Back to Routine ...

Monday the kids started back at school.  3 weeks holiday sure seemed to go fast!!

I took this photo before we left the lift lobby ... Samuel excited, Maddison happy watching Samuel, and Aaron grumpy!  (mainly because I wouldn't let him wear his soccer boots to school!)  Ahhh ... life around here at the moment :-)

Lyndon bought me a "smart phone" in the weekend ... and I know it's much smarter than me!  But I am trying to learn how to use it.  I am LOVING the camera though!  I even know how to download them to the computer now (hehee) ;-)

So the pic above and this one of the kids getting on the bus were taken with my new phone.

Samuel also started at a new pre-school/child care centre.  He was so happy with the car that he jumped in, waved and said "bye Mummy"!  No tears, clingy-ness or anything (which is amazing for him at the moment!).  I waved back and said bye, blew him a kiss and walked half way to the gate and stood and watched.  He did a small circuit with the car, leant out the window and blew me a kiss, waved again and said "Bye Mummy"!  So I took that to mean I am obviously in his way so leave!  hahaa :-)

I left and went and did a grocery stock up at Tesco ... (took me nearly an hour to put all that away!!)

Had to share a couple of these pics.  Monday afternoon Samuel and I were waiting for Aaron and Maddison to come home on the bus.  Samuel had a little ball he was playing with and he kicked it (accidentally on purpose I think!) into the pond.  Then he fell in!  I didn't get a pic of that as I leapt up to make sure he was okay (he was!).

He was soaked to his armpits!  But that didn't stop him - it then became a game to throw the ball in and climb in the water and fetch it!!

Yet another change of clothes for the little darling.  :-)

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Wednesday

It's amazing what Grandma pulls out of her suitcase!! ;-)

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This morning she had some special plastic shrink wrappers for boiled eggs for the kids. So they had toast & a boiled egg for breakfast. It was VERY exciting as I am sure you can imagine. hehee

After the kids were at school Mum and I went and did a grocery shop - couldn't resist taking this photo, 39 weeks tomorrow!

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Day before Christmas ...

Going to do a bit of a catch up ... so lots of photos over the next few posts! ;-)

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Thursday we had a late start hehehee ... nothing like a little (well big) sleep in! We had a late night on Wednesday night, so kids slept in which was a miracle! Was lovely though :-)

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Mid morning Aunty Irene came over and we headed out to the Pavilion for lunch ... this was our dessert!

After that Irene, the kids and I watched some "Christmas Fairies" (!!!) dance to some Christmas songs. Kept us entertained!

Nana had mentioned she would like to buy a watch ... which probably was a bad idea in her sons hearing hehehee ... so they spent a long time in LOTS of watch shops and probably only made Nana very confused heheheee. After the fairies had finished Irene & I took the kids to a couple of toy shops and let them loose!

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The Pavilion was decorated beautifully ...

Aaron watching the crowds (love the pose!).
We had tea at Madam Kwan's ... Madam even had her photo taken with us ... Maddison was taken with her hat I reckon!
Grandad & Nana tried out this ABC dessert ...
Lyndon's one had green slugs in it (lol)
And the night before Christmas ... all was quiet, nothing was stirring ... not even a mouse :-)

The camera has had an airing!

Just a quick catch up of this week so far!

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Monday ... I actually made it clothes shopping while the kids were at school. If you know me or read my blog, I've mentioned before it's a chore to me. I hate clothes shopping. Shopping for maternity clothes is even worse I have discovered! Especially here! I wanted some tops and some skirts ... sounds easy huh! My only stipulation was that they had to last the remainder of my pregnancy (e.g. fit!) and the skirts were to be below my knees! Huh ... what a joke. The first shop I went to had 3 styles of skirts, all of which were about 30cm long ... I won't even try and imagine myself wearing such a thing, so don't you bother! (Hideous comes to mind!). The tops ... all were blouses really in the same style - lots of different colours and patterns with the only other difference being that some had buttons, some didn't, some had collars, some didn't, some had pockets, some didn't! Huh ... anyway I found 3 that would do. (Actually by that stage I was so brassed off that they didn't have longer skirts I just wanted to grab the first things that fitted!)

