Happy Birthday, Brettany

Have been telling you that we're going for a party. So this morning you told Ah Kong that you were going for a party. When asked who's birthday party it was, you said "ME". Alamak!!

Daddy had left early for his usual golf. So, it was just us and Ah Kong and Ah Ma. Since Ah Kong had a golf game too, we headed back home before the party and when it was almost time, Ah Ma dropped us off at the Larut Road KFC. Before that, I had to keep telling you that the present was for mei-mei, but you insisted that it was for me. Sigh... Finally I had to tell you that you must give the present to Brettany mei-mei and Aunty Joey will give you another present! Phew that worked.

Upon arrival, we headed to wish the birthday girl a Happy Birthday as well as to pass the present to her (which you willingly did, thank goodness). You even wanted to give her a kiss!

Happy Birthday Brettany

We sat around to enjoy the KFC, you sat on the high chair enjoying the nuggets that I had cut up for you. But the moment you saw the fries, you only had eyes for that! Poor thing, Aunty Siew Hwa was holding the chippies and you watched the packet of fries intently. Finally mummy poured some for you and you ate those, ignoring the nuggets.

Soon, it was time to sing the birthday song, and we were treated to yummy chocolate cake.

Pocoyo Cake

Brettany and her Cake

Family picture

We left shortly after that. The location of our table wasn't very good. It was so so hot. You were sweating bullets!

Since daddy who was supposed to pick us up was not done with his game yet, Aunty Hooi Ling dropped us off at Gurney Plaza. What did we do there? I wanted to see if Uncle Wai Yin was there, but you told me that you were (s)cared of the loud sounds, so in the end we went up to pick a dress for mummy. I was tried 3 dresses and in the midst of trying the second dress, you turned to look at me (we were both in the fitting room) and told me "Bow (wow) mummy dancing". Haha.. so no points for guessing which dress I picked!

After roaming around a while more, daddy called and said he was almost reaching. On the way back, he told you to go to sleep, since it was pass your nap time, but you told him "NO". Next thing we knew, you'd fallen asleep!

Out on a Date

Daddy and I decided to take the whole day off as we had some errands to run. First thing in the morning, we decided to wait for you to wake up to get ready and off we went. Where to? The passport office to get my passport renewed. We initially planned to go early then go back to get you. But since you were already up, we took a leisurely breakfast, got ready before heading to town. My passport application was processed within 20 minutes.

While trying to decide where to go for breakfast, we passed the famous beef noodles shop opposite the fire station. Since it was early and there was no one else, we were considering whether to eat there or not. Decision was made instantly when we saw ample parking lots nearby. Daddy said "destined to eat there today". While waiting for the noodles to be ready, we had some toast and you enjoyed it. Better yet was the location of the coffee shop. So many buses drove pass that road. And today you were introduced to a new vehicle "Fire Engine". You preferred the noodles and soup and even the beef slices that I shared with you to the toast.

After that we headed to the condo to wait for the people to fix our shattered shower screen. We waited and waited and they didn't show up. Daddy called the shop and guess what? They we're delayed elsewhere. So what to do? We headed to Gurney Plaza for a little retail therapy lo.

We went back at 2.30pm as they said they'd be there. To our surprise, they were already waiting for us. While daddy watched them work on the shower screen, we had our snack of baguette that we'd just bought (since we didn't have lunch). I think you were hungry, after that, it was nap time for you. After the workmen left, we all took a nap.

What to have for dinner? We'd bought dinner to cook today from Cold storage. You were to have moi as well as one of the baked potatoes. This is what we had for dinner:

What is that? Black Angus steak (cooked by Chef Daddy) with baked potatoes, baguette and Wynns Coonawarra Carbernet Sauvignon. What was the occassion? It is our belated 4th anniversary dinner.

Since dinner was early, we freshen up and went off for some more retail therapy. Yay! After that we came home to play a while and then.. off to zzzzz land

A Day In Ipoh

It's been a while since we've been back to Ipoh. So we decided to make the trip back. After breakfast and getting ready,w e left the house at around 8.45a.m. We had to detour to pick up some ang koo kuih before heading towards Penang Bridge. You sat happily in your carseat all the way to Ipoh. Of course, we had to be subjected to your nursery rhymes CD all the way there. Sometimes, you even clapped your hands to the songs.

