Saturday 11 Apr '09

Woke up to clear work from school as I have tons of them... Sigh... Everyday (including weekends) I wake up early to clear my work plus to update the blog... heee.... Really thinking if I should get a new job so that I can spend more time with my family. Anyway, back to the topic. Daddy woke up and prepared breakfast for us. yummy... and thanks daddy for the effort.



I had a tough time feeding Ashlynn breakfast and lunch. When daddy took over to feed her lunch, she made things easier for him by eating abit more. After she finished her lunch, I have to start preparing her dinner as we were going out soon. It was her first lesson at LNT. I think she enjoyed herself except she got quite tired towards the end. The activities were very interesting and the tools used were very innovative.

After the lesson, we shopped around and went for tea break. After that, we proceeded to meet up with our clique for dinner at Suntec. Again, she was fussing around during dinner and kept demanding to walk. She also wanted to go on the joy ride. When I carried her down, she really screamed her head off. My friends were quite surprise by her behaviour. I told them she is always like this, but they said they have never seen this side of her. They always thought that she is very mild-tempered. I guess she hid it very well. She is a lttle tyrant in my opinion.

When we got home, we saw that she was still quite awake, so we decided to bathe her to make her more comfortable as she perspired quite a lot today. As the bathroom floor was slippery, she fell and knocked her head and started her crying episode again. Guess we need to get a non-slip mat very soon. Finally daddy put her to bed.


Mummy

Ashlynn's New Friend 10 Apr '09

Ashlynn is quite timid. She is always wary of new things. The first video showed how she is scared of a musical doll and in the second video, she has gotten used to it and was carrying it around, even attempting to pat it.

Jacob Ballas Children's Garden 10 Apr '09

We finally found a chance to bring our little princess to Jacob Ballas Children's Garden at the Botanic Garden for a walk. The weather was bright and sunny, so we were able to get very nice pictures. The pics only had Ashlynn and myself as daddy was the appointed photographer.

It was a nice place but we felt that it was more for the bigger kids although we saw lots of parents bringing their babies there and they were much younger than Ashlynn.

Leaving the house for breakfast at Eastpoint before we headed to our destination.

Enjoying the greenery.
Getting ready for the walk. Mummy had to help the little princess slap on some sunblock due to the glazing sun.

Nice pic.

We went into the maze.

Little princess performing at Botanic Garden.

Engrossed...

Lots of hands-on for Ashlynn.

We also let her sit on the ground to feel things.

Another mummy and baby shot.

We put her on a huge log, but she didn't dare to stand up. She stayed in the squat position.

After much persuasion, she stood up, but dunno why she flashed her tummy.

She was so warm. The sweat was streaming down her face.

She enjoyed crossing the bridge.

Walking around and kaypohing.

We had lunch at MacDonalds'. She usually does not like adult food, but she seemed to enjoy the fries. She takes after mummy, who loves Mac's fries.

It was a nice family outing.

Mummy

AGAIN!!! 05 Apr '09

Ashlynn kena mozzie attack again. Her limbs and face were not spared. The scars left behind from the previous attack have yet to fade off and here comes more new scars. I hope she doesn't grow up with the 5-cents, 10-cents marks on her legs. Really wondered why the attack since I already applied insect repellent and dressed her in long sleeved top & pants at night. I even applied some ruyi oil on her hair and clothes as advised by one of my friend's mother, who is an experienced nanny. Sigh...

Anyway, apart from the mozzie issue, our gal is growing up real fast. Some updates before I forget:
- drinks 210ml of Gain IQ 3 times a day, holding the bottle herself.

- 3 solid meals: breakfast - HT cereal with a portion of baby foor jar for flavour, lunch & dinner - porridge. She has yet to venture into other foods as a full meal. She rejected pasta, be it cooked it soup stock or tomato-base.

- starts to walk much faster. Daddy felt kinda weird as we saw her walked towards us when she woke up in the morning instead of her usual crawling and crying towards us.

- babbles a lot these days. But stopped calling papa. She also stopped making many of her hand gestures like bye bye, french kiss, good good. Wondered why she always does things in phases.

- like to "talk" on real phone.

- will put her piglet stuff toy in her toy pram and push around the house.

- like to carry a handbag on her shoulders or hand around her elbow and walk around.

- loves to play with all the switches and fans in the house.

- falls asleep on her own (at times).

- helps mummy wipe furniture.

- very hard to help her put on her diapers, so we are slowly moving on to use pull-up pants when we are outside.

- refused to be carried when we go out. Prefers to walk on her own.

- hates to have her teeth and tongue brushed.

- loves to make different expressions.

- understands more words now (but cannot speak). She will feed us when we say "give mummy/daddy eat". She will pass things to us when we say "give daddy/mummy". She will go to look for the right person when we ask her to do so.

There is still a lot more updates. I will write them down when I remember them.

Eh... Where is Ashlynn. haha... She is being covered up by the menu. This was taken at Fish & Co. at Tampines Mall on Sat night.

Deciding what food to order.

She knows how to wear a hat.

The following pics were taken on Sun morning. I let her wear my hairband as her hair is covering her face.

Playing on her own.

Getting ready to go out.

Family pic :)

Mummy

Self-Entertainment 04 Apr '09

Look at our darling. She enjoys dancing to the music. And when the music ends, she will play the music again so that she can dance to the rhythm.

Mummy

Ashlynn's New Shoes

Recently, she has this habit of wearing our shoes whenever she finds the opportunity. In the pic, she is carrying a bag which granny dug out from the cupboard, holding on to a crocodile keychain given by daddy'a friend and wearing daddy's shoes. She refused to put down her bag and the keychain. She was practically holding on to them the whole night. Really strange baby with weird habits...


Mummy

New Stuffs for Darling 01 Apr '09

Daddy had to work late, so I had to settle dinner on my own. Popped by Eastpoint to get a quick bite and happened to see Popular having a pushcart sale for baby books, so I grabbed a few board books for Ashlynn. I also bought her board to doodle on after knowing that she quite like it after we her tried writing on it last weekend.

She really enjoyed writing on it so much so much so that she threw a huge tantrum when I brought her to another room to change her diapers. I want to see how long her interest in this new toy will stay as she always get sick of her toys very quickly.

Mummy