Our urban stroll

2 October 2008

Today Peen took the day off. Yay!!! :) We call him the LF. Har har.

We decided to go shopping. It's been a while and the primary objective was to buy him some clothes. We decided on Vivo City and we went after Kim's morning nap. She took a long time to fall asleep. Thot I'd get her to sleep in her cot but this was what she ended up doing the entire time - trying to stand up to admire the art on the wall. :)

Had lunch at the food court upstairs and Kim had her own lunch which consisted of fish, spinach, pumpkin and brown rice cereal. Her food is pretty standard these days cos she doesn't seem to want to eat alot of other stuff. Or maybe I haven't tried? Hmm...

Well, I must say that we had a very successful outing. We bought clothes for Peen. There were two pairs of casual pants (one grey and one brown) and two short sleeved shirts (white and charcoal grey). Quite nice. Couldn't post the pants up cos they have gone for alterations.

I went into Toy R Us for the first time since Kim was born. I think we have resisted that for a long time. We also bought quite a number of things for her "development":

1) magic board (like she can write yet loh)

2) animal puzzle

3) shape sorter

4) classic beads on wire

5) flash cards

Here is a video of Kimmy riding on Peen at Toys R Us.

Hmmm....nothing for mommy. Think next shopping trip will have to be for mommy. Until the next urban stroll then.

1 October 2008

What a full and eventful day it was yesterday.

In the morning, we went to Punggol Park with the whole family. That means the two doggies were included. We had originally wanted to bring them to West Coast dogrun but it was raining the day before and according to the weather forecast, rain in the morning too so we decided to go somewhere nearby instead.

The doggies took a while to get used to walking beside the pram. Dopey had tyre marks on his body cos the wheel was just so big. I think he had his paws run over a few times cos he kept so close to the pram.

We saw a man who offered to take the photos for us with Peen in it. Peen declined politely. I was a little apprehensive cos he looked a little dodgy. Then he followed us for a bit, calling out to our dogs and Kim. Like yikes!!! I was trying to walk VERY briskly away without appearing to be doing so. The picture is too small to see my facial expression and yes, that is the guy there.

When we got home, Peen immediately started to busy himself in the kitchen. He was cooking chicken rice for lunch!!! I've complained about how I keep hearing him talk about the numerous things that he can cook but never got to sample it, so here we are. :)
There was the white and roast chickens too! Wah, such a feast. It was yummy! The rice was very good. It can be more fragrant but already as it is, it's really delicious. The roast chicken was alright. It wasn't quite like the roast chicken for chicken rice but the white chicken was nice. A little salty but otherwise, GOOD. :) Well done, Peeny flea!

It was also Hari Raya Puasa yesterday.

We were invited to Nora's (Peen's

colleague's) parents' place for dinner. Man, the food was really really good. But her mum didn't really want to share recipe so I guess there is no chance to replicate it.....as if we could!

Here are photos of Nora and her mum carrying Kimmy. Kimmy was a little uneasy amongst strangers but we later warmed up. However, she was still apprehensive to be carried by Nora's mum. Guess she's not used to the head scarf.

We starved poor baby cos we didn't bring her dinner out. We thought we'd not be long. So she had to make do with milk on the way home. But she woke up after the car ride and was all ready for dinner. I whipped up something really quick - Nestum, breakfast cereal and pear. She ate all of it!

Well, aside from daddy and mummy calling her scar face at the moment, she is also periodically known as crusty nostrils. Haha. See the photo above? It's cos she smears her snort all over. Poor baby. Hope she gets completely well real quick.

Kimberley at 9 months

Well, Kimberley is now all of 9 months, going on 10 months. She has started crawling (long awaited!!!). Though it started with really dainty steps, she has managed to hunt down Chyna from time to time. Here is a video of her taking her little steps and pausing to dance to background music.

She simply adores Chyna and would always crawl after her to try to get her little hands in her thick fur. When she sees daddy patting Chyna, she would definitely want to be part of the action too.

Last Thu 25 Sep, we took her to the beach for her to play with sand. I read somewhere online that at 9 mths and 3 weeks, she now knows that objects though hidden, are still there. So the suggested activity was to bury her toys while she is watching and let her find them. Of course, we didn't quite get to the activity but we just watched her as she experienced sand with her little hands and feet for the first time.

Kimmy fell sick for the third time (meaning since she was born) last week. It has been about 4 days now. Fever off and on. Coughing and running nose. She has never had so much snort before. I think she is really quite bothered by it. Poor baby. She keeps rubbing her button nose. She even scratched herself really badly. I suspect she was trying to scratch off her nose. :) Silly goose. I shall attempt to take a photo of that scratch later tonight.