Ashley's debut performance

Anyone guessed wrongly - abt my previous post?  Hah!!

This is the vid I took of her debut performance in the year-end concert.  Pardon the amateurish quality, it's taken with a digicam and we were sitting quite far back... oh, and also, the out-of-focus few secs during the vid bcos I was busy watching her dance and forgot abt the camera positioning.

Can't spot her?  She's in the last row, with 2 ponytails, the one dancing with the most fervour.

P/S: Hate that cameraman who kept walking up and down, blocking my view!

Ashley's special day...

Both of us took leave on Ashley's birthday, to spend the day with our little gal.  Being able to spend days out with her - putting work aside, is the best pressie for her.  I can sense her happiness just by looking at her.

(all ready to go out...)

There were actually 2 places I had in mind to go - Fidgets or cycling in ECP.  I know these are the 2 activities that she enjoys most.  In the end, Fidgets won out as I wanted to see how she'd progressed since her last trip there about 6mths' ago.  She has a blasting fun time there, spent 2hrs climbing, skipping, rolling, sliding, crawling, etc...  And I was pleased that she did quite a few things that she didn't dare the last time - she went walking along the rope bridge, she climbed into the spaceship-like thing and waved to us, she even glided on the bar-thingy n swung from one end to the other, unaided.

I wondered and I concluded she knows it's a special day for her.  Even though she was obviously tired out after the session in Fidgets, she didn't want to nap.   So, I changed my plan and pushed the cake-cutting to the afternoon (anticipating she'll probably conk out early tonite).  Alas, the major blip of the day - the cake - looks nice if u ignore Barney-lookalike's flat head and the toppled panda - flopped the taste test big time!  Sponge cake was too hard.  It was supposed to be vanilla lemon, but I couldn't taste the lemony zing at all.  Yeah, I know... i should hv tried their cakes first before going for the expensive stuff huh...  But I thought, it had several good reviews from the forum... :-(  On hindsight, i wondered if those mommies were all friends???

But anyway, it didn't spoil Ashley's mood at all.... Y?  Because she doesn't really fancy cakes... yep, my daughter is strange that way... ;-)

We had dinner at Sushi Tei, ECP branch.  Ambience is real nice there, food was ok... I'd wanted to check out a special nice place for dinner, but since the leading lady here likes simple fare, we opted for Sushi Tei.

I got her this Swarovski crystal this year.  Alan bought her a toy, on my suggestion (based on what I'd read from Welch's blog).  I like the toy, it's fun and I had a great time building some of the stuff too.  Needless to say, Ashley can't build anything yet, but she too had fun fiddling with the parts and she likes the stuff I build too, like the flower, windmill...

It was an enjoyable day, and most of all, a remarkable day as 3 years ago, on this day, we were blessed with Ashley...

Happy birthday to me!

Happy birthday to u, happy birthday to u, happy birthday to mommi! Happy birthday to u!
*muackz*

That was one of the blissful moments in my life so far - waking up to the tune of my darling singing happy birthday song to me, followed by a smacking loud wet kiss on my cheeks. Ashley was also super happy that day, bcos I told her the day b4 that mommi n daddi r not working tomorrow, and can play-play wif her.

It was my day, so the day's schedule was decided by me.

Breakfast at Chin Mee Chin. Yummy toasted bread, soft-boiled eggs and the most authentic kopi-c, thick n fragrant, just as i like it. I saw him there. He really looks good for a person in his 40s.

Next stop, we brought Ashley to ECP for some cycling. She loves to cycle and since this is a weekday, it's the best time to bring her there. She can cycle to her heart's content. Making her happy makes me happy too.

Lunch at C-Nai cafe nearby.  Just a simple lunch because Ashley was tired and we wanted to get her home so that she can take her nap.  The menue has quite a wide variety of selections and price is reasonable too.  We should be going back there some other time.

