dearest dahlia,

was it just last week that we had that private conversation about taking time growing up so fast?

home alone three days ago, we were tumbling in bed and when i had to have a pee break you held on to my leg and let out the softest mews unwilling me to leave you alone just for a bit. so i tied an imaginary knot in my bladder and continued tumbling around with you, playing peekaboo and tickledoodledoo. not 5 minutes later i REALLY had to go so we held hands and i placed you in the bathtub while you watch heh. then we held hands again out to the living room just in time for your favourite mickey mouse show on 34.

i sat on the floor while you stood, still holding my hand. when the hotdog song came along i slowly let go of your little finger and you amazingly stood still the entire hotdog song! so i inched backwards and let you stand by yourself till you realised, and you shot me the "ibu i'm falling!" look. and that's when i pointed both my index fingers up and said "ok dahlia.. wait.. wait..."

and you waited! you pointed your own index fingers, then took a few steps in front.. your very first confident steps! three days later, a few minutes ago ayah beamed with price looking at you toddling all over the room at Lola's :)

and ibu? ibu had to take a moment and wipe her own tears coz she can't believe her baby's all grown up. we love you Baby D :)




check out her professional u-turning lol. dont mind my ghastly outlook, i had my Peserta-peserta Mencari Teman dari Variapop 1993 garb on for the night heh.

Labels: 1-2yrs, baby d, milestones, mommyzine, theBoy

so much for my project run-away heh, it really did runaway! if you remember a post with two pieces of japanese cotton a while ago, yes i was trying my darnest to sew D baju kurungs for raya but errr.. inspiration ran away? :)

so on saturday after my obligatory Chat Masala belated birthday dinner treat from the boy, we decided to head to geylang and promised ourselves we queue for that darn vadai together with other oily bazaar go-ers. heh. banyak punya promise. even though we got a nice parking lot at joochiat complex, we couldnt bring ourselves to step out of that place. aircon dorang macam makin sejuk. lighting pun dah up sikit. tiles pun dah cantik. we spent an hour going round and round the backalleys of joochiat complex to look for D's baju kurungs. we got one, luckily for the first day of raya. but by then the boy had sweat out his whole Chat Masala Lychee Lassi away and said "Home, now!" ok lor.

nasib baik monday kerja. me and nurul managed to drag ourselves out during lunch and trudge all the way to joochiat complex again under the sweltering heat and nasib baik lah dapat D's red baju kurung. nurul cant find what she wanted sooooo... we decided to break fast at geylang! hehe. at the end of the day, everyone's happy and sated. we got our vadai, i got lampu laplips (but the wire's too short, urgh!), sujithingamajigs from rajakuih for mak and most importantly D has two bajus ready for raya :)

my two pieces of japanese cotton? err, tangguh tahun depan can? hehe.

Selamat Hari Raya!

Labels: baby d, petpot mak-mak, theBoy

the last whole week with my baby before wednesdays and thursdays start, amongst other things.

we had a sentosa picnic planned on wednesday afternoon but it rained and rained so we headed to vivo for a bit, and then to earle swensens at t3 for dinner with zain and parents, and faiz and sheila.

and then we met the girls on thursday night for dinner at... earle swensens again! i'm on love with their salad buffet, and am glad to intro it to tini, who i'm sure will drag rock for some salad loving too! :)



waiting for auntini and aunteacher @ terminal 3



at 1030pm and she's not even close to being sleepy!



not much difference eh? the top was new year 2008 at fish&co, the bottom is last thursday!



on saturday after springcleaning the woodlands room we went to simei for baby elisa's cukur rambut.



and then off to simpang for dinner with the faiz/sheila duo again!

16 more days till she turn 1!

