What will you say when he says so...

Today, as usual, after mummy get myself ready to work, i will pop into the room checking on both of you.

I see Kaitlyn still in her sweet dream but Kelvin is tossing here and there, so i lay beside him, tell him that i am going to work, and here is our conversation.

M: Vin boy, mummy going to work , bye
K: Why you need to go work?
M: If mummy don't go to work, mummy has no money. When mummy no money, then mummy cannot buy u toy.
K: **paused for a while** Mummy, i don't want toy. You don't go to work. You stay at home with me.
M: ** my turn to paused as i never expect such a respond from him, erm...think think think, what to respond back to him** Cannot, mummy need to work, remember, mummy promise want to buy you lots of toys, so you be good boy , let mummy go to work ok?
K: *think think think think for a while, and keep quiet**
M: ** continue to persuade him, else he will cry out loud then me and hubb will go crazy** ok or not, you good boy, mummy go to work, and daddy will send you and mei mei to school later, and mummy will get my work done fast fast and pick you up from school
K: ** with his boh kam muan tone** ok
M: bye boy. *kiss on his forehead**
K: bye mummy ** no kiss from him as he still very boh kam muan**

A sweet morning smile

This morning, after i get myself ready for work, as usual, i will walk into the room, peep on the 2 kids. And when i got into the room, both of them already wake up, Kelvin laze on the bed and Kaitlyn already at sitting position. And when Kaitlyn see me, she gave me a sweet smile and open her 2 arms signalling me to carry her. I feel so fresh and happy seeing her sweet smile.

Girl, you make my day!

Thumbs up to both of you and daddy

Today is a challenging day for daddy as he needs to drop both of you to school ALL BY HIMSELF. Why? As mummy has something new to do, so mummy don't get to send both of you to school together with daddy.

We tried to switch both of your sitting arrangement from last Monday, not very successful. Kaitlyn girl refuse to sit at the front and Kelvin boy refuse to sit at the back. Both want to sit at their original place. But daddy and mummy tried our best to coax both of you. Kelvin easier to convince as he's a very good boy, as for Kaitlyn, still too young to understand our explanation. And she will use her secret weapon to melt my hear, she will cry and call out "ma ma!" oh..how can i say no to her! So i give up and carry her to the back seat and hug my little girl tight. **my fault**

Every morning, as soon as i put Kaitlyn at the front seat, she will started to make noise, protest, and even we let her hold on some toys, she will throw the toys away and tried to release herself from the front car seat. Whereas for Kelvin, he's sitting at the backseat with me, reading his book or playing with his toy.

As day pass, i started to get worry as our plan don't seems to get work per what we expect. Well, later on, me and hubb decided to let it be and hubb will get to find way on the day...we believe, everything will be ok. Other than that, nothing else we can do what, LOL!

Today, i leave the house around 73oam, and send message to hubb around 8am, checking with him how's the situation at home. He told me as soon as i leave, the 2 kids wake up from sleep, and i send him another message around 830am, he told me he is ok with the 2 kids and both of them in school now.

Thumbs up to hubb and the 2 kids! I am so proud with 3 of you!

Happy Big ONE, Kaitlyn

Little princess is sick

Saturday morning, you wake up with a bit heaty feel. We continue to give you your normal morning bath as usual. However, your body gets warmer after 1 hour. So to play safe, we started to give you PCM. You don't seems to get bothered by the fever but you HATE taking medicine.

Daddy and mummy need to force the medicine into your mouth evry 4 hourly and sometimes you will force yourself to throw out. So every time, after we feed you medicine, we will pray that you will not throw out the medicine and food.

The whole of Saturday seems like a normal Saturday for you. The only additional event is medicine feeding session! LOL! And at night, while you are sleeping, it's easier to feed you medicine as you will not fight as aggressive as in the day time. Probably you want to sleep, so you let us do whtever we want. With just 2 or 3 times, daddy able to feed all the medicine into your mouth, but of course with some fighting from you.

On Sunday, the fever subsided, but your body still a bit warm, so we continue to feed you PCM, but this time, it's not 4 hourly. We started to drag it to 6 hourly. Still a active and cheeky girl, and gosh, everytime when you are heaty, you will develop rashes over your face. And one thing that mummy notice is, when ke ke is sick, he will have double eye lids, whereas for you, when you are sick, your double eye lids will go away and left you with single eye lid. LOL!

Suspect you are teeting, as you drool a lot recently. Also, you keep biting your own teeth. Speedy recovery, sweetie, so that we can go swimming! You swimsuit still hang in the closet without any opening ceremony from you.** Same for ke ke's swimsuit. **

You can stand unsupported!