Dinner was steamboat at Tian Fu.  It was my first time there, having read the good review, decided to give it a try.  It didn't disappoint at all.  The satay soup base was special and not too thick.  It wasn't spicy either, so Alan can indulge in it.  The fish soup base, though slightly saltish, was full of flavour, and we didn't feel thirsty after that, so it shouldn't be laden with msg.   When foodcourts are charging $6 for a bowl of fishball mee, I'd think this steamboat restaurant is giving value for $$.  I'd choose Tian Fu over Coca and Chonqing hotpot anytime.

Family Day III

3rd stop: Fishing

Family Day II

2nd stop: Potting a plant

Family Day Part 1

Last Sunday, we went for a family day event (those who know me know that i m not usually into these events, but had no choice last week bcos the organiser was none other than Alan).

Anyway, we had really great fun there and i didn't regret going one bit.

We did alot of stuff that day and REALLY, since Ashley was born, that day was the longest time we were out (from 7.30am - 5pm)...

I observed alot of things about Ashley that day and I am really pleased with all of them. She's grown more gung-ho and open to new things like potting a plant, fishing, running on the grass, walking on muddy paths, walking along the goat farm (and keep telling me chou-chou while scrunging up her nose). I am so glad she enjoyed all these outdoor activities. I don't want her to be a "hothouse" flower.

Let the pics tell u the story instead.

1st stop: Bollywood Veggies Farm

Happy anniversary!

Today's my wedding anniversary wif Alan. Happy anniversary to me!
Guess who has a lunch date today? :-)

Ashley's 1st month baby shower...

18 Nov 2006
My mommie’s recount V: We had a baby shower for Ashley on 18 Nov. It was a bright n sunny Saturday. The celebration would be lunch, from 12-2pm. We booked the function room in Yew Mei Green for the celebration, but the timing is not very ideal cos it’s from 10am – 2pm, neither here nor there… anyway, the show has to go on. Abt 11.15am, the catering came. Alan n my fil had to go and collect the 1st month’s cake ( couldn’t deliver bcos we placed order rather late, n Saturday deliveries were all full), so I had to check and make sure the delivered food was correct. Everything was ok.

Around 11.30am, alan and my fil came back with the cakes. There was a slight accident with the cakes which toppled over in the car boot on the way back, so we had to try and salvage the cakes. Luckily, I ordered 5 extra boxes, so still manageable. We’ll just keep the “damaged” ones ourselves. Wow!, the tarts and little cakes look yummy…

Oh yes! The star of the day – my little princess Ashley was dressed in a pretty lil pinkish flowery romper. We brought the bouncer down n let Ashley settle comfortably in it.

By 12pm, my frens, colleagues and relatives started streaming in… my mum n sis were abit late, cos they took mrt even though I told them to take cab… urghhh!!! Ya, all the guests were mine as alan said his colleagues r mostly in overseas countries, so cannot invite. My in-laws said they had already invited their frens n relatives over a couple of month’s back when Rainie had her baby shower, so abit pai seh to invite them again.

Anyway, I did have a great time playing host n catching up with frens, colleagues n relatives. Especially, I can really tok to them abt my new responsibilities as a mommy n the difficulties I face. It’s really comforting to know I m not the only ones with the problems… BUT problems aside, I really love taking care of my baby J

Time passes real quickly, n soon it was 1.30pm. We had a little fiasco then. The family who had booked the function room from 2-6pm came early, wanting to decorate the room bcos they had a birthday celebration. They placed all their goody bags outside n it was a little irritating to see that, gives us the feeling tt we are being chased out.

Anyway, I felt abit pai seh to hv to break the celebration. But my guests were all very “automatic”. They saw wat was happening, n started packing up to leave. For those who wanted to stay on, we invited them to our house to continue…

Seems like my guests were all light eaters, bcos even though I didn’t order extra headcount for the food, there were a lot of food left ( n I really mean ALOT!!! ). Thanks to Patrick n Yung Chih who help me with the packing of the food and bringing them up! Thanks again, guys!!
Seems like I was having more fun than Ashley??? Not true!, my little princess was the focus of my relatives. Everyone wanted to carry her and coo over her… everyone said she had very pretty eyes, big n double-eyelids ( like her mommy??? :-P )…