We arrived at the coffee shop to have breakfast before heading to the house. 5th Chek Kong and Chim Poh met us there to have breakfast together. What did we have? We had the "liu" (ie fishball, meat ball etc) and curry mee. You had beehoon soup as fishballs. And you loved it.

Ah Tai was at home waiting for you to arrive. We sat around and played a while. Chin Poh took you upstairs to see what Ashley Kor-kor had for you. After playing a while with the truck.. that was the end of it. The back portion could no longer stick to the front. Soon daddy, Ah Kong and Chek Kong went off for golf. What were we planning to do?

Chim Poh had a dinner to attend, so she wanted to have her hair set. So we followed her and the 3 of us went to look at all the boutiques there. Ah Ma even bought you a singlet with izzards on it.

After Chim Poh was done, we had some famous Ipoh White Coffee, while you had some toast. By the time we arrived home, you'd already fallen asleep. Oops.. a little past your nap time.

Dinner was "hor por char", consisting of veggies and more veggies with rice and soup. Obviously that was not something that you would eat. So Ah Ma cooked a dish of eggs and pork. We all ate our delicious dinner. After dinner, we sat around for a while before leaving for Penang.

Oh yeah, your Chim Poh and Chek Kong was in Melbourne recently. So they came back with some loot for you. Even your Natalie Kor-Kor and Jack Hou Chek-chek bought you something. On top of that, your SuKor-kor and Ashley Kor-kor got you a T-shirt when they went to Krabi too... look:

Apple.. Yummy!

Ah Ma reckons the apple looks super yummy from the way you are enjoying it. Do you think so?

Kakak Wati cuts one apple especially for you and even slices them to bite sizes. On top of that she will keep the apple outside as you do not like them to be too cold. By the time you have finished dinner, it is just right...

By the way, you now know to ask nicely for things:

Mummy : What do you say?

Evan : Peesh mummy apple?

After giving you the apple

Mummy : What do you say now?

Evan : Dank yu (Thank you)

Pronunciation and sequence of the words are not very good, but hey, you're learning new words and even manners, and we're very proud of you...

Welcome Back Ah Kong

Ah Kong was away travelling for the past 11 days. Where did he go? To Brazil and Mexico. He had to stop over and he bought you these in Houston. He said that your cap was getting too small and probably uncomfortable for you. So he got you this cap and a set of balls (football, soccer ball and basketball). You sure are lucky. He will always get you something whenever he goes travelling...

Happy Father's Day

We had a simple celebration today. 4th Ee Poh, Teo Kong, Julian Ku-ku, Ashley Ku-ku and Nanna were with us in the condo. Daddy left the condo early in the morning for his golf game. We slept in a little and you decided that it was time to wake up by 8 a.m.. I tried to pretend to sleep... but you found out that the easiest way to wake me up was to put your little finger into my nose! Sigh...

Breakfast was at the coffee shop opposite the condo and we went for a little shopping in Metrojaya before heading home for lunch. Mummy had cooked your fish moi-moi before heading for Metrojaya, so it was all ready by the time we arrived home. Daddy reached a while later and after lunch, our house guests headed back to BM. They were celebrating Father's Day with Chor-chor. 2nd and 3rd Ee Poh were also back from Australia.

We napped and you only woke up at 6.15p.m., so no time to go to Youth Park as planned. I guess we have to postpone it to next weekend. Ah Ma was cooking dinner. Ah Kong was not back from his trip yet, so it was only 4 of us. What was on the menu? Look:

Yup, it was Chicken Maryland complete with potatoes in parsley, corn, green peas and a fried banana. Yummy, eh? She sure is a good cook. She even made a cheesy gravy to add to the Chicken Maryland.

As always, here you are enjoying your dinner.

Happy Father's Day, Daddy.

