Family outing on vesak day

Today was the longest trip out the new family had...

It was not just a 2 hour cafe thing...

It lasted from 11.30am til 6.30pm!

We went to IKEA Tampines, where we SHOPPED for a new shoe rack. The lil one was so excited. She was being carried by daddy chin in a baby carrier facing forward so she could see all the nice things in IKEA.

After IKEA, we went to visit Hwee nak, Tim & Kaitlyn. Lil one took a nap on the car and though she was supposed to continue to take her 2 hour lunch nap at Waterplace, she kept playing on kaitlyn's cot. Too excited by her new environment.

Then we left for Botanic Gardens. Lil one took her nap in the car again. So we drove around for an extra half hour so that she could catch up on her sleep. When she awoke, we walked around Botanic Gardens, and had tea at the Les Amis cafe. (Wenyinyin had milke of course)

It was a wonderful day!

picture perfect

We finally took pictures at the photographer's today.
And it went really well.

Wenyinyin was really happy most of the time, and when photographer matt asked for us to make some noise. Wenyin was the first to squeal in delight.

We took 27 shots and when we saw it on the computer later, it looked great

Can't wait to see the actual photos.

68

Today wenyinyin went to take her jabs at the doctor.

So her vital stats now read as
68cm
6.8kg (actually 6.79)

AND when we got there, dr was seeing no. 6
and she was no. 8 in the queue

Happy Belated 5 months!

Wenyinyin turned 5 months yesterday.
Guess what, Mummy xiu bought her a romper for her yesterday too.
A 5 month old present?

... and a pink dress at 4 months?

Heh. Mummy xiu looking for reasons to shop.

che che stella

As of 21 May 2007, Stella became a che che (i.e. big sister)

Sorta. No no... not another baby when she is only 5 months old. Mathematically not possible.

A sister to cousin Kaitlyn.

Welcome to the world!

[Recap. Stella when born. Not too many pics we took.]

united colours

At age 4 months and 3 weeks, Stella is starting to learn about colours.

We bought her a really nice book .

For the page that teaches the colour RED, the whole page is red. Including Louie's clothes, his teddy bear, and Lulu the ladybird

[See - RED]

For the page on GREEN. Yup. Everything is green, including Louie, Louie's teddybear, Cuthbert the Canary, Lulu the ladybird, Bella the butterfly and Daisy the Duck

[See- Green]

So Mummy xiu decided to put what the lil' one learnt into real life.

[See - Yellow]


[See-white]

funny sister

An SMS conversation with funny sister went like this:

Mummy xiu missed Bride2b sister's call, so she smsed her back
[Beep] Still want me to call you back?
[Reply][ Beep] Never mind. How's wenyin? How's her fever?
[Beep] Fever is better today. Highest at 37.5. See how it goes tonight.
[Reply][Beep] Send me a pic of her?


So Mummy xiu searched through her stock pics and sent the cute dutch baby one.

[recap... dutch baby picture]

Oblivious to Mummy xiu, Bride2b sister was so proud of her cute picture she showed it to PGA Grandpa commenting how good little one looked even when she was not well. PGA Grandpa agreed. It was only when photograper nanny saw it that she realised the picture was 2 weeks old!

[Reply][Beep] Hey. I heard I got conned!!!!! (yup 5 exclamation marks) The photo I got was an old photo!

oops... mummy xiu had no idea it was supposed to be an update of baby now picture... so immediately she took a picture of the lil one and sent it.

The next day morning she still felt bad so she called bride2b sis and there was no answer, but received this sms in the afternoon.

[Beep] Hi sister, you both have been very nice to me today. Sending me exclusive photos of flying wenyin. U know what? They are the same photo. Conned again. We need to review the exclusiveness of that photo. (reviewed here)

Mummy xiu was puzzled. The photo last night was exclusive it was sent shortly after it was taken!

