good habits starts young

a savings habit is exactly that – a habit.

getting into the habit of saving money takes practice. we hope to start alexis early, so she will be all set to start saving as she grows up.

nom nom nom

our happy little girl is happy as can be, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea etc. she eats a lot, and consumes a large volume of vegetable and soup. she loves her cheerios and full fat cheese for snacks, but basically anything and everything on her plate. this little girl is a very healthy eater and has not yet touched much outside food. normally i will cook and pack her lunch/dinner in a thermal container and bring it out so there is no reason why i should feed her seasoning-rich outside food.

her sleeping habit

while the world celebrates christmas and new year, alexis is away in her lalaland since 8.30pm which makes me delighted much!

alexis has her solid and long nap once a day and her night bedtime is just after 8.30pm every night. we pop her into bed, off the lights, close the door and she will promptly fell asleep by herself sometimes after some self-talking-and-singing but sometimes without a peep. i attribute it to the fact that she is so active during the day, so she simply knocks out at night. but occasionally when we had some family outing to attend, her bedtime blasted out to after 9pm. although she holds her sanity together and no hysterics breakdown, i do not have a positive feeling to it. i seriously believe that sleep is necessary for a human body and brain development, especially for a young child. though i am not exactly sure what work the brain does when we are asleep, but the moment she wakes up with a cherry smile, i know she has rested sufficiently and well.

ever since the girl was moved from a cot bed to a single bed, she is most of the time, the first riser in the house. sometimes she leaves her room to come to our room for a morning cuddle and acts like an annoying alarm clock, sometimes she plays with her toys herself and sometimes she ransacked my bags on the table, playing with everything she sighted such as make-up and coins and cards and tissue.

she is so hilarious and merry almost all the time that she makes me forget all the annoying grief that she displays!

her everyday habit

alexis has her fixed timings on the toilet, twice a day - morning after milk and evening before bed. this habit of her has received many applauses and commendations from people. in fact, i am really proud of her too.

the man and i chat a lot with alexis every evening after school, when we were having dinner, while she is doing her business on the toilet and before her bed time at 8.30pm. we discuss a whole lot of amusing things. we never get round to recording it because we were having so much fun in the moment with our sweet and innocent little gem.

please stay this way :)

crazy little

i still love her, by the way.

merry christmas 2013

i had a good christmas eve feast. i spent the night at home with my loved ones, and it was perfect. we baked a turkey breast, along with vegetables. plus chips and salsa. plus the man's red wine. plus a lighted mini christmas tree. plus smiles and laughters. it was lovely! :)

falling in love does not happen just once. it happens when you fall in love with the perfect one and our little girl; not once, but everyday. and even when i am going make-up-less and showing a tired face on our christmas dinner evening :) i am glad we made the effort to pull together our little celebration. i guess this year is good, since alexis is old enough to process it all and was actually singing jingle bells happily repeatedly like a broken radio. i really enjoyed the fun times we had with her :))

merry christmas!

unhappy things

...keeps me all day long thinking. you cannot make things stay if they are not meant to be. it has been raining everyday sometimes so unexpectedly i forget it is the monsoon season. perhaps it is just me, but the change in seasons always give me this dipping of mood. i start thinking about the past events, the possibilities of what could happen and what the next chapter of a new year might bring.

now, i am a little out of place.

my perfect imperfection

everything is better with homemade caramel cheesecakes. and a cuppa of nespresso.

she loves her books more than toys

among all the things presented in front of her, alexis has always had a soft spot for books. this is through our observations and her teachers' comments :) she loves her books, newspapers, magazines and posters and is always so happy during reading time. reading time together is a special time when she sits on our lap or on the sofa and share the pleasure of a reading material without distractions. we have a small library at home to allow alexis to handle freely and viewing reading as part of her daily life.

while alexis has no access to television programmes and screen-based activities, all these things naturally do not appeal to her anymore. she is not in the least attracted to the sunday morning showings on televisions in coffeeshops or the cartoon screen-based entertainment in the neighbour's house.

everyday, we have a really wonderful time, and it reminded me that there’s more to life than working and chores.

pancakes and loves

pancakes, it is what for breakfast. pancakes and maple syrup is a match made in heaven and makes for a weekend breakfast treat and what is not to love about it when it is a weekend spent with loves :)

quote of kindness

be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

from pg to n1

just like that, alexis's life in playgroup is coming to an end. so many amazing things she learnt in merely half a year in school. i am awed, i cannot put this in words. it is her knowledge and foundation. how do i describe that rich taste of sheer joy when i see her looking forward to school everyday, coming home happily with a set of knowledge and learnings?

so much for her beautiful days in playgroup - she will be 'promoted' to nursery one.

photos on alexis's school

i think i certainly live up to singaporean standard on the aspect of taking pictures enthusiastically the moment we stepped into a place that i like. alexis's palatial school that captures every possible amazed satisfactory smiles and the opulent entrance was a thing that make the place so charming that it was so hard not to like, for the children and parents. and of course, the walls that were donned with painting, colours and creativity, perfect piece of art.

location: mindchamps preschool, serangoon

snipe off

this is not alexis's first haircut and very thankfully, just like every other times, she sat through it very still and tolerated the cut without fussing. this girl looked rather unconcerned in fact so the whole process was totally not dramatic and uneventful :)

her playdate with 2 boys

what will life be if i have two boys and a girl?

our lil performer

i was mad excited when this day comes - alexis's concert performance in school. alexis is so charming today, she is just so fun to be around and i think she made the concert performance rather spectacular. while she was not interested in the dance movements during rehearsals, teachers and parents commended her for her magnificent performance today and that makes me a proud mommy :) alexis, since a baby, always got attention from people that melt over her friendliness and vocalism. in school, she loves dishing out grins and hellos to potential parents so the teachers called her the mascot :)

i just love this girl, more and more every single seconds! she is right now on the cusp of become a little girl with all her wills and desires and personalities coming through. it is such a precious period, while i am acutely aware of the fact that it will not last forever, i treasure every moment that she spends with us.