Our eventful weekend

With all that's been going on in our lives, we seem to be busy-ing with things in general - doctor visits, errands, washing, packing.... and we don't seem to have been doing anything fruitful. But this last weekend, our lives have settled down slightly and we actually spent time together as a family. So, here's sharing...

Saturday morning: the husband had to work so Kate decided to tag along. (She said, yes, I want to go running with Papa and so I had to go babysit her.) It was a great move though and we all got some sun and it was rather fun (actually, more for Kate and I since the husband was going to do it already, anyway).

A little girl in a big man's world. Yup, that's the husband and his sheep in the background. This little girl's really competitive! Every time the big boys ran by she'd start to run but she'd slow down and stare at them running by... until they came by again and she'd pick up speed again!

Here's quite a funny shot of her, looking as if she's doing a push-up or something. She was really hot & bothered and she said so quite clearly "I'm so HOT!" - it was good to have her sweating it out though cos I think we don't let her do so enough!

Saturday evening: Play-date with Eva cheche. It was only a short hour, but it's quite amusing to see how little girls of the same age interact with each other. They were both not shy and rather similar in character - very sociable and outspoken. Eva's grown visibly taller since we last saw her (her birthday in August) and it was truly great to catch up with her Mommy!

The highlight of the evening has got to be when the 2 girls decided that they both wanted to sit on the one kiddy-chair. (We only have 1 kidddy-sized chair in the house since there's only one kid.) The exchange between them went something like this:

E was sitting on the chair.
K: I want to siiiiiiittttt
E: No. I sit. You stand.
K: pouts* I don't want
E points against the wall where K should stand.

It was like we parents (all 4 of us) were watching a live show - we were staring at the girls talking to each other and it was rather hahaha! We interceded and persuaded the girls to take turns to sit on the chair and they did so grudgingly (grudging more on K's part since she's the more reluctant party to share her possessions whereas E was quite happy hopping around everywhere! Such an energetic child!)

And of course, we had to take pics of them so that we'll remember them after they're no longer such babies. (And just for fun, here's them at their play-date once-upon-a-time.)

Kate's turn on the chair. Arm around Eva. Gotta be fair - so both must hold a balloon in their hands.

Eva and Kate, take 2 (swapped positions for Eva's turn on the chair)

Love how they both look kinda constipated. Look at how beautiful the curtains look as backdrop!

Snack-time - everyone had cake. Gotta have it on record that the cleaner did a great job cleaning up the girls' mess on the floor (handsome cleaner featured in background available for temporary hire on hourly rates. Heh)

To the gf: thanks for swinging by and it's, as always, great to see you. So much sporadic information exchanged! And much more updates to come. Exciting times ahead for us! *hugs

Sunday: highlight was a sumptuous lunch with the family and after the very tummy-filling affair, we willed time away for fun doing nothing at all. Aaahh, I love doing nothing!

The princess and her favourite purple friend