3 days to Chinese New Year

We're going to have dinner at Nanna's place tomorrow before going off to Ipoh directly from BM. So today will be the last day of working for mummy and daddy. We've got some last minute things to do tomorrow. Along with re-packing too.

So to all our family and friends, Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day Evan!!

You slept quite well last night. From 9pm till 7.10 this morning. What a good boy. And in such a cheerful mood. So ever willing to say and wave "bye bye" when Ah Kong was leaving to work.

Have a great day ahead...

Jumping Jacks

Remember how I told you daddy had cramps after he did jumping-jacks with you when we went to visit your great-grandpa in the hospital? Well this is how it's done.

First daddy lets you sit on his shoulders like this:


Then he will squat and stand and squat and stand and squat and stand and..... You won't let your poor daddy rest after he starts with this game. You will laugh and laugh and scream at daddy when he stops! That's how he came about with the cramps! Hahaha!!!

Miss you while we're at work

Just finished talking to you over the phone. Ah Ma called to ask me where your knee guards were. Sounds like you're going for your "exercise" in the little room upstairs. I should take a picture of you in those knee guards that ee-ee bought you.

Mummy, daddy and Ah Kong love talking to you over the phone. It seems like the phone is also one of your favourite things in the world. You seem to want to grab at the phone when we call home to ask Ah Ma anything. But it makes us wish we were home, playing with you, rather than stuck here at work, staring at the clock, willing time to move faster!

Cut The Finger

It was a busy day. Daddy, Ah Kong, mummy and you went to the new home to do a bit of cleaning in the afternoon while bringing some things to the house that we had bought yesterday when we went shopping in Carrefour.

You were happily crawling and cruising around the house with one of us watching you. Then it was mummy's turn to watch you while daddy and Ah Kong try to fix something in one of the bathrooms.

The next thing I knew, I noticed some bloodstains on the floor. Somehow you had cut yourself but had not made any noise. Quickly I carried you to the bathroom to wash your fingers. But it kept bleeding non-stop! What a scary sight. Daddy took over trying stop the bleeding. In the end, we put a plaster on your little finger. It was way too big, but better than nothing to cover the wound. It continued bleeding and we needed to change another plaster before it stopped bleeding.

By then, you were crying and making a lot of noise. Not too sure if it was the cut that sting after being rinsed or was it that you sensed panic in mummy and daddy.

Luckily, you were fine and on the way home, you removed the plaster yourself! Look at your cut finger:

Early morning greeting

Dear Evan,

Ah Ma has been teaching you new things. You now know how to do "Gong Xi Gong Xi", wave (and sometimes say) "bye bye", wave "hi", clap your hands(there's sound even!) and purse your lips to make a sound!

So I guess I shouldn't be too surprised when you woke up at 4.45am this morning (YES! 4.45am) made some noises and when you saw mummy peeping at you, wave hi and clap your hands to me! Haha... how to stay angry at you?

Have a great day ahead darling. I think Ah Ma has got more little tricks for you to learn.

Blogging

Ever wondered why mummy and daddy decided to start this blog? Actually, the task of blogging is mummy's "job" while daddy enjoys reading the blog while adding a "suggestion" or two here and there(daddy claims giving suggestions is his job!). And also asking mummy when the next blog will be.

Mummy's friend introduced her blog to me and I decided to attempt to blog too. Initially, mummy wondered where I would find the time, with work and caring for you. Amazingly, the blogging bug bit me. And now, I try to blog whenever I have the time.

Mummy used to keep a "manual", handwritten journal of what you have done. So that is my reference point for back-dated blogs. (I just seriously stared to blog not too long ago).

To everyone else reading this blog, Ben and I hope that you enjoy reading this blog about our little Evan as much as we love sharing with you all our experiences with out little bundle of joy, Evan.

2 weeks to Chinese New Year

The countdown begins. It's 2 weeks to Chinese New Year, and mummy is starting to panic!!!

So many things to do, so little time. Lucky Ah Ma will be helping us exchange new notes for the Ang Pows. Mummy needs to get a special ang pow for you.

I have taken out all the clothes that you will probably wear during Chinese New Year in Ipoh. As usual, there are a lot of things to bring along for you. I plan to make a list of what to bring in an Excel spreadsheet.. but never got to completing the list. I better do it, otherwise, I might leave out something and daddy will stare daggers at mummy! *wink*

Everyone is looking forward to Chinese New Year. They have not seen you for a while.

Visiting Great-Grandpa in hospital

Dear Evan,

You woke up very early yesterday morning. And half an hour later, your Ah Ma came knocking on the door. Great-grandpa had fainted and hit himself on the face near the eye in the toilet at home.

So in a rush daddy and Ah Ma went to Auntie Jamie's house to bring him to the hospital.

And later in the night we braved the traffic jam (as it was Thaipusam) to go to town for dinner and to visit your great-grandpa in Adventist Hospital. Poor thing, You were a bit shocked when you first saw him, as his right eye was very bruised. But later after that, you grinned at him and even stood on great-grandpa's bed.

And I guess the highlight of the day is when daddy did jumping-jacks with you sitting on his shoulders. But today, he's suffering the effects. His legs are aching. So no more jumping-jacks for a while till his legs recover!

Sleep... sleep at last!

Dear Evan,

You were a good boy last night. You only woke up 3 times after you went to be before 10pm. And each time you woke up, you had your feed and went straight back to sleep, without kicking a fuss.

