Mummy...

It's funny how you have evolved from calling me Ma-ma to mummy and now you have decided to call me something else. What is it? "Mum" plain and simple. And you do it intentionally (you give me your cheeky grin when you say it). Where did you pick that up? I'm not sure. I call Nanna "mum" but it's been a while since we went back to BM. Is it possible that you learnt it from me then and only put it to use this weekend?

Actually somedays you'll call me "mummy" and others when you are in the "mood" you'd call me "mum". Hhmm... I heard you calling Ah Ma "ma-ma" also. What's next?

Uncle Sam and Aunty Pam

They are Ah Kong and Ah Ma's friends who live in US. And they usually come to Malaysia for a holiday. The last time they were in Malaysia, you were not born yet. In fact we went to Chiang Mai with them when mummy was 7 month's pregnant with you. So this is the first time you were meeting them.

Looks like you're better with strangers now. After a while you were happy to play and entertain our guests. In fact when they went to the airport for their holiday in Kota Kinabalu with Ah Kong and Ah Ma, you kept asking me where they were. After they came back, Ah Ma said that the moment you woke up every morning, you'd go look for Uncle Sam. Why? Because he lets you sit on his lap and play with his notebook. In fact he even downloaded something from the Disney website for you to play with!

Now that they've left for Singapore (to continue their vacation), you still miss them. On the day that Ah Ma dropped them at the airport, you cried. Not sure if you understood that they were going off or because you wanted to go along. Anyhow, whenever we ask you where Aunty Pam or Uncle Sam was, you'd say "Gone to airport"

Everyone feasting on the yummy dinner that Ah Ma cooked

Full Moon Party

We had a party to attend today. Nope, it is not a birthday party this time. It's a Full Moon party for Kaitlyn. It was a lunch party at Sarkies Corner in E&O Hotel. We arrived a little later because daddy had a morning golf game. We met daddy there and the moment we walked into the restaurant, you told me that you wanted a balloon. Sigh.. so I told you to wait for daddy and he'll try to get you one. The moment daddy arrived from the carpark, you told him that you wanted a balloon. Off you went with daddy while I went to take some food for you. It was way past your lunch time. What did you have? Chippies and daddy took you out to take some roti canai. There was one with banana's inside and you ate some of that. I also got you fish which you loved since you got to dip it in some tartar sauce.

Food was delicious. And since we arrived late, there was no more baby chairs available but you were quite happy to sit on your own chair in between mummy and daddy. Here are some of the pictures that daddy took:

Kaitlyn

Enjoying your purple ice-cream

Of course, before we finished with lunch, you had your pick of ice-cream and what did you pick? The purple one of course. We went out to enjoy the sea breeze and take some pictures before heading home for a much needed nap for the 3 of us.

By the way, if you're wondering why there is no pictures of you and daddy, it's because daddy said it's ok. He probably doesn't trust my ability to handle his camera!

BBQ Time

Mummy had some friends over on Friday for a BBQ party. To my surprise your shyness only lasted 5 minutes. After that, I could leave you alone with them (all 16 of them!) and you were happily entertaining them, showing them how to draw and charming them.

In fact, I could leave you with them while I prepared the garlic bread and when it was time to go down to the BBQ area, I could not find you. Why? Because you'd already gone down with one of the aunties. After showing them the area, we went up and you were in the house with daddy and Ah Ma. Lucky for me, you didn't want to stick to me like you usually do and I could entertain my friends while you were upstairs with daddy.

Just before we were done, it started to rain and we all went up to the house. Of course, you were delighted with the big crowd. After your bath, you were happily playing around when you lost your grip (while walking on all fours) and fell down. Poor thing, you wailed in pain like mad and almost immediately a "bungalow" was seen on your forehead.

The aunties and uncles left at around 9.30pm. After the accident, daddy took you into the room and kept you entertained with your latest favourite past time.. What is it? "Working on the com-tu-te" i.e. playing on the computer with the online Thomas and Friends game.

Home Alone Part 2

You woke up at 5.30 yesterday, giving me enough time to finish off most of my work. As usual, you were your grumpy self. The only response you gave for all my questions was "No need". After a bit of coaxing, you finally agreed to have your Milo and some cookies. Then we headed downstairs for a walkie-walkie (and feed the mosquitoes since mummy forgot to put the repellent for you). The security guard was delighted to see you. And he happily showed you the drain cover which would make a loud noise when you stepped on it. That's your daily ritual with Ah Ma in the mornings. Stepping on drain cover has never ceased to amuse you ever since you "discovered" them when we went on holiday last year.

