Irisa starts Potty Training

1st Poo in her Potty...
hurray!! am so proud of you my lil darling...
So far she is able to say she want to do big biz but not so successful in small biz. hopefully she will grasp it soon and then i can save $$!!!

Jia you my lil angel!!

Irisa 2nd Birthday Celebration & Chinese New Year 2011

Time flies, Chinese New Year is here once again. This year, little family of 4 has a colour theme for Day 1 - 4. And Irisa is celebrating her bday on 3rd day of CNY.

First Day - Feb 3 2011 (Mummy Bday)

We wore the RED Theme.. Mummy & Daddy wore the same polo. SWEET!! And esp the family pic of Irisa hugging both Mummy & Daddy.. Priceless

With Grandfather & Grandmother

2nd Day - Feb 4 2011

We wore BLUE Theme. Daddy & Rayshon seems to have a 'smiliar' design shirt. Nice. Both Mummy & Irisa wore a blue dress.

3rd Day - Feb 5 2011 (Irisa Bday)

We wore a set of Family Tee. Ordered from MiliStudio, nice... Printing a bit too light but overall, still like the tees cos it is family tee for Lil Irisa Bday!!

4th Day - Feb 6 2011

We wore BLACK & WHITE Theme.

Gonna try and make it a family thing every CNY from now on. Need some serious planning and shopping to do.. Not easy to find the same colour of cothing for our lil family. And lil Irisa had a lot of fun staying at Great-Uncle hse & spending time with all the Ah Yi(s) & Ah Gu(s).

Not forgetting the late nights, new year goodies and all.

Irisa has grown up. 1 year older and this year, birthday falls on 3rd day of Chinese New Year - Feb 5 2011. Had a mini celebration for her with relatives & some of Mummy's close friends.

She was so happy with the Birthday song singing & clapped along with it. Lucky Mummy request for 1 more round and captured it in video for her to remember it. So different from her 1st Birthday which she got upset & frightened and cried big time when they sang for her.

Ordered the Anderson's Ice Cream Cake - Strawberry & Cookies n Cream.

All ready for her mini birthday celebration

The buffet spread

Her 1st Bday gift

Birthday song singing

Family Pic time

A pic with the kids

Our lovely neighbour

Enjoying her ice cream cake

With cousins & grandparents

Once again, thanks for all the well-wishes, red packets & gifts. We really appreciate your time & effort for making this occassion a joyous and happy one. Irisa also enjoyed very much.

Irisa at 23 Months++

Irisa at 23 Months++

A naughty, playful, cheeky, stubborn & smart girl she is. Sometimes as parents, we really don't know what is the limit, how to coach her, is what we are teaching sufficient or too over?

She has a BIG library of vocabs now, more and more verbal and can describe what she wants already. She can even talk back at me when I am scolding her at times. Another 5 years, I think she can fight with me already.

A big sister now, she likes to fetch lil bro's hanky for bath time, fetch lil bro's milk when its feeding time, fetch lil bro's pillow and whatever related to her beloved brother.

She is also able to pass instructions from 1 adult to another. If mummy ask her to help ask daddy/another adult to make milk for lil bro, she is able to. If mummy ask her to ask daddy to come in the room, she is able to tell it clearly too. Smart girl she is, or should i say too smart for us to handle.

She is very much, learning to be independent. She wants to learn to wear her own diaper, bath herself, fetch her own cutlery, and she can even drink from the milk packet without a milk bottle. We have successfully wean her off the milk bottle. And the next step, which is the most difficult one, that is to wean her off the pacifier, which i think i need at least a yr for it. And due to teething, she is basically 'wearing' out the pacifier at a fast rate.. Headache!!

A very funny incident that took place a few days ago.

Me: (packing some stuff and my pouch dropped) Irisa, pls help mummy take.

Irisa: (bend down and pick it up) Mummy

Me: (take it from her)

Irisa: (pointing to her nose) Mummy, Jie Jie Xie Xie

She is saying that I shoud says 'Thanks' to her for picking up for me as that is what I always teach her when we helped her do stuffs or give her pressie!!

Irisa is a big sister now!!

Above are some pics of Irisa before lil brother is out.

First time having cotton candy and she really enjoy it. Some carnival thingy for MP at our void deck so brought her down to see the little children from PAP and some other nursery performing. Balloons scultpure, popcorns and some stalls too. Too rowdy i feel.

Last outing before she gets 'confine' at home with mummy who is doing confinement. We went to Jurong Point for Mummy's crave - Teppanyaki and grocery shopping. Had a long day and the next day lil brother came out..

Irisa is a big sister now. She simply adore her little brother but sometimes cant understand the 'kan cheong' tt we have over little brother and tend to be a bit of jealous. Trying hard to shower her more TLC. But whatever we do with her brother, she wants a share too. Like putting Baby on her lap, kissing her brother etc. Cant wait when her brother is more grown up and see what she have up her sleeve. Will she be the 'naughty' one or little brother is the naughty one??

