Your first passport photo

YEAH!! We are going for holiday! Where to go? Japan!!

So on Tuesday night, daddy , mummy and you went to take photo for our Japan VISA. And for you, you are taking the 2 in 1 photo, which will be for your passport and VISA.

Earlier mummy worry that the outcome of the pic will look odd, but hmm...somehow it's quite satisfying. But daddy and mummy too excited and forget to pull your shirt properly before the picture being taken. So the shirt's collar not in proper place. But overall effect still ok! There u go....your pic.

Kelvin: Eh....why that aunty holding camera and keep ask me to smile and say hi...do i look cute ?

And we are bringing you to Immigration office to get your passport done in few minutes time.

More and more fun with you!

You are communicating with us in more and more words now. Sometimes you even surprises daddy and mummy with few word in one sentence. Nowadays it's very fun to talk and play with you as you tend to sometimes confuse us with your puzzle look and make daddy and mummy scratch our head figuring out whether do you actually understand what we are talking to you or not. But daddy and mummy do enjoy torture by you playing with you .

Previously, your version of umbrella will be umba and for elephant will be ehfen. And now, you are able to say out umbrella and elephant pretty accurate.

Few days ago, you even can sing song, haha! You sang the good morning song to mummy, but your version is,
Kelvin : good morning, good morning, you you
Mummy : good morning, good morning, to you, to you and to you
Kelvin : good morning, good morning, to you, you, you

And last week, when mummy went for regular check up, we brought you along and daddy taught you another new word,
Daddy : a lot of people
Kelvin: a lot of people (with slang)

And recently, you picked up another new word, which is computer
2 days ago, while you were doing your big business, as usual, you will read mummy's magazine and there is a pic of computer in the magazine, daddy told you this is computer, at first, you will say comter...and few rounds of correction, finally, you are saying it correctly, computer.

Yesterday, when mummy picked you up from school, i checked with Teacher Margeret what song she taught for the day as last Friday when you told mummy what you learned from school, mummy can't imagine which song you are learning, so this time, everytime when i pick you up, i make sure i check with the teacher what song you learn on that day. So, the song for yesterday was Yippie Ya Ya, so one our way back, mummy asked you to sing the song and to my surprise, you sang it.
Mummy: Kelvin, today what song you learn in school?
Kelvin : (with some hand expression) Yippie ya ya

And mummy like to tease you by singing the little tea pot song.
Mummy : I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle , here is my spout
You will go "senget" when i sing the song coz you will show me how tea pot looks like and you cannot balance youself well.

Besides, mummy like to make fun of you with the If you happy song.
Mummy : If you happy and you know you clap your hand
Kelvin : ** clap hand**
Mummy: If you happy and you know you knock your head
Kelvin : **knock your head with you hand and you will make some sound effect "toink toink"**
Mummy : If you happy and you know you call mummy
Kelvin : mummy
Mummy : If you happy and you know you call daddy
Kelvin : daddy

Confuse between Want and Don't want?

Am not sure whether you understand what is "want" and what is "don't want" or you just want to make daddy and mummy confuse.

To some extent, you can clearly tell me what you want and what you don't want. However, sometimes, when i asked you whether you want "something"(for eg, milk, bed time song, bedtime story...), you tend to tell me "don't want!". But, after a while, you will look for it.

Yesterday night, when we were in the room, daddy asked whether do you want the milk by holding the milk bottle in front of you, you told him "don't want", then daddy pretend to drink the milk, and you make some fuss, asking daddy to pass the milk bottle to you. And this morning, when you wake up, mummy asked whether do you want to have biscuit, happily you nod your head and said "want". Daddy gave me a blank look when i told him you said "want" biscuit! He also confused!

So now, daddy and mummy confused. Do you really understand "want" and "don't want" ?????
Or you just try to test on daddy and mummy's understanding of "want" and "don't want????

New skill!

Yesterday when mummy picked you up, teacher Margeret told us that today when teacher Mynar teaching you on shape, Ee Chie jie jie came by and want to take away the toy from you, instead of crying, you told Ee Chie jie jie "cannot take". Everyone was shocked and impressed. Previously, you will cry and using cry as a way to complain to Mdm Chuah (the supervisor in baby class) when the other baby snatch your toy from you.

Cannot deny time flies, my little baby is growing up and now u know how to protect yourself.

