Saturday, February 06, 2010

almost three going on thirty...

i first used a lilypie ticker when i was expecting ilaika. it was exciting to keep track of the pregnancy  and the lil quotes indicating development stages were fun to read. i remember eagerly looking forward to each weekly quote (or was it daily? i can't quite recall now...) and counting down to the day when our little angel would bless our lives. 

a few years on and i'm still using lilypie as a milestone of our daughter's life. however, it's been sometime since i actually took notice of it...until this morning, when i briefly glanced at it and realised how quickly the days and months have gone by...


my baby is 2 years, 11 months and a day old...which means she'll be three in less than a month!

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- look at how "grown up" my baby looks here -

oh dear. 

oh dearie me indeed. i have less than a month to plan her birthday party. somehow, she's already talking about it and yet, i haven't gotten around to planning anything. so i thought...no problem - just choose a theme and then i can go about with the invites etc. as simple as that...

on the contrary, it was far from simple as i couldn't even come up with a theme. so i started putting together a list of things she loves which led to this post. here's some sharing on ilaika's recent and current obsessions...

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- her picture phone...inherited when mummy dearest upgraded to the 3GS -

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- her battered crocs -
* picture courtesy of sandra.
 
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- dora...the "flavour of the day" changes between dora, princesses, hi-five, barney & hello kitty -
* picture courtesy of sandra.

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- her daddy's xbox guitar...inherited when mummy bought daddy a logitech guitar for xmas -
* picture courtesy of sandra.

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- her mini drum set...my musically inclined baby takes after daddy & also loves singing & dancing -
* picture courtesy of sandra.

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- bubbles -
* picture courtesy of sandra.

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- more bubbles! and of course, swimming in our lovely pool...or any pool for that matter -
* picture courtesy of sandra.

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 - jungle gym -

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- play-doh -

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- biscuits & baking with mummy -

when i asked her what theme she wanted for her birthday, she said dora.

and then the day after that, it was princess.

and then fairies.

and then swimming.

and then dora-turns-princess-goes-swimming!

oh-em-gee...help...!

as i'm editing this post, i realise how very lucky we are to be a part of ilaika's life. of course at times, she may be a spoilt annoying monster and lil cheeky monkey but she's also a very good girl, who's loving, chirpy, hilarious and  smart. i'm proud of the milestones she has reached thus far and even though i think of her as my baby, there are times i forget that she's barely three...for she's very independent and just cannot stop talking...her nanny commented just the other day that ilaika's three going on 30 ;)

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- her love for princesses, balloons & anything pink -

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