"crying over spilt milk"

I always wondered how the line "dont cry over spilt milk" came about. now i know..

yesterday morning, as with every other morning - i woke up with full boobs crying to be expressed. i dragged myself out of bed as i always do and sleepily put the pump materials together and expressed.

when i was done and in the midst of transfering the milk into sophie's drinking bottle, my hand accidently knocked over one of the bottles and it's content spilled out. i was not fast enough and by the time i picked up the bottle, half the milk was on the counter top.

SOBs - very heartpain to see all that good milk there..

and thus, that's how i figured the expression : 'crying over spilt milk' came about...cos i really did wanna cry!! but what's the use right? :P

July babies pre-christmas gathering

We hosted 6 july babies for a gathering - baby declan, baby thaddeus, baby wu feng, baby gordon, baby poppy and of course, baby sophie. It was so fun to see all the babies on the mat - the girls seem bigger than the boys! Sophie was in her "I only want to be carried" mood and she eek eek everytime we tried putting her down -not sure if she's not feeling too good as she vomited quite a bit of her milk :(

After feeding her, her mood was much better but by that time, all the babies had to go home ..blah! Merry Christmas Babies :)

> 4 boys and 2 girls - sophie cranky

> Sophie says : where is everyone? come back , come back to play - i am in a good mood now!

> Thank goodness there's always Mummy to play with me :)

Jin and the beansprout

Weekends are days when Jin gets to spend Quality time with baby bean and he takes the father daugther bonding sessions quite seriously. He will feed her more, take her swimming and even offers to bath her and watch over her. Here are some pictures of baby bean and her dotting daddy.

5 months old baby bean

Sophie's a big 5 months now..Adora and I always make it a point to wish each other week by week on our darling's little milestones and we also always end with : our babies are growing up so fast!!

And of course Jin will say : please dont grow up so fast baby bean, we like you this way ;)

Sophie can now :

> hold her own Avent bottle and finish up her milk everyday

> flip from tummy to front

> play peek-a-boo with her cloth/ towel by herself

> suck on her toes and heels

> splash her bath water with her hands

There you go, 5 great achievements to mark 5 months :)

She goes to bed around 8-9pm every night and is woken up at midnight for her dream feed, afterwhich she usually sleeps right through till 7-8am. She loves to play and will give us her heart melting smiles enticing us to play with her -even at 5am sometimes!

She now drinks 150ml (5oz) 5 times a day. I plan to start her on solids once she sits upright steadily. For now, she just gets to suck on a banana :)

> Sophie - looking like a big girl holding her own milk bottle

> Sophie - so big, yet still so small - she loves sleeping on our bed :)

> Sophie - so boy yet so girl ;)

Happy 5 month my little beansprout. Mummy LOVES you...

The San twins

We were back in KL for the full month celebration of Nathaniel and Jaden - twin baby boys. It's really nice and exciting that sophie has so many friends born the same year.

I have not seen baby Chloe since her full month 3 months back and she has really grown into one super chubbs baby..absolutely adorable and very huggable :)

Our good friends organised the yearly bday do for me with the yearly durian cake.

Sophie got to meet her great grandparents again..Great grandma made me laugh by asking Mom > when did Cindy deliver?..heee..

The car journey home was long and tiring..both Jin and sophie konked out. Here's what I saw when I stopped to pump fuel on the journey home :D

Cindy = 33 (cont)

With colleagues @ Takumi Tokyo, Keppel Marina

> Angela and me - she helped organised :)

> November birthday babies : Thomas and Jessie

> The set lunch @ $30 was good!

With the ladies @ Forlino, One Fullerton

With the ladies @ PS cafe, Palais Renaissance

Cindy = 33

Today I turned 33...I took the morning off work and went with mom and baby bean to Botanical Gardens for brunch. Here's Soph reaching out for her bottle - she needs her brunch too :)


> My Bday brunch meal

> Mom loves her butter ;)

Jin bought me not 1 but 3 slices of cake from bakerzin..could it be sign of the times and he could not afford a full cake? heehee..the cakes were yummy nevertheless ;)

As a bday pressie, Jin brought all of us to bangkok for a quick weekend get-away. We stayed at oakwood residences at sukhumvit soi 24 - perfect location as it was near Emporium shopping centre, Phrong Phom BTS and of course our fav pork noodle stall at Soi 26. I was also treated to a Valrhona Choc high tea where I got high having an overdose of different varieties of cakes made from Valrhona choc.

>Here's little bean having at nap at the Oriental while mummy and daddy enjoyed their tea.

> mummy and bean bean at the Oriental grounds.

> Jin and a sleepy bean

> Yay, bean got her own seat on Air Asia :)

The celebration continues...

Our star bean :)

Was out walking with our little bean and got approached by a talent scout..here's a sneak peek at Sophie's portfolio :D

Weekend news 15-16 Nov

Welcome to today's edition of the weekend news. Making the headlines this weekend is the wedding of serene loi and kelvyn. Fondly known as Ms Loi or Ah Loi by me, the bride was beautiful and radiant. The wedding couple were very sporting..they gamely played the 3 games we prepared for them - the egg, the drink and the cherry (cherries). Here is a pix of how happy the groom seemed to be when his wife had her hands on him ;)

The ladies and one Mitch at my table

mr and mrs cheng...or Ah Cheng as I will now call serene..hehe

In other headline news, I had my first bday celebration of 2008. Lin, RY and Mei organised dinner at Peach Garden and surprised me with a yummy choc mousse cake from Prive..I had one candle and made a wish on behalf of Jin ;)

We end with some updates on little Sophie bean..she experienced a few "firsts" this weekend..

Her first swim in the big adults pool by herself (she loves loves to swim!)

Her first time sitting on her yellow bumbo without a pillow to support her (this sitting up position does cause her to spill out a lot of milk though ;P)

Her first time facing forward in her baby bjorn :)

The week ahead will be a fun with with bean's Popo visiting to give her lots of hugs. Until the next edition of the weekend news, here is a picture of Bean being amused by Aunty Lin and Mei.