Winnie's Staggette

I can't believe it's actually happening next week. Winnie is getting married to YJ! Um, sorry, I don't know what YJ stands for. I can't pronounce his real name so I can't spell it either. Nevertheless, we had a huge party bash for my older sister last night to celebrate final days of being single. Thanks Lisa and Carmen for all the arrangements!

I am typing this with a super, duper hangover... thanks to my wonderful jello shots, 2 jugs of long island ice tea, a whole bottle of vodka and... the game called "I haven't" which made us open one last bottle of red wine. I think that bottle of wine did it. I can still taste the wine in my mouth...yuck.

See Wiener? We love you so much (meanwhile pounding headache beating me in the head). The things that happened last night will remain in my blurry mind. (what? I fell down the stairs???) I can't remember anything.

I will post up awesome pics when I get them.

Julia - 1 years old! (video)

Julia turned 1 years old today. We went to see the doctor today for Julia's checkup and she got her shots. These are her stats:

weight - 8.26kg, 18lbs 3oz (20%)
head - 44cm (30%)
length - 76cm (75%)

Julia hasn't gained as much weight as I'd hoped. I was thinking Julia may be 19 or even 20 pounds but we weren't even close to that. Sigh. I'll have to keep on feeding her every 2 hours, just so that she can remain growing at her 20% weight line. I remember Jasmine was a light weight at 1 years old as well. I guess the girls have Daddy genes (long and thin). Good thing Julia has some Mommy genes - small head. Jasmine has Daddy genes - big head.

We held an early birthday party for Julia, the week before her birthday. We invited some friends to Thunderbird community center to have lunch and then play at the private gym. Everyone ate a buffet lunch and then we did a fast demo of Julia picking her future profession (she's a future engineer), and then we ate cake. The gym had a bouncy castle, basketball court, ride on toys, castle made of foam blocks, slide... it was fun to have the entire gym all for our party, so the kids could play with anything they wanted.

There are 3 videos from Julia's birthday party: choosing profession, cut cake, playing in gym.

Julia - sleepy signal (video)

I was bathing Julia the other night and she was super sleepy. She started wiggling her bum back and forth, and back and forth. She's done this a few times before so I knew what it meant... it means that Julia is really sleepy. This totally brings back memories of when Jasmine was an infant and she'd also do this wiggle bum thing when she was sleepy too. Check these videos out. One is Julia wiggling her bum and the other video is Jasmine wiggling her bum:

Both Kids - Sick Again

Chinese New  year!  It creeped up on us this year, especially after the vacation.  Oops, forgot to take a family pic! Oh well, we did get Jules in her cute outfit.

Unfortunately, both the kids are sick again. Jasmine seems to have picked up a bug from her first day of preschool and is now coughing with a runny nose. Her asthma is back and she needs her medication every 4 hours with nebulizer. Julia has caught the cold as well and every time she sneezes, she can blow snot across the room. I can forsee a tough 2 weeks ahead...

Kiddies - please stop getting sick!!!

First Day of School - Jasmine

Today is Jasmine's official first day of preschool at the Killarney Preschool. She was really excited about it and had her clothes on, her backpack all ready to go even before we were supposed to leave. Here are a couple of pics of her with her huge smile. She's a big girl now.