As with yesterday, you woke up at around 8.30 this morning, so mummy had time to freshen up, get breakfast and log onto the company's network before you demanded for my attention. As usual, you asked to play with my computer. So anyone who heard our conversation this morning would hear a lot of "EVAN!!!" "Don't touch that" and "Go watch TV!". On top of that in all my excitement, I clicked on something that turned on the paragraph marker in my Outlook and I cannot seem to turn it off! Arghhh.... I will get daddy to help me remove it tonight.

Thank goodness these 2 days are slower days in our reporting weeks. If it were last week, I'd probably be the one at work, and daddy at home with you. Fed you your moi and of course you had to "tell" me about the veggies in your moi. Then you shared my pizza lunch with me. TO my surprise, you wanted to go to the room at around 1.10pm. Of course that didn't mean that you wanted to nap anytime soon. After another round of "persuasion" you finally napped at around 2.00pm. I got out to do some more work and you woke up at 3.15pm, wailing since no one was by your side! Sigh... So short? You're now sitting on my lap, supervising me.

We've had our Milo and biscuits (you persuaded me to have some, like yesterday telling me how delicious it was. Yup, using the word "delicious". I wonder where you picked it from). Ok, I'm going to entertain you before you ask me to go to the Thomas website. Where did you learn that from? Aha... Uncle Dennis introduced it to yuo.

Cry Baby

You've been a big cry baby lately. Every little thing will make you cry. I just don't know what to do with you. It's been worst this past week and I realised it's probably because we've got visitors.

Once before that when mummy told you not to do something, you promptly put your face on my bed and made crying sounds. I ignored you and after a while, you looked at me and said "Evan, crying wor.." with that sad face. But daddy says I'm evil, since I just told you that I didn't like cry babies. And you stopped after that! Hehe...

Well with our guests around, it got worst. Just a little louder and the flood gated will open!

Don't touch... Wwwwaaaaaa

It's hot.... Wwwaaaaa

Be careful... Wwwaaaaa

But when we went out, just the 3 of us (Evan, daddy and mummy) mummy could tell you off in any ways and you'd be fine. See? Just playing up in front of other people. Problems is that if we reprimand you in front of them, you'd only cry louder. If I were to reprimand you later.. you don't know what that was about.

What can I do with my little cry baby? Will all these naughtiness stop when you turn three? Or does turning 3 only brings on the "Horrible Threes"?

Home Alone

... with mummy.. also Kakak Wait and Furbie.. Hey, not that alone after all!

Ah Kong and Ah Ma have gone off on holiday with Aunty Pam and Uncle Sam. So since daddy was the driver, he dropped them at the airport and continued for work. As for you mummy stayed at home to take care of you. My boss was kind enough to allow me to work from home today. The initial plan was for daddy to take over on Friday (it's only fair for us to each get tortured by you one day!), but daddy had a meeting scheduled on Friday which he had to attend, so mummy had to be tortured by you on both days! Hehe.. Thankfully my boss was ok with that.

I woke up early this morning, just after they left for the airport, freshen up and logged into the company network before you woke up. In fact, you decided to sleep in a little and only woke up at 8.30am. Maybe it was because we had a late night yesterday. Daddy had another late meeting and we rushed to meet you all at that new Bulgarian restaurant on Hillside. Dinner was delicious and ended quite late. As usual, you needed some time to calm down before finally falling asleep. So you finally slept only at 11.30pm. Well, it ended up as a blessing since I had some time to myself before you woke up.

The whole morning was spent entertaining you, peeking at my e-mails and trying to do some work. And of course throughout this you tried to help me work on the computer. Sigh.. So very helpful. Even when I said I had to talk to my boss, you said "My boss is coming". Huh? Who's your boss? I know my boss at home is you... You have a boss too? Hahaha.. I guess you don't even know what "boss" means!

Fed you your lunch and ordered delivery for my lunch. Of course you had to help me finish up my pasta. Let you entertain yourself with some TV (you told me: Evan's channel 613) until around 2.30 before going to our room for your nap. Had to read and sing and sing again until you finally went to sleep. Kept asking you to sleep as I had a meeting at 3.30 and thankfully you did. You were in deep sleep at around 3.20, giving me some time to plug in the headset for the meeting.

