Officially a grown up girl!

~~~The Walk~~~

Over the weekend.. Little Renee had started to navigate within the house freely... Independently!!

In the living room, she would open as many drawers as she could... Ransack the items within... Or even exchange the position...

In her bedroom, she would 'test water' to get to the socket and played with the unused TV connector. Walking around with her toys... And even throwing them around in her room...

In our master bed room, she would no longer satisfy with standing by the bed... She would roam to the side table, explore what's within the drawer... And made her way to the window bay...

Once, she entered the toilet and went into the shower area... Wah-wah-wah...

In my soho room, she would walk from the door to my chair and hug my legs when she found me working over there!

Kitchen and service yard are not the place for her... She seldom goes into the kitchen on her own... But we have to keep our eyes widely open!!

~~~The Feed~~~

Sunday, I finally allow her to feed herself with rice... End up? She kind of fed her palms more actually... Mess! Is the only word to describe the whole episode...

Oh BTW, Renee doesn't eat bake/boiled/steamed/mashed potato but she LOVES fries! She could feed herself with M's French fries pretty fast and eagerly...

Renee eats sweet apples, pears, longans and bananas. She rejects papaya, strawberry, avocado and mango...

~~~The Speech Bubbles~~~

She may not call mummy or daddy when she saw us... But she could say 'McDonalds' , 'Banana' , 'Wow-wow' when she sees M's advertisement, the fruit and doggies...

~~~The Weekend~~~

This was the most eventful weekend for me, ever! Started by going to ICA for IC and passport collection... Followed by Dear's errands at Orchard area... Then it's family time at home during the noon, hoping to get some rest... And it's Changi Airport to send my uncle off, followed by wardrobe shopping at Ikea!

