Time to Leave..

It's so much fun writing about our first day, so I have decided to take over again. Daddy says that mummy is taking too long to write about our trip to Kay-El, so I'll be a goo boy and write ok, daddy?

I was so tired as mummy had mentioned from this trip. I woke up at 8am on Sunday asking mummy for a drink and went back to sleep after that. I kept hearing mummy trying to wake me up. She even changed my diaper as it was very full. Don't know why she kept trying to wake me up. But I ignored her and continued to sleep. Later, I heard her telling daddy that she was worried about my not waking up. Why? Because she said that I was sweating and felt "clammy". Whatever that is. Anyway, when I felt that I had enough sleep, I finally woke up (almost 11am) and they all (even Ah Ma and Ah Kong) had relieved expressions. Drank my nen-nen and asked mummy for the umpteenth time where Kor-kor and Uncle Dennis was. She keeps on telling me that they'd gone for a party (like me, but I didn't see them yesterday) in Melaka. Took my shower and we all left the house. Never got to see them before leaving KL.

We packed up the car and left. Where did we go? I was feeling hungry. I think everyone else was too. So they were trying to decide if we were to go to 1 Utama like daddy had promised yesterday or to The Gardens. In the end, we went to The Gardens again. Daddy said sorry that we could not take the rides, but we'd go to KL again soon. What did we have? Kor-kor had mentioned that Crystal Jade (that we had in Singapore)had opened a branch there. Oh wow.. Lunch was so yummy. I even finished almost a whole char siew pau by myself. I had decided to torture daddy again. So he had to feed me. When daddy tried to feed me my favourite peanuts when I was still eating my pau, I told him "Wait.. I finish pau first". He's so impatient! After lunch, we walked around a little before leaving.

I fell asleep again on the way to Ipoh. Don't know why, but I felt so sleepy still. Mummy woke me up when we reached Ipoh. Ah Tai was just waking up when we arrived. Ah Kong said we'd stop over for a while to cheer up Ah Tai. She must be lonely since Chin Poh, Chek Kong and Kor Poh had gone on holiday. I played a while there and soon we packed ourselves into the car to head to Penang.

This time Ah Kong drove the car, while daddy sat behind with me and mummy. After a while daddy ignored me and went to sleep. So mummy kept me entertained all the way back to Penang. Just as we were leaving the bridge, I told mummy that i wanted to ngk-ngk. Now that we have moved to far, it would take us another 30 minutes to reach home, and daddy said that we needed to buy dinner too. So.. we headed to Tou-tou's house. Hehe.. I needed to make another "deposit". Must be from eating too much lunch.

I didn't want to leave the house after that. I like the 2 cars that Anna che-che has. But mummy said that we had to go. It was late and we needed to buy dinner before heading home. We bought dinner and I ate fried rice and some char hor fun. After my bath, I played around because I didn't feel tired. But soon, mummy said I had to go to sleep. I betcha it's because she was sleepy.

So this is how our long weekend ended. I wonder when daddy will bring me to KL to ride on Thomas and the boat again...

Day Two.. It's shopping time

Ok, mummy's taking over to tell you how our trip went. The main reason we went to KL was to attend a wedding. Uncle Wai Kiat and Aunty Jackie was getting married. So early Saturday morning, daddy woke up to get ready to be Uncle Wai Kiat's "heng tai". Kor-kor was also up by then. You woke up a little confused, I guess wondering where you were, since it was a different room. After kor-kor left, we got ready to leave the house. Where were we going? Shopping lo..

It was just you, me and Ah Ma. Ah Kong had gone off for a golf game. Of course I didn't bother to bring the stroller along for fear of you not wanting to sit and me ending up carrying you and dragging the stroller! We walked out of the apartment to take a cab to One Utama. It had started to drizzle and the first taxi did not want to use the meter, so we waited for another one.

When we arrived, we walked around, looking at clothes and soon, you got hungry and grumpy, insisting that mummy carried you. I think my arms are still aching from carrying you so much! We went to have lunch in Italiannes. Good thing they serves those yummy, warm bread first. You also enjoyed dipping your bread into the vinegar and oil mixture. After lunch, daddy joined us for a little more shopping while Ah Ma left to join Aunty May. We were about to leave when you spotted.... Thomas the train. Yup, it was a ride on. So what to do? Mummy had some small change so you rode on it. After that, you said that you wanted to ride again, but we didn't have any more coins. And none of the stalls wanted to exchange coins for us. In the end, daddy parked us on one of the benches and walked somewhere to get coins. He came back after a while and you rode another 2 times on Thomas and once on a boat. We finally got to leave the mall because you were getting tired (and daddy promised that we'd go back the next day) since you happily agreed to leave the mall after the 3 rides.

You fell asleep on the way back and continued to nap. Daddy and mummy joined you for the much needed nap. We woke up around 5pm, lazed around then got ready for dinner. The wedding dinner was held at Palace of the Golden Horses Hotel. Daddy wasn't too sure of the way, so Uncle Wai Yin offered to bring us there. It wasn't raining, but traffic was heavy. Thankfully dinner hadn't started by the time we arrived. Dinner was wonderful, and you ate most of the food that was served. And since I had told you that if you wanted to go walkie, you'll have to get daddy to take you, you let me enjoy dinner while you brought daddy for a walkie *grin*.

Halfway through dinner, you needed to make a "deposit". So off we went to the washroom. Thank goodness you could make your deposit without a fuss. Mummy had to balance you on the WC and when all was done, we changed to a fresh diaper and back we went to the ballroom. After dinner, we stayed around chatting with friends for a while. There was a slight traffic jam when we tried to leave the hotel carpark. But shortly after leaving you fell asleep in my arms. When we reached home mummy put you on the bed, changed fresh diapers and PJs for you, but you never woke up. Poor little boy, you must be so tired.

