Thursday, July 31, 2008

An afternoon at home ...

The weather sucked again today ... it was really warm .. I had half a mind to run to a mall but the thought of spending money shopping (which is a definite thing once I am in a mall) made me decide to just stay at home .. and switch on the a/c for a bit ...



Here is Lauren in a really old dress of Claudia's .. yes, though I don't do the whole hand me down thing with my girls ... there are a few pieces of clothing that I really like that I've kept from when Claudia was around Lauren's age .. this is one of them ... it has 2 layers .. the inner one being the lining and the outer one being chiffon I think .. or georgette .. I'm not sure .. but it's stretchy and translucent and very pretty I think :)



Emily was not keen to have her photo taken hence the grumpy face .. I think she was saying "No, Mummy !!" when I snapped this photo ..



One of the few photos I did manage to get that had her NOT frowning ... Emily I mean .. Lauren is game to have her photo taken almost anytime ..

Their hair was messy though by this time .. it was in the late afternoon and they had been playing and running around .. and that's the result u see ... kids who look like they need a bath and their hair brushed out .. lol



Emily refused to look at the camera .. even though I was calling her .. she blithely ignored me, the bugger baby ..

See, she looks like those posters with an orphan child on the front .. what with the messy hair and the slightly oversized red top .. sigh ..
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

my pink girls :)





Yes, I like seeing my girls in pink ... lol .. most of their dresses and tops etc are pink in colour .. today, they are all dressed in stuff from Pumpkin Patch .. except for Claudia's jeans ... I LURVE the clothes for girls there ..
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

My new stroller for the new bebe ...

The Quinny Buzz .. in strawberry .. well, red :) I love it ... ok, so it's super heavy ... but it's GORGEOUS ... ! Much much better than the more basic Quinny Zapp that you see everywhere in town nowadays ..


The Quinny Zapp, though really compact, cannot recline so baby has to be upright all the time ... poor thing ... it's more for urban use and short outings ... guess that's why it's half the price ..


It's from Netherlands btw .. awesome product, this Quinny Buzz :) it can recline, you can turn the seat to face you, it has pneumatic tyres so baby has a super smooth ride and the handle can be adjusted to fit your height ... hmmmm what else? ... ok, I can't recall all the features right now .. but i LURVE it ..



Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Emily and Playdoh ..





Emily loves playing with Playdoh and will make stuff for you to "eat" .. she understands that she isn't supposed to actually eat it so we figure it's ok .. Lauren and Emily can spend a good hour or so playing with Playdoh quietly ... :) of course, they ARE supervised IN CASE Emily decides to taste the stuff .. after all, the colours are rather attractive ...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

My darling, Claudia :)



Hubby took one look at the photos in my phone and called me "bias" ... lol. He said it was so obvious that most of my pictures were of my 2 younger girls ... told him that it was because most of the photos were taken in the afternoon WHEN CLAUDIA WAS IN SCHOOL when I'm just with the 2 younger ones ...

The man quickly snatched my phone and snapped this photo of Claudia which I quite like .. :)

Can't believe she's already 9 years old ... it seemed like yesterday I was taking her to kindergarten in the States (that was her first time going to school) and she looked so FORLORN .. like I was leaving her at some POW concentration camp. lol

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Monday, July 14, 2008



When Emily is watching her favourite show, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, she sits quietly on the sofa and watches the show very intently. She listens and tries very hard to give responses when Mickey asks questions. It's really funny to watch her. She also loves watching Little Einsteins and can sing along to the theme song. We always have Little Einsteins playing in the car. Stanley feels like killing himself everytime he drives cos he feels it's such a torture to have to listen to it (he doesn't look at the screen while he's driving) but I think it's ok. Whatever keeps them occupied, happy and quiet, man :)

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

My own blog ..

Decided that it would be better to have a separate blog where I can feature videos and gripe about my stuff ... and leave this blog just for my girls :)

http://aboutme-kristalangel.blogspot.com/

So I've deleted non-Claudia/Lauren/Emily posts ...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Lauren turns FOUR !!!













My little Lauren turned 4 on the 8th of July ... :) I can't believe it !! Here are the pics I took that evening after dinner ... I got Lauren a small cake and she was very happy to hear us sing her the Birthday Song :) We didn't have a big party this year since Daddy wasn't around and I have been down with MS the last few weeks ... I'm not in any of the pics since I have been ill with the flu-thing and I really look sickly .. lol.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

and we are expecting ...

a GIRL !!!

Yup .. I went for my detailed scan today and baby's gender was revealed ... a baby girl !! ... The sonographer was this Chinese national who was really sweet and friendly ... we got to talking as she was taking measurements and when she heard that I had 3 girls ... she was sooo apologetic that I was having a girl again ...

hahahahahahahaha ... well, she is from China ... and she has only ONE child and its a boy ... so to her, I must be rather unfortunate to have 4 GIRLS ...

lol. I laughed and told her that I love kids ... and it didn't matter to me whether I was having a girl or a boy ...

I am just really blessed and lucky to have my 4 kids (like hubby and I had planned) before we turned 35 :)

I'm taking a leaf out of Nicole Kidman's book and naming my daughter, Monday Lily .... (she named hers Sunday Rose) ...

NOT !!

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Little girls ...



lol. yes, it's the current favourite headgear in my house at the moment ... I bought it at Spotlight sometime back .. Lauren picked it up and took a liking to it .. well, what the heck, it is for little girls anyway ... so I bought it ...

I've been super ill this past week .. I say SUPER cos I've felt like DYING. lol. What I thought was the flu turned out to be some bacterial infection (ew) and so the flu like symptoms were 10 times worse. I think I nearly cried a few times. I was ill, hubby wasn't around for chauffeur duty (he's still in Australia) and the girls still had school and classes etc. Only silver lining was that the kids didn't seem to have caught whatever it is I had AND my maid is a godsend. I was flat out on my bed a lot of the time ... the meds kinda knocked me out and luckily my trusty right hand man (my maid) was there to handle the girls and their baths and meals. She is really a gem. There was no one else to help me .. thank God for her :)
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