Labels: 9-12mths, baby d, babyfriends, theBoy

with the boy on a boys' night out with his fave lad who's probably spilling his jittery guts out now as we speak.. i decided!!



the usual lineup



chillin' in the fridge. takes a herd of cows to stop me from slicing gingerly and stashing said slice in freezer to fasten the cooling process!



mmmmm i couldnt resist. this was 5 mins ago when i decided, enough is enough! i cant wait no more! :)

thank heavens D is knocked out early today. must be something in her salmon porridge ;) *scoots off to watch all 4 remaining episodes of Samantha Who with my perfect chocolate companion*

Oreo Chocolate Cheesecake
1½ cup Oreo cookies - crushed
⅓ cup butter - melted
3 packs of cream cheese - soften to room temperature
4 eggs - room temperature
1 cup sour cream
¾ cup sugar
3 tbsps of unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
8 Oreo cookies - quartered
6 Oreo cookies - crushed

- preheat oven to 160degC
- in bowl, mix 1½ cup crushed Oreos with melted butter. Mix evenly and pat down on 9" springform pan and set aside
- in a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla essense and sour cream with electric mixer at top speed for 2 mins and medium speed for 2 mins
- sift in cocoa powder to prevent lumps
- add in all 4 eggs and mix on medium speed for 3 mins
- pour smooth batter over crust in springform pan
- drop Oreo quarters in batter and bake for 40mins
- once done, run a clean knife along rim of springform pan and then sprinkle remaining 6 crushed Oreo cookies
- refridgerate for at least 6hrs before you devour and be sent to chocolate heaven :)

ps: yaccs is down. will give it another 2-3 days before i work out another commenting system.

Labels: baby d, chowtalk, idiotbox, theBoy

we started off with breakfast and super last minute kain-searching with theboy. and crossing our fingers (eyes and toes) that the seamstress will still accept, yikes!


and then we met ianian!

lunch @ McD, stopped by the takababyfair for a bit, retreated to the nursery on level 3 and then omgwthbrb thegirl slept while i pushed her around in the stroller! may i add this rarely happens as she'd always need me to dodoi her to sleep.. and usually when i dodoi her to sleep and attempt to put her slowly in the stroller, she'll wake up screaming?!

so anyway, we trooped to paragon after that where ianian was lulled to sleep at the nursery heh, and the mommies had breeze windowshopping. mandatory stop at vitakids to stock up on the organix munchies and then to starbucks. and then i got hungry so fish&co it is.. where i satisfied my monthlong craving for swordfish collllaaaaaah!


wondering where's her food


wondering if nice auntiebilla will get her food


ahhh.. there's her cornsnack..


ooomphhh.. chompchomp


starting to pout coz my lovely swordfishcollar is here and i'm not paying attention to her


screaaaaaaming for attention, urgh!!!

dahlia sayang, can dont be so garang anot? girl cannot be so garang tau! nanti ibu susah.. nanti ibu will have heartattack like your nyai a few yrs ago, when your nyai asked me when i will settle down.. ibu said "when i turn 35, ma!" :)


mandatory selfshot before we happily fold our own strollers into our own cabs and head home. i always, always love hearing other ppl go "wah so good she can carry baby in one hand and fold/keep stroller in the trunk with the other.. hen li hai wor!"

Labels: 9-12mths, baby d, babyfriends, babymakan, let's talk shop, theBoy

she's really been a handful, my little girl. and i'm actually glad i get to see it everyday now. i never know when it's too early/late to start discipling (theboy always says that i'll be the bad parent) but he's had his fair share of NO DAHLIAAAA CANNOT!!

but she tames down quite immediately at night when i switch off the main light, switch on the nightlight and lay down with her on our bed. that's the trick to put her to sleep.. she'd need to roll around on ours before going to deep sleep. and last night when i was rubbing her back, something she absolutely loves (and me too!) telling her not to be so notti in the day.. she gave me the sweetest smile with a slight giggle! how to be angry at her all the time tell me? -_-

anyway, i cant resist getting her a barney bagpack from my takababyfair spree last week.


dahlia doing the barney roundabout from shotbyfau on Vimeo.


d finds barney again from shotbyfau on Vimeo.

i know.. my bad. but it was really lolworthy! anyway she was back to being a happy baby after her barney trauma in no time!

Labels: 9-12mths, baby d, theBoy, videokilledtheradiostar

today we took a little trip down memory lane, to where we first heard her little meek cries. where she pooped sweet smelling poop all over the weighing scale which guarantees and confirms that she's ayah's little baby. where i almost KO-ed in the toilet after delivering her coz i action gung-ho only hehe.

it's been exactly 11 mths! her little meek cries are now attention seeking screams. her sweet smelling poop can lawan her ayah's and i'm not KO-ing just yet.. in fact i'm enjoying life at home! :)


she can't keep still!


so ayah keeps her occupied..


while i ravaged the freshest bun out of the oven, Muhammad Rayyan!

feels nice to wake up on a Monday morning and find an sms from a new mommie AND THEN being able to visit newbaby and newmommie straight away.. no monday blues! :) congrats to BFF maisarah and asid for the little bundle of joy! like finally, one of the geng with a baby! now i simply cant wait for raya coz we'll be zipping around with the babies hehe.

speaking of zipping around.. dahlia and ibu's been doing just that lately. and even managed to be patriotic singaporeans and escape to malacca for a weekend!


oh hello!


lunchdate with sarah and siti @ united square


teatime dates with zac/bena, jordan/gywen & sarah/siti


grocery shopping with ayah!

so yeah, i've been nicely occupying myself at home. and hopefully i'd still be able to spend as much time with her when tues/thurs starts :)

Labels: 9-12mths, baby d, babyfriends, my girls, theBoy, tripthelight

this was yesterday, as requested by the boy.

whom i have a huge urge to rename The Old Boy. i also have this huge urge to konk his head coz he modified the redmobile and now when we sit in it, it feels like we're seated in the last row of a silk/air plane. i sulked and pulled the longest face ever when i discovered how it rumbled, and whined to d that now d, you wont be able to hear ibu's melodious lullabies putting you to sleep when we're in the redmobile, coz ayah changed the exhaust to one made of freaking buluh!

watching baby mama now, heh.

it's week 2! and i'm happy as can be. malacca this weekend with ianian and familia!

Labels: baby d, chowtalk, theBoy, tripthelight

last night i dreamt i was in train that wouldnt stop. and a team of firemen had to stand in front of the station with the train blitzing towards them so the train will stop. and when i saw the train approaching towards the wall of men, i huddled with a family member (i cant for the love of God remember who it was now) and cried coz i was afraid the train will tip over and we will all die.

i'm having issues with my 17-turning-18 yr old no. 3. everyone's gone thru a rude phase. i did, so did no.2 and now no.3. but omg you are so bloody rude to me i'd love to smack your face. and to prevent myself from doing that everytime you're rude to me (which is all the time), i have decided to /ignore you until you stop being rude. how can you speak to me with that tone yet you give all your love and respect to your friends and bf? i'm sorry but for now i cant be bothered with you.

last night we had dinner at newton sans baby. and on the way home blasted our favourite songs from the iPod. i love D to death, but i miss our carefree days. weird?

Labels: dreamcatcher, la familia, sonicyouth, theBoy

dearest d,

it's been more than a week since your nyai and yai's gone off to perform their umrah so for one whole week ibu and ayah had to play nanny. :)

on sunday, the both of us and a bunch of our friends from sept07 went for the kindermusik trial.


that's you and ian carried by auntie billa, who helped ibu with carrying you for a bit while i fished the (@^#!(! buzz out of the cab-boot.


(l-r)jordan, kelly, d & ian

after the uneventful trial class, we both did a spot of shopping at forum while waiting for ayah. waited for quite a bit, so we used the Mommy's Room as our secret hideout, heh heh.

we slept over at your atok's place that night, and the next morning i had to tear myself away from you. i kept telling myself, i'll see you in less than four hours' time... guess I'm the one suffering from separation anxiety instead of you eh? :) i prepared a list of things ayah needed to pack for the day, and a bit of this and that. and oh, a PLEASE DO NOT SPEED warning at the end of the printout.

why? coz on this day, ayah did something he has never ever done before. he drove from woodlands to my office building........... with you in the carseat! i must say he passed with flying colors! he dropped you off and after visiting my colleagues for a bit, off we went to en en's pad at redhill! only then did ibu realise your ayah has forgotten to pack your lunch, urgh!


en en, d & zac at the far back


on tuesday, after fetching you from atok's house we stomped home and i prepared the stuff for pizza, by special request from your bibik i'in. HOWEVER, none of your bibiks came home for dinner so NO pizzas were made. fine, i said. give them chance. but ayah said it was one of the best pizzas he's ever tasted :)

on wednesday i decided to take the whole day off, and WALLA! finally i can proudly stand up to the world and annouce that i have done the 'Poop While Holding Your Baby In Your Lap' deed! coz even though i pooped with the toilet door opened and you right in front of the door in your exersaucer, you wailed out for the residents of istanbul to hear! so i hauled you off your toy and placed you on my lap while i pushed with all my might. when it was time for me to cebok, i held you around my right arm, i turned behind for the hose and let my right hand grip the head. i turned on the hose with my left, aimed superbly wrong and drenched the both of us in water! it was really a hilarious sight, if only somebody could have recorded our antics :)


lounging with ibu at the living room on your bumpermat..

