Bird Park

Lil Shauna is definitely an animal-baby. She loves nono to bits (although that love is not reciprocated) and she loves cats (but cats dun like her) and birds. She gets all excited at bird watching.

For somebody who doesnt know, it appears as if Lil Shauna has caught sight of UFO or something amazing. Haha.

From the bird watching, we know that we just had to bring her to the bird park again.

We wanted to go with nainai. But when we woke up last Sunday morning, it was threatening to rain any moment, so we had to drop nainai to prevent her from making a wasted trip, just in case it really pours.

We still went ahead with our plan and it was drizzling a little when we reached. Actually, God must have given us the overcast sky to cover the sun. The weather was really cool, which made bird watching really enjoyable.

Lil Shauna enjoyed herself a little bit more than the last time that we brought her. Just that every bird that flies in the sky is a "bird" and every bird that swims in the water is a "duck". Even the pretty, pinky flamingos are "ducks". Haha.

Lil Shauna loves the penguins bcos the viewing gallery allows her to stand right next to the swimming penguins. They were only separated by a glass and Lil Shauna was thrilled watching the penguins swim past in front of her.

Other than that, she loves the open air park with the flying birds. The birds are really beautiful.

We even fed the birds, or at least Daddy Lim did. The flapping of the birds were a little too much for me. And the birds park themselves on Daddy Lim. I think the humans are more scare of them that them of us.



As a result, Daddy Lim got bitten twice. Ouch, that's' not very nice. Bad birdies, bad manner to bite the hand that feeds you.

We had some nice parting shots.

















I love JBP more than zoo bcos it is nearer to our home, it is smaller and Lil Shauna loves birds more than animals. Hohoho. We are so coming back again.

Mummy Lim

Survived!

I survived Lil Shauna's fever. However strange it may sound, babies seem to be super cranky right after they recovered. Lil Shauna's fever left her yday but she was so uber cranky. She even refused to let me go to work yday's morning. -.o"

She was one active baby when I saw her last evening but her activeness was intercepted by multiple episodes of "eh, eh, eh". It really gets on one's nerves to have a baby who cannot be please and goes "eh, eh, eh" every now and then, despite me trying to do everything that I can to please her. Haiz.. For a while, I felt like a maid. ;p

And her infamous "mummy, mummy, mummy" chant. Double powered up when couple when her cries. My entire family is teasing her about her chant, but she seems nonchalant and continue with her chant. -.o"

She refused to let anyone else carries her when in a bad mood and stick to me like glue. Otherwise, her chant will begin. Oh, should I feel loved? Hehe.

The only bonus is that her fever is gone. She only woke up once last night to perform the "eh, eh, eh" show. At least I had a good sleep after being tortured for the past 3 nights.

Dear Lil Shauna, pls learn to speak soon. Mummy is old already, no energy to try and guess what "eh, eh, eh" is about.

Mummy Lim

Sick

Lil Shauna is down with fever. The doctor says that it is a viral infection.
It started off on Wednesday night, 2.30am. She was flipping and tossing on the bed and woke me up. I tot she felt warm and got a shock when she measures 38 degree. Luckily, there was still fever medicine left from her last episode.

Daddy Lim had been feeding Lil Shauna Scott's Fish Oil, orange favour and I am glad that she loves it. This is bcos the fever medicine looks exactly like the fish oil. Lil Shauna enthusiastically swallow the medicine thinking that I was feeding her fish oil. Haha.

Her fever was up & down thru'out yday. More up than down. Despite feeding her the stronger medicine, it didnt seem to bring down the fever. Thru'out last night, her fever hovers at 38 degree. Her body felt so warm, so poor thing.

Pls pray for the sick baby. Pray that God will take away the fever soon. Haiz.
When the baby fall sick, the adults suffer. My mum and I look like panda now. -.o"

Mummy Lim

Improved Version

Remember that Lil Shauna has learnt to shake her head to indicate "no"?
We have the improved version now. She will now chant "No, no, no" to complement her vigorous head shaking.

Remember that Lil Shauna has started to call me "Mummy"?
This has upgraded too. Whenever Lil Shauna is unwilling to do something (e.g. carried instead of being let down) and I am near, she will go "Mummy. mummy, mummy, mummy". As if chanting the magic words will give her magical power.

Remember that Lil Shauna is now walking steadily?
The powered up version will struggle to be let down and walked everywhere and aimlessly in the shopping mall. But when it is plain walking from point A to B, she will want to be carried. And when we tried to let her down, she will curl up her legs and ended up sitting on the floor if we persist.

