Happy Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year Greetings from Embassy of Babies.... =)

Cutest Baby Contest Jan 2010

Winning Babies - Jan 2010

Category A

Name: Andrea
Nominated by: Shirlynn Foo
Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Little Andrea will be 7 month old on 5th February and is now weighing 10kg.

Andrea is an intelligent, sociable and adorable baby. She is very curious and loves to explore her surrounding. Everywhere she goes, her sweet and chubby face never fails to catch everyone's attention.

She loves to be cuddled, kissed and hugged. She will giggle when we talk and play with her.


Category B

Name: Nivedha Subramanian
Nominated by: Mallika Padmavathy
Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher


Category C

Name: Isabella Cagliarini
Nominated by: Ng Jenny
Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Isabella is a precious gift, whose eyes, smile and gestures can melt complete strangers and turn them into paparazzos.

She is intelligent, affectionate and loves life to its fullest.

She is Mummy and Daddy’s pride and joy who generates love and happiness in our home each and every day.



Lucky Draw Winners

Name: Liu Liqin
Prize: $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Name: nur amirah anwar
Prize: $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Name: Leonard Lim
Prize: $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Dec 2009 Contest Results

We apologized for the delay in publishing the results of our Dec 2009 Contests.

Here are the winners. Congratulations!

Category A

Name: Ang Jia Jun Ashton Nominated by: Ho Hui Xian Diana Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Category B
	Name: Levonne Toh Nominated by: Linda Teo Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher Levonne is at the exploring stage now. She can crawls very fast and loves to try new things, such as learning to stand on her own unaided; which she is capable of for a few seconds! She loves music and will claps and moves her body along with the rhythm whenever she hears familiar tunes.

Category C

Name: mohamed haziq bin mohamed hasnizam Nominated by: Nazzatul Shida Bte Mohd Yasin Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher Mohamed Haziq is very playful, talkative and friendly. He loves to eat noodle and his favourite drink is soya bean. He also likes to swim. The thing that he likes most is the motorcycle. It's either dad's bike or his battery operated bike.

Lucky Draw Winners

Name:	Ma Jin Ping
Prize:	$50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Name:	Eunice Ho
Prize:	$50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Name:	Teo Shu Zhen
Prize:	$50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Embassy of Babies featured on other BLOGS

We are featured by 2 well-known bloggers who covers the contests in Singapore.

Here’s the link to their blog :

Contestjunkie >>>

http://contestjunkie.blogspot.com/2009/10/capture-your-cutest-moment-embassy-of.html

Contestempire >>>

http://contestempire.blogspot.com/2009/12/closing-date-31st-december-2009-contest.html

Thank you contestjunkie and contestempire for writing about us!

United Square Water Activity

We have come across this boat ride recently at United Square, basement 1 at their fountain area.

As you can see in the pictures, children can enjoy this activity even in the vicinity of a shopping centre.

Children can choose their favorite animal among what’s available to ride in with their parent. The good thing about this activity is that you do not need to go to a deep water facility to enjoy this. As the water level is low, it is consider quite safe. Moreover, there’s a person-in-charge who will moved about in the fountain to ensure the safety of these children.

However, when we approach the fountain, we can only see one person attending to the boats. We can’t find anyone else to inquire more on its costs.

If you are interested, you can popped by to check this out; but we cannot ensure if it’s still there as we did not have the chance to gather more information. =)

Contest

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Beginning 2010, we are having a kick off with some exciting news!!!


Chinese New Year Special for Cutest Baby Contest
$80 Takashimaya Shopping Vouchers for 3 winners of Cutest Baby Contest.
Nominate your baby between 01 Jan 2010 and 31 Jan 2010 to stand to win $80 Shopping Vouchers.
Closing Date : 31 Jan 2010

Cutest Retro Baby Contest
Born in the 1970s and 1980s?
Participate now and stand to win $200 Takashimaya Shopping Vouchers.
Closing Date : 28 Feb 2010

For more information, please visit www.embassyofbabies.com

=)

Website to purchase wall decals

From our last post, we have mentioned where to buy the cute wall decals. We would like to add on more information about this wall decal shop.

They have a website - www.artukidding.com. You can see their products there and place your order by emailing them.

Now they have a range for Christmas too.

Have fun this season!

Link to last blog entry on wall decal -
http://embassyofbabiesblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/wall-decal-for-your-kids-room.html

Apple iphone wonderful applications

Apple iphone no doubt has brought in a new wave in the handphone industry. Nowadays, lots of people are buying iphone and some are still considering purchasing one.

The interesting part of it, not only limited to the phone itself; are the applications written for the phone.

Here are some of the ones the team has tested. And maybe parents, especially mummies can make use of them, as some are actually FREE!!! We will be reviewing more applications. So stay tune…! =)

1. Milestones (Rate : 4)

Use : Records baby’s milestones

Cost : US$4.99

Good : This app keeps track of the weight and height of your baby through the inputs and can plot the information into a chart. You can track and record what your baby can do at a certain month under milestone and moments. What’s more, user-specified milestones can be added if it is not in their list. If you have missed out certain milestones, the program will let you know by highlighting the month range in orange.

Bad : Some of the milestones are not in the list.

2. My Baby (Rate : 3.5)

Use : Finding names for baby

Cost : FREE

Good : You can find names for a boy and girl separately. You can also specify the origin of the names you wish to search under.

