The dog and the bandana

Brought our Westie for grooming on Sunday (decided to try a new cheaper groomer (petzplanet at opposite Bukit Gombak MRT, $35/groom instead of the normal $70/groom) and she came back with army-prints bandana:



* Note the carseat behind the dog - Miss K poo-ed in the car and her poo leaked onto the carseat. We had to carry her IN her carseat from the car all the way up to the toilet
** Might need XL diapers?

Little Miss Chatterbox

Miss K started to babble long 'sentences' 2 weeks after her 1st birthday....and since then, our peaceful mornings, car rides, and weekends are full of non-stop baby-babbles. We decided to response and converse with her in proper sentences but after awhile we ended up with baby-talk! Tsk tsk tsk ...so young and such a big influence already!

Shopping Cart

I don't usually let Miss K sit on the shopping cart at supermarts as I would always have her in her stroller....last week she insisted of being carried!

So, I decided to prop her onto the shopping cart and was glad that kept her entertained throughout our shopping at fairprice *phew*

I have to say those shopping trolleys at FairpriceXTRA are much newer and cleaner than those at Giant!
Let's go shopping!

Delayed post - Birthday with "classmates"

Miss K celebrated her birthday with her friends at infant care on her Actual Birthday, i.e. 30th August 2010.
I was not allowed in as the centre was keeping a tight control over a suspected HFMD case.
Would like to thank Miss K's infant care teachers who made Miss K's 1st Birthday extra special (all decor, including head accessories provided by the centre! i was so not prepared!)
Thanks to Teacher Farinah who helped me snap a few shots of her birthday celebration:

My Little Swimmer

It has been a while since we last brought Miss K for a swim.
We realised the boat float we got her is still too big for her...
As for now, she prefers to sit on the steps of the pool splish splashing, pretending to be a 'pianist' :)
Definitely more upcoming trips to the pool!

Cupcakes and more...

Ardent fan of cupcakes...took much procrastination and self-convincing before I finally decided to try baking Miss K's birthday (cup)cake.
Was so glad it turned out well.
I love Glory's Blog on her cupcakes and I took the recipe of my cupcakes and frosting from her blogsite. Check out her beautiful cupcakes!
http://glorioustreats.blogspot.com/

Here are some snapshots of my creation in-making:

And the end product doesn't look bad at all:

(N.B. first time using shape collage, still experimenting...)

It was really fun baking Miss K's 1st Birthday cake....brings back memories of when I was a little girl helping my mum bake birthday cakes for myself and my siblings - my mum bakes ALL our birthday cakes!

Thanks mum, you inspired me.

Little Princess is ONE Today!

I have accomplished my first 365 days 'mission' to be mummy to my little princess.
There were those initial struggles which all first time mums would (have) to go through; breastfeeding pains, post-natal depression, first teething pains,....but I survived!
Miss K has brought lots of sunshine to our lives. Her smile and mischievious demeanour never failed to brighten our day!
I'm definitely looking forward to the next stage of my motherhood journey.

28th August 2010, Saturday

It was a Princess themed birthday party...

To add to the list of achievements this year, I successfully baked Miss K's princess cupcakes and Birthday cake/cupcakes. It was my maiden attempt at decorating cupcakes and was glad it turned out alright.

Happy Birthday lil' one!

Baby Chair...& 'picnik'

Such a shame I only managed to take 2 pictures of the baby chairs Miss K sat in while in Malacca...they were all really classic looking ones...don't think one will ever find these in Singapore these days.

Stumbled upon the picnik application in picasa...its a fun way to 'dress up' my boring photos!

Miss K's first road trip

Decided on a road trip to Malacca last friday. We needed a short weekend getaway and was glad that we chose to drive up to malacca. The roads in malacca were not as crazy as those in KL and its a short 3 hours' drive on the north-south expressway.
Miss K was so well behaved throughout the journey to and from Malacca.

We stayed at the Holiday Inn Malacca, which was new and most importantly, CLEAN. (Nothing irks me more than a grummy hotel room!)
Breakfast spread was good. However, its a little far from the central historical sites of malacca (no qualms here as we drove to most places)

Two things which Miss K loves about the hotel:
- Her baby cot, which she slept really well in for the 2 nights we were there.
- Full length glass window, which she loves to cruise along and look at the cars zooming pass at the highway.

Mummy's Little helper...

I can see the clean freak in me being manifested in Miss K.
I caught her playing with a piece of wetwipe one day...(she knows how to press the 'tab' on the pigeon wetwipe box to open and pull out a wetwipe)
And guess what she uses the wipe for!?
Take a look at the video.