CNY eve

This is first time I am exposing the kids to firecrackers and “pop pop” during CNY. We never thought of getting the kids all these thing until Angeline told me she’s looking for pop pop for Evan. I saw a stall selling all these CNY firecrackers nearby my house and I offered to get her some since she has hard time finding it. At the same time, I decided to get some for Kelvin and Kaitlyn.

On CNY eve, after reunion dinner, we rest for a while then went to the backyard and play with the kids. 2 of them a bit scared when we introduced pop pop to them. And they even more scared when we introduced fire crackers to them, LOL! But I keep asking them to hold on the firecrackers and have a feel of holding it, ** I am so bad huh** and after a while, since we see the 2 kids don’t seems enjoy the fire crackers, so we decided to circle the plants and light up the fire crackers.

Both kids enjoy playing the "pop pop" and they even try to step on it instead of throwing it on the floor. We have lots of fun and i enjoy seeing them playing and experiencing CNY atmosphere. This is what i usually will do when i was small, playing with cousins during CNY eve and stay late as old wives tales said, by doing so, your parents will have longevity life.

Let's Party!

We are being invited to attend Sean’s big one at Hardwick House - BBQ and buffet Restaurant. On the day, we let mei mei take a short morning nap and wake her up around 1130am and we all set to go for the party!

We arrived the restaurant close to 1230pm and mummy thought we are late, however, when daddy parked the car, I saw Aunty Angeline’s car coming in. Means, we are the only guests that are late.

Aunty Wooi Sin is so thoughtful. She had a special arrangement for parents with kids. We are being seated at first floors with bigger space for kids to run around. As soon as we step into the dining area, you were attracted by the balloons. We sat together with aunty Angeline, uncle Ben and Evan. Mummy quickly get you some food before you get carried away by the balloons. I saw spaghetti on the buffet line and quickly get some for you as you love spagetthi very very very very much. And to my surprise, mei mei also learn how to eat spaghetti on that day! Another milestone for her! Big clap, Kaitlyn!

All of us enjoyed our food. Aunty Wooi Sin also engaged with a clown for the party. We being told to be there early so that all kids being fully fed before the clown come. LOL! As soon as the clown step into the dining area, she’s the central of attention for all kids. All kids rushed to her asking for this and that balloons. You asked for sword and Kaitlyn has a flower balloon. You were half fed and you kept back and forth for your food. Well, as long as you are eating, then I am ok, because I know I can’t kept you seated on the chair with so many kids running around. And furthermore, you have your dear little sister to run around with you.

At last, it’s time for cake cutting. The poor little birthday boy cried for a while when aunty Wooi Sin want to carry him. Maybe he’s exhausted greeting so many aunties, uncles, k ekes, jie jies. But very fast, little Sean boy turn to smiling face and happily let aunty Wooi Sin carried him and enjoy the birthday song from all of us. So, after eating birthday cake, what’s next? Time to go home as it’s about nap time for both of you and mummy needs to go for aerobic class with aunty Angeline at 4pm. Need to work out after eating.

Koraoke kids

Recently, Kelvin goes crazy with the song from the Taiwan hokkien movie, Lau Pek Woon in Astro Channel 333. Everytime when he was busy playing around in the house, as soon as he hear the music from this movie, he will rush to the TV, hold on to the mic and start to sing along.And lately i noticed that not only Kelvin loves to sing along with the movie, my little sweetie pie Kaitlyn also goea crazy with the same song. And to my surprise, she's able to sing few of the last word of some sentences. I guess she must be seeing the brother do so, and she also join into the craziness. Sometimes both of them will fight for the mic and i will have to coax Kaitlyn to let Kelvin holds to the mic and get her to dance while the brother is singing. LOL!

Where is my little boy?

I need to jot this down.....my little boy is becoming big boy.

Ever since started on 7th Jan 2010, you decided to be independent. This decision really make all of us (mummy, teacher Siti, Ms Goh) shocked. But, mummy really feel proud of you.

I still can remember, on 4th Jan 2010, teacher Siti need to attend to her daughter as it's her first day at school, and for you, it's not your first day at school, but you decided to be naughty. You want teacher Siti to pat you to sleep and doesn't allow other teachers to attend to you. This give everyone so inconvenient. Ms Goh even went over to the school, try to pat you to sleep, buy failed. So, on the next day, Ms Goh and teacher Siti had a meeting, the decision is, they will not further spoilt you, they want to be firm to you, drawing the line with you and tell you what is YES, and what is NO. To our surprise, without any struggling, you follow the new way, which is, sleep by your own, eat by your own and also allow other teachers to attend to you.

Until today, you well behave in school, very independent. Good job, my boy!