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Second shop ... well there was more of a selection in the tops ... so I got a t-shirt. But the skirts ... much the same story. They did have a couple of longer ones, which the shop assistant insisted would fit me (big joke ... couldn't even get it up over my thighs let alone my hips!). I did buy one skirt - it's sort of calf length I suppose, but it definitely won't last till the end of the pregnancy!

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My question is ... how on earth do other 'curvy', 'generously' built, 'lush' ladies manage?? Especially when they are pregnant? I mean seriously ... I know more than half the female population here don't have bottoms or hips to speak of ... but what about the ones that do?

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Anyway I will try another shop I've seen and if I have no luck then I think my best bet is to go fabric shopping and get something made! So that was my shopping trip ... I had to console myself with a pretzel at Auntie Annies on the way home hehehe (that will help with the lushness LOL)!!

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Yesterday the kids helped the maid clean the mirrors while I did my hair before going to school! I think the mirrors ended up dirtier than they were to start with actually LOL

And today ... I took the camera to school mainly to get some pics of Maddison at school doing her thing! I have in mind a double LO for her album like this one I did for Aaron.

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Concentrating colouring in ... something she's actually very good at compared to other kids her age and she just loves. (I can't recommend Crayola Washable Crayons enough!!!!) :-)

Showing off her circles & star she's coloured in on the Christmas tree to a little friend.
This is her 'partner in crime' hehehee. Sorry you can't see Z's face but I haven't got permission from her parents ... but you can see the sneaky look on Maddison's face and Z had a very cheeky look hehee They get up to lots of mischief together!!!
On Wednesday's at school they have a gym session. Because I was there Maddison didn't want to participate in anything until the climbing activity! (Apparently it's her favourite!)
"Look at me Mummy"
And jumping ... now I know why both the kids love jumping on our bed!!

Teacher lining them up to talk back to class.
Listening very intently to music and watching the flash cards the teacher was holding up.
Music was forgotten when she saw this activity toy ... so when she was busy with that I sneaked away :-)
And here's Aaron doing counters ... he had to put the numbers in order, then put the correct amount of little green counters beside each number.
Okay I am out of here. We have a train track to build! ;-)

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Saturday Shopping

Thought it was about time I did some updating here!

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Last Saturday after lunch we headed into China Town and Little India. The kids have a costume day on Wednesday at school so I wanted to get them an Indian outfit each. So they did this (Aaron was finishing off the dregs of my frosty lemon tea!) ...

While Lyndon inspected the goods at one of his favourite haunts! LOL

It was hot and I was exhausted by the time we had made it back to the Central Market where we'd parked. We decided to have tea there since it was just after 5pm ... so stopped in at Secret Recipe.

I just laughed at this pic - the water must have been really cold and she could feel it cold in her tummy hehehee
Driving back home I noticed a "certain" type of car parked in our parking building so since we had the camera we walked down a few levels and got a pic of a "certain" little boy that's crazy about Ferrari's! He just thought it was the best thing :-)

And tonight Maddison decided to race off with one of Aaron's trains and tried to get under the dining table, but miscalculated and whacked her head in the exact same spot on her eyebrow as last time (you can read about that here). Hard to tell in this pic, but there's quite a lump and I slathered arnica on it, but I think it will still bruise a little. (Be nice for their class photos tomorrow won't it!)

So that's been us the last few days :-) I'll be back tomorrow with some pics of the kids in their Indian costumes :-) heheheee

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New Years Day 2009

Phew ... what a day :-) A great way to start the New Year ... Mum and I took ourselves off to town this morning and left Lyndon with the kids heheehee
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We caught a taxi to a street in the city centre somewhere and it's fabric shop after fabric shop, with a few other shops squashed in between ... we got there around 10.30am and 3 hours later we'd done about 15 shops and hadn't see the half of it! SOOOOO much to see and so interesting.
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Here I am with half the days loot (we bought more later on!).