We went to Kay-El

Mummy said that she's too busy and daddy said that he wanted a "full report" on our trip to Kay-El. So I'm taking over. It's me.. Evan... *wink*. Mummy, I help you, ok?

We woke up earlier on Friday as daddy had told me the night before to wake up early so that we can have an early start. BUT... daddy slept on claiming that he needed to get enough sleep to drive so far. (In actual fact, daddy had slept late the night before, playing his new "baby" the PS3!). So mummy and I had our breakfast while Ah Kong had his telephone conference. By 9am, everyone was almost ready and we headed down to pack the car. Luckily mummy and daddy had sneaked down the night before to fix my royal seat. So they packed the car and made many trips up again since they forgot quite a number of things!I also almost forgot to bring my Thomas the train. Mummy said that I should bring ONLY ONE. But I managed to negotiate to bring along my caboose car too.

We were finally packed and ready to go at 9.30am. It was a very long drive and I fell asleep on the way. Mummy said that I'd slept for an hour. I woke up just as we arrived in Kay-El. We went straight to KLCC to meet up with Ashley Kor-kor. I was so hungry and lucky she managed to book a place for the 6 of us in Madam Kwan's. They all ate some rice with no fingers (?). Such a weird name. Mummy said it's called "Nasi Bojari". Daddy ordered fish and chips for me. It was so yummy. After lunch and wondering around, we quickly left and Kor-kor said it would usually rain around 3pm and start to flood and will have traffic jam.

It started to rain the moment we left the carpark. Took us quite a while to reach The Gardens and I sat on the stroller that mummy had borrowed from Anna Che-che. She told me the night before that I had to sit in the stroller when we went shopping, so I happily sat on the stroller. We had yummy gelato ice-cream that daddy had been looking forward to. But he was disappointed, he said that they ran out of apple pie flavour. Hhmm.. maybe he was looking for apple pie in the wrong place? I'm confused. After the ice-cream, I refused to sit in the stroller. Mummy said that I had to sit in the stroller, but she didn't say for how long!

We walked around for a while, and went to a toy shop that had lots and lots of my favourite Thomas trains! Wow! Mummy said that we had to go, but I didn't want to leave the shop without Molly. In the end I bought the Molly. Yup, I bought it. I gave the shop che-che the Molly and she gave me back Molly in a plastic bag.

We left soon and headed to Kor-Kor's apartment in PJ. I was so tired, I slept on the way back, but this was such a short ride, and I woke up when mummy carried me out of my carseat. She is rather rough! I was so excited to go to Kor-kor's house. Luckily there is Ashley Kor-kor around to keep me entertained. I thought that the rest of my kor-kors would be around, but mummy said that they have gone on holiday with Chek Kong and Chim Poh too..

Daddy left the apartment shortly. He was going somewhere for a party. Soon, we also left the house and Ashley Kor-kor at home. Ah Kong's friend was picking us up for dinner. Uncle Phang and Aunty May brought us to some restaurant nearby for the famous noodle with big prawns. They also ordered some dishes. Daddy and Uncle Wai Yin also joined us for dinner.

Later Uncle Wai Yin left and Uncle Phang brought us to another place nearby. While waiting for him to make another trip to pick up Ah Kong, Ah Ma and Aunty May, daddy brought me to the supermarket to buy chippes. Yay! When they all arrived, we went to have some drinks. I had my own drink too. Daddy ordered hot vanilla drink for me.

After the drinks, we went home. I was feeling tired, but guess what? Ashley Kor-kor was back too and so was Uncle Dennis. I played with them, and Uncle Dennis even showed me the Thomas pictures on his computer. Soon mummy said that it was late and that I had to take my medicine and go to sleep. I chatted with mummy for a while, and I think I fell asleep after that.

Ok daddy, I have written the report for mummy. It's so much work. I think I'll let mummy continue after this.

The Many Faces of Evan

Since your speech is getting better and better, you say many things that are funny and amusing!

The Boss - Telling daddy off

Noo.. ngot like dat. Do poh-pe-yee (properly)

So competitive - When racing mummy to the bathroom

Me first, me first

The negotiator (Knowing that a "no" is the answer, but still trying his luck)

Mummy, only ONE ngut (nut). Ok? Only one, not two ok?

How do we say no to that? Of course, ends up with not one nor two..

Counting

1 month ago: one, two, thee, por, seven, eight, nine, TEN. Oh.. no pive and shix (five and six)

Now: one, two, thee, seven, six, five, por

Er.. looks like your counting skill has deteriorated!

You, me and I - You still cannot get it, so this is what we get

Where is you daddy?

Where is you Ah Ma?

Asking for food - Still cannot get the you and I correct

You want biskit?

And I'd usually answer: No mummy is not hungry, don't want biscuit.

And you'd respond: Wan-la... Wan-la...

Obviously you're not "asking" me if I can have a biscuit. You are TELLING me that YOU want a biscuit!

Getting your way

Ah Kong.. are you ready?

You said this to Ah Kong, asking him if he was ready to go to Cold Storage. Ah Kong had no plans on joining us, but he ended up going with us.

Of course, that is not always the case. You told Ah Kong this last week when we wanted to go to Metrojaya:

Ah Kong, you stay at home, ok?

Bedtime

Dadeee.... DADEEEE... come, let's go.

And it used to be: Daddy go out!

So now daddy is happier that you want him around instead of chasing him out.

When it is raining

It's ranining. Can ngot go out. Use umela

All time favourite - Mr KPC
Wat dat?

Worms be-gone

After the doctor had prescribed the worm medication, I did not give you the medicine yet. Why? Because I was worried about your persisting tummy aches that wouldn't go away. And to make matters worse, you lost your voice last Monday and developed a phlegmmy cough when you slept. Poor little thing.

We brought you in on Sunday to see Dr Mary. She was worried when she saw us going in again. She thought that you tummy ache wasn't getting better. But it was actually your cough. She checked and confirmed that you had quite a bit of phlegm. So what to do? On medication. And I told her that you kept wanting to do a poo, and only did a little bit, and she said that it was a symptom from the worms. And that I should give it to you quickly.

So on Tuesday, after your bath, mummy got you to bring your little blue chair to the dining table, then gave you a little spoon and fed you the de-worming medicine. I thought that it would be a BIG challenge, but you did very well. You happily slurped all 10oz (correction: 10oz!) of medicine and cheerfully took the rest of your medicine when I fed you the other medicine later on.

All done, and by the looks of it, you don't seem to complain of a tummy ache anymore. And so.. worms be-gone!

As for your cough.. I hope to be able to say "Cough be-gone" soon too..

Haircut Again...

It's that time again, the dreaded haircut. Ok lo.. it's mummy's fault that I wanted you to have a nice haircut rather than have it cut using the electric razor. Daddy reckons it's stressful for you since you make a big fuss almost everytime we bring you for a cut, which is very often too.

Usually, I'd prep you for the impending haircut days before the actual cut. This time, we just decided to do it on the spur of the moment. You see, you (actually it's "we") had a lie in until 9.45am. How come? Because it was the Hari Raya holiday and Ah Kong and daddy had already left for golf and there was no construction next door to wake us up. So since you seemed to well rested, daddy offered to bring you to Uncle Austin's for a haircut, after we'd had lunch.

Since you didn't seem sleepy and we could only bring you for haircuts during holidays or weekends, we tried our luck. Daddy called Uncle Austin and he said that it was a good time for us to go. We needed to make sure, since now that we've moved, the shop is a lot further from our place than before. So off we went. I had to talk to you to make sure that you didn't doze off, even prepping you for the haircut, asking where you'd like your hair to be cut. You'd respond to me, touching your head left, right and top saying "here, here, here".

We arrived and had to wait a while before it was your turn. So daddy took out his phone and took a "before" picture. See the sides.. it's so long, covering your ears! And your after shot. Cut looks good?

To our surprise, the haircut was a breeze. Everything done in less than 20 minutes! You sat happily on the highchair, strapped yourself in and sat quite still while Uncle Austin cut your hair. There were times when we had to hold you to make sure that you didn;t fidget when he was cutting some parts of your hair. Otherwise, it went so well, Uncle Austin even joked that it was a pity it was Thursday, otherwise he'd buy lottery since you were so co-operative! Your fringe is a little shorter because you moved and he needed to "rectify the problem". Otherwise, the cut was good. Should be able to last another 2 months.

Ferry Ride

It's been a long time since we took the ferry. Wait a minute.. you've never been on the Penang ferry before! So since we were going back to visit Nanna and Grampy and we're on this side of the island, we decided to take you on the ferry for the first time ever. We had to wait a while before it was our turn. And it was already 11.30am. We all slept in late (especially daddy...) so we left home later on Sunday. Saturday was already a full day for us, going all the way back to Ipoh and you having a wonderful time, playing in the playground in Polo Ground and running around looking at fishes.

Here's some of the pictures that we managed to take. You loved the view, and didn't even mind the sea water splashing on you.

Our Little Baby is Now 30 months old

I'm getting lazier to list down your milestones. You've grown so much, (and I'm getting older and more forgetful) so many things that you have done, some amusing, others that drive everyone up the wall. Here's a few of how you've grown so far...

Vital Stats:-

Height : around 85cm (I think)

Weight : 11.7 kg (still for quite a while)

~ Self-feeding for quite a while. Thankfully not a messy eater. Only thing is you do not like veggies. Only take them with your moi

~ Favourite food: You told Nanna yesterday that "You (My) favoneet(favourite) chippies"

~ Speech: takes a person who is familiar with you to understand what you are talking about. In fact, Ah Kong still needs help to figure out what you are talking sometimes. Even Ah Ma does not understand you 100%. But we have noticed that you are picking up new things very quickly

~ Music: love songs, especially when riding in your car. You will ask daddy to play "Eh-wan's chee-dee (CD)". Can even sing the whole Twinkle Twinkle Little Star song and a few others

~ Demanding: "Chan(ge) to Eh-wan's channel". What is it? 613: Playhouse Disney lo.. You even know how to change the channel yourself!

~ Cars: Still love them and now trains too

~ Caring: so sweet when you knock into us and we make crying sounds. You'll quickly come over and as "(Are) you ok?" and pet us and whisper "ok.. ok.. ", just like how we talk to you when you fall down.

~ Talk to Furbie: You like to ask him "(Are) you goo(d) boy?" and answer your own question with "Ha.." ("Yes" to your question)

~ Talk in proper sentences. Can even tell daddy off "Daddy drive too fast". Even asked Ah Kong "Ah Kong, are you weady (ready)?"

~ Recognizing things: Can recognise cars. I have even heard you saying "Look like Ah Kong car, ngot (not) Ah Kong car". Same goes for logo's. You even recognise the "halal" logo saying it's like your yogurt

~ Potty trained: 99% for wee wee and 100% for poo poo.. when you are awake. You will tell us that you need to "wee wee" or "ngk ngk". But on rare occasions, accidents still happen

~ Mr Curious: Still love to ask "Wat dat?" whenever you hear some sound or see something new

~ Current past-time: Other than drive mummy crazy, you love to hop around.. just like your favourite Tigger.

You've grown up so much since you turned two. At time you are the perfect angel.. at others, a typical two year old child in the "terrible two's" stage! Either way, we still love you loads.

Worms?!

You had been complaining of tummy aches.. but I had thought that you were just pulling my leg, wanting sympathy. So I told Ah Ma to let you be. Why did I say that you wanted sympathy? Because you'd run to mummy saying that you had a "tummy pain pain" and ask me to carry you so that it'll be better. Hhmmm...

Anyway, last night Ah Ma said that your pain seems to be more often and worse. So since Dr Mary had night clinic, we brought you there. Gave you a shower before going. Before that I had to tell you that we were seeing Dr Mary, that she will be giving you medicine so that your tummy wont hurt anymore. You seemed quite ok with that. So when it was our turn, you seemed ok.

