Sunday, January 25, 2009

Swimming time!!



While most families in Singapore are having their Reunion dinner today .. Daddy took the girls down to the pool .. here's Emily in her swim robe .. posing for the camera .. she's become such a model nowadays - instantly smiling when the camera is on her .. lol!
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Happy New Year !



Lauren's school celebrated Chinese New Year today. The kids were asked to come to school in their Chinese outfits and bring some goodies for the kiddies to eat .. we brought love letters.

Here is Lauren with her class teacher, Miss Loh, and her Chinese teacher ..

Doesn't Lauren look nice in red? :)
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

More zzzzzz pics !



Calista is now 6.5 weeks old ..



Ah, yes ... it being a Saturday, I forgot to put Emily down for a nap (she was busy playing video games with Daddy) .. as such, she fell asleep while having her snack at about 5 plus .. lol!



She was asleep for a short time .. then we woke her up for her bath and then an early dinner .. she was fast asleep by 8 pm .. lol.
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Flashback ... to 1999 ...



Here I am .. 24 years old with my FIRST baby girl .. CLAUDIA!! She was a couple of months old here ... this was taken at Olio Dome Wheelock Place :) --- in 1999 !!!



June 99 ... Claudia was 5.5 months old in her car seat ..



In her bonnet ...



Nearly 6 months old ...

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Macdonald's !!!



The girls love Macdonald's ... the fries anyway. If we eat there, it's usually fries ... not lunch. Emily is a rice girl ... lol !! We ate at Hogbreaths for lunch one day and she kept asking for rice ... hahahahha!!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Tuesdays are hell ...

I'm so tired. Although I get to wake up later this year with Lauren only starting classes at 11.15am, it is a mad rush the whole afternoon and evening ...

SIGH.

Claudia is in the morning session this year too .. but since she's already in Primary 4 and pretty much independant, my maid helps her in the morning and makes sure she gets up and prepares Milo for her. Hubby then drops Claudia off at school before going off to work ...

I send Lauren at 11am, then get home to be with Emily and breastfeed Calista then have lunch. My maid goes to pick Claudia up at about 1pm. At about 2pm, I leave to fetch Lauren from school. We get back home and I sit with Claudia to go through her homework and also to supervise her doing some assessment books. At about 5.45, I leave with Calista to send Lauren for her ballet class .. since it's only a 45 min class, I sit around with the other moms and wait for her :) We then rush back cos Claudia and Lauren have a Berries class at 7.30pm so Lauren has to be changed and given her dinner .. poor girl has to rush through it actually.

By this time, Stanley is back so we take a drive down nearby to the Berries centre and drop them off.

Lauren's class ends at 9.15pm and Claudia's at 9.30pm. We get home shortly after and the girls get bathed and changed for bedtime.

SIGH.

It's tough being a parent of school going children in Singapore ... so many enrichment classes .. so little time ... so tiring too for the kids and the parents.

Here is Lauren on the way to ballet ... she is usually in her booster seat (but it's in the 3rd row of the car where she usually sits ..)


Lauren with her Grover .. lol!

Monday, January 5, 2009

First day of school !!!



In the lift on the way up to her school :)





Lauren's first day at Kinderland .. she's in K1 this year .. she's in the 2nd session which starts at 11.15am and ends at 2.15pm .. :)



Here she is at another enrichment class she has once a week .. a Chinese class :) -- my baby is growing up !! *sob*

Sunday, January 4, 2009

At the coffeeshop having lunch ...

yes, shocking but true .. we do occasionally eat at non-airconditioned coffeeshops .. BUT, it must meet certain criteria .. like it must be super clean, no flies flying around, not cramped or crowded or dark and gloomy .. and yes, I must be super super hungry to agree to eat at one in the first place .. lol. Eh, Singapore is a damn hot country ... no air con I'll die ... lol.

We were at a coffeeshop at Kovan Centre ... after church this morning .. having an early lunch .. after that we bought some groceries at Shop and Save and then went home.



cheeky emily :)



Lauren enjoying her hot milo ..



Claudia prefers western food ...



errr .. Calista pretty much slept through lunch in her carseat .. lol.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Guess who .... ?



Emily when she was 1 month old ... :)



This is Lauren when she was 1 month old :)
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