It's time to smell the roses

Life's a bitch.

Not anymore.

Gone are those days I bitch about everything and anything.

I m going to stop and smell the roses.

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Life's little pleasures....

Au revoir!

Happy Birthday

It was my smelly bro's bdae yesterday.

The last blog entry I wrote about him and his birthday was at my frenster blog.

I find that we are growing apart as years go by.

I remembered how we used to talk and share secrets before sleep when we are still sharing the bedroom. The arrival of my little sis drew us apart as I started to share room with my sis and he got his own room. (good for him!)

Then I got married, moved out. I saw him less.

Now I have 3 kids and he work on night shifts quite frequently. We seldom met each other.

Even though we saw less of each other nowadays, I would try to talk to him or eat dinner with him whenever there is an opportunity. I got a feeling he tried to do the same too.

The generation gap between him and me is getting wider while my sis and him have more things in common. Sad but true.

But despite all these, we both know in our hearts we can count on each other when we are in trouble. Or maybe he does not think so now cause' his life is a much carefree and worryfree one as compared to me. But I do hope he stay worryfree.

Thanks for giving me a hand when I needed it most. Rest assured I will always be there for you too.

Happy Birthday, little bro :)

Go with the Flow(chart)

I juz generated 5 flowcharts for the feedback system. Did some finetuning n made some changes. Now to slowly 'feed' these flowcharts to the folks..ve to tread carefully and not step on anybody toes..

Twinstrolling part 2

We ventured further tis time round. It was fathers' day, we met up with the usual gang, ry, by, tq n xtyne for dim sum buffet at dragon gate restaurant(harbour front). It was also the 1st time we tried the car seat given by my colleagues. Xuan did not mind sitting in the car seat while wei protested. We met them at 12pm, and proceeded to meet my mum n dad at suntec. Thoughout the outing, the babies were very well-behaved, aside fr the occasional cries for milk n sleep :-)

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Twin strolling

We went out wif our twincesses yesterday.

We only ventured to our neighbourhood..

we had kfc n went to ntuc, lots of oohs n haas..

pretty cool..

tink we wil try again next time to someplace further :-)

Just for the record - Yy's past milestones

I m tidying up my sidebar, so moving Yy's milestones into a blog post just for the record.

16 Jan 08 - Her first flip fron back to front

29 Jan 08 - Her first taste of semi-solid rice cereal

3 Feb 08 - Her first show of anxiety in unfamiliar place/ person

25 Feb 08 - Her first taste of porridge (solid)

11 Mar 08 - Her first 'jump' on jumperoo

16 Mar 08 - Her first 'walk' on walker

24 Mar 08 - Her first flip from front to back

29 Mar 08 - Her first two milk teeth appears!

20 Oct 08 - Her first steps unassisted!

Exhausted YY

For the past two days, yy slept at about 10ish after milk, woke up at 2.30am for milk, back to sleep at 5am and got dragged out of bed by me at 6.30am to get ready for school.

When we go and fetch her, her eyes were teary but it was not because she was crying. She looked very tired.

Her teacher says she looked like she is going to fall sick anytime. :( I checked with the teacher about her lunch, if she had enough for lunch, teacher says that in fact she ate a lot!

then why she is soo hungry for milk feeds at nite??

Could it be that she is over-exhausted during last weekend when we had activities back-to-back (kiteflying, april'swedding, WQ's gal full mth)?

Poor baby....we decided to let her rest and not go to school this coming fri...

Going to plan an outing with her cousins to the zoo or east coast park :)

Out of the world wedding photos from AB's wedding

WXYZ

Juz realised ms poohbear's bb gal yuezuan is yz! My daughters are yy, yx n yw! Haha! They r going to group themselves as the wxyz group!

Layang in the sky

Went kite-flying last wkend with ms cactus n family :-) The kite was a gift from her to yy!

Say Ribena 10 times!

It was a hot and humid evening when we finally settled down at my mum's place to have our dinner.

My mum has finished feeding Yy and she started to demand for Ribena.

"Ribena!" she roared.

"No more, dun have liao, finished liao" my mum explained and passed her waterbottle.

"Yanyan, just say ribena 10 times and it will appear in front of you." I teased her.

She kept quiet.

"Come on, yanyan, say ribena. Say ribena ten times and ribena will appear!" I cajoled.

She kept quiet but looked at me with intent.

"Come on baby, say ribena. Say ten times and ribena will appear!" At this moment, she shouted,

"Ten times!"

-_-

Everyone roared in laughter, coz my 20mth toddler managed to 'tease' her mummy back.

Yes, they are Twins

Yes, they are identical.

Yes, I can tell them apart.

Yes, my hands are full but my heart is overflowing.

Yes, twins do run in my family, they run all over the place.

Yes, they are natural, what's an artificial twin anyway?

Double the giggles, double the grins, double the trouble when you are blessed with twins!

Every nite i see tis..

For memory's sake

Yh was showing me the artwork of her wedding invite...When i got reminded of mine..

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yep, 2 more days i would be married for 3 yrs! :-D

Yuyan when she's juz a lil' baby

My 4th attempt...ok, i know..but tis time with video wah..

15 diamonds on my wrist

My 3rd attempt at mobile blogging..ok, i shld stop that nw..

My twincesses

My 2nd attempt at mobile blogging!

Milestones - 4 month

My Twincesses are coming to 4 mths liao! They are premature and may be a bit slow in reaching their milestones but I m sure they will catch up soon!!

