Yoga Sleeping Posture

Geraldine literally fell asleep whilst nibbling away on the foot of the Michelin toy man in the yoga position below...How Mama wishes to be as flexible as her!

Letter to Dad & Mum

First letter sent from Gwendolyn to Mom and Dad, for the Art Exhibition in School, to be held on 8 Nov 08!!!

Baby Emma's Full Month Celebration

It was baby Emma's full month party on 27 Oct 08 @ the Flower Room, The Hort Park! We arrived very early to find that we're almost the earliest! Baby Emma is the daughter of Uncle Kuek Kuek and Auntie Xuehong...she looks rather like Uncle Kuek Kuek!

Gwendolyn was exploring the surroundings, whilst Geraldine was taking a short nap. When Summer arrived, Lyn Lyn was running around with her and screaming away...she was so proud to be showing her studio pictures to all the aunties and uncles, urging them to look at her album before looking at Geraldine's! Mama just took some snapshots for the day and only realised when she got home that she didn't managed to take a snapshot of Baby Emma...what a shame!

Christabelle and Kaizer above...Eden & Geraldine (Ger is less than a month older); Lyn Lyn & Summer below

Geraldine, behave yourself...don't molest Kaizer...I know he's your new friend and vulnerable, but...

Dinner @ Shokudo

Haven't met up with Uncle Kim Siong, Auntie Adele, Frederick Di Di, Uncle Thomas, Auntie Carolyn and Baby Liv for quite a while. Mama arranged for dinner with everyone @ Shokudo, basement of Raffles City. This is a Marche type of concept, but Japanese cuisine kind of restaurant! Papa and Mama tried it before and found that it's family-friendly...the adults ordered their food, whilst both Frederick and Gwendolyn tried to finish as fast as they could, so that they can proceed to the play area for some fun!

Baby Liv was a little grumpy, as she didn't have enough sleep...Frederick and Lyn Lyn enjoyed each other's company so much that they didn't want to part with each other!

Brunch @ Jones the Grocer, Dempsey Hill

Sunday morning, Collin, Gwendolyn's swimming coach was sick, so her class was cancelled. Since everyone has already woken up, Mama's decided to head for an early breakfast, before setting off for the Takashimaya 15th Anniversary Sale...this time, Mama's suggested Dempsey Hill, without knowing exactly which one to go to. Once we've arrived, we drove round for a while and noticed that Jones, the Grocer was the most crowded. Without further hesitation, Papa quickly parked the car and we all went in. It's a shop cum cafe type of place, with a lot of caucasians...Gwendolyn and Mama went round the place, trying to look for a seat, whilst Papa stood at the entrance waiting to be served...finally, after some "negotiation", we've got our table. Actually, Geraldine was kind of grumpy already, as she was hungry and tired...after we've managed to sit down, Mama quickly took out her baby biscuit, while Papa and Lyn Lyn decide on what to order.

The two happy sisters when we first sat down

Papa's ordered a traditional English Breakfast, with Mama and Lyn Lyn sharing a scrambled egg with sausages + a crossiant!

Initially, Geraldine was still quite contented, with Lyn Lyn being available to feed her biscuits before our food arrived! After the food arrived and Mama separated the scrambled egg for Lyn Lyn, Geraldine saw the food and she couldn't stop screaming...Lyn Lyn was scrambling to feed herself and Geraldine, a wrong decision that she's made to choose to sit with Geraldine...

Geraldine seeing Lyn Lyn eat, she was so bored and tired that she requested Lyn Lyn to feed her faster...once Lyn Lyn's fed her...she's all contented

Under the Same "Roof"

Finally, Papa has shifted Geraldine's baby cot into Gwendolyn's room, so that the 2 sisters can start sharing a room...this photo is just so lovely, with Geraldine waking up earlier than Lyn Lyn...Stood up by herself, trying to get Lyn Lyn's attention!

Geraldine : I woke up earlier than Jie Jie

Mama forgot about to mention that Geraldine can pull herself up by holding onto the railings in the cot!

Pancake @ McDonalds

Unlike Gwendolyn, Geraldine seems to eat EVERYTHING...she's just interested in adult food and doesn't really fancy baby food...Saturday morning, before Papa meet up with grandma to see the doctor (subsequently diagnosed with high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol), Mama brought the 2 sisters to McDonalds for breakfast, before heading to IMM to buy a cake for a house visit in the afternoon...Whilst Gwendolyn was proudly telling Mama that she can cut her own pancake...Geraldine tried to grab the plate to get her food...see how much she's enjoying herself...

