Her 2nd Birthday Bash!!!.... Part 2!!!!

...............Ms Priya .................................................Ms Joanna...................................

I had ordered a Hello Kitty cake from Polar cake shop for Giselle to have a mini celebration with her teachers and friends at Del-care. The cake and snacks were delivery by me to her centre when she was taking her afternoon nap.


Ms Angela (English teacher)... Wang Lao Shi (chinese teacher) ......... Ms Grace ........................................ Ms Quek


Didn't want to join as I prefer her to have fun with her peers and teachers alone. Wang Lao Shi has bought her a big Hello Kitty Cushion and Ms Angela has bought her a Hello Kitty cap. It was really very very nice gesture of them to prepare gifts for Giselle. It is heartwarming to know that they actually love her alot even though they often complain to me how naughty and cheeky she was.







Was told by her teachers that she was very solemn during the cake cutting ceremony. She gave that blurr look during the photo taking. I was looking at the group pixs and her classmates were all very cute. Only Vivien clapped and another of her classmate clapped their hands when the birthday song was sung. Giselle was just standing there stoned. Hahaha....Nevertheless, I was glad to know that she took the 1st bite of her birthday cake today :)

Her 2nd Birthday Bash!!!! Part 1!!!

Giselle had her joint celebration today with Daryl who is turning 1 year old on 29 Jul. The bash was held at The Bayshore function room, courtesy of my good friend, Teresa. My dear friend had helped us prepared lotsa things like party packs, banners, Disney table cover and many many more. Really thanks to her for helping to me today's party so enjoyable.



My gal has enjoyed herself thoroughly with every kid, bb, adult... She could go around hugging and kissing everyone without much shyness. I guess she really had benefitted this from her cc and no longer that shy and sticky to me. At times, when Adrian and I were talking to friends, she would go play by herself or with Keith. And one thing, she loved the swimming pool so much there that she nearly wanted to plunge in. My father-in-law was telling he couldn't even control much of her.

The food from YLS catering was great with 70% gone as me and Joanne had ordered extra headcounts. The 2-tier birthday day was from Pine Garden and it was very nicely decorated with Sesame Street figures. Oh btw, must thank Joanne's hb, Terence for being the hero for a few times to get the escaped big helium Disney princess balloon that kept flying up the ceiling.



Just before the cake cutting ceremony, Daryl had fallen asleep and poor him had to be waken up to cut the cake with Giselle.

Giselle din manage to sleep for long during the party, and on the journey back, she kept playing with the party pack that Teresa got for her.

Can see that as she grow older, she will appreciate all these parties more and more with her peers around.

At the Library...

Brought her to library this evening and she loves reading animals book as well as a Fire station book that I got for her.

Coming to 2 years old next Sunday, she can speak in sentences, telling me what Mother Duck, baby Duck, Chicken, chicks...etc... I am quite surprise as we taught her only once or twice of such words.

After we left the library, there was a rental of battery operated children's car just outside Bukit Merah Central NTUC... She indicated that she wanted to sit in it and so we decided to let her try. She enjoyed so much that she refused to let us touch her steering wheel and kept wanting to go for another ride. We had a hard time distracting her.

I Am a Fire Fighter Today!!!:)

Her school had organised a trip to Alexandra Fire Station this morning. Though it was drizzling, Adrian and I thought it would be cooling weather to start off.

Initially Giselle was abit afraid being at the station. However, things started to warm up when she saw her favourite buddy,Ethan, and also how other kids enjoyed themselves.

She was given a fire fighter hat and she simply loves it. We taught her what's fire engine and how the firemen will put out the fire. She went up the mini-fire engine and had fun with the steering wheel. She was also very proud that she shook the hands of a real fire fighter.

When she reached home, she simply couldn't have enough fun of playing with the 4 fire fighter hats that she took form the tour. Even when she took the afternoon nap, she has to "hug" the hat to fall asleep.

We ended the day by bringing her to the library and borrow a fire station book as a recap of what fire station, firemen is all about.

She Loves Puzzles...!!!!

Every day after school recently, she will go take her puzzles and sit on the floor to do them up. Initially when she started doing puzzles 2 months ago, she simply has no patience. She would scream when she couldn't fit the pieces up.

Now she can make a complete picture within a min. Even when I bought her wooden puzzles, she doesn't seem to have much problem with that too. The best thing about after she finished playing them, she will say "Keep Puzzle" and she will quietly pick up piece by piece, stack them into a pile and put on her table.

She Started her Toilet Training

Her teacher had discussed abt her toilet training earlier this week n we had decided to start this week. As a start, we will put her on toilet bowl after she wakes up fm sleep. So far, she managed to pee twice in d toilet n I gave her stickers to reward her

Giselle Doing Model Poses... Haha!

Had gotten her to do some poses today. Find that as she grows older, she getting more and more vain... hahahaha

Swimming @ Mt Faber Safra

We had brought Giselle for a dip for quite sometime. Hence, today decided to do since the weather was quite nice with Sun around.

She had outgrown 2 of her swimming costumes except for the big Power Puff Girl swimmimg costume which I wrong bought 1.5 years ago.

She was very excited when she saw the pool and began to splash water. Initially she has a little fear but soon got warmed up by walking around in the pool with her arm float on. We wanted to teach some water kicking skills but she refused to go horizontal in the pool and kept screaming.

When she saw the slide in the pool, she wanted to try it and kept saying "Playground".

Fashion Show @ Del-care

Her school had organised a Fashion Show and encouraged we parents to dress our kids up as princess, prince, cartoon charaters.

