yet another year has passed and its our D&D again tonite. check out our outfits and guess the theme? heheh

here's my whole team, except without the boss and the only guy in the team (which is the photographer), still guessing what's the theme?

give up? its actually a fairytale theme, though i think halloween seems more like it! and we have zhu bajie, sang nila utama, and a bunch of really weird dress-ups!

okie and here's me in my witch hat and my fellow witch sister!

we went to our family doc last evening (erm, actually its k's, hubby's and my folks's doc, i'm was a first-time customer yesterday)  being the kiasu mommy again, wanted all of us to take the flu jab before going to melbourne. quite lucky to find a doc near our home who k likes (she looks forward to all her doc trips) and he was really nice to let her play with his stethoscope while we had a chat (as usual, i always have questions for the doc).

when he asked who should go first for the jab, i immediately offered little k (much to hubby's horror), haha. she's braver than mommy but yesterday she did cry abit after the doc jab her. and she was "angry" wif her fave doc and refused to say byebye to him haha. needless to say, hubby went after that then me. he sprayed some numbing thingy on my arm but still pain loh sigh. and i have been having a splitting headache since this morning wonder if its cos of the jab.

i think we are all set for the trip  just hope it will be an enjoyable one.

finally found sometime to blog this week after a major event  am sure u would have seen my big boss in the news almost everyday for the past 3 days, that's why i'm working so hard  i had to stay over at the event venue over the past few days but managed to sneak home one night to spend some time with little k. she must have noticed that i didn't return home so when she woke up in the morning, she went to straight to my bedroom and asked," where's mommy?", then in the afternoon, after her nap, she went round the house to look for me again. so sweet huh

over the weekend, i bought some stuff for k's party favour bags, and yes its Barney!! so hard to find but eventually found it somewhere which is so near me afterall i.e. Great World City, duh. but they are running really low on stocks so i bought whatever i could get first, still need to get more decor stuff and candies to fill the favour bags. i'm still fretting over the caterers cos i'm sick of my usual ones, so am looking for alternatives. and i managed to find a lovely bakery opened by a friend's friend, so hopefully they can do a customised cake design for my mom.

also, i made my makeover appointment!! the photographer (cum owner) of the studio told me to think of some celebrity to emulate (if i want), but i told him if i did that, will be stopped at airports all over the world!!?!? the main purpose was to shoot nice pics to replace my passport and nric cards but it kinda snowballed (somehow) into a full fledged phototaking session  hubby's paying for it as a bday gift so i thought what-the-heck. i'm hitting the big 3-0 and better to take some shots for "preservation" haha  and on the desired "celebrity", it has to be Heidi Klum for me, which is a tall order!

i heard the good news that baby aidan has arrived!  aidan was one of those names that i shortlisted (had k been a boy) and i'm so happy that one of my bestest fren had chosen the name for the youngest addition to her brood.

we brought k to her great-grandmother's (hubby's side of the family) bday celebration on Sunday. she accidentally hurt herself (i will share that with details in the next para) so was kinda grumpy but at least she managed to make the old matriarch happy by saying," Happy birthday lao ma" heheh  and little k was super happy playing with the other children at the party that she excited remarked with a jump, "all are my frens, yeah!" kinda surprised cos she usually seems quite happy playing on her own, i guess my little girl is growing up and ready to have her own frens.

about the little accident, little k got her ring finger caught in between a folding chair! yes, she hid her hand behind her back so when my mom folded the chair to put it properly for her to sit down, it was stuck in between! and k was the one who said stuck, stuck, then started crying so we realised prolly a few seconds later. my mom panicked and yanked her finger out which was to my horror (yes, i felt my heart drop) as i was afraid it might break her finger  fortunately, her little finger is intact (its the ring finger on her left hand leh, which she might someday wear her wedding ring) just bruised and swollen. aiyo so heart pain i tell u, she cried for quite awhile before we could pacify her to quiet down.

so nice to spend a nice long weekend without having an event or going to work  i brought k out everyday cos i wanted to buy some warm clothes to tog her in melbourne. but she refused to try any of the items so i can only "estimate" by placing it against her body and tiny hands. bought for her a trenchcoat (yes, not a typical winter jacket, heheh), matching gloves (or mittens rather, without the fingers part hee) and a tracksuit. quite hard to find her size cos maybe not many people bring a young tot to cold holidays so i had to get everything in the smallest size. but it was really fun (at least for me cos k's totally disinterested). since i bought her 2 pairs of leg warmers earlier, i think she's all set! now its time for me to start thinking about my leather jacket at uniqlo, hee

since i'm out quite alot with k these days, starting to notice expressions/behaviours of some people who either do not like tots, or are just plain rude. k's a small tot just making her way around the stores and sometimes i get irritated glances from people and i find myself apologising most of the time. its not that she runs around in the store but she may almost bump into people so they have to move to avoid her. another thing is when a curious tot looks at what u are doing, i noticed some people actually give her the what-are-u-looking-at expression  which i think its uncalled for. u don't have to react if you dunno how to, but no need to glare back at her in an unfriendly manner rite? i don't like such negative attitudes to affect k so i usually just move her away quickly and try to explain what the person is doing (to satisfy her curiosity).

but having said that, i also met many nice and gracious people who give way to us and play with k. there are more nice people than meanies i guess, so juz gotta live with it.