She Loves SHOES!

Chloe has a penchant for shoes. She loves going to shoe boutiques with me & would not hesitate to pass me different styles of shoes to try on. She would tell me to try on the shoes she picked, asking me if I like them. She would do all sorts of crazy things like trying adult shoes on herself, lining different shoes in a straight line & admiring them while I am busy in the boutique. Thank god so far I havn't got a single sales girl stare at me for what my little girl has done!

Playdate With Lucas

Happy Family Graduation Concert 2010

Chloe's graduation concert is held on a Friday this year. Pete & I rushed from work to give our support. This is the 3rd time Chloe is performing on stage with her school mates from Happy Family & the best performance from Chloe we've seen so far.

Thinking back, my girl has grown so much. On her very first exposure on stage when she was in playgroup, she stood still on stage till the entire song is over. We had a good laugh. Last year Chloe danced & did the little cute actions that were required. However she was very shy. This year she impressed us. She was very engrossed in her dance & sang along when she performed to 小手在那里. The only regret is that the song was rather short, only 1 min. Pete & I had hoped to catch Chloe in action for a little longer.

Anyway, it's a job well done Chloe. Mummy is proud of you!

 

Siblings

I Want Eggs!

Chloe has made significant improvement yesterday. She no longer complains of pain in her mouth.

Gong Gong & Po Po paid us a visit & even got her bananas & cheese. I was hesistant to let her try rice with tofu for dinner but she ate them all & even remarked to me & said: Mummy, no more pain. See? I eating rice! I feel so relieved & glad my girl is ok now.

Chloe having her breakfast of eggs & luncheon meat this morning.

I Feel Her Pain

My poor Chloe, she is so hungry & requested me to buy her chocolate. But when she opened the wrapper, all she could do is feed me instead. It's too painful for her to eat. I tried to reciprocate by feeding her, all she could do is give me a faint smile & shook her head.

She opened the fridge to take a peek, closed the fridge door & walked away. She must be very hungry, if not she would not do this.

God, please give her the strength to fight the illness so she can be bubbly & smiling again.

Grounded at Home

HFMD - These 4 alphas spells trouble to me. Hand Foot Mouth disease is highly contagious.

Monday morning's routine temperature check @ Chloe's school detected a high temperature. Chloe was sent home immediately. Following that, I brought her to the doc to verify. Ulcers were found in her mouth. There were tiny dots on parts of her palms & toes. She was given a gel to apply & instructed to take paracetomol to bring down her fever. From then on, her condition got worse. She refused lunch & water & gradually her favourite milk. More dots were found on her limbs & she is very irritable & refused to open her mouth for us. Her condition was confirmed on Tuesday morning when I brought her for a review again.

It's exhausting for all of us at home, trying to separate the 2 kids. Chloe is whiny & will cry nonstop if we were to coax her to down anything down her throat. Icy cold watermelon, gummy, ice-cream, ribena, yogurt drink. We gave her everything we can think of. But she survived on merely 160ml of formula milk yesterday. The last thing I want is to hospitalise her if she is dyhydrated.

Luckily, I managed to give her 2 milk feeds comprising of about 120ml each since morning. Swallowing & eating is still an agonising task for her.

I really hope after the initial 2 days of severe discomfort, my poor girl's condition will improve gradually by tomorrow. I pray that all will be well at home.

My Hello Kitty Room

Remember we bought Chloe her own bed hoping that she will agree to sleep in her own room? Sigh, wrong. She still insists to sleep on mummy's bed. I have run out of ideas & hope with my persistence, she will eventually 'migrate' on her own.

Ice Cold Lemon Tea!

After my beauty bath, I.....

Crispy Crowns

Since I am free before I pop, I decided to let Chloe try her hand at baking. This is not new to her especially she has done this before in childcare. I saw this simple recipe on a book called Baking With Toddlers. Ingredients are easily available & most important of all they are healthy.

Ingredients
25g dried apricots
50g puff rice
20g strawberry fruit flakes or dried cranberries
(in fact u can replace with any kind of dried fruits)
1 tbspoon golden syrup or runny honey
50g caster sugar (i did not add sugar at all)
50g butter or magarine

Use a clean pair of scissors to cut the dried aprcots inot small pcs in a mixing bowl

Ask ur child to set out 20 or so small paper cases on a large serving plate or tray

Place the syrup, caster sugar n butter into a small saucepan and heat gently until just bubbly. Stir together, then remove from heat allow to cool for 5 mins.

help your child pour the cooled syrup over the puffed rice mixture and stir it all together with a dessertspoon till the rice is covered in the sticky syrup mix.

show them how to take a heaped teaspoon of the mixture to fill each case, but work quickly as the mixture will set as it cools.
Chloe picking on the crispy puffs


The Finished Product

Cool Shades on a Sunny Day!

Dunch You Underestimate Me

Since birth, Pete & I have been speaking English with Chloe. We do speak the occasional Mandarin with her. As for me & Pete, we communicate mainly in Mandarin. I guess this is how Chloe got to understand what we are telling each other especially so that she is taught Chinese in childcare.

Just after dinner, while sitted on the sofa, I was having a conversation with Pete.

Me: 今晚宝宝睡那里？
(Chloe is supposed to be sleeping with Wati before Ethan's arrival)But we failed quite miserably for the past 2 days as Chloe will wake up & request maid to bring her back to my room.
Pete: 跟wati睡咯
Me：她昨天睡到半夜又爬起来你知道吗？不如今晚就不把冷气关掉， 看她会睡到天亮吗。
Chloe sitted between us replied: DON'T WANT. I want to sleep on mummy's bed.

This nearly threw me off my seat laughing out loud! Wahahaha..

My Mini Salon

This mini vanity table is a birthday gift from Andrew 叔叔 & Fiona 婶婶. Chloe has been playing with this with aunty wati during weekend mornings.

Look at her having fun with her hair dryer & new hair style!

Conversation With Chloe

I was patting Chloe during her afternoon nap just now..

Me: Chloe, didi Ethan is coming out soon from mummy's tummy you know?
Chloe: (drinking her milk & nodding her head in agreement)
Me: Do u want to visit mummy & ethan in hospital?
Chloe: Yes & get my sunglasses?
Me: (pretty surprised she still remembers that didi might have a surprise for her) Yes maybe u will really get your surprise
Chloe: Ok i go hospital visit mama, dun scratch your tummy k? doctor will give you injection.

Presenting.... Professor Lim

I Am 3!

Ice Cool Treat!

Do I Resemble.....

Pete took this pic of Chloe after school one day.. he asked me if Chloe resembles a particular TCS artiste. I took a long look & made a wild guess. Bingo! both of us had the same thinking that this pic looks like a mini version of....

Guess which artiste we are referring to?

My New Bed

It will be 3 more months till I am due with #2. We have thought of putting Chloe to her room to sleep on her own for some time. It would be ideal if this is done in stages.

Recently, Chloe has been waking up in the middle of the night. She would normally sleep through. Perhaps, this is due to her ezcema which gave her problems. We hope she would be able to adjust to the transition when the maid comes in during March.

While shopping for extra chairs at Ikea yesterday, we managed to get a good deal for her bed. As we were near the AS-IS section which sells items rejected by buyers or display stuff, I spotted a sales stuff pushing in a bed that we initially wanted to get for Chloe. Due to the higher price tag, we decided not to. On checking with the staff, we got to know that the bed is going at half price as it is a display piece from their showroom. We were delighted to get this chance as the bed can be extended if Chloe outgrows at a later stage.

As of now, we hope to get Chloe adjusted to sleeping in her own room so that there is space for #2's playpen when the time comes.