My Baby...

Love taking random photos with you. 

Being silly while waiting for daddy to try out a his shorts:

Win-Done

Your message to daddy today.. to show that you've finally won!

 

Covid.. again

Daddy tested positive again yesterday. So we all had to take the tests several times. Again, my body decided to torture me. First test had a very faint line. And second test had none whatsoever!

Cancelled your tuition. No point risking other people's lives especially when they are quite aged.

You came back, had a shower before doing the test. All was good.

You told me that you didn't want to test again in the morning but later that night, daddy said best for you to test. You agreed to do it (giving me saliva sample with your eyes closed) when I said that you'd be exposing many friends in school, unlike me who is sitting at home. 

All is good. Thank goodness 💗

Lost Tooth

One of the last few teeth to be replaced by an adult tooth. Despite knowing that I'm the "Tooth Fairy" you still looked for the bag to put in your tooth before going to sleep. 

Didn't take a photo of your tooth (with a decay in it), but of your moolah:

Karate - Green belt grading

You proudly came back to inform me that you were the only one from school selected to take part in the green belt grading.

The exam location was the same as before. Only thing was this time seemed to be a larger crowd taking the examinations. We arrived on time (obviously.. when the location is just a 5 minutes' drive from home..) and headed to the back waiting area. There were still many children waiting for their turn to be examined. Group 2 green grading were just grouping and shortly after you gathered with the rest of the children in your group. 

At 10.30 am sharp, you all started the examination.

Once you were done, we waited a little and Ah Ma came to pick us up then go for lunch.

In the evening, Sensei Li Li messaged the parents to congratulate the children for a job well done and to inform us that you'd all passed the exams. Yay!

Makan Holiday

This whole trip back was just a makan holiday for you. To our surprise, despite the late arrival, you managed to crawl out of bed to join us in Kampung Jawa for early morning char kuey tiau. We arrived just before the crowd came and so it wasn't too long a wait before we were served. Daddy ordered 4 large CKT and you inhaled 2 plates, just like that. And then saying that you could even eat a 3rd plate! Walaueh.. 

You then went back and continued sleeping. Daddy and I went out to buy lunch, and thinking that you'd be too full from breakfast and have already eaten curry mee, we decided to buy something light from the Shark. To our surprise, you were disappointed to find that we did not buy you curry mee!!

Dinner was a heavy meal of steamboat. Which you (obviously) thoroughly enjoyed. Our meal lasted a long while and only towards the end that you started to lie abit on the sofa in between stuffing yourself. 

On Sunday, we headed to the Shark again to buy the curry mee. Sadly, the CKT was sold out! You were so disappointed. And it was only 11.30am! But you did get a packet of Kuey Tiau Th'ng which you said was nice.

Dinner was in BM. As you had so many things on your makan list, we decided to cook carbonara in BM. 

Ta-da.. carbonara with crunchy lard

Monday's lunch was unplanned. In the end, we thought to try our luck with the famous Lorong Selamat CKT. To our surprise there was table to sit at and not a long queue. It looked like it was the assistant frying. That was probably the reason for the lack of wait. Your verdict: meh.. ahaha.. so we can strike this place off.

Monday and Tuesday's dinner was Ah Ma's cooking. She said that you had mentioned about missing seafood. So there was big prawns and steamed fish (*lol*). 

Tuesday's lunch was with the 2 oldies as we had to go to work and Mei-mei had school.

And before leaving Penang, you packed 1 large box of fried rice from Ah Ma and 2 boxes of CKT from Super Tanker (combined 3 large packets). Oh and you also ate 1 packet of CKT before dinner.

P/S: I think even you started to feel CKT overdose after this trip

2023 Christmas Tree is Up

Since Ko-ko is back this weekend, we decided to put up the Christmas tree. It's not too early.. in fact, may be a little later than usual. Anyhow.. Mei-mei determined the theme this year to be blue and silver as she had done a quick check to validate that last year's theme was red and gold. 