Halfway through typing this post, you woke up and wailed. Had to go back to the room to accompany you before you went back to sleep. You seem to like to wake up in the middle of your sleep or nap to check that someone is sleeping with you. Ah Ma says that if someone is beside you, you can easily sleep for up til 3 hours!

As for now, as long as you nap for 2 hours I'd be more than happy. That will give me more time to finish some work. Maybe when you wake up, we can go downstairs for a walkie-walkie..

Tiring Weekend

It was one of those (VERY) rare occasions when Mummy had to work on a Saturday. Something like once a year, since it was our year end close. So daddy was the baby sitter for the day. I woke up early so I was ready and sitting around when you woke up. I could hear you asking for mummy but daddy indicated to me to let him try to settle you. In the end, daddy gave up and brought you out to the living room. The moment you saw me, you came to give me a big cuddle. Sigh.. why did I have to go to work???

Anyhow, daddy called a few times to let me know how it went with you. You all went to Butterworth so that Ah Ma could pick up her car. You'd already had lunch before leaving for Butterworth, but daddy said that you were upset when you could not eat some of their noodles too. It was hokkien mee.. too spicy for you. Poor little guy. You fell asleep on the way home and only woke up when the security guard called to say that Chek Kong, Chim Poh and some other relatives had arrived. Furbie was barking, the phone was ringing, you woke up from the comotion crying and daddy had to try to settle everything at once because Kakak Wati was taking a bath and Ah Kong and Ah Ma were both out.

Came home and you were so happy to see me. What a sight for sore eyes! Rested a while and got ready to go out for dinner when Ah Kong and Ah Ma came back. We drove out in two cars, bringing them to see the sights around Penang before heading for dinner in Nyonya Breeze. Dinner was yummy. We ordered a plate of fried rice with specific instructions for it not to be spicy AND no veggies.

Went home and you played a while before heading to bed.

On Sunday, you did not want to sleep in. Sigh.. we up went got and went out to entertain ourselves while daddy continued his sleep. When everyone was finally awake and Ah Ma back from the market with Chim Poh, they all headed out for more sight seeing while we rested at home. Later on we joined them for lunch in Lorong Selamat. Headed home and played a while with you until our visitors came back from their sigh seeing.

Mummy walked away while you were "drawing" with your magic pens (a present for your 2nd birthday). What a big mistake. You took it on yourself to decorate your play mats. Yup.. it was all green and Ah Ma yelled at you to stop. Too late. You'd already created a work of art out of 3 of the mats! You later came into the room to show me your art work. Even your fingers and sole of your feet were green. No pictures.. I was about to faint from the sight and had to use nail polish remover to try to clean most of it. I ended up with green fingers too. But it all looks quite clean now. Phew...

We both took a nap for 2 hours. Felt so much better then. Ah Ma was already back by then with Aunty Pam. We had some tea and later when all the golfing people were back and ready, we headed to Aunty Jenny's place for dinner. Dinner was amazing and the company great. We headed back home at around 11pm, way past your bed time, but you were still so excited and refused to go to bed. Finally after a lot of persuasion you went to bed. What a tiring weekend...

No Veggies

I have a big headache. Don't know how to get you to eat your veggies. The only time you'd take your veggies is when it's all cooked together with your moi-moi. Even then, you'd sometimes take a look at the porridge and say "Got beh-ggie wor", hoping that we'd remove the veggies. But usually Ah Ma will just sat "Eat it!" and you'd eat it without more fuss.

When it comes to dinner, where you'll eat rice and the same dishes that we eat, you'd flatly refuse to eat the veggies. You used to love the cabbage and now you refuse to eat them. Even fruits have become a no-no. You used to love the pears and apples and we could not bring out the fruits until you've finished with your rice, since you'd refuse the rice if you saw the fruits. Now, you won't eat the fruits and on Sunday you held on to the apple for a very long time (after being forced to at least eat one slice) before finally eating it. No form of persuausion or threat could make you eat more.

Daddy tried to introduce new fruits to you. But this is what he got:

P/S: Just got you to pose for this picture.

What do we do in Jusco?

You used to say "Go to Jusco.. Pi dum, bom bom bom" (play drum). Well it's been a long time since we've brought you there since we've moved. These are a few of the pictures that I found taken a while back of you playing drum:

Nowdays you'll say "Go Gurney?" as we pass Island Plaza and again when we pass Gurney Plaza. On Sunday, you told daddy "Go Gurney, buy cookie for mummy". Ok, since daddy and Ah Kong had no golf plans, we headed to Gurney Plaza. We met mummy's friend Angela and her son Joshua just as we arrived. They were leaving and Joshua's grandma even gave you one of the little cakes that Joshua was having.