Our conversations

Here are some of the conversation between u and us,

Conversation #1:
As soon as you wake up from your sleep, you will :-
Kelvin : mummy wake up, daddy wake up!!
Mummy/Daddy: Where do you want to go?
Kelvin : kai kai
Mummy/Daddy: Where to kai kai
Kelvin : bay Mall (your version of Queensbay Mall)
Mummy/Daddy: What you do when you go to bay Mall
Kelvin: park car
Mummy/Daddy : after you park car, then what you do?
Kelvin : go down
Mummy/Daddy : after that?
Kelvin: mum mum
Mummy/Daddy: What you want to mum mum?
Kelvin: food

Conversation #2:
Mummy/Daddy: Kelvin, when you go to kopitiam, what do you want to drink?
Kelvin : barley som
Mummy/Daddy: Kelvin, then what you want to eat?
Kelvin : ci ceong fun (chi cheong fun)

Conversation #3:
Mummy/Daddy: Kelvin, when you go kai kai, what you want to buy?
Kelvin : buy food

Conversation #4:
Kelvin : mummy, bag (then you will take my bag and start to explore it)
Kelvin : money,mummy!
Mummy : What you want to do with the money?
Kelvin : Buy food

My Super Glu

Recently, for don't know what reason, you decided to cling to me. Keep calling mummy mummy and want me to accompany you. If you don't see me within your radar area, you will start to make noise,calling for mummy. And sometimes when we dropped you to nursery, you will insist mummy to accompany you and make some noise when mummy leave. So every time, we need to distract you with some toys and mummy quickly sneak out with heavy heart. Mummy wish i can spend more time with you.

Even at night, sometimes you will want me to hold your hand and sleep or you will put your leg on me just to make sure i am sleeping beside you. Sometimes, middle of the night, you will climb over to mummy's bed and sleep beside me real close. So end up, mummy get sandwiched between you and daddy.

Some people said, based on old wives tales, kid has their own six sense and when the elder kid know that mummy is expecting, the elder kid tend to cling to mummy. Sweetie, don't worry, no matter what, you are always my sweetie pie. You are always daddy and mummy's sweetie pie!

You scared us!

We tugged you to bed at 9pm, and daddy mummy happily sneaked out from the room. Daddy was reading his magazine while mummy updating your blog.

After a while, i suddenly heard daddy saying "aiyoh aiyoh aiyoh" and i looked back, GOSH, you were standing beside me. I was shocked and luckily mummy didn't shout out loud, else you sure will frightened by me and cried. So, quickly, daddy carried you back into the room and re-tug you to the bed.

Daddy and mummy can't stop laughing in the room while we tugging you to bed again. Luckily you were in sleepy mode, so you didn't get bothered by our laughter. When we were in the room, we noticed that, you removed your socks before you crawled down from the bed. Smart boy huh, else you sure will fall down.

Daddy said he didn't expect you will walk out from the room, so when he saw you, he kinda shocked and suddenly don't know what to say besides "aiyoh aiyoh aiyoh". HAHAHAHA!

Sweetie, next time don't give daddy and mummy such a big shock, ok! HAHA!

Your masterpiece!

These are your art work from school..of course with the help from teacher.

Hope you will enjoy yourself in the playgroup!

To others, you may think that these art work mean nothing, but to me, it means A LOT!! I am so proud of you, my sweetie!

Day 3 ~ Leaving KL

Today is our last day in KL. You woke up around 8:30am. Fever still not yet subside. So we kept feeing you PCM evry 4 hrs. However, you doesn't seems get bothered by the fever, you still very active and energetic.

We all showered ourselves and you kept asking all of you to go out. So all of us gotta quickly pack our things and check out. What's next? Of course going to IKEA. How can we not going to IKEA when we already in KL? The day before, uncle James checked with the taxi driver for the direction, so we able to reach IKEA without any problem.

What is the first thing to do? Of course to get our stomach filled. We went to uncle Lim restaurant at Ikano Power Center. Mummy ordered chicken porridge and barley for you, while i get myself uncle Lim Laksa and daddy get the nasi lemak. All of us enjoy our food and we also enjoy seeing you eating the porridge. After lunch, time to shop at IKEA. You started to show sleepy sign, but since the rest want to do some shopping in IKEA, so daddy and mummy accompany you. Initially mummy want to buy lots of thing from IKEA, but seeing you so tired, so i dropped the plan and stay with daddy to accompany you. But...daddy said he will bring us to IKEA next time. YEAH!!!

