Happy Birthday to ME

Happy Birthday to me! No need for secrets. It's my thirty first birthday. For these two years, I was not as stressed out as the previous years, when I was 28, 29 years young. Back then, I was like, "OMG, I'm gonna be 30 soon. OMG." But when I really hit 30, I'm like... "Ok. 30 years young, so... It's just another day, just another year. Fact: I'm getting younger each year."

For today, hubby was busy for work, hence I took baby to the Zoo and River Safari since we both enter free. Free entry for birthday person and children below 3 years old. My mom and dad went together with us.

Hello Zoo. Hello River Safari. 

Though baby doesn't know what is happening, what to see, where to look, I had fun. Posing with a pony. 

The main highlights of the Zoo, the Koalas, were all asleep when we were there. There were so many visitors, and chatters, they just continued to sleep on. Lol. 

We joined in the other visitors with a wefie with the koala. 

The main highlights of River Safari, the Pandas Kai Kai and Jia Jia, were lazing around. I think it was Jia Jia, who POOP in front of us. Hahahaha.... We (including the other visitors) were moving along with her when she climbed up the slope. We thought she was gonna play or something, end up.... POOP. Hahaha...

Baby meets Panda. 

On top of entering free for the birthday person, I am entitled a 10% discount on designated F&B outlets and retail stores. There's also free ice cream at Ah Meng restaurant in the zoo and free ice cream at the Mama Panda Kitchen. Hee.. Happy me. I feel very VIP-ish with the discounts and freebies. Here's more information on Birthday priviledges on the Zoo and River Safari. 

Free ice cream at Ah Meng's. 

Free paddle pop icecream at Mama Panda Kitchen. 

We went back around 4pm. It took us about 6 hours to walk finish both parks.

Big thanks to my parents who accompanied me for the day and taking care of baby.

Dinner was with the hubby at Morganfield's at The Star Vista. We ordered too much. Gosh.. There's the Pop Corn Pork, full slab of Hickory BBQ Spare Ribs for the savoury and the Chocolate Lava Cake and Classic Apple Pie for the sweets. TOO MUCH. (I shall blog more about Morganfield's in another post.)

We were too full for desserts. What a waste. And the portion is not small. Lol. 

Attempted to backcarry baby at desserts but it only pacified her a little. 

Happy Father's Day

It's the hubs and the baby's first father's day. Baby and I bought her papa a shirt. She chose the gift when we went shopping. Hubs likes it.

Happy Father's Day. 

Thank you for being such a great daddy to baby. Being there when I'm too tired and/sick to move. Playing and reading with her every night when you come back from your tired day. Bearing and changing her smelly poop diaper with me. Baby and I can't be more fortunate to have you. We love you. 

More new toys.. and books

Just received my loot from Amazon. Spend US$125 (T&Cs applies) and above and it's free shipping~ The entire loot, only one item belongs to Josie's Papa and one item belongs to Josie's Mammy. The rest are all hers. Hahaha..

Happy 7th Wedding Anniversary

It's our 7th year wedding anniversary. The traditional wedding date. Like so confusing to have two dates. One ROM one traditional wedding. So it's like 7 years or 7.5 years? Nevertheless, it's still a day to celebrate. 

The hubbs booked us a buffet lunch at the hotel we held our wedding dinner. Some credit cards, like Maybank, offers 1 for 1 promotion. 

We reached about 12, and the carpark was pretty full. We had to go all the way up to level 6. Giddy me. That's another reason I should not learn driving. Lol. Anyway, the restaurant, Square @ Furama was pretty full too. Seems like the others are also there for the promotion. 

The spread, I find is so so. Not really a huge spread. And the crowded restaurant makes me feel alittle giddy. We were lucky we got a table at a corner. Our cosy corner. But the bad thing is that our plates clear slower. Food wise, pretty tasty. Maybe I was't feeling that well at the start, the nicest was the ice cream. Hahah! As by then, alot of the guests left and the cold ice cream cooled my head. 

We then went shopping at Vivocity. Baby missed her nap earlier, hence slept through the entire time until we got back to the car. Then we went to fetch Latte home from his grooming. 

Supper was a Nutella Chocolate Cake, made specially by the hubbs. Such a special gift. I like. Very delicious. Very touched :D 

Happy anniversary my dear.

Happy Mother's Day (part 2)

Early dinner at The Clementi Mall's Soup Restaurant. The hubby made reservations, hence we got a mini room (real mini as it was pretty squeezy), no waiting queue and we have to order their set menu. It's a must since we made a reservation. Wow. 

There are 6 of us (and of course the baby, but she's unable to eat table food yet), so we ordered the set for 4 and topped up with two ala carte dishes.

Here's the set menu we ordered. We chose the Celebration Menu (S$123++). The cheapest of all. Lol.

Baby very happy. She kept talking. But most probably she's tired yet excited. 

The food was pretty tasty. I like all of the dishes. Most of the dishes are not our usual we-will-order kind of food. So it's thanks to this must-order-set-menu, we got to taste different food. 

Happy Mother's Day to my dearest mummy. 

My sister got me a gift and a flower too. Thanks dear sister. 

Happy Mother's Day

Happy mother's day to all mothers and mother-to-bes. It's a commercialised day where mothers get appreciated. Lol! 

Hubs got me this. Loreal RevitalLift anti-wrinkle and firming day cream. With a fine print that he doesn't mean that I am full of wrinkles or that my skin is sagging. Lol. 

Thank you hubby. I know I do look pretty bad sometimes.. Or most of the time. Haha.. Don't worry. I know myself. 

On this special day, I requested for Macdonalds breakfast. Yay. Happy food. 

Then I made marble cake with intention to bring over for my mum. But it failed. Terribly. Ouch. 

Then I made us lunch. Not that bad not that bad. 

Then I made porridge for baby's dinner. And I burnt them. Sigh. What a klutz. 

That's 50% of my first mother's day. 

Interaction with Latte

Latte, male Japanese Spitz, who is a year older (360 days to be exact) than Josie, is our dear family dog. Her older dogbro. 

Ever since she was born, we separated them, with no physical interaction except seeing each other from a distance until 6.5 months old. Which is recently... 

The reason for separating them is mainly because of his nails. Even though we do cut, his nails somehow are very sharp. Maybe because he's still young and easily excited. He always puts alot of pressure when he claws. My family member always get lines on the arms and legs. On serious occasions, the lines take days to heal. I did not dare to put my newborn to that test. 

So...

I would carry Josie and sit near him.. She would touch him, he would come near and smell her. Her sudden actions scare him though, especially when she got excited and kick her feet or waves her hands around. 

Today, 2 days shy of 7 months old, I let them interaction. She touch him. He lay down to let her touch, nose her, lick her. I am touched by their actions. They look so loving, so sweet. All along they were very interested in each other. Today I know, they love each other. My heart melts. 

This photo is taken a few days later.