Saturday, June 25, 2011

O Happy Days!






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Some of the stuff I've bought online these last few nights. I dread to see my upcoming credit card bill. lol :p

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Father's Day

Went to church on Sunday and they girls made gifts for their Daddy to celebrate Father's Day.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Where art thou, tooth fairy?

So the tooth fairy has been rather slack of late. Lauren came to complain to me that she had been tucking her tooth underneath her pillow for the last 4 nights and nothing has happened. Lol. Of course, I sent my hubby a text message and told him about it. Emily commented that the tooth fairy was lazy. I nearly choked on my coffee. Hahahaha! Of course, they have no clue it's us doing the whole tooth fairy thing. Well, more specifically, the Daddy.

Must check that he swaps the tooth out for a dollar coin tonight. Or else the poor girl will be waiting in vain again. Lol :p

Monday, June 20, 2011

Toothless

Hahaha, cute pic of Lauren with her missing front tooth and Charlotte.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Vivocity!

Went to Vivocity Mall after church today .. here are some pictures taken :)


Lauren has pretty steady hands for a kid just turning 7 in July. She has taken pretty decent and sharp photos with my iPhone. She took this one .. 


Calista HID behind the stroller upon seeing this fella dressed up like an eyeball. HAHAH!
Emily was game to get her photo taken with him. 


It's not that easy to take a photo with all of them looking straight on at the camera .. and see Emily's face? .. she was irritated that Lauren had apparently pushed her .. *sigh*

Buzzzzzzz ..

See my chubby little bumblebee!

All I want for Christmas ...



Lauren turns 7 in July and her first front tooth has fallen out .. another one to go before she can sing that cute Christmas song .. "All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth .. " Hehe. She still looks cute though, missing front tooth or not. Thankfully, she isn't too self conscious about it ..

Hopefully, she won't have to wait to long for the new tooth to make an appearance. 

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Miss Drool-A-Lot ..




Charlotte at 5 months old is 7.7 kg and about 66 cm long .. I love this photo of her :p

Friday lunch with Daddy



Went to nearby Sakura International Buffet Restaurant at Admiralty Park. It was ok. The girls enjoyed themselves. See their Hello Kitty dresses. They aren't fans .. I am. Too bad for them. Mummy is the one buying their clothes.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Boredom

I had wanted to go to Ikea today to get a few things but the girls weren't keen so I brought them for fries and ice cream at Macdonald's instead. Needed to buy a truckload of groceries too ..






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Mid-way thru the hols




Mid way through the June holidays, and quite frankly .. I've run out of things to do outside.

What else can one do here? We've gone to the zoo, swimming, watched a movie, went to an air show, shopping ..

Sigh.

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My water babies

My girls love swimming. All of them. Ok, currently, Calista is a bit scared cos she's not using arm floats anymore but Zoggs.

















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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Yay!

Charlotte turns 5 months old today! She's such a sweetie. Always smiling and wanting to be held and cuddled by me. She can almost crawl and can already move proficiently around in her walker. She is drooling a lot .. My Little Miss Drool-A-Lot. Had to go to Mothercare to get her extra bibs cos she goes through them really fast in a day. Haha!




She was trying to have a nap in her pram but of course, I was trying to get a photo of her. Hence, her grumpy look. Lol :p

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Blessed ..




Charlotte, just like my other 4 girls before her .. is indeed a joy to look after. Very easy going and she doesn't wake up at the crack of dawn. I am so not a morning person. I am more of a night owl. Thankfully, Charlotte is asleep before 9pm, usually by 8.25 she's out like a light .. But I am awake till 3 am most days. I like to watch tv or surf the net at that hour. It's so peaceful and quiet.

So having fallen asleep at 3.30am, there is no way on this earth that I can wake up at 8am .. Much less the crack of dawn. Lol. And Charlotte, having been sleeping through the night at an early age already (she could sleep through at 2 months old) wakes up sleepily to drink milk at 6 plus or so then quickly falls back to sleep till 10 or so or whenever I wake up. It is simply awesome. I am grateful I don't have kids that wake up at freaking 6am. I would DIE.