Bad : You need to know the name to search. Or input the first alphabet to do a thorough search for that alphabet. It can be quite tedious.

3. Baby HowTall (Rate : 3)

Use : Calculates the height of your baby

Cost : US$0.99

Good : It will be fun to estimates how tall your baby will be when he or she grows up. It calculates the height based on Daddy’s and Mummy’s height and gives a range of the heights your baby might be.

Bad : It might not be accurate and there are no other functions besides that.

4. Breastfeed (Rate : 4.5)

Use : Provides information on breastfeeding

Cost : FREE

Good : It provides general information on breastfeeding. The wonderful part - it covers early breastfeeding management for the time between birth to 48 hours and 48 hours till 2 weeks. It has also includes information on medications and have an FAQ.

Bad : There’s no search function. Hence, mothers may need to read through to get the information.

5. Baby Flash Cards (Rate : 3.5)

Use : Flashcards of items for baby to learn about objects

Cost : FREE

Good : There a wide range of objects ranging from animals, fruits, furniture, numbers and lots more. The program can be set to display either in alphabetical order or random order.

Bad : The graphics are cute but colors are not vibrant enough to attract baby’s attention. There is no music too.

6. Sing Along Lite (Rate : 2.5)

Use : Display nursery songs’ lyrics

Cost : Free, US$3.99 for full version

Good : There are lyrics which you can learn so that you can sing the song to your baby. For the full version, you can also play the music and sing along with your kid.

Bad : The majority of the songs may not be localized, hence, you might never heard of these songs yourself; let alone sing to your baby. For the full version, even when there’s music to sing along with, the music is too soft despite you have put the volume to maximum. Hence, it is not useful in having the music. Just get the lite version.

7. ABC Phonics Animals Lite (Rate : 2.5)

Use : Teaches children on animals, the spelling and its sounds

Cost : FREE, US$1.99 for full version

Good : The colors and pictures are cute. The music/sounds do attract babies.

Bad : The lite version limits the variety of animals displayed. We are too sure if the full version has this restriction.

8. What to Expect Pregnancy (Rate : 4)

Use : Provide information on pregnancy

Cost : FREE

Good : It can calculate your stages week by week using your EDD. The program will also show your gestational period and the trimester you are in. It will also give you an estimate of the size of your baby in your tummy. The information not only talks about your pregnancy, it will also provide information on your baby.

Bad : What we like about this program – you can take a photo of your pregnancy days. However, it could not be stored as a journal in your phone. You need to save the photo to your phone’s photo album.

9. Baby Piano Lite (Rate : 4)

Use : A program with piano keys for playing purposes

Cost : FREE

Good : It has a small piano for playing. It can also be switch to animals’ sounds too. Colors are very vibrant. You can also record 5s of whatever you played on the piano keys.

Bad : Limited piano notes - Do, Re Mi, Fa, So, La Ti….

Princess Shop!

Here's a sweet and cutie shop just for your little princess.

MINI PRINCESS - that's the shop name. Can you guess what they sell in the shop? Well, lots and lots of princess stuff.... and that's why it's call MINI PRINCESS.

You can find tutus (not exactly the ballerinas tutus, similar concept), wings, wands, crowns, hairclips, necklace, stickers, and lots more.



The things that they sell are so pretty that you will feel like buying over the whole shop. Prices are reasonable depending on your budget. Their shop front looks magical too!!! Oh ya, the packaging is super sweet too....



In fact, this shop is opened by Mini Toons. They have Mini Bits and now Mini Princess. You can go to their main website www.minitoons.com. However, they have not update their Mini Princess on it yet.

Their shop is located at :
#02-21 Junction 8
Customer Hotline : 93888227

Feel free to go down and have a look especially during this Christmas season. Have fun shopping!!!

Sorry, we still can't find any specialised shop for little boys yet.... we are searching for them very hard... maybe still not hard enough =p

Winners of Cutest Baby Contest Nov 2009

Congratulations to all our winners!!!

Category A

Name: Damien Chan Yuan Bin
Nominated by: Ho Mew Choi
Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Damien is a very smart and adorable boy. Everywhere he goes, strangers will take a second look at him. Damien loves to stare. He is curious and attentive with his surroundings.

He loves to dance with mummy and play peek-a-poo with daddy. He giggles when he is happy. He loves to face the camera.


Category B

Name: Chloe Lim
Nominated by: Michelle Voo
Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher



Little Chloe is a very social-able and playful baby. Her adorable & cheerful face has always catch people's attention. People will always look at her and pitch her face everywhere she goes by.

She is learning fast & she can walk a little step by step now. She loves to listen to music and sometimes sing loudly. Chloe is daddy & mummy little sweetie and bring us a lot of happiness since her born to the family.


Category C

Name: Darell Chou
Nominated by: IVY NG
Prize: Embassy of Babies Cutest Baby Certificate & $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher


Darell is turning 2 years old on this coming Christmas Day. He was borned on Christmas Day in year 2007. He is an active and intelligent boy who loves to play and explore his surroundings. He makes everything so interesting and fun. Our life is really blissful with him around.



Lucky Draw Winners
Name: Leo Siew Swee
Prize: $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Name: Azhari
Prize: $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher

Name: marcus
Prize: $50 Takashimaya Shopping Voucher