P/S: We left daddy's card in the condo.. so no picture of the card with your "autograph"

Love of Cars

Most of your kor-kors know that you love cars. In fact, other than "Ma-ma" and "Da-da", "car" was one of the earliest words that you learnt. So I guess it came as no surprise that your kor-kors picked this car garage as your 2nd birthday present. Daddy, Su Kor-kor and mummy had stayed up to fix up the garage so that you could play with it first thing in the morning. And you were delighted when you so it. The cars will roll from the second floor to the bottom, and when it whooshes past certain points, it will make a "vrroooommmm" sound too! On top of that, there is a car wash that will make bubbly sounds when you "drive" the car through, a place to have your car fixed and also 2 petrol kiosks. The original garage only had 1 helicopter and your kor-kors added another 3 cars. Uncle Dennis added more cars along with a plane to "accompany" your helicopter on the helicopter pad!

These days, it's the one toy that you will play with everyday. Of course you have added your cars too. Some which are actually too big, along with a Double-Decker bus that Ah Kong bought for you when he went to Paris. And you would gleefully say "too big" but still force the cars and bus to go down the ramp. Cheeky little guy!!

See the bus?

You have even given some of the cars owners. Daddy has 2 sporty looking cars, Ah Ma drives a Land Rover, just like in real life and Ah Kong owns a red sporty car. Abby drives a cool looking truck. As for mummy.. sigh... I "own" a crummy pickup truck. Darn.. why can't I be the owner of one of those fancy cars???

Up till today, we have added another 6 cars to the original 8 cars, 1 helicopter and 1 plane. Last week Ah Ma added a van and another pick-up truck which had a motorcycle parked on the back. By the way, you can now say "moti-chai-ker" (that's motorcycle).

Pump "petol"

How Do We Undo This?

Picture credit

This is Danny & Daddy that shows on your favourite Playhouse Disney Channel. Lately it's been showing at around 7.50am, just before we go down for breakfast (on days when you wake up that early). Well, last week it was showing and guess what you said when the show started...

"Daddy shtupid"

Oh no!!! How do we undo this? I tried telling you that daddy is not stupid. But you only gave me a blank look. I've even stopped showing you the show. Everytime it came on, I'd change to another channel.

Initially we thought that you were referring only to the character.. but now you are referring to other things too! I don't think you really know what it means but I don't want you to use this word. How do we "un-teach" this word?

As for where you picked up this word... er.. it's between that person and me (and daddy) to know...

Weekend After the Fever

We were worried that you'd still be tired after the fever. In fact you'd napped for almost 3-4 hours on Thursday and Friday even when you didn't have the fever. On Saturday,w e skipped our usual market day, as I was worried that it would be too hot for you. After AH Ma came back from the market, we got ready and headed out to Muthu's to buy beef for Sunday's dinner. We'd bought lunch back and all enjoyed lunch at home.

After daddy came back from his golf game,w e headed for Queensbay Mall. We needed to buy your veggies as we did not have a chance to buy over the week. Obviously the carpark was full, ad daddy decided to have his car washed. But guess what? We have to wait for 3 hours for the car to be ready! Yikes. So Ah Ma called Uncle Sin Tien can he picked you, Ah Ma and Ah Kong up from Queensbay Mall and dropped you all home, while mummy and daddy waited for the car to be ready.

Dinner on Saturday night was a simple meal of moi. Even you had your own bowl of moi in our favourite shop in town. We'd gone for dinner in Ah Kong's car. And on the way back, you noticed the car logo on the window. This is what you told me:

Dat'sh Ah Kong car, not daddy car.

On Sunday you decided to torture mummy. You woke up at 5.30am insisting that you wanted cold nenen. So what to do? We both went down for your cold nenen. And you drank half a cup and wanted more. After a few sips, you told mummy to drink it. Then you insisted that you wanted more. Arghh... After another round of drinking, we went up and you still insisted that you wanted more. Mummy refused to give in and in the end you fell asleep. What time did you wake up next? 9am! And that was because Ah Ma wanted to bring you to the market. We went to Jelutong market, it didn't seem to be as crowded as the last time we came.

After the market, and buying some things in town, we headed home for lunch. Daddy and Ah Kong arrived shortly after that. Daddy got ready and we headed to the condo to clean it up a little. 4th Ee poh and her family are going to spend some time at our condo next weekend. It was a quick task cleaning up. I thought that you'd fall asleep in the condo, but you had other plans. You decided to supervise us while we cleaned up!

In the end, you only slept as we reached home. And you slept until 6.15pm! Dinner was early as we were having steam boat. Yup, even you had steamboat. It was a leisurely dinner. You loved the pork, chicken and beef. On top of that you had glass noodles as well as a poached egg that daddy cooked for you in the yummy soup. Of course, you had your share of soup. We all know that you love soup.