Dr Mary said that your tummy had a lot of "wind" so she prescribed medicine and for mummy to stop temporarily the Prolactor (good bacteria) while your tummy recovers from the wind. Next she said that since you were over 2 years old, you needed to take de-worming medications. That was to be taken after you recovered from your windy condition. She said that you needed to take it every 6 months and every time you take it, everyone at home also needed to take the medicine.

When we went home, mummy gave Furbie his medicine while you helped kakak keep your toys. You told me that you were tired, since you did not take your afternoon nap. So after that, mummy fed you your medicine. Phew... it went smoothly. Before feeding you the medicine, I told you that Dr Mary said that you had to take the medicine and that your pain-pain will go away. You told me that you wanted to take the medicine from the yellow spoon that the pharmacist che-che had given you. Ok, so I measured using the syringe then poured onto your spoon. And you happily slurped all the medicine! Yay! Clever boy.

Shortly after going into the room, you kept telling me to turn off the light. I guess you were very tired already. By the time daddy came online, you were already sleeping. Nevermind, daddy will be back today. You'll get to see him (and your new toys) soon.

Pick Up Daddy

What did you say the moment you saw mummy and Ah Kong walk through the door this evening? "Later we go pick up daddy from ee-pot okay?" Sigh.. No dear, daddy's not coming back today. It's a little difficult to explain to you that daddy will be back in 2 days time.

Nevermind, I know you'll be very excited when you see him. Of course, daddy would not be back empty handed. I "heard" the toys just now when we were chatting. Not exactly sure what they are, but they're some "noise makers"!

What Happened to Furbie?

Poor poor Furbie. What was your reaction when you saw this?

"What.....?"

You were lost for words. Hehe.. we thought that you'd ask him your favourite question: Are you ok? But you only uttered that single word when you saw him.

What happened to Furbie? Well, he's been having some skin problems. The doctor calls it "yeast infection". Nope, it's not harmful to us, and neither is it to Furbie, but it does cause him a lot of discomfort. And it didn't seem to be getting better from the last visit to the vet. So we took him to see the vet on Saturday, leaving you with Ah Kong and Ah Ma.

Although I would take up any other alternatives that the vet would have to offer, he said that the best way to totally cure Furbie of this skin problem was to have him totally bald. So he had to be sedated before the vet shaved him bald.. totally... We took him home, waited for him to be less groggy and for you to take your afternoon nap before giving him a bath in the medicated shampoo and applied medicine to him. He seems to be better, but losing all this hair made him feel the cold. Kakak says on Monday morning when it rained heavily he was trembling, despite her putting on a towel for him to keep warm as well as his t-shirt. Poor little Furbie.

I hope that his skin problem will improve faster. But we will need to keep him short haired for at least 6 months. I hope that when we visit the vet in 2 weeks time, his skin would have improved.

The Wonderful Skype

Nope, this is not an advertisement.. Hehe.. It's just that it's so very useful and free. We logged in this evening to have a chat with daddy. The last time we used to chat on Skype when daddy was in Japan for work. Then you were too young to be able to chat with daddy. In fact you had a puzzled look when you could hear daddy, but not see daddy. After a while you got bored and I put you to sleep and continued to chat with daddy.

Today, you're older but still as surprised that you were not talking on the phone and yet you would hear daddy and not see him. Hehe.. in fact you were wondering why you could see so many pictures of yourself on my notebook, especially the one of you playing in Youth Park (you could recognise the place as "playground").

Anyway, after the initial surprise, you were quite happy to chat with daddy for a while. Then after that you were more interested in jabbing at all the buttons on my notebook! Even when daddy was chatting with Ah Kong, you kept poking at the number 1 key, and telling mummy that you were pressing on number one! So very helpful. In fact, halfway through the conversation, you even ended the call by hitting your favourite button "ESC"! Of course daddy knew who the culprit was that terminated the call! Naughty Evan lo.

In the end, we had to end the call when you got even more bored and started to pull things out of my drawer and ended up with a smack on your hand followed by you howling away! Maybe it'll be better tomorrow night, if we get to chat with daddy again.

So kind of you..

I know you love me just SOOO much. Why? Well, every night you will quickly jump onto my side of the bed and when I ask you where mummy will sleep if you hog my side of the bed? The response:

On the floor!

Thanks so much! Even with daddy away, I don't get to sleep on his side of the bed. I still have to sleep on the floor. You are very kind, Evan Ban!

BeanBag Hog

Cool swimsuit, eh?

Daddy took these pictures of you sitting on the beanbag before daddy took you down for a swim on Sunday. You seem to love sitting on daddy's favourite seat. Hhm... move over daddy, it's now Evan's seat. I think by the time he comes back, your bum imprint would be permanently on the seat. So it's now "Evan's chair"!

Last night I sat down on the beanbag and you told me that you wanted to sit. So I carried you to sit on my lap, but guess what? You asked me to get out of the chair. You wanted it all for yourself! What to do? Let you sit lo. Of course, you just wanted to sit there while "enjoying" the song from your favourite serial (Best Kept Secret at 9pm). So after you vacated the seat the moment the song ended, I thought I would get to sit there now. But nOooOoo... Next you wanted mummy to play with you. Then you needed to wee wee.. by the time I got to sit down, the show was almost over, and time for our nightly routine: keep your toys, take your milk, kiss everyone goodnight and go to the room to "wind down" for the day. No chance to sit on the beanbag! Maybe I will have a chance tonight?

This is going to make daddy SAD

You'd usually stand near the door at home whenever you hear the door opening to see who is home. And whenever you see us, you'd say "Mummy and daddy come home". Well, you did your usual yesterday evening and you noticed only Ah Kong and mummy coming through the door.

What was your reaction? "Eh? How come no daddy wan?"