Actually, photographer nanny felt bad too so she mmsed a very cute flying wenyin one in the same morning. Exclusive picture. And then emailed it over a larger one later in the afternoon, but blur funny bride2b sister thought the email and mms was sent by two different sisters....

Haha.

Family portrait

Last saturday, mummy xiu and family were scheduled to take some family pictures at portrait gallery. The long overdue one from photographer nanny's graduation last year. Well... some good things came out from waiting mummy xiu thought. We can now add 2 more people into the picture. Wenyinyin and Chuanweewee.

Unfortunately, just before mummy xiu left the house with lil one, the lil one suddenly felt very warm. (She already had a cough and running nose, but mummy xiu was going to bring her out of the house anyway.) Immediately mummy xiu got the thermometer and the temperature was at 38.4 deg C. Oh no! To bring the baby or not? Mummy xiu already had the dress and shoes (shoes? for the baby that cannot walk?) ready. Panic! Mummy xiu called Daddy chin who insisted that the picture was not important. Still unconvinced, she called her family. PGA Grandpa said the same thing. No baby. [If bride to be sis picked up the call she would have asked me to bring the baby] Ok, and mummy xiu reluctantly went to take the "family" portrait leaving the lil one at home.

Fast forward to today, Thursday.
Mummy xiu was thinking hard... how about photoshopping in the little one. She could sit on PGA Grandpa's Lap. So only PGA Grandpa needed to take the picture. So she called portrait gallery. At the back of her mind she knew it would be difficult to make a realistic picture when a whole person had to be photoshopped in. Anyway, matthew graciously offered to let us take the picture again... at a small cost.

Yay! A real family portrait! All 8 of us!

... this time i'm going to bring shoes with higher heels.... and have more hair on my face so that the face is less chubby...and..... and.....

Yay! wenyinyin is going to be in... and she's on the road to recovery. Everything is going well!

guest blogger: photographer nanny

Greetings! This is the photography nanny, guest reporting on the stellar mum’s blog…

The stellar mum was down with a bad throat over the weekend and hired me to be her voice… I was to entertain the Princess because the mum clearly could not… I had to talk to the little one, sing to her, and amuse her with silly dances…

Ok, the dancing is pretty fun cos stellar mum dances together with me. The singing was quite a challenge though. I had to sing along to whatever CD stellar mum chose to put on. Never learnt that many children’s songs in one afternoon before.

For a four month little thing, Stella’s really is hard to please. Princess would frown and cry for no real apparent reason. But shortly after, she would be happy to see me and smile at all my jokes. She also doesn’t appreciate repeated jokes. (Fine, that’s my fault but it’s tough thinking up new things to amuse her after about 2 hours of non-stop entertainment you know…)

Think the hired entertainer gave stellar mum more trouble than good… Princess cried a lot more than she usually does… And it didn’t really stop her mother’s virus from spreading to her … Princess got fever the very next day… Opps…

...written on 5 may 07

sorry lil' one

Lil' one caught the virus today.
Daddy chin and I came back from breakfast at about 10.30 all ready to feed the baby...
N came up to us saying that the baby was a little hot.

True enough she had a temperature of about 37.9
Oh no! Immediately we gave her some paracetamol and washed it down with milke.
I can tell she didn't like the medicine cos she spat some of it out and resisted swallowing the stuff in her mouth.

Mummy xiu and daddy chin panicked a little... cos the pedi clinic was not open on Sundays!
So mummy xiu had to call the doctor at his home. [good thing stella's pedi is an old family friend]
He gave instructions as to what to expect and when there was a need to come in to see him.

Daddy chin and mummy xiu kept taking the little one's temperature. After about an hour, the medicine seemed to take effect and her temperature started to drop. Actually all this while lil' one was happily playing oblivious to the commotion around her. She did get a little annoyed at the constant poking into her ear.

The temperature never went back up again... but we did give her a second dose 4 hours later just in case.

To be honest, mummy xiu was feeling really lousy for passing on the virus to the lil' one. Sigh. She should have camped at springleaf longer.

