Leah's second hair cut

Leah's hair was in a mess and the sides kept poking into her eyes. I gave her a few snips here and there, like sit her a bumbo then quickly grab a bunch and snip off! It looks kind of incomplete somehow but that's the best I can do with a fidgety baby. Plus her hair is those very sparse kind, cannot grow side swept bangs only can cut it straight across until more hair comes in. 

My phone is full of my kids photos!!!

Keep calm and eat your veggies

Sharing my favourite picture of meimei taken yesterday :)

Oh if you are wondering, she doesn't like that veggie.

Dinner gathering at cailin's

Potluck dinner: Charsiew, roast pork, beehoon, cheesy meatball, sausages, otah. 

Dessert was fruit jelly and longan grass jelly.

The cute family! 

Thanks for hosting this gathering, had a great time catching up and playing with baby Gwen :)

More pictures of mini cailin....

Love my picture with gwen, machiam like bff right!!!

And it was taken before my face turned red after a couple of red wine. 

Looking forward to our next high tea session :) YAY!

Movie date with the man

Chilling at Charlie brown cafe, Cineleisure while waiting for Hercules to screen in another hour's time. It's our second time to step into a cinema since the birth of Leah and feeling very thankful for it :)

Leah plays with her 无影脚

Leah is 9 months old

At 9 months old, she is cruising around the house while holding on to furniture and goes around hunting for tissue paper. She is starting to pull things off the table too. She loves her brother and will chuckle whenever the brother does a silly dance. Her favourite biscuit is Baby bites in carrot flavour and she will jump and squeal in delight whenever you wave the biscuit in her face. She is quite a small frame for a 9 months old baby  (7.6kg only!) though she eats a lot. She is a light sleeper, she wakes at the slightest noise and sometimes I have to literally hold my breath while I tiptoe my way into her room to get stuff.  3 more months to her big ONE. I'm so excited and already into all the planning and what-nots. Am being very ambitious with all the party DIY, hope they will all work out to be fine :) 

Phone collages for the past week.

Brought the kids into the room to wake the daddy.

Kudos to the father who can still zzz despite all the commotion and how he strangely manage to remain nonchalant to a baby crawling and stepping all over him.

Enjoying canvas painting.

Leah's favourite hang out place in the house. Her other hot faves will have to be the bathroom stool (not referring to fecal matter) and the floor mat in the kitchen. And we had to fix the security gate to keep her mischief out of the kitchen.

Playing pretend. Elliot's into camping after reading 'Maisy goes camping'. 

Here's our bed sheet tent. Brought back many memories when we did it as kids.

Going out for lunch. And Elliot gets to eat his peach tart from HANS.

I can stand now hor! Lihai right.

(Secretly leans on the wall)

Bring girl out on a hot date

I guess it didn't turn out very well.

CAT MOUNTAIN KING

GW bought some durians through his colleague's lobang. Elliot was so excited when he saw the durians and went around telling everyone there's 榴莲 in the kitchen, like a big kaypoh. 

First dinner with the sister after she got hitched.

Impromptu dinner date with le sister @ Watami.

See all the crazy food we ordered - Fried chicken wings, spicy miso ramen, grilled hotate, carpaccio, beef hotpot. 

Looking good in her new short hairstyle!

She said she can't have cold or alcoholic drink.

I was like huh, you pregnant ah?

Nooooo, having stomach cramp leh!!!

Chey~

Thanks for the lovely dinner. 

Shall plan a siblings dinner together when Russell is back :)  

So sad. Our annual pass is expiring soon...

Elliot is out to play!

Elliot loves seeing the bunnies munch on his carrot. He keep asking the bunnies to 来来来。 

It's so hard to get a picture with the kids.

Elliot wants to feed the hungry bunnies. 

Just hurry and get it done already!

Here's some bread for you!

And since the weather is quite cooling (it rained earlier), we brought him to the playground at Pasir Ris.

Stubborn boy refuses to put on footwear.

And then we heard a nostalgic bell ringing by the roadside. 

Woohoo ice cream to end the day! How sweet :)

What happened during the June Holidays

The reason for the lack of updates -  Elliot was sick.

 

His fever was like a rollercoaster for 3 weeks.  He's been to the doctor and finished all his antibiotics but it seems like he's not getting any better. He's alternately taking the paracetemol and ibuprofen but the fever comes back whenever the medicine lost its effect. He's also down with cough and runny nose. We quarantined him from Leah and he stays at my MIL's place. He doesn't eat or drink much of anything too. He lost so much weight.

 

 

 

And just as we planned to bring him to the doctor again the next day (finished all his medications!), my MIL called at 10pm to tell us Elliot has fainted. GW quickly sent him to KKH A&;E.

 

I was at home with Leah, worried and checking my phone constantly for updates. Elliot went through a series of blood test and an X-ray, and was diagnosed with bacteria infection in his lungs. The first thing that went through my mind was OH NO! PNUEMONIA! He had a febrile fits attack earlier as his temperature hit a high 39.4 degrees and his brain kinda shut down.

 

He was given stronger antibiotics to be taken orally for 10 days, and by the 7th day he's getting better and is cheerful again. I cannot describe my gladness.

 

Then one fine day, she got it.

Yup, guessed the quarantine didn't work for her. Poor meimei.

And thank God hers wasn't as bad as Elliot's and she has recovered.

 

 

And another reason for lack of updates.

No mood because MY HOUSE IS CONSTANTLY IN A MESS.

Leah is getting very mobile and Elliot now has an accomplice to torture me.

More mess. But then again, better to have mess than two sick kiddos.