And that's how we spent our weekend. Not too exciting, since you still needed to take it easy after the fever.

Fever

I had mentioned that you felt a little warm on Sunday. So what happened after that? We tried to give you paracetamol but of course you took it VERY unwillingly. At around midnight on Monday morning, we checked your temperature at it was too high. So what to do? We drove to the ER at 12.45 am. Dr Mary was on leave that day, so the nurse called Dr Khaw. Never met him before but, not much choice. I found out later that he's the new paeD from GH that will be joining the hospital in June.

The doctor arrived around 15 minutes after the nurse had checked your temperature and weighed you and asked mummy a few questions. He was very nice about everything and after he was sure that you only had viral fever, he instructed the nurse to give you Voltaren. After we settled everything, we went home and continued our sleep. We took Monday off to make sure that you were ok, but your fever refused to go down.

On Tuesday morning, we brought you in to see Dr Mary as you still refused to co-operate when we tried to feed you the PCM. Your fever was so high that the nurse gave you another dose of Voltaren even before Dr Mary saw you. Dr Mary checked and said that your fever would probably subside on Wednesday night or Thursday. In the meantime, since you were not co-operating in taking the medicine, we got you the PCM that was to be administered anally.

Daddy accompanied you on Tuesday afternoon, while mummy had to go back to work. You both came to pick me up after work and you seemed tired. Daddy said that you were better in the afternoon. We noticed that when your temperature was not too high, you happily played with your toys, but when the fever came, you'd just lie on anyone and seemed very tired.

Fever remained on Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday it remained over 39 degrees. Finally you seemed ok when daddy went back to see you on Thursday afternoon. But we gave you the PCM another 2 times on Thursday to ensure that the fever did not return. On Friday, when we went home during lunch, you were your usual cheerful self. You even shared mummy's chicken rice. When I changed you, the rashes that Dr Mary had predicted had come.

In the evening, when we went home, you were waiting at the top of the stairs for us. Phew.. that was a sure sign that you have recovered. Thanks goodness. The week's torture has ended. This has been a very scary week for both daddy and I. We were so worried when the fever refused to subside. Worst still was that you refused the medicine. And it was made difficult that you cried everytime daddy put for you the PCM and Voltaren.

I even felt guilty that you'd fallen sick just after we'd stopped breastfeeding! But Dr Khaw had assured me that that was not the cause of it.

All Good Things Must Come to an End

It's something that I know I must do, but I dreaded doing it. It's too late to turn back now. The deed has been done. You're now 25.5 months old and the last time you were breastfed was on Saturday morning (17th May 08). I'd been slowly dragging the feeding time and now you're totally weaned. Feels like something has been lost, but I know that you've lost nothing from being fed for so long. I have no regrets at all. I never planned to feed you for so long, I didn't even have a plan for breastfeeding initially. But coming to work, and meeting all those "moomies" who were a source of great support and information motivated me to keep going. We've all stopped breastfeeding our first born ever since (some are starting on number 2), but still keep in contact through lunch or even updated on the blogs.

Well, daddy and I have been thinking of slowly weaning you. At around 20 months, we tried to introduce you to other forms of milk. We tried several types of milk powder and you rejected them EVERYTIME! Ah Ma said that you refused to take the fresh milk after that. And would only take it after she showed you that she's poured away the formula and gave you fresh milk, would you take the fresh milk. I guess taking fresh milk was better than not taking anything at all. It made our trip to Japan easier too.

After Japan, you refused to take EBM and mummy went cold turkey expressing milk. From 2 times daily at work to none at all. Then you decided that you needed to feed the moment I come home from work. Everyday you would come to me the moment I reached home and insist on a feed. After a while I finally managed to persuade you to drink milk from a cup. A few days later, you didn't ask anymore. So that meant your first feed for that day (after I leave work) would be at night.

The moment I lie down on bed, you'd ask to be fed. After a while, I managed to convince you to wait until your favourite Chinese show to start (at 9.00pm) and we'd go down to take your "cold nennen". Right after that you'd happily say "Ok, nennen" (i.e. mummy's milk). That was the routine for around two weeks, when we tried to stop the feeds before you went to bed.