Before we got home to start the "project", Ko-ko informed me that there was a typo on the name when he tried to do check in. Walaueh... so I had to get onto a call with Firefly to determine what needed to be done. In the meantime, Mei-mei and daddy started to set up the branches. 

By the time I was done, the tree was ready. So we quickly opened up the branches and I set to putting up the lights. 

This is what she was up to while waiting for me

Once I was done with the lights, my job was about done! Lucky me. I got to sit back and watch the two of you put up the decorations. You're both tall enough to decorate the whole tree. 💕 Sometimes Mei-mei would ask for help to put an ornament at a certain high point. 

And finally, it was daddy's turn to put the angel. 

Et voila.. we're done!

Melts the heart

Hard to get a photo of the two of you together with no shouting. 

What are you both up to? Cracking the 12 eggs and adding (a lot of) cheese to the mixture for the carbonara.

Long ride home

You had come home after the bout of food poisoning. And while the initial plan was neither for us to travel to KL nor for you to come back during the 4-day Deepavali break, you requested to come back during this break. My guess is that you did not manage to eat all the Penang food to your heart's content that trip since you had not fully recovered by then. 

So the deal was that you'd be able to come back only if we were able to buy you an Aeroline bus ticket. By the time you'd asked to come back, the plane fare was way too expensive. But luck must have been on your side. There was ONE LAST seat available on the bus. Only thing is we had to sign up for the card (putting in a RM200 deposit into the card) and utilise the PAP (some sort of priority booking) to purchase this seat.

The days leading to your return trip, we kept reminding you to pack some snacks and food, knowing that you were such a big eater. 

You decided to leave your duffel bag at Denisse's place in the morning so that you did not need to make another trip back to the hostel, nor drag it all around the whole day with you. You even had lunch in Sunway Pyramid so that you could locate the new pickup point. 

When the time came, the bus was late. They informed you and in fact even called me (the booking was under my account) to inform of the 30 minutes delay.

At long last at 2 minutes pass 6, the bus departed. At that time you told us that the ETA per Waze was 11pm. Shortly after that you said "the dinner is SO SMALL". Oops.. then we found out that you had bought ONE bun for the ride back! Oh dear.. and we had reminded you so many times.. Ah well.. you'll have to learn the hard way then. You then mentioned that you had an energy bar with you to which daddy quickly told you to EAT LATER.. or else you'd be super hungry!

Traffic on the highway was horrendous, as expected. We waited and waited and in the end.. you only finally arrived at Queensbay at 12.45am! You had informed us that you were getting onto the second bridge and we got ready to go pick you. Daddy said that we'd be waiting for you at least 10 minutes, but I said that it's better for us to wait than for you to wait again (yala.. miss my son too ma...).

You spotted the car as the bus drove pass us to make a U-turn at the roundabout. 

We headed home for you to have a quick shower and then eat a bowl of the curry mee Ah Ma had cooked before going to sleep.

Return of Letchumi Ban

 We were trying to recall your "Indian" name. Found it in last year's post. This morning was a mad rush to tie up your hair into two braids (didn't do a good job though.. ). Reusing the same lehenga this year. Looks like we will need to get you a new one next year. It's getting shorter... 

Coincidentally I was also dressed up in my Indian costume as we were having a celebration in the office too:

Creative Writing

I'm so happy that we came across this program while browsing the Penang Science Cluster webpage. It's called "Pow Pow Earth". It's a free program run by a lady and her mother. She is based in the US. Every Sunday, you would wake up and quickly eat your breakfast in order to join the class. Every week, she will talk about nature, science and the environment. You will then have to write a short story relating to the learning for the day. 

This was the first one you shared with me.. I was amazed at your writing:

The learning was Jane Goodall

This was the hybrid car session:

I checked that the learning was about "Wangari Maathai", but I'm not sure what the coconut story and the Maldives are related to her. 

This is the latest from this week. The session was about the dam: