My Big Little Girl

Hanhan started Primary School this January.

From Kindergarten afternoon 3 hours class to Primary School morning 6 hours class, it was a great change, but she adjusted to the changes very well. Not only that, she told me that she loves going to school. It's really a great relief, initiately I was still worried about it. 

Xinxin 1st - 3rd month

1st Month

Xinxin didn't open her eyes at all for the first few days when we are still in the hospital. Even though we have engaged the studio personnel to take photo for her, but because she didn't open her eyes, they weren't able to take her photo. Haha... too bad... the studio personnel can't earn our money.

I was kinda of worry about her eyes, but the doctor said she should be fine, some babies don't open their eyes till much later, because their eye lids are too puffy. It's was till about 3 weeks old that she first opened her eyes. It's a great relief to finally see her eyes open. Before that I onced tried to push open her eye lids, but the confinement auntie told me not to do that :P

2nd Month

The confinement auntie had left, back to the 4 of us only. Night time isn't really sleeping time for new born, so we had lots of nap during the day. It's great to have Daddy's help, especially during the weekend.

After some nap, we went out for our first outing as a family.

Hanhan was happy to be out for some fresh air too.

After about a week on our own, I'm really glad to have my sister over to help out during the weekdays.

Xinxin loves to sleep on her tummy but we don't feel safe to let her sleep on her tummy in her day bed, and we ended up having to carry her every now and then. 

Best of all sleeping position - tummy on tummy, especially on Daddy's tummy.

 

3rd Month

 With the help of our new helper, life becomes much better for me.

Although Xinxin looks quite like Hanhan when she was a baby, they do have some distinctively different characteristics. 

New dress for Hanhan

Made a new dress for Hanhan recently. It's been a really long time since I last made clothing for her.

 

Hanhan has grown much taller now, and has outgrow most of the clothings I made for her, so she has been wearing store bought t-shirts and pants all this while. She is really happy to get her new Mummy-Made dress (with her favourite fabric choice of course!) but she is not really willing to take photos in it.

 

These are the second set of photos I took, the first set she is all grumpy. Now she enjoys taking photo of others rather than have her photos taken.

I hope she will continue to enjoy wearing the clothings I make for her.

My 5 year old

Hanhan just celebrated her 5 years old birthday. It was a really simple celebration. Daddy is busy with his course assignment, while I'm too tired to do much. Yes, I'm pregnant and felt much more tired than it was in my first pregnancy. I didn't even sew her a birthday dress, which I kind of promised her.Instead of celebrating in school, like last year, we brought her to Pasir Ris Kid's Kampong during the weekend. Her school brought her there this year for school excursion, and she is really excited about going there again. She didn't get to do the "longkang"(small drain) fishing when she went with the school, so she got to try it this time round.
It wasn't easy to catch these little fishes. I managed to catch a few. Hanhan almost gave up trying, but after some persuasion and persevere, she also managed to catch a few. As for Daddy, he did it with ease. It really amazed me when he just swing the net blindly under the little bridge where the fishes hid and caught several of them with just one scoop. What good luck!

Hanhan was very happy to know that we could bring that the fishes home. We went to get fish tank and air pump from her grandpa, and bought the fishes some food too. But by the next day, all the fishes are dead. Although Daddy had told us that these fishes are usually bought as food for bigger fishes, and they don't live long, and we have got Hanhan prepared for it, but I'm still sad and surprised that they are all wiped out by the next day. Hanhan didn't make a fuss about it, but I know that she was sad about it too.

And one week after this incident, her grandpa bought her a packet of "longkang" fishes, but they met with the same fate. Hanhan was really sad this time and kept asking why did all the fishes die, we can't answer her as we had done what we know and I wonder why too. Hanhan wanted to keep a pet, and since "Puppy" and "Power" had died around June after living to a ripe old age, we told her that we might get her something else but we had made it clear to her that we are not keeping fishes again, at least not "longkang" fish. When grandpa knew what happened to the fishes, he wanted to buy another batch for Hanhan, but Daddy told him that we don't intend to keep fishes, maybe we will get a terrapin instead and her grandpa said that he will buy it for Hanhan. :P We will see about it then. My 5 year old

• likes to hold our hands and swing like a monkey after the count of 3



• walks faster than her mummy and likes to say "walk faster"



• likes to imitate her Daddy



• likes to talk a lot



• likes to watch VCD again and again


• likes to say "how long is this going to take"



• is growing more and more independent.



• scored full marks for all her English spelling and makes her mummy proud.



• promised to teach and play with her baby brother/sister :)

Photography Session

Daddy is recently back to school as a student for a short course. One of the modules that he has to take is photography. And he is certainly glad that he got me a DSLR as birthday present.

This man finally has to discard his habit of using the auto mode where sometimes the hateful flash create horrible effect and start playing with my his camera. Yeah, have to cancel "my" and change to "his", because my DSLR has now unofficially became his. *sob**sob*
For the past one month plus, I have followed him to several places to take photos. The idea of doing all the time consuming assignments is killing him but he found some joys in it nevertheless. One of his assignments is studio shoots. And we are really lucky that one of his friends who owns a studio is kind enough to lend it to us. Our little model wasn't really cooperative since the photos are taken after her school and she was a little tired. But with me as assistant, we finally managed to get some decent shoots. :)

I love the photos and hopefully we can take a four person family photo shoots in a studio soon.

Recent read :)

Our Holidays

The school holidays are gone in a puff. Can't really remember what I have done, as I have a poor memory but I do know that I have enjoyed myself.

School holiday is always a good time for family bonding. Daddy is working as a teacher, he is usually really busy during the school terms, it's only during school holidays that he has the time for us. And usually this is the time that Hanhan sticks to him more than she sticks to me.