And time for next feed of PCM and mummy so careless, i forgot to bring along your medicine in my backpack, so daddy need to walk all the way back to The Curve and get the medicine. While waiting for daddy, this is how we pass our time.

You get attracted by the IKEA MULA Bead Roller Coaster. We then fed you your medicine and you are very corperative, good boy!

After a while, you get bored with the MULA then we walked to Ikano power center and initially we were wondering around at the ground floor outside ACE Hardware as you were attracted by the playground. However, mummy cannot stand the smell of the food from the nearby restaurant, so we walked around the place. As soon as we reached first floor, guess what?!! U see your favourite amusement toy!

While waiting for the rest to done with your IKEA shopping spree, we let you play with the 2 cars for a while. Mummy even let you had a ride on the sport car and you enjoy it so much. After a while, the rest came to join us and time to leave KL. However, you refused to leave the car, we need to coax you and even drag you out from the car.

The weather kinda windy on our way home to Penang, and it started to rain not so long after we left IKEA. You started to feel sleepy and had your nap. Our next stop is Ipoh!

What to do in Ipoh? Of course is to enjoy the famous bean sprout chicken with koay teow. We had our dinner at Restoran Onn Kee. You woke up just in time for dinner. You shared the koay teow with mummy. After dinner we wanted to buy some local biscuit from the shop nearby, but too bad, the shop is already closed for the day. Then we continue our journey back to Penang and you continue to have your nap.

We reached Penang around 9pm.

Day 2 in KL

The rest of the 3 arrived KL at 3am while we were sleeping sweetly. You woke up around 9:30am, wow!

So the day 2 first agenda is to go to PWTC again. This time, mummy get to go in for a quick shopping while Uncle James accompany you at the main hall. Mummy bought you kiwi! As soon as you see mummy coming out with kiwi, you told me you want to eat it. Uncle James then join Daddy and Ms Goh in the exhibition hall. So both of us enjoy our kiwi while the rest surveying in the exhibition hall.

They came out from the exhibition hall around 11:30am and then we walked back to the service apt to meet up with the 2 uncles. They were sleeping soundly when we all left the service apt. Adelyn Jie Jie and Por Por went to Sogo area for shopping. So we decided to meet with them at Sogo for lunch. We had our lunch at Sogo food court and we ordered mee suah soup for you. After lunch, we went back for a nap as you started to show sleepy sign. You refused to sleep and keep wanna play with the rest, daddy and mummy keep tugging you to sleep, and you protest, struggle, do whatever you can, but we still insisted you MUST sleep. At last, after one hour, you finally give up and sleep.

You woke up from afternoon nap around 6pm, which is around 2 hrs sleep. Daddy feel that you are a bit heaty, but we didn't give you any medicine. What's next? Dinner at Pavilion !

As soon as we reached the food court, mummy spotted Mdm Kwan's restaurant and we all decided to have our dinner there. We have lots of dishes, and you had your Ipoh Koay Teow soup. We wonder around in Pavilion for a while and headed back to the service apt aroun 9pm.

You were very heaty at night, so before you went to bed, we fed you PCM. And for the whole night, we keep feeding you PCM every 4 hrs.

That's all for our Day 2.

Holiday time!!

**back dated post for our trip to KL on 7/11/08**

Today, we wake up at usual time, around 7am. We are going to KL. Daddy and mummy on leave today as daddy want to go to PWTC to have a look at the MIFB. We are going to KL with a big group of people in 2 cars. Uncle James picked us up around 8:30am, together with Ms Goh and Por Por. The rest of the 3 will go to KL by their own later to meet with us.

We went to Tmn Pekaka for quick dim sum before heading to KL. We finally cross the bridge around 9:30am and there was a slight jam on the bridge. You behave quite well throught out the journey. We stopped by Bukit Merah rest area for first refreshing and you were so excited when you saw the mini water fountain. After a while, you looks tired but refused to sleep. However, when daddy carry you, you accidentally hit your head to the car roof and you cried for a while. And guess what, after that you fall asleep. Phew......

The second stop was at Tapah rest area, there was a nice water fountain there but since you still in lala-land, so we take turn to go to rest room and had some refreshment and continue with the journey. To our surprise, we reached KL at 2pm, earlier than what we expect. Earlier, we expect to make frequent stop for you, coz you will be cranky if you were to sit stand in the car for too long. And since you are sleeping so soundly, so we straight drive all the way to KL.