We bought the cookies that you were going to "buy" for mummy then walked a while and left. Before we left, I took you to look at how the donuts at Big Apple were being made when you told me that you wanted donuts (darn.. mistake to bring you there!). So we bought some and headed home before you wanted more things!

I wonder if we're going to Gurney again this weekend...

Swimming today

Went for another swim today. Daddy had promised you that he'd bring you swimming today after he got back from golf. I had thought that he wouldn't make it since he wasn't back at 6.15. Daddy has not been playing golf for the past 3 weeks. Too many things and he's having a great time at home with you. He jokes that he can no longer recognise a golf club.

But shortly after, he arrived and we quickly changed into our swimsuits and headed downstairs. We've got to make full use of the pool, before they close it temporarily in 2 weeks time. What's happening to the pool? They're extending the pool from it's current size. So we wont have the use of the pool until it's ready.

You seems to be happier in the pool nowdays. You used to be terrified and now you happily came into the water with mummy. You even know to kick in the water. We need to get you those arm bands that I have been saying soon. Maybe we should go swimming in the club while the pool is unavailable. We'll see how it goes when the time comes...

It was an Accident

What happened? Look at your "naked" carseat:

Sigh, it happened yesterday after we went back to Nanna's house from dinner. We had to wait a while for Nanna and Grampy to reach home, since they were in Ee-ee's car. So... You peed in your pants and never said a word. I only realised when I carried you out of the carseat. Sigh.. Why? Because mummy had forgotten that you were diaper-less after your nap. And in the excitement of deciding who's going on who's car, I had forgotten to put on a diaper for you.

So while mummy gave you a shower, daddy had to assess the "damage". Luckily only the seat cover was wet, and luckily we had the "neat seat" in case it flowed through, which it didn't. Daddy brought up the carseat so that when the cover is dry, we can slowly fit it back before bringing the carseat down to be fitted into the car. We cannot figure out why you didn't say that you wanted to wee wee since you always know to tell us when we're at home. Maybe you also forgot that you diaper-less. Nevermind, accidents will happen.

Back to BM

It's been a while, so since Ah Kong and Ah Ma had a wedding dinner to attend yesterday evening, we decided to head back to BM to visit Nanna and Grampy. Also 2nd Ee Poh and Alex Ku-ku was back too. So we left after a late morning. Mummy woke up earlier while you slept until after 8am. We bought lunch for Grampy and ourselves before heading to the ferry terminal. Daddy had promised you that we'd take the ferry over to BM.

After waiting for a long time for the beef noodles, we headed to the terminal. To our delight, there was no wait and we even got to ride on the upper deck of the ferry. Wow! You enjoyed the wind and the sights and all the many ships that you could see. Daddy even told you that one of the ships had "Cranky" one of the characters from Thomas and Friends.

We had lunch as soon as we arrived in Nanna's house. The noodles were delicious. And you even had most of one packet for yourself. Later Nanna and Ee Poh arrived and after an initial shyness you warmed up to Ee Poh and she showed you the book that she bought you. It was a nice book with 3 stories and you liked it as the pages were embossed.

We dropped Ee Poh off at Ah Chor's house and dropped by to say hi to both your Ah Chors and you played a while with Jayden until mummy said that we had to go back since Ee-ee was coming over soon and you hadn't had your nap yet. This time you didn't protest when you were told to take a nap. You only insisted that you wanted to sleep in the room (mummy's old room). You slept after a while and mummy brought you downstairs again where it was cooler and daddy could watch you while I chatted with Ee-ee.

When you woke up from your nap, you were rather groggy and you looked around for mummy, spotted me and walked towards Ee-ee and hugged her. A moment later you looked at her and said "Eh, wrong one" and walked towards Grampy before finally spotting mummy again.. That was so funny.

We had dinner with Ee-ee , Teo-teo (which you pronounce as "Tor-tor"), Alex Ku-ku, Nanna and Grampy. We finally agreed to have Bah Kut Teh, which is your favourite. Luckily I didn't bathe you before dinner. You were a mess after dinner and you had a shower before we headed back to Penang. These days we have to leave earlier since we don't reach home after crossing the bridge. We've got to drive some distance to Tanjung Bungah still. Hope you had fun yesterday. You're such a lucky boy. You had 3 presents: a book from Ee Poh, another jigsaw book from Ee-ee and a Thomas mat from Nanna that 4th Ee Poh had bought a while back.

