The Weekend Has Started

Yup, as Saturday is a public holiday, we get Monday off as a replacement holiday. And since we have 2 days of leave to clear for this month, daddy and I decided to take today off also. So what did we do. I was hoping for a lazy morning, but you woke up at your usual time, a little past 8a.m.. Sigh.. so after a while we went outside for breakfast while daddy slept on. Later on daddy woke up to join us and he had to dial into work for a quick meeting.

After that, we all got ready and off we went. I was hoping to eat lunch at the Bangkok Lane coffee shop, but it was closed! So we headed to Gurney Plaza for lunch and a little retail therapy. Halfway through your sandals gave way. Daddy had to carry you while we got the cobbler to fix your sandals. In the meantime, daddy's arms were about to give way so we headed to Parkson to buy you a new pair of sandals. They sure have a "wide" variety of sandals. In the end, we decided to buy you a new pair of shoes seeing your old pair is getting tighter and (hopefully) you'll be starting school soon.

After an hour, we headed to the basement where the cobbler is located and did a little shopping in Cold Storage before picking up your sandals. Boy, he sure has good business. We had to wait a while more before your sandals were ready. Before we left you insisted on a donut. Ok, we bought your donut, paid for the parking and home we headed. It was already 4p.m. by then. Way pass your nap time.

Went home and you insisted on eating your donut before napping. You turned on the TV and that was the end of your nap. The person taking a nap in the end was me! Hehe.. yup, I dozed off while you watched Tigger & Pooh, Higgly Town Heroes and woke up in the middle of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!

I went for a swim without you today. You'd been telling me that you wanted to go swimming for the whole week, but now that we could go, you decided that you wanted to watch Pocoyo! Sigh.. the allure of TV is stronger than swimming.

After dinner we watched a little TV before I finally got you to go to the room. It was close to 10p.m. before lights were out and you had a lot to say still before finally dozing off.

What a busy day we had and I'm so happy that I've got another 3 days off to spend with you still...

Sleep Deprived

I feel so groggy and drowsy and I type this post. And I also feel really jealous as I know you are fast asleep on my bed now too! Ah Ma called to tell me that after you got back from lunch (you went out for lunch with Ah Kong and Ah Ma) you went into the room, telling Ah Ma that you were really tired and by 2.30p.m. you'd already fallen asleep.

So how come you napped so early AND willingly today? It's because you woke up very early. I think around 6.35a.m.. Don't know why you woke up so early. I tried to ignore you, but you decided to sleep on me and when my alarm clock rang, you jumped right out of your skin (yup, it's really loud). And the moment you realised that I was awake, I got a "Morning mummy" followed by "I want to bathe now". At 7a.m.!

So I was super busy this morning, giving you a bath, getting ready myself, making and feeding you breakfast, eating my own breakfast. Good thing when I left this morning, you were already in a good mood, so you happily said "Bye" and gave a big hug to both of us and let us go to work with no fuss.

Oh, how I wish I was back home, taking a nap in my bed too.... Sigh.

Dinner with Friends

A few friends at work had planned to gather for dinner for a while. Everytime we come up with a day, something happens that caused the plan to be postponed. At long last, we managed to have our buffet dinner gathering yesterday at E&O Hotel's Sarkies Corner.

Daddy had a meeting that ended late and luckily Ah Ma had helped me to bathe and dress you and so you were ready and waiting for me when I reached home. Down we headed to the car where daddy was waiting for us. We arrived a little later than everyone else. Jing Ee and Brettany were already enjoying their dinner. You were given the "Chairman's" seat at the head of the table with a very large high chair. It was too high and so we had to get it changed for you. So after settling down, you started to enjoy dinner. You ate sausages, wedges, pasta, prawn crackers, poppadoms and prawn fritters.

After that you had to er.. make a "deposit" and we continued with desserts. What did you want? Ice-cream, of course. You specifically wanted the pink one and also wanted me to add hundreds and thousands to your ice-cream. Halfway through your ice-cream, you told me that you'd finished the hundreds and thousands and asked for more. So we added that and also raisins.

Aunty Asher tried to take some pictures (taking pictures of 3 kiddies is no simple task).

With Jing Ee

And before we left, the chef even gave the 3 of you lollipops. Before everyone went home, we managed to get a group photo (almost anyway).

I noticed that you were not too keen on playing with the other kids. I was not even allowed to hold other children (uh oh!!). But before we left you warmed up (too late) and gave Jing Ee a kiss and hug before we got into daddy's car.

Mr. Clean

Ee-ee mentioned to me that the last time we were back in BM you seemed to be very particular on cleanliness. She's brought you out to feed Grampy's fish. So some fish feed were put in your hands and immediately after throwing the food into the pond, you insisted that you wanted to wash your hands!

