Quiet time in our house is rare. The girls love running up and down the hallway screaming and shouting when they are having fun and while it’s good that they are happy with this, it does me no good at all. It drives me up the wall!! But every so often, I get to enjoy these quiet moments which make them extra special.

*Please ignore the mess around*

Arianna loves books and although she cant read yet, her memory is fantastic. She *reads* aloud and what she repeats is what we’ve read to her. Pretty impressive….

And because Arianna has set a good example by reading books, it’s rubbed off quite nicely on KR. Though she is not into books as much as Arianna (she’s the Picasso in the family), it’s nice to see her ‘reading’ every now and then.

So technically, we’ve got a bookworm and an artist at the moment….perhaps Brandon will be the one who will be into sports, eh? One can hope….coz Ted’s already planning his footy career!

Although we are technically celebrating Chinese New Year in just a few weeks, I only managed to find the time to do this now (not that I was busy prep anything for CNY!). Here are some pre-Christmas shots I took of the kids in their Christmas headgear. Note that I could never take on the career as a photographer and given the choice between a photographer or a sales career, it would be hard to pick the one! I’d most likely take forever toying with the idea of having a career in either one that at the end of the day, I’d most likely end up in another position doing something else all together! lol

Anyway, on with this then :

Aaahh…now quickly my girls are growing up. In some shots, they look too grown up!! I want my babies back….where did they go??

All that said and done, this being Chinese New Year and all, Gong Xi Fac Cai!

It’s been awhile since I talked about the girls. Things are moving so fast for me these days, to be honest, I STILL haven’t got my head around things yet. Some days I think, how the heck am I going to manage with 2 toddlers and a baby. And others days, things seems to fall into place so nicely I think that I will survive after all. But as time for Mum to leave seems to be nearer, I’m getting really nervous about handling my brood. That’ll teach me (at least) for not having a bigger gap between the kids. :/

Anyway, latest updates on the girls is not that much. Arianna is turning out to be quite the princess/ballerina. Forever twirling and dancing but on the other hand, she is a trouble maker and really very cheeky (nakal). For those who understand, she loves to cari pasal and it often gets her into loads of trouble. She can be VERY defiant sometimes but other times, she is an excellent teacher coz KR has picked up a lot from her, both the good and bad of course.

As for KR, the good stuff is that her vocab is definitely good (at least compared to Arianna at the same age) and her interaction with people is pretty good too. Although she does not share her smiles willingly, I reckon she’s got the Mona Lisa smile about her. The other development is that she had her first poop on the big toilet day before! I was surprise she did it but I’m glad I listened to Mum and put her on. It took some coaxing but she did it in the end. However, I have been unsuccessful in getting her to go again though.

That said, I’m still concern that she is walking yet. For most times, she crawls but other times, she ‘walks’ on her knees. :/ It’s the first time I’ve seen any kid do it and Mum is just as surprised. While I don’t think she has any issues walking coz I’ve seen her take a couple of steps unknowingly, it looks to me as if she’s not confident enough or afraid to walk in case she’d fall down and I have no idea on how to get her to walk.

You’d think that kids would be raring to learn how to walk but not my KR and it’s a little frustrating especially when you’ve got a baby at home as well. It makes for going out and all a little tough coz we still have to carry KR around. Sometimes it sucks big time. So if you’ve got a way/tip/trick to get her walking, please….let me know!

It wasn’t too long ago when we had to bath Arianna for the first time since her birth, and I was just so jittery about bathing her that I passed on that mission to Ted who gladly took it on and boy, did that girl scream her lungs out! She absolutely hated her first bath and I was totally freaking out. Thank goodness it wasn’t me holding her or Lord knows what I’d do! Then came KR’s turn and once again, I pushed Ted to do it although this time around, after being more experience and what not, I have him the honors anyway coz I wanted to take the pix. KR loved her first bath, in fact she was loving it so much that you could literally see it in her face!

Daddy giving me my first bath coz Mummy chickened out

Aaaahhh, bliss….

Today, both girls love their baths and it was only recently that we’ve been bathing them together in the tub coz it’s just too taxing for me to bathe them one by one in my current state as well as, we do save on water AND soap! Plus, I gotta admit that it’s more fun as well coz they got bath toys and the lot in there.

Bath time at KLCC Impiana – the first time we put them in the tub together – thank gooodness no blood was shed coz Arianna doesn’t necessarily likes to share her tub.

The routine is normally, after bath, I rub them down and lather them up with baby cream to keep their skin moist but these days I keep forgetting. I will really have to keep an eye on how their skin developes over the years because of my horrible pimple gene. I wouldn’t want to be hunting for the best acne treatments in town unless I really have to and honestly, I really don’t want them to go through what I went through as a pimpled face teen in school – what can I say, some memories you just don’t forget, you know? But I’ll worry about that when the time comes.

This is the latest shot of a bubbled baby in a cave of bubbles. Getty Images worthy, you think?