cereal...

Baby Rachel's been having rashes on her face and they seem to worsen by the day(sometimes it even spreaded to her eyes!) and I had wondered and worried if it's eczema.  So, since we're bringing jie jie to the chinese physician for follow up on her diarrhoea(getting better though), we booked an appointment for meimei to consult the physician as well.

It turned out that Rachel's rashes are due to heatiness and the physician said that she's very heaty now.  I told him that I've also noticed that the rash seem to have appeared a while after I've started her on cereal.  I then asked if I should stop and he said yes, especially now.  I also took the opportunity to ask his opinion about feeding babies with brown rice and he said that though it's nutritious, it is actually not necessary unless the child is not absorbing nutrients from the milk/food well, then we should consider giving it, else it'd only cause heatiness and it'd be like 'nong qiao fan zuo'.   He then added that cereal is also not very necessary as well (this is what Rachel's PD had said and even Renee's PD had told me the same in the past too).  With these advices, coupled with my own thoughts and what I've gathered from baby book/internet, I'm going to stop giving Rachel the cereal(aiya, just opened up a new packet! who wants to have it, it's organic!) and I'd perhaps start her with pureed home cooked porridge and slowly add in vegetables/meat for variety/added source of iron, nutrients...

Renee had requested to go for a snack after their medical appointment and our errands and we went over to the Macdonald's at AMK park.  Thereafter, we headed to AMK hub where we bought more groceries again - aiyoh, seems like we go to the supermart at least twice a week, every week, there always seem to be something to buy and we always end up with quite alot of merchandises each time, goodness...

*just now fed Rachel the chinese medicine and though she seemed to recognise the 'items' I've prepared to feed her with, she wasn't quite prepared for the actual taste! hahaha, it's quite funny to watch her opening her mouth in anticipation only to squirm at the 1st taste, heee...  She started to cry when she got choked at the 2nd squeeze(using syringe), and not happy to take on more liao(but still managed to finish that dose) hahaha.

F1 Craze

This year, Hubby tried to obtain tickets to the race but it was too last minute and he didn't manage to(he said he has to act earlier next year...haiz).  But, we still changed my plan from going to Bugis Junction to Marina Square/Suntec instead...

Once we got there, he went around checking out for a good spot to catch a peek of the race before meeting us for our dinner at Dian Xiao Er and then, we went separate ways again, :).  On 1 hand, I was afraid that we might end up going home too late because of his watching the race but on the other, this gave me more time to look for my things and also allowed Renee a good 1 hr play at the playground - so all's happy, :D.

Luckily, we didn't stay there for too long 'cos he's also very tired from his golf game this morning and we left the place before 9pm(still quite late lor, since tomorrow's a school day..., wonder if sundays' outings have to be cut when she starts Pri 1.....).

A Gift For A Friend

Knowing that my friend would be dropping by to pass Renee's key chain/charm back to us, I quickly went to buy the little carebear toy(not sure if I've got the correct size, based on my 'getting worse' memory but I do rem that she wanted a purple one)I've promised her younger one.   When Renee heard that I'm getting Ethel something, she said she wanted to get a gift for Emma too, with her own pocket money!  At the store, she couldn't decide on which set to get for her friend and had wanted to get 2 sets, hahaha but I reminded her of her 'drying up' coin bank but she was still ok with it.  In the end, as we were rushing and she didn't have the extra time to look for another, she had to settle with buying only 1 set.

As Renee hasn't fully recovered from her diarrhoea(we havn't brought her to the ch doc), PLUS I hadn't recuperated enough sleep, what with Rachel waking every 2.5hrs to nurse(not sure if it's due to her jabs, but then again, she's also been waking up earlier the past few nights, to nurse... could it be growth spurt too? Almost dozed off at her 1st nite feed demand, luckily didn't man, else I might have dropped her!), I had thought to stay home today but suddenly remembering that we would need to get her a pair of black shoes for her kindy graduation photo session, we went to Vivo City. 

Papa has to attend a dinner tonight and since we'd be heading home early,  I told Karen that they could come over.  They were alittle later than expected and though Renee was a abit impatient whilst waiting, she didn't want to, when I told her that we could perhaps arrange to meet up with them next week, hahaha.

Karen brought her 2 Es(hey, mine also 2 of the same beginning alphabet, 2 Rs, :D) up and their nice papa waited patiently at the carpark while the girls played a while... It's too short though, so hopefully we could invite them over again some other day...

3 Hours Sleep

I had only gone to bed at around 1am and 1 1/2 hours later, Renee came knocking on our door, "mommy, I want to 'pang sai'", oh my!

