Big Brother Mark

"Kor Kor" Mark doing a really good job looking after and playing with the girls. Mark is the girls' older (5 years old) cousin...

Uncle Alex!

Jon's cousin Alex dropped by Singapore enroute to Hong Kong, from Melbourne last month. The girls were both smiling for the camera, and Katherine really took to Uncle Alex (see the bottom pic - she is sooo happy that she is drooling!).

Cutie Katelyn

Last month one of Jea's friends Jolene got married - the official photographer took a great candid shot of Katelyn at church!

Merry Christmas!

The girls are 14 months now and are both walking! They are creating havoc everywhere:-) we were at our local shopping centre when we took this pic with dad and grandpa.

Anyone for coffee?

The girls are 13 months old now and getting more active everyday. Today we took them for their first music lesson, and afterwards took them with up for their first coffee with mum and dad!

The Twinnies go to the Zoo!

On the weekend we took the girls to the zoo, and decided to become members, as we intend to make it a regular activity.

Unfortunately they were both kinda sleepy, so we didn't really get any nice shots of them smiling, but here are some pics nonetheless!

 

 

 

 

Katherine at the gym

Katherine seems to be the thrill seeker out of the 2 girls, very similar to mum. She loves riding on swings and being thrown in the air. She also loves it when dad pushes her around on her car at lightning speed around the house! On the other hand Katelyn loves to talk but is quite a scaredy cat when it comes to joy rides, much like her dad!

Working out at the gym!

The twins have been attending baby gym now for 8 weeks, and have just completed their very first course! Katelyn is enjoying her swing in the blue dolphin!

Ready to Race!

We bought the girls 2 cars for their birthday...and the love driving around on the front lawn! Here are some pics!

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Katelyn & Katherine

Saturday 6 October saw us hit our biggest milestone so far with the girls - they turned 1 year old!

We held a party the weekend before their birthday at the Changi Beach Club, in a function room that faces the beach/ocean. Relatives & friends were invited to celebrate with the girls, and we all had a great time. Some pics of the afternoon are attached below, click on any of the pics to view the gallery.




We even brought along our playpen so the kids could have fun amongst themselves!

Taking over

The girls shoes are taking over dad's shoe rack! Only 1 year old now and they already have quite a few pairs of shoes:) and everytime we go shopping we have to buy 2 pairs!

Happy Katherine

With her trademark smike

Happy Katelyn!

Good girls

Both girls are very well behaved whenever we go out these days...chilling out in their high chairs

In my cave

Jea's brother Sean bought the girls a tunnel for their playpen and they love crawling through it! Katherine's having fun here!

Reading already?!!!

Recently the girls have learnt to sit in their high chairs to eat food...but sometimes we use the high chairs for other things - like teaching them to read! (just kidding). Here's a small gallery of the girls fighting to read!

Book reading

Birthday party!

The girls attended Kellis's 2nd birthday party, and her baby sister Kristen's 1mth celebration on the weekend. Mummy dressed them in their new funky dresses from Godma Jo....Katelyn had great fun sitting on the Pooh Bear car....she would sit in the seat and start yelling at anything and everything!

New addition to the family

We finally bit the bullet and bought an MPV last week - its a Toyota Estima (in Oz they call them Tarago's). We got a great deal on a sports model (of course we had to buy the sports version to make it feel less of a van). Its got some great gadgets - like remote controlled sliding doors, a moonroof & sunroof, and "captains chairs" which are the second row of seats, which fully recline and have footrests that pop out (just like flying business class!). The other cool thing is that it comes with 2 LCD Tv's and a Playstation! So we will be having lots of fun with this car. Jon is already planning to lower it (its just too high!!!!).

We both thought we'd never ever buy an MPV (its not even turbocharged!), but i guess its a sign of the times...man i miss our old WRX & the Nissan 180sx coupe...

More pics can be found here:

Our new car!

What a life!

Our babies live such a good life - they get to play all day everyday without a care in the world!

Katelyn chewing on some cardboard while Uncle David shows Katherine how to pull stickytape off some cardboard packaging from their new toy!

Typical...Katherine prefers the packaging to the toys

Look who's playing with the toys?

Feeding time!

The girls having been eating solids for 2mths now - preparation of the food is quite an arduous task, as it involves cutting, steaming, pureeing and straining...on the weekends Jon and Grandpa help with the feeding. Katherine loves her solids and will polish off her meal in about 15-20mins. Katelyn is always resisting her food, and she can sometimes take 1hr to feed! Her record is 1.5hours...she must be walking in Jon's footsteps, as he reportedly took up to 2hrs to feed in his younger days!