Threesome weekend

This weekend was really nice..Jin did not have to work and could spend some much needed time with both Sophie bean and me :). We started our Saturday with brunch at Vista Bistro..I am beginning to really like this place, both for the food and atmosphere - facing the sea and beach. Jin had pancakes and I had the portobello mushroom with poach eggs..delish! Sophie had her milk :)

Our Food

Sophie sitting on her stroller looking all "big girl" (she accidently scratched her face :(, thus the little scar)

Jin made her wear her hat eventhough there was no sun :P

After brunch, we took a walk and I grabbed the opportunity to take some pix of Jin and Sophie.

Halfway through our photo shoot, this uncle who was sitting quietly with his white pet poodle, decided to walk over and chit chat..the chat lasted a good 30-40 minutes..he was telling us his whole life story..which was very interesting..I think even if I combined jin and my life story, it would not have been half as interesting as the uncle's story :p

I managed to catch up on some sleep in the afternoon and in the evening, we hopped over to Charmaine's place for tea and to check out her home. It was nice to just relax in her kitchen eating bak chang, cheesecakes, donuts and sweet rolls for tea. Charmaine's doggy, Paddy was fascinated with Sophie and kept licking her toes..our little bean took it all in good stride and did not even blink an eyelid :)

Today, we took a walk at Orchard..don't know why, but on and off, I somehow miss Orchard so every few weeks, I will bug Jin to have an outing to Orchard :)..We spent some time in Borders and Marks and Spencers, followed by window shopping at Isetan. Then it was a dash to Prive for lunch with Gail and Jimmy.

I managed to catch up on more sleep in the afternoon and got up for some tennis with Lin and RY..I have not played tennis in more than 9 mths..my swing was definitely rusty but it felt good just to be on the courts again, sweating it out. We had dinner at this soba place at Paragon..I had their autumn seasonal special -cold noodles with mushrooms and sesame based sauce..yums!

The bean is now tucked into bed, Jin's watching some sci-fi movie in his projector room..all's quiet and peaceful..I feel happy and contented. Now, everyday should be like this...

Our little bean - week 18

Studio shots

Sophie bean turns 4 months tomorrow..she's growing up too fast!! We took some studio shots 3 weeks ago to remind ourselves how small she once was :)

Our little one was not a happy camper at the day of the shoot as she was tired and cranky...we spent 80% of our time just trying to get her to stop crying...smile? hah..we did not even attempt trying to make her smile :P..I was exhausted at the end of the shoot but thankfully, our efforts paid of..I must say, we got some pretty decent pictures ..*yay*

Sophie's dreamfeed...

I am not sure if I should be celebrating so soon BUT the little bean has been sleeping 7 hours straight the past 4 nites!! woohoo...I get really excited when I wake up at 730am and she's still sound asleep, giving me time to express milk before she wakes :)

Anyway, here's what we do : she goes to bed at 7-9pm..after her milk, I wipe her down, put her in her PJs and read her some books. Then about midnite - 1am (depending on what time I sleep), she's woken up for her "dreamfeed". I usually give her about 140-150 ml for her dreamfeed..and she gamely finishes the whole bottle even though she's 80% asleep. Then it's a quick burp session (if she burps that is :p) and plunk back into bed and she's konked out till 730am :) Hurray!

Here's a video of Sophie feeding herself ;)

Sophie's babymare ...

One night last week, Sophie was fast asleep when I suddenly heard her semi-crying. I thought it was a bit weird as she had just gone to bed about an hour ago and should at least sleep for 4-5 hours before waking. I checked on her and saw that she was actually still sleeping but crying in her sleep..a babymare?





I told Jin, I think she was dreaming that someone was stealing her milk from her :)..anyway, after a good 5 minutes, she went back into her deep sleep..I guess she got back her milk ..heehee :D

Edwin gets hitched!

My colleague edwin got married last week. It has been ages since I attended a wedding in Singapore (I think the last time was like 5 years ago!) and things just have not changed , ie, the start time of the event :P. The wedding was held at Fullerton and only started at 830pm..good thing we had some small bites at the lobby first :)

The group from HP

Myra and me (check out my cleavage, woohoo ;)

5km run completed :)

Hard to believe I actually got out of my sleep deprived state to run 5km on a sunday morning - but I did! I signed up for the Great Eastern 5km run several months back..I was hoping that by signing up for the run, that would force me to train for the run and of course get back into shape after not exercising since the time I was expecting. Boy, who was I kidding? Working full days and spending the rest of my free time with the little bean leaves me only time to read my month old magazines and occasionally update this blog :P

Anyway, back to the run..Jin was a real sweetie - he actually got up early to get ready so that both bean and him could send me to the start line. The run started about 8.40am..I ran non stop the first 3kms afterwhich, it was run a bit , walk a bit the last 2 kms. Finished the whole 5 km in 35 minutes :)..quite proud of myself but my aching limbs are now protesting..I need a full body massage! :D

Here's baby bean and me - she's in her new stroller and I really think she likes it a lot :)

Our bean is 16 weeks old...