Sunday Celebration

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Beatrice's party has been divided into friends.. day session & family.. night session. In general, she did enjoyed the company of all the little friends who had came for her party. The only thing is she was cranky during both cake cutting... cos she has missed her nap time.


Backdrop




Finally manage to get Bea to sleep at 11pm. Both of us are tired but we still need to complete this backdrop. So that we can relax, enjoy the morning and wait for the guests to arrive.

Could not find Mickey & Minnie Mouse backdrop, this is the closest we can get, the disney princess castle.

Btw, the backdrop is done by the maid with the finance manager being the helper. Ya, he was kind enough to step on the foot pump for the balloons and to hold the deco so that the maid can get it in position. It is just not his cup of tea to do this type of stuff.

Rent A Toy


These 2 toys are from rent-a-toy.com. Arrived this afternoon and Bea gets to play with it only after we came back from service. She was excited riding the tricycle and taking out the accessories from the kitchen set. We have difficulty getting her to bed. She keep wanting to get out of the bedroom to play.

Hope the children will enjoy playing with these toys also.

N3 Coupe

This is the 2nd week that Bea goes to N3. This coupe has been the 1st toy she eye at for the past 2 weeks. So far, she gets to sit in there for a few minutes and she was really excited.

Maybe I can consider renting the Dora coupe or the princess coupe for her the next time.

After CG

JX suggested to take a photo of the children sitting together. Let's try 2 first. This is what we have...



I think its consider quite well done with a mobile camera. This is the first time Bea taking photo with Gabby.












And now presenting the 5 in a group picture...


It's really not easy to get them to sit still and allow us to take the shots. With mommys hands trying to make them sit still... haha. Ok, we give it another try this Sunday... gonna be even more challenging with more children!

Jurong Point





2 weeks ago we went to Jurong Point after service to have our lunch and to visit Dawn during her confinement. We brought her to play with the toys at Toys "R" Us. She has great fun.

CG at Tiong Bahru





First CG at Uncle Wee Boon and Aunty Dorcas house. She feels that their sofa is more comfortable than hers at home. ahaha...

Shopping




Last night, we did some groceries shopping. We have a few bags of stuff to carry so I past her the lightest bag and ask her to help. She was kind enough to carry it from the MSCP all the way back home. Thanks Beatrice!

Rent That Toy


As part of Bea's party, I planned to rent some toys for the children who will be coming to her party, to keep them entertained. Bea doesn't have a lot of toys. These are from rent-that-toy.com which arrived last night. I wanted the toys to arrived earlier before her party so that she can start playing with it first and not scream for it from other chidren later. She was super excited when she saw the toys. She crawl quickly towards the walker and started playing with it. It kept her entertained for the whole evening until bed time.

A Saturday Afternoon

While waiting for her nap time and Daddy to come back from work to go church together. She started exploring one of her favorite drawer again.. food!

She was standing hands free for that split second.. haha.. the food capture her attention. One thing I noticed about her.. if she is holding something she is interested in, she likes to go round and round while holding on to it.


National Day

She called me "me me" -> mommy when she woke up.. haha.. at last not during a cry. And she repeated a few times throughout the day.

What a lazy day for the family. DD took 3 naps, DH took 2 naps and I managed to catch a nap also. Meals with the family. We managed to do some groceries shopping at NTUC and watched the NDP on TV. The day ended with nothing much accomplished.

Except that I spent 3 hours doing her ecard the night before and sending them out to the little guests the following day.

Celebrate?

Brian and myself have been discussing about this topic since May. We didnt do much for her baby shower so I thought we should do something for her 1st birthday. But on the other hand, to invite the relatives of both families... we are talking about 100 guests... plus friends... 150 guests. Our house is too small for so many guests and I'm not for the idea of having it at my in-law's place. And I think Bea will get super sticky with so many people around her.

So after many rounds of discussion, Mr Chng agreed 2 days ago to have a party for Bea with proposal cut & trim to fit into our home. Guests list approved... budget approved.

Mrs Chng... "the maid" got to start the preparation.
Mr Chng... the finance manager will of course control the money.
Ms little Chng... she will play, eat, sleep until the day arrives.

Busy Day

Last Sunday, we went shopping with a list of things to buy/see at 3 different shopping malls. We started at 3pm after Brian finish his work and we end the day at 9.30pm.

Marina Square: Marina Food Loft (lunch), Mothercare, Kiddy Palace, Home-Fix,
Killiney (kopi break), John-Little
United Square: Toys "R" Us, Nurture Craft
Dinner at popo's house
Junction 8: Aussino, NTUC

Every shop that we enter is almost like touch and go. Brian's slogan for shopping... "stay focus"... haha. Beatrice was very good... she sits in her stroller quietly with her mickey mouse. There was only a short period whereby she wanted us to carry.

Words

A few more words that she says recently...
- bird
- work work
- "more more" -> no more
- "nei nei" -> mei mei (sounds like milk but softer tone for 妹妹)
- "ma ma ma" -> mommy
She calls "ma ma ma" only when she crys. Most of the time its the melting "daddy/dad dad".