Another big achievement is, you wean off from bottle at school. Mummy and teacher Siti had a long discussion before on how to wean you off from bottle, and mummy really have hard time to wean you off because i can't stand seeing you forcing yourself to drink from the cup, so mummy actually give up and i kept comforting myself by telling me, you will wean off from bottle when you are ready. And on Sunday, 10th Jan, through our me and you chit chat session on our way back from Tesco, you told me that you drink milk from cup in the school. At first mummy thought that you are trying to comfort me, but it's a truth that i am so happy to know about it. I confirmed with teacher Siti, YES, you finally wean off from bottle in school. However, mummy still let you drink milk from bottle at night, i will need to slowly wean you off from bottle completely.

Nowadays, you don't need any of us to tug you to bed, you will just ask for a short bed time story, then you will doze off by yourself. Sometimes when i talk to you, you will remind me that you are bvig boy; and sometimes you even reject my offer to help you with certain task. You don't need me to bring you to toilet, you will go toilet by yourself then only informing me that you went to toilet. And today, which mummy was busy attending to mei mei, suddenly i saw you standing beside me, you were sitting on the booster seat having your pasta and mummy told you that i will bring you down from the booster seat after attending to mei mei. Guess what, you told me that you are big boy, you can do it yourself and you even showed me how you did it.

Suddenly...i feel i miss you so much. I misses the little you, the way you crawl; they way you walk; the way you talk; the way you smile.....you seems to be very independent and grow up a lot over night. Independent is something i wish you can have it, but now, when you slowly getting more and more independent, mummy started to miss the little boy of mine who always "koala" to me at night.

What a day! Poor little girl

Today, when mummy picked up you, teacher Margaret told me that you were bitten by your classmate AGAIN! Yes AGAIN, in less than 3 WEEKS time you get bitten TWICE by the SAME GIRL!!!

The first bite was 3 weeks ago and according to child minder and teacher Margaret, after you were bitten, you didn't cry, so none of the child minder aware of this until they shower you. So ok, i let go...and since child minder said not sure who bite you. But between teacher Margaret and mummy, i'm being told who is the suspect. Case Closed!

Today, when i picked you up, teacher Margeret showed me your arm, a BIG teeth mark. And she told me she applied the first aid cream for you as soon as you cried. Geez, after the first aid cream, the mark is still so obviuos, i guess it must be very painful at the moment she bite you. I have no clue why this girl keep picking on you. When daddy sees the big teeth mark, he was so upset and he said he wants to pull all of the girl's mom's teeth away as a punishment on her because her girl bite you. LOL! Well, i also share the same thought that we should do something back, because while teacher Margaret was talking to me, the girl's mom came to pick her up and teacher Margaret show her your hand, she was like "oh,my girl bite you..." And it seems to be a normal thing to her.. DUH!! WHAT IS THIS!! If i bite your girl, will you still smile with me that way. This make me even anger and want to ask for a solution and put this a stop. (If you are me, what will you do?)

I brought you to Ms Goh house as usual, and daddy showed Ms Goh and Uncle James the big teeth mark and told them this is not acceptable. Later we showed to por por and she also said this is way too much. I guess everyone is indirectly giving pressure to Ms Goh to have a stop on this.

On our way back, mummy called up teacher Margaret and told her what i feel, which is this is NOT ACCEPTABLE. A bite from the same person in less than 3 weeks time. This is horrible. And teacher Margaret assure mummy that she will work with the child minder and have a solution on this. Hopefully they will find a solution and prevention.

Will see what teacher Margeret will update me later today when i pick you up.

Little Chatterbox

At 14 mths, you are able to speak to us using some simple word and of course mix with your own baby language and hand sign. Mummy has no clue where you learn the hand sign from as i never show you any, maybe you learn it from teacher and child minder in the nursery.

**this is your favourite facial expression when you want to request something from us **

The way you call our family members:-
Da Da – daddy (sometimes you will call daddy but most of the time you will call da da and give us the cheeky smile)
Meh meeeeee – Mummy (sometimes you will cal maaaa, mee mee, mah mee, but most of the time you like to call me meh meeee)
Kheh – keh keh
Ah Ta – Eldest ee poh
Kheng – Ah Kong
Ah Mah- Grandma

Word that only mummy understand and need to translater on behalf of you when you talk with others:-
Wah weh- flower
Wow wow- dog
li zet – lizard
mum mum – eat
nen nen – milk or water
jhei – chair

Word that we can understand:-
walk walk
kai kai – go shopping
sit
bye bye
Cat

Christmas Party 2009

Today the kids’ school has Xmas party. Kaitlyn suppose to take her evening nap, but we don’t want her to being left out from attending the party, so we take the risk of bringing her along and I keep my fingers crossed that she will not make noise and hope we can stay til the end of the party…..and everything turn out to be perfect!

