We were at the Botanic Gardens today and it poured. It was so wet and we all had to dash for shelter while carrying all the picnic food.

Kids being kids, no matter come rain or shine, its always play day.

Mommy bought Cleo a wonderful little umbrella from Metro and i think this is the first time that Cleo actually HAD to use it. She plays with it at home all the time, but this time its REAL rain. How fun. I think she is enjoying the rainy weather. Looking very cutesy as well.

Apparently Cleo knows where the digi cam is, she knows how to switch it on and also knows how to take pictures of herself. Daddy sometimes get suprise pictures in the camera when reviewing photos.

These random photos might also be taken by Clié but what ever the case. Its really nice to be able to see things that are happening at home when daddy and mommy is at work.

When Cleo is not laughing or jumping about, she always have that serious mellow thinking look. I wonder what she is thinking about here. Maybe “Will daddy scold me for playing with his camera”.

What must you do before you go to bed? brush teeth? go toilet? drink milk? kiss mommy good night? Those are not the important stuff for Cleo.

Before she sleeps, she must “arrange” her bed. And she does it by carefully lining up her soft toys to create a parameter around her bed. This is a must do and she does it EVERY day.

How cute and how strange. lol… i think the OCD bit is from daddy.

We were at Downtown East today and were lucky to be able to catch Care Bears performing.

Cleo hugs her Care Bear tightly as she watches the big one moving about. Does she know there is a person in that suit? Or does she thinks its a REAL Care Bear? I think she knows…

She is definately one happy girl today.

Cleo’s teacher told us that her hair is too long and heavy. In school she keeps pushing her hair back and when she plays, her hair also gets in the way.

Cleo’s hair is quite thick too, so its time for snip snip.

You can see mommy actually snips off quite a lot.

Ta Da! the cute little girl just became cuter.

Glamour shot together with Clié.

Our baby is one cheeky girl. And randomly, she likes to sneak up to us and surprise us with her “BOO” then followed by her hysterical laughter. lol…

Today, we are off to downstairs for breakfast and it sounded fun to them as they mainly stay at home most of the time. Cleo loves to bring 1 toy out at least when ever she is going somewhere and as you can see, she simply still love cars.

Today, Cleo went to Go Go Bambini and she had lots of fun. She was shuttling between the big girls gigantic indoor playground part and the toddlers plastic bubble pool. Some what you can feel that she wants to grow up and be with her big sister, but because she still enjoys the baby stuff (she is still very much a baby), she stayed around the plastic bubble pool most of the time.

Cleo knows she was born in the year of the monkey (according to the chinese lunar calendar), but i think she did not know why daddy asked her to stick her head out of a hole. How cute.

The girls definitely had fun.

We went to Desaru and this is the first time Cleo actually left Singapore.

She loved the idea that we are going somewhere else and even when we got back, she kept telling us that she wants to go stay in a hotel in Malaysia. Its cute how a simple trip is such a big deal for her.

More photos at Daddy’s site.

Isn’t this such a nice photo. Its taken by Brenda and i think Cleo looks lovely here.

I think the world is growing bigger for Cleo day by day. With every new thing she comes across the classic question “Why?” and “But Why?” is used repeatedly. I love explaining, but its hard to explain in order for her to understand. An easy one would be “Why raining?” ok Clouds she understand, Sun she understands, Hot she understands, evaporation is kind hard to explain… So basically is the water go up into the sky and becomes the cloud, then when there is too much water in the cloud, it falls back down as rain.

Why so many cranes? Because they are building a house. But why? Because… Why? Because… But Why?… and so on. Classic.

Gong Xi! Gong Xi! This is what Cleo wore on the first day of CNY 08. A nice rainbow-ish dress that brings up the bubbly character she has. With the orange shades, we have a cool little girl.

The girl is growing and now at 3yo she knows what she wants and most of the time insists persistently. There was one night we were at the petrol station and she was sleeping in the car, she woke up only when we were just leaving. She wanted to get down, she wanted to have a walk in the petrol station’s convenience store… but we just left… so this lead to a 3 hour tantrum that almost killed us her parents.

At 1am i could not take it anymore. I told my self, i’ll put myself in her shoes… “Going to the petrol station is a big deal”… ok… car keys.. off we go.

The opinionated girl wants to do things her way. She just reached an age where she knows what she wants, she have preferences. My girl is growing… and the day will come when she knows who she wants to hang out with and i hope we her parents are in the list.