How can you ever get angry with this lil face??

It's almost impossible i would say. Yes i do get angry when Kaylen doesn't behave, and yes i would put on my very stern face & strong voice, but all these don't last longer than a second. Kaylen knows very well when he is not behaving cause he won't dare to look at you, he would just stand there very still and look elsewhere, avoiding all possible eye contact he can with me. But when he looks up, that face looking back at me, i just can't be angry for too long. Oh i love his eyes, they are big, round & full of life.

How can you not ever love this face so very much? I'm constantly telling myself that i've been blessed with this bundle of joy, and now looking at him play or whenever he comes to tug at my hand and pull me to where he wants me to go with him, i just cannot imagine that my baby is no longer a baby anymore. 3 months from today, Kaylen will turn 2 years, and now that he likes to lay with me on our bed every night to fall asleep, i just like cuddling together, or just feel his hair, or him just chatting with me in the dark, and i wonder how many more years of this will i get to enjoy before he grows up, and wanting his own space. Till that very day when my boy says "it's alright mum, i can do it by myself" or "I like to have some of my own space", i'm going to hold on tight to him now, in this very moments that we have together, give him lots of hugs & cuddles, and this is just going to be now for me.

Finally i've got some time alone to scrap again, and before i leave for Germany, i hope to complete a few more layouts. This simple one's titled "Just look at you", and i love how kaylen looks up, and having the wondering sort of look...love it. Played with Sassafrass Lass latest series of pp.

Have a beautiful Wednesday!

How was your week?

Hope everyone had a great weekend despite the heat that we have been experiencing. Thanks for leaving me with your comments as it helped since last week has been tiring for us, and totally left with no energy to work on any layouts at all till yesterday afternoon when Kay had his nappy time.

Here is it which i titled -" Kay, you are a cutie Always". This picture was taken one week before he had hand foot month disease. I seldom use colours such as yellow or oranges but when i tried it out, i kind of like how soothing it looked.

Last Friday, both myself & Jayce with the rest of our colleagues went for a dinner night out at Punggol Choon Seng Restraurant at Changi, and yes it's a very rare time where i'm actually having dinner with Jayce, and not having Kaylen with us for a night. Here are some of the photos taken by Yixi.

Photo with my dad which it's been a very long time since we last had our photo taken
good ol' me
my dear hubby which after every photo taken, he would say" why do i look so fat?"

US moments
Shots of the restaurant on the outsideIt's nice and quiet, and has a band singing away when you dine. Food is good, and not too many people. We will go back again, next time with our family, and yes with Kaylen for sure.

Hope to find time tonight to work on another LO, and the mini book i was mentioning earlier for Kaylen about him now at 21 months. Have all the paper's picked out & cut to size yesterday, now to work on cutting up the photos which i have already selected, and then work on the journalling again cause mommy has more to say & add, and by the end of this week, i hope to have the mini book completed.

Have a great monday!!

My Day..

Started at 5.45am this morning, and i'm sort of getting use to such early wake up time of Kaylen for the last one week. Decided to tolerate through his cries, screams & whines by placing him back in his bed, and who knows in half an hours time he fell asleep again till close to 8.30am. So i'm going with this should this happen again tomorrow morning. His whole sleeping pattern was just totallly out of what he was every single week, and this kept us wondering. He took a nasty knock on his lips last night, and hmmmm now an unslightly swollen lump on his lips. Boys will be boys.

With only 2 weeks away of me flying off to Germany,i've got a free afternoon today to go ran some errands and get some travel stuff for my trip, and it's not complete if i don't pop into my regular scrap book store. I have my sis in law with me today , she's started on scrapbooking too, and she makes a good company when i have time away from Kaylen for the next few hours today. Yixi is busy doing his projects, and Jayce is working today, so it's just us gals hanging out together.

I'm going to be off from work soon, and looking forward to getting some scrap theraphy later as i shop away...

Have a beautiful weekend!!!

It's been a WEIRD week

On top of it, we are just simply poofed out. Totally no scrapping at all, and not even getting any where near my scrap desk, and on the desk sits the unfinished LO (still 20% more to complete) which i started last Sunday, and it's going to again another Sunday approaching.

Kaylen's been up every morning this week at either 5 or 6am, been very whinny & noisy, and super sticky with me. For a start, he has an ulcer on his inner top lip, and it must have bothered him, and it's not helping that the weather we had this week was so hot. And as we thought that he had stopped crying whenever anyone of us leaving the house for work, or leaving anywhere, Kay is once again back to his "please don't leave" days again. Just this morning as i carried him before i left for work, my mom had to peel him away from me just so that i can go to work, and my heart hurts to see this small little face, filled up with tears and sadness as i leave. He just wanted so much to follow. On top of the early mornings that we are getting now, it's also a daily challenge this week to get him to go to bed. He doesn't want to sleep , he would rather i carry him around the house with all the lights off, and lay on my shoulder, and looking out the window. If not, he wants to be laying on my bed, and either busy with touching his socks (oh he discovered those anti-slip thingys at the base of his socks, and this bothers him), or sitting up constantly to talk.