Earlier, she's already had 1-2bouts of diarrhoea and she's asked me to check her bowels to confirm if she's hving diarrhoea, yeeeek!(but what to do? most of the time, it's the mommy who gets the 'sh**' jobs la) and she almost cried when I told her she was, silly girl, hahaha.

Then, thinking that she's finished her business(I had to wait quite a while for her IN THE TOILET!), she lied down on her bed and told me that her tummy's still not well and I went to fetch the 'ru yi you'.  After applying the oil, she cited another bout of bowel movement and again, I waited in there for her to clear her 'waste', haiz... I guess that's the ultimate lah, I couldn't resume my sleep thereafter and when I finally was about to turn in again, Rachel woke up for feed, at 4:45am!  I didn't get to sleep til around 6am and I can't sleep in later nor take a nap thereafter, 'cos baby would be having her jabs the same morning, arrrggghhhh.  Poor baby cried badly again, 2 jabs today.  At the thighs, so it's more painful...

As Renee had missed Rachel's previous immunisation appointment and wasn't happy about it, we've fixed today's at a timing when she can go with us after her Berries lesson.  However, as papa had work to attend to, she wasn't quite happy that she didn't get to go to the playground at Paragon thereafter.  I told her that if she passed the piece she's been playing, today, then I'd bring her down myself one of the weekdays.

After her violin lesson, we went over to Compass Point to get some stuffs(luckily I still rem to get my eggless cube cakes before we left the mall) but again, forgot some other stuffs, as we were rushed by papa(again...).

Ribbons Off

Oh dear, people have been commenting that Rachel's got a strong grip/hold and last night, she proved it further by pulling the ribbons off her socks, geez!  I've tried tugging at the ribbons when I first got hold of them and found the glue that hold the ribbons to the socks quite strong.  They can even withstand the pull of the washer, but didn't survive baby Rachel's, hahaha.

Good thing I'm still able to salvage these ribbons(I think, heee) and I shall put them to good use and 'beautify' her with them hahaha... :)

Review @ NDC

As we have not fixed a date for the surgery, we went back to NDC today to do so.  The timing was just nice I would say, 'cos the doctor's able to see how Renee's adult teeth had grown now.  She suggested hving them extracted during the surgery since the area would be numb(otherwise, could just leave it to nature).

The surgeon was summoned over to her room and after a look, he wanted to have Renee under GA but the doctor suggested that as Renee seems good enough to co-operate, perhaps we should just let her go on LA instead.  Ok, that's what I'd prefer too but I'm not sure if she'd be able to tolerate the injection part.  Anyway, we still have a few good months to the actual date, we shall see how things go...

Although this is a common thing/surgery, the word 'surgery' still made me feel down and thus I hadn't the heart to go home straight away.  So, we ended up at Bukit Timah Plaza where both Renee and I snacked at the restaurant that served her favourite pizza.  Then, we walked around the mall for a while before finally embarking on our grocery shopping and we met my SIL, aunty Naoko at the supermart!  However, as we needed to rush off since papa's already on the way to pick us up, we didn't stop to chat... Perhaps we could arrange a meetup at that mall  in the near future, since we know now that they go there every Wednesday!  :)

Ants Project

It's been a while since Renee's come home with the announcement of a school project(which I used to dread) but this time round, this school's quite different(so far their projects are so much more interesting as compared to her prev kindy) - they're more to kids' capability level which would allow the kid(s) to take on the task more independantly, which I feel should be the main purpose of these home projects/assignments.

Before the September school holidays, they were asked to bring pictures of food to the school since the topic was on the food pyramid and the day before the holidays, she came home with this, plus all the work she's done at school :

Last week, they were each required to bring an insect to school on Monday and papa helped her to 'catch' a red ant(quite big) during his Sunday golf game, lolz.  However, the ant didn't quite survive and died when we got home from our outing.  Renee was afraid to bring it to school, as the teacher had informed them to bring 'live' insects.  As we do not have enough time to catch another, I told her that it's ok, she could try explain to the teacher(s) that the ant was indeed alive when it was caught but it somehow didn't survive whilst being captive(in a box).  She came home today happy 'cos she wasn't reprimanded :) (well, I guess we all know that this would happen when we capture insects, :>).   The next thing they have to do was, to go onto internet to source for info on Ants.  She was supposed to just copy down the information gathered so papa guided her on which part to extract from the notes they've found and 'cos papa had accidentally printed all the pages than what's really needed, she took the initiative to decorate her notes with the pictures found on the pages and we kinda like the idea of it! :