A year!!

I planned a birthday bash for Ashlynn yesterday. Actually the menu for the party surfaced many weeks ago. I was trying to cater to carni-, omni- adults and also to herbi- ones. Most importantly to CHILDREN!!! It was pretty enjoyable coming up with food fit for all. Gosh I forgot to take pic of the spread I made. From spagetti, to chinese meat roll, Devil's eggs, salsa dessert etc...and an expensive Lychee Martini cake. I had fun cooking up a storm and I think my guests had no complains. It was a small party coz 'fortunately' many of my good gal friends had to b excused days early to 'pop'. But Ashlynn had their well wishes way ahead.
Though there were only 4 kids, it was more than to watch. They self-entertained with balloons and thanx to the rain there was more fun.
I had a sore throat after the party,but all for the fun of playing host to great mothers and frenz who came by.Just cant imagine how these wonderful gals have been giving me support during this 1 year. Really treasured frenship.
Tmr its off to Vietnam for some Sun, sand, food......more unknowns. Pics will b up later....

Bz....laz.....

Interesting how words come abt. excuses such as buzzzzzzzzzzzzz...and laz............ sounds so alike. ok That's me I hvnt updated the latest for the week coz it has been really tough getting to the comp without having Ashlynn wanting to press some buttons.
The weekend Hub and me were up to our necks, trying to rent out our nest, running ard doing errands. Coz this Sat I'm planning Ashlynn's 1st birthday bash. Not much of a bash, just couple of good friends with their kids coming together to share Ashlynn growing chapter in life. I'm going to cook up a storm to satisfied our guests stomach. Details will be out only later. Suprise u know.
I signed up some pics under mumcentre.com. The links are as follows: There are 3 category so must click on the 3 different links to vote by Mon 24th Aug.

Cover model category:

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Baby category:

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Family category:

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Some crazy shot fm the weekend. Ashlynn trying out the sling which was comfy for her but back breaking for me. Next Hub at work wow she's also at work rammaging my basket of bikini...

Little fasinations

When we were little we can fasinated by the tiniest things. Even the wind that blows into Ashlynn's face can make her go gaga. Sometimes when hub tells me something which I have no reaction but I would think a younger chic would just go crazy laughing. Is it as we age we seem to assume and make alot of preassumptions. That's when trouble begans,we stop discovering about many things. Hmm.... got to look into my attitude towards hub's ''jokes'.
Here's to Ashlynn's recent favorite fasinations.

The kiss

Was uploading our wedding pic on facebook. Gosh...it seems like centuries ago since I got wedded.The thought that went through my mind the nite after Hub proposed to me was can I sleep with this man on the same bed for the rest of my life. I closed my eyes and picture him lying beside me and there was an instant glow in me. That was then....what about now?? The ans is still yes. We tell oursleves we must not go to bed angry and if we wake the next day,we must forgive the one next to us. We've done so so far and our marriage has been doing ok.
I looked through our wedding pictures and the moment that was super scary and exciting for me was waiting alone for him to get me. I was 'sweating' ,I thought this is it, I'm going to go through thick and thin with this man. And there was no turning back after that big fat wet kiss.

Moments...in my life.

Jam Packed wkend

Wkends for me start on a Fri. I usually try and squeeze in as many activities as possible. Hub is totally different,he has been on the road the whole wk so he really prefers a good book while lying on the floor(literally). But he has obligingly given in to all my requests except a movie on a Sun nite was a no no. Anyway by then I was super tired but was just too stuborn just to watch the Sun nite waste away.
We visited the Garden Festival which was rather impressive. The 1st time we were buying tickets for an event in S'pore.Usually we stay away from the crowds.Ashlynn had great fun running around while we were trying to get her off the danger zones.Kids are really fearless at this point in their life. I guess its we adults put the word fear into their brains.Sometimes unintentionally. To scare them off the danger zone.
Hub and me only get to rest when she's asleep. Huweaw..........she really resembles me in some sense. Unstoppable...

Walking and Biting

Ashlynn's milestone in development is that she has started walking at 10mths. She now walks pretty steadily round the house like a kapo supervisor. I took a video of her during her 1st few attempts to walk. In the video you get to see her shaking head to say no, and her way of getting things is to BITE. Gosh I think she learnt that from our pet dog Fluffy.

She's really growing fast and furious.....