Going to Sleep

Getting you to sleep seems to be a challenge for me all the time. Just like today's afternoon nap. You'd negotiate and ask for this and that before you finally would sleep. What needed to be done today before you finally went to sleep. First to watch your Barney VCD. So after the first episode, I said we'll turn it off.. Or so I thought.. Nooo.. You said that there was another episode. So finish that first. Then when it was over, we had to go to wee wee, put on your diaper, close the curtains, arrange the pillows and finally lie down on the bed.

But no.. you weren't planning to sleep so soon yet. You needed to cover blanket for mummy, give me "lumpy" to cuddle and a bolster too. And next you needed to pick a "nice" spot to sleep. I finally gave up so I closed my eyes pretending to sleep and ignore you. There was no sound and I didn't feel any movements. So I opened my eyes to peek. Were you sleeping? No such chance! What followed next? From "Please go to sleep" to a stern "GO TO SLEEP" to "If you don't go to sleep...." which all failed to get you to sleep.

After a while to moving around and looking for a comfy spot. You finally fell asleep. How long did this process take? I honestly cannot tell you, because (not surprisingly) I'd fallen asleep before you *grin*

Sigh.. why does it take you so long to fall asleep? I wonder how difficult it is for Ah Ma to get you to nap on weekdays.. Probably a lot easier than me!

Cupcakes..

I've had this recipe from Charlotte's mummy for a long time, but I never got around to making them. So after lots of nagging from daddy, I finally got around to making them. Since the portion was rather small, I doubled it and on Tuesday, I made the cupcakes for the second time.

The first time had less banana's and wasn't fluffy enough. The second time, it turned out better. I made 20 cupcakes and 30 odd smaller ones since daddy said that you had wanted the smaller ones. What was the result of my baking? Here:

Hehe.. not the nicest looking things, but hey, I have my "fans" you and daddy. I guess they taste better than they look. This second batch had some raisins it it too. Some of them didn't have raisins because just as I was about to drop the raisins into the batter, you came into the kitchen and declared that you didn't want them. But I added to the rest of the mixture, and you ate the cupcakes with raisins anyway. Mummy also gave some to Annabelle che-che. Abby was in KL with her daddy and mummy, so I didn't pass any to her this round. I hope that you like these cupcakes. I've taken Nanna's recipe book for cookies and cakes. Maybe next time, I will bake some cookies.

Going to KL?

We've got no such plans but you seem to think otherwise lately. For the past 2 nights, you have been telling me this "Tomorrow we go KL, ok?" and when I asked you what you planned to do in KL (I thought you'd say ride on Thomas and boat), you told me "To pick up Boh-boh Poh and Teh-teh (che-che)".

I have no idea why you say that, since both of them are in Penang. Hhmmm...

Nah...

You used to give me things by saying "Nah..." I tried to teach you some manners.. How to rephrase "Nah" when giving something to someone? Put some thought into it.. and what came to mind was "Here you go".

So after a few times of saying "No Evan, don't say nah. Say here you go" and you finally got it. So nowdays, I'm proud to say that you will be nice and polite and tell me "Here you go, mummy".

You're so polite that even when you dig for "gold" (especially since you were down with a cold and kept getting dirty nose), you gave it to me and said "Here you go, mummy".

Sigh.. what to do? How do I reject something yucky given to me, but put in such a nice manner...

A Lazy Sunday

Since we had a simple dinner yesterday and mummy and daddy have been thinking of Japanese food, we decided to have a Japanese buffet lunch today. It was so peaceful and quiet this morning, we all slept until 10 am! Yup, 10 am! There was no construction work going on next door and despite some children playing in the pool, we slept and slept on. Woke up with a jolt and quickly had our breakfast and got ready to go out for lunch.

We arrived just on time. We got seated and daddy promptly went to bring the steamed eggs as promised. You loved it and thank goodness it wasn't too hot for you. After one bowl, we had fish for you and daddy even took some fried rice. You ate a little bit of this and a little bit of that. What did you have to fill yourself up? A whole bowl of miso soup. No wonder Ah Ma calls you the "soup king"! You'd down any type of soup. After you decided that you were full, you decided that it was time fo your usual "walkie walkie". But before that, daddy brought you to pick your ice-cream. Guess which one you picked? The purple coloured one. Yam flavoured. And it was really yummy. You finished 2 scoops of the yam ice cream. When mummy wanted to take ice-cream, you told me to eat the pink one and green one for daddy. Ok, we'll do as the boss says! After ice-cream, we asked for the bill.

