My First Toes Tapping Savasana

Today's power flow class was sweat drenching. Weather was unusually warm, 19 degrees during winter! Top off with an intentionally created hot studio. Literally when I took off my tee shirt, I could wring sweat! It was BLISS! I have NOT had this euphoria in AGES!!! I was so looking forward for the last pose, corpse pose. I was expecting the normal zen music to be play in the back ground.... But I heard this song from the famous movie back when I was a teenager... Pretty Woman. Gawd... I've lost count of the number of times I've watched this film! It was just 2 weeks ago, this film was show on TV. I watched from the beginning to the end and I still have the same feeling when I first watch the film 10 years ago :-)

The song Fallen by Lauren Wood was dedicated to Val's hubby, Dave, today is their wedding anniversary. Oh... so nice... :-)

My First Post Pregnancy Yoga

It has been a long long time... I have not been in touch with my yoga roots since getting pregnant. I've been contemplating on joining a yoga studio for quite awhile now. Audrey can vouch on this. ;-) She has been inviting me to join her in class. But I've to travel by train to get to her place. I think fate came knocking on my door. A new studio just open late last year just a stone throw away. I've been walking pass that busy intersection so many times and I didn't take notice. But one fine day, I was going through my junk mails, normally hubby will bin it immediately. I came across a brochure of this small studio tuck away from the hustle and bustle of Chatswood CBD.

It's winter time and I really need to regain my flexibility and strength. This heated studio is just PERFECT! The classes are small enough where the teachers could give me the attention and the little extra push (and posture correction) :-)

I feel so ZEN.... aaaaahhhh....

Baby Eliya @ 10 weeks

Who does she look like? Me or her Dad?

One of her (mommy's and daddy's actually...) favourite past time is having a bath. I think this water baby will grow up to be a swimmer... ;-)

She is now just shy of 6 kg and 60 cm in height (or length... since she can't stand yet... hehehe). True to her chinese name, Hei Yee ("happy child"), she laughs and smiles in bucket loads ! No matter how frustrated we get caring for her, our stress simply evaporates immediately when she beams us a toothless smile. I guess this is one of the joys of being a parent.

Besides smiling heaps, she is also a very verbal baby, just like her daddy, she likes to "talk". Cooing and goo-goo-gaa with her grandparents especially. I could expect a very emotional situation when we bid goodbye my in-laws. They have grown so attached to her.

Just a couple of days ago, we tried to teach her to say daah-dee and mah-mee. Hubby was trying to get her to imitate "daddy" and she responded, ah tiew ! At first we were in such a shock. OMG! Where did she learn to curse ?!?!?!? Then it don on us that it was just accidental and laughed our heads off.

Hubby celebrated his first birthday with Eliya. And I baked him a chocolate banana birthday cake. Yes, I BAKED a cake. My first cake !!! It's a bit lop sided, but HEY! It's my first cake. And YES, I'm learning to be a bit more domesticated these days :-)

Next week I'm resuming work after 3 good months of maternity leave. Initially, I thought this is going to easy getting back to a routine which I've been very comfortable with before Eliya arrived. Now... I think I'm going to miss her so much when I'm at work !