We wonder what it would be like putting him to sleep tonight, and what tomorrow morning would be like. He gets moody at very small things, and i'm like now collecting a list of things he doesn't like, and for one is crying babies. Everytime he is near one, he gets uptight and tense, and just wants to go as far as away as possible. Kaylen has his extreme and i always say that Kaylen has a twin within him (his zodiac sign is Gemini which is also the sign of the twins). He is at times so well behaved & quiet, and would just do whatever you ask him to, and his other side, unruly, talking away, and emotional. Hmmm, of what i read recently that Jayce emailed me - horoscope's personality, and so much true of the Gemini, and we see some of these traits in Kay as well.

GEMINI - The Chatterbox Smart and witty. Outgoing, very chatty. Lively, energetic.Adaptable but needs to express themselves. Argumentative and outspoken. Likeschange. Versatile. Busy, sometimes nervous and tense. Gossips. May seemsuperficial or inconsistent, but is only changeable. Beautiful physically and mentally.

And when i read that of the Virgo (+ jayce says it is totally 100% describing me), and yes it is very much me.

VIRGO - The Perfectionist. Dominant in relationships.. Conservative. Always wants the last word.Argumentative. Worries. Very smart. Dislikes noise and chaos. Eager.Hardworking. Loyal. Beautiful. Easy to talk to. Hard to please. Ha rsh.Practical and very fussy. Often shy. Pessimistic.

I'm just hoping that Kaylen will feel better (with his mood swings), and his horrid ulcer disappearing, and we're all making sure that during this hot weather, he has all his fluids to ensure that he doesn't fall sick again. Hope to be able to complete my list of scrap to do's over the weekend.

Have a great Friday!!

How sweet is this??

Super sweet ain't it??? Especially when it comes from my good friend KY whose made this for me for Valentine's Day (but i only opened to read my e-mail today that i found this). She's picked out all photos of Kay's growing up days, and it means lots to me to have this done. To have this at the end of the day makes me feel happy. Thanks, thanks KY!!!!

I'm blessed to have friends like her, and for all the years, i treasure each of their friendship & they are for keeps. I'm one with very few friends who are close to my heart, and as we grow older, i know i have our friendships to grow old with.

xoxo & hugs!!

Something about Uncle Yixi....

Yes whenever Kaylen hears this name "Shui Gu" or "Uncle Yixi", he will have this certain facial expression, and for sure Kaylen would always be so much well behaved, listens to ever single word or command that Yixi says. 100% good boy, and nothing like what I'm getting at home. Yixi is strict with him, and always a disciplinary master sort of Uncle making sure that Kaylen listens when he gets unruly with me.

So our weekends was spent at Ikea yesterday afternoon, and by the look on Kaylen's face, you would know just "how much" Kaylen loves to be around his Uncle Yixi. Here you go....kay's expression speaks for itself..Why i'm at Ikea yesterday? Cause i ask my brother to help take some February pictures of Kay with his Canon 40D (and he just started picking up professional photo taking), and as a beginner, i thought they turned out ok (at least better than those i take with my Sony DigiCam). I'm not complaining Bro, truly thankful that you burned your only rest day afternoon to bring us to Ikea & to bring Canny along (we named his Canon - Canny, lame right???)

Alright enjoy the faces of this little one as it only brings smiles to my face.

How was your weekend?? Have a wet Monday evening guys, and thanks for the comments. It always makes my day!

**P.S Gotten a comment from Anonymous (would you let me know of your name cause it's so much nicer to be able to call your name), my e-mail address is : tanyinwen@gmail.com. Always up for a good chat about scrapbooking!!

Hello Sunday

How was your Valentine's Day? Mine went well other than the fact that my car won't start in the morning when i had to sent Kaylen to playgroup, and the other fact that the free bus ride from Punggol mall has changed, and no longer stops at the bus stop infront of my block. So you can imagine having to carry this sack of 10kg rice (jayce always calls carrying Kaylen a pack of rice), and walking from one corner to the other, panting, arms breaking and what have you. Rest of the day went well.

Firstly to answer a question posed by a fellow scrapper - Anonymous about my Love Ya book for Kaylen. Here are the materials used:-

Front Page
PP - Doodlebug Designs
Sticker Fonts - Doodlebug Designs
Adhesive paper ribbon "Be my valentin" - K&Co

Rest of the Pages
PP - Making Memory / Daisy D's
Overlays - Heidi Swapp
Sticker fonts - October Afternoon/Doodlebug Designs/America Crafts
Diecuts : Chatter box/Making Memory
Calender: Maya Road
Lace (tied to the album ring) - Daiso
Others: paper lace & heart shape dolly (from scrap book kits)

Above materials can be found either at Made with Love or Laine's Paperterie which are our local scrapbook stores.