4 months
• Smiles, laughs - chk! they smile a lot now!
• Can bear weight on legs - they can't do it yet...
• Coos when you talk to her - chk!
• Can grasp a toy - half-chk! they bat at their toys and sometimes manage to grab it
• Rolls over, from tummy to back - they are trying very hard ; xuan is likely to roll over 1st
• Imitates sounds: "baba," "dada" - half chk!: they now say goo goo gaga
• Cuts first tooth - not yet ; they are not drooling yet!
• May be ready for solid foods - not yet, but I wish they start soon coz wei wei dun seem to like milk...

Xuan can already lift her head high up when she's on her tummy..Wei is still munching on her hands and refuse to lift her head but this little munchkie is going to do soon pretty soon!

Yuyan in sarong

My 1st MMS post!!!

YY Milestones - 20 mth

It's YY's 1st week of her 20 mths old phase. Tot it would be good to track her milestones on blog record...

20 months
• Feeds doll - chk! She not only feed her soft toy monkey, she made him wear her diaper!
• Takes off own clothes - half chk! She only know how to wear her shorts, she has not displayed any signs of stripping yet...
• Dumps an object in imitation, such as throwing garbage away - chk! She loves to throw things in the bin!
• Learns words at a rate of ten or more a day - chk! She is spongebob!
• Can walk up stairs (but probably not down) - half-chk! With assistance but it's been a while I checked her.
• May start exploring genitals - chk! she will explore hers when it itches..
• Draws a straight line - chk! crookedly straight line she draws
• Names several body parts - double,triple chk! She can name all her body parts all the way down to her toes since she was 1 yr old!

Additional stuff she learnt in her entire 19th month:
- Associate two persons together : if papa comes and pick her alone, she will ask, 'Mummy leh?' If she sees my bro-in-law alone, she will ask, 'Ah mm, leh?'
- Converse using hp : now she knows that the sound from the hp is actually voices and she can talk to it.
- Wear and take off shoes on her own: She wears and takes off her shoes like how the adults do, standing while doing it!
- Showing emotions (喜怒哀乐）: not very dramatic, but au naturel performance from this kiddo!

Stranger Anxiety

Xuan and Wei are 3 months, 4 weeks old now. They are now in the phase of stranger anxiety (SA)...

I brought Xuan to my mum-in-law's place on Fri nite. Wei was already there as she was taken care by my MIL.

Xuan was sleepy and fell asleep soon after we reached the place. Wei just woke up and was happily lying on her back, smiling and playing with my PILs.

Then Xuan woke up to see herself in an unfamiliar place, she looked a bit confused. MIL carried her and tried to coax her smile.

Then it happened.

Xuan started crying. Her cries became wailing. Tears started streaming down her chubby red cheeks, she cried so loud that we were all shell-shocked. But she could not be pacified even after I carried her away. There was a moment she cried with no sound from her mouth. This was it. I could not bear it. I carried her out of my MIL's place, managed to calm her down then...

We tried again. My MIL carried her again. She started wailing again. We were terrified. My MIL handed her to me again and I had a hard time calming her down.

This was the 1st time I experienced this with my babies. I recalled I did not experienced that with YY coz she's a very friendly baby.

I tot Xuan was different and that she was very smart to realise that she was in an unfamiliar place and someone unfamiliar was carrying her.

I was wrong. It turns out that Wei was also suffering from SA...

Two days later, I brought the twins to my mum's place.

Wei was noticeably unhappy to be there. The normally-smiley baby was not smiling. Her lips started to quiver and her eyebrows and eyes started to turn red.

Then it happened. Wei started to cry. It was a very loud, screeching cry, just like what Xuan did at my MIL place. Not the usual 'I wan milk'/ 'I wan to sleep' cry.

I calmed her down immediately when I carried her from my dad's hands.

Wei wei also suffered from SA. Luckily for her, it might be lesser coz I sleep with her during nights. She stopped crying almost immediately when I carried her.

Poor Xuan...she sleeps with my mum at nite and might not be as close to me as Wei.

I wonder when they would grow out of this SA...I hope they do so soon... if not, I may ve to bring them both back to sleep....

Things kids do

Last nite, my lil' fishball (yy) stuffed my work bag into the gap between my fridge and the wall.

God knows what had clinged onto my bag as I dun recall cleaning that gap at all since I moved in. Wait a min...I dun even rem noticing the gap!

Then I caught her trying to disassemble the ant killer and a while later putting a little toy piece in her mouth.

-_-

Life is a blur....

6 months have passed since I updated my blog.

Lemme see....hmmm...how my life has evolved since I started this blog.

I started the blog in Jan 2006.

3 years and 5 months later, I got married to a wonderful man, moved house twice, bought a car and gave birth to 3 adorable daughters.

I thought life would be less hectic and active and I would have lesser to worry as I grow older,

but I was wrong...it seems to get more packed and I got more things to worry in my mind now.

It's tough to find time for me and mr Fat, not to mention a little 'me' time for myself.

I guess this is another phase of my life.

As a mother of three, a wife to an equally frazzled man, a daughter to two sets of parents, life can be so hectic that everything and everyday seems like a blur and simple pleasures such as savouring a bowl of piping hot laksa slowly can make me so happy..

I sometimes shout in silence, tell myself in my mind;

Eileen, you can do it! Jiayou!

Or look at photos of my babies for motivation and....

tell myself,

It's all worth it!