Rachel says "Bye Bye"!

Last week, we've heard Rachel calling out "Bye Bye" in reply to ours! 

As usual, we would wave to her or say "bye bye" to her whilst she waved back but a few days ago, she responded verbally too!  And since then, she'd respond the same way whenever she felt like it, :D.

The Play Corner

Finally, hubby's got the 'internal' movers(they have this group of movers stationed at the condo premise) to remove our own sofa from this home - 'cos we can't have the existing ones removed :( but ours look alot nicer! haiz...And, within the same vicnity we have to pay S$30 for them to move it???  What's more, they might be hving it for own use, aiyoh, tsk tsk tsk...  Who asked him to delay?  Earlier, the community members had indicated that they might wanna have it for use at the club house, now he got the movers to do it instead...anyway... I don't care, I just want the space to put up the playmat and play-yard for my girls! :)

Play-yard with a touch of music(cot mobile, :D)

Baby Monitor

The baby monitor we've bought from Philips had conked out on us again!

A few days ago, the baby monitor screen started to blur out and then it went blank.  Today, we brought it back to Philips consumer centre and this time round, we did not let them talk us into 'delivering' a new set to us in 4-7days' time.  That was what they've promised the 1st time the monitor blanked out on us within a week from its purchase but, they gave us a much inferior set as standby(which was totally useless) and did not deliver when it's done.  They simply sent us a text on the mobile to tell us that it's ready and even made us wait.

Finally, after a long wait due to their inefficiency, we collected another new set.  Hopefully, this will serve us well, else we're going to demand a product return.  Ridiculous, every set just didn't work!

Another Week of Rest and... Good News!

We're talking about practices here...  Lucky Renee(I guess she felt it's luck? hahaha).

After >than a week's rest from her violin practices(what with her falling ill, CNY hol etc), I had almost given up and expected the teacher to give her a good scolding for slacking, they both came to pick me from Eileen's, with a piece of good news.  We were informed, in preparation, we've to let her go for more lessons and accompaniment classes(woah, gonna cost alot more!). 

We were supposed to be going to AMK hub to look for their CNY costumes, but Renee's violin needs fixing again and so we headed to Marina Square instead.  We've just changed the strings not too long ago, when we changed the tail piece but now, as instructed by the teacher to have its bridge changed, we have no choice but to have the strings changed again and this time round, it cost more but what to do...  We had thought that we could go back for the violin after our dinner but were told that we'd need to leave the instrument there for about a week.  Renee must be a happy girl this CNY, :)

A Birthday Dinner

To celebrate hubby's birthday, we went to the Cafe Cartel @ BPP for a simple dinner before heading home for the cake cutting.

Finally, I managed to get him a Tiramisu cake from Polar this year and even Renee commented it's nice(ya la, always din wanna try it!).

Haircut for the Lunar New Year

Finally, on hubby's birthday today, I got my lonnnng awaited haircut!(my package still has quite a number of cuts left).

Actually, I've been contemplating if to go for a cut or just a trim becos I simply do not have the luxury of time to go for a full head rebonding service so that I could have a really nice bob cut.  However, the change of weather is getting to me again and with a baby who needs me, to go to sleep, to blowdry my hair after every shower is a big challenge(even waking up in the middle of the nights for feeds are too...).

Although I didn't get the exact style I'd like this time but I got to try a different bob(not straight bob) and at least I don't have to ensure that I blowdry my hair immediately after my shower every evening, just to have it tied up like an 'aunty'.(of cos I'd pin my hair up in style when I go out la, hahaha)

At the final check on the cut, I felt a shorter length would be better but as we still needed to grab a quick lunch at the Wendy's so we could rush home with our groceries, to pick Renee up(we've reminded the maid to do so but we preferred to be home when she's back), I had to make-do with this length...

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Happy Lunar New Year, everyone!

Thank goodness, both mine and Renee's high fever were under controlled on the 1st day of CNY...  So, we still managed to 'enjoy' the CNY gatherings afterall.

However, when we got home last evening, we discovered that baby Rachel has got the fever, :( and we were sooo worried if Renee's fever will drag any further.  Luckily, her temperature didn't go up today and thus, she was able to resume school.  I hope it remains so...

7th Birthday

Another simple birthday celebration for our dear 1st born this year.  We had wanted to give her a 'bigger' party to celebrate her 7th birthday with at least some of her new found friends but the lunar calendar doesn't allow us that...  Her birthday this year falls on the CNY's eve!  Even an invitation to own family pose a little problem hahaha.  However, knowing how much she'd like to celebrate her birthday with her aunts, we decided to take up Elsie's suggestion, to join them at Li's place for the reunion steamboat dinner and we brought the cake along.  We hadn't known that my elder sis and her children would be there as well(good to have more company) and were rather worried if the cake will be enough but luckily, they were too full from the dinner to consume much of the cake and we even get to bring back a portion, haha.

It's just as well we had not planned a big party, 'cos she had fallen ill to virus fever just days before her birthday and I caught it from her a couple of days later too!  I even had to go into one of Li's rooms to rest before we began the cake cutting...  When we got home, my temperature had shot up to 40.2 degrees...

This year, busy with the move, we didn't have the time to let her go find out what she'd like to have for her birthday presents and when her aunts asked, she had to choose something from the ToysRUs catalogue she's kept from the Christmas, awww...  In the end, she didn't get exactly all that she's asked for but I guess she didn't mind, :)

The cake even came in a very nice matching box

Relocation

Yes, we've finally moved!

Although the organising of unpacking is faster this time round, but we've still bits undone yet.  Why?  I'm too lazy to explain here, hahaha.  Anyway, I hope, that we could really clear up everything before this weekend...