What Kimmy does these days

I haven't blogged about Kim in a while. Here are some videos that I took of her just today.

I took out her masak masak set which she got for her birthday - the last of her presents to be taken out for her to play with. She has been practising cutting wooden bread in school with a wooden knife so I thought colourful vegetables would be more interesting and fun for her. She has proven that she can multitask, well sort of. She can watch TV and fry a fish.

I try to bring her downstairs so she can look at nature, birds (chase), insects (crawl after an ant) and walk around the neighbourhood (watch a little girl pee into a drain!!! what were the parents thinking?!).

Today, I made her carry her own water bottle (in a plastic bag so that it's easier for her tiny hands) and she made sure we never left it behind. I would put it down on the floor while we played at a section of the playground. Whenever we were done, she would walk to the plastic bag and pick it up. She's turning out to be a Type A person! Haha.

Peen thinks she looks very aunty.

She really enjoys her bath. Except for the bits when we need to rinse the shampoo out of her hair. I rotate her squirties when she gets bored with them. She likes it when we squirt water at her (not her face of course). She has started to drink from them tho'. And thinks it's very funny too.

Well, we do also think it's really funny. Does that make us bad parents? That we let our daughter drink soapy water? Oops. Well, Peen only lets her drink it before soaping her and before rinsing out the shampoo in her hair....I think. So I guess it's relatively soapless/clean still? Oh, except for if she disposes of any body fluid without our knowledge. Yikes.

The Army Hat

This blog has come about all because of a hat. Yes, a hat. Well, Peen's hat, to be precise. The one he had from when he was in NS.

About two weeks ago, it went missing and he was rather miserable about it since it had been with him for so long. I was beginning to think that there is a black hole in our flat as we had some items that have just disappeared and could not be found. Amazingly, two of the four items (Kimmy's tee shirt that I love and pendant) appeared after months of searching. So Peen was hoping also to find his beloved hat soon.

I received a call from Peen yesterday and he was at Beach Road. No prize for guessing why he was there. For those not from S'pore, Beach Road is where all the guys buy their army stuff and he had gone there to get a replacement hat. Well, he was finally appeased with the replacement but I suspect still a little sad about the loss.

Today while clearing all the recycle trash in the storeroom, Lo and Behold! He found the missing hat. Here is the hat - found once again!



And this is the replacement hat from Beach Road which has of course quickly lost its status with the owner. It is now mine.



In view of the two hats, I decided I had to make it a family thingy to be wearing camouflage hats so this one came about.



I didn't just make the hat of course. I had already completed a dress in the same fabric. I tried to make a dress following this one (pink) which Kim got as a gift. It's an A-line pinafore I think. But it works as a dress here in hot and humid Singapore. I got to sew buttons and buttonholes with the machine for the first time. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. But sewing the V in the front proved to be a huge challenge. In the end, I sewed a U shaped instead. I will have to attempt it again, with the V this time.



This is Kim is the dress and hat. The dress is rather big on her....as usual. Hmmm. The hat just reminds me of Strawberry Shortcake. It's kinda huge on top. Guess she will grow into both items?

CNY 2009

It's the Lunar New Year. The year of the Ox. That's my year.

We had Kimmy dressed in the traditional garb. Luckily I had the sleeves and pants shortened. She looked really cute in them and especially when she had her hair tied up. Thankfully her hair was long enough to be tied. I had just cut it to neaten it last week.



Her grandparents were thrilled to see her all dressed up.


With Ah Foh (Grandma in Hainanese)


With Grandparents

Here is my little baby all tired from the visiting (and only THREE places!) Must be all the climbing up and down of the stairs at Uncle James and Aunty Aye Leng's house.

Oh, I must put this down. This is an important and significant bit. My baby has started walking on her own!!! Yay! On the first day of the Lunar New Year!

Here is Kim walking with assistance in the morning.

And here is Kimmy walking on her own in the afternoon.

Baybe - a part of the Uglies

Here is Baybe. He's another member of the Ugly family. Baybe is Kimmy's first word. Along with babbling, it's the first word that she says constantly with reference to something specific (babies and kids that look smallish) and correctly. Unlike how she calls a balloon "baba" and other times she calls it "bor" (meaning ball). So we've named him Baybe, just because it's her first word.

Well, Baybe is a boy so his body shape is slightly different from Puki and Jeju. It's straight. And of course, being a boy, his clothes will need to be blue. Ha.

Now that leaves Papa Ugly. He's on an overseas trip and hence isn't in the family photo. ;)

Look what came in the post

I received a birthday pressie in the post yesterday! I love receiving packages in the post. Thanks Lorraine!!!!



Look what she sent me. Little projects to do. A ribbon ball (with fleece!!! so nice and soft!) and a donut! Yay. I hope mine would look yummy enough to eat too. Heh heh. And there are some tools too to make life easier when sewing. Cool. Shall have to put them to good use soon.

I love the fabrics!! I'm so envious. I was web surfing and alot of places do not deliver fabric internationally. :( I need to come visit you with empty suitcases and lots of money!!! Haha.

The two projects are so nice packaged I feel so sayang to open them. I shall admire them a little while longer before I embark on the projects. Heh heh.

Thank you thank you. :)

The second Ugly - Puki

I managed to make another Ugly today. But it didn't turn out as expected. Ugly is quite the word to use. What was it that they say? Cute means ugly but adorable? It is quite a bit bigger than Jeju. I guess Puki is Jeju's mom then and we have started an Ugly family.

And she says.......Jeju

As a child, I never liked dolls. I was a soft toy kinda kid. I especially didn't like the barbie type of dolls.....the kind where the eyes closed when it slept and opened when upright. And there was something about the hair that I didn't like either. But that is not to say that those who did are weird or that the world is more strange because of the dolls. I just didn't like playing with them. They gave me the creeps. But you are normal if you like them.

HOWEVER, just so that I do not skew my daughter in the same dislike as myself, she does have one doll at the moment. It was her birthday pressie from a friend. She hasn't warmed up to it yet. From the occasional reminder of finger pointing along with the words "baby", we know that she knows it sits at the corner of her bed along with her other stuffed toys. She also does grab hold of her foot from time to time and smile. I'm still trying to get her to understand that it's a doll and not a baby.

Perhaps it's to overcompensate for my dislike of dolls, I have been trying to hunt down rag dolls. In stores (ready made) and online (to make). I've watched some videos online and seen some tutorials. But since I hadn't bought the necessary materials, I decided to come up with my own version of.....no, not a doll but a stuffed toy. An ugly toy. Those you see in stores or online that are sold at ridiculously high prices? Ah...yes. One of those. Who knows. Perhaps I would get so good at them that I could sell those ugly toys and Peen and I would never have to work another day of our lives! Ha.

I managed to complete my first one in one day but over two sessions. It was rather easy to do except for attaching the stuffed legs to the body. Hence, one of the legs sort of looks dislocated from the body. When I showed it to Peen, he really liked it and has since claimed it for his own. And says that I should make another one for Kimmy instead. And he's even named it!!! Jeju. It's one of the words that Kim used to say repeatedly which Peen thought was really cute. That is how my first Ugly got its name.

So, please meet Jeju.

I guess Peen should keep his day job. :)