Wow, I wonder if there are any bugs with the improved version. ;p

Mummy Lim

Childcare

People has been telling me that we have to book early for childcare, nursery, kindergarten, etc, so that our baby can enter into a good education institution and give her a good headstart. I heard of stories of how parents start queuing to be parental volunteers of "famous" schools when the child is as young as 3 years old. The Chan family has already registered Baby G for nursery when she's barely 8 months old. I always tot that all these people are kia su and I still relak one corner. I only intend to enroll her into childcare or playgroup or pre-nursery when she turns 2+ years old. I always tot that we still have lots of time.

Other than the tumbletot classes that Lil Shauna attends now and then, I haven done anything much about her "good headstart". Oh, I am actually starting to get bored of tumbletots (yes, me, not Lil Shauna) and tot of switching to something else. Hehe.

I am too lazy. There are tons of research to be done. Must even take time to visit the schools and see what the kids do in class before deciding lor. Then, one fine day, I suddenly tot of calling up the childcare at the Jurong Safra Club. It will be really convenient to send and pick Lil Shauna from school then. It is called the The Little Skool-House In-the-Treehouse.

I almost fell off my chair when I heard that the fees for half day sessions is $650 per month. As a working mum, I will get $150 subsidy. It will cost us $535 after subsidy and GST. -.o" I was telling my mum just now and she too exclaimed that the price is so high. Then she confidently say that sure no need to wait very long for a space cos it is far too expensive. She is so wrong. The queue is 9 to 12 months' long. -_______________-" It must be some kind of "branded" childcare. If we were to register our interest now, Lil Shauna will only enroll when she turned 28 months. Wah, makes me kan cheong. Guess what? Yes, I have asked for a registration form. I have joined the "kia su parents" club.

Mummy Lim

No Milk!

On good days, Lil Shauna will fall asleep while drinking milk or right after her bottle. Actually, dentists recommend babies to not sleep while drinking cos it promotes tooth decay. Oh, babies are also supposed to have their 1st dentist visit when they turn one. I seriously duno how to make one year old babies open their mouth to show their pearly whites to the dentists. Anyway, we couldnt really care much anput tooth decay. Daddy Lim will do his part to help Lil Shauna brush her teeth -- when he remembers. ;p We keep our fingers crossed, always hoping that she will drift to dreamland so that we too could have some rest after her milk.



For the past week, bcos Daddy Lim is on night shift and Lil Shauna has problem sleeping at popo's place, I had been "bringing" her home every night and tucking her to bed. Actually, my mum will walk her to my home and help me look after Lil Shauna while I bathe. It is definitely much easier than us staying over bcos the baby tends to turn in at about 9.30pm at home (must be our smell on the bed) and there wun be much fussy or fighting over toys. But her jie jies will come home with her and they will continue playing until about 9pm. I have not much complaints about that. My mum is already kind enuff to walk Lil Shauna home, allowing me to stay sane than to rush from work to mum's place to home.


During the time that they are at our place, they will snack on biscuits and drinks and whatever that they can find. Well, other junk food and baby snacks, there is basically not much human food in the house. As a result, there will be no more space in her tummy for milk. That was what happened last night and the same thing happened again tonight.

I was having my dinner (at home) and we have Lil Shauna walking to me every now and then, exclaiming "mum mum". Each time, she will have some luncheon meat off my fried rice into her little mouth. My mum then gave her baby biscuits to stop her from disturbing my dinner. Then came corn flakes shared by Lil Shauna and the 2 jie jies. Lil Shauna finally ended the whole makan session with half a bottle of water. Like that how to drink milk?

Without milk = no sleep. So, she ended up monkeying on the bed, despite only taking a short afternoon nap.


She had to use her last ounce of energy to play before finally flopping onto Daddy Lim's pillow and fell asleep.
I duno how she can sleep like that, but she did. Look at her feet! Daddy Lim always say that Lil Shauna had inherited my "shui xiang". She can flip the whole bed while sleeping. You know why he is complaining? Bcos Daddy Lim always find Lil Shauna sleeping horizontally acrossed his portion of the bed when he returns from night shift, leaving him no space to sleep at all. Hohoho.


Mummy Lim

Today's Traffic News

Driving Mummy Lim and Shauna to MIL's place today, we saw a motorcyclist waiting to cross a zebra crossing. Or perhaps he was trying to get onto the filter lane as we were making the turn onto the same filter lane. He waved for us to go ahead, so we drove past him and I waved back.
Mummy Lim was laughing at the back seat asking why I waved back, he was a motorcyclist at a zebra crossing, that's not right! Our conversation then turned to "What do you call a motorcyclist trying to cross a zebra crossing? Answer: Pedestrian" joke.

After dropping Shauna, we proceeded to drop Mummy Lim off at work. As we made another turn into a congested road, I was wondering why it was so congested. This road was never jammed like that.. Then we saw why. The Traffic Police had stationed themselves there. They were there for a reason and I thought they were trying to catch overloaded lorries ferrying workers or something of the sort. Just as we passed the TP, I saw in the rearview mirror a car had been stoppped by the TP. But it was'nt a fancy race car with mods. It was one carrying a red license plate. Then we checked the time: 0711hrs. Poor sod. Guess he never expected the TP to be in that ulu area where we work..