Bad Morning

Thank God for His protection upon Beatrice. No swell, no bruise. She was active again after her morning shower at 婆婆 house.

02-08-07, 10am
OMG! Beatrice fell from our bed this morning while I was making the bed to get off to work. She was sleeping at the edge and my leg was holding her. But she lifted up her legs and squeeze through the gap and head down. Told my mum to help monitor her for any unusual signs like vomitting, sleeping for long hours, giddy etc.

Music Time



My brother was playing with his PlayStation with headphones on so that the rest of the family members can watch the TV programs. And she wants to be part of 舅舅 game play.

1st time riding in the car


She is going backwards like when she started crawling.

After Nap



Funny little girl, this particular afternoon she woke up not wanting to let go of her bean bag.

JiuJiu's CDs




Everytime she goes near to the room, she will always remember 舅舅 CDs. She will take out piece by piece and throw it on the floor. The best part is everytime she throws, she will close her eyes... she is scare of the sound produced. But it also looks as if she is telling us she didn't see the throwing action... haha.

Tissue Paper

Shirley's Wedding

A very interesting wedding that we have attended. Specially requested by the bride and according to the hosts, it is also the first time the hotel is doing it this way. Chinese style food dishes served in western style setting. The name of the dishes represent their story.



I would consider her well behave as compare to the last wedding that we had attended at the beginning of the month. At least she didnt scream to get attention. I have always wanted to take a picture of her cute fleshy hands... I'd made it!

Parties

Sunday was a busy day, we have 2 children parties and dinner with my in-law to celebrate DH's birthday.

Daddy's Birthday

We had our dinner at Delifrance Bistro after church service.. err.. the pasta doesn't taste nice, too watery and a bit tasteless and the soup is super saltish. But the dessert is nice and the sandwish is still good.

N2

She has been "promoted" to N2 since 3 weeks ago. Now N2 is super crowded & N1 has so little infants, a no. of her age infants have been moved from N1 to N2 so as to make space for the newborns.


2nd Half of Sat Fun Time


Catching Up

I'm almost there... should be able to catch up with some of the backdated posts soon. Beatrice has been sleeping early, household chores done. Work not so busy these 2 days, still waiting for some information to go on gear 5. These 2 nights have been spending time updating her blog.

Jealous


After Gabby left my mom's place, Beatrice saw the bouncer and crawl towards it wanting to lie down on it. I wonder if she remembered she used to sleep on it when she was younger?

She has show a little sign of jealousy when my SIL trys to carry Gabby.

Sunday Gathering

Sunday was a day we had planned some time back to get together and at the same time can bring the kids for a swim at uncle Ben's condo. However, Beatrice was having a little running nose and Raenen was having fever and running nose. The swimming session was called off. Little gabby doesn't have the chance to wear her new swim wear.

Gabby... next time ok?
Raenen... get well soon. Then we can all go swimming with Beatrice and Gabby.

First Picnic

Beatrice enjoyed herself with the sand play and cycling. She was a little scared when my SIL try to cover her legs with sand and tell her its cooling, she must be wondering what happen to her legs.. haha

But she love the cycling experience. Not wanting to let go of the handle when we try to pick her up after one round and another round, she resist by screaming.

Condo Baby Shower


It was one of those super hot afternoon with lunch in the open air. After eating, we brought Beatrice round their big swimming pool, she was excited to see the water. Then off we went hiding inside the air-con room.

Itchy Gum


Beatrice has been chewing badly on toys and hanky recently. Wondering if more teeth is emerging soon.

Playtime


Raenen's popo brought him along to my mum's place to see Gabby meimei but I think he spend more time playing with Beatrice.

Jaydon going to school

A gathering with the Citra family before they set off home to Medan. Jaydon is going to start his playgroup class the following Monday.

A little different from other gathering. They seem to remember each other better this time round and can smile and baby talk.

Daddy's Office

Happily playing on my FIL chair.

Cindy's Wedding

Her nap time has been reduced to twice a day, pushing her sleeping time to 9pm everynight. She was a little cranky half way through the dinner as it has way pass her sleeping time. Both DH and I actually have to take turns to bring her out of the ballroom so that she will not disturb other guests.

Sat Fun Time

This is only half the collection, the other half is in my brother's camera which I have yet to download from my tumb drive.

Mommy's Birthday


Enjoyed the evening time spent with DH and DD. At least he make an effort to go Orchard to fetch me, then to AMK to fetch Beatricem, then back to Orchard to enjoy our dinner and dessert.

Was a little disappointed with DH excuse for not making an effort to take half day off to spend time with me. Then another excuse that I have high taste so he didn't prepare any gift for me. To me it's all EXCUSES!

But he did make it up 2 weeks later after I told him I'm going to blog it down. Haha.. we went shopping together and he got me 2 gifts instead.

CG time


Carrot Cake


Can you believe it, she is eating carrot cake with chilli! She didn't even complain its spicy or her face turns red due to the chilli. Haha... like mommy huh?

ChiChi went to the Vet



Quarrel?


I wonder if she was talking or quarreling with the panda bear?

Cruising

Ball Play

zzZZ...