Later on you probably recalled where daddy was.. You told me during dinner "Daddy go to ee-pot (airport)". And when I told you that daddy was in Singapore, you told me "Eh-wan (Evan) also Chingapor" and when asked why you wanted to go to Singapore, you told me "Er.. er... to.. to... buy nen-nen lo!". I could hear Ah Ma giggling as she listened to our conversation.

Poor daddy, I'm sure he misses you a lot. We spoke to him over the phone last night and you played your drums for him while singing "Old McDonald's" before saying good night to daddy. Well, we'll see daddy soon this Friday ok?

Daddy's Gone to Singapore

Daddy has gone to the airport today. He needs to travel to Singapore for some work. He'll be back on Friday, and judging by his expression yesterday, he's not very keen as he'll miss you a lot (well he added "and mummy too" after a long afterthought! *grin*)

He played with you last night, trying to tell you that he'll not be around, but you didn't seem to understand. At first you said that you also wanted to go to the airport. Then later, you picked the word "Singapore" and also told daddy that you wanted to take "air-plane to Chingapor".

You were still sleeping this morning when we left for the airport, but don;t worry, daddy will be back on Friday. He's made mummy promise to post daily updates on you on the blog. Er.. hopefully I will be able to do so.

Self feeding

Actually we've let you self-feed yourself for a while, and I'm proud to say that you're very good at that. When we first started, it was during dinner time. I'd put some newspapers under your baby chair, but you didn't seem to drop much on the floor, so I stopped putting the newspapers. Some rice would drop on your lap, so daddy would remove your tray after you were done with dinner and bring you to clean up in the bathroom, as well as wash your hands and mouth. Sometimes, not a grain or rice drops. Hhmm.. I think it's because you're greedy, so you are careful to make sure no rice drops on!

Since you are ok with rice, obviously there is no problems with moi, since it's all stuck together. So, there is certainly NONE wasted whenever you feed yourself moi. Here's a picture I took of you enjoying your moi in front of the TV. I'd usually put it on the coffee table along with your water and wet towel, pull your little chair and you'd feed yourself. That's why I managed to get the pictures of you.

What did you have for lunch? Pumpkin moi. Can't you see from your messy face?

Of course, soon you realised that I was carrying the camera and tried to "help" me with the camera. So what did picture did you take? Barney..

I had to keep away the camera after that so that you'd finish your lunch.

Birthday Dinner

So where did we go to celebrate Ah Kong's birthday? Well, since we could not make it on Sunday (daddy & mummy had to attend a wedding dinner), we celebrated a day earlier. Well, we asked and asked Ah Kong to think of a place to go for dinner, but he could not decide.

What to do? So we took out Friday's newspaper that has a listing of where to eat. Scanned through and still could not decide. In the end, we finally agreed on Ribs Barbeque Restaurant on Burmah Road. Ok, the last time we tried to eat there, they didn't have any tables available. So this time I called ahead to get a table. And we got one. So the moment we arrived, we got a seat, ordered our food and even a main course for you. What next? Go for walkie lo.. What else? It's your favourite thing to do while waiting to be served dinner. Don't know where daddy took you to. But when mummy's soup was served, I could not find you. Had to call daddy on his phone. Soon, we were sharing yummy pumpkin soup.

Our main course was served shortly. As for your order... We waited and waited and it never arrived. We noticed other tables being served and so daddy checked with the waited. Guess what? He never took the order! (Of course they did not let that on, but it's obvious since he quickly ran to the kitchen with a piece of paper and walked over to say that it was "on the way"). Of all orders, he had to leave out your order. After waiting forever, it finally arrived. But you were no longer hungry. You'd drank most of my soup (thankfully!) and eaten my potato wedges and other things. So in the end, daddy finished off most of your fish. What did the restaurant do to compensate for the delayed food? Free ice-cream for all of us, including you.

The food was good. Only thing that the "hiccup" made me rather unhappy as they had left out your order (maybe he didn't expect us to order a main course for a little guy like you?). Maybe next time we have to ask them to repeat our order to make sure this does not happen again...

Walkie walkie

That seems to be your latest favourite word. You keep using it, wanting to go for walks. Especially when we're out for lunch or dinner. You'd request to go "walkie-walkie" either after the meal or while waiting for the meal to be served.

When did this start? When you were hospitalised. Since there was nothing much to do in the hospital room, we'd take walks around the ward either (with mummy as your slave reminding you to walk slowly as I struggle with the thing carrying the IV machine) to look at the little sleeping baby or to play in the playroom until your IV machine's battery started to run flat and beep, signaling it was time to go back to the room to charge the IV machine. In fact, you even requested to go walkie-walkie when you woke up in the middle of the night. Nothing could persuade you to sleep or just lie in bed. In the end, we did go for your walkie and thank goodness the playroom was closed, otherwise you'd be playing in the playroom in the middle of the night!

So now who's designated to bring you for walkies? Daddy, of course. Mummy gets to enjoy my meal while daddy has to turn on his super fast speed to eat dinner/lunch then bring you for a walkie. Of course, you'll only start to ask to go for a walkie after you'd finished eating!

Mummy, wake up

I love the weekends. We usually get to sleep in. Like 2 weekends ago. We slept until almost 9a.m. That's considered very good. Thanks goodness despite waking up early on days when we go to work, you also sleep in when weekend comes. And I'd usually only wake up after you'd woken up.

Actually to be more precise, you'll wake me up. I try to continue sleeping even though I can feel you moving around the bed. You'll try to entertain yourself for a while until you get bored, then you will come over to my side of the bed to wake me up. How? Simple: by using your little fingers to pry open my eyelids. What is the first thing I see?

Yup, you peering at me like that, and telling me "Mummy, wake up!"

Where is it?

Quite a number of mummy's friends were asking where this yummy coconut ice-cream is sold. Hhmmm.. shall we tell them?

