Ashley vs. Wookie

Last year during X'mas, we received a very cute gift:

A clone soft toy of our dog, Cookie! 

Ashley is an animal lover and loves dogs. She really enjoys looking at Cookie and likes to watch doggie Niko at nanny's house.

Or that's what we thought till I caught her on tape!

Naughty naughty

Cookie, cookie, cookie... Do u know how much Mama loves you?

Even though u are always so naughty and barks at the sound of the doorbell... Even though you enjoy tearing up newspapers and chewing up everything in sight.

Now that Ashley is with nanny in the afternoons, mama gets to walk u in the park! Passerbys are amused are how you can sit at one spot while I walk far far away and run at the speed of a fat pug when I shout "go".

Remember how you love to sleep with us before baby came? Sticking your blackhead under my pillow and waking me up many times in the night?

 And snuggling under the sheets with mama and papa?

 And sleeping in daddy's armpit....?

Till you snore and wake him up too?!

 Poor Cookie... You are now homed in the service yard till Ashley is ready to fight u!

 Or maybe she'll become your protector?

Love, love, love you... You will always be mama's little puppy...

Cookie turns 1!!!

Cookie is a big boy now!!! Our doggie turned ONE on 23rd Feb (SEVEN years old in doggie years)… 

After work, I rushed to NEX Mall to buy him a doggie birthday cake… 

Papa and Cookie with his silly party hat

Cookie looking kooky

"Chocolate" cake… Yumz...

At the speed he was licking up the cake, we were seriously worried he might choke!

It was fun to watch him with all that cream on his whiskers! Like a kid with an ice-cream… :)

His present - a new feeding bowl!

After the celebration, we brought him to East Coast Park for a walk… He was so happy and excited! 

We're quite sure that it was the HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE - more-than-usual snacks, an entire cake to himself, plus late night walk at the park and countless kisses from mama… 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DARLING COOKIE!

CNY- Super lovin' Steamboat!

Happy Bunny Year to everyone!!! 

(yea, i know it's way into the new year but the Lunar New Year festivity is not over yet!)

Just back-blogging what we did for LNY…

1) We started with an awesome steamboat dinner at Matt's… It's so nice to have "reunion dinner" with the entire cell coz it's eating with our 2nd family…!!!

Some special appearances @ dinner: Carlos & Agata

Shian Wen

Lo Hei!

Our crackers-covered Yu Sheng...

Roasted Suckling Pig (complimentary of Douglas)

Had a great time as usual… It's interesting how we've spent almost a decade doing stuff like these together!!!

2) This year's Lunar New Year was a great time of rest for the both of us… My in-laws went away for a winter holiday in Japan so we didn't have to shuffle 8 visitations a day for once!!! Though we weren't doing any heavy-duty visitations, the family reunion dinner is still a MUST for the rest of us who are still in Singapore….

I'm such a supermarket Queen (with a 9 months foetus in the tummy or not)… I conquered shuffling through a crazy pre-CNY eve crowd @ NTUC and shopping for the food by my own with the help of the trusty supermarket trolley… I was super tired from that shopping but still ALIVE!!!

I spent some time preparing the ingredients for the steamboat - which wasn't much since everyone's responsible for their own cooking… 

From left to right: Carlos, Agata, Cindy (Randy's sis), Randy, Mum, uncle Thomas, Yyn (Me and Ashley behind the camera)...

We had so much fun bonding with the 2 dogs and spending quality time playing with them and grooming them… Cookie slept with us throughout the 4 days of CNY… (He wasn't allowed on the bed previously)

The little bugger enjoyed rolling under the comforter, digging him way under the pillows from one end of the bed to the other, sleeping under Randy's left armpits, snoring loudly beside my ears and hiding under the comforter when the aircon got too cold in the nights… 

And in the morning, I find him sleeping on my pillow and myself being shoved off it… -_-|||

We SUPER LOVE him… :)

A week with the mischief makers

Randy's away on reservist this week, which leave me in the very good company of my dearest Cookie, my bunny Wedding and their poo poo.... :(

I've not been cleaning up their mess since I got pregnant coz you kinda have to minimise the contact with bacteria from your pets. In fact, my gynae was shaking her head when she found out that I'm living with a dog and a rabbit under the same roof.... :P

Oh well, it's just too bad that we're Singaporeans and the men have to go for reservist (pregnant wives at home or not)... So it's mama Kara as the official cleaner for the pet's toilet this week!

Some pics of Cookie playing on our bed before I decided to ban him (and his flying fur) from my bedsheets

Hello Aunty Ezen! Here's showing off the clothes you bought for meeeee!!!! 

 Poking my flat nose into everything, as usual

I've been bringing him down for short walks these 2 days when daddy's not @ home... He hasn't been out of the house for a walk in public since the day he was a puppy. Boy is this dog a walker... I'm so tired after walking him....!

Some people told me how they gave away their pets when they/their wives are expecting. I can't imagine parting with my dear Cookie~!!!!! He's like a part of our family!!!!

Home of the Queks

We had dinner @ the Queks a few days back and Cookie was allowed to visit too...

Cookie playing with the tennis ball, complimentary from Uncle ND... He had great fun chasing after the bouncing ball, chewing on people's socks and drinking water off a plastic bowl given by Aunty Pearlyn...

I dunno why in this shot dear Cookie looks really crazy with his kooky eyes.. Looks like ND was squashing him...

Dun ask me what ND was trying to do here....

My puppy looks so small in Uncle ND's palms!

He played like mad for almost 4 hours non-stop... Till his last ounce of energy was used up.... Then he took a short power nap...

When he got back home, he was recharged and ready to play again. My gosh, by then it was almost 2am and we were deadbeat...... When oh when will u stop being so hyper!!!??!!