Bookworm

ZOE has always loved books.

Even when she was a little baby, opening a book with her would make her stop fussing immediately.

Now that we're back, I've been taking Z to the kiddie library at the club twice a week.

She picks out a few books and I read them to her.



Today, she went around a picked her books.

I was expecting her to come sit on my lap on the couch as usual.

But she made her way to the beanbags at the end of the room.

She sunk into one and "read" the books herself.

Gobble gobble

WHEN I was preggers, I CRAVED for this particular goat's cheese.

D and I ate it with every meal when we were in the South West of France for a week a couple of years ago. It is usually served drizzled with lavender honey.

Amazingly, a couple of weeks ago I found it in Singapore.

I bought four pieces and have been slowly savouring them every creamy, drippy bit.


Yesterday, I discovered I was down the the last one and I thought I'd just eat the whole thing.

So I drizzled some pure maple syrup that Claire got me when she was in Whistler, and slurped up the gooey mess.

Divine.

Ironically, even if I had found this cheese when I was preggers, I wouldn't have been able to indulge coz pregnant women aren't supposed to eat soft cheese!

Lucky I'm not!

Another playmate

AUNTY Christina is having a GIRL in four months!

How exciting!

And Z got big cuddles during a dim sum lunch at Paragon.

Check mate

SASHA came over for a playdate.

After all the toys were exhausted and the house wrecked, it was time to head outdoors.



The kids messed about with the waterspout at the playground and got all wet.

Sasha had to take off her top and Z lost her pants coz it was soaking.

So Z and S decided to have a quiet game of chess to dry out.

At first, things were friendly.

Then it got serious.

So here it is:

Baby chess in pictures

Now if I move the knight to C6...


Sasha is good. I didn't see that sneaky move...


Oh no! I've got to sacrifice the Bishop to save my Queen.



La-la-la, the white Queen is dead!


Did you say 'Check-mate'!?!?!?


Blah!

Go go bambini with Kongkie

KONGKIE decided to hang out with us for the day.

We spent a couple of hours walking around Wisma and Taka, with sushi for lunch. Then we went off to Dempsey to pick up Z's milk and to play at Go Go Bambini.

While I sipped my latte, Kongkie spent some grandfatherly time with Z...

Watching her wrestle toys from the other kids...


Pose for photos....


Climb up...


Climb down...



Bet you can't guess who was more tired at the end of the play session.

SuperZ

I BOUGHT this T last year in Australia when Z was just a few months old.

She can still wear it now - but it's getting a little tight around the belly...

Ow

TOOK this photo on my phone to MMS D to show him Z's bruise.

I don't know why but it wouldn't go through so I thought I'd post it here.

You gotta love those cheeks!

Zoe fell out of a shopping cart...

...AND hit her head!

It was a big fall.

Now poor Z is sporting a rather impressive shiner on the right side of her forehead.

But she is ok. All is well though both of us were a little scared for a while.

Big smiles tonight at bedtime.

Thank God.

Kongkie's party

BALLGOWN on for Kongkie's 62nd birthday party.

Since Z got all dressed up, we had a bit of a photo session with her.

But she wasn't really co-operating so nothing really turned out nice.



Here's a semi-decent one with Poppy.

Z greeted the guests and then went off to bed. She wasn't really too socialable. For some reason she's been very clingy these last couple of days.

Our gift to Kongkie was a dinner party for 14 of his friends - and family.

I cooked and grilled and stewed and baked. Everyone had lots to eat - and lots to drink.

Party!

East Coast Brunch

WE walked by the seaside while D cycled from home to meet us for brunch.

Z had a bit of a snooze.

The foggies joined us after church.

We ended up having pub grub.



Z ate baked beans. She likes them... and the after effects are predictable.

Piggy back

THERE is a notice board at The American Club where expats get rid of their stuff when they leave the country.

Scored this baby backpack for $15.

Chic-huahua

ZOE had a good bow-wow session with Kopi this afternoon. She seems to really likes dogs.

First visit to the zoo

BIRTHDAY Celebrations at the Zoo!

I wanted to do something family-ish with just the three of us. And I thought it would be nice to do something different.

D took the day off work. We joined Friends of the Zoo, had brekkie, walked around a bit and watched the polar bears get fed.


Then we headed to VivoCity for lunch. As we were leaving, Z spied a purple blob.

It is one of her favourite characters so I let her sit in the car with the whole Barney gang.

She loved it so much that I had to pop in a dollar.

And off she went. She just LOVED the ride. Another first.

MMR jab

TOOK Z to the doctor's today to check on a big red swelling on her foot.

Turned out to be ant bites that she had a bit of a reaction to.

At fourteen months, she weighed in at 9.8kg and is 80cm long.

Since we were there, the Dr decided it would be a good time to give her the MMR and Chicken pox injections. These immunisations supposed to be done when babies turn one but we decided to delay it a little.

I held her arms tight and then she got shot in both arms simultaneously by the Dr and a nurse.

She didn't even flinch.

What a brave girl!

(Obviously does not take after me because I HATE NEEDLES!)


My mom felt so sorry for her when she heard that she immediately popped over.

You can see the bandaids on her arms.

But Z wasn't at all antsy from the jabs.

Hair!

FINALLY, I can gather up enough of a bunch to tie a pony-tail!

GoGoBambini

HAPPY anniversary Kongkie and Pops!

This morning, Z headed to her grandfoggies to wish them Happy Happy.

After lunch with them, we headed home for a nap. And then I decided to take her out for dinner to a new play place at Dempsey for Moms and tots to hang out.

Z didn't really like drowning in balls and preferred to play outside the pit. Or perhaps she didn't like the bratty kids.

There are two areas for the children: 0 to 3 years and from 3. But sometimes the older children sneak into the baby area to play and they can be very wild.



Oh... they serve champagne by the glass there!

Walkie at Botanics

A WALK at the Botanical Gardens turned out to be a picnic in the park.

We met up with Sasha and both girls picked up a boy along the way.

Bye bye Liz

THIS is Z's morning face.

I don't really get to see it that often cos the Nanny looks after Z when she wakes up at the bizarre hours of 5am... 5.30am...



Anyway this morning, the nanny who has been looking after Z since she was born left.

Elizabeth, after spending three weeks here to help us with our move back, returned to KL to take up a new job this morning.

There was time for a final diaper change.

It was all kind of sad but the good thing is Z doesn't really understand the whole concept for Liz leaving us for good.


I think it will be very hard on Liz as she has come to really love Z.

There were many tight cuddles that morning.

We now have a new nanny for Z.