Ok, ok, we'll share the "secret" location. After another round of it this weekend, it's a place worth mentioning and sharing with our friends. It's sold by a Thai lady who has a stall to your left just after you enter the gates of the reclining Buddha's compound in Burmah Lane. I have asked her before and she says that she sells on weekends and public holidays. (She speaks hokkien.. phew!)

We usually order it in a cup which comes in 2 sizes: big cup and small cup. She also sells ice-cream on a cone. I've never tried that, so don't know if the ice-cream on a cone comes with the corn, peanuts and "atap-chi". No pictures.. coz everytime we buy it, we finish it in the car (also never thought of taking a picture... too busy eating!)

So, hope that our friends will enjoy the ice-cream as much as we do.

Happy Birthday to Ah Kong

Ice-Cream Today

As usual, daddy had his early morning golf game today. So we went out for an early lunch with Ah Kong and Ah Ma, since Ah Kong's game was in the afternoon. On our way downtown, guess what you said?

"Later we go buy aishh(ice)-cream, ok?"

"OK" seems to be your favourite word lately. Everything ends with an "ok". Haha.. I guess you picked that up from us. But we didn't have time to buy ice-cream with Ah Kong, since we had many things to do and buy before Ah Kong's golf game.

So when daddy came back from his game, had lunch and a shower, we headed out again to buy ice-cream. What's so special about this ice-cream? Nope, it's neither Haagen-Dazs nor Baskin-Robbins. We can only get it in one particular place (in Penang anyway) and the lady only sells on weekends and public holidays.

It's Thai coconut ice-cream. Complete with peanuts, corn and "atap-chi" (palm seeds). Oo-la-la.. Just the right dessert for today. Yummy... Daddy reckons even you know a good thing when you've tasted it!

Terrible Two's?

Some days you are the perfect angel. Others...

You're almost 2.5 years old. Growing, and learning new things as the days go by. It's is sometimes easy to get you to understand why you are not able to do things or to eat some things just by a simple explanation. BUT.. that does not mean the explanation is something that you will accept or want to understand. That's when we are reminded of "the terrible two's".

These days I will tell you not to do things and what do I get in response?

"WaaaaaahhhhhHWAAAAAAAHHHHH"

Any hope of explanation to calm you down does not work, until you get what you want. Especially giving you the key-card to open the security door to the condo. If anyone forgets to give you the key-card.. Sorry-lah.. Their eardrums will suffer the consequences! How to calm you down? Go out and let you zap the key-card again.. what else?

Sometimes I tell you with my most stern voice "That's enough".. what do I get in response? More tears and loud wailing again.. Some days, you'd just ignore me. Otherwise, you will conveniently change the topic. How? By drawing our attention to something else, or even better.. a *kiss*.

How can we remain angry? I wonder if the age of "the terrible two's" will end just like that when you turn three? Hhmmm...

First time: Hospitalised

Daddy and I were out to lunch on Wednesday when Ah Ma called to say that you were complaining of a tummy ache. We thought you'd all right after a while. But less than 10 minutes later, Ah Ma called again saying that you were crying non-stop and daddy could hear your in the background when he was talking to Ah Ma. So we rushed back to the office to pick up our notebooks and headed back home. Ah Ma called again, worried about you asking where we were. She wanted to drive you directly to the hospital, but I had called ahead and the doctors would only be back at 2pm.

So we arrived home but you'd fallen asleep from all the exhaustion. A while later you woke up writhing from the pain, telling mummy that your tummy was "pain, pain". So we rushed you to the hospital. The moment we arrived, you told me buy bread! Then when the nurse saw you, she said that Dr Mary was on emergency leave. (Already knew that, because I had called ahead). So we waited to see Dr Khaw. What happened before it was your turn? You decided to throw up all over daddy. And when we went in, you also decided to decorate his office and giving him some "aromatherapy" by vomiting another 2 times.

Diagnosis: food poisoning. Ah Ma had it the day before, so you probably got it from her. And with you deciding to vomit twice in the doctor's clinic and a check indicated no bowel movement, he recommend that we admit you. Sigh.. my heart (and daddy's too) heart dropped to the ground when we heard that. He said that better get you on the drip to rehydrate and later cure the food poisoning. He actually said 3 days minimum! Yikes...

He took you to another room where he inserted the "thingy" in your right hand for the IV and also took some blood for testing. We were about to cry when we saw you crying when the doctor did all that. Started to wonder if we did the right thing in agreeing to have you admitted. The admission process was so so long. And guess what, by the time we got to the room, you seemed all fine and dandy!

Look at your little hand.. Poor thing

You chatted with the nurse, telling her that the tag she gave you was a watch and it had the numbers "ninety-four" (which I don't know where you saw that from.. ), let her change your dirty clothes and told her lots of things. When daddy went back to pick up some things, we "roamed" the paediatrics ward, checking out the playroom, looking at that tiny baby who's got jaundice and testing the tv in our room. And then it was still ONLY 5 pm. Sigh..

Ah Ma and her friends dropped by to see us. Then daddy went back to change and Ah Kong, Ah Ma and our house guests came over to see how you were before heading off for dinner. We sat around, ate dinner, played a little and watched "The Fox and the Hound" and you fell asleep shortly. Phew.. peace for mummy, only then could I take a shower. Daddy dropped by later with some food for me and you woke up, asking to go for a walk and go to the playroom. Daddy finally left as the next bed was occupied and there was no place for him to sleep. So, we played in my little (very tiny) bed and you asked for more food (I'm officially off cinnamon rolls for a long, long time!) and we finally got to sleep..

Or so I thought... The nurses were in and out of the room, either taking your temperature or adding anti-biotic to the IV and it went on all night. I think either it was you waking up the other baby, or it was her waking you up. Dr Khaw come over quite early this morning and he said you looked fine and we could be discharged. Yay! Thought that we could leave quickly.. But by the time all the procedures were complete, it was already 12pm!

Longest 24 hours of my life, and I hope NOT to see any hospital room for a long, long time. Everyone was so tired from this affair, we all fell asleep shortly after lunch.