Hairdo

One day, Gwendolyn asked Mama for her hairbands, where she hasn't used them for a long time. Why? Because her good friend Carissa has started tying up her hair again...so Lyn Lyn purposely wanted to show off her "longer" hair now and asked Mama to help her with it...when Ms Jam told her that she looked very nice, she asked Ms Jam to write in her "bluebook", so that Mama knows what Ms Jam's said!

Brunch with Ms Angeline

Gwendolyn hasn't met up with Ms Angeline for quite a while and Mama noticed that Ms Angeline hasn't been posting messages on this blog as often as before...so Mama started asking her about her work and finally, managed to arrange for a brunch on 5 Oct 08! When Mama told Lyn Lyn about the appointment, she was so excited and kept mentioning about the "brunch"! We met at IMM (yes, again...as this is the nearest place), Cafe Cartel (Lyn Lyn wanted the freeflow bread)...food wasn't the day's focus, but all were focussing on Ms Angeline's new job, Geraldine's developments and Lyn Lyn's happenings...however, Lyn Lyn wasn't really able to focus, as she was too tired from her morning swimming lesson...she didn't eat too much food, but only had french fries!

After brunch, we stepped out from the restaurant...Lyn Lyn, as usual, will ask to play some of the machines, as she knows that Mama gives her a quota of $2 each day, to play with those machines! This time, she's requesting for the Mentos machine, which she thought she would like the sweets...Ms Angeline was explaining how the machine works and she observed another kid trying out the machine and got 5 tubes of mini-Mentos! Lyn Lyn was a little skeptical before she finally placed her $1 coin into the machine. Why? As she's only wanted 2 tubes and 5 is just too many for her! In the end, the machine's worked wonders for her, as she's only managed to get 2 tubes! Well done, Lyn Lyn!

P.S. The green and purple-coloured packaging for these mini-Mentos tasted horrible...yuck!

Funny Facial Expressions

So happened that Mama's managed to capture some of Geraldine's funny facial expressions here...

Happy face? Grouchy face? Trying to do something funny? Surprised face?

Lunch @ Sunset Way

Mama cannot remember the name of this "Cha Chan Teng" @ Sunset Way...but we went for lunch, before heading to the new Clementi Shopping Centre's Cold Storage to buy food for tonight's BBQ with Mama's HKer colleagues...

Broccoli, Baked Pork Chop Rice, Wanton Noodles and Steamed Chicken & Chinese Sausage Rice...guess which was Gwendolyn's favourite? Broccoli and the Steamed Rice!

Lyn Lyn requested to sit next to Geraldine, as she's wanted to sit at the BIG RED CHAIR...Geraldine seems to be enjoying herself with both the toy and her food!

BBQ With Mama's HKers Colleagues

This BBQ activity has been planned for a long time and delayed for a several rounds...finally, it materialised on 4 Oct 08, after Mama's office DnD. There was quite a big group as well...it was supposed to start from 5pm, but most of them didn't arrive until 6pm. Before that, Gwendolyn was such a good girl in helping Mama to prepare for the good...she was helping to wrap the golden mushroom, shitake mushroom, corn on cob, sweet potatoes and helped with preparing the plates, forks, napkins, etc etc...as she knows that we're running short of time! Great job, Lyn Lyn...Mama was really proud of you!

As a good host, Lyn Lyn's brought her big bag of bubbles to share with her new friends...and requested the adults to blow the balloons for her new friends to play!

We had so much food that day...

Happy faces...all enjoying themselves!

The kids had a lot of fun too!

Gwendolyn's Art Work - Little Einsteins

One of the focus topic that Gwendolyn's class was having was Little Einsteins. Mama believe that she has volunteered to draw the 4 characters from the cartoon: Leo, Quincy, June and Annie...Mama saw the drawing and quickly captured on camera...Good job, Lyn Lyn!

Happy Children's Day

Singapore's Children's Day falls on 1 October every year. This year, Childeren's Day coincided with Hari Raya Puasa and Papa and Mama are on holiday with Gwendolyn.

On 30 September, Mama asked Lyn Lyn what she would like to do on Children's Day, Lyn Lyn said : Tomorrow is Children's Day and you haven't bought me a present. Surprised by the question, Mama countered Lyn Lyn and said : You haven't chosen a present! The conversation died off after that.

On 1 October, surprisingly, Lyn Lyn didn't wake up until almost 9:30am and Mama quickly wrapped up the presents prepared for her as shown in the picture below.

How come the one that Mama bought was so much bigger? Papa only got Lyn Lyn a KFC lunchbox from the kids meal...stingy Papa???

When Lyn Lyn woke up and saw the presents, she was all excited and unwrapped the presents together with Geraldine! Well, since Geraldine was too small to understand all about Children's Day, Papa and Mama have decided to "smoke" her for once and didn't prepare and presents for her! That aside, she was happily observing Lyn Lyn in unwrapping the presents and grapped one of that to play with as well...