Some updates on her development:

1) Have 'totally' wean her off the bottle drinking. Nw she drinks from her straw cup for her milk in the morning and night. (why i '' the totally, cos sometimes if in the wee hours, we haf to give her bottle)

2) Is able to express herself with short sentences, explaining what she wants, what happens and why

3) Will help to throw little brother's clothing into laundry basket for us, fetch brother's milk btl etc. Great Helper for baby brother

4) Can say or should i say 'blabber' 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & A, B, C, D, E.

5) Loves to play with her soft toys - Barney, Woof Woof & Moo Moo

6) Can identify the animals - Cow, Dog, Cat, Elephant, Duck & Sheep, and she can imitate the sounds too

7) Can 'blabber' & sing Twinkle Twinkle & Baa Baa Black Sheep in her own language

A lot more but then cant remember off-hand to update for now.

Irisa latest Vocab & Expressive Self

Irisa's vocabuary has grown since the last I have updated. She is able to make very short sentences of about 4-5 words. Most common phrase:
Mummy beat Daddy!
Mummy, No-no.. and so on...

She can say words like:

Koo = Cry in chinese

Bao = Full in chinese

Sui = Sleep in chinese

Ta = Beat in chinese & Beat

Yi Yi = Dirty in meaning

Siew Siew = Shame in chinese when she sees half naked man

Eat, Please, Baby, Pain, Watch, Oh-oh when something drops, and a lot more that I cant really recall too.

See the cheeky gal above, she loves the free cap from Huggies goodies bag.. Everyday will wear it and play with her guitar.. Yes, we bought her a real toy guitar and she simply loves it. She will bring out the guitar when she sees cartoon character singing with guitar or those performance variety show with singing & guitar... hahahhaa.. so cute & amused to see her doing that.

Irisa has also grown to be more expressive. She will exclaimed in excitement, 'YEAH, mum-mum' whenever its meal time or her snack time. Even when we are out now, she will still play with the menu but once she sees food coming, she will return watever toys/menus/anything on hand and says 'YEAH, mum-mum' and ask for food.. so cute.. Feels like she getting older & more able to understand.



She can also know when we are driving in to car parks of shopping malls, relatives houses, reach home etc. And she will ask to wear her shoes (usually out half way thru the car ride), keep the pacifier etc.. Oh ya, did I mention that she finally able to say Pacifier in 'tutu'!! YES... She managed to do that. Last time always signalled by using a 'click' sound done with her tongue. so cute.. It jus pop out 1 day like that and surprise me..


Have gotten her a new Queen size bed to bunk in with Grandma. Hopefully she will be used to it and vice versa. Kinda worried cos Grandma getting old & Irisa is a 'rough' sleeper.. Hopefully in another 2 yrs time, Irisa & Lil Bro will be out of Mummy & Daddy room...


Irisa doing her little concert, imitating the TV.

Irisa at 20 Months Old

Irisa at 20 Months Old (Today, 20 Months 2 Weeks)

Irisa has become more verbal and more expressive. Now she will make short sentences, wants to help in housechores (aranging the groceries when back from supermarket, throwing own diaper & setting up the clothes etc before going to shower and so on)

She will also take the lead in saying she want to shower after she pooed, feels warm & sweaty, or telling me she want Milo after her afternoon nap, 'mum mum' when she feels hungry.

She also can help in simple task, asking Daddy out from Study Rm to eat, Helping Daddy & Mummy pass simple Yes/No msg.

Her favourite pass time now is Dancing & Watching Barney DVDs.

Favourite food, Cream of Mushroom Soup and all kinds of soups.. Gonna learn to make the soups so tt I can make yummilicious, MSG-free soup for her & Daddy..

Another interesting thing, she must say 'Bye Bye' to her tee, if she is wearing something with Barney on it. And she will exclaimed with happiness when she sees Barney product while outside shopping..

Her 1st try at Cotton Candy. She is scare of its fluffy texture.. End up I was the one who finished up.. I guess only Marshmallow is her good fren..

Brought her to Seafood Harvest at Concorde Hotel and she had a fun nite, doing all sort of expressions with us.. Now, she will choose who she wanna take photos with too...

You can see her enjoying the Cream of Seafood Chowder soup..

Irisa New Stunt

This whole week we stayed at my aunt's plc cos Daddy went overseas for 1 week. In terms of marketing, eating is a whole lot easier cos it is a mature estate. Luckily for Irisa, there is someone to play with here as well. (cos mummy tummy getting bigger and heavier lo)

There we were, watching a variety show on Channel 8 about slimming. It showed them doing stretching, push up etc.. And there she was, forcing my uncle to follow her imitating all the steps from TV. Suddenly someone doing the Push-ups and she follows.. Watch the video til the end and you can burst out in laughter...

The nxt day, I was packing all the stuff and getting ready our barang to go home. I told her to take her backpack to keep all the toys outside, without expecting her to really do it. End up she slots all her toys into the backpack pockets, front & back. And brought me all those tt can't be put in. Oh my, she is really getting more grown up.. I cant wait for lil brother to come out & see how she will care & dote on him.. My precious angel is growing up day & day. Sometimes it is getting so fast tt I didnt even realised it..