... lil' one is asleep now. Just got to keep monitoring her.

also as seen on the web

Stella has also been featured in these other blogs.

Red quilt on the 26 April 07

Little universe on the 12 April 07

... now to get more people to blog. so that stella can be a real superstar baby!

Court Jester and Nanny

While mummy xiu was so pleased that she could create a hyperlink to another blog, photographer nanny laughed at mummy xiu. You are not supposed to have the hyperlink in its raw form.... it should read

Sister's blog.
instead of www.xxxuyyyyyssss/dsfdsf/erwerwer.html


Ok. trying again. Here's the

Court Jester and Nanny

P.s. - sigh had to ask the photography nanny aka travelling band to help to get the hyperlink thingy done

Babies

A few sundays back, the little family went to cedela for breakfast.

Mummy xiu was so delighted that she brought her camera and wanted to take pictures.

After about 10 unsuccessful shots for that perfect picture, both tired baby and tired daddy chin decided it was time to stop all the nonsense.

Outbreak!

I knew it was coming… all the signs were there. Daddy chin’s mum and dad were seriously coughing over the weekend. Daddy chin had a cough and sore throat since last Wednesday. But mummy xiu was still aye ok and oblivious to the virus flying around the house.

Last night, after dinner with moses and (no wen) yinyin, mummy xiu felt abit cold. At first she thought it was the airconditioning at corduroy and fitch but the ear thermometer showed otherwise. Mummy xiu officially had a fever.

Mummy xiu got worried. If the “tough” adult could get infected, what about little 4 month old wenyinyin. This morning, mummy xiu’s fever was still there so mummy xiu decided to quarantine herself and send herself off to springleaf. The casuality list was increasing too. Ethan had a fever too…

The plan now:
Make the bedroom very clean
Wenyin to stay in the bed room
Wenyin to only play in her cot and on the little mattress but not on our bed.
Daddy chin to sleep in the living room
Mummy xiu to sleep in Springleaf

I miss the lil’ one!

Mummy xiu@springleaf

Botak Bay(3) bee(2)

Wen yin yin had her hair cut today.

What you need to cut her hair

1. Philipshave from Carlito
2. Another shaver from Iskandar (which we didn't use cos it was too heavy)
3. Mummy xiu for baby wenyin to sit on
4. A chair for mummy xiu to sit on
5. Mahjong paper on the floor for the chair to sit on
6. A computer with lots of images for stella to stare at (actually it was just windows media player)
7. camera obscura or jason mraz cd

8. Barber daddy chin with steady hands

and most importantly .............

9. lots of powder

and the baybee of course.

Actually it was the second time we tried to cut her hair
The first time was last Sunday, but we discovered the importance of powder too late. By the time remembered the wise words of his PM (project manager) half of her head was already cut with no powder and she was perspiring so much, the cut was uneven.

This time was to just to cut half the head and make the cut a better shave.

But it was so "easy" we "recut" the other half of the head again. I think daddy chin did a really good job.

But I kinda had to stop daddy chin before the perfectionist part of him took over.

the end result

4-eyed monster?

This post is long overdue.
Well was very eager to post it but my sis beat me to it. So... tune into her blog for the story.

Let me see if I can place the hyperlink here.

http://thebemusedphotog.com/2007/04/baby-sitter-lessons/

Ahhh... seems to work. Now everytime stella appears in other blogs (hmm.. xiaomei's, teik guan, liping) ... it can be found here. [except liping's blog has an annoying signing in procedure which is very annoying when you sign in and there are no new entries .]





Post blog notes - daddy chin and I brought stella to Dan's party with loads of bespectacled people and she was an unhappy baby. Gieto even tried to make her smile by taking off his glasses too. [didn't work, sorry Gieto]

Post blog notes II - mum took off her glasses too when we were at IKEA Tampines and got the little one laughing. I think mum was pleased.