Two happy children, "sharing" Children's Day present!

Geraldine & Dora

When Gwendolyn was a baby, Mama took a picture of her with a HUGE Strawberry Shortcake soft toy (Mama is still trying to dig that picture out). When Dai Gu Gu bought the new Dora for Lyn Lyn, Mama just had the urge to take a picture of Geraldine and this HUGE Dora...

Geraldine is a real violent baby, biting Dora like her food...Yummy...

Presents from Dai Gu Gu

Dai Gu Gu came back from a trip to the States and bought back Gwendolyn's favourite Dora soft toys...1 BIG and 1 small...


What else? One piece sleep suit and a matching blanky for Geraldine too...Thank you Dai Gu Gu...

Busy Day @ IMM

It's the usual sunday shopping trips at IMM...but the 2 girls were very excited...Geraldine loves to sit in the baby seat in the shopping trolley, whilst Gwendolyn sits in the main compartment of the trolley...it's easy for Papa and Mama to bring them to the supermarket...


As usual, Lyn Lyn would ask for the $2 ration to take a kiddy ride in the shopping complex. This time, she's opted for the horse and Geraldine tried with her as well...Geraldine was not scared, but was rather amazed by the "thing" as a whole...Lyn Lyn did a good job in keeping Geraldine in place and not falling off from the ride! Well done, Jie Jie!

Lastly...shopping @ Fox...both sisters bought a Mickey & Minnie long-sleeved t-shirt each, preparing for the aeroplane ride back to HK in October...Lyn Lyn, as her usual self, took quite a few pieced of clothings to try in the dressing room...whilst Geraldine choose the baby clothings in her stroller...

Like real...do babies know how to choose?

Breakfast @ West Coast McDonalds

It's been a long while since we last meet up with Uncle Kim Siong and Auntie Adele. Mama arranged with Auntie Adele for a breakfast @ West Coast McD on Sunday morning, after Lyn Lyn's swimming lesson. Frederick was a little shy, as he's not met up with us for quite some time...the 2 baby girls were happily munching away with the Baby Bites biscuits...

It took a while, until this picture was taken, as it was just so difficult to get all the 2 kids and 2 babies to look at the camera...

Poor Dads...both Dads were trying to get the attention of everyone...

Summer's Birthday & Kaizer's Full Month

Summer's Birthday and Kaizer's full month coincided on the same day and Uncle Don and Auntie Lena arranged for 1 party for the 2 of them. It was held @ the Delta Sports Complex's Atlantis. Papa and Mama were impressed with the location, as it was really a child-friendly environment, with an indoor playground, at a fairly reasonable rate. Gwendolyn was so excited when she arrived and immediately dived herself into the playground, even though she was wearing a very pretty dress...both Summer and Lyn Lyn were running around and climbing high and low...

Auntie Lena engaged an entertainer and he started off with balloon sculpting for all the kids. Lyn Lyn's got herself a flower and a doggie for Geraldine.

When the entertainer started to perform, Papa was carrying Geraldine on his lap to watch. Really...she was paying attention in the performance by the entertainer. However, Mama wasn't very impressed by this entertainer, as his jokes were kind of silly. He kept mumbling about him kissing the kids if they didn't behave, or something like that, with a very annoying voice...Well, I think it's just me who didn't like him...the kids enjoyed his performance though...or Mama thought...

Geraldine was eating her baby biscuit whilst Papa and Mama were having their food...she just can't be left alone when the others are eating!

Finally, after the performance, it's cake-cutting time! Summer and Kaizer had a castle cake from Coffee Bean. It looked interesting, with a lot of chocolates on top...but it was kind of difficult to cut...Luckily, Lyn Lyn didn't dive in to help Summer to blow off the candles...but Summer had a hard time, trying to blow out all 4 candles...Mama guessed that the cake must be full of her saliva...haha!

A cake full of Summer's saliva?

After the cake-cutting, the kids went back to the playground to climb up and down and running around again! This time, Mama brought Geraldine in to try playing with the rocking horse, the mini slide, the cars, etc...she enjoyed the playground so much, let alone Lyn Lyn and Summer were both bullying other kids in the playground...

Sitting on the rocking horse and the gym ball...

Sitting in the "car"...Geraldine thought that it's her walker and she started moving in it and ended up falling off the seat...Mama tried her on the other "car" and she preferred the first "car"

Ready to slam dunk...Geraldine can grab hold of the beach ball very well...

Looking Alike

Mama purposely bought the same t-shirt for the sisters and bought a nice denim dress for them...see...how lovely they look!!!