This cleanliness obsession is very apparent. A little bit of water on your shirt and you insist on changing. You need to wash your hands after touching anything that is a little messy. Right after you come back from cycling you'll insist on taking a bath immediately.

So what happened when we wanted to go swimming yesterday? Swimming has been something that we all look forward to when the weekend comes. Daddy and Ah Kong were off for an afternoon round of golf. So it was just the two of us. Kakak told me that there were some leaves in the pool, but I gave it little thought as we headed to the pool yesterday evening. Ah Ma had also mentioned that it was very windy the night before.

But the sight that met us in the pool... Sigh.. as the wind blew the leaves all got stuck to the corners of the pool. The wading pool (which we don't use) was full of leaves. The moment you notices the leaves... you stopped dead in your tracks and refused to budge. Any amount of persuasion could not get you to jump into the pool. There was one corner which had fewer leaves, but NO.. you refused to swim. What to do? We had to take an about turn and went upstairs again, abandoning our plans.

Too many leaves in the pool ruined our plans. Actually come to think of it, the pool wasn't too clean since there was some debris that blew in from the construction next door.

Then again, I guess there is nothing wrong with preferring to be clean. So there will be less chance of me seeing you all covered in dirt.. unlike someone I know.

A Weekend of Celebrations Part 3

By the time I woke up from our nap, your 3 Kor-kors were almost ready for dinner. And it wasn't even 5pm yet! I quietly sneaked out to iron our clothes that we were going to wear for the dinner. Shortly after that you and daddy woke up. We went down to chat for a while then we had to "queue" up for the bathroom. There were a lot of people still waiting to use the bathroom before and after you. I was the last to use the bathroom and we were the last family to leave the house for the hotel!

Your Kor-kors were already there as they were to show people the seating location in the dining hall. Corsages were ready for us all and um.. they forgot to make one for you. You got a bit upset and kept asking for your flower, but when I wanted to give you mine or daddy's you didn't want it.

While daddy was busy snapping pictures (he was even mistaken to be a photographer!), we walked around and we also went to ensure that there was a high chair for you at our table. Dinner started just before 8 pm. You didn't eat much for dinner. Surprisingly you weren't even interested in the fish. Before the celebrations ended, 5th Chim Poh, 2nd Pek Kong and Chim Poh's friend went up to sing a few songs. You saw bubbles on the stage and wanted to climb onto the stage. After the dinner was over, we went onto the stage but they'd turned off the bubbles by then. We took a few pictures before heading home.

Milk was given to you since you ate so little before we went up. As usual, you protested that you didn't want to sleep yet but fell asleep shortly after that.

A Weekend of Celebrations Part 2

I was wondering what time you'd wake up on Saturday since you had missed your nap and slept so late on Friday night. Hhm.. you woke up at 8am! We left your sleeping daddy and Yvonne Kor-kor in the room and went down for breakfast. Managed to give you a bath before everyone else woke up. They all had to get ready, especially daddy who was going with the groom to pick up his bride.

Snappily snap daddy was taking pictures the whole day. They went off for a long time to the hotel and so at 11am we all had our lunch first. And halfway through lunch we heard the cars honking, indicating that the bridal entourage was arriving! What to do? You were supposed to open the door for the bride, so I had to put your lunch and drink under the food cover and rush off to put your shoes on for you before the car drove into the driveway.

We had to wait a while as daddy parked his car and rushed out to take pictures of you opening the door and getting your ang pow. After all the excitement, we went back to finish off your lunch and then shortly after that it was time for you to collect ang pow again from the bride.

The day ceremony was finished with a family photograph. And that was not an easy task with so many people involved. Everyone had to get a place and try to be as visible as possible.

After that we went upstairs to take a look at the pictures that daddy had taken then we all took a nap. I had to tell you that if you didn't take a nap, you'll get to stay at home all alone while we go out for dinner! Hehe.. I didn't a grumpy boy for dinner. And soon, the 3 of us KO-ed.

A Weekend of Celebrations Part 1

The weekend started earlier for us. On Friday, we took the last day of leave that we needed to clear for for month of June. We planned to leave for Ipoh after breakfast but in the end, we had to delay our trip because we were expecting the plumber and Ah Ma could not be home to wait for him. So after breakfast we lazed around and then daddy gave you a shower while I cooked lunch. Er.. it's more like popped 2 ready made pies into the oven and made a simple pasta dish (which was supposed to be mac n cheese) which also went into the oven after it was cooked. Thankfully you liked lunch and so did daddy. Later on Ah Kong came back followed by Ah Ma.

