Hanging out around PG

C2 hanging downstairs our block

C1 striking a pose

Chillin by the pool

 

Sometimes while waiting for dinner to be cooked, we will take a walk around our compound armed with Auntie D and her fabulous Nikon D90 camera. Check out some of her awesome pictures.

P/S: For view more of her photographs you can go to her flickr page

Batmobile

Happy girls!!

Chelsey not very pleased being squashed

Hanging out West Coast Mall the other day and the girls wanted a ride on the 'Batmobile'.
Check out their happy faces! =)

Swim class

Term just ended again for the girls' swim class at Marsden. Here are some pictures of them in action. Their confidence in the water has improved tremendously, especially for our little C2.

Sisters cruising along Ghim Moh

Slide hoggers

Whenever we go downstairs to the playground, the girls hog the slide. I mean, literally. They go up the stairs and down the slide. Up again, down again. This can go on for like more than 20 times in a span of 15min. Can you imagine if there was a swing?

Recent birthday parties

Having a drink @ Luke's party

Chloe lovin' the Mickey Mouse party hats @ Luke's 1st Birthday party

C1 & C2 posing with their princess tiaras from one of the party goodie bags

Kaitlyn giving Chelsey a "haven't seen you in a long time" hug @ Matt's party

Chloe hogging to swing @ Matt's party

Matt's 1st Birthday @ Swirl : Matt's bro Issac is looks more excited then him

Chloe balancing on a beam @ Amelia's party

Chelsey enjoyed jumping on the trampoline @ Amelia's party

Amelia's 4th Birthday Party @ Alpha Gym

Chloe with the Birthday Girl - Shen Li

Shen Li's 7th Birthday Party: Chloe with classmate/buddy Sean (in red)

Over the last month we celebrated and attended a few birthday parties.

Besides the cake cutting and candle blowing, the girls enjoy collecting their goodie bags upon leaving the parties.

I just love watching their happy faces ripping open the bags filled with little treasures!

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

C2 - Tweedle Dee

C1 - Tweedle Dum

Sometimes relatives like to buy the same clothes for the sisters - ie same colour, same cut, except different size. The girls end up looking like twins except, of coz, one is taller than the other. And yes, Chelsey is begining to look more like Chloe... just like Tweedledee and Tweedledum! There is actually a nursery rhyme, with the same name that I feel represents them as sisters, and it goes like this :

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

Don't you think it fits them to the tee?

Especially since the little fights, screaming and bickering are becoming a common sight between the girls when they play together nowadays, but thats all part of growing up =)

Our butterfly

Our butterfly called Goldie

The orange plant which we got during Chinese New Year has been attracting caterpillars and Papa decided to collect a couple of caterpillars in a container as 'pets' to educate the girls on their life cycle, just like book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

We fed the caterpillars daily with leaves from the orange plant and days later, some of them turned into cocoons. At this stage, the girls still don't seem interested what is going on with their 'pets' until one morning after church, we noticed the container with a beautiful butterfly in it. One of the cocoons has become a butterfly! Woohooo!! The girls got excited, screaming and jumping around, even I got excited =)

We quickly went downstairs to let our yellow-speckled butterfly free as butterflies are known to have a day to live. Now, we can't wait till the next cocoon hatches into another gorgeous butterfly!

Bird Park

Can you see the lousy fake dino ? Quite pathetic eh?!

We went to the Jurong Bird Park recently coz my company actually sold cheaper tickets to the Hollywood Dinosaurs exhibition. So naturally, I asked WP and M to come along since we go to gym class with the girls on Saturday mornings. Stupid exhibition of fake dinosaurs was a total FLOP and a super big waste of everyone's time and money! No wonder the organisers wanted to sell the tickets cheaper to corporations so that they can con the employees' money like mine! And the dino show tickets does not even include the entrance fee for the Bird Park! Arggh....felt so cheated.

On a happier note, we did go in to the bird park to see the beautiful parrots, pink flamingos, strange looking owls and the famous bird show, plus the girls enjoyed themselves!

