Sherry's Café: July 2012

Monday 30 July 2012

My all-time favourite moisturisers

I have always considered myself lucky when it comes to skincare as I never had any preference and the reason being I have tried various different products ranging from the 'cheap-as-chips' ones to the 'ouch-did-I-just-break-the-bank-on-a-tiny-bottle' ones. I never once felt or saw the difference until my encounter with Sisley's All Day All Year and my absolute essential - Night Complex!

If truth to be told, I didn't eve think All Day All Year was all that the first time I used it and didn't get the hype until recently. My skin gets incredibly dry during winter time and whenever I am in Taipei, my T-zone gets oily and it doesn't matter what moisturiser I use, I have to slather a thick layer during winter and switch to a lighter weight version in the summer if I am in Taipei. However, I realised that I don't have to do that with this baby! It does what it says, one pump is more than enough to cover the whole face plus the throat and it absorbs perfectly! I have been in Taipei for over a week now and it does the trick! This time, I don't have to buy a light-weigh moisturiser.

Also, here are the two more reasons why I heart this product:

Anti-UVA and UVB shield: 90% of UVB and UVA rays are blocked by a complex of micro-encapsulated filters which, without penetrating into the skin, safely protect it for 8 hours.

Anti-free radical / anti-stress shield: The joint use of Apple Skin extract (anti-free radical) and White Willow extract (stimulates the production of anti-stress proteins), helps to protect the cells against environment-induced stress.

So in just one pumps, it does all of the above AND more! It's perfect for a lazy person like me!

Oh and I can't live without the Nigh Complex. My skin got really dry and coarse after giving birth. Yes COARSE, as a piece of sandpaper! I didn't have it with me at confinement centre so the day I got home, I used it for the first ten days and it worked like a miracle! My skin was back to my normal condition the second day I used it. I loved it anyway but didn't expect it to work so well!

I thought the two products were rather pricey but then with All Day All Year, it lasts around 6 months and so does Night Complex since you only use it for 10 consecutive days every month. Therefore they actually work out not that expensive and consider the benefits you get, they are well worth it! Well, so I tell myself and I am sure that's the excuse we women use as surely we somehow have to justify our spending AND convincing ourselves! lol

I will be back for more of my favourite skincare!

Saturday 21 July 2012

The 8th month

Snuggling up with MY blankie! hehehe

Another month has passed by and I still have not seized to be amazed by Rayray's development! It is so much fun now to spend my time with her (not that I ever feel bored or anything but I remember I longed for 'adult conversations' the first couple of months but now I take her out to lunching with friends, shopping etc etc, and she is like my little best friend/doll that I constantly talk to! hehehe

We arrived Shanghai from London on her 8 month birthday and it was a much better flight journey compared to when we travelled back to London in April. She Rayray managed to get a few hours of decent sleep and I think the routine is now deep wired in her.

We went to Cathay hospital to have her weighed in and measure and ummm...

Height - 70 cm (she hasn't grown in the past month?)

Weight - 9.7kg (and according to the scale at Cathay Hospital, she has only put on 0.1 kg?! Not that I am worried about her weight but she weighed around 10kg in London just before we left!)

Eating - Breastfed 3 times a day. She is well established on solids and still enjoys her food! She now eats breakfast with pleasure and I have discovered that I should have waited for 45 minutes or so after breastfeeding her. I have also started giving her fingers foods at every mealtime and I think she finds them more satisfying.

Looking very excited as she knew it was meal time!

Sleeping - Rayray now soothes herself to sleep and it really was so worthwhile to sleep train her. She goes down at 7pm and wakes up between 6-7am. She talks to herself when she wakes up in the morning and would do so for a good 15 minutes before making a fuss. She has 30 minutes in the morning and around 2 hours at lunchtime nap.

Falling asleep on daddy's chest and she actually had her entire 30 minutes of MN like that! lol

Development -

Rayray is one curious baby, she is always busy playing and not only everything she can get hold of goes into her mouth, she would watch and stare at people with amazement no matter who you are or what you do! And talk about vastly improved dexterity! She is also busy exploring with those chubby fingers.

Her new toy - DJ Station and I highly recommend it!

She loves attention and needs to be entertained particularly at meal times. She is still a very good eater but wants to play all the time. So if I'm on my own feeding her, I need to make funny faces or tickle her or just make her laugh so she would finish feeding!!!

Totally a daddy's girl and knows daddy is her best play pal!

She now can roll over whenever she wants to without much effort but still tries to crawl!

Can bear weight on legs when held upright and she just loves 'standing up' and gosh, does she have strong legs or does she have strong legs! hahaha

She can pass an object from one hand to the other.

Absolutely loooooves playing peekaboo

She now pick up blueberries, peas or biscuits with any part of thumb and forefinger.

Oh, and lastly but not least I'm back on my pre-pregnancy weight: 52kg! Though still have 2 more kg to go to be on the 'old me' weight as I did put on 2 kg right before I got pregnant!

Playing with Rayray is bundles of joy now as she laughs back and there are actually some serious interactions between us!