Yee Sinn has been enjoying her bath time these few weeks. Instead of whining to get out of the water, she is now enjoying her play time in her little red tub. Sometimes she'll sing to herself, other times she'll play with her rubber ducks, whale or even the shampoo bottles. I guess this is a sign that she's ready for the pool! Can't wait to bring her to Auntie Mindy's house for a swim. Hee.

Yee Sinn turned 10 months last Wednesday. To mark her milestone, her big grandaunt gave her a new toy - $0 COE Car! We are leaving her car at Grandma Chang's house at the moment so that her cousin can also play with it meanwhile. Now she is older, we are also teaching her how to share her things - both food and toys, with other children.

We are very lucky to be staying in Toa Payoh. This is because our estate is surrounded with children's playgrounds that cater to different age. Just below our block is Yee Sinn's favourite hunt because it comes with 2 swings and slides. Also, that's where she'll meet her regular friends on most evenings.

Just across a small service road is a stretch of new 40 storey blocks, and of course it comes with newer facilities - 3 brand new playgrounds!! At the extreme end is a playground with "Spider Webs" and slides for bigger boys and girls. We will sometimes bring her to another at the middle of the stretch that was designed for toddlers like Yee Sinn. It comes with 3 slides, a few "tunnels" and a bouncy tortise and horse. Actually, though newer, we prefer to hang out at the old and rundown playground just downstairs because the kids, parents and the maids are so much more friendlier.

Yee Sinn has made many friends since we started to bring her down. The boys there usually call her "Mei Mei" and often show-off their naughty tricks to amuse her. There is usually a group of Indonesian maids chatting at the benches and they will also look out for Yee Sinn as she plays on the slides. Since we started bringing her to the playground many months back, Yee Sinn has became more sociable. I noticed that she'll now take the first step to be near other kids instead of just sitting in a corner watching them play. Bringing her down to the playground every evening is one of the simple joy that I enjoy doing after a hard day's work.

Last Saturday was our company's Family Day at Downtown East at Pasir Ris. Hubby, Grandma Lee, Yee Sinn and I were there to support all the hardwork that my fellow colleagues put in to make it possible. Hubby's sister and nephews joined us much later in the afternoon as we had extra tickets.

It was freakingly hot when we got there around 10 plus in the morning. We should have brought our hats and sun-block. After picking up our goodie bags and tickets, we headed straight to the Escape theme park to enjoy the rides. We took Yee Sinn to a few rides but she seemed to have enjoyed the mini-choo choo train rides best. Throughout the day, she was really well behaved. Told hubby that we should go out more often now that it is much easier with our grown up baby.

We were exhausted after the end of the day, though we had lots of fun as a family.

It is almost a week since I last posted something here. Been feeling kind of lazy recently. Anyway, managed to take some videos of Yee Sinn cruising around. I would say she is quite an adventurous kid who dares to explore her surroundings. From there, many of you should be able to see how much she has grown.

I had a good break yesterday. Hubby had to clear his childcare leave so both of us took time off from work and went for a massage. We visited House of Traditional Javanese Massage along Thomson Road. The experience there wasn't too bad. We could use the jaccuzzi before our massage. Didn't really enjoy the jaccuzzi as the water was a little too hot though. I was out of the tub in 15 mins! Hubby had been having a nagging backache recently so the muscle kneading did him some good.

Feeling refreshed after our 1 and a half hour of massage session, we took Yee Sinn and Grandma Lee to Hort Park. We figured out it'll be good for Yee Sinn to burn some energy at the children's playgound so that she'll sleep much earlier in the evening. Beside, the weather was pretty cool and cloudy after all the rain in the morning.

We ended the day at Anchorpoint where we had dinner at Jack's Place. We were given a nice cosy corner where we fed Yee Sinn with her porridge, topped with excellence service by a friendly Indian waiter. Yee Sinn was constantly entertained by him as he played peak-a-boo with her. It sure helps that Yee Sinn is more sociable these days.

Not too sure what happened to Yee Sinn but she wasn't feeling very well yesterday evening. She threw up some of her dinner and some of her milk later in the night. She was also fussing the entire night and demanded me to sleep next to her. So here I am, zombi-fied over the lack of sleep. Let's hope everything will be alright when I get back home today. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.