Soft Toys




One of mommy's favorite cartoon character. I put a mickey/minnie mouse everywhere... in my mom's home, the car, our home.

Everytime she sees them, she will smile at them.. so sweet.

Hi-5

Girl Story

Playground

MIA...

Have been busy at work, no time to unload photos and videos. Since I can't work today, decided to update Bea's blog instead with the help of my mum looking after Bea.. haha.

Will be posting some backdated photos and videos of Bea shortly.

Engineer? (OT)

I am getting real impatient with the new site engineer, he is really getting on my nerves. He called 1st thing in the morning, giving us a list of things that he need for the day casting. And the phone calls doesn't end there, he will continue calling every hour until the issues are cleared. Wrong Wrong Wrong!!! Any site issues should be cleared before he even issue the drawings to his sub-con.

Certain issues we tried to explain to him it's the wrong way to solve the problem etc, but he keep telling us it can be done. There are times when I got really piss off, I ask him if he is an engineer with proper cert, does he really know about engineering. He can tell me yes and continue asking me to follow his way.

Last Thursday night, I was rushing another project, trying to finish it so that I can rush off for CG. He called up at 6.02pm asking me to clear an issue on site so that casting can be done. I told him his proposal is not acceptable and he continue explaining for next 15 min that it can be done. I was so piss off I even apologise in advance that I'm going to hang up the phone & he can tell my/his boss that Iris don't allow them to do the casting.

Thank God for my boss and his understanding boss. I explained the issue to both of them and both agreed the casting for that small area to be put on hold until issue iron out. There was once my colleague told him "hello, Iris doesn't sit in the office just to solve your problems, she has other projects to do". That was when I was out for meeting and he kept calling non-stop. hahaha

I Don't Think She Is Naughty

How many times do I have to keep reminding DH not to scold Bea naughty but to explain things to her. We do not need to follow our parents method of scolding their children... us! I also need to tell him not to pick up the double words (钱钱.. money, work work etc) from our parents & repeat it to Bea, speak the proper sentence. Isn't this what we learn about parenting?

IMM Coffee Club

Has been very busy at work, preparing drawings for this week presentations, no time to blog. It's for our children, MOE is building indoor sports hall for most of the schools in Singapore. We are one of the consultant for phase 1, boss is trying out for next few phases also.

We met up with FL & family for lunch yesterday at IMM before they set off for home. While Beatrice was taking her nap, we decided to take a break & enjoy a cup of coffee. The manager was very kind and told us they have a corner couch that we can rest & park our stroller, the best part is we were the only customers for that section.

Last Night CG

Yesterday was a reunion for the children in the CG. Yes, we are a family friendly CG. Most of us are married with children. Was just making a quick calculation, we have 19 adults and 10 children... parent:children ratio 1.9:1. 1 more addition this coming July. Hmmm.. the adults.. we need to grow in numbers also.

Beatrice was quite cranky yesterday evening due to insufficient nap during the day. So decided to stay in the room with the rest of the children instead of disturbing the CG members. While in the room watching the children play... got Denise to snap a few photos of the children.


Oh... Eunice and Christal were not in the picture, they were with their parents during the CG.

Swim Wear


At last we decided to buy her a swim wear. Camera battery runs low yesterday, this is the only photo taken. She was excited the moment she sees the pool and the children, smiling all the way and wanting to go towards the direction of the pool.

But I was quite frus with some comments while feeding Bea after the swim. She was hungry and she was fussy that the food is taking a while to reach her stomach. And the voice behind was asking if the food is too hot for her... is it too dry... maybe she is thristy... see she is naughty blar blar blar...

I had already mentioned to DH that I just want a swim with just him & Bea but the message just didnt get into his ear.

Getting Ready to go Church


Dressed up for service. While waiting for uncle Mike to come & pick us to Motherhood fair, mummy decided to take a few quick snaps.

Happy Crawling

When Bea has not started crawling, I always talk about why she is not learning to crawl like other babies, is she too lazy etc. Now that she is crawling, DH ask if there is anyway to confine her in her play area, she is crawling all over the house... haha.

Daytime





Bea's favourite purple gift box








"Koala" resting








Happy face



A Short Trip to KL


At last, I got my passport stamp again. The last time was our honeymoon 2 YEARS ago. Every trip that I have in mind with DH always got to drag for so long, including our honeymoon.

Anyway, we brought Beatrice to KL for a long weekend to visit some friends and to relax. Since it's the first time travelling with Beatrice, we decided to stay at Corus Hotel where Aeroline service centre is located.

YES, she can crawl! We make her crawl on the lounge table in the coach, on the hotel bed... haha... that's how she started her crawling. Slow but steadily, yesterday she crawled to disturb uncles & aunties during CG.



Brought Beatrice to the Aquaria, KLCC. She was happy watching the fishes swimming around. Why so little pictures? Ask Mr Chng! And meeting up with friends. Sorry FL, forgot to take picture of the children together.

She was totally knocked out after our meeting with FL & family. While waiting for the coach, a little enjoyment for the 2 of us. A good experience travelling with the little one.