Then the conversation switched to why we need the TP to do this since all OPCs are going to be monitored via their IU in future. We were just rambling and laughing at how they were going to be captured: by GPS, by satelite, by distance moved or by speed moving? Note to BB: we are wrong, an E-day license can be purchased online. LTA officials will just take down the number and check against the system to see if they have violated any rules.

So that's what we talk about in the car. Silly ramblings, having a good giggle. This night shift has brought me further from Mummy Lim and Shauna but this is how we catch up LOL

No offense to any OPC owners if you happen to be reading this. No cars were harmed during the posting of this blog ;p

Daddy Lim

Cut Hair

Daddy Lim has been complaining about Lil Shauna's hair again. Well, her fringe is indeed a little too long and threatening to poke her eyeball anytime. She refuses to let me tie her hair too and looks like a messy puppy. Daddy Lim threatens to bring Lil Shauna to cut her hair. -.o"

Under desperation, I had to whip out the kitchen scissor and salvage the situation. I had to try to coax Lil Shauna to sit still, which is next to impossible. So, I tried snipping whatever that I can off the fringe of a moving baby. The next impossible thing is to make sure that the cut fringe is even or looks natural. I achieved none. No Surprise. Hohoho.

Lil Shauna looks so comical after the hair cut. I even burst out laughing. Bad mummy.

After struggling with the baby for the longest time, I finally managed to tie her hair into a ponytail. But bcos her hair at the side is not long enuff, she looks a little messy.

Actually, Lil Shauna still looks cute.
I am so glad that she took the hair cut very well and didnt hate me. Hohoho.




Lil Shauna: Oh no, Mummy, what did you do to my hair??!!

Mummy Lim

P.S - Lil Shauna calls "Pappy" while "chatting" with him over video call just now. Daddy Lim must be thrilled. I better go sleep soon. The princess refused her night feed for whatsoever reason. I think she will wake up in the night for milk. -.o"

Vacation in the pipeline!

So.. Mummy Lim is uber hard-up for another holiday. She's got wayyyyy too much leave to clear. This time round, we're going to Melbourne. HIghlights include Farm Stay, strawberry picking, watching penguins return home to their burrows etc etc.. Basically, another "relak-one-corner" vacation ;p

Btw, my mum will be coming on this one. Lil Shauna can be such an angel and cutie at times (especially when she just wakes up and greets the morning), but.. she can also be a big (small?) bully to her Mummy and Daddy. Another extra pair of hands is no bad thing hehehe

Daddy Lim

Teaching Fondant Modeling

DL had been great in boosting my confidence in cupcake baking. She rekindled my dream of making baking my 2nd career. 1st, she asked if I was keen to bake cupcakes for her friends' bridal shower. I back out for fear of ruining the happy occasion. Then she asked if I am willing to teach her BS girls on cupcake making. After procrastinating and her chasing me for many times, I finally put my heart into it and decided on the date to do so.

We decided that cupcakes baking is probably too boring for the girls. They are afterall 14 years old, full of energy and cannot sit still. Who at 14 years old wants to learn how to bake? I still remember how I dislike going for Home Econs class when I was 14. The stupid cloth hat that we had to wear on our head, making us look like some dutch lady milk maid just made things worse. Hohoho.

So, DL + a friend met me in the morning at my place to bake the cakes + prepare the butter cream. Poor her, she had to take the MRT from Eunos all the way to Pionner. We then brought the prepared cupcakes to T-junction to meet her 4 BS girls + other labourer.

I was intro as the "super-senior". -.o" I feel so old lor. But truth be told, I am that old loh. They werent even born when I left SHSS. To push it further, if I had given birth at 17 years old, my child would be as old as them liao. Hohoho. Anyway, regardless of how old I am, I am so glad that I will always be one year younger than DL. Hohoho.

Back to the baking, her BS girls were really quiet initially. After all the messing around, they started laughing and joking and opening up. Just like any other ladies who tried their hands at fondant modeling, they ended up dressing their cupcakes no end, or what Daddy Lim referred to as "overkill". Haha. I had to keep rushing the girls bcos they can just keep adding flowers and decorations to their cupcakes. We will never move on then.

The girls with the completed cakes.

A closer look of the cakes. It is supposed to be garden theme, we made a dog, a bee and a rabbit.
I had to rush off to fetch the baby, but I heard from DL that the girls enjoyed themselves and were super proud of their creation. DL brought her cakes to some fellowship after that and even received many praises. Hohoho, my head just grew bigger. Anybody wants to exchange free cupcakes for babysitting services?
Mummy Lim