Wah.. that was a toughie! I had to toughen up and let you cry(quite a bit!). Many a time I wanted to just give in than to hear you cry and cry. But I had to do it. Even daddy said that he wanted to just give in at times. But it took you 4 days and you got used to it. So, the new sleeping routine was for us to cuddle up in bed after turning off the light and you'd drift to sleep quietly.

So one final one to stop was the midnight/early morning feeds. That seemed to be quite simple. Like I said, I just refused to let you feed when you wanted. Instead I offered you water and you'd tell me no batu (no water), and give up and go back to sleep. Luckily not much protest this time.

One good thing is that eliminating the night feed also mean you slept right through the night without waking up. The only time you'd wake up was to "request" to be moved to our bed. The moment daddy or mummy put you on our bed, you'd continue sleeping without a fuss.

So far you have not complained. But you will occasionally put your lips on my tummy or touch me and say "Mmm... mummy nennen got" and you know the reply from us will be "No more" and you will insist with a grin "GOT!" You even said that one of the morning's at 6am. I think you were sleeping when you said that! Haha..

And so ends our breastfeeding sessions. I will definitely miss those times.

Rainy Weekend

It's another Sunday again. Now the weather is so sunny, but it was raining heavily when we left the condo just a few hours ago. In fact, it was raining yesterday night and on Friday night too. The initial plan on going to stay at the condo on Friday has to be scrapped because of the rain. The rain sure spoilt a few of our plans. We almost could not go to the market on Saturday to buy your ba-nga-nga-nga and your baka-bun because of the rain. But we went ahead and to our surprise, it was not raining in Pulau Tikus. Boh-boh Poh's eyes are getting better, so she joined us on Saturday.

After the market, we went home to have breakfast and when everyone was ready, we headed to the condo. We had lunch, did a little shopping in Island Plaza before heading back to a rest. After your nap, Ah Kong asked you if you wanted to go swimming. You said "No, splash onee (only)". So we all changed into out bathers and headed for the pool. As expected, you refused to get into the pool, and it was only the wading pool! After a lot of persuasion, you finally got in to wade a little and you soon got bolder and even walked under the water jets. Eventually we managed to get you to play in the big pool.

Dinner was just the 3 of us. Ah Kong and Ah Ma had plans with their friends. So we were on our own. Where to go? Not too sure, in the end, we decided to try out Spice Market. It was quite nice there. As we had no booking, the reception initially told me they only had outside tables available. But of course mummy would not sit outside. The mosquitoes would eat you alive! So the man was kind and understanding enough to give us another table (somehow) inside. Daddy sure was busy yesterday evening. He had to take food for you, mummy and himself. Hehe.. All we did was sit and enjoy the "service" and yummy food. When we paid, we even got a nice surprise. We had forgotten to bring out discount card, but we still got a discount with our credit card. Yay...

How was the food? Does this picture answer your question?

We went home and waited for Ah Kong and his friends to come home. They wanted to meet you, so in the end, you only slept at close to 11.30pm. Yikes, you're sleeping later and later these days. Worst still when we stay in the condo.

This morning, you woke up at your usual time 8.30am. We got ready and headed to Youth Park. Again, the rain put a damper on our plans. Your favourite thing, the slides were all wet. After a while, we decided to leave. But before that, we tried out luck with the other playground which does not have so many people. And luck was with you. The slides there were not wet. So you got to play on the slides, and you even tried out the spiral slide and you loved it. Soon, it was time to go home for brunch.

By the time we reached home, the condo was filled with the smell of bacon and chipolata sausages being fried by Ah Ma. Yummy. Mummy quickly gave you a bath while our chef of the day, daddy cooked our eggs. What was on the menu? Cheese omelet. Our favourite, even better that it was cooked by daddy *wink*

Daddy had to leave first because he had an afternoon golf game. We left shortly after the rain (again) subsided. It rained all the way back to the house, but by the time we arrived, home you'd fallen asleep and there was no sign of the rain at all.

Mummy had felt that you seemed a little warm when I dressed you to go to the Youth Park. No thermometer in the condo so when we arrived home, mummy checked and confirmed. You had the fever 38.7 degrees! Yikes! You napped quite a bit in the day, and the fever would not go away. Feeding you medicine is the worst ever. You spat out everytime we tried to feed you the medicine.