Have been taking a break from scrapbooking for the past 2 days, and had been trying out making fabric buttons. I'm just playing around to see how i can have these handmade fabric buttons used in my future scrap LO's. We'll see how it goes. Was also contemplating on another mini book for Kaylen which i would like to journal about & titled - "Now" (his personality, his likes, and how he is at 21 months). It's one of those moment thingy which i felt at this point of time, i see lots of changes in him, and would like to document it done. Have already written out my thoughts & sayings, just need to sort out the photos taken from the last 2 weeks, work on the style & type of mini book it would be, and colours used for this particular book. Will most likely post about this in the next few posts.

Just read from one of my favourite scrap artist - Aida's blog that her work has been copied, and this can be truly very annoying cause credit was taken for someone else, and money was made from such a incident. This sort of behavious sucks, and these copy cats just don't seem to think about how this affects their image, and causing so much emotions. What's worst is that i guess in the scrapping scene, everyone knows. Where have all the originality gone too? This groses me out, and when will it ever stop???

Alrighty before Kaylen wakes up from his morning nap, and all fun again, i better go think of what i would like to scrap today!! Maybe just one layout to start???

It's another day of Kite day at Punggol, and where i leave is right smack opposite of this large field, and from my window, i see loads of bright cheery coloured kites, large & small, & of all sorts of animals (kaylen likes the gigantic frog kite) yesterday when it started, and today another brand new day, and hoping to see more of these lovely later in the afternoon.

Hope your Sunday is going to be great too...

In the mood for LOVE

Definietly feeling totally in love at this moment since Valentine's Day just 1 day away. Not that i have the whole of tomorrow all planned out with my sweethearts, just that it's just going to be a very regular Saturday for me. No work tomorrow, just loads of Kaylen tomorrow for me.

Just me & Kay for the whole of tomorrow, from playgroup in the morning to just plain simple spending time with each other at home, and dinner as usual at my grams place. Jayce will be at work, and we are just planning to get ourselves a tasty cake, and eat together at home for desert (yes, going to let kaylen have some cake as well). Now that i'm a mommy, i pretty much like quietness, no crowded places for me. It's no longer a couple day for me & jayce, we very much love the fact that we have kaylen with us from day one, and has gotten so used to that if we don't have him out with us, it just feels weird.

Picked out this lovely mosiac, love the pinks!!!, and here's wishing you all out there in advance a very:-

"Happy Valentine's Day"!!!

To my good pals out there, thanks for the great friendship!! i love you guys (you know who you are).
smooches & xoxo,
Y

Love makes you do.....

Silly things. That's how i'm chosing to end this statement. I love Kaylen so very much that once i get home, i'm totally letting loose (yes like going crazy as my dad would say sometimes when he sees me play with Kaylen), and i'm enjoying every single moment of both this craziness. It's just me whenever i'm around Kaylen, and mind you it's not that Kaylen has a looney mommy, just a laughing loads, and action crazy mommy, that's all when we play together.

On another note of how work week started yesterday, i'm totally trying to do my very best i can , and thanks Shirley for those words, it helps me get through this week thinking that i'm not alone.

I was up till 3am yesterday, and yes i'm done with all my Valentine Day projects, cards are sent out today , and the love book i made for Kaylen is all done, and i'm happy at how the overall book turned out. It will be sitting pretty on my TV console when i get home tonight, along with the rest of Kaylen's photos. Yup it has a special place in our home, and i will show it to Kay on Valentine Day itself.

Glimpse of my V'day cards to my pals

"Love Ya" mini book for my special little guy

I'm going to take a scrap break today to re-charge before i start to work on my 2nd Valentine's Day LO for Kaylen using photos i took last weekend.

Have a beautiful Wednesday all!!! Hugs!

When all is just too much sometimes

This face will bring me back to where life does not need to be that complicating, it can just be as simple as i want it to be. We somehow in the midst of the gloomy outcome of the economic crisis, the daily stressful situations at work, and how sometimes we just cannot figure out things, that it will be alright somehow. Life still has to go on, so why not just don't dwell too much on all these nitty gritty matters at work & life to just LIVE it.

I'm just going to do just that (thanks to the advice of my brother that somehow we always manage to go through challenges at work. Did i ever mention that i have a great brother whose like constantly popping me with advice & encouragement whenever i feel stuck at work or overly stressed out, thanks Xi, it really helps). Whenever i see Kaylen (even the photo of him on my desk top works wonders), everything that bugs me just goes away.

