Thank You Nuffnang!!

I receive not one or two, but 4 complimentary passes for ANY movie at TGV from thoughtful and generous NUFFNANG!!  Thank you!!!

This is really something to shout about.  I hardly get any lucky in contests or lucky draws.  But this time, I am one of the lucky 250 Nuffnangers, nationwide (no kidding)!!!  Movies... here we come!! 

Her First Movie!

I love movies in the cinema. Love the darkness, love the sound system and love the popcorns! But it has been more than 2 years we last stepped into one. The last one was when I was about 30 plus weeks pregnant with Isabelle, and I think we watched Nicholas Cage's Knowing.

The long holiday (the Merdeka-Raya) is here and we are staying put, no traveling home, nowhere specific to go. DH and I thought maybe it is a good time to introduce Isabelle to cinema hoping it will be less crowded than usual weekends! Yahoo!!

And cinema, here we come! We chose Zookeeper because it has been on the screen for quite a long time and would probably have less audience by now. We wanted to go for Cars 2 initially but after some debate, Zookeeper won.

The kiasu-ness in us drove us out to get the ticket a night before because DH say he don't want to waste time to wake up extra early to buy the ticket today just incase there's going to be a long queue as we wanted to watch the 11am slot.

Reached the cinema just on time to give Isabelle enough time to warm up to the environment before the lights go off. 'pre-warned' her that the TV is going to be HUGE and the sound will be LOUDER than home. She didn't only warm up her seat. She even made friends with a girl sitting next to her and 'sneak' popcorn from her! Crap. She must have thought what lousy parents we were, no popcorns for our daughter and she had to beg from others. I was so so embarrassed! LOL! I was actually busy fiddling my bag for her water while she climb onto the 'free' seat next to me when she was caught red-handed.

Getting caught red handed 'sneaking' popcorn from the girl on the next seat.

Time for some discipline reinforcement and education not to accept food from strangers!

We enjoyed the show and mostly, we enjoyed Isabelle's cooperation to sit through the entire movie! She surprised us so much. We are so happy the money spend on the tickets didn't go down the drain should she have been difficult and cranky!

Now, I am looking forward to our next excursion to the cinema already!

I will be back. SMURFS, wait for me!

*Merdeka (Malaysia's Independence Day) + Hari Raya (Muslim Hari Raya or Eid) = MerdekaRaya as it happen to fall on the same day this year.

Bye Bye 2 naps!

Tonight Isabelle fell asleep at a torturous 11.45pm! Left me little time to finish off my chores to start a long week ahead, let alone to watch any TV shows. DH & I decided that's it. We are going to eliminate her current 2 naps routine to just 1 nap a day so that she will be tired enough to go to bed earlier.

She used to diligently go to bed between 9.30pm-10pm till she reaches about 10 or 11 months old. We would have atleast an hour or 2 to watch some movies on TV or reading or just chatting with each other. Her bedtime then delayed later and later. For the past few weeks, it has been 10.45 - 11.30pm. Not only that, it is tiring to sing her lullabies 100 times over & over again and she will still be wide awake and not really half sleepy yet. By the time she really dozes off, I am already a walking zombie yet I have like a million on my to-do list.

I hope I can start her new routine tomorrow and God help me.