Charlotte has very short catnaps during the day. Or she will nap longer if I'm napping with her. Also awesome. Lol :p it gives me a good reason to sleep with her in the afternoons.

I think a large part of it is due to sleep sharing. Charlotte sleeps with me on my bed. It is the single most wonderful decision we made as parents. Lol. Babies/toddlers sleep so much better and longer. And they don't wake up at all in the night !!! I had a bit of that with Claudia cos she used to sleep in her cot initially (first time parents that we were we thought it was essential a baby sleeps in her cot) .. And she used to her up at 2/3 am thinking it was play time. Lol.

I didn't have any such issues with the rest cos they slept w me from the start.

Plus, I love cuddling Charlotte in the mornings when she gets up :)


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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Swimming :p

Decided to see if Charlotte would scream if we put her in the pool. So we purchased one of those neck floats a few days back and yesterday we brought the girls down for a swim.




Charlotte didn't yell or cry. But she started protesting after 10 minutes cos it was the late evening and rather cold. Duh .. it was 7 in the evening. lol :p

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The zoo

Rushed to the zoo one afternoon for a quick stroll around. Here are some pics :p












Thankfully, Charlotte stayed asleep the whole time we were there.






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Friday, June 10, 2011

Lauren's birthday is coming!!

Lilypie Kids Birthday tickers
 
Lauren was born on the 8th of July, 2004 .. in Clovis, NM. She was a teeny little thing weighing 2.8kg .. but healthy and full-term. 

She's really excited about her birthday :p

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Heeee yak!






Brought all the girls to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 yesterday. Daddy thought they would enjoy it and they did! We all did. It's a really enjoyable, funny cartoon. Charlotte was on my lap the whole time. Sometimes awake, sometimes asleep. She'd watch the images on the screen probably not knowing what they were. Or see me stuffing my mouth with popcorn. Lol.

Calista enjoyed the movie as well. Of course, she mostly was there for the pop corn. She loves pop corn.

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Monday, June 6, 2011

The school holidays ..

Have begun !! Yippee! For me that is. Some respite from the dreariness of chauffeuring the kids up n down to school. Phew!

We have done a couple of things so far. One of the things we've done is bowling. Man, my girls enjoy that. Especially in the company of friends. My friend's condo has a small bowling alley with 2 lanes (how cool is that?!) and she booked it one evening for us to have a go at it. Here are some pics.












My friend, Tracey .. The pro bowler like me .. NOT. lol :p










Calista was bored to death. Lol :p















Hahaha! Charlotte's first time in a bowling alley! 4 months old !!






Claudia was too shy to bowl.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Charlotte

More pics of my favorite 4 month bub ..













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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Babies are a joy

Yea, they are. I love hugging and cuddling them. Charlotte is a real sweetie pie. Charlotte sleeps with us and she is awesome. She falls asleep at about 8-9 pm and stays asleep all the way till 4am or so .. I nurse her once and that's it. Even then we both don't really wake up. She makes a half crying kinda sound ... I sorta wake up enough to pull her close to nurse her and then we both fall back to sleep. I love co-sleeping. She stays asleep till at least 9plus am. It's awesome. She doesn't wake up at 3 am wanting to play and such. I'm so eternally grateful for that. Lol.




See her happy face when she wakes up? She loves sleeping next to me. When she was a newborn, I'd often have to cuddle her to sleep. And then she'd sleep soundly. It didn't take long for her to drop that habit once she knew she was sleeping next to me.

I recommend sleep sharing to all my good friends. It is the easiest way for your baby to gain that confidence and feel that security he needs when he's asleep next to u. And baby stays asleep longer and seldom or doesn't get up at all at night. Even afternoon naps, baby naps longer if we nap together as opposed to chucking her on the bed on her own.

And don't worry that baby may be in your bed forever. What's forever? U think your kid will want to be sleeping with u when he's 10? I have my kids sleeping w me on average till they're about 3 years old or so. And I've never regretted it. They become very confident people and I love the time just before they fall asleep to cuddle or just share a thought or 2. Last night, before she fell asleep .. Calista told me again that she really liked her new sandals I got her.

So sweet ;)

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