ibu cooked again this day and AGAIN your bibiks came home late. by 9 they were not home yet so i called their mobiles and screamed for the residents of turkey to hear! once they got home, they showered and both went straight to bed! again i screamed out loud at them coz it was bloody rude of them to ignore what i painstakenly cooked! top this off with an ability to make a chocolate sponge cake siap dengan chocolate frosting and roasted almonds eh. but of course... UNAPPRECIATED!!

now i know how my mom feels when we come home late and dont eat dinner :(

on thursday you rode in the car again with ayah, who has planned a whole day out! though at first we had to wait for ayah to finish meeting a client at icon. we lounged at the nice huge sofa at the lobby where you chatted up a guy who was on his lunchbreak :)


gelare while waiting for ayah's client to arrive

flasher at icon's lobby!

you were relegated to the back seat and it felt funny at first not having you in my arms while in the car, but you seemed fine though you love to tilt your head to the side to gaze at the trees whizzing by.


roadtripper

ayah bought me a lightweight stroller from graco so ibu can now happily bring you out without needing to think twice about escalators or hauling the )@#&)@! buzz out of the cab-boot, superyeay!! ouh, we managed seoul garden with a demanding 8mth old baby after the stroller purchase! then off to the toy fair at the basement where ayah got you an FP activity table :)

on friday ayah drove you to my office building again and dropped us off at the singapore expo as we're to meet mama justme and sarah for the motherhood fair! we had a great time with sarah and her mummy and ibu was really thankful for the lightweight stroller :) and get this, i even took the escalator.... and the mrt with you!! wowoweeewah!!


sarah and dahlia after milk and lunch

now it's my turn to have lunch, you sit and watch k

twas a fun fun day!

can you believe that i managed to lug one diaper bag, one huge shopping bag, one stroller and one baby up three fleets of stairs?? walla!

on saturday since ibu's nyai and yai will be sleeping over i decided to drag bibik fidzah and you to amkhub to get some fish to make a sweet&sour dish. so we supermarketed and went home to fry the fish... which apparently is the WRONG fish lar! we bought ikan kekek instead of ikan bawal, sheesh. after a whole day of kecohchachahemoh, we lepaked in front of the tv.


your latest stunt, the 'AHHH-DIA-NAK-ADIK' pose, hrmph!


the pinhole-by-fisher-price series

today your mak nyai came by to visit, with your wak chomel. and tomorrow, ibu's ma and pa will be back. we videocalled them every single day, remember? hehe. we had fun the whole week sayang, i'll gladly do it again with you!

Labels: 6-9mths, babyfriends, la familia, theBoy

ok this will be random spurts.

1. i literally feel like a christmas tree today. i feel like shit and i feel fatter than i already am. i hate my hair. i hate my huge pores, u can see them from istanbul. but that's beside the point. let's track back to my christmas tree outfit. i have a nice shade of red topshop tank inside. i wear my v-neck 'st.patrick's day'-green 3/4 sleeve outside. my hair is so dry.

dry hair = christmas tree leaves
red + green combo = christmas

top this up with wearing the wrong bloody bra. i am officially, The Christmas Tree with Nipples. :( i don't even wanna stand up to make my coffee.

or pee. :(

2. me: sayang, you always just say I love you. that's only three words.
him: yah, why?
me: why cant you say i love you very much. that's five words.
him: what's the difference?
me: effort!!! youve got to put in effort on this kind of things!! 3 words VS 5 words is a huge thing!
him: ok lah. i love you very much very very my gemok baby beruang.
me: eh so plastic. sayang if i wanted plastic i'll get it from SKP.

so hungry. nothing to eat.

ps: mimi, please remind me to put Professional Voyuer in my resume, thanks! :D

Labels: pesen masa kini, theBoy

it was an accomplishment doing what i did this morning, so proud of meself. of course, thanks to theBoy for being there with me. the results of this morning? i'm crossing my fingers, hoping for good news. a change would do me good.

in a forwarded email yesterday. cracked me up BIG time!