We stayed in the service apt and the place quite ok. But mummy prefer Lanson Place more. But since this time, we get free stay, so cannot complain to much. We had a quick shower then proceed for our lunch. What we had for lunch? Bak Kut Teh. Mummy didn't eat bak kut teh for almost 2 yrs, so this is the first time i took bak kut teh after 2 years. I didn't drink much of the soup as some people said preggie should avoid taking it, so i just ate the mushroom and veggie. We let you try some bak kut teh soup with rice and you seems don't have any problem eating it. Earlier we afraid yoy may not like it due to the herb smell.

After lunch, we went to PWTC for the fair. DANG!! Kids are not allow to enter the exhibition hall. So end up mummy stayed accompany you while the rest went to have a first round survey. So what did we do? First i let you explore and mess up with the exhibition items at the main hall, then when you get bored with those items, we were going up and down from the escalator for don't know how many times, until i lost count.


And Thank god, you saw few kids playing at the waiting hall and you went to join them, else mummy will need to send SOS signal to daddy as i cannot cope with you. I need to carry a backpack with all your stuffs and at the same time bring you up and down the escalator. At the same time, mummy is so clumsy with the big tummy.

Finally, and for the first time, i managed to make you stand still and let me take your pic. How i did it? Mummy told you to walk backward til i asked you to stop. And you are very coperative, as recently, you like to walk backward, haha!

Daddy and the rest came out from the exhibition hall around 6pm, so means, me and you has been wondering around the place for almost 2 hrs. We went back to the service apt for shower before having our dinner somewhere at Pudu area.

You keep asking us to go out after you had your bath. So, no choice, must follow your instruction, so we left at 7pm and man...the traffic quite bad, everywhere jam! Finally we reached the Sek Yuen restaurant at Jalan Pudu around 8pm. We ordered duck, veggie, meat and of course your tou fu and soup! Toufu and soup is your favourite no matter where we are having our meal. You enjoy it so much despite u had 5 oz of milk in the car on our way out for dinner.

After dinner, what's next? Uncle James brought you to KLCC to see the nice water fountain.
You were so excited seeing the water fountain. However, after a while, you feel bored with the fountain and decided to run around. So we gotta chase after you.

And..oh ou..it's 10pm, time for us to make a move as it's way past your usual bed time.


As soon as we reached the service apt, we changed for you and within few minutes, you were in your lala-land. That's all for Day 1.

Day 2 in toddler class

Today is you day #2 in toddler class. You seems a bit better than first day.

And mummy still continue receive sms update from Ms Goh and teacher Margeret. Well, even though i know they will update me your progress, however, mummy still leave the class room with heavy heart, keep thinking what are you doing now. Do you take your morning break, do u have ur lunch, do you take ur nap, how are u doing in the class.........

And i can't wait to see you after work!

Day 1 in toddler class

One day after you turned 21 months, daddy and mummy had a serious discussion and the conclusion is, we will move you to toddler class starting today. So today, 2 days after you turn 21 months, you are officially part of the kids in the toddler class.

In fact, we wanted to send you to toddler class in Jun, however, after thorough discussion with Ms Goh and uncle James, we decided to let you stay in baby class til end of this year when all the 3 yrs old kids moved to another class. And recently, since they are moving to another new building and combining baby class with toddler class (baby upstairs and toddler downstairs) and at the same time, they moved all the 3 yrs old kids to another building, so left all those 2 yrs old toddler in the toddler class. So it's time for us to make a move.

The toddler class started at the new building on Monday, and Ms Goh and uncle James brought you to the toddler class for few hrs trial and you seems enjoying yourself there very very much. At the same time, teacher Miena is there and you kinda close to her as she used to take care you in baby class. As for teacher Margeret, she isn't any stranger to you as everytime when you sees her, you will call her "teacher Margeret"

This morning, we wake up earlier a bit as we need to accompany you few more mins at the new place, as soon as we reached the new place, we were greeted by teacher Grace, teacher Margeret and teacher Miena. To our surprise, you let teacher Margeret carry you into the class. Teacher Margeret turn on the music for you and you told her "o Mcnona" when she told u she's playing the "Old Mcdonald" song for you. You then keep saying "EIEIO." After a while, here come Ms Goh and uncle James, as soon as you see them, you started to walk around exploring the new place. Daddy and mummy left to work after we say bye bye with you. And you even wave with mummy.

