Love Papa only

Jo Ern tops my priority list and what does she tell me?  'I love Papa only'!  I know why actually. Mummy is the one who tells her to finish her meals, stop crying, do something else and not keep playing iPad, pick up her toys, put her clothes in the laundry basket. And things like cry cannot get anything, today I will hide the iPad because I kept calling you and you still keep playing the iPad.  Papa? He gives her what she wants just so she will stop bugging him and he can get back to his TV program/Internet surfing. He is all too happy with her spending hours on the iPad since that means he is free for his own stuff. When she cries, he gives in so that the noise will stop. He snacks instead of eating proper meals and readily shares the food with her. She probably thinks life with Papa will be paradise!

Sigh. So I had remind her what I have been doing for her, what I bought for her and all because I love her. And how Su Ern is happy to see her because she loves her jie-jie.

And eventually after the psycho-ing, she 'agreed' to love Mummy and Su Ern too.

Kids. *roll eyes*  I now plan to highlight every so often what I'm doing for her and that it's because I love her. In case she takes my actions, and me, for granted.

Mummy bought me this pink mouse bag!

I love my mouse bag. And my mummy too

Genting trip 20

I should stop writing about Genting trips at some point, since we do keep going there. Maybe continue a while just to keep track. So we were there again for 2 nights last weekend, and we had a suite again. *happy*.  Hubby votes to keep future trips to 1 night though. Getting enough sleep with JE and SE in the same bed is tough! JE as usual moves all around and SE never sleeps the whole night through. But I vote that 2 nights is fine especially now we have free good food.  Hehe... a bit 'paiseh'/shy showing up there meal after meal though! Still, might as well make use of this privilege while it's there!

SE had a blast trying out new foods. Now that she is over 1-yo, lots of food options opened up. For the very first time in her life, she had brie cheese, cheddar, strawberries, physalis/cape gooseberries, bread-stick, commercial yogurt and various bites from the buffet.

Nom nom nom

She got hold of tissue too.  This girl loves tearing tissue up and putting some in her mouth. Then I have to hunt and dig it out while she protests loudly.

Woo hoo, tissue! Quietly take some while Papa watches TV

JE had a blast also. But I realised she's past the height for free admission to the theme park now. Oh well, having kids is expensive.

Spaceship of mine, blast off!

Good thing SE still can get in free.

What? No want to go theme park. Busy nom nom nom

Su Ern is 1!

Little Su Ern is one year old today! A year ago, I was feeling rather hesitant about this new baby, wondering how to fit her into our already-full lives. Now that seems far away... she has fitted herself in well and snugly.  She's cute, she's active, she's demanding, she's loud and I can't imagine life without her.

I am a big girl already!

We had her birthday dinner last weekend, at a restaurant near our house. Food was good, mango gateau birthday cake was so-so. No blips with being late or missing candles this time. :)

Am I getting some of my cake? 

Mummy: Nope. No need to eat sugar yet

Fine, no cake nvm. I play with my birthday snail from Ah Mah/Ah Kong

(Mummy: Hehe greedy guts not too happy)

iPad addict

Hello, my name is Jo Ern. I am NOT an iPad addict

Mummy take my iPAd! Mummy not nice! AaaaAAhhhh!

Sigh, what to do with my little addict? She wakes up in the morning, suddenly smiles and asks to go downstairs. Where she makes a beeline for the iPad. Actually the smile happens right when she remembers the thing. You want to feed her breakfast? Need to pry her off the iPad first. Same for other meals or if you want to make her shower, go out, take a nap, everything. She throws a small tantrum before she gets to whatever you want her to do. Then after that activity or sometimes only halfway through, she runs off to the iPad again. She's on that gadget morning, afternoon, night.

Hubby says leave her be and she'll tire of it eventually. I guess there's nothing pressing for a 3yo anyway even though I'd rather she do almost anything else.

Little Greedy Guts

Feeding Su Ern is a breeze! She finishes her milk and baby food every day and happily accepts extras like avocado, banana, pieces of sweet potato, fish. Really, if I weren't so busy trying to get JE to eat more, I could stuff little SE.

The small one in action while the big one stands by...

Let me check our current snack stock

Oh jie-jie is busy? Nvm the small one can conduct raids by herself...

Shall we open this first or this?

What are you looking at? I'm a growing baby, you know!

SE hasn't been to the paedi for some time. Our electronic scales are out of order too. Plus I've been busy lately without a maid. Due to these reasons/excuses, I don't know where SE stands on the growth chart. Definitely need to check when we take her for vaccinations at 1yo. If she's underweight, at least she'd be relatively easy to fatten up! (Excuse my paranoia but I do have a very hard-to-feed first kid...)

Photoshoot results

Went to select the photos a week after the photoshoot.  It was a nice set-up - sitting back on a sofa, having a slideshow of their selected photos projected on screen, with accompanying music. So nice that JE requested for a repeat right after! Of course, the objective of the studio was to get us to purchase as much as possible. Well... I did like the results, but MY objective is to have a handful of good photos of my girls each year as they grow. Not to have 100 photos of this one point in time. I'm sure the studio wasn't too pleased, heh. My package was for 4 photos.

In my order of preference:

#1. I just LOVE this black-n-white shot!

#2. In a reindeer costume. Love her smile and pose:

#3. In a dress, mostly hidden by the ball. 

#4: The best one of Su Ern. This photoshoot focuses on JE so SE only had a bit of airtime, no costumes either. There is a damp patch on her shirt. :(  There were photos taken of both of them but I don't like any.

#5:  Supposed to be a Winnie the Pooh costume but she refused to put on the hat. This photo is my last choice - partly coz I felt bad about choosing so few and thus added this one. I have since decided her eyes here are too small.

I'm kicking myself for one thing, that my last choice is the one outside the package and is the one coming in 8R copy and high resolution. The package ones are in small hardcopies and low resolution. I did consider calling to swap with my fav photo, #1. Knowing the studio wasn't happy with me made me think twice about contacting them again. By the time I decided and emailed them, they were closed for two days. The next day I was busy and didn't follow up. The next, everything was already done. My fault for being wishy-washy. :(

On feeding JE

Feeding JE has been tough lately.  She keeps food in her mouth for AGES! This morning her breakfast was fried noodle. Quantity wasn't much at all, about 3 mouthfuls if I were to eat it. Hubby was messing around in the garden so I fed her a mouthful and let her go 'help' hubby.  But after a while I got tired of asking whether she'd finished each mouthful coz the answer was always NO. Got tired of asking her to SWALLOW THE FOOD.  So I told her to sit until she finished the noodles. So she had to:

JE: (Chew chew chew)

SE: Papa can carry me?

5 minutes later:

JE: (Chew chew chew)

SE: Mummy can carry me?

Another 5 minutes:

Me: Mouth still got?  

JE: Got

SE: This is taking too long. I go out by myself

She was miserably fiddling with her spade and itching to go yet she was unable to eat faster. I kept spooning soup in to help her swallow too. Sigh.

I got her de-worming medicine yesterday. Hopefully that will do some good.

And needless to say, I was late to work again this morning!