Breakfast with Ms Angeline

It's been a long time since Ms Angeline met up with Gwendolyn to catch up with each other since December. Mama supposedly suggested a time after her confinement, but with a new baby, things were so unpredictable. Before she realise it, she was about to return to work. Finally, Mama managed to arrange to meet up for breakfast @ IMM again...well, just the nearest place for us both! This time, we head to Cafe Cartel for breakfast and Ms Angeline was so kind to have bought Lyn Lyn a birthday present. THANK YOU Ms Angeline!

When Ms Angeline saw Geraldine, she was a little disappointed, but not exactly...since Geraldine looks soooooooo big in the blog pictures, but when she saw her in person, she's not really that big afterall...Yes, believe it or not, Geraldine is just an average-sized baby (in fact, when Mama traced back Gwendolyn's growth records, she only start growing out of the national chart after 3 months!).

Anyway, Lyn Lyn had a good time with Ms Angeline and we did some grocery shopping together! When we bid farewell, we didn't forget to take a picture for the occasion! Cheez everyone!

Sand Art

Gwendolyn has been eyeing on the arty area on 3/F of IMM for a long time. Previously, she was only doing the paint art and did one winnie-the-pooh and one hello kitty with my melody. This time, together with Gong Gong and Por Por, she asked to do the sand art...without second thoughts, she quickly grabbed Gong Gong's hand and dragged him to the arty area...chosen the one that she wanted to do and asked Gong Gong to pay...not wasting her time at all...

Trying to scoop the sand by herself, with Gong Gong helping to peel off the paper

Lyn Lyn's chosen all the colours by herself, with Mama taking over the peeling role from Gong Gong

Proud to show everybody that she can do it all by herself!

By the way, where's Por Por and Geraldine then? Busy chit-chatting at the other side of the shopping centre!

So engaging!

Gwendolyn's Birthday Party - School

Same as previous 2 years, Gwendolyn had a birthday party for friends and a birthday party in school. This year, she has chosen an Ariel, The Little Mermaid, cake for her school party. Initially, she has selected one with the featuring the entire mermaid, which weighs a minimum of 3 kg...after several rounds of persuasion by Mama, she's been psycho-ed to accept one which only has the head of the mermaid, weighing 2kg!


As agreed with Ms Jam, the party was to be held at 12noon, after they have had their lunch...since Mama has forgotten to inform Papa to apply for leave, the party didn't start until Papa arrived from office during lunch time! Whilst waiting for Papa, Ms Jam hosted some pre-party games for the class and Lyn Lyn distributed the party bags to her classmates calling them to collect from her one by one!

Sitting next to the whiteboard, Lyn Lyn distributed her party bags to her friends!

Playing "bean bag on my head"

Soon after, Papa arrived at her school and we started sitting all the kids down, with the singing of birthday song and cake-cutting afterwards!

Mama cut the cake and Lyn Lyn distributed to her friends. She's even distributed to all her teachers, assistants and aunties in her school!

The 2 sisters are focussing on the cake, rather than the camera!

Lyn Lyn carried Geraldine to take a picture!

Lyn Lyn: Hm...the cake tastes soooo nice...it's chocolate sponge cake with chocolate crunchies!

Look At My Biceps

After Mama bathed Geraldine, Papa couldn't help, but to take a picture of Geraldine's biceps! Her biceps are so big that when wearing the rompers of size 0-3 months bought from Mothercare, the sleeves were too small that she cried when putting them on! Wow...supersized baby!

Gwendolyn's Birthday Party - Home

This year, Gwendolyn's birthday, 21 April, falls on a Monday, so Mama decided to host her birthday on the previous Saturday, i.e. 19 April! As usual, Gong Gong and Por Por flew to Singapore to celebrate Lyn Lyn's birthday and Lyn Lyn has made a lot of effort in planning ahead. She had even drafted a guest list, which she was the only one who understand the special codes used! In addition, she has asked for a magician, a 2-tiered cake (1 layer for adults and 1 layer for kids) with a Dora theme and contents to be placed in her party bags! Wow...

Since Mama is still on maternity leave, she booked the magician referred by her colleague, ordered a cake from Pine Garden (which contains a layer with lychee martini for adults and a layer with triple chocolate for kids) and delivered the Dora figurines to the shop at Ang Mo Kio and purchased all party bag items from Bugis! Everything set for her party. Oh yeah, not forgetting to mention us going to Centrepoint's Party shop to buy all the Dora party stuff, including backdrop decoration, party plates, party napkins, party bags, etc!

