My Dollie Baby

Racia has the Chicken Pox

2012-01-20T05:55:00.000-08:00

Date: 20 January 2011 (Friday)
Subject: Racia has the Chicken Pox
Raica is 4 Years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days old

Its three days to CNY and Racia is having Chicken Pox!

Truly unbelievable! and what a great timing as well.

It started with fever a week ago. Her fever came on and off the entire week. And we did not realised that she had the virus in her by then. And 3 day ago, we spotted a red spot on her nose, all of us though it was an allergy (which she gets frequently if she touches her face with dirty hands), it soon welled up and by yesterday, it became filled with fluid. Its was then which i suspect that it may be chicken pox.

We brought her to Dr Koh who confirms it. It seems like she may have gotten the virus up to 2 weeks ago. We now need to also monitor and see if Tricia gets it too.

All our CNY plans now have to be shelved and we will stay home this festive season!

Day 1 - after visit to Doc to confirm - about 30 spots

Day 2 - More pox came up, she has about 100 plus spots now.

The spots on her body - look slike insect bite!

Spots on her back

Crawling and Sitting on her own

2012-01-14T07:32:00.000-08:00

Date: 14 January 2012 (Saturday)

Subject: Milestone - Crawl and Sit

Tricia is 7 months 3 weeks and 3 days old

At 7 and a half months, Tricia can finally sit steadily on her own!

Since 3 weeks back, i realised that her milestones seemed to be reversed, she actually crawled first before she was able to sit.

Before today, whenever i tried to sit her up on her own, she topples within 1 min! And because of this, I didn;t dare to sit her on any hard grounds as she was still unsteady.

Today, i tried to sit her up again and she could sit on her own for a full 5 mins. I think the sitting training on the sofa helped in making her back muscle stronger.

As for her crawl, i found by accident that she could crawl about two weeks ago. She could even move to sitting position easily. She crawls really fast and frantically now and i have to keep an eagle eye watch of her on the bed to make sure she don;t fall off! She is like a determined climber scaling the Everest whenever she crawls on the bed!

Hooray Tricia and well done for meeting this two important milestone (crawling and sitting) before you turn 8 months!

Tricia crawling

Moving from Crawl to Sit position

Sitting steadily on her own!

Food Food

2012-01-08T07:43:00.001-08:00

Tricia's weaning diary:

Introduction to solid food

Bellamy's Organic Plan White Cereal
Apples
Pears
Butter nut Pumpkin
X -- Orgainix Four Grain Cereal -- X
Healthy Times Organic Brown Rice Cereal
Carrots - 1 Jan
Peaches - 8 Jan
Broccoli - 12 Jan
Sweet Potatoes - 14 Jan

Racia had her ears pierced today!

2011-12-19T06:15:00.000-08:00

Date: 19 December 2011 (Monday)

Subject: Racia had her ears pierced today!

Racia is 4 years 9 months 2 weeks and 1 day old

We did it!

Picked Racia up early from school today and brought her to get her ears pierced! Finally after such a long time, we did it today!

I had a hard time finding a shop that has 2 guns as was advised to do it at a place with 2 guns so that chances of her freaking out and refusing after the first hole was minimal.

She chose a sparkly pink stud and to my surprised, my brave girl didn't even cry at all when gun shot the stud through her ears! so brave!

Even the shop assistant was surprised that she did not cry at all. She told me it is not very painful, just a little pain.

We the piercing at 77th Street, AMK Hub and it cost us $12 with stainless steel studs! Definitely recommend as i find them very experience with piercing for young children. Thumbs up for the good service!

Only remembered to take a pic after we are done.
With her new pink sparkly studs!

Just after piercing!

All done now!

In front of the shop!

Disney Princess Racia Rapunzel

2011-12-14T05:49:00.000-08:00

Date: 14 Dec 2011 (Wednesday)

Subject: My very own Princess Racia Rapunzel

Racia is 4 years 9 months, 1 week and 3 days old

I submitted Racia's princess picture to Disney Junior Princess dress up contest last night and this morning, i received a notification that the picture is up!!

She looks great as Rapunzel right!

First Trial Class

2011-12-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

Date: 11 Dec 2011 (Sunday)

Subject: First Trial Class

Tricia is 6 months 2 weeks and 6 days old

Tricia attended her first baby trial class at Billionaire Kids nex Mall today!

Its the Stimulation program for 6-10months old. Duration for 1 hour and cost us $40 for this session.

I really didn't like the class and i don;t think Tricia enjoyed much too. Maybe because she is still too young. The instructor assigned to us was so inexperience. She say in a tone deaf voice and she did not know how to manage the time well.

Overall, very unsatisfactory and for the activities we did, i felt that the fee of $40 was way too expensive. We were mainly playing with toys, watching Chinese DVD, some flash cards and playing with the rainbow tent!

Worst of all, Tricia came down with stomach flu after the session. I suspect the hygiene level was not up to standard in the classroom!

On the tent!

Sitting un-supported

2011-12-10T17:51:00.000-08:00

Date: 10 December (Saturday)

Subject: Sitting on her own

Tricia is 6 months 2 weeks and 5 days old today

Tricia can finally sit up on her own.

She is still not too steady as she will topple off after a while. Nevertheless, this is already very good.

Well done Tricia for achieving this important milestone!

Next step, crawling on her own!

Steady baby!

Toppling off the next moment!

6 month assessment and 3rd 6in1 Jab

2011-11-12T20:36:00.000-08:00

Date : 12 Nov 2011 (Saturday)
Subject: 6 months assessment at poly
Tricia is 5 months 3 weeks 2 days old (25 weeks)

Tricia had her third 6in1 jab and 6 months assessment at the AMK polyclinic today.

She was very brave and did not cry when the needle was poked into her right thigh and when the vaccine was administered. She only cried slightly when the nurse pulled out the needle.

At this 6 months assessment, Tricia's weight: 8.375kg (whoo hoo!)
Height: 67.2cm
Head Cir: 43.8cm

She is 90%tile in weight and 70%tile for height.

Mummy is very pleased with her weight gain!

Also pleased to update that she did not get any fever from this jab.(She had fever during the 2nd jab).

Look at her good weight gain!

Water for Tricia

2011-10-18T06:48:00.001-07:00

Date: 18 Oct. 2011(Tuesday)
Tricia is 4 months 3 weeks and 6 days old (21 weeks 3 days old)

Since I was home today, I decided to let Tricia try some plain water.

She was quite happy when she saw her milk bottle as she proberbly thought it was milk time. And when i bring the bottle near her, she could not wait to shove the teat into her mouth.
Howeve upon tasting it, she gave a big frown and then got angry when she realised it tasted different..plain i guess!
It was really a funny sight!

Let's hope she will slowly learn to like water especially since she will be start solid in one months time!

Tricia says: I don't think I like water!

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Daddy says....

2011-10-10T19:07:00.000-07:00

Date: 10 October 2011 (Monday)
Tricia is 4 months 2 weeks and 3 days old

Daddy says Tricia is like a rotating water fountain, she keeps flipping around and spitting out saliva!

I can Flip

2011-10-05T20:26:00.001-07:00

Date: 5 October 2011 (Wednesday)
Tricia is 19 weeks 4 days old today

Tricia finally flipped today!!

For the last couple of weeks she has been showing inclination of wanting to flip. She will cry out in fustration as she gets stuck midway through. Mostly because she do not know how to push out her hands!

Its really funny to hear her scream & cry out in fustration at each attempt!

Hubby & I were glad that we were around to witness her flipping in the morning before we had to leave for work. And it was also my first day back to work after maternity!

I reckon its time to buy another bed rail to prevent her from flipping and falling off the bed!

Well done Tricia for hitting this fabulous milestone so soon!
Daddy & Mummy are extremely proud of you!!

P.S She loves to flip on her left side!

My sweetie pie trying to flip!

Fever after Jab

2011-10-01T10:13:00.001-07:00

Tricia was running a fever this evening from her jab this morning.

She was given a 1.5ml dose of paracetomol at 12 noon with no fever.

However her temperature went up to 37.8 degrees at 6.30pm and we fed her a dose of paracetomol (2.5ml)

Its 1.12am now and she cleared of any fever.
Let's hope this continues throughout the night!

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2nd 5in1 plus Rotarix at Poly

2011-09-30T22:06:00.001-07:00

Date: 1 Oct 2011 (Saturday)
Tricia is 19 weeks today!

Today we made our 3rd trip to the AMK polyclinic for Tricia's 2nd 5in1 and last dose of rotarix.

We arrived 2 minutes before our scheduled appointment time of 8.40am and was ushered into the room by 8.42am. (pretty efficient i think!)

Tricia had her 2nd and last dose of rotarix today too. She seem to dislike the taste if the oral vaccine and gave a major cry after the administration. Perhaps it was too cold and jelly like for her liking.

Next is the 2nd dose of 5in1. She cried a little when the needle was jabbed into her left thigh n also fussed just a bit when the medication was injected into her.
Overall, it was pretty ok n she took to it quite well with no super major crying.
She did cried quite pitifully and protested (not loudly) when we were waiting outside the room after the jab.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that no fever develops.

At 19th weeks, Tricia
Weights 7.555kg (up from 8.6kg at last visit)
Measures approximately 61cm

(Knocked out after the jab this morning!)

Well done to my brave little girl and Happy 19th Week to you sweetie!

Poo Record

2011-09-30T08:51:00.001-07:00

Date: 30 September 2011 (Saturday)
Tricia is 19 weeks today

Tricia broke her own poo record this time. 8 days in a row without pooing.

Her last was on thursday last week!

She finally pooed today at 7pm in the car. Will be awaiting for her 2nd wave of poo tomorrow!

My Little Baby Loves her Bed!

2011-09-24T09:05:00.001-07:00

My little baby loves her bed!

So cute right!

Tricia napping on her own

2011-09-24T04:39:00.001-07:00

Date: 23 September 2011 (Friday)
Subject: Sleeping by herself
Tricia is 17 weeks 6 days old

Tricia broke her own record today by taking 3 naps all on her own today!!

For the past four months, Tricia is super reliant on bao bao & patting to nap. And often i will have to carry her for the entire nap.

Since she started to find how yummy her fingers are, it was much easier for her to fall asleep by chewing her fingers.

Today, i actually placed Tricia on the bed when i saw that she was getting sleepy. She started to self sooth by chewing her fingers and soon fell asleep with no major fussing.

She actually slept for a total of 2 hrs at 2pm all on her own. She did wake up inbetween and fuss a bit but soon fell back asleep after a quick patting on the bean pillow which i placed on her tummy.

I think she loves to sleep on her bed and i hope this good habit continues on even after i start work!

Such an angel !

Sleeping through the night

2011-09-21T19:11:00.001-07:00

Date: 22 September 2011(Thursday)
Subject: Sleeping through the night
Tricia is 17 weeks and 5 days old
today

Starting from last night, Tricia slept through and dropped her 2-3am feed.

This came as a pleasant surprise as I was trying to see how I can train her to drop the middle of the night feed so I can sleep better when I start work in 2 weeks time.

As usual by about 7pm she was already ready for bed. After changing her diapers and getting her into her PJs, she went to sleep promptly after her last latch with no fussing by 7.30pm.

She slept all the way through without waking and I had to wake her up to latch her at about 5am as i was feeling extreme engorgement. This happened again last night and time i woke her up at 5.45am to drink.

The weather has been really nice and cool these few nights and i wonder if it helped in her sleeping longer. Or maybe she really is ready to drop the middle of the night feed!

I am keeping my fingers cross that this continues on as this would mean better sleep for me when I start work in 2 weeks time!

Happy 4th month!

2011-09-21T18:56:00.001-07:00

Date: 21 September 2011 (Wednesday)
Subject: Tricia turns 4 months!
Tricia is 17 weeks 4 days old today

Happy 4th month my sweetie!
Stay healthy and smilely always!

Looking forward to your next milestone!

I Love You!

At 4 months, Tricia can,
- Recognise people & faces especially Mommy, Nai Nai, Daddy & Jie Jie
- Smiles spontaneously when happy or when she sees a familiar face
- Laughs & giggles a lot
- Shout when in discomfort
- Chewing fingers for self soothing ( Favourite are first two fingers on her left hand and thumb on her right!)
- Is finally totally off mittens! (She was reliant on chewing mittens on her left hand to sleep)
- Drinks from a bottle. Her milk intake from bottle is approx 120ml every 2-3 hrs
- Able to take a couple of naps on her own up to 1 hour ( no bao bao & no patting)
- Is starting to sleep through from 7.15pm to 6 am. (more in next blog entry)
- Weighs approx 7kg
- Very good on tummy position (Still can't flip though)
- Likes to sit upright instead of lying down
- Likes to poo every 3 to 4 days ( record 4 days)
- Still not tempted by food
- And last of all loves to Bao Bao!!

Tricia is CozyCot's 100 cutest babies

2011-09-19T06:00:00.001-07:00

Date: 19 September 2011 (Monday)
Tricia is 17 weeks 2 days old today

I submitted Tricia's pic for the CozyCot Love Fest 2011 - 100 cutest baby contest and she was selected!

Pls help to click 'Like' for her photo so that we stand a chance to win the prize!

http://lovefest2011.cozycot.com/tricia-pang-babies.html

Here is her entry on the site:

This is the photo i submitted, cute right!

Tricia is trying to flip

2011-09-13T19:38:00.001-07:00

Date: 14 September 2011 (Wednesday)
Tricia is 16 weeks 4 days old today

Since Sunday, Tricia has been trying to flip onto her tummy. She still can't flip on her own as her hands are always stuck in the way. She gets super fustrated when this happens!
She will have to first learn to move her hands away in order to flip over successfully.

I reckon that she may be flipping these two days which is about a month faster than Jie Jie! Can't wait to witness it when it happens!

Super fustrated because she got stuck!

Getting angry now!

Xun's potty training part 2

2011-07-03T06:49:00.000-07:00

Date: 3 July 2011 (Sunday)
Subject: Poo Training
Racia is 4 years 3 months, 4 weeks and 1 day old today.

For the longest time, we have not been successful in potty training racia to poo. She has long since been trained to go off diapers and has no problem peeing in the toilet. However when it comes to pooing, she just refused and insist on pooing in the diaper.

My mission this maternity leave was to successfully train Racia to poo in the toilet. The past week, i have been prepping her that once her pull ups runs out, we will need to poo in the toilet!

Finally today, there were no more pull up pants. I took her to the toilet and we sat there for 10 mins and nothing came out.

I read up online and decided to use a reward system as an incentive to encourage her to poo in the toilet. I drew up a chart and she earns a sticker with every successful poo in the toilet. After 5 stickers, she gets to pick out a toy (any toy) she wants and i will buy it for her.

At the 2nd try this evening, daddy sat in the toilet with her for close to 20mins, i did everything that all the online articles suggested, i gave her warm water, daddy read to her and distracted her so that she is not too tensed. In the end, she successful pooed in the toilet.. This is really a milestone achieved.

Let's hope we will be successful tomorrow again!

Tricia tries to turn by herself today!

2011-06-27T02:23:00.000-07:00

Tricia is 5 weeks 1 day old today!

Tricia tries to turn by herself today!

Tricia's 2nd Hepatitis Vaccination

2011-06-25T15:57:00.000-07:00

Date: 25 June 2011 (Saturday)
Tricia is 5 weeks old today!

Brought Tricia for her 2nd Hepatitis Vaccination as well as 4th week check up at AMK Polyclinic this morning. Her appointment was scheduled at 9am and by 10am, we were out of the polyclinic.

Update on her weight, height and head circumference:

Weight: 3.98kg (25%)
Height: 56.1cm (25%)
Head Circumference: 38.1(25%)

We notice an error in her weight as when we last weigh her at Dr Tan's clinic, she was already 4.330kg!

Next Wednesday, back to Kinder clinic for follow up with Dr Terence Tan!

Arrival of Baby Tricia

2011-05-21T12:06:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

We are proud to announce the arrival of our 2nd bundled of joy on 21 May 2011 (Saturday) - (Lunar Calendar April 19).

Racia is now a proud Jie Jie to baby Tricia born at 12:06pm (after a 13 hr labour!) at Mt Alvernia Hospital.

Weight: 3.590kg
Head Cir: 37cm

Length: 51cm
Doctor: Dr Eunice Chua
Midwife: Nurse Sheila
PD: Dr Terence Tan

Here's a picture of our beautiful baby princess.

Disney Birthday Book - March 2011

2011-03-05T07:03:00.000-08:00

Date: 4 March 2011 (Friday)

Subject: Disney Birthday Book March

Racia is in the Disney Birthday Book!

4th Birthday Celebration in School!

2011-03-04T22:45:00.000-08:00

Date: 4 March 2011 (Friday)
Subject: Racia's 4th Birthday Celebration in School!

Its Racia's 4th birthday today and we celebrated with her in school.

It was simple 15 minutes celebration during her snack break. I prepared a cake and some simple party bags for the children.

The children enjoy the cake and treat and I can tell that Racia enjoyed herself tremendously too!
She kept talking about her celebration when we were home in the afternoon.

Coming up soon: Part 2 of her birthday celebration - Marina Barrage for a simple picnic!

Her classroom!

The birthday girl with her cake at the special table!

Close up of her and the cake! Princess R for Racia Aurora!

Family shot!

Group photo - The Girls!

Group photo - The Boys!

Gathering around for the birthday song!

Singing Happy Birthday!

Cutting the cake!

One for the album!

Loot bags for her friends!

Giving out the bags with daddy's help!

Enjoying her cake!

Cake is yummy!

Racia's teachers(Left to right) - Ms EK, Xiao Lao Shi and Ms Yeang

Racia is 4! - Celebration in School

2011-03-03T21:56:00.000-08:00

Date: 4 March 2011 (Friday)
Subject: Racia is 4!

Its Racia's 4th birthday today!!

We got her cake to celebrate in school. I absolutely love the new range of Princess cakes from Bengawan Solo. We ordered one of the cakes from the alphabet/letter range. We were lucky that the "R" cake features Aurora, which is Racia's favourite princess.

Cost $38plus for 1 kg - Chocolate with fresh cream.

Here's a picture of the beautiful cake. Look out for more pictures of her party and celebration in school.

4th Birthday Loot Bags for School

2011-03-01T18:52:00.000-08:00

Date: 1 March 2011 (Tuesday)
Subject: Loot bags for school celebrations

I packed the party bags for Racia's school celebration on the 4th March tonight.
Same candies and princess bags used for her party last weekend.

All the candies and treats!

The bags for her school - unfortunately, boys and girls get the same bag!

The finished bags - 22 for the children and 4 for the teachers

This is for Xiao Lao Shi!

This is for Ms Yeang!

Ms EK, the assistant teacher!

And one for Mrs Kiong, Racia's form teacher from Nursery last year!

Funny Picture

2011-02-25T19:03:00.000-08:00

Date: 25 February 2011 (Friday)

Funny picture i took of Racia! See the funny necklace on her head and the cloth pegs on her top!!
She even deco with her pink froggie bib!

I think she is trying to make a fashion statement!

4th Birthday Party Preparations

2011-02-24T21:09:00.000-08:00

Date: 24 February 2011 (Thursday)
Subject: Racia's 4th Birthday Party Preparations - Loot Bags

I will celebrating Racia's 4th birthday with families and a small group of friends this coming Saturday.

Each year, I always prepare a small bag of treats for the children to the party.
And in my current condition, I realised i did not have as much energy to source for unique goodies for the bag this year. As a result, the bags will only contain mostly candies and sweets!

Here's a sneak peak at what's in the bags. The same candies were used for the bags for her school!

The bags were packed tonight as i will be out late tomorrow (Friday night) for my company's annual D&D event.

All the candies and treats that will be going into the bags!

Chewie candies

A new range of jello from Japan (Grapes and Peach flavours)

Fun size skittles!

Nestle Crunch

Cadbury Timeout Chocolate!

As well as the pre-requisite Raisins!

Here are the party bags and blowers - Princess theme this year

Party bag with the content!

22 bags completed!

Here is the Birthday Girl posing next to the bags!

I think she loves the bags!

Close up shot!

Tags which i prepared for the party bags!

And, lastly, the candles for her cake/s!

Racia's New Bike

2011-02-24T18:26:00.000-08:00

Subject: Racia's New Bike (4th Birthday Present)
Date: 24 February 2010 (Thursday)
Racia is 3 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 6 days old today!

Check out Racia's new bicycle!!
Its her 4th birthday present from Nai Nai, Da Gu, Gu Zhang, and Xiao Gu Gu.

The size is perfect for her petite frame and i absolutely love the shade of pale pink!
Its girly and sporty at the same time!

She loves it and i need to make a play date soon with her friends with bicycles too!

Presenting Racia's new Bicycle!

I love the girly pink colour!

See how she poses besides it!

Getting on to ride it

Ready to go!

Off she goes, the speed demon in our little house!

Valentine's Eve & 10th Day of CNY

2011-02-21T04:46:00.000-08:00

Date: 13 February 2011 (Sunday)
Subject: Vday Eve dinner with friends

Its the 10th day of CNY and also Valentine Eve, we decided to meet up with some friends for a mini CNY gathering and dinner at Ellenborough Cafe - Merchant Court Hotel.

Service sucks big time but we had fun. The kids have fun playing together while the adults stuffed themselves silly with the dessert and durian paste!! yumz!!

Since its V-day eve, they set up a nice sofa with a big heart shape balloon and big teddy bears for photo taking, we all had fun turning turns sitting on it for a photo.

Check out the pictures below:

Since its still CNY, we decided to dress the girls up in their CNY Cheena clothes!

Look her posing in her CNY outfit for the night!

One more for the camera!

Love this shot of me and her!
(Realised these are some of the very few pics i took for this pregnancy!)

With Ying Ern!

The 2 girls, she is so photogenic!

The beautiful V -day set up! See the rose petals on the carpet!

Racia, Ying Hui and Ying Ern!

And now with Tian as well!

Two beautiful mummies with their babies!

Sweet Valentines!

The food, we were near the 2nd line buffet - Peranakan spread!

Yummy desserts!

My first serving!

2nd serving!

Yummy chocolate!

Love this pic!

Hahaha, she is so funny!

Mummy and baby!

Most posey - Racia wins hands down!

Family picture!

4 beautiful mummies!

Our beautiful children!

Couple shot!

The V-day Polaroid that the hotel took for us!

YE and Racia, they love the camera!

With Tian holding her "Magic" photo!

Racia took home the lovely heart shape balloons!

CNY 2011 - Day 4

2011-02-06T21:00:00.000-08:00

Date: 06 February 2011 (Sunday)
Subject: CNY 2011 - Day 4
Racia is 3 Years, 11 Months and 3 Days old today!

Its day 4 of CNY today and we have a packed schedule.

First stop, dancing class, after that it's off to lunch at Yi Por's house with the family. Racia is looking forward to playing with her cousins again!

And finally today, Mummy and Baby matched! In our similar pink top with white rosette! Actually this is our only matching outfit for this CNY. Her's was from a shop in nex and mine was from Fox!

Love this photo of her, such an artistic pose!
She looks like a ballerina right!

Is her outfit nice?

New top, new tutu, new leggings and new shoes!

Starting to get posey!

Mummy and Baby!

One more shot..

Close up of our matching tops!

Posey Racia and i thought my complexion looks great here!

One more shot together!

Next up, dancing class...

Thanks to Aunty QQ for helping me on this activity!

Best dancing pals!

See how much taller is Tian!

Xmas Eve 2010

2011-01-27T20:02:00.000-08:00

Date: 24 December 2010 (Friday)
Subject: Xmas Eve 2010

Its Xmas eve but Racia is till sick. She came down with a bad case of ear infect. Cause of this infection - back flow of milk when she lie down and drink from her sprout cup.
We will have to be careful and not let her lie down to drink in future.

We also had our mini Xmas even celebration today, pizza for dinner!

With her anti-biotics, she hates it!

See her frowning!

My brave girl taking the medication on her own.

Our Xmas even dinner - Pizza Hut Xmas Special

That's Racia favourite - The winglets!

The Special Xmas Pizza

Hawaiian!

BBQ Winglets

Xmas pressie from Mom and Dad!

Xmas Present 2010 - Part 1

2011-01-27T19:47:00.000-08:00

Date: 26 December 2010
Subject: Racia's Xmas Present - Part 1

Its Princess galore this Christmas for Racia. Almost everyone got her something in the Princess theme!

All our fault as i told everyone to just get her princess stuff when they were checking with me what she wanted!

Good thing is that Racia seems extremely pleased with her presents.

This is just Part 1 of her gift, there is part 2 coming soon!

All her Princess presents!
From Nai Nai, Gu Gu & Gu Zhang, Gu GU's MIL and SIL, Daddy and Mummy

"I love my presents!"

Happy Happy

Here comes my Little Princess

Xmas Gift from Da Jiu & Jiu Ma

2011-01-27T19:37:00.000-08:00

Date: 27 December 2010
Subject: Xmas Gift from Da Jiu and Jiu Ma

Racia received a sepcial Xmas gift from Da Jiu and Jiu Ma today.
Its a customised T and Bag, check it out below.

So nice!

Posing in her new T and Bag

Another Pose!

After that, she got tired and decided to hide between the mattresses!

Lots of catching up to do..

2011-01-09T21:06:00.001-08:00

I realised i have not been blogging diligently.. let me try and catch up on some back-dated post below.

Dance Class - New Term Jan 2011

2011-01-09T21:00:00.000-08:00

Date: 09 January 2011 (Sunday)
Subject: Dancing Babes - New Term, January 2011
Racia is 3 years, 10 months and 5 days old today.

Dance class finally started after a long break in December.
They are in their new term this year (been about a year since they have started the class).

Racia was excited and she kept asking me about the dance class during her break in December.

Check out some of the really cute photos i took of Tian and Racia before the class as well as some shots of her during the class.

These two girls really know how to pose!

Look at them!

Future models-to-be?

One more for the camera!

Stretching with Miss Nicole.

More stretching...

..and now open up like a star!

Somemore dance poses.

This is the "Model" pose!

Princess Rapunzel Dollie

2011-01-05T21:07:00.000-08:00

Date: 05 January 2011 (Wednesday)
Subject: Racia's new dolly!
Racia is 3 years, 10 months and 1 day old today

We brought Racia for Rapunzel last Sunday. She loves the movie and declared herself as Princess Rapunzel! She even asked for me not to cut her hair so she can have long shinny hair like Rapunzel.

While we were at nex mall for dinner tonight, we saw a Rapunzel doll at one of the toy shops. Thus far, it has been quite difficult to find Rapunzel merchandise and we were pleasantly surprised that this shop was selling quite a few of them. However, each item only come in 1 quantity. Seeing how she loves Princess Rapunzel, Daddy decided to buy her the doll.

She loves the doll and i was amazed at how soft her hair was.

Racia has a great time combing and plaiting her hair. I reasoned that this doll is good her her motor skills development after all! :P

Racia with her new doll!

Racia says: I love my doll!

Posey posey pose!

First Day of School!

2011-01-04T21:44:00.000-08:00

Date: 04 January 2011 (Tuesday)
Subject: First Day of School - PLMCCK - Omega 1
Racia is 3 years, 10 months old today!

School started today. I took 2.5 days leave to settle her in school.
It was so much better this year, she adapted with no difficulty at all.

Good news is that Xiao Lao Shi went up with them to this new Nursery class - Omega 1. However, they are still missing a form/English teacher. In the interim, the principal, Mrs Tso is standing in!

I am hoping that they get a good form/English teacher this year and we sure miss Mrs Kiong!

A picture at the entrance.

In her new classroom.

Settling down and playing with the toys!

She has her own seat at the desk, with her name!

Concentrating really hard!

That is Max next to her, they were good friends last year!

Her new classroom! - There are 6 new students in her class this year.

The outdoor playground!

Outdoor time - she loves the tricycle!

Her classmates!

A shot of her on the tricycle.

With the other children, that is Mrs Tso in the green top.

Racia and Jewel

Racia say: I am tired!

Another picture on the tricycle.

Time to head back to class - waiting for the boys to wash their hands!

End of Day 1!

Racia's happy dance as it was a great first day at school!

Water Play@nex

2011-01-02T06:28:00.000-08:00

Date: 02 January 2011 (Sunday)
Subject: Water Play@nex

Its the 2nd day of the New Year and we decided to go check out the new water play area at nex mall!

I have seen this place when we tour the mall a week earlier, however it was still under construction and public was not allowed in.
It was only yesterday that i heard it is now open.

And since we are heading there for a movie "Rapunzel", i decided to bring Racia to play.

The area is faily small but everything is so new and clean. Racia seem to like the playground slide more than the water area. I think she is afraid of the water jets/sprays!

And next to this children play area is the K9 park for doggies!

We will definitely come back here often as its so near our home.

The water play area/children park.

Love this back shot of her!

Pictures were taken with our new G12, love this high contrast mode!

Happy happy girl!

The childrens' slide

Starting to get wet!

On the slide!

She is scared of the water jets!

Love this shot - its look like a fashion editorial spread
And check out her pose! and the lighting effect!

One more "fashion" shot!

One last pose for me!

Play + Lunch Date

2011-01-01T06:15:00.000-08:00

Date: 01 January 2011 (Saturday)
Subject: Play + Lunch Date - Marina Square

Happy New Year everyone!!!

We have a play and lunch date today! At Marina Square with Tian, Will, Ying Ern and Ying Hui!
The old girls had fun at the playground on leavel 2.

After that, we all headed to lunch at Waraku!

A perfect day of fun on New Year's day!

Lunch at Waraku - YE and Racia

Tian and YE - Very good appetite!

The 3 girls!

One more group shot!

Having fun playing with the springing toy!

After lunch, Racia asked for a ride before we head home!

We Love Hong Kong!

2010-11-26T04:45:00.000-08:00

Date: 18 - 23 November 2010 (Thursday - Wednesday)

Hi Everyone,

We just came back from a 6 days trip to Hong Kong!!
Here's a sneak peak of our trip, special highlight was the time spend at Disneyland!!

Presenting my very own Minnie Mouse..

Xun - The Minnie Mouse

With Mickey and Minnie

Racia says : "Hi Mommy!"

The Dollie among the Dolls!

Mummy and Xun on the Dumbo!

Love this pic of her, such a sweet smile!

With her Donald Drawing

She calls him a "Goat' - Pluto!

Xun and Mummy!

Stay tune for more post and pictures....

Counting Down - 3 more days to HK!

2010-11-14T19:20:00.001-08:00

Counting down to our holiday... 3 more days to our family holiday in Hong Kong!

We can't wait

Diaper Free at Night?

2010-11-14T17:32:00.000-08:00

Date: 14 October 2010 (Sunday)
Subject: I want to be diaper free at night!
Racia is 3 years, 8 months, 1 week and 4 days old today.

Racia told daddy that she wants to be diaper free tonight!.

It came as a surprised to me as I have been encouraging her to go without diapers during bedtime but she refused. She has been telling me that she loves to sleep with diapers at night.

Finally, tonight, she wants to try without diaper. She old me she is a big "Jie Jie" and that big Jie Jie don't wear diapers to sleep.
I got hubby to wake her up and bring her to the toilet at 3am. She promptly fell back asleep after the trip to the toilet. It seems like she has no difficulty going back to sleep after the night visit to the toilet.

The other mummies suggested for me to not wake her up at all and let her sleep through without going to the toilet. Apparently, when they are fully trained, their bladder can hold through the night. Let me try again tonight.

I hope this continues with good result and that she is finally ready to go diaperless at night!.

Meet the Parents + Adventure at the Zoo!

2010-11-12T22:09:00.000-08:00

Date: 12 November 2010 (Friday)
Subject: Meet the Parents + Adventure at the Zoo
Racia is 3 Years, 8 Months, 1 Week and 2 Days old today.

We went to the Zoo today, right after our Meet-the-Parents session in the morning.

Racia's teacher commented that she has a very strong vocabulary for a three year old. However, she is still very shy and introvert in class and seldom ask questions. Her concentration level is also very good and she can sit through long classes.
Racia will be moving on to Omega class next year with all her friends. The downside is that her teachers from the pre-nursery class will not be following her up.

We headed to the zoo after our session in school. stay tune for photos taken at the zoo!

Our IPad!

2010-09-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

Date: 11September 2010 (Saturday)

We finally got our iPad today. And what an adventure it was,

our iPad journey started a month ago when we finally received the $1000 vouchers, this was followed by numerous trip to epicenter where the staff kept telling us: sorry no stock at the moment. New stock would probably arrive in about 2 to 3 weeks.

Finally we made one more trip down to epicenter at ION and I was surprised when the staff say : yes we have stock, can I get one set for you?

This was followed by frenzy buying mode to get accessories, covers protective shield etc. Total damage: 30 plus cover protective shield $50 plus iPad $1265

Our iPhone!

2010-08-15T21:56:00.000-07:00

Subject: Our iPhone!
Date: 15 August 2010 (Sunday)
Racia is 3 years, 5 months, 1 week and 6 days old today!

I finally jumped on the Apple bandwagon and got myself an iPhone. The iPhone 4 to be exact!

I paid a bomb for it though - $776 to be exact as I wanted to retain my classic plan. (to be reimbursed by the co. so i guess it is not too bad)

I love the phone to bits! It has such an intuitive interface!

When hubby told Racia that the phone belongs to mummy, her immediate response was:
"No! Share Share!"

I guess what she meant was that the phone MAY belong to me but she is the one who will be using it!!

I miss my baby!

2010-07-12T13:14:00.000-07:00

Missed my dearie and baby so much!
Can't wait to go home tomorrow.

Flower Market at Kovan

2010-07-12T12:08:00.000-07:00

Subject: Flower Market at Kovan
Date: 22 January 2010(Friday)

Backdated post...
We went to the flower market at Kovan on the way home after dinner today!

Picked up a pot of mosquito plants for the balcony. It cost only $6

Arriving at the flower market

Racia loves looking at the flowers

Posing with the flowers.

Dance Class and Lunch at Cathay Restaurant

2010-07-12T10:46:00.000-07:00

Subject: Dance Class and Lunch at Cathay Restaurant
Date: 24 January 2010 (Sunday)

Back dated post...
We went to the Cathay Restaurant for a dim sum lunch after Racia's dance class today.
The food was surprisingly quite tasty. I am sure we will be back again soon.

Dance class - Bunny hop with Ms N!

Stretching and opening up like a star!

The kids favourite - bunny hop on mats!

Lunch - We had a table by the window!

The Menu

Racia and the Har Gaos!

Racia "thinking" if she wants some har gao!

The dishes we ordered.

Egg Tarts - yummy!

Siew Mai.

Mummy's favourite - Har Gao!

Char Siew Pao

The food!

Happy Racia!

Almost forgot the carrot cake

Racia again!

Racia in Sunglasses

2010-07-11T12:11:00.000-07:00

Subject: Racia in Sunglasses
Date: 16 January 2010

We went to dinner at Kovan - Hong Kong Cafe and Racia insisted on wearing her sunglasses. She was still wearing it when we were in the restaurant eating!

She is so cute right! See the spam photos below.

In her baby sunglassses

So cute!

Looking puzzled at why I kept snapping away at her!

Finally she smiled for me.

Sill in her sunglasses at dinner!
BTW, this is thick toast with syrup!

Her special order with all sauces and egg seperated

Eying the toast!

She refused dinner and just wanted toast!

Ikea - Rae, Bel and Sam

2010-07-11T12:09:00.001-07:00

Subject: Ikea Rae, Bel and Sam
Date: 09 January 2010
Another past dated post...

Ikea for dinner and where Racia met Isabel and Samantha..

Our delicious dinner.

Racia! - so sweet with the hair band!

She loves this pillow!

Showing me how much she likes it!

Racia says: "So Comfy"!

Rae, Bel and Sam - Sam is so cute!

Another pic of the 3 of them - Bel knows how to take care of sam!

Much better - See Bel, like a big sister to the 2 girls.h

Dinner at Marina Square

2010-06-05T20:58:00.000-07:00

Subject: Dinner at Marina Square
Date: 5 June 2010 (Saturday)
Racia is 3 years, 3 months and 2 day old today!

We went to Marina Square for some shopping and dinner after Racia's nap today.
With the extreme hot weather, we are glad we chose to hide out in an air conditioned shopping mall instead of someplace outdoor.

Dinner was at Waraku Japanese Restaurant and as usually, the food was good. Racia loves her kids meal as they served it in a Hello Kitty bowl and tray.

See our matching outfit!

Our cozy corner! and Racia making herself at home!

Posing for the camera!

Another pose! and our super big bowls of Ramen!

She wants to lie on her tummy now!

Our special spicy Ramen!

Doraemon at the mall!

Pic with Doraemon on stage!

He was huge!

Next, Kiddy ride at the children area!

Steering all by herself.

She loves this Giraffe!

Excursion to T3

2010-06-03T20:39:00.000-07:00

Subject: Excursion to T3
Date: 03 June 2010 (Thursday)
Racia is 3 years, 2 months, 4 weeks and 6 days old today

I took a overdue PH off-in-lieu today and brought Racia for a short excursion to the Airport - T3.

It was fun to take the train with her all the way from Paya Lebar to the Airport station.
The main purpose of this trip was to pick up her pink minibit plastic bag which daddy accidentally threw away last week!

At the airport, we went on the sky train to T1 and back, toured the viewing gallery which unfortunately was closed.

Hubby joined us in the evening and we proceeded to the basement food court for dinner. We ended the trip with one kiddy ride for Racia at the basement 2 car park!

On the train from Expo to T3

Posing for the camera

Happy Happy!

Giving me the cheeky look!

Another funny face!

Finally, smiling properly for the camera!

Changi Airport Terminal 3

Striking a pose in front of the long escalator

Kids play area at Basement 2

Guess who we saw at T3 - T-Rex!

Racia was so scared of Rex!

We managed to convinced her to take a pic with Daddy!

Next stop, the kiddy rides at B2 carpark!
Being a weekday evening, the place was deserted

The inflated elephant - $7

The inflated cat - $7 too

The inflated PINK Hippo - $8!!!!

So happy on the Pink Hippo!

Racia and Daddy!

My Sleeping Baby

2010-06-01T20:34:00.000-07:00

Subject: My Sleeping Baby
Date: 01 June 2010 (Tuesday)
Racia is 3 years, 2 months, 4 weeks and 4 days old today

Managed to captured this photo of Racia sleeping this morning. From young, she has always love to sleep in this "surrender" position.

So cute right!

Racia's Little Friends

2010-05-30T20:29:00.000-07:00

Subject: Racia and her Friends
Date: 30 May 2010 (Sunday)
Racia is 3 years, 2 months, 4 weeks and 2 days old today!

Featuring Racia and her friends... in this order (left to right)

Whoo Whoo, Pooh Bear, Kiss Kiss, Parrot, Pig Pig, Pig Pig, Mickey, Minnie, Bear Bear and Ugly Doll!

All these friends sleeps together with her every night!

Racia reading to her friends!

Frowning at something in the book!

Happy Happy!

She became so happy that she started rolling around the bed.
Racia's friends.

New Princess Toys

2010-05-29T00:15:00.000-07:00

Subject: Racia's New Toys
Date: 29 May 2010 (Saturday)

Check out Racia's new toys!!

All from the Disney Princess range!

Totdal Damage:
Disney Princess Tent $5X
Disney Princess Scooter $5X

All from Toys R Us

Racia's new toys!

So Happy!

Her tent and its HUGE!

Inside her cozy tent! There is even a fan to keep her cool!

Racia's Octopus

2010-05-29T00:07:00.000-07:00

Subject: Racia's Octopus
Date: 29 May 2010 (Saturday)

Racia drew an Octopus.. so cute right!

Black and White

2010-05-24T23:59:00.000-07:00

Subject: Black and White
Date: 24 May 2010 (Monday)

Love this Black and White photo we took of Racia this morning. She is "Angry" because we woke her up for school!

3rd Picnic at the Barrage

2010-05-23T23:32:00.000-07:00

Subject: 3rd Picnic at the Barrage
Date: 23 May 2010 (Sunday)

We went to the Marina Barrage again today.

Its our 3rd trip there and i really love the place. Super windy and lots of room for Racia to run around. And similar to our last two trips, she really enjoyed the picnic. She even insisted on flying the kite by herself.

Racia and mummy - Kite flying

Strings got tangled up!

Our cozy picnic map!

She loves the kites

I love this shot

With the kites again.

Dancing now

And again..

Finally, back on the mat

Posing for the camera

Sitting like a mermaid

Mermaid again

Our cozy mat

Doing the Dolphin now

Our little corner - amongst the crowd

Can you spot Daddy and Racia?

Dance Class - Last Class of the Term

2010-05-23T23:15:00.000-07:00

Subject: Last Dance Class of the Term
Date: 23 May 2010 (Sunday)

Today is the last class of the term. The kids will get a month long holiday and the new term will resume on the 27th June.

Ms Nicole made all the children perform for us. They learned a small tap sequence and danced for all the parents.

Ms Nicole gathering the kids

Tian got distracted

Pose for a picture first

Dancing away

Dinner at Ajisen

2010-05-22T23:00:00.000-07:00

Subject: Dinner at Ajisen Ramen at Hougang Mall
Date: 22 May 2010 (Saturday)

Hubby has a $5 dinning voucher from Ajisen that is expiring soon. So off we go to the nearest branch at Hougang Mall for dinner.

Racia loves her kids meal that they served on a "airplane" plate!

So happy!

She loves her kids meal, especially the airplane plate!

Close up of her meal

Our dinner!

Racia and her Pineapple

2010-05-18T22:42:00.000-07:00

Subject: Racia and her Pineapple
Date: 18 May 2010 (Tuesday)

Racia made me buy her this pineapple!

Recently, she has this weird fascination about pineapple and she will bring along her make-believe pineapple all over the house. We had to be really careful about her "pineapple" as she would scream at us if we accidentally "sat" on it!

Finally, we saw the real ones at the supermarket and she asked me to buy one. I thought that this would be a good opportunity for me to introduced her to a new fruit..but it turned out that she still refuse to try it!

Racia with her pineapple

Racia showing "love love" to her pineapple

I found photos of Racia with her 1st pineapple
These were taken when she was 1 year 3 months old.
See how much she has grown!

You can read about this entry here.

Is this a pineapple?

Its so prickly!

Wedding of Kelvin and Jennifer

2010-05-16T20:41:00.000-07:00

Subject: Wedding Dinner
Date: 16 May 2010 (Sunday)

We attended a wedding dinner tonight at Goodwood Park Hotel. This was the wedding dinner for hubby's colleague Kelvin and his partner Jennifer.
Kelvin is a dear friend whom we got to know really well during our stay overseas.

Congratulations, Kelvin. Hope to see a few Kelvin juniors soon!

So pretty in her dress!

Dancing and striking a dance pose!

Wedding of Kelvin and Jennifer

A few shots around the hotel

At the entrance to the ballroom with beautiful roses behind

With 7mths old John Di Di, he is so cute!

Here comes the beautiful couple!

The Sexy bride

And i caught this series offunny pictures of Racia and Faith.

Faith Mummy, you need to see these photos!

And here is Racia and Faith-reading

Too engrossed in their own books

Taking a break and smiling for the camera!

..And finally, a cheeky smile for the camera!

Dancing Queens

2010-05-16T20:36:00.000-07:00

Subject: Dancing Queens - Tynn and Racia
Date: 16 May 2010 (Sunday)

Caught a series of very cute photos of Tian with Racia dancing today.

Check them out.

In her new Disney princess dancing tutu dress

Doing a curtsy..

Now with Tynn..

Squatting down...

Holding hands...

Pause to smile..

Solo dance...

Butterfly time...

End of class... candy and stickers for all!!

2010-05-15T20:03:00.000-07:00

Subject: Southern Ridges - Hort Park
Date: 15 May 2010 (Saturday)

We went to explore Hort park and part of the southern ridges today.
It was an impromptu decision as the weather was quite good after Racia's nap and we thought that it would be nice to bring her for a short excursion there.

I had another motive for heading there as i am currently planning a Southern Ridges trek/excursion for my company and had wanted to check the place out.

We arrived at Hort Park close to 6pm and immediately went onto the sky bridge - beginning of the Forest walk. We stopped after completing half of this part of the walk as the sky was turning dark.

We head up to the Hort Park and completed our excursion there before heading for dinner at a Korean Restaurant at Fusionopolis.

We will definitely come back on a Sunday morning to complete the entire trail (estimated 2 hrs from Hort park to Henderson waves).

Start of our trail

The first bridge

Dancing on the bridge

With Daddy

Dancing again!

Random shot of Racia

With mummy on the sky bridge

Walking along with Mummy!

With mummy again at this dome shelter

Of Racia!

Map of the trail

Beautiful Hort Park - That looks like a lake behind right?!

Beautiful gardens of Hort Park

Exhibit Area - Yellow Horse

Happy on Yellow Horse

Red Horse

Happy on Red Horse

Now on the White Horse

And finally Dinner at a Korean Restaurant

- Beef and Mushroom Hot Pot - Delicious!

Dance Class - Stretch

2010-05-09T19:53:00.000-07:00

Subject: Dance Class
Date: 09 May 2010 (Sunday)

Some random shots i took of Racia at dance class today. She is getting really good in all the stretching exercises.

Stretch!

Her Pose!

Pose again

A Gift for Mummy

2010-05-07T20:46:00.000-07:00

Subject: Mummy's Mother Day Craft
Date: 07 May 2010 (Friday)

Racia came home today with the sweetest gift for mummy! A special flower she made in school specially for me for Mothers' Day.

So sweet!

A gift for mummy!

My Sweet Baby!

Disney On Ice

2010-03-20T21:17:00.000-07:00

Subject: Disney On Ice - Singapore Indoor Stadium
Date: 20 March 2010
Racia is 3 years 2 weeks and 2 days old today!

