Children

How true...

A baby will makelove stronger,

days shorter,

nights longer,

bank balance smaller,

home happier,

clothes shabbier,

the past forgotten,

and the future worth living for.

Audrey's Birthday

Today is Audrey's birthday. In dog's life, she is 49 years old, that is, 7 years old in human years. We are going to buy a birthday cake and sing her a birthday song. She will not be able to eat the cake (we never feed her with human food, she has her own expensive dog food). We bought special treats for her though, so she can have her chicken today.

Since the birth of Kaylen, Audrey kind of get neglected. Mummy's hands are really full with the 2 human kids. No time to play tug of war with Audrey. One thing about Audrey, we know she is not happy when she just refused to pee on the paper that we laid for her. Mummy has been busy cleaning up her wee every day.

Guess we are not good dog owners after all. Sorry Audrey, despite giving you premium dog food, invest in dog mutli-vit, send you to expensive dog grooming and buy you accessories, etc... we are not able to give you lots of tender, loving care and our time and freedom as much as we want to. Please forgive us.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is another 1st for baby Kaylen. We bought new Chinese style clothings for both Kyrene and Kaylen. Both of same material, Kyrene's one is cheongsam while Kaylen's one is a cheongsam top with pants. Kaylen is actually wearing the size meant for age 1 year old!

Kyrene's 6th Birthday Pictures

Finally got some pictures of Kyrene's 6th Birthday Celebration at home...

Sorry, no time to update...

Yo, for those who have been viewing our blog, sorry lah, too busy to update these days.

Quick update:
We are somewhat struggling with Kaylen. Its been almost 6 years ago, so a lot of things, we kind of forgot what it was like or what/how to do. Back then, my sister and my mum were around to help out most of the time. This time, I'm really very hands on myself. Sometimes, when Kaylen cried so hard, I wonder what I did wrong and if I had been a bad mummy.

We celebrated Kyrene's 6th birthday in Jan over a few days. She had a mini birthday party at home where we invited her Kindermusik kakis and 2 other families. Ernest was down with HFMD, so he could not come. Chloe and Ashley were also not well on that day and did not turned up. As usual, we got too much food leftover. The worse was the birthday cake. Too big for so few people. We will post the photos when we get the softcopy from Daphne.

On Kyrene's actual birthday, we checked into Siloso Beach Resort in Sentosa for one nite stay. The hotel room is not quite fantastic, so we did not stay 2 nights as initially planned. We basically relax by the pool, went up the Merlion, Johnny and Kyrene went to take the Skylift and luge.

CNY - we had an early reunion dinner with Helena's family on 2Feb. Ate a lot of chilli crabs. Reunion dinner with Johnny's family was on eve of CNY. Usual, had steamboat. This year, the mood was dampen. Basically, just go through the motion (reunion dinner, lo hei, bai nian) with Johnny's family.

So much for now, its 1am now, need to go get some sleep. Will update soon...

Kaylen is one month old and confinement is over!

Just celebrated Kaylen's full month on Sat, 5Jan. Not exactly a celebration, just gave some cakes, kueh, red eggs to family members, few relatives and neighbours. We went back to Helena's parents' place for lunch, then back to Johnny's parents' place for dinner. Didn't have a big bash but we were still feeling very tired after a day out.

Confinement is over, hip hip hurray! Been eating out, nasi padang, laksa, nasi goreng, chicken rice, satay, etc... even had lontong at my in-laws' place on Sat. Yummy! Then again, it means I got to cook again. Yes, Johnny can take a break from cooking liao. Headache... what to cook everyday???

Had a good gathering with a group of friends that we made during our honeymoon trip to Adelaide way back in 1999. There was so much to catch up on with them. We are planning to go on a trip together (been talking about it for years and it never materialised till this day). We are the only ones that is going to bring kids along, but these folks so far have no complaints about having the kids around. Really glad about that.

Going get busy planning for Kyrene's 6th birthday bash. Stay tune...

So fast, more than half way through confinement

Can't believe how time flies... Kaylen is 19 days old, our confinement is more than half way through, about another 10 days more and its over!!!

Since the birth of Kaylen, our lives have been very busy. Johnny is busy with household chores, marketing, going to supermarket, confinement cooking and taking care of Kaylen here and there. Mummy is taking care of Kaylen most of the time, once in a while, chip in to do confinement cooking. Mummy's panda eyes are back again, having to wake up every 2hrs to feed Kaylen. Kyrene is busy keeping herself entertained, and helping out when changing Kaylen's diapers & bath time. Not to mention, got visitors to entertain. We are lacking rest but still hanging in there. Our priority is family for sure. We are looking forward to celebrate Christmas as a family.

Here's wishing one and all "Have a God Blessed Christmas & a wonderful New Year in 2008!".