Together, forever

Our family is more closely-knit as before. This past weekend was one filled with laughter, joy and smiles.

On Saturday, we finally selected the tiles and toiletries fixtures for our new home...another step closer to our very own domestic paradise.

On Sunday, we rewarded the kids with a scrumptious breakfast (in which Little Bee persistently tried eating our "adult" food!). She is quite a little greedy baby ;) We then went to the newly open Jacob Ballas Children's Garden, and Big Bee was ecstatic with its lush, wondrous environs. We touched velvety-textured flowers, smelled the fresh smell of foliage, gazed at pretty, bright flowers, listened to the soft whisperings of leaves orchestrating with the wind and immersed our physical selves onto a treehouse and labyrinth. Truly a place to titillate all senses! Big Bee is totally in love with the place!

In the afternoon, the hubby created a resplendant menu for our upcoming new home cafe, and Big Bee was so thrilled. She is really getting extremely attached to us, after we moved in to our parents' place and spend most of our waking leisure hours with her.

2007 in a nutshell

Welcome to the last day of 2007. This had been a momentous year, with many significant events - from a new birth to our family, to us uprooting from our matrimonial home to a brand new place, to 3 sensational overseas trips, amongst other upheavals and beatitudes. Truly memorable.

Unfortunately, I am spending the last few days of the year in a hectic rush, scrambling for time, challenging it, begging for more of it - all in a bid to complete the very final module of my MBA assignment and examination due on the 2nd day of the new year, urgh!

However, I see the blessing in this. For next year will be a year overflowing with quality leisure time.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Little Bee is One :)

Little Bee turns one year on 8 December :) On that joyful Saturday, I happily collected a charming and alluring 3D magic fairy mushroom house cake, all immersed in sweet pink and white icing, with little fairies swirling around its roof. It is a huge 3.2kg cake, and the whole family was awed by it.

We sang her very first birthday song, but she was more enchanted by the cake and the beautiful solitary flickering candle. Time will pass real fast, and before we know it, there will be multiple candles on her cake soon.

It is a simple celebration with our family, as celebrating a loved one's birthday is really about having your closest family members beside you. And for Little Bee, her little world just comprises of us and our immediate families. Soon, she will have more of her own friends gracing her special occasion, just like Big Bee, sharing her unique day with many others. But for now, I am content to know that we are everything in Little Bee's tiny life :)

Happy Birthday, Little Bee :)

Feathered Friends

We brought the 2 Bees to the Jurong Bird Park 2 Saturdays ago (24 Nov). This is Little Bee's first trip to a place of interest. She is a bold little one alright, not batting an eyelid when we entered the World of Darkness. Big Bee decided to be a brave one as well, venturing by herself into the World of Darkness, unlike her timidity during her school's field trip. Well done, Big Bee! It was totally enjoyable, strolling around, dousing ourselves with huge dollops of Mother Nature, amidst blossoming flowers and verdurous foliage, with fluttering feathered wings of all kinds. Little Bee's round eyes are bright and filled with wonder. Big Bee is ecstatic when we brought her to walk around the open aviary. What a fun family outing indeed!

A Sui Generis Teddy Bear

I took leave last Friday, 23 November, and had a wonderful time chilling out with the 2 kids at home. Also very tiring, having to bath 2 kids and feed 2 kids one after the other! But it's fatigue that is worth a million chores :)

In the evening, I took a taxi with Big Bee to meet hubby at his workplace. We decided to go to the Esplanade to be immersed in the artsy Christmas ambience. And we got adventurous with Big Bee, since she is such a big girl already, and went into a Korean BBQ restaurant. However, instead of eating BBQ, we opted for a sumptuous hotpot meal instead! Lots of meat and vegetables, but at the end of the day, I decided I am not exactly a fan of Korean food. The kimchi that my friends so raved about was totally not appreciated by me at all!

After dinner, our princess wanted to go to Mrs Fields for her favourite cookies treat. We also strolled into the Cool Bear Workshop just opposite Mrs Fields. I had to be curious and asked about the prices. After which I found the whole idea of creating your very own individual teddy bear so novel that I asked Big Bee if she wanted to create her own little bear. Her eyes sparkled and twinkled like a thousand stars just dropped into her lap. It was such a pleasure to grant a little girl's wish!

She selected a pink fluffy bear (her favourite colour, no doubt), and took her time to choose a gorgeous outfit for her bear. She settled for a lavender ballerina costume that she had been eyeing since our last visit, I am sure. We then proceeded to create a birth certificate for this bear, and Big Bee named her Pinky. They even measured her height and weight! Thus, a brand new bear is born into the family on 23 Nov 2007 - another birthday to remember ;)

After buying Big Bee her bear, I could not resist asking her to pick another bear for Little Bee's first birthday 2 weeks later. She selected a brown fluffy bear for her, and named this bear Brownie, also another girl bear, with a pretty traditional cardigan and patterned skirt outfit that I chose, to Big Bee's indignation! We embossed "1st Year" on the back of her cardigan so Little Bee will remember this bear as her 1st birthday bear :)

So there we are - a pair of "twin" bears born into our family, within 30 minutes of each other.