In fact, daddy slept right throught the night too. He didn't wake up a single time when you woke up last night! Poor daddy, he must be very tired. We all were sleeping by 11pm!

Hopefully this will be your new sleep pattern for a while, until you learn to sleep through the night.

So sleepy today..

Evan.. oh Evan.. Why did you wake up so early this morning. My dear baby, at 3.30am, even the roosters aren't up! So why should you, a little baby, be up so early??

Now mummy and daddy feel so tired sitting here at our desk, trying to work.

Although you were up at such an unearthly hour, it was difficult to stay angry at you. Your one little grin, melted our hearts. That's why you got away with playing on our bed, hitting the wall behind our bed and rolling around. You stayed up till 5am when you finally dozed off and mummy also got another 2 hours of shut eye.

I hope you don't intend to pull this same trick again tonight. Daddy and mummy are VERY VERY tired. Unlike you, we didn't get to have a morning and afternoon nap!

P/S Daddy says you cannot sleep too early tonight.

Happy 10months birthday Evan!

My dear.. in the blink of the eye, you are now 10 months old.

Our little baby
Ever so tiny
When you were born
We could have sworn
The most beautiful thing
We have ever seen.



You're 10 months in January
Chinese New Year is in February
And soon we will celebrate
The day you will turn one.



I guess mummy will never be a poet. But I hope you like it. Not very good at rhyming. But wanted to give a different twist to this blog. Happy 10 months birthday to you darling.

More sleepless nights..

Dearest Evan,

Mummy feels so, so tired today. You were up every 2 hours. And the 2 hours starts counting from the time you woke up earlier, and not AFTER you went to sleep.

I think it's probably because of the dry weather. Daddy was just commenting to me this morning that the real Chinese New Year weather is here. So with it being dry, you had to wake up for a drink. And longer drink too. Poor Evan..

We'll try to put out more bowls of water. Hopefully that will help you sleep better. And longer too. You woke up at 5 this morning hoping to play! Luckily you went to sleep after a bit of coaxing, although you only foudn the comfy spot with your legs facing us!

Standing & Walking

Dear Evan,

We didn't even notice you cruising often. But all of a sudden, you stood up unaided on our bed last Friday. And the next thing we know, you took 2 steps while standing on daddy and mummy's bed last night! Wow!

I guess very soon you will be moving around, walking everywhere. And pulling everything within reach to the ground!

Sigh.. our little baby is growing up so fast..

Sleepless nights...

My dear Evan.. I am still wondering how come you never read the "baby manual"? Don;t you know that babies are supposed to sleep long hours. At your age, I think it's supposed to be around 10 hours during the night.. Of course you are expected to wake up sometimes for feeds.. but better still if you are able to sleep though the night.

You woke up at 1am this morning and refused to sleep.. It took you more than an hour before you could find a comfy spot in mummy's and daddy's bed! But of course not before you sat up and give daddy a big fat knock on his head, followed by the loudest howl ever from you..

Teething

My dear Evan,

My friend said it was easy for her to see whether her son was teething. His teeth shows everytime he smiles. Sigh.. for me, it took me a long time and I have finally managed to get a picture of your two bottom teeth.. with the help of your daddy & Ah Kong who encouraged you to go "bang bang bang" on your high chair.



And last Thursday I caught a glimpse of your upper tooth growing. Yup, for some unknown reason, there's only ONE tooth growing. Didn't you read the baby manual? Your supposed to have both upper teeth growing together. I wonder when we'd be able to get a picture of that tooth.

Chinese New Year is coming!

Gosh.. I don't know if you are excited about Chinese New Year, but I am. Other than the downside of giving out ang pows, it would be the first celebration for you. I'm sure you would have loads of ang pows this year. And you will get to meet the whole "Ban Clan". Trust me, the word "clan" can be considered an understatement! It's a very big family.

Wow.. so much to do, so much to get ready. Lucky for you, Ah Kong and daddy bought loads of clothes for you when they went travelling earlier on. So all mummy needs to do is start packing... Hmm.. is that too early?

Photo Session Day

It seems like a long time since we've taken photographs with you. So today mummy and daddy went home for a quick lunch and also to have a photo session with you. Here's the pictures we took with you:


With Daddy..


With mummy


And with Ah Kong

Ah Ma is camera shy today. She says her clothes looks messy because you've been pulling at it the whole day. Nevermind, we'll take another picture with Ah Ma another day.

Our New Home

Today we officially "jip choo" (move into our new home) in Tanjung Bungah. Very far from our current house, but it's a nice place by the beach. Lucky you woke up early as we needed to be in the house between 10 and 11am! Nanna told us that it was the best time.

The condo is still relatively bare, but we are slowly furnishing it. Most importantly we brought along your play mat. So you could entertain yourself while we have the workers put up the curtains and do some final cleaning of the condo.



And after a long day of playing in Ah Ma's room, you fell asleep on mummy and daddy's bed:



That was fun. So we will be going over again to spend a night there this weekend. I wonder when you will get a chance to use the swimming pool...

Food upgrade

It's time for you to promote to eating moi. Ah Ma is all excited. She's went out to buy fish for you from the market. She bought "kah lat hoo". Don't ask me what type of fish that it. All I know that it is "a fish"!

So the time came and Ah Ma cooked your yummy moi. But look at the face you showed: