Happy 1st Birthday to My Princesses! ❤

Qiqi & Hanhan turn 1 on 26 October 2012 !

Birthday cake from Pine Garden.

Decorations from Kidz Party Store.

Their 1st birthday party was held at The Rivervale's function room! It was really spacious and the kids had lots of fun playing with balloons as there were ample space for them to run about too! :) 

My best friend and up stayed up the whole night to bake cookies and the time was we took to decorate the cookies were way too long, haha. But for the sake of my girls birthday, we sacrificed our sleep. 

Thanks so much my lover girl, Valerie! :) 

Cute cupcakes were baked by Gerald's aunt and cousin! Really appreciate their effort too! I can imagine how much time they spent on baking! My girls are blessed! :)

First pair of shoes from Kiddy Palace. :) So pretty! Make them look so princessy~

Look at their pretty headbands! Handmade by my best friend too! It was way to cute on their botak heads! Hahaha! And their ballerina romper was bought from Qoo10.

Honestly, its hard to recognise them when they take photos individually but even when they are together, sometimes their face expression is so similar that I couldn't tell them apart by looking at their pictures! This is also one of the major problem about twins. >.<

Great-aunt is tall enough to help us stick the balloons when it falls off hahaha!

Here's Kenji & Kaeden ! Handsome boys of Charlene's. 

Wanna see the best part of their birthday? 

THERE WERE 3 SETS OF TWINS!!!! 

How awesome can this be?!

Happy Great-grandmother celebrating their birthday with such a wide smile! :) I'm glad that my Granny is able to be with me till today at the age of 86. Love you, Ahma!

Friends and my younger brother helping me to cut the cake and distribute to everyone while I was busy talking to my relatives! Thank you so much! :)

Left: My best friend who accompanied me througout the whole celebrations! Sacrificing her sleep for my girls and I. I'm so glad to have you in my life! 

Right: Sabrina and Celine! Though you two silly girls went to the wrong condo, haha, but I love you still! Thanks for being there to help me with anything that I need! 

Thank you so so much!!!

Last but not least, thanks to everyone who attended their birthday party! The girls love all their presents so much! How wonderful it was to have everyone of you there to share my girls's special moment. Thank you so much just for taking part and helping me celebrate the day my lovely girls's 2nd year started!

Daily life with twins & a nephew [Part 2]

The 3 little pigs just recovered from HFMD.. Am so glad that they are fine now except for Qiqi..

Look at her rashes.. Poor little baby~

Brought her to the doctor and luckily it was nothing serious, doctor said that it's normal to have some "heat rash" after fever and so, he gave us a bottle of Calamol Lotion to apply on Qiqi's skin after bath. The rash last for about 3-4days and she is happily crawling all over the house again! 

Mummies, don't be panic if your little one has rashes after fever alright? It's normal to have rash, I think it depends on the baby's body, that is why not every babies gets it. :) The most important thing you can do is make sure your child rests and gets plenty of liquids to avoid dehydration.

After this HFMD incident, my husband and I cleaned up our bedroom and created their new sleeping/playing/lazing area..
Tadaaaah ~

The whole circumference is surround by pillows, cushion, blankets and mats to prevent them from hurting themselves, because they always attempt to climb up to my bed! Haha, so the best way is to "block their way" from going in and out of the room with a wooden plank. :) That was a really smart idea from my Father-in-law!

Hmm, anyone misses Louis boy? :)

Here he is, playing with Qiqi & Hanhan's new pair of shoes for their birthday in a week's time!!! Look at them, so super chubby that I could squish them all day. Haha!

Stay tune for their birthday post! 

Quote of the day.

" No one has the perfect way to be a good mother.

Each situation is unique.

Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children.

What matter most is that a mother loves her children deeply.."

-Elder M. Russel Ballard 

Hand,foot, mouth disease (HFMD)

Haven't been updating for the past 2-3weeks.

Why?

Because, HAND, FOOT, MOUTH DISEASE hit us!!!!

The 3 little ones including myself were infected.. That is why I was way too busy looking after them and sleepless nights come to me once again. It was quite a bad experience & from what I know, it could be fatal too.

 

My nephew started having fever on & off, & it turned quite bad cause he started with poor appetite. Whenever its feeding time, be it milk or porridge, he would keep crying non-stop, sometimes even get choked with his saliva. We even try to coax him with coke so that he would at least take in some fluids. This went on for about 2weeks & we suspected that it might be HMFD. His mum took him to the doctor & yes, it is HMFD.. Doctor said that most likely would be cause of my bro-in-law just came back from overseas not long and he might be alr infected though his symptoms wasn't too serious. He was having a cold though.

 

So it spreaded to my girls as well, when we were preparing to bring them to my mum's place,but  its too late. Both of them were having small blisters on their arms and sole of their feet & having mild fever already..

 

This is how bad the blisters looked like on day 3..

Despite the bad quality of some photos, but you can still the blisters all over her hand, foot & face..

She refused to eat or drink gradually cause of the ulcers in her throat.. Without any choices, we fed her with diluted honey to soothe her troat and also milk with luke warm water. The photos are Qi's, luckily Han wasn't that bad.. Her symptoms went straight to the last stage, cough& flu. Till now, they are still coughing and having running nose, its almost 3weeks alr.

 

As for myself, I had everything!!! My cough & flu just recovered not long ago.. My mil even laughed at me saying that my immune system is as weak as babies... :( Damn it! Haha, I will always get infected with whatever virus that they're infected with! This is not the first time!!!!

 

But still, I'm glad that Louis has fully recovered & my girls are getting better too. :)

Now presenting to you the weak mum & her angels...

 

Definition of Mother

"the greatest unconditional and infinite love we will ever experience in our existence"

 

 

 

Click on the link to find out more on HFMD

http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/dandc-article/792