What a way to end the weekend!!

What's under there?

Underwear lo.. What else? Censorship board said it's ok to show the underwear. Hehe.. So here's the picture of it:


What? You expected a picture of the wearer too? Of course that would be a no-no! I do think they are adorable ones..

Second Half of Daddy's Adventure

Daddy had called to say that you'd fallen asleep almost immediately on Friday. But then, he called me again when you woke up. And I could barely hear him. Why? Because you were wailing at the top of your lungs! You were asking for mummy, and try as I would to pacify you, you refused to calm down, even asked you if you wanted daddy to give you yogurt, but you would not listen. Poor daddy, and the day was going so well at first.

Luckily Ah Ma came back and you calmed down. By the time Ah Kong and I reached home, you were your usual cheerful self.

Cars! Cars!

I guess by now, everyone who reads this blog knows that you love cars. I guess one of the reasons is because daddy also loves cars. Why do I say so? Have a look:

Both are the same cars. The one on the left belongs to daddy. So my guess is that it's almost 20 years old, while the one on the right is yours. Both are Ferrari F40. Hehe.. daddy taught me recently how to take pictures that focus on the object and blur out the background. So have been practicing, only thing is that I cannot do that with you.. You move too fast for this mode! Or maybe... daddy's camera is to lau-eah.. Hehe.. should tell him to buy another (better) camera.. For me!!!

Another Day off!

It's Wesak Day today. So we got another day off. Yay! Long weekends, my favourite!So we stayed another night in the condo. This morning, we woke up, had a leisurely breakfast, showered and headed to the Youth Park. You can now say Youff Pak. Close enough. And when we tell you Youth Park, you know that there is pi-gang (playground) and mang-kee (monkeys) there. So off we headed to Youth Park, I'd like to say that we arrived "very early", but by the time we arrived, it was almost 9.30am. Oh well, still considered as "early" as compared to our usual time.

Played until a little pass 10.00am, and we had to leave as we needed to eat brunch and daddy had a game at 1.00pm. Some places were very crowded and others were closed. In the end, we went to "Hai Beng" for brunch, since there is pau that you could eat. Was not planning on cooking your moi-moi today. So, daddy even ordered "cheese omelet" for you. It came with a sausage and bread. It was your first time eating sausages. And you loved it. Then again, there seems to be few things that you won't eat. The only thing I can think of is veggies (unless cooked in your moi-moi), durians (daddy tried to give you. The last time, you took a whiff without looking at it, and said "NO NO NO") and oranges (although you love orange jusshhh).

Went back to pack and just as we were reaching the house, you'd fallen asleep. Still sleeping now..

Sunday in the Condo

Daddy had an early game today. And you also decided to wake up early. Sigh.. to say "bye" to him? I don't know. Probably to torture mummy. Since you got up for a drink of water, you decided it was time to wake up. By then, it was only 6.15am! Sigh.. You kept telling me "oi oi minish" (oi-oi = sleep, minish = finish). Wouldn't let me continue sleeping.

Ok, after saying bye bye to daddy, you happily sat watching your favourite Elmo's world. So that gave mummy an opportunity to clean up the condo a little. After all, it's been a long time since we stayed there, although daddy did vacuum the place up a little last week. For more than an hour, you were contented to watch TV. So mummy got to mop all the rooms, wash the bathrooms and even one of the balcony's. Just as I was done, you came looking for me, telling me mummy caryee!

By then, you'd already eaten your breakfast of biscuits and milk. Mummy had my drink, gave you a shower, had my shower and it was only 9.30 by then. What to do? How to entertain you? Lucky daddy left the access card with us, so we put on our sandals and went down to the swimming pool area for a walk. Of course, you started with mummy caryee but when I told you "No", then you said mummy no caryee. Phew.. we walked up and down the stairs in the pool area and BBQ area, splashed water in the pool before walking around the carpark and headed back to the condo. Hhmm.. I think that little stint left you a little sunburny. Need to buy sunblock, in that case.