Absolutely drained... Nevertheless, daddy, Renee, #2 and I had great fun this weekend... Everyday is getting more and more exciting ^,^

~~~The Countdown~~~

Counting down... 14 weeks to a new friend found!!! Project Go Live status... Amber. Key issues: Hypercare (post deployment phase) plan not finalized, ownership And Target date to be finalized. Recent successes: baby room revamped with safety precautions. Outstanding action items: Geared up for Kiddy palace May sale!!! Playpen mattress, bedding set, NB starter kit, lovey for #2...

Any juices for you?

This was the 'fav' question asked by my first supervisor at Delifrance whenever a customer places order over the counter... And occasionally, you'll hear some customers respond with 'sky juice'... And for those who hear this for the first time, it refers to plain water... (Or I'd thought that they wanted rain water)

Recently, 125 had brought about the trend of drinking juices, for a healthy diet. And so was I longing for a glass of some juice whenever I was back at my parent's place... Most of the time, I'd get carrot + celery veg juice. I had no idea what kind of health benefits that this combination would bring about but it certainly quenched my thirst and craving for celery juice ^,^

After some researches over the web, I came to know about the slow juicer (to my knowledge, this type of juicer will retain more nutritious value in its juice as compared to traditional juice extractor due to its technology in squashing the juice, instead of grinding or blending the ingredients). Of course, this comes with a cost... Most of such magical slow juicer will easily cost more than $400... Arghh!

It happened that when I was surfing for juicer online, my parents were browsing at Courts and came across a promotion for Tefal ZE810 juicer which cost $199 at usual price but only $128 after discount! Today, I got to try the first batch of fresh juices! Wonderfully refreshing! Good thing is that since they now have a new and big juicer... I can kapo their old and conventional one as an interim juicer to quench my craving thirst for juice at home...

A point to note when it comes to juicer - the pulp should be as dry as possible and the juice should not separate into pulp and water after it was left breathing for a while... Good juicer will get the most of the juice and 100% juice!

One more white elephant to hug back home tonight!! Dear, don't be mad... Help me carry, okay? (Better than i spend $$$ on one, right?) Muahahahaa ^,^

Any juices you want? (>,<)v

Classic Potato Salad for family BBQ

I had attended our family BBQ for many years, many times... But the first time I was arrowed to prepare potluck item... 'Thanks to my FB wago kitchen album when I tried to document the recent crave for potato salad'...

I had spent incredibly longer hours than needed to prepare the food... Because we left the house for breakfast... Took nap... And entertained Renee in between my tasks... Muahahaha!!!

Here's the recipe before I lost it... It's adopted from Food.com

http://www.food.com/recipe/classic-potato-salad-22747

This is the second time I'm making it and it's better than the first time... Pple started to ask abt the salad dressing... WuhOO!

Ingredients
8-10 Potatoes, cubed and steamed
5-6 eggs, hard boiled and mashed
3-5 stalks of celery, washed, peeled and sliced
1-2 red Orion, peeled, washed and chopped
1 1/2 Cup of elbows (or Marconi) boiled* (I added this because Dear wants it)

Salad dressing
2 Cup of Mayo (I used Kraft because it's the cheapest off the shelf)
3 Tablespoon Sugar
3 Tablespoon of Cider Vinegar
1 1/2 Tablespoon of Mustard (I used Heinz because its the cheapest off the shelf)
1 teaspoon salt (I reduced it from 1 1/2 tsp)
1 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder (I agaration)
3/4 teaspoon pepper (I agaration)
1 - 2 Tablespoon of dried parsley (I added this)

Now I'm craving for potato salad again... Hungry after BBQ...

Hello 猫

Don't know how and why... Renee seemed to have feel towards Hello Kitty... DOT DOT DOT!!!

Luckily she's not to the extend that she'll Sai-nai* for one when she sees it outside...

Just that if she does see Hello Kitty outside... It actually makes her speak! '我要' 、 '猫'、'啊'

She has 4 Le Sucre bunnies stuff toys from tiny to larger than Renee... And she started to have the wrong impression that rabbit = le sucre... Not the word but the look... There's once when I pointed to a real rabbit at a pet shop to her, she couldn't associated that fat thing as thr bunny in her impression... Hahaha!!!

Are we ready for a swim and BBQ tonight? WuhOO... What a weather... ;S

Happy 16th Month, Renee!!

Happy 16th months to you, sweetie!!

Wanna try some homemade waffles? Muahahhahaah ^,^

May you stay healthy and cheerful, always! Happiness in life is when who matters to you most are happy, too! So Please make me the happiest mother!!!

Lovey lovey lovey!!!

Homemade pancake...

This is by far the best recipe I had come across... Thanks to VahChef and his tips in making pancake...

http://youtu.be/5Y4YkCkgShc

If you googled, you'll often see others using the same recipe for waffle... And speaking from my limited experience, it really works and to me, it's the best waffle recipe which I could get currently... And I'm happy with it, without intention to search further...

Check out the original method and recipe from VahChef... And here's mine...

Dry ingredients (Grp A)
1Cup Plain Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
Pinch of Salt (abt 1-4 -1/2 teaspoon)

Wet Ingredients (Grp B)
1 Cup of Milk
1 Yolk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence*

Others (Grp C)
1 Egg White
2 Tablespoon of Caster Sugar

1/4 Cup of vegetable oil/ melted butter*

*I added these to original recipe for own preference