Finally we got to start our journey and it was already 2.00p.m.. But of course before we got the the Penang bridge we had to feed daddy's car and off we went. We thought that leaving around your nap time would be good, but you had other things in mind. You wanted a sweet, you wanted to drink milk (because you spotted the small box of milk that Ah Ma had packed for you) then you kept quiet and watched the scenery go by. Then.. you needed to wee wee.. and we'd just passed a stop. Daddy had to step on it and the next stop soon arrived.. and it was CLOSED! So daddy had to continue and we reached the Alor Pongsu rest area. Luckily you managed to hold your wee wee till we reached there. I was still hoping that you'd take a nap, but you stayed awake enjoying the tunnel and asking MANY questions until we arrived in the Ipoh house.

With so many people already in the house, you were very excited but needed time to warm up. You refused to call anyone and when Hailey came, you refused to play with her. Later on you sat outside and let your many kor-kor's keep you entertained while I helped Su Kor-kor. Here you are playing on the swing:

Hailey

Dinner was a wonderful variety of dished prepared by your Kor Pohs and Chim Pohs and I don't know who else. There were so many people around to celebrate the wedding eve with your Ah Pek and soon-to-be Ah Mm:

All the flowers for the day were prepared by Kor Poh and Joanne Kor-kor. Look at the bridal car:

Ok, I'm getting bad at predicting what will happen. I kept thinking you'd go to sleep early. At 10pm you said that you wanted to go to sleep. At 11.55pm, you were still awake, insisting (and sobbing) that you wanted to kiss/hug/play with everyone downstairs. At 12midnight you were dead asleep!

And soon the whole house was quiet in anticipation of this:

A Day for Celebrations

It's Father's day tomorrow and we headed back to BM today to celebrate Father's day with Grampy. On top of that, we have another celebration. It's 4th Ee-Poh's birthday too. Want to know how old she is? Take a guess...

Of course by the time we woke up, lazed around and got ready to leave it was past 11.00am. We had to stop by Sunflower Cake House (which is next door) to pick up Ee-Poh's favourite chocolate mud cake before heading to BM. Ee-ee was waiting for us and although she lives in BM, we somehow arrived in Nanna's house before she did (actually, she got sidetracked playing some game!). Nanna was not home as she'd gone out with 4th Ee-Poh to order the food we were having for dinner. So in the end we headed out to have the famous BM yam rice.
Whew.. what a wait, but it was worth it! It was soooo yummy. You finished almost half a bowl of rice and ate some meat balls and of course drank quite a lot of soup! In the end Nanna didn't join us as she was caught in a traffic jam. After lunch, daddy dropped the 3 of us (you, ee-ee and mummy) at Ah Chor's house. You had a good time playing with Jayden and 2nd Ee-Poh even gave you ice-cream.

We went home and I was hoping that you'd take a nap, but with all the excitement, you claimed not to be tired. We left for dinner after everyone was all dressed up. On the way to Juru Auto City, you were starting to doze off and I had to quickly talk to you and give you something to eat so that you'd stay awake. Otherwise, you might sleep right through like what you did last week (slept for 12 hours straight without eating dinner!).

Everyone else arrived as soon as we seated and that was when all the cameras were whipped out and we started taking pictures. Dinner was served shortly after that and after we'd finished out came the cameras again until it was cake and song time. For dinner we have 2 cakes: to celebrate 4th Ee-Poh's birthday and to celebrate Father's Day for Ah Chor. Here are some of the pictures from daddy's camera...

In front: 2 Ah Chors with Evan

Back: Ee-ee, 2nd Ee-Poh, Nanna, 4th Ee-Poh, Julian Ku-ku and Mummy

4th Ee-Poh, 4th Teo Kong and Julian Ku-ku

The 2 cakes

All excited with the cake that you even willingly sat on Ee-Poh's lap!

Ee-Poh giving you the best part of the cake.

And after that, we went home to Penang directly. Knowing that you were already so drowsy, I changed you into your PJs first. Of course you protested and in the end after changing, you sat chatting away in your carseat before there was no sound from you. You'd already gone to lala-land! And I guess you'll sleep till tomorrow morning.. not too early, I hope.

Wake up call

I was sleeping on daddy's side of the bed as he'd decided to sleep on your "Princess & the Pea bed". I diligently make that bed for you every night in hopes that you'll sleep there, but no go. You'll usually end up on my bed later in the night.

Well, it was rather warm last night, so daddy slept on your bed and I slept on his side which is cooler. Then in the morning, I felt you rolling your head on my body non-stop, rubbing here and there. Tried to ignore you and hope you'd go back to sleep, but you kept moving. I finally reached out to grab the clock to look at the time (it was only 6am). The moment you realised that I was awake, you looked at me and gave me the biggest grin ever. Told you to go back to sleep you you refused. In the end, I asked if you wanted to wee wee and you said that you did.

So off we went and to the toilet and you seemed to cheerful and alert when you were done with your business. You even said "I'm a good boy" as you ran to the bed. I kept thinking to myself how tired I'll be at work, since it was only 6am. But thank goodness, after a while you went back to sleep and I managed to sleep a little while more before going to work.