Macaroni and Cheese

You love your food, especially when they are cheesy. This morning you decided that you wanted to have Mac and Cheese and also that you wanted to cook it yourself. So.. ta-da.. your baked and non-baked version. Great job cooking, Evan. 

Oh, Sunflower

You had asked several times to plant a sunflower plant. So on one of the occasion that I went to Ace Hardware, I picked up a pack of sunflower seeds. You were all excited to plant it. While the instructions were quite tedious, we opted to just put the seed (even that was a dilemma.. do we plant it with the shell or not?? Ended up planting the whole thing) directly into the soil.

And voila.. after a few weeks.. your sunflower. You proudly took the pictures and had them sent to many people:

The plant has now died.. not sure if it grows just to flower once or because of the rainy weather. I asked if you wanted to plant another seed. You said yes, but not now as "it is a sunflower and it needs lots of sun. So we will wait for the rainy weather to pass."

Siblings

Some days your behavior makes my heart melt. Holding hands without my asking you to:

 You can sit next to her closely and help her with her games:

And other days you both cannot stand the sight of each other.. makes me want to spew blood...

2019 Mother's Day

I'm such a lucky mummy. I received so many Mother's Day card from the both of you. 

These are the cards from Evelyn: some made in school, some at home with Lau Shi. You were so excited to give them to me, you could not wait till Sunday to give them to me.

This is the card hand drawn (based on a Google search) by Evan after much reminders from daddy. It looks so professionally done. 

Love you all for the cards.

Saturday Japanese Night Dinner

Ah Ma planned to cook Japanese for dinner on Sunday, but daddy convinced her to cook on Saturday so that we could have a leisurely dinner at home. So this is what she cooked:

Beef, stir fried vegetables, steam egg and rice. Missing from the picture is our salmon sashimi.

You insisted that you wanted rice ball (current favorite for the both of you). And I recalled I had a rice ball maker... so although it wasn't sushi rice, we made this:

Rice ball filled with salmon (fried) and wrapped in seaweed. 

Happy Birthday Nanna

Happy Birthday Nanna...

We were not in BM on her birthday, instead we went earlier on Friday to celebrate Ah Chor's birthday. While waiting for everyone to arrive, we took some pictures. Here's a funny pose from the both of you:

 Gramy and Nanna also smiles: