Someone turned 2

Our little girl celebrated her 2 years old birthday recently and we had a little do for her with just family and close friends. As you can see, the theme of the party was Hello Kitty since she adores cats. Our dear friend Chris baked this awesome rainbow Kitty cake which was irresistibly cute!

At 2 years of age, Sarah is turning out to be quite the firecracker! She has a feisty temper and is quite happy bossing her brother around or putting her baby doll on the "naughty step". 3 minutes! She'll tell her doll and hold up 3 fingers, which is hilarious.

She appears to have a flair for linguistics by being able to speak full sentences in English and Mandarin already, though sometimes not quite grammatically sound. You can actually have a proper little conversation with her. She loves singing and dancing and is quite a performer too, just look at the pictures from the kids' end of year school concert below. She's the little curly sue right at the end :)

Happy birthday our little princess!

You have been such a blessing to us and we love you so much!

 

A photo booth story

Here I am trying to get a decent photo of the young lady for her first passport.

And as all parents would know, babies make the worst photo shoot models!!

How do you get a child to

a) look straight into the camera so her eyes, eyebrows and other facial features are obvious

b) without some sort of grimace/ funny face / hands flapping about

c) with agreeable lighting conditions so there will be no shadows?

It took 2 days of trying + whole lot more of coaxing + a frustrating 2 hour attempt of wonky online application (which failed) + another 10 minutes of calling the helpline (which merely told me to send an email to their IT help desk) + 3 days of waiting for the IT help desk's reply. Not the best week of my life for sure.

But here we are! We survived the gauntlet and the long-awaited red passport is now ready for collection. In case you were wondering, both Nathan and Sarah are full-fledged Singapore citizens. Here is my contribution to nation-building -- a "foreign-talent" engineer hubby and 2 little cute hybrids to boost the declining birth rate :)

Majulah Singapore!

Sweet Cheeks

Nursing a bad throat while the daughter has a cold, must be all those kisses! We are passing bugs all around. Still lightheaded but I couldn't resist these pictures snapped over the weekend. She is so cute! Biased, I know. Now if only I could get the son to pose for me too....

Kungfu Sarah

Snapped over lunch at Tampopo by my BFF Val.
This girl likes to nurse and practise gymnastics at the same time.
You probably can't tell but she is grabbing her foot through the shawl here.
Did I mention she sprouted 2 teeth last month at 5 mths?
Oh woe is me mother cow!

All about Sarah

I have the sweetest baby at home.
Her name is Sarah Emma and she's now 3 months old.

She is such a bundle of giggles and smiles I wanna kiss her all the time.

Some days she looks so cute and does silly things she cracks me up.

Other days she makes me wanna cry.

And sometimes she looks so much like her brother I feel odd dolling her up in a dress!
I am already thinking of making baby jewels for her :)

Sorry if things have been a bit slow on this side, I am busy with fitting work in round her fitful snatches of cat naps. Drives me nuts taking all those time to put her down only to have her wake barely 30min later. And she still wakes every 2 hours at night like clockwork, even if not to feed. What is it with my children who don't seem to like sleeping very much?? Clearly they did not inherit that trait from me.