Oh No.. It Rained

With Ah Kong's friends over, they decided to treat them to a BBQ. But.. of all days, it decided to rain.. Actually it had been raining for the past few days but it did not rain yesterday, so were thought that there was hope of a BBQ by the poolside. But it was not to be...

It rained in the afternoon and stopped a while (raising our hopes again, I might add) and when we went down to clean the BBQ pit, it had already started to rain again. Sigh... What to do? We had to put our "backup" plan into action next. Use our (still new) oven. Very soon, the aroma of grilled chicken was all over the condo. Yummy.. Ah Ma's BBQ recipe sure is the best! And everyone agreed to that. Next came the prawns. While the prawns were cooking in the oven, Ah Ma even cooked steaks to order! Daddy's steaks was done to his liking: medium-rare! Eeww... After that was Ah Ma's fish that she's bought fresh from the fishermen near our place. It was so fresh.

What next? There was a birthday to celebrate. So.. we had chocolate mud cake that we bought from the shop outside our condo. On top of that another friend of Ah Kong's even brought yummy cheesecake. Double yummy.. You loved the chocolate mud cake, which Ee Poh and family also love!

What time did you sleep? With all the excitement and all the aunties and uncles to keep you entertained, we went to the room at 11.00pm, but you didn't sleep until probably 12.00midnight after daddy and mummy fell asleep. I think we slept before you!

Only thing is you had to wake up early in the morning (3.40 am ok!!) to do a biggie and drink water and insist that mummy had to go to the kitchen to top up your water bottle and after all that you just went back to sleep, while I lie in bed with my eyes wide open! Sheesh.. I feel so groggy now...

Let's Go For a Swim

It looked so sunny yesterday evening. And I was feeling a little too lazy actually, but you seemed to energetic yesterday and poor daddy was trying to take a nap. So mummy brought you down for a swim. At first I thought of doing it by myself, but Ah Kong was also keen to bring you swimming. So in the end, we went down with Ah Kong and Ah Ma too. The last time we went swimming you got sick and that was the scariest time ever.

Dressed you up in your new swimsuit and off we went. As usual you refused to get into the water at first. Ah Kong had to carry you into the small pool with you trying to get your foot on the sides, struggling!

Finally mummy gave up and told you to sit in the small pool while I went into the bigger pool. Of course, you decided to join me immediately. After a while, you started to relax and enjoy the warm water. Even kicked the water. When Aunty Ruth and Uncle KK came down, you even showed off your kicking skills. After that, you decided that you didn't want to get out of the water. But I dare not let you play for too long, so we wrapped you up and headed to the condo for a warm drink followed by a warm bath. That was fun, let's do it again soon...

Looking better?

We've finally cleared most of the things. Daddy and Ah Kong even put up some of the pictures, cuckoo clock and we put away most of the things that were in the boxes. (don't open the closets! Hahaha..)

With Ah Kong's friends over, we had to clear out your toys from your "play room". So where did they end up? Outside in the living room lo.. Can you see the toys on the floor? That's not all of them ! Some are in our room, others are on the shelves near the dining table.. Sigh.. too many toys!

Naptime

Seems like your nap time is now regulated. Ah Ma says that right after Clifford the Big Red Dog, you will go to the room and fall asleep quickly. Hhmmm... Looks like that seems to be the case. At 2 sharp for the past 2 days you'd fall asleep.. in the car!

On Saturday, daddy and mummy had to take turns carrying you so that we could have lunch! And right after we finished our lunch, you decided that you'd had enough sleep already! Arghhh... Yesterday was the same case. Barely 10 minutes after we got into the car, you'd fallen asleep. After we went to 2 stalls (1 in Terengganu Road and another in Tanjung Bungah) to buy some tea time snack, you decided to wake up! Slept for 1 hour in the car!

So would that be the same today? We thought that since we were not going anywhere, you'd follow the trend. Sigh.. I was SO mistaken. Went into the room at 2 sharp and thought that you'd sleep 5 minutes later (like Ah Ma said you would). Did it work? NooOOooo.. (obviously). I took me a good 25 minutes before you finally decided to fall asleep! Sigh..

And now? Deep in slumber land...

Correction: Already up even before i manage to upload the pictures! Haiya...

Nope.. woke up to lie on my lap.. sleeping again

So many boxes!

Boxes everywhere... That was what the house looked like the last few days before we officially moved.

And the condo is also full of boxes (obviously) and it took us a good 3-4 days to (almost) finish unpacking. There are still 2 more boxes that we need to clear before Ah Kong's friends come this weekend.

Here you are playing among the boxes.

What Happened to All the Water?

*Backdated post.... (very)*

Oh no.. I didn't notice it at first when we went home on Sunday (from the condo). In fact, I didn't realise that the fishes were missing when I came back last Tuesday. Even made the mistake of asking you where the fishes were. Luckily you were ok with the missing fishies. Ah Kong had given the fishes to his friend. 3 of the Japanese carp. Daddy said that they'd told you the fishes were to be given to "uncle".

So what was your reaction when you saw this?

Look closer..

Eh? No more water edi... Water go to unker's housh (house).. (You told me that EVERY night, when we go downstairs to take your milk!)

Er.. ok i guess you got mixed up between the fishies and the water. I'm sure you'll miss those fishies. You used to feed them with Ah Kong whenever he goes home for lunch. Never mind, maybe when you're older we can get you some fishies to feed in a fish bowl, since this pond will be covered up soon.

Need Sleep

I guess everyone has been tired with all the moving. I cannot imagine when the time comes for us to move back to the house. Yup, I forgot to mention that this move is only temporary while the house is under renovation. Only realised why Baby Zen's mummy left us a message.

We've been staying at the condo officially for a week. Yet, I think everyone is still very tired. I don't know why you should be tired, but you seem to be so. You must love the excitement of staying in a new place, because you seem to sleep late and wake up early. So do you suffer from lack of sleep? Obviously not! Why? Because your afternoon naps have now extended to 2.5 hours!