We reached the party around 7:10pm,and there isn’t many ppl, even though the party suppose to start by 7pm. This is typical Malaysian style, when we say party start at 7pm, people will only arrive 30 mins later. Well, last year, we reached the school before 7pm and we are the first one arrived there, so this yr, we a bit late. Kelvin start to wondering around to look for his friend, but no luck. None of his friends arrived yet. I passed the jelly and the present that we brought along for gift exchange to teachers and by the way, it’s a potluck Xmas party, so each family will bring some food. And together with the jelly, I passed Kaitlyn to teacher Margaret. Oops….did I mention that I passed my little princess to someone else LOL! She happily let teacher Margaret carry her and I get to get myself freshen up a bit before the party. I walked around with Kelvin, accompany him to play slide and after a while when I wanted to look for my little princess, she’s with Ms Goh. She’s so adorable and anyone who see her also want to carry her…(oh..this mummy so thick face!) Soon, more and more people coming in, so I gotta keep my eyes close to Kelvin afraid he may out of my sight.

Around 745pm, party start with eating party! So hub get us some food and I brought along Kaitlyn’s milk but this little girl, she refuse to take her milk, instead she wants to eat the food that we are having. So I gave her some bread and she enjoy the plain bread very much. Kid..kid..kid, so easy to feel happy! Around 8pm, the real party start with performance. While the 6 yrs old dancing, Kaitlyn also want to join them. But I told her to finish up her milk before she can join them, and while drinking her milk, she looks at the dancing. And where is Kelvin. Oh…..one of his friend’s parents help us to look after him as he was busy playing with the other friend, Shaneeka. But well, if you think that me and hub taking care of Kaitlyn is easy task, then u r wrong! This little girl of mine, as soon as she finished her milk, she insisted me to let he get down and when I asked whether she want to go dance, she nodded her head and before I can say anything, she walked towards the elder kids.

And I have to keep squatting beside her, cannot stand up, else later I blocked others although I am not very tall , everyone sitting on the chair ! Kelvin also joining the elder kids and he basically mess up the show as he created his own dance, **slapped forehead**

Between the dance performance, there is some games and our family being “invited” to one of the game. Why? Because Kelvin was holding balloon during the musical balloon game and hub get invited to the “punishment” session, so he gets to dance with Kelvin with others families. For this yr, our little boy want to participate in almost all games, and the next game that Kelvin make hub participate is the action game. (When music start every dance, and once music stop, need to stay in whatever position that you are in.)
And I tell you what…Kelvin is the first one get disqualified from the game, why? Coz when the music stop, he managed to hold on with his action, but he can’t stop himself from laughing, LOL! But he can still participate in the entire game and how the judge who get disaualified? Those who get disqualified will get a pencil…so at the end of the game, the judge will ask the kids to show their pencil, this is actually a trick..which means, the kids without pencil are winner…and u know what, as soon as Kelvin and other kids sees the judge giving different present to those kids without pencil, they keep chasing the judge and Kelvin even tells the judge “hey, I got pencil, where is my present” we all really had good laugh at those kids reaction.

And what is Kaitlyn doing ? she’s busy dancing when the music start and no fuss from her at all. I bet she’s gonna be party kaki next time! After long waiting, finally it’s Kelvin’s performance time. I didn’t know what he’s performing. But this little boy just go and disturb people, he dance half way and again created their own dance with his friends. LOL! Finally, it’s Xmas song time! Kelvin get to grab the mic and sing few sentences from few xmas song. To my surprise, he knows those song better than I do!

Same as last yr, we will have a short walk with Santa along the street. Kelvin so excited and so does Kaitlyn. I carried her and she keep pointing at Santa, directing me to chase after Santa for her. And lastly, it’s gift exchange time and each kids line up to collect their present from teacher. The door is so small and it’s so crowded with people getting in and out to the living room. It’s something like mega sales scenario, LOL!

Last yr,Kelvin got a stationary set and this yr, he got a small phone and meanwhile Kaitlyn got a plastic flipped book. Kinda suitable for both of them. But frankly, I will never thought of getting such a toy phone for Kelvin, coz it looks a bit “odd” to me. But he’s so excited with the phone. Kid is kid, can get happy over a small toy. This really make me think, why do we as parents crack our head to think whether should we get them Fisher Price or v Tech toy….u see, a simple toy can make their day, some more they will just go crazy with the toy for few days, so what for spending so much to get them expensive toy and few days later, the toy will be sitting in store room.