End of the holidays

Just before I head back to school, here's me in my Juicy tracksuit rehearsing for my pop career...

Skateboarding with Oscar...

3 months and 100% handsome boy.

New Year's Day 2008

Now Mummy & Daddy assure me they weren't *too* hungover on New Year's Day when we all went to Hong Kong Disney again. Did the usual and some time at the Park and stayed the night at the hotel so we could have dinner and watch the fireworks. Oscar was, as ever, perfectly behaved and enjoyed himself too!

Bathtime with baby boy

Oscar and I at the end of December having sun splashing around in the bath!

A beautiful day...

We had a lovely Christmas and the weather was beautiful. Here are some snaps of me and my baby brother Oscar on the beach where we live in Repulse Bay.

Boxing Day

My new bike, thanks Granny and Pops!

Christmas dinner in the garden

No Queen's speech again for us! This was all the Binnions, Campions, Barnetts and the Kellihers down in the garden having dinner cooked for us by the Verandah. Even though I look glum sitting next to Ashe and Mia, I was actually having lots of fun.


Me and my best mate Izzie.

Christmas 2007

Christmas Eve Champagne with Daddy- cheers!

Waiting for Father Christmas!

Chilling in the garden on a sunny November day....

Baby Oscar is now the grand old age of six weeks and doing marvellously. He's still not quite sailing through the night so Mummy has panda eyes she tries to conceal with Touche Eclat and eye drops every morning, but we are all hoping those nights will soon be a distant memory.

Here are some photos of my little brother chilling in the garden. As is usual, he mostly has his eyes closed because we fear he is not fantastically impressed with what he sees when he bothers to open them. He's managed the odd smirk/smile recently too, but frowning is more common.

I am loving being a big sister and give Oscar at least 100 kisses per day!

Oscar's back home (part II)

Oscar came back home from the Matilda on Saturday, and Mummy was loving being back epecially since I was also on half term and the weather was glorious. Monday and Tuesday afternoon we played down in the garden with Izzy, Alex, Joshua and Mia as Oscar slept soundly in Mummy's arms.

On Tuesday night Oscar felt a bit too warm, and by the morning he was still no better so Daddy and Mummy had to take him back into hospital. Apparently you have to be very careful when newborns have a fever, and he was admitted and given antibiotics and all sorts of tests run. Luckily after a couple of days his temperature returned back to normal but he was kept in to finish his medicine until today (Sunday). It was a pretty scary and worrying time for us, but it was great seeing the little chap on the mend again and bouncing back.

As you can imagine Mummy was throughly bored of hospitals and is now very much relieved and happy to be home with me, Daddy and of course Oscar. Oscar himself is completely back to normal: feeding like a demon and giving Mummy a hard time with his constant feeding! Mummy is still on antibiotics (for mastitis- nice!!) but she and Daddy are planning to crack open a bottle of Krug tonight after I have gone to bed. That will be the second time they get to celebrate coming home, but this time the bubbles will taste even sweeter!

No photos for this posting. Somehow shots of the room on the paediatric ward and Oscar's drip aren't really in keeping with the jolly tone of this blog :-)

Proud Big Sister

I have heard so much about my baby brother for many months now, and finally here I am giving him a long-awaited cuddle and a kiss. I never thought he would be so tiny or make so much noise. I just have to be very careful with him and not feed him chocolate or give him anything dangerous to play with...

Family of four

Day two and Oscar and Mummy are still at the hospital. Finally I get a cuddle!

Little brother's first day...

Bundle of joy, 3am on the 17th...

Mummy and Oscar recovering on the balcony.

Me dancing away hoping someone will pay me some attention... I am still the princess around here you know.

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My new cousin, George Thomas Inglis

So, I have three cousins now, all boys. Daniel in Ireland, Harry in Leeds and now George in the rather romantic-sounding Denby Dale just outside Huddersfield. George was born last Weds 10th October and as you can see he is already a little cutie.

Here's a picture of my proud Uncle and Auntie, Neil and Jennie, holding tiny baby George. Mummy tells me I was once that small, though looking at me today it's pretty hard to imagine.

This photo below apparently looks a lot like me when I was born... though I am not sure if I was such an advanced tounge-roller!!