Who is suffering from lack of sleep instead? Hehe.. I wish to say it's me, but I think daddy is still very tired. With the move, we now have to wake up earlier to travel to work. I cannot proclaim to be lacking in sleep because sometimes I fall asleep before you do at night! Hehe... Daddy on the other hand has those little things to check on and fix around the place still. So he's really tired. He fell asleep even with you making a ruckus in the room yesterday evening!

Hopefully you'll sleep in this weekend. We all need the long long sleep to rejuvenate!

We've Moved

Mummy received news that we were to move to the condo the weekend after I came back from Bangkok. Yikes.. that gave me around 2-3 days to pack up all the things that we've accumulated over the years. What to do? What to do? Can it be done on time? When daddy picked me up on Wednesday, he told me that they'd postponed by a week. Phew.. Now I will have more time to pack.. or so I thought anyway.

Ok, the truth was that I did procrastinate a little. And the boxes only arrived on Friday. Luckily Ah Ma decided to engage some professional movers to help. I started to pack up the clothes into the boxes, while daddy went through all the things to decide what needs to be thrown, kept or given away.

Everynight was spent clearing all our stuff. Some nights I slept when you fell asleep and refused to wake up later (as I had promised daddy) to continue packing. Hehe.. still tired from the trip. Anyway, we took Thursday afternoon off and we finally finished packing all the things. By the time we were done, it was 3am. Why did we take so long? Because we had to wait for you to fall asleep, which you have taken to sleeping only after 11pm! Otherwise, you'd be so very helpful. Either helping by pulling out the things that I'd put into the box or asking me what the items were, or deciding that you wanted to sit on my lap!

Friday was D-Day. We all could not wake up, since we had a very late night. When mummy and daddy finally got ourselves out of bed, you continued to sleep until almost 9am. Since it was already late, I gave you milk and off we went to the condo with some small nick-knacks that we were to move ourselves.

Daddy left shortly for the house after we were settled in. What did we do? We entertained ourselves, had lunch and mummy even ordered delivery for myself. Daddy came again later to drop some things and see how we were doing. Since you were still awake, we decided to go back home to see how the moving was going. The house certainly looked.. bare. All the things were cleared and just before we left, it was even emptier. Why? Because one of the charitable organization had sent their recycling team to remove all the wooden fixtures. So the house was REALLY bare.

We arrived at the condo just as the movers reached. Soon, they were moving the boxes and boxes of things into the house. When all was done, they opened the packaging of the bulking items. I wish that was the end of the moving. Sigh.. but seems like that's not the case. Now it's time to unpack. As of now.. we still have A LOT of things to unpack.

And with all the moving, you did not take an afternoon nap. You dozed off for 5 minuted on the way back home in daddy's car. So I expected you to sleep early at night, but I was mistaken! Sleep only came to you (and me) at 11.30pm!

Chippies again...

Daddy said that he had promised to go home yesterday during lunch time. Too bad we couldn't make it, since mummy had a lot of work to do. So today we bought lunch and went home. Of course, you were glad to see us home. It seems you even told Ah Ma that we'd be back today. And good thing we decided to go home today too. Since Ah Kong did not go home for lunch today.

Like I was saying, you sure were glad when you heard us coming home. But you were even happier when you saw what we had brought back for lunch. Yup.. chippies! You were grinning from ear to ear when you saw the "Golden Arches" logo. That's right.. you can recognise this:

And this too:

What do you call them? "Chippies".. what else?

I wonder if you will greet me with "Eh? Where chippies?" when we get home, like you did the last time... Sigh.. more eager to see the chippies than mummy or daddy...

Ba-nga-nga-nga

Although you are willing to try most of the food that we introduce to you, you seem very reluctant when it comes to fruits. It's durian season, and obviously you refused to try that. In fact, the moment you see the white Styrofoam box, you'd point to it and say "No...."

What is strange is that you'd take orange juice but not oranges. Then again, you had grape yogurt yesterday but when Ah Kong asked if you would like grapes, since you'd take grape yogurt, you said "No..."

So what fruit would you eat? Apple is one of your favourite. I used to give you pear too, but nowdays you'd only eat it if you're in the mood for it. Other than that, banana is your favourite. You'd ask Ah Ma to buy you ba-nga-nga-nga when she goes to the market. Whenever we go to the Pulau Tikus market, there are only 2 things that we have to buy: ba-nga-nga-nga and baka bun (butter bun).

The latest thing you have learnt is whether the banana is ripe enough to eat.

Ah Ma : What colour is the banana?

Evan : Gween, can-ngot eat (Green, cannot eat)

Ah Ma : What colour is the banana?

Evan : 'ewo, can eat (Yellow, can eat)

It's very amusing how fast you pick up things now. So whenever you see the banana that Ah Ma buys you'll know whether you can eat it or not.

P/S: Despite learning things quickly, there are some things that you refuse to learn. Like the correct word is "ba-na-na" and yet you'll say "ba-nga-nga-nga". Otherwise it will be "ba-nga".. Anything but the correct word!

Missed You So Much

I was away on holidays with my friends from last Friday and only came back on Tuesday. While it was fun, I had to leave you crying, in Ah Ma's arms, asking for me and that made me sad. Thank goodness for mobile phones. So daddy would call me and we'd chat a while or he's SMS me to tell me the little naughty things that you did while I was away.

It was a relief when I arrived home. I get to see you and daddy, whom I've missed so much. The moment I got home, I hid in the kitchen and you came out asking for mummy. Daddy was there but you told poor daddy "Dowan daddy". The smile you gave me was the sweetest and I missed your smiles so much while I was in Bangkok.

Better still was your reaction when I gave you your presents. You went "Wow.. nice, nice".. Talk about being appreciative. Worth all the effort I spent to pick some nice things for you. Will post about your "loot" later on...