Post-Xmas Lunch Gathering

Finally another gathering with the sec classmates (plus my cousin) to mark the end of year 2008. Had high-tea buffet at Carousel on the 27th Dec. It was suppose to be on the Xmas day itself but Limei last min couldnt make it.

Limei and I brought our darlings along. Her princess seems so much easier to take care compared to mine! Little Yun En can sit very well without support and had no problem sitting in the high chair with mummy feeding her porriage. My girls still not very stable in sitting and we had to either carry them or put them in the stroller. They couldnt sit long in the stroller and will start to misbehave. So Hui & I had to carry them out, put on our lap and eat at the same time. It's really kind of troublesome to bring the girls out without a helper.Since it was not cheap to eat at Carousel and it was billed per head, we decided not to bring our maid along and left her at MIL's house.

Everyone had some chats, took some photos and left the place 2 hours later coz the buffet was only from 3.30pm to 5.30pm. As we were the last to arrive (due to all the feedings schedule for the girls, we arrived at 4pm), I didn't get to try everything on the buffet area as timing was too short and we had to look after the girls. Well, my friends did contribute a little by "helping" to carry them for the fun of it...but pass back to us in a short while. I think the next outing I will probably leave the girls at home. If anyone wants to see my girls, pls come over to the house instead :p
Photos taken that day:
Phyllis & Jimmy with Elsie
2 mothers, 3 princesses + 1 trainee mummy?
Trainee mummy is crying for help right after the shot ^_^
Jimmy & Daddy with Chloe
Chloe darling!
Mummy with Elsie
Little Yun En
Limei mummy with Yun En
The Chua family
Phyllis & mummy with Chloe
The finale!

The princesses first Xmas

Didn't do much on the Xmas eve. Stayed at home the whole day to avoid the crowd. Gek Eng came over in the evening to do gift exchanged together with her hubby and son, Raphael. They stayed for just awhile before heading to her MIL house for Xmas feast! Hui and Me spent the day playing with the girls and took some pictures in the evening at home with the little Xmas tree we had.

After putting the girls to sleep, Hui & I stayed up to count down for Xmas and cut our little log cake. Just a very simple and cosy Xmas time for both of us. :)

The 2 elmo arrived from US in time to celebrate Xmas with us!
Getting the props read...
The girls with their new friend, TMX Elmo & Elmo LIVE!
I am Tow Kay Chloe Chua!
We are a happy family
Chloe sitting in her Bumbo playing with her new toy from Auntie Gek Eng
Merry Xmas to us!
Our humble choc log cake
On the actual Xmas day, we got invited to go over Gek Eng's house for lunch. When we reached her house, it was full of people. She had also invited her relatives over to celebrate Xmas. We stayed for a few hours at her house before proceeding to Robinson at Centrepoint. It was human mountain human sea! The great sale attracted tons of people and pushing 2 strollers into the shopping centre was almost impossible! Therefore we decided to bring 1 back into car and will do with 1 stroller. The queue to the cashier was also horrible and it took more than 30mins just for us to pay our items! We left the place in the evening and tabao dinner back home as the girls were very grouchy already for the lack of afternoon nap!

Nice Xmas tree deco at Gek Eng's house

Happy Birthday to Hui

Another year of birthday celebration together again. I guess this year was the simpliest celebration we both had with just simply dinner and NO GIFT for him! Both of us were on leave starting 22nd Dec till 5th Jan for him, and 2nd Jan for me. So on the 22nd, we left our girls with my MIL and maid and went to Vivocity for shopping. Bought nothing but stuff for the girls again! We then proceeded for our dinner and went home after that. Dinner place was chosen by the birthday boy and paid by the wifey!

I like this dinner place alot since I first eaten it at Chimes. The deco and food is simply excellent. And throughout the dinner, we received excellent services, particularly this young lady who is call Mei Zhen. She saw us taking picture and volunteered to help us take a photo together. I took this chance to ask her if there is any discount for any credit cards and if there is any special stuff for this birthday boy who is celebrating his birthday today. She checked upon Hui's NRIC and said the mudpie will be FOC for this birthday boy! There is a 15% disc for OCBC and HSBC credit cards holder. Wow....We've got a great deal here! She always wear a beautiful smile on her face when served our food and cleared our plates.

And when the last dish - Mudpie was served, it came along with a candle. She also mentioned certain days there will be live band and customer can request the band to perform something for the birthday person. Too bad we did not come at the right time as the band do not perform on Monday. I would have asked the band to help sing a birthday song on my behalf if the band was here that day. :(

A feedback card was given to us before we left and ofcourse I commented on the service of this pretty young lady for her friendly and wonderful services. We left the place feeling full and delighted UNTIL we reached the carpark only to realise we were not given the 15% disc despite we paid with OCBC credit card! We only checked on the free mudpie and forgotten to check on the disc!! What a waste!!

This year I did not get the gift in time for the birthday boy because I couldnt think of what to buy. The thing that this boy wanted was too expensive that I do not wish to spent on it. Therefore no birthday present for him on the actual day. But I promised a gift will be coming on the way...a belated present!

An early celebration on the 18th with his family at home.
Cake from Pinegarden.
Hog's Breath Cafe@Vivocity
Our dinner!
The birthday boy with his wifey
Couple shot
Birthday boy getting ready to blow his candle
*Blown*...time to eat the sinful mudpie with ice-cream!

没有老公/爸爸的日子，第三天，晴

It's been 3 days since Hui left for Paris for business trip. It is also his first time not able to see us for so long since the girls were borned. I had to take 1 week leave as well in order to look after the kids at night and rest more during the day while my MIL took over the shift in the day time. It will be hard for me to concentrate at work if I had to "entertain" the girls in the middle of night (IF they throwing temper) and work during the day. Therefore I choose to take leave since I got so many leaves to clear by end of this year.

So far the girls are still quite good to me. Never fuss much in the wee hours..hmm...if yes only for awhile. I had to make sure I wake up in the middle of the night to pump my milk before the girls are awake for their feed. If not by the time I feed finish both of them, I would have die of severe engorgement! When Hui was around, usually he will feed the girls around 6/7+am while I do my pumping. But now since he is not around, I have to be the one feeding so I need to pump first before I can feed as my last pump is always around 11+pm/12am. It's really hard to resume back to waking up in the middle of night especially when I had sort of "train" myself to sleep through 5-6hours before the next pump since few weeks ago!

I want to say a great THANKS to SIL for covering the role as a "Ai Ya Daddy" for Hui and sleep with me at night so that I could pump my milk in peace incase the girls cry while I'm pumping! Truely appreciated deep in my heart :)

To Dear:
3 more days to go and I'll be seeing you at the airport together with your darlings. Come back safely! Cya in 3 days time! The girls have something to say to you too....
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