Men were born between the legs of a woman, yet men spend all their life and time trying to go back between the legs of a woman....
Why?
BECAUSE THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME

LOL! when i read it out loud to theBoy, he said "Well they arent the SAME PAIR OF LEGS, what!" heh.

the weekend looks packed. shoot tomorrow with ianian and familia, babyvisit at din's and dinner with the noons familia. sunday is an ol'friend's wedding, and then lepakism with the girls and then mommy's day dinner with both sides.

hope i'll have time to intro fish to d :)

Labels: baby d, greencubicle, plans, theBoy, work

we're on the hunt again for a new one.

our first was the humble capella, a korean brand we bought from one of the babystores at kaki bukit. it serves us so. baby can face us, baby can sleep reclined, it has a huge shopping basket. but it wasn't sturdy. it felt rickety, and once i almost sepit d's tiny fingers when i changed the handlebar's position. since then kita tawar hati.

and then a good friend was looking for a seller for her quinny buzz, a gift from a friend but it cant fit into her cute car's boot. she even tempted us further with a nice price to go, and theBoy loved it's design and said "skarang baru kena, big size bawak big stroller!" i hope he was referring to himself when he said that, heh.

we're very happy with it. very very happy.

until we realise how heavy it was for theBoy to lug it up 3 storeys (rumah kita sedang menjalani lift upgrading), and i always have second, third and fourth thoughts when i'm going out with d to meet friends. and i am ALWAYS out with d alone on weekends since theBoy has shoots. many times i have to ask theBoy where his shoots are, and if he can drop us off with the buzz to where i'm meeting my friends, say.. marina sq, or suntec. and if he says yes, i ask if it's good timing for him to pick us up after his shoot.

with my escastrollerphobia, i have qualms about taking the mrt with the stroller. -_- so i take the cab. but aside from the $$$, i can't fold the darn stroller while carrying a fidgety 7mth old, can i?!

and here we are. back with our stroller woes. and so we lay our eyes on the bee. i know, i know.. major consumerism at it's best. we. cant. help. ourselves.

no, we have not bought it yet. plus point, it's much much lighter for theBoy to carry up the stairs compared to the buzz. minus point, i still cant fold it with one hand, the other carrying baby. so i'm relying on my two bee spokespeople from sept07 to CONVINCE me that i can do it!

we left HF mothercare last night with a frown as to why cant we fall in love with the bee like we did with the buzz the first time we saw it. and i woke up with a throbbing headache.

Labels: let's talk shop, theBoy

the melodrama cynic in me posed this question on msn to the boy the other day, both of us at up to our necks with our individual pile of workload.

cynic: when do you miss me, sayang?
...
...
a moment of silence, so i was thinking he was also being melodramatic. and then he keys in this.
theBoy: sometimes lah in the day..... when i'm horny nak ngetsek**

gee thanks eh -_-

anyway he redeemed himself and said he misses me when he comes back home late and i'm already asleep and he wants a cuddle. heh.

so sayang, wake me up whenever you're back home late and need a cuddle. i'm no longer a phonecall away :)

**ngetsek - for the uninitiated, ngetsek in theBoy's dictionary simply means, to bonk :)

Labels: smugmarrieds, theBoy

let's have an update on her food intake :) it's prolly good to take notes now so when i have no. 2, i can remember what i fed no. 1 heh.

liquids
0-3 mths - breastmilk
3-6 mths - mamex gold step 1 with immunofortis
- water every now and then
6-current - mamex gold step 2 with immunofortis

solids
4mth 2 days - frisocrem (STOPPED when she had the cough, decided to wait till she's 6mths)
24th march - heinz organic rice cereal (1tbsp cereal, 20mls water, 30mls FM) twice a day
29th march - steamed sweet potato puree mix with rice cereal
5th march - steamed pumpkin puree mix with rice cereal
6th march - organic apple custard
9th march - steamed peas puree mix with rice cereal

yeap, she's gonna try peas TODAY!! well i'm actually on mc for this cough which i got from her, so it's just nice for me to see how she's gonna take to peas for the first time. the boy's in bintan for a shoot, how nice. i need a holiday, pronto!

she's asleep now, time for a room cleanup!

Labels: baby d, babymakan, theBoy

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