We went to Disney On Ice earlier in March this year, it was a belated birthday present for Racia.
I managed to booked the afternoon performance at 4pm, Category 1 tickets. Each ticket was priced at $80 each (excluding Sistic charges).

We saw Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto, Maleficent and The Incredibles!

Racia got scared mid way through and daddy had to carry her out of the hall.

Overall, i think we enjoyed the performance and Racia even managed to shake hands with Donald!

My little Minnie Mouse

Hand signs!

What a beautiful smile!

Our Cat 1 entrance

Snacks and souvenirs corner.

Racia and her popcorn!

With mummy, she in a red Minnie T and,
me in a blue Mickey T!

The stage/Ice rink!

Child booster seats.

My baby enjoying her popcorn

All set for the performance

Our 1st row seats!

Can you spot Daddy and Racia?

The half filled auditorium!

Here comes Mickey and Donald!

The whole disney gang!

This is Daisy!

With The Incredibles!

Enjoying the performance!

End of show and a picture with the poster!

3 Year Old Assessment and Swimming

2010-03-17T22:48:00.000-07:00

Subject: 3 Year Old Assessment and Swimming
Date: 17 March 2010 (Wednesday)
Racia is 3 Years, 1 Week and 6 days Old today!

Another backdated post...

Racia went for her 3 years old assessment at the Polyclinic today. All is well and the nurse is very pleased with her progress, next up, eye check in another 1 year time. By then, she will need to know her alphabets well as they will be using the alphabets to check for myopia.

After her assessment, we went swimming!

As it was a Wednesday afternoon, the pool was deserted!, We had fun and ended with lunch at Potters Cafe!

At the AMK Polyclinic

Our queue no. 1096 at room 43(Assessment Room)

At the pool with her new Minnie swimsuit!
So Cute!

Daddy and Racia in matching swim wear!

By the pool side!

My cute "Minnie" baby!

Such a sweet smile!

The gorgeous pool!

Mummy's lunch - Chicken Fillet with Mushroom Sauce

Daddy's Terriyaki Chicken Skewer with Spaghetti

Love her long lashes in this shot!

Last of her, Racia and her lunch!

Update - Toilet Training

2010-02-25T17:04:00.001-08:00

Date: 26 February 2010 (Friday)
Racia is now 2 years 11 months, 3 weeks and 1 day old.

It has been a week since she went without diaper in school and i am glad to say that she is doing well with no accident at all. I understand that she pees in the school toilet at least once during the 3 hour lesson.
Hope she keeps this up and maybe its time I let her go diaperless too when we are out during the weekends!

Date: 19 February 2010 (Friday)
Racia is now 2 years 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day old.

I started Racia without her diaper in school today. Hope all goes well and there is no accident.

Hong Kong 2009 - Day 1

2010-01-31T03:45:00.000-08:00

Subject: Hong Kong - Day 1
Date: 28 December 2009 (Monday)
Racia is 2 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days old today

We are off to a 8 days holiday in Hong Kong!!

It was a mad few days of packing and festive parties prior to the trip. I had started packing Racia’s stuff almost a week before and was still packing right till the day before our trip! There was so much to bring along and as usual, hubby and my stuff only took up half of one luggage and Racia had one whole brand new luggage to herself. (We bought a new Samsonite at the Robinson's post Xmas sale two days ago!)

She was pretty excited and wanted to help me pack her stuff. She even chose the toys and books that she wanted to bring along. Of course, this also included her teddy bear as well as her bolster, pillow and blanket! Maybe this is the reason why we ended up lugging so much stuff there!

I managed to tuck Racia to bed at 10am. We needed to wake up at 4am as the taxi was due to arrive at 5:45am (our flight was at 9am)
It was a mad rush as usual in the morning and Racia was still sleeping when i carted her up from the bed and down to the waiting taxi. She only woke up when we reached the airport - T3.

She was still in her PJs when we checked in. Daddy managed to weigh her at the airport and she was 12.7Kg ! What a surprised as i thought she was still at 11kg!

After checking in, it was time for some breakfast, we headed to Burger King located at level 2. Racia did not eat much, she just wanted her milk. I changed her out of her PJs and soon, she was running round the terminal. We headed for the children playgroup and she had so much fun playing there as well as the Butterfly Garden (I waited outside while Nai Nai bring her in).

We boarded at 9am to a full flight. The interior of the A380 was much bigger than the other regular flights. It was a smooth flight to Hong Kong and Racia even managed to nap for 1 hour which allowed us to eat in peace. I had motion sickness on the plane and ended up throwing up just after we land! The plane landed on time at Hong Kong International Airport at around 1pm.
After clearing immigration and picking up our bags, we headed to top up our octopus card ( as well as buy a new card for Nai Nai) and picked up tickets for Disneyland at the counter.

We took the A21 City Flyer from the airport to our hotel - Shamrock at Jordan MTR/Nathan Road. I threw up again after our bus ride and i blamed it all on Racia who kept asking me to turn here and there as well as look left and right during our 45 minutes bus journey!

We reach the hotel at 2pm plus and waited a while they checked us in. We were given a free upgrade to a deluxe double room and it was indeed very spacious. We had some problem with our credit card during checking in as apparently they have set a limit to the amount we can swipe per transaction. (I should have call and inform them of these transaction prior to the trip). Anyway, it was soon resolved by using 2 different cards.

After a short rest, we left the hotel at 4:30pm and headed up to the Peak for dinner. The no. 15 bus ride from central pier took almost an hour and by the time we got up there, the sky has turned dark and the temperature dropped. We headed to this Char Chan Ting at B1 for a quick dinner. In fact, we only left straight after dinner as it started to drizzle. Seeing that the bus queue was pretty long, we decided to try the mini bus down. Mini bus was only a few dollars more expensive than the bus and we down in record time (20 minutes!!). We decided that we will take the mini bus up the next time!

As we were all tired, we turned in early. For tomorrow, we will be heading to Disneyland !

Our luggage - half for us and 1.5 for Racia.

Racia in her stroller at the airport!

Queuing to check in.

Racia is 12.7kg!

CNY decor at Terminal 3

Comfy on her stroller!

With an aeroplane!

At the Butterfly Garden!

With Nai Nai!

See the pretty flowers and butterfly!

A nice shot of the airport!

Playground @ T3

Having fun on the slide!

Peak-a-Boo!

Can you find me Ma Ma?

Teddy wants a turn on the massage chair too!

Boarding the plane.

With mummy - On the last windowless row!

Comfy on her own seat!

Interior of the plane - see the Xmas deco!

Our personal entertainment screen

Jack and USB port for your own devices!

She was given a stuff toy from Dexter's Laboratory!
Racia kept asking me what is the name of this toy!

Studying it intensely.

She decided that he should sit in front facing her.

All comfy watching DORA!

Eyes glued on the TV!

A family portrait!

Racia's kids meal which she didn't eat at all!
Lesson learnt - no more kids meals for her.

I will order an adults meal with rice for her instead!

Oriental Chicken Meal

She decided Daddy's laps were more comfortable.

Daddy feeding her ice cream!

Next she wanted to talk to Nai Nai (seat a row in front)

After which, she fell asleep!

Daddy and a sleeping Racia!

At HKIA!

Waiting for our luggage!

She could still fit into the trolley!

The counter to get discounted Disney tickets - Thanks Aunty Jean!

The tickets which were at least 20HKD cheaper

Shamrock Hotel - Room 501

The twin double bed!

More than enough space for our luggages!

Vanity area with flat screen TV - next to it is the bathroom!

Looking around!

The bathroom...

With a decent size bathtub!

The bathroom sink..

Attached hairdryer and svivle mirror.

Complimentary toiletries - replenished every day!

Racia and Nai Nai!

Star Ferry Terminal - on the way to the peak!

Onboard the Star Ferry!

Bus no. 15 from central pier to the Peak!

Dinner at Char Chan Ting!

We were so hungry that i only remembered to take a pic after we finished!

Xmas decor at the Peak!

Racia and Gingerbread man

Racia and BIG Xmas Tree!

A pic with Santa's Sleigh!

On the way down - Mini Bus!

We alighted near the pier!

I love this pic of the Central Pier

We headed out to 7Eleven to buy some water and i stumbled on this shop selling factory rejects. Picked up this really cute authentic Nickolodeon Dora PJ for Racia at only HKD29 (Less than S$6)!

Bruised Nose

2010-01-15T20:24:00.000-08:00

Subject: Bruised Nose
Date: 15 January 2010 (Friday)
Racia is 2 years 10 months, 1 week and 5 days old today

Racia came home today from school with a bruise on her nose. According to the teacher, her nose bled as well. According to the teacher, she ran and hit another on coming student face on!

I could not get the full story from the school so it made me wonder if this is how she really fell?!

See how bad her bruise is

Big patch of bruise - extends to her right eye

Racia's make believe picnic

Enjoying herself

Drinking her special soup!

Second Day of School!

2010-01-06T18:04:00.000-08:00

Subject: Second Day of School!
Date: 06 January 2010 (Wednesday)
Racia is 2 years 10 months and 1 day old today

Its the 2nd day of school and as expected, Racia cried so badly when we sent her there. She told me she does not want to go to school when i woke her up in the morning!