Today, when mummy is feeding you porridge, you decided to be naughty. You climb out from the bumbo seat, and you tried to push the seat around. A while later, u found that it's pretty hard to push it around, you just stand behind the seat, and suddenly, you stand up and let go both of your hand. You able to stand unsupported for about 20 seconds. Everyone give you a big clap, and you repeated it for few times and we all continue to clap for you after each attempt. After few times, you get tired and you climbed into the seat and sit for short while and later out from the seat and become little puppy crawling on the floor. Poor mummy, i need to chase after you to feed you your porridge.

My chicken little

Me and hubb went upstairs and leaving Kelvin alone playing with his toy at the living room downstairs. Suddenly the "old newspaper" van drove pass our house and the driver was announcing "old newspaper" loudly over the speakers, and the next thing is, i heard Kelvin saying " What's that? Who is that" then followed by a loud cry!'

I quickly rolled rushed down from 2nd floor to ground floor, and i saw him and hubb at the middle of the staircase with his golf club, and he was crying like the sky is falling down on him. I quickly hug him and asked hubb to check at ground floor on what's happening. Hubb came back and told me it's just the old newspaper van pass by our house. **what a relief**

Managed to comfort him and make him stop crying. After that i "interviewed" him, asked him why he cry.
M: Boy, why u cry? I thought u used to hear the "old newspaper" announcement?
K: Me alone downstairs, i scared.
M: Don't worry, we locked the door, no one can come in to catch u, ok. And remember, you showed mummy your big muscles?
K: **nod his head*
M: ok, good boy, no more crying ok?
K: ok

After that, he's back to himself, playing and laughing happily again.

The Naughty Corner

I started to have a naughty chair for Kelvin when he's about 1 yr old, but the plan get called off, because not really successful. And the other factor is, i am carrying baby #2 at that time, so i don't have much energy to force him sit at naughty corner and lecture him.

Actually, i do not intend to set up any naughty corner for him, as Kelvin's style is, he needs someone to talk and explain nicely to him instead of punishment. But he's getting more and more misbehave until i need to bite my own tongue when seeing he's so naughty. In fact, i do asked him to hold his both ears and squat up and down for 10 times, but he only manage to do 4 times and i pity him and ask him to stop. As such, it's time to set up the naughty corner again as Kelvin is turning 3 and it's very crucial to tell him what is right and what is wrong. So on Saturday, i introduce him the naughty corner in our 1st floor family hall. And i told him, NO chair and NO toy at naughty corner. Both hand must out straight side by side.

The activity that trigger the opening ceremony of the naughty corner is, he kept putting his index finger into the mouth and bite his own shirt. I keep asking him don't don't don't until i lost count, so at night, i asked him go up to his naughty corner and stand there, and tell me what he had done wrongly. When i got up the the family hall, he's standing there, but he was holding the curtain, playing with the curtain. Don't care....i just want him to tell me what he had done wrongly. To my surprise, he can say out the 2 things that i want him to tell me. Ok , since he able to tell me what he did wrongly , so i just "lightly" lecturing him, tell him why i don't allow him to put fingers into the mouth and also why i don't like him biting the shirt. I really hope he can remember this and will not repeat it again.

I hope he wont be the regular customer to the naughty corner. Else, i need to find another way of punishment.

Birthday party at school

Mummy ordered another cake for you to celebrate your birthday on your real birth date in school. I used to order cup cakes for you since your first birthday, so no different in the arrangement. As giving cup cake is much easier than the whole big cake, teachers do not need to cut and distribute the cake to every kids, what they need to do is, just to give each kid a cup cake, that's it!

And since i got you Thomas gang birthday cake on last Saturday's party at home, so, for the party in school, mummy got you a Transformer cup cake. The cake house is so nice that they offer to deliver the cupcake to our house. When i show you the cake, you super excited and run around the house, keep telling everyone that you have a Transformer cake. You even want to carry the whole box of cup cake. of course mummy doesn't allow you to do so as i afraid you may drop the whole box of cake. However, there is a small hiccup on the cake, can any of you spot it?

The is beforeThis is after

Because mummy spoke to the lady through phone, and i guess she didn't get your name correctly, so your name being spelled as Kevin instead of Kelvin. When i spotted the error, i feel so upset as mummy quite particular with the name. It's like the end of the world for me, i feel so upset, dissapointed, feel that the whole thing seems to be so incomplete now. ** I know i know, it's just a small matter!** So for the whole night, i keep thinking on how to get it corectly, and viola, when i wake up on your real birthday date, i suddenly get an idea to shift the cup cake around and use a "paper" to create a letter L. I also remind teacher and put a small note on the cake box to remind them that the letter "L" is not edible, it's paper, LOL!

The night before, daddy gave uncle James and Ms Goh a call, telling them to be there for your birthday calebration.

