Busy Saturday

While we stay at home most of the times during the weekdays, we are usually out and about during the weekends. 

We started the morning visiting a cousin with her newborn baby girl at KK! It's always heartwarming to see all these bundles of joy. Babies are all cute!

I'm really happy for my cousin and am already looking forward to all the playdates that we can arrange for our daughters!

Following which, we attended Avery's first birthday celebration at Mandarin Orchard. I always find that other children grow up rapidly and why is my eldest still only 2 and a half? Haha! Nah, she grows up fast too, it's just that others grow up faster.

The ballroom was nicely decorated and at one glance, you'll know the hostess had the children in mind. There was a tattoo artist, a photo booth and a balloonist! The cake table was beautifully decorated and full of yummy food which are usually FORBIDDEN! It sure was a dangerous table!

QQ had lots of fun, eating food which mummy usually wouldn't allow that much and running around madly with her balloons! Seemed like a playground to her!

What about XX? Ha! She enjoyed herself very much too! Smiling at people, sleeping and feeding. Hmm, it'll probably be her turn to become 1 soon. After all, time zooms...

What a great Saturday! Already looking forward to the next!

Flying Books!

Reading takes a person places. You don't have to travel the world to know how it is like, you can always read up. Maybe because I've started reading to QQ when she was already in my womb, she loves books now. Reading is already part of our daily activity. 

Recently, I came across Flying Books, which is a books subscription plan. 2 books based on the gender and the age of your child would be sent via mail and they are like presents to your child! I decided to give it a try as I like the idea of having presents every month. Surprises every month, how nice! 

I like that how the Flying Books team took the effort of scripting personalized letters to the recipients. They would even check with you if you have the titles they were about to send. If so, they would replace with other titles. Both books were wrapped separately and they really looked like presents! 

QQ loved her presents and we have been reading the books a few times each day since the receipt of them. I'm now racking my brains on the activities I can do with her with the themes of the books in mind. Oh well, shall think hard, hopefully before the next parcel comes next month! Haha!

Now, whenever I read to QQ, I would sit XX together so that she will make reading a habit too in the near future. Their mother loves books and hope they will too!

Pool Fun

Took the girls down to the pool on a particular weekend. It was a long haitus for QQ ever since she kept falling sick with flu and cough. And we wanted to let XX try on the pool slowly.

It was a beautiful Saturday. Hubby bought a Hello Kitty kickboard for QQ and he was eager to teach her how to use it. How fortunate to have such a father!:) 

So we went. And QQ wanted to bring down all her "equipment"! Her arm floats, her float, the kickboard.. How exaggerating.. Haha! She had fun and we are happy that at least she wasn't afraid of water. Swimming lessons in the pipeline!

As for XX, she was a little scared (well, QQ was too for her first dip). The water was a bit too cold for her. I didn't buy swim diapers for her so couldn't put her into the water. Could only let her step and feel the water. My bad.. I forgot..

I think it's essential that the children know how to swim eventually. Especially here in Singapore where the weather is so hot! A swim every now and then would be cooling! And it's such a great sport! I'm already looking forward to the next swim session to try on XX's baby float!:)