She was crying so badly she refused to get down from daddy's arms when we reach the school. Daddy stayed on in the class and after about 20mins, he managed to dropped her and came out of the class.
Soon, Mrs Low came out and told us she vomited. It seemed that Racia could not find daddy and cried so badly till she vomited. Mrs Low cleaned her up and afterwards, she came out of the class again and assured us that Racia was ok. Mrs Low also shared that she can sense Racia felt bad for throwing up and kept saying sorry to the teachers. Racia calmed down after that and managed to participate in some of the class activities.

When i next saw her, the class was out in the compound riding on the coupe cars and tricycles. Racia even managed to ride on a peddle bike and tricycle and i managed to capture some really nice photos of her participating in the activities.

I was told the crying can carry on for weeks. I am just hoping that she will adapt soon and stop crying totally.

2nd day of school - in her PE attire and a little reluctant though!

All ready to go to school!

Pigeon hole for the students' bags

Racia's slot - with a picture of a Monkey!

Her favourite play station - scooping foams!

See all the other kids enjoying it too

Daddy coaxing her to play by herself

I got her pair of Dora Sandals for water play!

Racia's sandals - top row 1st from the right!

Class started and Racia was clinging tight to Daddy

Refusing to get down from Daddy's arms

Coming out for outdoor play and holding Mrs Loh's hands

Mrs Loh put her on a mini rider

Racia decided the tricycle was more fun!

See how well she is riding it !

Ball play with Jewel

Caught her looking around for me (I hide in one corner)!

End of Day 2 - I rewarded her by letting her play at the playground

Having fun sliding down the slide.

See how happy she is!

Racai's First Day of School!

2010-01-05T23:10:00.000-08:00

Subject: First Day of School!
Date: 05 January 2010 (Tuesday)
Racia is 2 years 10 months and today

Racia started her first day of pre-nursery at the Paya Lebar Methodist Church Convenant Kindergarten today - This was a day late as we only got back from Hong Kong yesterday.

She looks really great in her new uniform with her new Disney school bag (with her name embroidered on it),her new mickey water bottle (with a strap as advised by the school) and of course new white school shoes. Thank goodness I bought the shoes a couple of days before we left for our Hong Kong trip otherwise, Racia will not have proper white shoes for school!
It is a pair of white adidas and cost $30. (I could not find any white shoes in her size and had to resort to looking for them in a sport shop!)

All was well when we reached the school. She even walked into the classroom by herself playing with the toys. We thought she would adapt well.

Soon, form teacher Mrs Sabai close the door and we waited outside. 30 minutes later, the doors open for the class to proceed to the music room. All the children walked out holding the donut ring but I found Racia missing from the group. It turned out that she was crying so badly that one of the teacher had to carry her. She lunged towards me when she saw me and refused to let go. I had to accompany her to the music room where she was sobbing non stop and refused to participate in the song and dance.

After music class, I dropped her off in the classroom again. She was crying and refused to let go. Xiao Lao Shi asked me to leave her as it will be easier for her adapt without seeing me there. I left her crying there. 10 minutes later when i peeped in, she was no longer crying, and in fact was participating and she even eating the biscuits/snacks given to her. I did noticed that she sticks very closely with Mrs Loh, the class assistant, she was always holding her hands. This is good as Mrs Loh is is a really patient and loving teacher and i do see her giving Racia hugs every now and then to reassure her.

The class ended 30 minutes earlier at 10:30am and i was so glad Racia walked out without crying.

My baby and us survived a tough first day of school!!

I am keeping my fingers cross for no crying tomorrow.

Some information on Racia's class below -
Racia's class: Shalom 1 (pre-nursery)
Time: 8am to 10:50am
Form Teacher: Mrs Sabai / Xiao Lao Shi
Assistant: Mrs Loh
Monday, Wednesday and Friday : Sports Days (in Sport attire)
Tuesday and Thursday : Regular Classes (in Pinafore)

Enjoy the photos of her 1st day of school:

I just changed her into her new uniform!

With her bags, all ready to go!

I asked her to pose for me again

We have reached the school and daddy was walking in with her

With daddy at the school compound

Her class room, the lady in white (left) is Xiao Lao Shi

When she reached the class, she ran in to play with the foams

See Racia scooping away with the rest of the kids!

Soon the doors closed and while waiting, i took some photos of the school. All parents are not allowed in the class by Day2 and so we all had to wait outside.

Outside her classroom

Her class - Shalom 1

Such a pretty sign!

We need to prepare a pair of sandals for waterplay days!

The coupe cars, tricycles, buggies at the outdoor play area

The outdoor play area is huge!

The school facade.

Racia was sobbing away after music class.
I asked her to hold her friend Charlotte's hand

Kids at play at the outdoor play area

Another picture of her classroom.

As the doors were all shut tight and windows closed, i came up with a ingenious way to check out what was happening in class. I raised my camera and started shooting blindly in the class.. these are the photos i captured of Racia in class.

Racia was standing next to Mrs Loh (Her favourite teacher so far)

Here Mrs Loh asked her to hold her hands.

Here she is sitting on a chair with her school bag

Looking at Mrs Loh and she seems all ready to go home.

I caught a picture of her sitting next to the door waiting to go home.

With daddy after class

Racia says "School is Good!" (Thumbs up!)

I made her pose for me here
(The door behind was where she came out after class)

Finally Racia says "First day of school is tough!"

Happy New Year 2010

2010-01-05T20:35:00.000-08:00

Subject: Happy New Year 2010
Date: 05 January 2010 (Tuesday)
Racia is 2 years 10 months old today

HAPPY 2010 Everyone!!!

This is an exciting brand new year for us.
We just came back from a 8 days trip to Hong Kong / Disneyland.....

Racia and her favourite Minnie Mouse!

She loves the fresh milk in Hong Kong...

..More photos of Hong Kong coming up soon.. so watch out for it!

Racia also started school!, see how adorable she is in her uniform below:
First day of school

I will be doing a proper post of of her first day of school, so look out for more photos there.

We hope that 2010 will be a good year fill with laughter and cheers for all.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

New Ugg Boots

2009-12-10T04:14:00.001-08:00

Subject: New Ugg Boots
Date: 10 December 2009 (Thursday)
Racia is 2 years 9 months and 6 days old today!

I collected Racia's new Ugg Boots today. These boots are from Korea they were steal at $29.90 and they are also perfect for our upcoming trip!

Don't she look adorable in them? especially in her new pixie hair cut!

Racia's new pink Ugg style boots!

Such a sweet pink colour!

Racia in her new boots!

Aren't she adorable?

Posing with her boots and tutu skirt

Making funny faces!

In her "Cute" pose!

New World 3D Puzzle

2009-12-09T21:21:00.000-08:00

Subject: New World 3D Puzzle
Date: 09 December 2009 (Wednesday)
Racia is 2 years 9 months and 5 days old today!

I finally found the 3D puzzle that a January mummy recommended in her blog. I found it at a push cart on level 2 of Tiong Bahru Plaza.

It was a bit expensive at $29.90. I reckon it will be worth is value because Racia loves puzzle and this will teach her the different countries and animal origins.

Hope she have fun with this early xmas pressie!

The puzzle

Back of the box

Racia's New Hair Cut

2009-12-07T21:07:00.000-08:00

Subject: Racia's New Haircut
Date: 7 December 2009 (Monday)
Racia is now 2 years, 9 months and 3 days old today

See Racia's personal hairstylist Por Por giving her a new pixie haircut.
I love this shorter style on Racia.

Please see later post for Racia in her new cute and sassy shorter style!

Por Por hard at work!

Snipping all the hair away!

Racia was a good girl and she didn't move much.

Almost done!

Remember to see the later post for her new shorter style!

Happy Happy

2009-11-29T01:31:00.000-08:00

Subject: Random Happy Shots
Date: 29 November 2009 (Sunday)
Racia is 2 years 8 months and 3 weeks and 4 days old today!

Somemore random shots of Racia.. see how happy she is!

My little ballerina!

Racia is HAPPY!

Random

2009-11-21T21:04:00.000-08:00

Subject: Random
Date:21 November 2009 (Saturday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 6 weeks and 6 days old today!

Some random cute shots of Racia. Enjoy!

Sleeping Cute Baby!

Milk milk time!

Racia's House

2009-11-19T22:00:00.000-08:00

Subject: Orientation
Date:19 November 2009 (Thursday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 6 weeks and 4 days old today!

Recently, she loves to build houses using pillows on the bed. She says that this is a house for her friends (soft toys).

See how proud she is of her new "house"!

Racia with her house and friends!

She got a bit tired posing for me!

Pre-Nursery Orientation - PLMCK

2009-11-14T15:57:00.000-08:00

Subject: Orientation
Date:14 November 2009 (Saturday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 5 weeks and 6 days old today!

We brought Racia to her Pre- nursery orientation today at the Paya Lebar Methodist Church Kindergarten.

She looked a bit overwhelmed and refused to come down from Nai Nai's arms when its time to try the uniforms.

I hope she will adapt well to her new classes next year with minimum separation anxiety.

This is what we got for her today:
Uniform -
2 sets of pinafore dresses(size M) - $17 each
2 sets of T-shorts and Shorts(size S) - $10 each
2 badges - $3.50 each

School Fees
1 term - $465 + $32.75 (GST)
Worksheets and material for one year - $192.95 + $13.50 (GST)
Insurance for the year - $3.00
Total: $707.05

At the compound, she was so fascinated by the drawings on the windows.