I'm just a normal everyday mommy who is having this little darling at home, and i go through some days calling him twice from work just chatting with him (no, kaylen only speaks to be in his language, but at least i know each time i ask him a question, he has tons to tell me even though if i don't understand a word he says), it's just good to hear him and i'm lucky i have this time.

He might not know now how much his daily little hugs & kisses means to me, but surely it helps get me through tiring days at work, like the one i had today.

Heading home very soon, to the arms of this little charmer of mine....

Hope your day turned out much better than mine.

Weekends are never boring

** Warning - photo intensive

Not when i have soon to be 21 mths old active little guy with me for the weekends. This is the face i got this morning before breakfast...always never failing to make me laugh at his little facial expressions from time to time. One day will have to scrap a page about his different goofy faces.


Then this was Saturday's morning where Kaylen is having one of his "many ears day" (yes, kaylen owns several of these ear sort of hair band thingy, and the latest was all the way from Szechuan - a pair of panda ears by one of my sis in law's friend. Just right for Kay when he watches his currently fave cartoon - KungFu Panda...now he loves Po, and that he hates certain scene (those dark eerie moments in the prison & he does not like Tai Long) in the cartoon, and the fact that he only always watches the starting part of the show all the time.

If you manage to catch the "other" pair of Mickey ears at the side

they are belonging to daddy whose just accompanying Kay, and daddy was

just sleeping away cause it's only 7+ in the morning

Happily helping himself to the scrap buffet i have the night before

on the coffee table

Truimp over the fact that mommy has no control over him
messying up (he was just mixing all my coloured buttons from one
jar to the other)

I got angry, and this was the face i got from him

Weekends are busy busy for me too since i have several scrap projects on hand to complete before Valentine's day next weekend, and yes till 3am this morning, i completed those hanging chipboard for my colleagues. Just a glimpse...., and 2 altered frames for 2 pretty young gals of mine for V'day as well.

Also worked on my V'day gift for kaylen, and i titled the mini book - "Love Ya". Would be finishing it tonight i hope, and hopefully to start on another Valentine LO since the most of this week was all about gift projects. Here are some peaks on my mini book....

Still to go V'day cards for my close pals which i have to get them sent out by tomorrow, and so being able to work on my new LO using the latest Cosmic Cricket series - Lil Man & Girl Friday ( oh i love these latest series....) will have to see if i can finish the priortised projects first.

Just can't resist these latest PP from Cosmic Cricket

I just hoarded them...

Kaylen's taking his afternoon nap right now, so i better go get some scrap stuff done to catch up. Guess it will be the cards i'm working on now...

Have a beautiful sunday!!!

I love it when...

• he calls out "ma ma" each time he is looking for me or checking if i'm still there during bedtime
• he smiles back at me
• he gives me smoshy kisses & hugs
• he laughs out loud
• he comes and pull my hand to go somewhere together
• he tidies up hair whenever it covers my face
• he hands me his pillow for kisses each day
• he shares his snacks with me
• we have our alone time together every Sunday
• we cuddle together for bedtime stories

There is just so many moments & times when i love it with you Kaylen.

Have a good Thursday!

In the name of LOVE

Just love anything that has red, pink, sweet floral prints & of course HEARTS on them. Just check out these sweet pretty decorations for Valentine's Day which i found on esty.com...

Cute stuff from www.tobyboo.etsy.com

And these irresistable bright red pouches & stuffed hearts from www.ahnaleemarie.etsy.com

It got me itching to decorate my home for Valentine's Day. Yikes, not good news for Jayce.

Enjoy your Tuesday!

I've been kissed....

On the night of 1st February before Kaylen went to bed, he gave me & jayce a sweet little kiss. Our very 1st kiss from our little guy. You can imagine the glee on my face after that. He kissed me nose when he was in bed, and oh boy, i just melted away. I was just the happiest mommy ever last night, and of course jayce was super happy too.

Just this morning, he gave grandma & uncle Hengxi a super wet kiss on their cheeks, and i know it made my mom's day looking at her smile when Kaylen gave her that kiss. How nice that we've gotten our kisses in February the 1st, the start of a wonderful month.

Completed by 1st Valentine's Day layout, here it is:-

Titled: "My Dear, i heart you"

(photo was taken a week before he fell ill with HFMD)

Started putting together my LOVE book project for kaylen, and now for the next few days to add journalling & photos & everything else to complete it. Loved Heidi Swapp overlays which i bought earlier when i thought of putting together this project for Valentine's Day for Kaylen. Can't wait to start putting everything together.

Work week starts for me "officially" today for me. Hope your work week will be great!!! (after days of Chinese New Year rests and goodies). Enjoy!