Little posers

Check out our little posers:

Heidi at 4 months old and 4 years old. We asked her to do the same pose at the same place haha.

This one is a born poser. No need to ask lol.

And these 2 -  cousins and BFFs! They look pretty cool in their shades.

And the biggest poser is...

Hands down, it's this one! She insisted that her Daddy buy her this jewellery set and paraded around the house with it.

It also works when there's food :)

Hannah, generally, needs the help of some props:

We were at the opening of EcoWorld's "Under the Windmills" event at Simpang Ampat.

As for this little one, why need to pose when she has her signature grin? We can never get enough of it :)

But when all's said and done, selfies with Mummy are always the best!

All in pink!

Hubby's cousin sent us these photos of Helene the other day, and I thought these were the cutest, most adorable photos of her I've ever seen (or maybe it's just parental bias lol).

The hat and socks were given by her nanny and Hubby's aunt, and the outfit by my aunt.

I must say she has the most pinchable cheeks, and cutest little dimples! Happy little Helene!

2 months old

Baby Helene is 2 months old today and I am officially back to work after my maternity leave. I had actually given her to be looked after by the babysitter 2 weeks earlier, just for a few hours, so that she could familiarize herself with the new environment. So far, so good and the babysitter has managed to get her into a good routine.

At her 2 month checkup last Friday, she weighed 5.5kg, which the doctor said was perfect for her age. We do however find the rolls of fat on her arms and thighs super adorable (at this stage lol). She is fully on breastmilk, so I direct feed her during the night and weekends, and she has my pumped milk at the babysitter's.

She is a very smiley baby, just like Heidi, but most people say that her features are more like Hannah's. Her smiles are quite hard to get on camera though. She will smile plenty when we are not ready with the camera, and by the time we get out our phones/camera, the smiles will be gone. I did however manage to get a really nice one yesterday morning (mornings are the times when she is in the best mood).

Here are some more of her smiley expressions:

We also notice that she has funny habits when she is sleeping or about to sleep, particularly the way she puts her hand to her face.

Don't grow up too quickly, ok? Mummy and Daddy want to enjoy your babyhood :)

We survived the first 3 weeks

So okay, at first I was thinking, how are we gonna handle 3 little girls below the age of 5, one being a newborn? Now, after 3 weeks, I'm glad to say that we have settled down into somewhat of a routine, and guess what, the house has not collapsed around us either ;)

Helene had an episode of jaundice not long after being discharged from the hospital, so into the hospital we went again, for her to have her "special sunbath" aka phototherapy treatment. The first day was not so good as she screamed blue murder *no pun intended* everytime they put her under the light. So we had to stay another day and only on the 2nd day, she somewhat calmed down enough for the treatment to take effect.

I am very glad that Hubby is such a great help, as well as MIL. So our weekday routine is as such, Hubby goes to work in the morning and drops Hannah off at school. Heidi stays at home with me and MIL comes by around 9 am to help to bathe Heidi and Helene as well as to cook for me. She leaves around 12 plus to fetch Hannah from school and brings both Hannah and Heidi back to her place so that I can get some rest in the afternoon. She cooks dinner for me at her place, and after work, Hubby goes to fetch the girls home and brings back my dinner. So far so good ;) On weekends, we are all home together. Hubby cooks for me so that his mum doesn't need to come up and down and also bathes all the kids and keeps them occupied. Sometimes he will bring Hannah and Heidi out so I can get some rest. Indeed he is super-hubby and super-daddy to all of us :)

Helene has some interesting expressions, even from when she was just a few days old until now.

Her Jie-jies are very loving towards her (for now, that is :p) and keep wanting to kiss her and carry her.

Now that she is 3 weeks old, here are some recent photos of her:

Will blog more soon.

Smile and say cheeeese!

Little Heidi now loves taking photos. She will strike a pose, smile and wait for you to take her photo. She will then want to look at the photo and then she will say "Again!".

She has what I call the "cheeky smile" and the "sweet smile". In both pictures below, she is doing one of each. Guess which one? :)

Out of this world

As Hannah is growing up, she is asking us many questions every day - where, who, what and her favourite "why". Yesterday I had this conversation with her which I also posted on Facebook. I told her that we would be going to Cameron Highlands with her cousins at the end of the month. She asked me lots of questions which led to some pretty "deep" questions:

Hannah: Will Ah Gong and Ah Mah be going as well?
Me: Yes, sure.
Hannah: Have Ah Gong and Ah Mah been there before? What about you and Daddy?
Me: I don't know about Ah Gong and Ah Mah but yes, Daddy and I have been there before.
Hannah: When?
Me: A long time ago before you were born.
Hannah: Was it when I was in your tummy?
Me: No Hannah, it was even before that.
Hannah: Then where was I?
Me: You were not in existence yet, you haven't come into the world. 

(I was trying to make this as simple as I could, and I don't think I really got through to her, but what she said next totally floored me!)

Hannah: So I was in another world?

Now what do you reply to that? I liked a comment which one of my friends posted - he said that I should have replied "Hannah, you are out of this world!" Pun intended! :)

Also last night, I saw that Heidi's medicine bottle was being infested by ants (she is having paracetamol due to some mild fever caused by her injection on Tuesday). I showed it to Hannah and she said "Mummy, why so many ants? The ants are also sick?"

Besides this, there are a lot of little amusing things which she says during the day, that I can't remember them all. 

I think the best way to sum my big girl up is that she is like the "little girl with a curl" - when she is good she is very very good and when she is bad..well I won't finish that sentence - I'll just take it as a growing up phase! (Incidentally, she does have a curl in her hair :p)

Heidi at almost 13 months now weighs 9.4 kg (at her last checkup) which her paed says is excellent for her age. She eats almost everything we do, and surprisingly, she loves spicy food! Unlike her elder sister who cannot take even a little spicy, she slurps it up and asks for more! Her walking and talking is slower than Hannah, who could walk quite steadily by now and say quite a few simple words. But she is getting there with her walking - 5 or 6 steps before she goes down on her knees. As for talking, her favourite word (and basically the main thing she can say now) is nothing else than "mum mum!" She can also say "ba-ba" and babble a whole lot of baby talk.

Heidi is a fun-loving baby and will smile and wave to anybody who walks by, much to the amusement of passers-by. I had the girls to myself one night when Hubby was not home and the 3 of us slept upstairs (which we normally don't do). The two of them had a ball jumping and playing on the big bed until they literally fell asleep from exhaustion.

Her favourite time of the day is bath-time and we have to take her out from the bath-tub kicking and screaming most times as she doesn't want to get out!

On our weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) trips to the mall or to Tesco, she now knows how to ask for this:

We usually try to get one that both kids can sit on, so we save on having to pay for 2 rides!

Now that she can sit stably, she can also sit in the supermarket trolley, which makes things a lot easier not having to carry her.

When she gets scolded she makes this face - "pretend to cry" face:

And as of late, this has been her favourite hobby:

My happy go lucky fun loving baby!

You two kiddos are definitely out of this world, cos I wouldn't change you for anything!