Melody and Tiffany's visit to doctor

Melody went for her checkup and jab (7 months week 4). Slightly overdue cos her doctor was not in singapore for 3 weeks in sep. So we went and as usual she cried superloud and very cham but only for a while. Hmm don ask me what jab cos i din ask the doctor/nurse, since this was their regular PD, I would go when the nurse informed when i should go haha.

Vital Statistics

Height - 68cm

HC - 43.5cm

Weight - 7.1Kgs

(doctor's comment - on the small side, 25% percentile)

While Melody was having her jab, mummy heard Tiffany screaming in the background 'daddy. i dont want to go into the room, i dont want i dont want, I dont like'. Tiffany's turn....

Dr Woon: Just 1 jab and u dont have to come back

Tiffany cried and screamed: I dont want, i want to go home now!

Dr Woon: Just 1

Tiffany cried and screamed: AHHHHHHHH I dont want!

Dr Woon: Alright its done, U dont have to come back till 5.5 yo

Dr Woon commented and wrote in the record card...small sized but very good command of speech!

Angels vv Terrors

Was always wondering would the 2 girls fight when they grow up... ...we all agreed that they definitely would since they could 'fight' over everything and anything from toys to mummy's bao bao even at this stage! Cant imagine how i would cope when the angels turned terrors in the years to come. *cross fingers*

Most Huggable Baby

Mummy submitted Melody's photo out of fun and she got featured in Sep issue of Singapore Motherhood magazine and won herself $50 worth of Huggies diapers! =) Can you find her in the midst of other equally adorable babies? But of cos Melody was the most adorable one of all, with her sunshine megawatt smiles!

Melody Melody

Melody was able to shift from a sleeping position to sitting position at 7 weeks 2.5 weeks. =)

Mummy's thought - Sad to see Gina leave

Just when Mummy sent our maid Gina to the door, with Tiffany and daddy sending her to the airport, and when they left, mummy felt erm..lost...It felt like losing someone dear. My heart felt very heavy and tears nearly shed. The house seemed to be 'different' with her cupboard emptied and without the usual presence of her doing cleaning and washing. No matter how much mummy kept complaining that maid did not do this did not do that, it seemed that she already become an automatic member of this household already. It has been 3 years since she has been us, she has taken good care of the house and Tiffany especially, watching her grew from a baby to a now 3 years old tyrant. Now that she has gone, mummy actually felt huh really sad to see her go when for the past few weeks, i cant wait for her to leave cos i believed that if she really wanted to go then i would be more than happy to have a change of maid...what an irony.

Just prayed that the new maid would be able to meet my expectations and do as well as Gina has been doing or even better *cross fingers* and most importantly, the new maid must be able to get along and tolerate the children. Hope that all our eight characters dont clash. Am wondering at this moment whether did my darling girl cried when she see our maid crossing the departure gate... ...

Half day at Zoo

Melody can crawl very well

Just a few days ago when I posted that Melody's crawling was not very steady, over the weekend, she has mastered the skill and is very apt at her crawling already! =)

Melody is teething and crawling at 7-months old

Today, had a pleasant surprise when i let Melody suck my knuckles! I felt something sharp and i touched her gum again with my finger and voila, Melody is teething! That explains why she dont drink much these few days, I thought she also starts her puasa lei. haha. So she has started her teething process =) hmm, can feel only but cant realli see yet so no photo to document the first teeth yet.

But, why was it that I can only feel her teeth cutting through when she already started to puasa since she was 5-months old? *perplexed*

She is a 7-months old baby today.

Caught Melody doing this action last sunday. Then tried and tested that she was able to crawl to her toy! But her crawl was not very steady yet as it was still like crawl crawl then bong on the bed type =)

Tiffany's 3rd Birthday - Part III (mini)

On Tiffany's actual birthday on 3rd September, we went to the Zoo but it started to rain not half an hour after we got in... so we changed plan and went to do cupcake decoration instead...

*mixing the icing*

*decorating the cupcakes*

*going home with the goodies*

...the day ended briefly as daddy had to rush back to work in the evening. Before the night ended, Mummy sang happy birthday for Tiffany with 3 cupcakes and a number 3 candle. =)

*Tiffany's decorated these cupcakes*

*Tiffany was making a wish before blowing out the candle*

As Mummy is writing this post, Tiffany humming a birthday song for herself in her sleep...

Tiffany's 3rd Birthday Bash - Part II

Birthday Girl

Mummy organised another birthday bash for darling girl yesterday on 31st Aug 2008. It was a party held at home attended by our close family members, all attended except her 叔叔 cos he was overseas. As usual, mummy planned the party many weeks before from small details like partyware to our menu for the day. As mummy planned the menu, our dear maid, Gina had to start the preparation of feast from 6am in the morning. Lucky, mummy told her to start early, else our food would not be ready in time for lunch haha!

Attempt to infuse the house with some party atmosphere.

While daddy was busy inflating the balloons, Melody was surveying the mess.

Barney party banner...

Layout for the table...

Food menu inlcudes cocktail hotdogs with ham, escargot (one of my fave), fried rice with egg and shrimps, curry chicken, sweet and sour fish fillet, egg beancurd with crabmeat, kailan with fresh mushroom and chilli white clams...

what a happy girl...completed with a Barney cake

our family
whatz a birthday without a heap of presents