Had loads of fun making this!

Saw this on Scrapbook Inspirations, just had to try it. Took 2 days (with interruptions by the boys) and yeah! Did it! Tho' the actual product is actually a lot messier than how it looks on the photo!!

Kiefer sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

M: Twinkle Twinkle little star, how I wonder what you...

F: Ah..!!!

M: Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky, twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you...

F: Ah..! 

M: :P :P

And oh yes, his 2 front teeth have appeared!! =|3

Kieran is 3!!

Time flies when we are having fun! Kieran is already 3 years old!! In this one year, his speech and vocabulary has improved by leaps and bounds. He now uses phrases (and even slangs!) :P and yes, he knows expletives as well (and that's a story for another day!).

Here's a photo update of Kieran's 3rd year:

Kiefer is ONE!!

Yes, our little baby is growing up! He is now cruising all over the place and also starting to have some speech development. Here's some updates:

Speech/ language:

• a-oh.. (*hello*) with hands/remote/ phones to his ears
• eh.eh..eh..eh.. means he wants something or go somewhere
• get!/ duck! Don't know what this means, but the duck usually comes after a sneeze
• recognises some pictures like "duck, dog"

Dexterity:

• cruising very well, can free stand for 1s sometimes
• crawls really fast
• still puts everything into his mouth

Feeds:

• Direct BM 3x a day (6am, 6pm, 9pm)
• 1 120ml EBM (9am) + 1 120ml FM (230pm) Enfagrow
• breakfast - 1 scoop of cereal
• lunch & dinner - usually porridge with vegetables and fish/ tofu (1/2 - 3/4 rice bowl full)
• biscuits in between meals

Naps (Weekdays):

• Leaves the house at 630am, usually continues to sleep after reaching IL's place till about 830am
• Nap at about 10 till 11ish
• Nap after lunch till about 3pm (or whenever we fetch him)
• *if we are early, nap at about 3ish till dinner time at home
• Sometimes an evening nap before dinner (about 1/2 -1hr)

Naps (Weekends):

• Wakes at about 9am
• Naps at 11 till lunch (or no nap till after lunch)
• Afternoon nap from about 3-5ish
• Bedtime at about 930-10pm

Half a year has gone by for the 2 brothers...

Didn't manage any paper scrappbooking this hols and this is one of the few digital pages I did in this break. Time flies, and here's our 2 boys this half a year!!

Project Clean Up House

We've been back from Shanghai for a week already but I still haven't found the time to really blog about it. So what have been busy with? 

We've been trying to clear up clutter in the house and started this project before we left for Shanghai and we are now frantically trying to complete Project Clean Up House before Christmas next week. 

Stuff that have either been completed or going to be attended to include:

Bought new shelves to house all the stuff lying around the study and the guest room. Things that we use all the time will be put onto these shelves. My scrapbooking stuff takes up 2 shelves out of the 15 there.

In order to move me out of his space (cos he says that I clutter the table), we've gotten another table and put it in the other side of the room. And because I use the iMac most of the time now (and he got himself a macbook), it now sits on my table!! :D I love the little extendable table on the right side! Gives me extra space when I need it!

The last thing to be done is to really clear out the guest room to convert it into the boys room. We've cleared out most of the things in there already. The biggest item, which was the queen sized bed was given to our neighbour, and that really freed up a lot of space in the room. In order to properly empty the room, we had to throw things out from our storeroom (bomb shelter) to make space for the stuff that cluttered the guest room. I guess all is good cos we were just throwing and throwing. We followed the "if you didn't think about/know/use it in the last 5 years, chances are it's never ever going to be used". Once we did that, we found that we really had a lot of room in the store. All our suitcases can now go into the store!

Once the guest room is cleared out, I've got to give it a good cleaning and move in the little toddler bed that sis is giving me. Also, we will move the playpen in there as Fer's bed for a while before we shift the cot over. We figure it's gonna be tough getting Kieran to sleep with Fer in their own room. Wish us luck!

On top of cleaning up the house, I also spent about 2 days compiling the photos of our trip on iPhoto to send for printing. Hopefully it'll be ready by Christmas eve. And, I've got to start preparing work stuff!! :(

Finally scrapped Kieran's 1st day at Kindy!

Kit: Peppermint Creative Kindergarten Crafts

Back to scrapping!!

Since I've finished sewing the little stuff for my babies, it's back to scrapbooking for me! In the last week, I've done 3 layouts. 1 traditional layout and 2 digital ones. I've also started sorting out my papers by colours and am half-way through that. I'm determined to pack up my stuff nicely, cos I realised that all my scrapping stuff are all over the place!!

Well, it's back to work on Monday for me. :( Kieran is feeling the separation anxiety already. Actually myself as well. On one hand, I'm happy that Kieran is so much closer to me, on the other, it breaks my heart to see him cry when I drop him off at Grandpa's. I think he's been through so many adjustments these 5 mths! And he is doing so well (yes, I say this all the time). Great job Kieran!

wordle

found a really fun site. took the words from my previous entry and it generated an image outta it!! real fun for scrapbooking!

See how much has Kieran grown!

Digital kit from ShabbyPrincess.com

About the thumb..

Seeing Kiefer everyday constantly reminds me of how Kieran was when he was small. Time simply flies when you are having fun!! Kieran was only doing all the things that Kiefer is doing. It all seem not too long ago!!! 

 I remember we were so amused when Kieran started sucking his fist and then his thumb!! Found these pictures and decided to scrap them. We have so many pictures of Kieran in soft copy and nobody sees them. I'm glad I took up scrapbooking, now I can make use of all these photos!!

Finally...

Finally, the 1 month confinement is done with!! Tmr, we'll be having a celebration to celebration Kiefer's full month. Now that all these are done with I finally get some time to sit down and scrap again!!

Left Kieran at the inlaws the other day and went shopping at PS with Kiefer. It's good to not have an active toddler running around while you try to shop!!! :P Anyway, managed to pick up some scrapbooking supplies :D and thus, I can start scrapping again! I figured I'd probably will have lots of photos to scrap with 3 boys in the house!

Here's one of my birthday 3 weeks ago! It's been a long while since I celebrated my birthday and it was really great. Hubb did all the planning and I got a wonderful pressie from him this birthday! Most of all, I have 3 special boys by my side, celebrating my birthday this year! Happy 29th birthday to me!

Scrapping!

Just found out that Photoshop is really fun for scrapbooking as well. Another avenue for archiving the photos!