"Opium" withdrawal

Chloe with her 'opium'

Pictures of the girls with their pacifiers in their mouths will be a thing of the past

Have been thinking of ways to wean Chloe and Chelsey off their pacifier or chootchoot addiction recently. Their dependency has been become more frequent. The chootchoot is supposed to soothe them and help them go to sleep only but now, they ask for it whenever, they are bored, sitting in the car, watching TV or when one sees the other one using it!

One day in church, someone told me to make a small incision on the tit so that they will eventually reject it as it is not the same or as 'good' as before. Two nights ago, I followed the this advice and make a small cut on their pacifiers.

Chelsey's first reaction was to take the chootchoot out of her mouth and examine it to make sure it was hers. After while, she spit it out as it was not the same.
For Chloe, she took it out immediately and said that it was broken. She also asked for plaster and glue to fix it. I lied to her that she has very strong teeth and tore it while she was sleeping. She believed me. (There is nothing wrong in telling a white lie! I plan to tell her the truth when she is much older.)

For the first couple of nights, Chloe couldn't sleep and only fell asleep at 1230am. Both girls had difficulty sleeping and kept waking up through the night. We persevered for almost 3 weeks and now, they are finally sleeping through the night again! Phew!

Hi5 again

Waiting patiently for the show to begin

Chloe watching intensely

Hi5 dancing and singing

Yesterday I took half day leave so that I could bring the girls down to Takashimaya to watch the Hi5 performance. We arrived 45min before the show but there was already a long line snaking past Crystal Jade. One lady was nice enough to tell me not to waste my time queuing as I will not able to get a good seat. Hence I decided to go upstairs where we can have some 'circus' seats instead.

The performance is nothing like the show we attended a couple of months ago. Chloe was also less enthusiastic about it, maybe its becoz it was so crowded and she couldn't hear the music clearly. I guess it would have made a big difference if she was right up in front of the stage.

In the end we left to do Christmas shopping instead.

Photo taking: Part 2

Chelsey feeling frustrated that she is the only one taking pictures

Chelsey smiling happily with the empty chair next to her

One of the nicer pictures, after bribing Chloe

Tried again to take pictures of the 2 girls. This time was a little bit more successful coz I bribed Chloe with chocolates! If not, she preferred to dance around the house with her new skirt!

taking pictures

The best shot of the day, but both not smiling at the camera, and not very sharp. Sigh.

Finally got Chelsey smiling but Chloe is not looking at the camera... again!

I have decided to make my own Christmas cards this year. Of coz the plan is to have Chloe and Chelsey in it. Hence I dressed them up in pretty dresses and got them to hold some Christmas tree ornaments. My attempt failed terribly, they were either not looking at the camera or just too engrossed playing with the bell or angel.

Looks like I need to try again this week. Haiz.

Supermarketing

Trolley ride @ Fairprice Finest

Now that Chelsey is more responsive, she fights to sit in the trolley with her sister. Hence we upgraded Chloe to sit in the "bigger" space. Thankfully Chloe doesn't complain when we pile up our shopping with her.

Another trip to the zoo

Chloe posing with the hungry goats

Even Papa wanted to feed the goats!

Chelsey feeding the goats

Chloe and Alexis holding hands and waiting to enter the zoo

Couple of weekends ago, we went to the zoo with Alexis. The girls had a blast and the highlight of this trip was feeding the goats at the kids area. Even Chelsey wanted to feed the goats!!

p/s: it is $2 per pail of goat food - leaves and vegetables

Playing dress up

Chelsey the Little Angel
Chloe the Fairy Stawberry - a costume she chose herself

One weekend, I decided to dress the girls up again. Maybe its because I feel kinda bad for not bring Chelsey along for the trick-0-treating couple of weeks ago, coz of the bad weather. If she would have gone, she would be a little Angel! Yup, wearing the same outfit Chloe wore last year. Super cute!!

Photoshoot

Recently I decided to take my girls for photoshoot. This photographer is recommended by some of my friends and I love the photos he took of their children.

I couldn't resist having my own beautiful pictures of my babies!

Sometimes I wish I could take some lovely pictures too.