Good time spent in photos.

Long time since I last went out with my mum and sisters.

We should really do this more often.

My sister asking Hanhan to smile.

Hahaha.... she's so naughty!

Hanhan's first sewing project: Bag completed

Lagged in blogging....

Hanhan had completed her bag a few weeks ago, and has been using it now and then. Her next project in mind is a dress for her toy penguin. Maybe we will start making it this evening. :)

Learning

Learning to sew

Hanhan has shown great interest in sewing with sewing machine. We had a try when she asked again a few days ago.

She sat on my lap and I guided her hands and controlled the foot pedal. It's not easy to sew with her sitting on my lap and blocking my view now and then (not to mention dangerous too). We shifted and shifted till we finally found a more comfortable position, and when she was more familiar with the sewing machine, she was given control of the top operation, I remained in charge of the foot pedal. Her interest or should I say her attention, didn't last long, she soon got tired and wanted to rest or play with her toys. We sewed bit by bit for the past few days, whenever she is interested in doing it. Today I let her have full control of the machine. With cushion and box under her butt and feet, she is able to have a better view of the sewing area and reach the foot pedal. Using my Innovis 4000D, with the speed set to medium, she managed to sew a few more lines entirely on her own. She is very excited about it, she said "sewing is fun". But she soon got tired and wanted to stop, because "sewing is tiring" :P

Learning to use my new camera

Got myself (sponsored by Daddy) a DSLR as birthday present :) because I want to take "controlled blur blur" photos. Sorry, I forgot the term for it, although my friend taught me that, so it's still known as "controlled blur blur" photos for me. Hahaha...

Still not familiar with it. There are several times that I tried to take photos with the len cover on.... hehehehe.... and I wondered why the viewfinder is all black :P Yeah... I managed to take blur blur photos but sadly not so "controlled" ones. Hope that you all won't feel giddy after looking at my photos.

A photo taken using my new camera, trying to create the blur blur effect.

Cheeky Bits

1) During sewing lesson.

Hanhan: 我肚子饿了。[I'm hungry.]
Me: Go and look for Daddy, I'm busy now. (Hoping that Daddy can help me to settle her.)

After some time.

Hanhan:我快饿死了！[I'm going to die of hunger soon!]
Me: ................ *_*"


Not sure when it started but Hanhan has became quite a drama queen.

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2) Hanhan whispered to me in the morning: Last night I tiptoed to the toilet. I don't want to let Daddy Mummy know.

And truthly she did, as I saw her sneaked back into her room :P

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Recently she likes to clip her hair up with Ikea bag sealer clips....

This post is initially created on 11 March morning, but I didn't get to finally it till today. Hope this can bring you a little smile amid the sad News about Japan.

Our Saturday; Sentosa Boardwalk

After shopping with Daddy for his school stuffs, Hanhan and I went to VivoCity to meet my girl friends for steamboat on Saturaday, not yesterday, it's last Saturaday... a late post again. It's an all girl affair, so Daddy prefers to stay home :P

Hanhan and I were there early, so we went shopping first. Hanhan loves to follow me wherever I go, even when go out with my girl friends. We were surprised to see that the Sentosa Boardwalk is completed and so we went to have a look.
The walkway is really spacious and beautifully decorated with flowers, so we went clicking on the camera. Learnt from previous experiences, now I tend to arm myself with camera whenever I go :>

:))) photo of me taken by Hanhan. I'm glad that she knows how to take photo.
One of the wire scultpure along the boardwalk.

Lollipop tree!!! Like the ones in Strawberry Land.

If only our land is covered with candies, cakes, chocolates and breads.

We walked all the way to the end of the boardwalk and Hanhan insisted that we enter Sentosa. Thinking that my friends had yet to reach and there might be more to see, I paid entry fee. After entering, I started to regret. There isn't much to see near the entrance beside the bunnies and the big "RW" flower sculpture, and it's crowded. And soon, my friend called to say they have reached, which means we need to go back to main land soon. We visited the visitor centre to ask for direction to the sky train station (thinking that will be the fastest and most comfortable way to get back), as the place is completely new to me after all the renovation. When we are finally near the sky train station, we saw long lines of people waiting. Are they queueing for movie tickets or ...??? Nope, they are all waiting to take the sky train. It's ridiculous!!! We ended up walking back to the main land again, luckily there is travellator at some stretch of the boardwalk.

It's a long wait to enter the restuarant, but I'm just glad that we have reached Vivocity to meet up with my girl friends.

Our sumptious steamboat dinner.

Back at Sentosa Boardwalk after dinner for a stroll, Hanhan's idea.

Reversible Pinafore

Something that I thought I will never sew for Hanhan, because she perspires a lot and doesn't like to wear in layers. However, there has been request for me to teach pinafore, so I thought maybe I should give it a try, sew one for Hanhan, maybe she can wear it when we go somewhere cooler for holiday this year end.

Can you see that she loves it?!

This side uses "happy chihuahua (pink)"
And she is in good mood to model it, but too bad.... bad lighting. I can't find a corner in my house that is not cluttered and bright enough to take photos. Wish I have the time to bring her out on a good weather to take nicer photos. Highly impossible.... this really needs 天时地利人和 ( 天时:fine weather; 地利:hm..... not sure if there's any nice and nearby place for photo taking; 人和:time when she doesn't have to go to school and I'm free, and of course she must be in good mood :P)
I asked her not to stand still and smile, because she will keep showing her "rabbit" hand sign and smile awkwardly. This is one of the rare stand still yet nice smile photo. :)

"Can I sit down?"

Hehehe.... she is tired after all the moving around.

This side uses " November Books Mermaid(pink)"

I'm taller and bigger!!