Lauren graduates to pre primary ballet !!

Lauren has been taking ballet for a year now .. she was in the "Bebe Ballet" class and now she has graduated to the pre primary one .. !!
Here she is with her classmates and her ballet teacher, Miss Wu.

Lauren loves ballet class and always looks forward to it :) Claudia is also taking ballet ... she's in Grade 2 now :)

Random pics ..

Emily ... taken today ... the little girl is 12.4 kg at 21 months ..



Claudia in her new pair of spectacles .. she refused to smile for the camera ... lol



This is Ginger .. my cat .. she lives with my mom .. she's REALLY old. I got her way back in 1991 - that makes her 17 years old ... as she's now a very senior citizen .. all she does is lounge in her bed most of the day ..



Here is Emily with Isabel, our dog .. Isabel is a sweetie pie who won't hurt a fly .. We got Isabel in the States when she was only a puppy. She's now 6 years old ..



Of course, the guards at my condo think she's an attack dog who will KILL them if they come near her .. *stupid buffoons* lol.



Emily cannot say "Isabel" .. she calls her "Belle" instead ...

My child has attained a new level of kaypoh-ness

Lauren is a very friendly and sociable child. She can start a conversation with ANYONE and ask an ADULT anything .. she's totally not shy and will charm and smile an answer out of the grumpiest ah pek ...

There were a couple of times, as we were on our way down in our lift, Lauren, being the ever inquisitive child .. would ask me, "Mummy, where is the Uncle/Aunty going?" ... of course, this was actually directed at the other occupant in the lift at the time ... some neighbour from another floor that I am NOT friends with .... (I only know the people on my level). man or woman ... the little kaypoh just WANTS to know. I'd shush her and just say, "Going out I guess" and give her a stern look. She would just cheekily smile back. Most times, Singaporeans being generally unfriendly, would ignore her question since it wasn't directed at them anyway. There was once, however, the guy in the lift with us at the time ... turned around and answered her ... "I'm going swimming" .. Lauren was thrilled to bits that SOMEONE finally answered her question. I was quite mortified and gave him an apologetic look ...

Yesterday, Lauren decided to change her tack.

She's gotten BOLDER - she decided to just ASK THE PERSON DIRECTLY!!!

We were on our way up after buying groceries at Causeway Point .. and at the last moment as the doors were closing, 2 Indian men got in. They hit the button for the 6th floor and the minute the lift doors closed, Lauren wasted no time in smiling broadly at them and asked them, "Where are you from?"


One of them smiled back at her and answered her, "We're from work" ...

Lauren was quite happy with the answer and happily waved and hollered "goodbye" as they got out.

GOOD GRIEF. My daughter is officially Little Miss Kaypoh. lol

Guess who??

It's LAUREN !!! With temporarily straight hair!! I brought her to the hair salon to get her hair trimmed. The guy decided that he needed to flat iron her hair so he could cut her hair properly he said .... commented that her hair was thick and very curly ... lol ... he took a looooong time flat ironing her hair let me tell you ... Lauren dozed off ...




She was very happy with her straight hair (since big sis Claudia and little sis Emily have straight hair -- well kinda - it's wavy I guess ... ) ... and declared that she preferred straight hair over curly hair ! ... Can u mentally calculate the amount of money I'll be spending on her hair rebonding in the future ??

Anyway, here is a BEFORE pic ...



And here is the AFTER photo ... Lauren with STRAIGHT hair .. lol

Heeeee - YAK!! Kung Fu Panda !!

Went with some friends and their kids to watch Kung Fu Panda today ... 10 of us altogether .. our kids have been friends since Clovis days ... lol. Back then, we each had one kid ... there was Claudia, Shane and Ker Wey ... Now, there's a couple more ... lol. The movie was entertaining ... and the kids really had a jolly time laughing their heads off ... Emily fell asleep at the start cos it was comfy and she had just had lunch ... but she woke up midway and sat up quietly to watch the movie too :) -- I've trained all my girls to sit quietly in the cinema from young ... of course I only take them to movies which they would enjoy but I am sure glad they are able to sit through it without fidgeting or bawling ...

Here's a pic of the kids at Cafe Cartel ... Emily and Jun Wey are missing from the pic cos they were seated in high chairs ...









Here's the cheeky monkey in one of those massage chairs at Best Denki ...

Father's Day ...

See what the girls made for their Daddy in Sunday School yesterday :) Lauren made the spinner thingy .. and Claudia made the keychain .. the girls are very excited and cannot wait to give their handmade gifts to their Daddy .. who is away in Australia at the moment ... he'll be away till the 15th of July (bummer).

Little Picassos ... NOT :) lol

So we spent Friday at home cos I seriously have run out of places to go. lol. Claudia had Chinese tuition that morning anyway and so after lunch, I sat the 2 younger ones down and showed them the "magic painting" book ... you know, you just use a brush and water and paint the picture and the colours appear ... it's a lot less messier than using actual paints .. lol. Emily and Lauren had a fab time ...

I've been tinkering with my HDD and DVD recorder these past few nights .. gosh, I love gadgets .... anyway, the recorder I bought is a gem ... it SO replaces the VCR and more ... I'm such a tv junkie - I have to plan my nights carefully .. currently, I'm watching House, Lost, Prison Break, CSI, CSI New York, Bones, Cold Case, Chuck, Life, Supernatural .. and various other shows on Channel 70 (Home and Living) channel ... my maid is MYSTIFIED as to how I can watch programmes on women giving birth when I am going to do the same in December .. lol