Uniform room - We get to try the sizes here.
For longer mileage, i decided to get her a size M.

She refused to come down from Nai Nai's arms

The outdoor play area!

The children slides!

Having fun with the play houses

Going in and out!

Now its time to explore the next house.

Racia says: "Hello Ma Ma"

Expressions

2009-11-08T22:55:00.000-08:00

Subject: Expressions
Date:08 November 2009 (Sunday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 5 weeks old today!

We headed to Marina Square after dance class today!

Check out the series of funny expressions i caught on camera today!

She just woke up from her nap!

Something caught her interest...

Wow... this looks exciting...

..Ok.. really fascinated now..

And what was Racia fascinated with?
Scroll below to find out....

Its the Xmas decorations at Marina Square!! The Xmas balls are so beautiful!

Dance Class - 06

2009-11-08T21:47:00.000-08:00

Subject: Dance Class - 06
Date:08 November 2009 (Sunday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 5 weeks old today!

We had our 6th dancing class today!

Racia is really enjoying her dancing class, she even practices at home. She loves to show us the stretching/dancing moves she learned in class, like standing like a flamingo and the stretching exercises.

See the photos taken this week below:

Racia's in her new hairdo!

She is a black swan this week.

Back view - with 2 mozzie patches

She was really happy to go to her dance class.

Describing something to Tian Tian

Tian and Racia

Warming up in class

Dancing time!

Caught her laughing away!

Taking a short break

Doing the Cat Crawl!

That was suppose to be a river...

..But the kids were having fun "swimming" in it.

Racia took a turn and "swam" in it too.

Pretending to be an Owl!

With her butterfly wings and Ms Nicole next to her.

Doing the tap dance

Tap Tap Tap!

My Little Photographer

2009-11-07T21:40:00.000-08:00

Subject: Racia's Photography
Date:07 November 2009 (Saturday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 4 weeks and 6 days old today!

Racia has started to show interest in my camera and we showed her how to take photos. These are her masterpieces.

Aren't they well taken for a 1st time photographer?

The Bed!

The Bed again!

She decided to try taking the curtains! (a little out of focus)

An artistic shot of mummy's hands!

Her soft toys!

Nice Close up! I love the composition and mix of colours!

Swimming - Our Last Lesson

2009-11-07T20:36:00.000-08:00

Subject: Swimming - Last Class
Date:07 November 2009 (Saturday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 4 weeks and 6 days old today!

We had our last swimming class today!!.. we had fun during this 10 lesson.

Thank you Klaus for being so patient with the kids! We really enjoyed the lessons!
I will try and bring Racia to the pool often so that she will not forget her "swimming" skills!

Getting read to go into the water.

Another picture for my album

She looks so adorable in this swimsuit!

She was the first student to get into the water!

We let her try out her new arm floats!

Taking a break by the steps

Here is Tian, posing for me! So cute right!

Racia and Daddy!

Swimming

With daddy!

Enjoying

We went to dinner at Pepper Lunch - Hougang Mall

Waiting for our food!

Keeping herself entertained

Daddy's Unagi Dinner

Racia making a funny face!

Unagi Pepper Rice - Yummy!

Racia and her ice cream!

Checking if daddy would like some

Ice Cream - Yummz!

UglyDoll 2

2009-11-01T04:21:00.000-08:00

Subject: UglyDoll 2
Date: 1 November 2009 (Sunday)

Racia with her UglyDoll and bag! This is her new dance bag.. she brings this bag to dance class with all her dancing stuff!

Dance Class - 05

2009-11-01T03:59:00.000-08:00

Subject: Dancing Class 5
Date: 1 November 2009 (Sunday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 4 weeks old today!

Today is Racia's 5th dancing class. She had so much fun dancing today. In fact, from today's class, i realised that my little girl is actually a disco princess! She actually likes fast tempo, funky music and danced non stop when she hears these music!

The tap shoes also arrived today and we requested for Ms Nicole to do a tap segment.

Racia loves her new tap shoes (its currently about 1cm too big for her, but it does not make sense to buy a fitting pair as their feet grow so fast!) She loves her shoes so much that she refused to take them off.
This is all thanks to a resourceful QQ who sourced the shoes for us from the land of all manufactured goods! The shoes were at a fraction of the price of the shoes sold at the school!! From this, i realised that we should never underestimate the power of mummies!!

Cheers too more tap sessions in future class!!

Racia's dance outfit today, pink halter from CP
and new Pong Pong Skirt from Taiwan!

First segment, a warm up disco dancing game

Dancing dancing away!

Sitting on the mat when the music stops!

Resumes dancing when the music comes on.

See her arms movement!

Music stops and the kids looks for a mat to sit!

There is Tian Tian behind in her new cute hairdo!

She was up on her feet immediately when the music starts.

Three girls on a mat!

Now five girls on a mat!

Finally...seven girls on a mat!

The kids squeezing in!

Pom Pom time, Racia with Chloe.

Pretending to be a cheerleader.

Trying to follow instructions!

Following Ms Nicole's actions!

So happy with her pom pom!

Dancing away!

Tap dancing time.

Racia wearing her new tap shoes!

Racia in her new tap shoes!

Tapping and jumping away!

Tapping to the beat of a choo choo train!

All in one row!

2009-10-31T18:28:00.000-07:00

Subject: HDB Changing Room
Date: 31 October 2009 (Saturday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 3 weeks and 7 days old today!

Its Halloween today! Happy Halloween Everyone!

We went over to the HDB Hub baby room today and Racia insisted that she wanted to sleep the baby changing area to change her diapers... she told me she is still a baby!

See my big baby!

Lying on the baby changiong area!

So happy!

See my too long baby!

My drawing!

2009-10-29T16:03:00.000-07:00

Subject: Random Doodle
Date: 29 October 2009 (Thursday)

Can you tell what this is?

Its a face with 2 eyes!

Racia's New Tutu

2009-10-28T05:34:00.000-07:00

Subject: New Tutu (Petite Skirt)
Date: 28 October 2009 (Wednesday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months, 3 weeks and 3 days old today!

Racia's new tutu skirt arrived today!

Toilet Training - Successful!

2009-10-26T21:13:00.000-07:00

Subject: Toilet Training
Date: 26 October 2009 (Monday)
Racia is 2 years 7 months and 3 weeks old today!

I have finally managed to successful toilet train Racia. She can go diaperless in the day and will tell me when she needs to pee (where we will then rush into the toilet).

Next steps, toilet training when she needs to poo as well as for the night!

Go Singapore Go!!

2009-10-24T21:53:00.000-07:00

Subject: Go Singapore Go!!
Date: 24 October 2009 (Sunday)
Racia is 1 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 6 days old today

We were walking along Orchard Road today and taking pictures for Racia with the Christmas decorations when......

Racia with the Xmas Deco!

One more picture for the album

.....when, 2 girls dressed in Milo outfit approached us. They want us to lend them Racia....

... to take a photo to cheer Team Singapore!

So.. Racia said : Go Singapore Go!

The girls were part of Milo's Roving Cheer Ambassadors and this photo will become one of the 25,000 pictures captured of Singaporean for Team Singapore when they leave for the 25th SEA Games in December!

Extracted from:
http://www.singaporesports.sg/News/tabid/60/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/524/Default.aspx

MILO, in partnership with image experts Canon will be sending roving “MILO Cheer Ambassadors” armed with cheer toolkits to the schools and streets of Singapore to invite people to spontaneously capture their best cheering moments on camera. MILO seeks to collect at least 25,000 Singaporeans in their most creative and passionate cheer moments from October till 30 November 2009 whereby after which, they will present the montage of pictures to Team Singapore as a farewell gift when they leave for Laos for the 25^th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in December.

Dance Class - 04

2009-10-24T20:45:00.000-07:00

Subject: Dance Class 04
Date: 24 October 2009 (sunday)
Racia is 1 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 6 days old today

Today is dance lesson number 4.

Waiting for Ms Nicole

Posing for mummy!

Check out her dance attire today!

Caught swinging on the bar!

She said she was a Monkey!

Butterfly dance time
Ms Nicole gave her a pair of white wings to match her outfit

My little butterfly

It was a full class today!

Pretending to be a butterfly

Pom Pom time

Cheering on!

Racia can Cycle!

2009-10-21T21:41:00.000-07:00

Subject: Racia can Cycle
Date: 21 October 2009 (Wednesday)
Racia is 1 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 3 days old today!

Racia can cycle!!

We have removed the feet rest on her tricycle for almost 2 months and today, we found that she can finally cycle on her own! I guess it is time for us to bring her on an outing to East Coast!

See how proud she is!

Posing with her Meow Tricyle

Smile for the Camera!

Fei Meow Meow

2009-10-18T21:26:00.000-07:00

Subject: Racia's New Love - Fei Meow Meow
Date: 18 October 2009 (Sunday)
Racia is 1 years, 7 months, 2 weeks old today!

We went to Por Por's house today and Racia fell in love with Xiao Jiu Jiu's cat - Fei Meow Meow.

Kai Kai didi was there too.

Racia now wants to go to Por Por's place everyday!

Racia with Fei Meow Meow aka Fat Cat

Racia and Kai Kai

Kai and the Cat

Racia and Kai with Fei Meow Meow