Just to give you an idea of the traffic ... this was around 3.30pm I think.

After we'd had lunch we spent a while in a big department store which had a huge sale. Got a few bargains and spent a long time waiting in the queue to pay!! Then we caught another taxi to KLCC to the mall there underneath the Twin Towers. We needed a wee thirst quencher by that time, so had a juice and some Famous Amos bikkies :-) (see the shopping bags have multiplied!)

Had a bit of a look around then went outside to take some photos of the towers ... was glad to get back inside to the air con though!

Lyndon was very kind and took the kids to Burger King while he had the car cleaned, then they looked at a bike shop (for your information Aunty Rebecca, Aaron is very keen to own a "bicycle" now and peddle to the "sea shore" heheheee). After that they went home and the kids had a sleep and when they woke he drove in and met us at the towers. We took pity on him and took the kids then and he had a wee break looking at watch shops! LOL (actually to be fair I think he spent most of the time at a camera shop).

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We had Thai for tea, looked at a few more shops, the kids played on this ride on toy and we enjoyed a New Zealand Natural ice cream.

Then we went back outside to take some night shots of the Towers. They are so impressive at night. I am slowing getting the hang of my new camera (still have a billion things to learn about it yet though!).

Mum took this photo of us ... can you see us as tiny insignificant specks at the bottom of the towers!!

Lyndon says there's no shortage of stainless steel here! That's why the towers look so impressive and shiny.

So the first day of the new year has been and nearly gone! Everyone else has gone to bed and I am heading there myself. Night all.

Woo Hoot Wednesday

Someone has definitely sped the days up! It can't be Wednesday already (well actually it's nearly over ... how did that happen??) I'll blame the Christmas Elves I think!

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Woo Hoots for ... Mum being here :-)

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Lyndon having next few days off work and us all going to Port Dickson for the weekend. REALLY looking forward to that.

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1 week and it's Christmas Eve!

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Finished my LO's and bits and bobs for Scrap-n-Crop's January Kit Club :) (Woo Hoot for having Mum here I tell you! ... she's looked after the kids today so I could have some un-interrupted time at my scrap desk and actually be productive!).

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That will do ... my brain is too tired to think of anything else! Every day is a woo hoot really at the moment hehehee :-)

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Just going to do a re-cap here of the last couple of days for my Daily Album record!!!

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Tuesday - Mum, the kids and I spent pretty much the whole day out and about. We had a few things we had to do and a few things we wanted to do and got them all done, so was a good feeling and the kids were actually very well behaved considering!

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Check out this Christmas tree made of over 3,000 plastic bottles (all individually hung!! Imagine making sure you had the right length of string!)

Tuesday's lunch was at this delicious restaurant called "theabroma Chocolate Lounge". VERY VERY nice! Check out the drinks Mum and I had ... can't recall exactly what it was, but it was scrummy.

Maddison and Aaron shared an ice chocolate drink ... theirs didn't have ice cream in it and it was a bit sweeter than the one Mum & I had.

The kids patiently waiting in the car for Grandma to come back from an errand :-)

Later in the afternoon we went to another mall, and while I went to look in a shop the kids had a ride on these!!

My daughter the digger driver! ha

And today ... we've been at home all day. Mum has looked after the kids for me while I completed my kit club stuff from Scrap-n-Crop and she also did some baking :-) What a shame, now we have to eat it!! lol

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Here's little Miss Muffit after she woke this morning. I tried putting her hair into pigtails ... we've had a few laughs! She's actually been pretty good at leaving them in, trouble is she gets into rough and tumble games with Aaron and because her hair is so fine the bands and clips slip out, so they don't stay in for long!

This picture shows how lopsided they were ... she was showing off because I said don't put the toy her in mouth, so she shoved her hand in instead!!

So that's us ... I've got to get on with our packing now. Done the kids clothes and some toys and books for them, but that's about it! So better get scampering. Be back early next week with an update!

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Have a good weekend all!