Ah Ma came by to have lunch with us after she'd dropped Ah Kong at the airport and brought moi-moi for you too. After you had your lunch, we went to this place called "No Eye Deer" for lunch. It was quite a nice meal, only thing that where we sat, it was a little warm. Daddy picked us up along the way since Ah Ma needed to go back to start cooking for her feast tonight.

Went back and you played a while despite yawning so much during lunch. Finally took your nap and slept for more than 3 hours! Surprised? Obviously not considering the time that you woke up this morning. So we all had our nap.

Got ready after that to go home to have dinner with Ah Ma and her side of the family. Dinner as usual was scrumptious. There were even special meat and tofu dishes prepared for you kiddies. After dinner, you all played around and finally we headed back to the condo. Again, it was late and you played a little before telling me to go to the room. And so the nightly ritual began: changed into your PJs, brushed your teeth, read a little, roll around the bed and finally went to sleep.

Happy Belated Birthday Nanna

It was Nanna's birthday on Monday. But we only celebrated this weekend as last weekend, everyone had something else to do. We went out to the market while Ah Kong and daddy had a round of golf. By the time we arrived home, they were already waiting for us. Bo-bo Poh did not join us at the market as she just had cataract surgery on Friday.

When every one was ready, we headed to town to have our favourite beef ball noodles. Well.. for us anyway, you had your moi moi while mummy had my char kuay tiau, without the praws. What happened to the prawns? All in your tummy lo.. Where else?!

After lunch, we went back to pack and headed to Bm. By the time we arrived, you'd just fallen asleep. So you continued your nap on the sofa and later daddy and mummy also fell asleep! Grampy was busy cooking "lam mee" a.k.a. "birthday mee" under Nanna's supervision. Yummy... Ee-ee and mummy even went out to buy a birthday cake.

Even Alex Ku-ku was back from KL this weekend. We had dinner, ate the cake and chatted a while and soon we had to go off. It was getting late and we were planning to spend the rest of the weekend in the condo. It's been a long time since we've stayed there.

By the time we arrived at the condo, it was quite late. But you continued to play for a while before we went to bed to read a little, play a little and you finally went to sleep.

Lunch Date

Ah Ma wanted to accompany Bo-bo Poh when she is in the hospital for her cataract operation. So today, your baby sitter is....

DADDY!!!

Mummy don't have many days of leave left, so daddy took the day off to accompany you. You both had a lie in this morning, then gave mummy a call to say that everything is OK so far.. Then you guys played a little, and called mummy to report that everything was still OK.

Daddy fed you lunch and packed you into your car seat to pick mummy up for lunch. Didn't know what to eat.. we wondered around Queensbay Mall a bit before deciding on Paddington House of Pancakes. We ordered our lunch as well as something for you. When daddy's meal arrived, you were so happy when you spotted chippies. And so you ate that instead of the banana + ice-cream + 3 pancakes that we had ordered for you.

Mummy hitched a ride home with my friends while daddy took you for a little more walkie and to play the drums in the playground inside Jusco, before heading home.

Daddy called me 30 minutes later to say that you were napping.

Sigh.. I sure wish that I was at home now with you guys too..

Going Diaperless

I'm proud to say that you've gone diaper-less for around 2 weeks already. Of course that is during the day for now. But of course, when you take your afternoon nap, Ah Ma still lets you wear it. She says some days, it is still empty (i.e. you did not wee wee while sleeping). Others, you'd wee wee only once. But to be safe, we'll still let you wear the diapers when you are sleeping. And for nights, you are still wearing diapers. You're a little difficult to predict during the nights. Some mornings, it is totally dry, other (most actually) it is very full. So play safe and let you wear your diapers at night.

When we started you'd show that you were uncomfortable.. Probably one layer less. And because of that, some of your shorts cannot be work. Either without the nappy it's too loose or the pants crotch is too shallow, so you feel uncomfortable in it. And now, since you've gotten used to the "freedom" mummy has problems when I try to let you wear the diaper at night. You'll tell me tat (tight). And struggle like mad as I try to put the diaper on. So in the end, I checked with some friends if you should start wearing underwear and they said that we could so that you get used to it, so mummy bought some last week. Er.. took some pictures of the underwear. I thought they were the cutest things ever, but before I post them on the blog, I need to get the approval from the censorship board (daddy la..) before posting it. So if you don't see any pictures, you know that my "application" has been rejected *wink*