I had my Hep B booster jab at Dr Ho's clinic earlier today and have a plaster on my right upper arm. When we went to pick Gabster up, she saw the plaster and said with a frown on her face, "Mommy pain pain.." And as we walked back, she wanted me to carry her bag for her. I extended my right arm to take the bag from her and she immediately exclaimed, "The other hand, the other hand..." with a very concerned look on her face.. She was worried that my right hand would be in pain if I carried her bag with it. Such a darling!!!

And as I was getting her to sleep, she wanted me to quickly take off the plaster because to her, that would mean that I'd no longer be in pain..

Awwww.. such simple thoughts but they warm my heart! My precious baby loves me so...

Happy Valentine's Day! (^__^)

I was so touched and impressed by my precious little girl this evening. I got home after work just after Gabby's dinner. My dad had prepared dinner for my mom and I before he went out to work, and Calvin's on duty tonight. As expected, Gabby refused to let me go shower and insisted that I sit down with her. Even after I tried to distract her and lure her away so I can go take a shower, she insisted that I stay within her sight. Then I decided to use another tactic.

Me: Gabby, Po Po's hand pain pain. You go to the kitchen and help her take the bowls ok? If not, her hand pain cannot do it herself you know... You go and help her ok?
Gabby: *suddenly stopped insisting that I sit down with her, looked at Po Po, went over to hug Po Po and pointed to the kitchen.

Both my mom and I were dumbfounded... I can tell how pleased my mom was... she carried Gabby and walked towards to kitchen. Before they got to the kitchen, my mom turned around and told me in Mandarin, "she loves (dotes on) me..."

It was just a simple yet heartwarming gesture from a 20 month old. I'm so proud to be Gabby's Mommy!

My V-Day present from my handsome valentine..
Now we have a pair of qing lu handphone (^_*)

I've been showered with super yummy tonic soup since some months ago... Allan (Renee's hubby, Tyler & Seth's daddy) is one of the best cooks amongst my friends. He makes the best oxtail stew and he makes the best tonic soup!

Some months back, Renee text me in the morning before I reached office to say that Allan made me some soup. He said that from the 5th month onwards, I should start taking tonic soup and he spent Sunday preparing just that for me and 小B. And I had the whole flask to myself to start the week! The taste of the chicken and herbs is simply marvelicious!!

Renee doesn't like soups and Allan didn't get a chance to prepare this for his own wife when she was pregnant. So now, he's doing it for his wife's good pal... :p

Today, I had another flask of tonic soup to enjoy... MEGA YUMMY!!! Thank you so much, Allan!

Last night after dinner, Calvin said he wants to go NTUC for a while. That was like 8.30pm... and I'm like "why do you wanna go NTUC now? Go tomorrow lah..." After pestering him, he said he wants to go get me a surprise.... hmmmm... surprise?? from NTUC? What could he get me from NTUC????

I told Jasmine about it after he left for NTUC... and Jasmine commented, "aiyo..so ah chek...." hahahah....

So anyway, I was supposed to stay in the room when he comes back and not ask anything... He won't even tell me when I'll get to see my surprise. So as not to spoil the fun, I followed his instructions.

It's his off day today. When I woke up this morning, he wasn't in bed... Thought he went to the bathroom. I waited for him to come back into the room as I lazed in bed but he didn't appear back in the room... I walked out to look for him and found him in the kitchen preparing breakfast for me!!!!! OMG!!! I was sooooo touched!!! Look at my hearty breakfast prepared with love... What a beautiful way to start a work day! I feel I can accomplish anything today!

Thank you, baby! (^.^)

I got an email early last week that notifies me of a parcel that's on its way to Singapore from New Jersey and the sender is Eric Yeo. Nicole didn't breathe a word about sending something to me... so I'm really surprised and excited. *smile smile

We were out the whole day on Sat, busying ourselves with my gyane check-up, hair-cuts, visit Jo's beautiful princess Trisha, cord blood banking seminar and dinner with Corinna and Rick. When we got home after dinner, I found this Singpost delivery slip. The postman came by that afternoon and we missed the parcel.

Popped by the post office after work today to pick it up. Here's the contents of the parcel...

Calvin was guessing if Nicole has blessed us with some cloth diapers... Lo and behold... that's exactly what she got for us. (^_^) Thank you, babe! Have you started using the cloth diapers on Cheyenne yet?

My cute friend Nicole made me chuckle when I saw what else was in the parcel... Packets of anchovies fillets! Earlier this year, I was telling her I can't find this ingredient in the supermarkets here and maybe that's why my aglio olio pasta is not as yummy as it's supposed to be. She uses them for her pasta and she got them for me! Now I have anchovies fillets to yummify my pasta... airflown from US somemore... hehe. THANK YOU! Will let you know what difference it makes to my pasta... :p

Yee Tong was in New York for a meeting last week and while she's there, she went shopping for the princesses (Wendy's Saffy and my 小B)... She got the princesses these pretty little princess socks from Toys R Us. Aren't they lovely?? Each pair even had little diamantes on them. So sweet...

小B says, "Thank you Auntie Tong Tong! (^_^) Love them and can't wait to wear them.."

A couple of weeks ago when Calvin was on leave, he decided to give our home some new additions.

We've been wanting to get ourselves a coffee table. It's really not convenient and not conducive when you have guests and there's no coffee table in the hall. We saw something pretty decent in the Ikea catalogue and decided to get it. The coffee table seems to complete the hall. Now, we can have our drinks and snacks within reach when we glue our bums to the sofa and fix our eyes on the TV. :p

Oh, that beautiful butterfly candle holder was a wedding gift from my colleagues Natasha, Faylyn and Hazel. Fell in love with it the moment I opened the gift. Now I can display it prominently. (^__^)

We've also been searching for wall decals to decorate 小B's room. Our first choice was a zoo themed decal, and it's really really cute! But they don't deliver to Singapore... sad.. So, we settled for this just-as-beautiful decal, the lollipop garden. Daddy-to-be excitedly put it up with careful precision one fine day. I came home after work and was greeted with a brightly coloured room for 小B. So colourful it brings a smile to my face every time I step into the room. 小B, I'm sure you'd love it too!

I worked from home yesterday and when Calvin came home from his lunch date with his friends, he surprised me with this beautiful stalk of sunflower! (^__^) It's really nice to receive flowers from the husband once in a while for no reason at all. Thank you baby!! Love it!

And then, Xueting msn'ed me to tell me that we've got flowers from the Amex MSI clients! You see, both Xueting and I recently got promoted and so this is their way of congratulating us!! How sweet of them! When I got promoted the last time round, I was still in the other team and my Pizza Hut clients sent me flowers and a doggie soft toy! I was really moved by their thoughtfulness! They were the first to show me what nice and appreciative clients are like.

Today, XT and I got another surprise! Our other set of Amex clients sent us flowers too! I love the furry part of the arrangement. Made it look so heavenly! hehe...