That was when you decided that you needed to make another "deposit". HHmmm.. you seem to be doing this very often lately. Nevermind, we paid the bill and brought you to the toilet. Of course it was clean and dry and you could do your business. After that we brought you to the fish pond. I had warned daddy not to mention "fish" to you during lunch or else you'd immediately decide to go for walkie. You loved the fishes and daddy brought you to walk on the bridge which you enjoyed immensely. Like yesterday, you declared that you "Want to walk on bridge tonight" again. Try as we may, you could not understand "another time" and insisted on "tonight".

After that, we left and headed for tou-tou's house to return the stroller cover for Anna che-che's stroller. You seemed drowsy on the way home, but the moment you entered the house, you were recharged. After a while, I tried to make you take a nap, but you only rolled and rolled on the bed. I think I'd fallen asleep, but you wouldn't. So thinking that it's because you woke up late this morning, I let you out. What did you decide to do? Curl up with me on the sofa and fall asleep 10 minutes later! Sigh.. so you're napping now with daddy watching over you while I'm writing about our day's event.

We'll be going over to the airport tonight to pick up Ah Kong and Ah Ma. What are we having for dinner tonight? A bit decision... Only thing is I still feel full from lunch!

Butterfly Farm

Ah Kong And Ah Ma has gone to Singapore for the weekend. Yup, we dropped them off at the airport yesterday evening. What used to take us no more than 30 minutes to and from the airport took us almost 2 hours this time (which included buying our dinner and your chippies that you had told me you wanted in the afternoon), since we're leaving from the condo which is a lot further!

Well daddy promised you last night that if it didn't rain, he'd bring us to the butterfly farm. We had been thinking of bringing you there for a while, but never got around to putting the plan in action. We had thought that the plan had to be scrapped again, since it rained so heavily on Friday night.We all slept in and woke up at 9am this morning. The weather was beautiful. And so we all ate breakfast and got ready to leave for the Butterfly Farm. Actually by the time we arrived, it was almost 11.30am.

There was no place to park, so we had to park across the road. Paid for our entrance tickets (free for you) and we were in the farm. I was wondering how you'd react, but you didn't seem to worried. Initially you wanted mummy to carry you, but when the butterflies flew near you, you didn't seem to mind them too much. WE walked around, looked at the butterflies, the millipede, scorpions and many other insects and even a snapping turtle. It was rather humid but you didn't seem to mind. There was a big pond full of fishes even. The Butterfly Farm seems to be very popular. There was even a busload of school children on an excursion.

Just realised that although you never told me that you were "scared", you seemed to be rather wary of the butterflies. We had to persuade you to look at the camera before taking the pictures. But you seemed to be looking elsewhere in most pictures!

Butterflies

Snapping Turtle

After that, we left and dropped the camera home before heading to Gurney Plaza for lunch. On our way there, you kept telling daddy that you saw three butterflies and red and green and orange butterflies. And you even told daddy that you wanted to "Go to Butterfly Farm again tonight"! Looks like we'll be making another trip there another time, since you seem to like it. One thing that I never realised is that from calling them "baka pai" you can now pronounce the word "butterfly" very clearly now.

It was a little pass your lunchtime and when lunch was served, you seemed very happy. We ordered nuggets and chippies for you. Daddy wondered if you'd like Ribena, but the moment he tried to give you the drink, you said "No.. no.. no..." and covered your mouth! So, you drank water while daddy drank up your Ribena. After lunch, we walkie walkie a little before heading home. It was pass your naptime.

After your nap, we took a bath and headed out for dinner. What to eat.. So difficult to decide. In the end, we agreed on Bah Kut Teh. Yummy... you polished a whole bowl of (regular sized) "or pui" and also had half a blow of the soup. Headed home and you were recharged as usual. So played and played and when mummy told you that it was time to go to bed, you told me "Evan not tired wor.. " and refused to go to sleep until I had to carry a very unwilling toddler to bed!

Riding on Thomas the Train

Here's the video of you enjoying the ride. It's very rare that you'd sit on it willingly. Better yet, ask to ride more! The few times that we'd brought you to Jusco for the rides, we'd have to persuade and convince you to finish the ride, or there are also times when the next kid gets a free ride because you got scared and jumped off the ride before it was over!

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.