Sophie’s latest "trick" that my MIL taught her. She poses when you say "Mei nu (pretty girl)". So funny

Here are some key words from the past few days:-  friends, pack, sell, rent, buy books, shopping, Christmas, dinner, pack, parents in law, haircut, parties, friends, massage, pedicure, post office, bank, away in the manger, presents, cell, prayer……………… No time to blog lah…

A dear mummy friend of mine is organising a Christmas Carolling session for families next Tues 23rd Dec at 6.30pm - it’s for fun n charity! It’s on an open lawn with food and fun. The kids can also bring cheer to a group of old folks from a nursing home. How nice!

If you are free to join in the fun, do email her and tell her you are Ai Ling’s friend. It’s open to anyone, just need to drop her an email so pass the word on.

Check out the details on her blog. 

Someone just came to buy No 6 on our toy sale list. And I suddenly feel sad.

I’m normally quite heartless when it comes to spring cleaning. Ask Clem - he still remembers that James and I restricted ourselves to 20 pieces of clothing each when we last cleared our things. But this time round it’s Sophie’s childhood. What if she misses these toys?!? I feel nostalgic. Every piece of toy has it story. Like this Butterfly Alphabet toy - we got this at Turf City and the narrator sounds bad BUT Sophie loves it! They love these electronic toys. I’m going to miss the awful sounding narrator.

Maybe I should keep some. Or not. Maybe the photos will do.

I have a retro chick at home. She’s into vintage too.

This dress is a hand me down frm I forgot who but it’s lovely! I love the red buttons. Looks great w the handbag.

P/s Excuse the mess, major spring cleaning.

She’ll do anything for him. Almost in awe. I’m so glad Sophie has a great godbrother to look up to and who treats her so well.

Sophie is really enjoying her time with Mama and Yeye. Whenever I ask her if she would like to go over, she’ll say "YES!". So much so that when Mama asked her if she would like to stay over, she also said "Yes!". Hahah that’s how she ended up staying overnight on Tues.

Our initial plan was for her to go over on Tues and Wed but we didn’t plan for her to stay over. Wasn’t sure if she would be ok with that. But since she wanted to, we thought we’ll let her try. It went pretty ok. My MIL had to sing and pat her to sleep in the cot and she woke up in the middle of the night to play for a while and fell back asleep with my MIL on the bed. At unfamiliar places, Sophie normally wakes up in the middle of the night on the first one or two days. After that she’s normally fine.

Wah….. but I really missed her! Although we were busy, I really missed her non-stop chatter and questions. She was back on Wed night and I spent the whole of yesterday with her.

Funny thing is, as a result of spending time away from us, she tries to get away with some of our usual routines - e.g wants us to pat her to sleep, wants us to feed her etc… they learnt SO FAST! She even woke up last night to want to poo - partly to wanna hang out with us and partly I think she’s going to be ready to toilet trained for the night. But it’s cool with us coz she’s so set in the routines that she knows she can try to push the boundaries with us but can’t get very far. It’s just funny to watch her try.

We watched this last Sat.

I’m not quite sure what it really was but somehow I found that last year’s was much better. Generally this year, the sound was very soft and couldn’t capture the attention of the kids sufficiently and as a result, the kids were rather noisy and distracted. At certain points I couldn’t hear the conductor.

And I was waiting for Uncle Peter the conductor to tell a story but they didn’t this year. Last year he told a story and the music followed the movements of the story.

Nonetheless, we enjoyed the entire process very much. Just the opportunity to sit in the concert hall to listen to the SSO and not having to be quiet is a good thing.

Updated as of 17 Dec, Wed (I’m done! We’ll keep the rest of the toys! Let me know if you want to loan them.)

We’re selling off Sophie’s pre-loved toys and books over the next few days. I will keep updating this list so keep coming back to look for new items for sale. Everything is going at at least 50% off. Do click thru the links to see what they look like. Most of them are in 90% perfect condition, some even come with original boxes but none are brand new.

TO BUY: If you are keen to buy, pls leave a comment with your email add. Self Collect at Holland Village, West.

TO BORROW FOR FREE: If you have my number on your handphone means you are a friend, you are more than welcome to loan any of the items below for at least 6mths. Pls call or sms me directly.

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Sophie is staying over at her grandparents for the first time tonight. I miss her!!!

My MIL said that she was really a good girl. When she said it was time to go to bed, she said goodnight to everyone and walked into the bedroom. My MIL sang and pat her to sleep and she fell asleep abt 8plus. I really hope she doesn’t wake up in the night and realises she’s not at home. But my MIL is going to sleep in the same room as her just in case. I asked her earlier if she wanted to stay over and she said yes so we went ahead with it. I really hope she’ll be ok.

It feels a bit strange that Sophie is not in her room. She’ll be at my in laws until tomorrow night coz James and I are doing major spring cleaning!

After listening to Super Strong God (Hillsongs for kids) and Barney (got this on iTunes) on hyper mode, I was really getting tired of kids songs. I mean I love the songs but listening to it almost everyday can be really too much.

SOOOOOOOO I went around to look for less upbeat songs for children and lo and behold I found my favorite genre - FOLK, bit indish. LOVELY! I like Jazz but not that much either. I sourced 3 different singers, very similar styles singing happy happy tunes of childhood - Frances England, Lisa Loeb (I used to like her so much!) and Elizabeth Mitchell. So I bought 3 cds from itunes store - Fascinating Creatures by Frances England, Catch the Moon by Lisa Loeb and You are my Sunshine by Elizabeth Mitchell. They only cost about US$9.99 each.

Best of all? Sophie LOVES IT! What a breath of fresh air! Now my next quest is to find Christian songs for kids in the same genre. Tall order tho. If you know any, pls pls let me know…

It’s the season for parties!

Last Friday afternoon, we had our cell mums group Christmas party! Lotsa food, toys, carols and even story telling. Wanz read to the above two year olds and I took the under twos. I was pleasantly surprised that Sophie chose to sit thru the long Christmas story with Wanz instead of tagging along with me while I read to the babies. Hee my baby is growing up and being independent! Really proud of her.

Here’s Sophie having a conversation with her new friend - Michael over dinner (fish fingers n ketchup, unfortunately or fortunately Sophie didn’t take to the fish fingers. She only licked up the ketchup.). More photos here.