On the day, Papa made an early morning trip to the function room downstairs to bring all the stuff prepared by Mama the night before...Subsequently, after Mama has bathed Geraldine, Mama went down to decorate the room with Gwendolyn, including the Dora backdrop, balloons, banners, table cloth, etc...by 11:30am, the caterer arrived and setup the food in the room...

Preparation time...Gong Gong preparing paper sticks for a candy floss machine that he's specially bought for Lyn Lyn for her birthday

At 12 noon, our first guest started to arrive...the magician came at 1pm and he waited for another half an hour before starting the magic show, followed by a puppet show and balloon sculpting for all the kids. Don't be surprised, even some of our adult guests were asking for sculpted balloons!

Lyn Lyn enjoyed so much that you can hear her constant laughing

Whilst the show was still ongoing, Mama quickly setup the cake for the cake-cutting ceremony...when Mama opened the box, everyone was impressed with it...it looked really appealing! Mama only provided the figurines to the cake shop and they designed the rests!

After the shows, the magician hosted the cake-cutting ceremony...it was so fast that Papa and Mama didn't have time to stand beside Lyn Lyn to take a picture and blow the candle! She even cut the cake all by herself after blowing out the candle...

The Cake

Lyn Lyn: I love the cake so much!

The cake-cutting ceremony was so fast that Mama has to stop everything for some photo-taking...Lyn Lyn didn't even have a chance to take picture with all of "her guests"!

Some snapshots taken during the party!

Same as all the previous birthday parties, Auntie Suzie helped to cut the cake and Lyn Lyn delivered them one by one to all her guests! You can tell that she really enjoyed her party and was so happy throughout!

After transferring all the items back at home, Lyn Lyn was too excited to take a nap, but decided to unwrap her presents! Without any surprises, there was no Dora-related birthday gift, as most of the aunties and uncles know that she almost own "all" the Dora items.

Before

After

What's her favourite presents?

NDS from Gong Gong (requested for pink)

Drum set from Auntie Carolyn and Uncle Thomas

Roller skates with helmut and knee guards from Ralston Gor Gor, Shannon Jie Jie, Brenda Jie Jie and Dillon Di Di...

Thanks for all the well wishes!

What's more, she was soooooo tired that she almost fell asleep in the car when we're on the way to IMM for dinner...everyone kept stimulating her during the car journey until we reached IMM and she has finished with her food...once we left IMM car park, she immediately fell asleep on the way home and couldn't wake up at all...what an enjoyable day!

Too tired...

Smile, Baby Smile!

Though Geraldine frowns a lot, but when she smiles, she looks sooooooooo lovely and sweet...especially when she's looking at her Sesame Street musical mobile or when talking to someone!

Cheerful baby!

Sleepy Baby

Geraldine looks so peaceful while she sleeps...so cute as well...Mama just took some shots in the last few weeks to share with everyone!

Napping at grandma's house

Napping at Ikea whilst Gwendolyn was playing in the "ball pool" place

Sound asleep at home in pyjamas!

Hiccupping...

Geraldine seems to hiccup a lot and for quite long each time. Normally, after finishing her milk...too full?

Playroom @ Ikea, Alexandra

Ever since Gwendolyn has been to the playroom at the Hong Kong Jockey Club, she misses the "ball pool" place...it's not easy to find one of those in Singapore, but it happened that there is one available at Ikea, Alexandra. She wasn't interested previously, but in our recent visit to Ikea, she requested to go in and play all by herself! So Papa registered her and she just dashed in and enjoyed herself! The time limit was one hour and when the first hour has lapsed, she requested to go in and play again! Is that really fun? According to Lyn Lyn, it seems so...and what did she call this "ball pool" place? The Kid's Club, something like what she's been to at Club Med!

Seems to be so much fun!

After playing for one and a half hours, she was hungry and thirsty!

Passport Photo

Mama wanted to apply for a passport for Geraldine and had dugged out her first portrait taken at Thomson Medical Centre on 13 February, as the package includes several passport sized photos. Mama reproduced it below...see...she looked quite "steady" at 1-week old!

Even More Chubbier - 6.2kg @ 7 weeks!

Geraldine was chit chatting with Papa whilst Mama was bathing Gwendolyn...Papa weighed her and noticed that she's already weighing a hefty 6.2kg at less than 2 months! Scary...gaining 2.7kg within 7 weeks since birth...

Look at her double chin and both cheeks...just like a goldfish!

Manicure and Pedicure

Surprisingly, Geraldine's finger nails grows very fast...Papa and Mama have already given her manicure and pedicures for almost 4 times since she was born...just imagine she's only going to be 2 months old on Sunday and already 4 times...wow!!!

Enjoying her manicure before changing to her pyjamas!

Look at her thigh...so yummy!