As Giselle was still so young, there isn't any much choices for me to dress her up as. In the end, I just let her wear as per normal, trying to bring some nice clothes for her so that her teachers can help to dress her up as a pretty little girl.



The other kids in the school had dressed up as Spidermans (4 of them), superman, police, chef and many princesses. It was quite fun watching how the kids parade their costumes.

Then when come to Giselle turn to do the cat walk, she refused to do it, in the end, I have to walk the red carpet with her.

"Wash Hair".... Hahaha

I was cooking Giselle dinner today when I called for her to come. After a few calls with no response, I went to look for her but could not find her anywhere, I panicked. Adrian jumped out from the bed and finally found her in my masterbedroom toilet.

When I saw her, she was squatting down, with her hands full of her baby shampoo. She saw me and quickly put both her hands on her hair, telling me "wash hair". Then she began to rub the shampoo on her hair...I really dunno whether to laugh or get angry. OMG... I tried to use a wet handky to wash the shampoo off but it was just too thick. Hence, no choice, I had to pull her over and use the shower head to wash her shampoo away.

Happy Little Girl at Orchard!

We brought her out to Orchard this morning and she was like a happy little girl just came out to see the world. She loves running around in stores seeing thing and trying on things like caps, shoes. The salesgirls were all smiling and waving at her..

Adrian bought her a book on Nursry Rhymes, stories from Borders, hoping she can cultivate the habit of reading more books as she grows.

1 More Month to the BIG 2!!!!! :)

She has just turned 23months and we are counting down to her 2 years old birthday. During the last 1 month, she has improved tremendously in her speech. She can sing alittle of twinkle twinkle little star in Mandarin.

Ms Angela told me she can be quite naughty in school but she is a very smart child. She took her class out to the corridor for a short walk and Giselle was running happily all the way... Ms Angela caught her back and b4 she can warn her not to run, she said to Ms Angela : "No running"... hahaha

Her school has also started to bring them out in strollers to visit nearby shops at the Tanjong Pagar market. Giselle is the 1st one to wear her shoes when Ms Angela said it is time to go out for a walk. However, when she and her class were out, all of them were as quiet as mice.

Giselle can be really stubborn and refused to take out instructions. So Adrian and me has started the "Time Out" punishment. That is to make her stand at the corner and face the wall/door.

Wonderful Perth Trip 07

Perth Trip 26 May 07 to 2 Jun 07

We have set off to Changi Airport at about 7+am, flight was at 9.15am. Giselle was quite alrite in the flight and the air crew love her very much, giving her toys, drinks etc. She basically likes to jump, walk about around our seats.

On reaching Perth and our hotel at Duxton, she and Ethan were busy running about and catching each other at the lobby while checking was in process. When the door of our suite was opened, she was excitedly running about in from the hall to the room and to the bathroom where she spent most of the time playing the bath tub taps. I have a hard time asking her to go out of the bathroom. She has mild diahrrea on the 1st day but was soon recovered on the next day.

I myself was down with fever on the 2nd day of the trip, but was quite manageable after popping some fever tablets. But I felt whole body was very tired and no energy. But still I try my best to look good in order not affect everyone’s trip. Giselle was quite alright with food. Basically I was feed her some outside food as well as white porridge that I cooked in the thermal jar.

It wasn’t really easy to take care of her as some times I really cannot control her. Adrian did help but can see both of us can see she is quite a handful.

First few days we spent our days checking our Perth city, Swan River which is just gorgeous. The weather was cooling and cold when the wind blows.

On the 4th nite and next 2 nites, we checked into the RiverRetreat cottage at Swan Valley. It was really a fantastic, homely cottage where there’s a mini-farm very near to our garden. There are sheeps, goats, pig, rabbits, horse & chickens and Giselle simply loves that though she did not dare to go near them. Every morning she would wake up, jump out of bed, stand at the room window panel and point to the sheeps, saying “meh-meh”, chicken. Can see she really loves to see them. Early morning is when the sheeps went from their grass gazing and Giselle will wait patiently for them to come back.

Sometimes, Adrian will drive the car and bring us to Midland for shopping and makans. I bought a ball for her at Kmart.

During this trip when we can spend 24/7 of our time with Giselle, we realised that there’s a lot of things she know and she can actually sign and do the actions happily when in the car. Normally I will sing the “Mr Sun song” and Hi-5 song to her and she enjoyed them.

When Adrian has some nite driving to and fro our cottage, she would want to hold my hand for courage as the roads were dark. However, she loves to see the moon and stars along the way to the cottage.

I bet she can enjoy even better when she is older. Probably may bring her to Disneyland when she is about 3 to 4 years old.

Giselle Studio Pixs 24 May 07

Took her to Studioloft and had our family portrait taken as well as herself being the star. She has enjoyed the session thoroughly and the results of the photos were very nice.

To view all her studio pixs, the link is:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bbgaps/GiselleStudioPicsMay07

Our Names and her Name ...22 months 4 days

Just 2 days ago, I began to teach her how to pronounce my name and her daddy's name. Initially when I asked her what's my name, she became a parrot and repeat '' what's my name''. Now she could say ''Mildred'' when I asked her.

She is really a fast learner, probably other kids also learn as fast as her. With 2.5 days, she could pronounce our names accurately. In addition, when I ask her what's her name, she will reply ''Siqi''. English name, she will say ''Gi-tiao koh''. hahaha...

Nowadays, she will also start to retaliate if she is being bullied. Today we met up with Ethan and family. Ethan tried to bully Giselle and she screamed. But she was also very naughty by throwing her shoe at Ethan...

Recently when I am holding her things like her bolster, she would also snatch it back from me and said ''MINE!!!''. So rude!