Quick update

Sorry all. Been a crazy month. Work's been piling up. After the exciting summer, we're now all back to our normal hum-drum of things. Bibou's back at school. She's not in the same class as Dan; she's 'back' with kids around the same age as her, the younger batch. But apparently, it doesn't stop the two of them! Every day, they wait for recess and then, rush to each other and play side by side! At the after school childcare, they'd play together. Nothing can pull them apart apparently. They help out each other, always looking out for each other. So SWEET! They aren't fighting like cats and dogs anymore! The other day, Dan even recounted the story where apparently Bibou had soiled her skirt and the both of them had sneaked off to find leaves (!!!) so that they can clean her skirt together. Awwwwww. Daddy also spoke to Bibou's teacher (I asked him to!), to find out how she's settling in in class, given that most of her classmates from last year are in another class. Her teacher, "C" (who is yet another lovely lovely lady that Bibou likes), says that Bibou is doing great! (whew!) She's really autonomous, friendly, a social butterfly and gets along fine with the kids. She makes friends with everyone, though obviously she spends most of her time with Dan where possible. She has started making friends with other kids in her class already. And she has! We’d asked her if she wanted to invite anyone from school to her ‘princess birthday party’, and she immediately rattled off a couple of names. Cool! I’ve just created lovely birthday party invites and she’s gonna have a lovely ‘princess and prince’ (did you expect anything else????) party.

Our weekends have been really busy..but last Sunday afternoon was free! So we called up the Bitans to see if they wanted to have tea together. YES they were free, so we all met up at Parc Heller. Daddy brought along Bibou’s ‘no-pedal’ bike, yes a bike without pedals. It’s this new rage for kids, it’s meant to help them find their ‘balance’ (though if she’s anything like me, HA!). Bibou had received the bike last year for her birthday but she just wasn’t into it. She still quite isn’t, but she did try it and managed to coast down the hill a couple of times. But then Dan came, and the two happy lovers were just inseparable! It was a lovely happy afternoon, but we came back home quite late! So I had to whip up a very quick, but not so ‘good’ dinner of pasta and ‘hotdog’. Bibou went out into the garden to pick the last of the tomatoes from the garden. I love the photo of Bibou with the tomatoes in her mouth… it’s funny, but what’s more funny is what’s happening in the ‘background’. While we were busy clowning for the camera, Angel decided to ‘steal’ Bibou’s food!

Ahhh that Angel. She’s certainly grown / changed over the past few weeks. She’s certainly no longer a baby, and has firmly entered into her ‘toddler’ stage. YUP!. No more cute, docile, easy-going baby now. She’s an assertive, demanding, fierce and forceful toddler. When she doesn’t get what she wants, she’s stamping her feet, screeching (and golly does she know how to screech), she pulls hard on you (either on your sleeves, or in the instance of poor bibou – her long braided hair!) etc. But it doesn’t last long and the most amazing part ; - she still has a smile on her face. Yes, the sweetie still always has a ready smile for everyone. She loves, just loves imitating her big sister, and her favorite thing right now is…dancing :-) yup! That’s ‘coz Bibou loves dancing as you know. Every time music comes on, the both of them dance and dance and dance.

Enjoy this batch of pix and videos. Think it’ll be a while before I can come on again.

Videos

Angel on the bouncing ball again.

Hilarious one of her trying to dance like barbie (in the 12 princesses). You get to hear her scream too.

Angel and Yohan on the swing. Guess who's enjoying it more :)

The two unseparable lovers!