Even though you do not show any sign of missing us , however, mummy still walk out the place with heavy heart, keep thinking what you will do when Ms Goh and uncle James leave the place, will you be able to cope with the new environment, will you cry when u misses daddy and mummy Ms Goh and Uncle James, as Ms Goh and Uncle James usually will "kidnap" you from baby class and bring you to their house 2 times per day.

Well, guess what...all my worries gone with the wind when i received a sms message from Ms Goh updating me with your progress. Besides, teacher Margeret also sms mummy to update me with your progress. Today's menu for toddler is wan tan mee with soup. Earlier, they afraid you may not like it, so they get Mdm Chuach to include your portion while cooking porridge for baby class. However, you love the wan tan mee soooo much, so you didn't take any porridge. Sms keep coming into mummy's inbox updating me your progress, you do cry for a while looking for uncle James and Ms Goh, however, teacher Margeret able to calm you down.

My last sms from teacher Margeret is, you are sleeping now. You just finish half of the milk before taking your afternoon nap, i guess your stomach being filled up with wan tan mee, no more space for your favourite milk.

Daddy and mummy are so proud of you, good job and well done, sweetie!

Happy 21 Months, sweetie!

On the day before you turn 21 months, we brought you for hair cut..and oops, we ter-cut your hair too short. Mummy feel so bad and daddy keep assuring both of us that you look cool. And in fact, you look cheekier after the hair cut. This is what daddy mummy gave you the day before you turn 21 months, hope you won't angry with us for cutting your hair soooo short.

Something about you at 21 months,
Vital stats:
Weight: around 12 kg
Height : around 81 cm, i think so.
Teeth : a lot, unable to count it as you won't open your mouth and let mummy do the counting

Development:
**Able to tell your name when people ask, "what is your name?", you will reply saying "Kelvin", but sometimes the word Kelvin sounds like "Kevin","Kelbin"

**Pick up new words and able to form a simple sentense, for eg, u can says "ke ke jie jie sit motobike","ke ke jie jie go pyground (playground)"

**Able to recognise the logo of most of the patrol station

**Able to count from 1 to 10

**Able to tell the alphabet with simple word, when you are in the mood, you will be able to tell me what is a for apple until z for zoo. But if you are in playful mood, you will stop telling me no matter how i coax you.

**Love windmill very very very very much!

**Like to imitate people, like how an old man walking, how daddy shave, how mummy put on make up etc

**Able to do self feeding pretty good

**Almost potty trained. When we are at home, mummy will let you diaperless and bring you to toilet almost every 15 ~ 20 minutes. If mummy forget to do so, sometimes you will remind me and sometimes you will just wee on your pants then give me a cheeky look telling me you wee-ed! You love going to toilet for wee wee, why? Because you get the flush the water after that!

**Previously mummy need to sing song, pat your bum bum, do many rounds of story telling......Yippie, nowadays no need much effort, you will sleep by yourself after taking your milk before bedtime. However, you still need mummy to sleep beside you, then only you will willing to go into your dreamland. Daddy always tease mummy saying that you love my smell.



Eating:
**You are eating like a small adult. However, mummy still kinda restricting you from taking the real adult food. No fried thing, avoiding yellow noodle

**You love biscuit very much! Before this, your favourite is bread.

**Latest record : one chee cheong fun + one bowl of taufu fa all by yourself! Cool!

Baby #2

I realised that i did not blog anything about you, baby #2, hmm, feel a bit guilty. But well, i didn't blog anything about your brother during my first pregnancy until your brother, baby Kelvin, is born.

Now, you are 22 weeks, and i can feel the movement very very much. Initially, mummy kinda worry how come i still can't feel the movement during week 16,17 and 18...and finally, you strated to move more and more towards end of weel 18. Dr Ng told mummy not to worry so much about the movement, and very soon i will be able to feel it. And yes, after the visit, i really started to feel the movement. And now, the movement is more and more and more be it day or night. Sometimes, middle of the nite, mummy woke up due to you rmovement, i guess could be mummy's sleeping position make u uneasy, so u turn urself in the womb, hahaha!

Til now, i only have limited choices of Christian name for you, well, i shortlisted these name when mummy look for name for your brother. As for chinese name, yet to think of it. Probably will wait til the day you are born, then only we start to think of chinese name. Like your brother's case, we decided on his chinese name on the day before the last day of free registration, after the 14 days period , we will need to pay certain amount of money for registration.

Time flies, in another 18 weeks time, mummy will be able to hold you in my arm. Once,I read an article, it says,

"no one is being born as mummy,

a mummy is born together with the baby"