When we drop you at school, you get so excited to tell teacher and your good buddy about the Transformer cake. The birthday party is during the morning tea break. Mummy wish i cam there to celebrate with you. I passed camera to teacher Margaret, (same arrangement as last yr), get her help to take some pics for mummy to see. Uncle James also brought along his camera and he took lots of pics of yours. As we can see from the picture above, you are holding the plastic knife cutting your birthday cake, and all of your friends are staring at the cake. I guess they must be waiting for you to distribute the cute little cup cake to them. Each of them has their own small bowl with them, waiting for your cake, and yet, you still enjoy admiring at your Transformer cake, LOL!

In the evening time, when mummy went to pick you up, teachers asked me where i get the cake and the feedback from them are,
a)the cake quite nice
b)the design is nice
c)size of the cake is just nice for the kids
Too bad, i can't tell how nice it is, as i don't get to eat any of them. Apprently, all the 56 cup cakes being finished up by all of you. I hope you enjoy the birthday celebration with your classmates.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Kelvin

Yummie bun

While Kelvin busy playing the shape sorter that i bought for Kaitlyn's birthday, my little princess is sitting beside him enjoying eating bun. She looks at how the brother play with the shape sorter while eating her bun.

Mid Autumn Lantern Party

The school organized a mid-autumn party together with the resident association where we stayed. I brought the 2 kids to the party. Kaitlyn still too young to know what is going on, but when I gave her a lantern, she kept holding it tightly. LOL! I guess she know it’s for her, so she hold it tight.

As for Kelvin, as I told him the party will be at the field, so when we want to bring him into the club house, he refuse to go in. He kept telling me he wants to go to the field.So lesson is, do not simply tell you kid something, else u will get yourself into trouble.
The weather is quite hot. But compare to last yr, this yr is much better. As last yr, it rains cats and dogs when we had the celebration. We started to have some light refreshment, follow by dance performance by the students.

The last even is walking around the field with lantern. I gotta carry Kaitlyn for the walk and we only walk ¼ of the field as Kelvin claimed he is tired and hungry.

We got home and let the kids take bread before tugging them to bed. I think these 2 days, they are exhausted with so many activities. And I hope they will enjoy themselves.

It's PARTY Time

Let's rock and roll! It's party time! It's my little boy's 3rd birthday and my little girl's BIG one birthday.

I ordred some food from the coffee shop nearly, and went to pick up the food, drop by 7-11 to buy ice to keep the drinks cold…and rushed home to wait for guests arrival. Angie and Evan reached around 7:20pm and I’m still busy walking front and back to get thing done. Angie helped me with the food arrangement.

Around 7:45pm, other guests come…..I didn’t invite lots of friends, only invite few. As my house not big…if I invite too many people, we will have trouble moving around the house. LOL! I invited 5 families and also my relatives. 5 families come with total of 9 adults and 8 kids. I bring out some of Kelvin’s toys for the kids to play with. Luckily there isn’t any big fight among the kids over toys.

We start the party around 8pm. I prepared fried bee hoon, rice, curry chicken, marmite pork, toufu, belacan chicken and some fruits. I love the curry chicken very much and i hope everyone love the curry chicken and other food too. All kids get to eat before their parents. All daddy, mummy busy filling up their kids stomach before filling their own, because hungry kids are very scary! LOL! We ate and chat and eat and chat.

We had the cake cutting around 9pm. Kelvin is so excited with it. Before everyone start to sing birthday song, he started the song himself.

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to Kelvin Kaitlyn,

Happy Birthday to you!!

And after we sang the song, I realized that we didn’t light up the candle, LOL! What a blur mummy. So we need to sing the birthday song again, and when it’s time to blow the candle, my little boy so excited! Since Kaitlyn still so small, she doesn’t know how to blow the candle, so Kelvin gets to blow the candle on behalf of Kaitlyn. As usual, after this, it’s cake eating time! Since we have 2 birthday cakes, so we distribute 2 cakes for each guests. *force them to help me to finish the cake** After this, we have another event, which is birthday egg distribution time. My little boy distributes the “red egg” to each kids.

After cake, it’s almost time to say bye bye as it’s almost each kids sleeping time. We do not have chance to open the present with all the guests so we only open the present at late night. Me and hub do some minor cleaning, make sure all unfinished fod get throw or keep properly and our birthday boy offers his help. The birthday girl is sleeping soundly in the room as the grandpa help me to tug her to bed. Else I wont be able to get the thing done.

Kelvin can’t wait to open his present no matter how I persuade him to open the present on the next day. He’s so happy seeing so many presents. I guess most kids love present, so do adult huh! Before the party, when I told him I’m going to have a birthday party for him, he told me he wants to invite his friends, have cake and present for party. I wonder where he learns this from. Maybe he used to have birthday party in school, so he gets the idea from there onwards.

Time flies! Next Wednesday, my little prince will turn 3 and in another 2 weeks time, my little princess will turn 1.

**As I am too busy with the party, I do not take much photos :( **