My method:

1. Sift and mix A, set aside
2. Beat B, mixed into A
3. Mix Oil to the Batter
4. Beat C until stiff peak
5. Fold in 4 to 3
6. Brush ya waffle iron/ pan with oil (for crispy crust and prevent stick)
7. Cook and serve (for pancake, wait for bubbles to form ard the pancake, smoke to escape before flipping over, usually ard 3 mins. For waffle, wait till smoke vapor lessen, smell of delicious waffle before opening the waffle iron)

It's easy and 90% of the time successful, even though my girl didn't enjoy cake/waffle... Hahaha!! Try it, too, specially when you crave for it at odd hours.... Homemade is the best!

Good morning and Hope dear enjoy his bkf today ^,^

Same same but different...

话不能多说

上个星期，待产的同事问我女儿用的尿片是什么牌子的。

我马上便回答道Pampers！因为这个牌子比较不容易漏。而且也不太会造成湿疹。。。

我真是该掌嘴了。。。才说完没过多久、什么都齐了。。。湿疹、漏尿。。。啊！天啊！

不知道是新的厂家造的设计改了；还是哪里出了问题。。。或许是时候换个牌子了吧！？

（写着写着，睿X在肚子里踢个不停；在抗议什么呢？）

She did it...

One small step for Human, One big step for Renee!!

Renee is a week from her 16th month... And she did it! It's the trust, the confidence... The right time, mood and everything that boosted her morale to attempt taking a few steps without support!

Today, I actually saw her walking from a stool to a table (abt 2 steps away) with just a toy in that she grabbed tightly in her hands... She was doing her routine playtime in the living room and probably didn't notice herself that she actually could walk! Haaa...

In her room, still her playtime (well, besides feeding and sleeping, it's ALL playtime!!)... I encouraged Renee to walk towards me from the stool which she's been pushing around to navigate in her room... She hesitated, looked at me... Grinned... And rushed over! So I clapped my hands loudly and cheered with praises... Keeping her excited, we kept trying for a few times...

From stool, cupboard, BB cot towards me... And she was also eager to show Daddy when I called him over to watch this magical moment!! She would smile at daddy with that Victory look after she performed the stunt. LOL!!

And daddy had successfully exhausted Renee today with a brisk walk down Singapore River... She slept at 9pm tonight... What? 9pm!!!??? Yes! And I truly hope to keep this routine for her... No more rolling on our big bed, one round of all toys and pushing stool around her room before she hit the bed... Hee! Keep up the good work, Renee!!! (And thanks daddy for the yummilicious dinner!)

(And BTW, I finally re-attempt on bread-baking... Results turned out that it still looked like charcoal, as ever... But it's really bread texture within for this time... WuhOO!)

敢当策略

敢当非比敢当！
敢当乃敢当。。。

Potato啦！

今天我用水煮了4个baby Potato
两个弄成泥状，一个用来煎；最后一个就是返朴归真的水煮马铃薯，只去皮。

结果，每一种烹饪发的马铃薯都没能让睿锦尝上第二口。。。最后全部都被我收拾了！不是我抢着吃喔；是怎么骗怎么哄；都不愿意继续吃啦。。。伤脑筋！

Whenever I'm feeling low...

A glance of your pic...

A giggle from you...

A kick from your sister...

Make my day, again!

You gals are my little rainbows!!!

Love you, plenty plenty!!!

没了音讯？

小妹自从2012年7月底后，便没有再在个人博客上放屁了。。。

老公则是在2012年8月间献上最后贴闻。。。

是我和哥太闲了吧？

我要交登记了！

After all the excuses from taking new pic of myself... I finally got it done and over with (almost).

My IC is ready for collection... Scary, huh!?

However, the renewal of my passport was based on my IC's date of issue... So I'm wondering if I should wait till my passport is ready for collection... Muahaha!! ^,^

真是一乱还有一乱乱！

Little girl on big bed

After a week of persistency, Renee finally made it to Seally for a night... and co-sleep with me on Sat, while Daddy slept at his cosy corner on the floor... (I guessed that she had overheard the conversation between mommy and aunt JY during the noon abt BB XT...)

I naively thought that she could perhaps sleep through the night if someone's beside her... Well, she still cried every 4 hours for milk... I didn't say she woke up for milk because she seemed half-asleep to me... Eyes were closed, just crying (or making noise) until being fed... ;p I must find a way to switch off the alarm clock in her dreamland!!! Arghhh...

The good thing was she slept a little longer than normal days.. She went back to sleep after the morning feed at almost 8am... continued with her sweet dreams till ard 9:45am... after daddy and mommy had finished their packed breakfast, Renee's porridge cooked halfway... Chores done!

I didn't even know she's awake and had joined her dad in the living room for Doraemon on ch8... When I came out from the kitchen with a rag to wipe the ever dusty dining table... This little girl greeted me with a gentle "Eh..!!", followed by the sweet smile eagerly waiting for me to look into her direction... "Oh?! Good morning, my sweetie!"

Mosaic

Watched GAGS almost every night when little Renee rolled about on our Seally bed resisting to sleep...

Some of the parts would be mosaic specially when there's obscene wordings on the tee... Unintended Advertisement... Or simply too sexy...

I jokingly told Dear that one of the weekends, I'm going to dress up (supposed to be hot) till I got mosaic too... And Dear assured that it could happen to me... Only on the face....TMD!!

自修

今天就上课上到这里，希望这个星期内可以完成这一科！加油！

Good morning, World

I think I am a morning person...

For I enjoy the gentle rays and breeze in the morning...

However, I treasure every min and sec of my sleep... Specially when it had to be interrupted during the night due to feeding and pacifying the little girl in the next room...

This morning... I could have caught up with a couple more mins of sleep... However, I dragged myself out of bed to complete some chores before I start work for the day...

And?

It's amazing how much things could be done so quickly and smoothly... Without any rush! What a comfortable way to start my day... WuhOO! If only I could drag myself up more often to spent my time with more efficiency ^,^