Three going on Thirteen...

Much to Daddy's horror and distaste, I have recently established a love for Disney's High School Musical 2 and its soundtrack. Now Daddy's not a huge Disney fan, but I think he's fine when it stays at cartoon level. However, when we were on holiday in Bali they also showed clips from the Musical and since I got back I get to watch the odd bit of Disney between bath and story time before I go to bed and often they have a video from the film.

Daddy calls it "cheesy American..." and then I don't understand the rest because Mummy tells him to stop swearing in front of me and leave me alone.

Mummy finds it hillarious that I have turned into such a little princess, and I think Daddy's just glad he's got a boy coming any day now. I suppose there's only so much sweet and cheesy even a ponce like my Dad can stand!

Mummy took this clip in my bedroom. Usually I am more vocal and the dance moves a bit swifter, I also use a prop (Camel, Brian or Mickey) to be 'Troy' and duet with... I think I was a little bit shy in front of the camera this time. Enjoy!

Somebody to Love...

From Happy Feet, back in the summer...

3rd Birthday Party

Enjoying the cake- me and my best friend Izzy.

Alex with her Mummy and Daddy.

Izzy, me, Joshua and Mia.

Cute little Mia enjoying the cake!

My 3rd Birthday

We had my 3rd Birthday party on Saturday down in the garden. This is me with Elia and Joshua blowing out the candles on my Minnie Mouse cake. Now I know that normally Mummy should have stayed up all night baking and decorating, but she'd only just got back from San Francisco so she had one made for me instead. Everyone agreed it was the yummiest birthday cake they'd had in a long time, and there wasn't much left of it in the end!

Gymnastics

September 2007 is all about new things. I've had my first week at school, caught the bus all by myself and here I am Saturday morning going off to gymnastics while Daddy goes for a run.

Gymnastics is great fun. Not really sure what's going on yet. Jade from downstairs also goes (her big sister Elia is in the bigger class) and we are the youngest so we just run around and try and copy what the coach is doing. Anyway it's good fun, and I love my leotard!

First day at school

Here I am, back from my hols and already back to reality. 2 weeks away from turning three, and I am starting my first day at proper school. I have been at playgroups for the last year and a half, but the French school takes us in a bit earlier than other schools so off I go. I am in Petite Section Bilingue, which means I will have one day taught in English, the next day in French.


It was raining this morning, and the traffic was bad to get me into Central on the school bus, but luckily mummy came with me so I didn't feel alone or sad or anything. When we eventually got there, I went up to my new classroom and found my English teacher, Miss Lynda. On Thursday I will be in Miss Isabelle's class.

Everything that is mine (desk, drawer, cubby hole and books) are marked with my name and a picture of a penguin because I can't quite read yet. As penguins are one of my favourite animals, I love that I am now a penguin at school.

There are about 20 children in the class, mostly French but not all...

All the mum's were nervous and some of the other children were crying, but I was fine.

Mummy came and picked me up in the afternoon when we finished at 3pm. I had had my lunch at the school canteen and had a quick nap so I wasn't too tired. We caught the school bus home together, and mummy brought me a couple of chocolate biscuits to eat much to the envy of the other kids on the bus whose mummies didn't come with them.

The next thing to look forward to is gymnastics on Saturday... it's all go again!!

Not a bad way to leave Bali...

This is me ready for take off in what mummy assures me is the best place to sit on a Jumbo- seat 1A. I have to say I am impressed with the leg room, but can't understand why I had to have an orange juice while Daddy got to knock back champagne behind me. The best thing was I had my own telly and all the Cathay girls made a huge fuss of me, continuing the princess treatment I had got all holiday.


Watching Disney at 40,000 feet. I was just too excited to sleep anyway!

It was the perfect end to a perfect holiday. And now I am back in Hong Kong I keep waking up at night and going through to mummy and daddy and asking why we can't go back to Bali. I loved it there.

I start school today, 4th September, so I will post some photos of my first day soon. Enjoy my Bali snaps in the meanwhile!

Last day in Bali

A picture of the three of us after our last morning on the beach. So sad to be leaving- none of us wanted to leave.


Ready for the airport, this was taken by our buggy driver who I helpded to drive when we went back and forth to the beach.