From Mom and Papa with love

AHHHH the wonders of Bukit Timah Plaza...

Birthday pressies:

1. Toddler Bike with Parent Handle- when you press a button a duck rotates, coloured lights flash and a medley of songs play LOUDLY.

2. Pink shoes with bird motif that squeaks - at an amazingly high pitch - as E walks.

Nice.

Happy Birthday Emma-Boo!!

AN elegant high tea with canapes, cupcakes, crepes and lots of CHAMPAGNE!

We celebrated Emma turning 1 in style with a few of her baby friends. The girls got all dolled up.

Unfortunately, E's fave character is Barney so... we had an inelegant cake!

But there was a lot of prettiness and pink to make up for it.




I think E had a good time, though she seemed quite bewildered at times at all the fuss and noise.

At the end of the day, Mom was all Dom-ed out and all E wanted was her blanky.


Thanks to the Vaswanis for being the official party photogrpahers!

My mini me

THIS is an old photo I found today.

It could be Emmy!

Surfing

WON'T be long before she's running around!











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Oinky Jr

A LITTLE pig called Oinky is one of Z's favourite soft toys.

While Z adores her many, many furry friends now, she never much liked cuddling or playing with them till about a year ago - probably around the time we took away her pacifier!

At bedtime, Z picks a friend to cuddle with. If she wakes up in the middle of the night, she will look for it and yell for help if she can't find it.

M has started young in this department: A coupld of weeks ago, she took a shine to Oinky, much to her sister's irritation, always grabbing it whenever she spotted it.

This pig isn't like regular soft toys - it's stuffed with small beans. So it's squishy like a bean bag.

To stop sibling angst, I thought I'd get Em her own bean-baggy character too.

Despite shoving a whole zoo at her, she still wanted the same one as her sister!

M was soooo pleased to have her own Oinky.

She didn't stop smiling and hugged it from the shop, wee wee wee all the way home!

Most adorable.











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Powder puff baby

East Coast

THE weather has just been too hot so we thought it'd be cooler along the beach.

Crazy people who don't know how to ride bikes are a menace! I got run over :((((

Anyway, we played in the sand for a while to cool down after a long walk.

E got her feet dirty for the first time and had a first crawl in and first taste of sand!

*Crunch crunch*

Emma out and about

IN light of her sister's Birthday Week celebration, poor little Emma hasn't been getting much of the spotlight.

But here are some pics from the camera:




Knocked out after one of our morning walkies at the Botanic Gardens:

First Swim

IT took 6 and a half months before your Mom let you be doused in chorinated water.

In an itsy bitsy yellow polka dot bikini! - tho for the sake of other swimmers, you have on special swimming bottoms.

You did like being in the water - for about ten minutes!

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Letter to Emma at 6 months

DEAR Emma,

The first six months have just zoomed by. You are a fantastic baby - smiley, cheerful and wonderfully good-natured.

You are such a great addition to our family. We all adore you, especially your big sister, who just wants to continuously smother you with hugs and kisses.

Of course, Mommy is your most favourite person.

Every time you see me, you hold out your arms to be carried. When I am cuddling you, if someone comes to take you from me, you immediately turn away to nuzzle your face to my chest. Code for: If I can't see you, you can't take me away from my Mommy! Sooo sweet...

But being the fantastic baby you are, you don't mind being carried by other people - IF you are not tired/hungry. In fact, you quite like being bounced around by your Papa, the grandparents, and even relative strangers.

Speaking of strangers, you garner a lot of attention whenever we go out. Your hair really is your crowning glory. Crazy and untamed, people stop me to comment on your fluffy tuft.

Because of your eczema, I have been trying to keep it off your face and even considered lobbing it all off. But your Papa just doesn't have the heart to let me chop it off. And so I've been using a variety of clips, ties and headbands to keep the flyawway strands from irritating your skin and causing you to scratch.

You are a busy little baby when you are awake: kicking about, banging around in your activity centre, going for long walks and checking out the scenery. I haven't quite figured out how exactly to play with you so I usually just sit back and watch you entertain yourself.

You have taken to putting everything within reach into your mouth: toys, pillows, blankets, people's fingers, your feet...

I wonder if that could be the reason you got so sick over Christmas. You developed a really bad cough and then caught the flu, which later developed into a bout of bronchitis. Poor little one, you had to go on a nebulizer to ease the cough and help your little lungs recover.

But, thank God, you are all better now and so happy and active.

You have lost a little weight since being ill. Your milk intake really hasn't been that high generally, which has made nursing you fairly painless (except for your first two months when you were drinking crazzzzy amounts!!). So 100% Mommy's milk for the first 6 months of your life - not even a sip of water!

But all that has since changed. Right on the dot, on the 15th January, you got your first taste of food - a teaspoon of cereal. You lapped it all up and since then, you've graduated to eating two tablespoons, twice a day and you always finish your meal!


I'll soon be starting you on more interesting stuff but first, formula!

We're going Organic - at least for the first six months - to see how your skin and body reacts to cow's milk. Because your skin has been so sensitive - despite the initial negative result for cow's milk allergy - we need to take things slowly...

But you loved your first bottle today - not from me coz you still refuse it if I give it to you. Tita Leng offered you 150mls and you drank 110mls. Not bad for your first attempt!

On that note: It's now time to take you out and about for your morning stroll - a bit of Mommy and Emmy time!

Love you kid. Happy half Birthday!

Allergies

TESTED for cows milk, soy and egg allergies today as M is days away from starting solids - and formula!

All three allergens came up negative.

Dr B says: This does not mean M has no allergies as she is too young for conclusive results and she may develop a stronger allergic reaction later.

But at least there is no strong positive reaction so I can go out and buy that tin of cow formula.

Complicated!

Anyway because M seems so sensitive, we're going organic - at least for the first $ix month$.

Thinking about trying Bellamy's from Australia. Email me if you have any opinion! Thanks!

Note: 7.02kg; 65.2cm

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Emmy's hair

PEOPLE notice her hair.

It's everywhere and it really doesn't help her ezcema. It tickles her eyes, her ears, her neck and she rubs and scratches with increasing intensity.



I've been trying to manage it while it grows longer so that eventually it will be long enough to tie back.

Or I might just have to get it all cut off...



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