When Grace meets Elise......

......there's love at first sight.

She loves and care for her dearly.....


And she adores her....


Grace has been a very good big sister. First, she behaves while mummy is away at the hospital recovering from her C-section. Then she helps be little Elise's guardian at home. She will notify us when Elise cry, poo, and even remind me to breastfeed her little sister. She will always stay close to Elise's cot, watch grand aunt bath Elise and even wanted to participate when we change and clean up Elise.

While little Elise recognize her sister's voice (the communication through the belly button really works!) when she sings to her. She will smile in contentment.

Here's some more shots of the sisters.......

Happy 8th Anniversary!!!!

Here's to wish my wonderful hubby and a wonderful myself Happy Wedding Anniversary!!!!

8 years ago today, we started off our journey with just the 2 of us. Now on our 8th anniversary, we are a happy and blessed family of 4.




How do we celebrate our wedding anniversary?


In ward at the hospital, because poor little Elise is having quite a high Jaundice level and we decided to let her have a day of phototheraphy. Hopefully her jaundice will go down down down and never come again!

Meet Elise Chee Jia Yue

As planned, Elise Chee Jia Yue, our second little princess, joined us one day after America's Independence Day on July 5th, 2010 at 9.28am. She weigh 2.76kg and her length at 49cm. Though she is relatively small as compared to her sister Grace, she is as healthy.

Both mother and daughter are doing well right now and had just came back to our home sweet home yesterday. Elise is having slight jaundice now, and hopefully her jaundice level will drop soon.

Well, enough of words and now the photos......

Complimentary photo session by PAH

Just out from mummy's tummy

After wash and sleeping soundly

First night at home

Counting down to meeting the second princess....

Well, oh well.....I opt for C-section this round. You can call me coward, but I want to be safe, don't want to get into higher risk of emergency C-section again this round. So, it has been set. I will be admitted this Monday morning at 6am and the C-section will be at 8am. Everyone (I mean my family members) will be there waiting for the arrival of the second one.

As for Grace, she's needing time to adjust to all these. She'd been rather emotional these past few days and I foresee that she will be even more emotional in the coming few days. Let's just give her time, support and love to adjust to this big change.

As for me, I'm not sleeping very well. The tummy is getting bigger and it's hard to sleep in any position. For the past week, I have had cough, runny nose, fever, indigestion, you name it.....I have it. So, it was no surprise that there's a slight drop in my weight.

However, the little one within me is having the opposite! Instead of not eating well, she's catching up real quick in her weight! When my doctor showed us her estimated weight chart, we were all amazed!

So, it is now time to sit back and relax until Monday comes.....and we shall meet Elise Chee Jia Yue (chinese name.... 钱佳约).

Sticky Glue

Recently, Grace has become really really sticky to me. Sticky to an extend of:

Mummy: Let's buy a bottle of glue, put some on my arms and some on your arms, then stick both of us together. Ok or not?
Grace: node her head eagerly......

Sigh...sigh..sigh...I guess the reasons for becoming so sticky are:
1) Long school holiday...2 weeks and she was with me most of the time during the 2 weeks
2) Being sick and now recovering from her bronchitis
3) (this being the main reason)......she must be thinking..."my 'having mummy to myself time' is ending soon......my sister is gonna intrude SOON...."

Bless her little heart...."Mummy is going to love you as much!"

Yay!

It has been a very long time since I last updated my blog. Have been busy. I'm clearing cobweb as I am typing this....hehheee...

Yesterday Grace came back, from her first day of school after a 2-week school holiday, with a surprise! It was this,

What it is for?

Well, before the school holidays, each kid, with the help of their parents, was asked to make a Sweet D.I.Y Gift for their teacher. And we, made this (so so sorry for the blur photos, I was in a hurry)




It's a mini album, with a few of the photos taken in school. It spells out, "To my Teacher Khoo, You give us JOY, FUN, CARE, LOVE. I *heart* U Teacher Khoo. Grace". The mini album features, Grace's special deckled heart, a hand-drawn photo of teacher and friends (I love this one the most). Besides, I let Grace stamp the alphabets with Versamark Ink and then she coloured them with Decorative Chalk. And it was all her work in decorating the pages. She even helped in putting in the eyelets. Finally, I made a cute little gift bag for the mini album to go in.

One thing I noticed was, little kids don't like to have their decorations overlap the photos, even those white spaces like wall, table or hand. We had some time arguing about that point, but mostly, I let Grace make her own decision (but she gave in to me...hehhee..).

Happy Birthday to Me......

Hehehehee.......today is my birthday, and yes I'm getting another year older...sigh

Well, Grace was unwell during the weekend, but we still managed to squeeze in a birthday dinner on Sunday night.

The dinner was at Suffolk House Restaurant....a last minute arrangement, and by the way, was by myself....sigh again....

The dinner was superb, good food, good ambiance, err....let's not talk about the price....

Grace was being very nice that night. We got through the dinner (it was a set dinner) without any fuss from her, that being mummy was prepared with papers and pen for her to get busy on. She even got a compliment by a foreign couple for being so well-behave.

Thanks dear, an undisturbed dinner (or meal time) is all I want nowadays.....no need for expensive gifts, a good and well-behaved daughter is the best gift!