Birthday

When my little sister blew our her candles last nite there were lots of emotions in me. I watched her grow from a little worm in the baby basket to now a young lady who can earn her own keep just by selling accessories. She gave a heartwarming speech at the end under the eyes of many many young adults. I was close to tears. My baby sister is no more a baby, its time for me to loosen my grip and let her go freer. I must realise that she is more than ready to take care of her ownself. Happy birthday Fatty!!

Waiting

Did I mention that I hate to wait. Ok nobody likes to wait in the first place. I'm right now waiting for Hub to get me hm fm work/sch. I have this anxiety in me,some might say just do my stuff while I wait but have u had this kind of kan cheong feeling. Then you dun know what to do but just stare into space. Ok I'm blogging now at least. My hub would tell me to go take a walk or do something. Its a Fri, yipee the weekend......time with family. Cant WAIT!!!

An Aunt's loving chore

Over the weekend Ashlynn spent some time with her Aunt while I took some time off with hub to do some shopping. Her nails grow in such an alarming rate I always get complains that she is scratching someone somewhere, anywhere everywhere. Sometime I get lazy trying to squabble with this growing big worm while I cut her nails. And guess what my sis has been so willingly taking up this chore. And each time she cuts Ashlynn's nails she demos on her own nails first.What a sacrifice....and see how Ashlynn just stays still and allows her nails to be chopped off.

My cheekyness?

Was going through the picture taken over the weekend and found the above image of Ashlynn. Boy.....she has definately grown in all sense and my god she can give that cheeky smile with those eyes at 10 1/2 mths. Will she turn out to be as a rebel as her mum. This is so exciting.

Quiet Time...

Time alone, couple time, reading time, TV time.....etc has been extremely rare and precious. Ashlynn gets tired around 9pm depending on her duration of her afternoon nap. Today we drove up to JB so of coz she missed her nap and knocked out by 9pm.

This is the exciting part, so do we hv couple time, reading time or escape to hv a drink???...in the end we chose TV time. And guess what we ended up watching, channel U korean drama before switching to a documentary on kids. Gosh....wat an excitement...duh....Over these 10mths, I have learnt to appreciate the every little amount of time I have with hub. We once joked that wet marketing could probably be romantic and turn us on hee.....

So here we are like oldies...one blogging and the other reading while our wormie sleeps in our nest.

China Wedding Lunch

My yeye-in-law passed me a CD this morning,it contained images of our post wedding lunch in Guangzhou countryside. My frenz all laugh when I tell them abt the event. They joke about me being carried on a sedan chair etc. O pls, there are cars around now. Lunch was 12 homecook dishes served to 30 tables of hungry guests. There is always extra to go around and you can even pack home. Don't expect aircon or waiters, but the weather was itself a comfortable 20 degree. Both of us really enjoyed ourselves, walking around in our modern suits. Will look back with fond memories and a story to tell Ashlynn in time to come.

Gello

My kids have been such fun. I love being with young people,they make me feel so energize and hype. The things that they talk abt,the newest 'lego' used in town eg.emo, bmtf. Gosh!!! What will it be like in a few years time, I need to keep up and stay IN!!!

Love these fun lot

Wonders of milk

Ashlynn can feed anywhere, anytime and anyhow. Babies are born to be opportunistics, just the sight or even smell of mummy's teets will make them go gaga. That's Ashlynn after her feed in the car while waiting for daddy to get a hair cut.

Jet set

My mum, Ashlynn and me dropped hub off at the airport today. Off to Thailand for work and he'll be back on Sat. He'll be getting undisturbed sleep for the next few days,envious. But I going to camp over at mummy's for the next few days. Yipee...sisterly bonding with Fatty. Miss those days.

Feeling alittle regretful not picking up hub's 'boarding' call cause I was driving. Shall not be imaginative just can't wait for 48h though. Sometimes I wonder what if hub was a pilot,wouldn't I be sleeping alone on alot of nights. Ashlynn seems to know her daddy's going away for a few days, she had this 'puppy' eyes when he carried her.

We are all missing hub already. Safe trip

Some blogs bring a cheer to the day's boredom.I enjoy these fun reads. I thought mayb I should start writing online abt my journey in life. Perhaps bring a cheer to others too.

Today is my 2nd wedding anniversary. We took a weekend off last week to spend time alone at Rimba. Amazing time.

So last nite we wished each other at 12am last nite be4 knocking out. Hugs and kisses this morning with stares from Ashlynn.

A journey we have both entered together and will continue to do so wholeheartedly.

Love to hub