I love your smile...

Remember us having a hard time capturing Zoe's smiles on camera? Well... manage to do that this morning! Here's her with a small happy smile...

and here's a BIG WIDE one!

Bumbo Attempt

Tammie gave us her Bumbo chair before she left for Scotland... so yesterday, we tried to put Zoe on it for the first time... she was pretty ok with it...sitting there quietly by herself... a bit sian looking...

probably because she is tired...

Clothes Galore + New Rocker

We realized that we had a lot of gifts from friends and relatives tucked away in different corners out the house. Hence, one day, decided to take stock of all the clothes that were given to her and use them before she outgrows them....

And we realize.... Zoe has tons and tons of clothes!!! Enough to cover an entire Super Single Bed... can setup store in pasar malam already....

Adeline also mailed over some cute shoes (that are still too big for her now) and a cap

The Fisher Price rocker that her friends are on gets a bit warm in the afternoon... so we bought a new pink rocker (its either pink or blue) to put her on in the afternoons. It has holes in it so its much cooler.

小妮姑!

Based on our previous poll some time ago, most people voted that Zoe should shave her head. So we have decided that May 2nd will be the day when Zoe has a whole new look...

Final photo of the hair Zoe's borned with.... we're not going to turn it into a brush...

She's pretty sleepy that morning... I wonder what she dreams about.... but maybe, she wants to be a praise and worship leader in the future...

Choice of outfit for the day? A pink gap bodysuit from Tammie...

And off we go... again, the little girl's asleep... but fully buckled up in a child seat.... 100% compliance with traffic rules...

The place we are going to is at Harbourfront, once we got there, she goes into the pram... seems like she wants to do hiphop dance in the pram as well...

Ok... moment of reckoning... Mummy's supposed to hold her while the hairdresser shaves her head...

and the shaver goes to work....

There! Almost done..

And we ask Zoe whether she likes her new haircut? Erm... you can tell from her face. Mummy's trying to polish it to make it shinier..

After the haircut... its diaper changing time!

And we tried carrying her in a sling from Sylvia...yes yes, we carry a lot of things when we are out with her..

She wasn't too comfortable, so back she goes into the pram while we search for lunch.

There's this place called White Dog Cafe in Vivocity... it serves pretty good food at extremely good value.... for $10.80++, you get a main course below, a chicken soup with garlic bread as well as tea and coffee.... pretty good view of Sentosa too. Zoe didn't really let us eat in peace and demanded to be carried every now and then... but the place is pretty noisy.... so no one kicked up a fuss about her crying...

for $2.50, you can upgrade your tea and coffee to a mango pudding. Its good!

So how do we like her new haircut? Well... I am ok with it... it makes her eyes stand out more... Shimin's still getting used to it. We're pretty naughty parents... so we started calling her names from Mini-Me, Spock and 小妮姑! We like 小妮姑 best... so it stuck.

How's Zoe faring? Pretty ok too... don't think she misses the hair...

and now, she can try and look like Michael Jordan...

The Rocker Pics

From the previous post, seems like a lot of people went to Dr Koh when he was a lot younger including Shimin's sis and cousin Emmanuel.... well... he definitely has experience on his side then...

Zoe has been smiling a lot more lately but we are having difficulty capturing it on camera. This is the closest we got so far... a bit artistic hor....

My 二姑family also bought us a rocker for Zoe's first month. Zoe likes to spend time in the rocker after her morning feeds... Shimin calls this the Zoe and Friends time because there are 3 items you can dangle in front of her such as Pink Pig below...

Here's a series of pics of Zoe in the rocker

Oh... what's that on my left...

Its a bird, its a plane.... its a ....eh, mosquito!

Oh no... i must not be bitten!

Grrr.... piak piak piak.....

Gotcha! Yay... finally can play with my friends...

Funny Faces...

Been fairly busy with Zoe lately, so this blog usually gets updated fortnightly. We still take photos of her almost everyday though, so not to worry....

We switched PD for Zoe to Dr Koh at SBCC (AMK). Parking is cheaper and waiting time seems shorter. When they weigh her on 23rd April, she was 4.4kg! We think the weighing scale there needs some calibration but definitely, she is around 4-4.1kg. Zoe got her first Hep B jab at the clinic and we will go one month later for the second jab.

One of the things she likes to do is to sleep on Daddy's chest... initially was ok because she was fairly light and I could sleep through with her there... now with 4 kg on the chest... its getting a bit hard to breathe....

Here's her in a orange bodysuit from Adeline...

She also likes to stick out her tongue to show that she is hungry....

Anyway, here are some pictures of Zoe we took over the last 2 weeks in her various poses....

Sleeping Buddha pose...

Paparazzi I don't want to be photographed pose...

Funny face... Jim Carrey impersonation...

This is our favourite one... look straight at the camera with eyes wide open....

Random Updates...

A lot of things happen over the last 2 weeks... of course, the primary one was coping without the confinement nanny... definitely not easy being alone with a baby an entire day. Reinforcements were summoned and now, Shimin's mum will come over almost every Mon - Wed. Thu when my mum is on leave, we will go over to their place while Fri - Sun I should be home to help out as well.

To give us some breathing space, we also setup shop at both our parent's place. At Shimin's place, we have the cot below. So that we can leave Zoe with our parents while we go back to our couplehood days. Slight issue at Shimin's place is that Pickles (Shimin's dog) is still not very used to having Zoe around... so we need to tie him down at times.


For other developments...Zoe was 3.5kg when we visited the doc on 4th April. She now also attempts to hold her milk bottle at times...

We also try to put her tummy these days (tummy time) to build her neck muscles. There are times when she was able to turn her head to the other side while other times she was not able too... but we think she is making good progress...

There are times when she is absolutely angelic with eyes wide open.... here's an attempt at a nativity scene....

and a funny face that definitely does not belong to the scene....