A Weekend of Celebrations Part 3

By the time I woke up from our nap, your 3 Kor-kors were almost ready for dinner. And it wasn't even 5pm yet! I quietly sneaked out to iron our clothes that we were going to wear for the dinner. Shortly after that you and daddy woke up. We went down to chat for a while then we had to "queue" up for the bathroom. There were a lot of people still waiting to use the bathroom before and after you. I was the last to use the bathroom and we were the last family to leave the house for the hotel!

Your Kor-kors were already there as they were to show people the seating location in the dining hall. Corsages were ready for us all and um.. they forgot to make one for you. You got a bit upset and kept asking for your flower, but when I wanted to give you mine or daddy's you didn't want it.

While daddy was busy snapping pictures (he was even mistaken to be a photographer!), we walked around and we also went to ensure that there was a high chair for you at our table. Dinner started just before 8 pm. You didn't eat much for dinner. Surprisingly you weren't even interested in the fish. Before the celebrations ended, 5th Chim Poh, 2nd Pek Kong and Chim Poh's friend went up to sing a few songs. You saw bubbles on the stage and wanted to climb onto the stage. After the dinner was over, we went onto the stage but they'd turned off the bubbles by then. We took a few pictures before heading home.

Milk was given to you since you ate so little before we went up. As usual, you protested that you didn't want to sleep yet but fell asleep shortly after that.

A Weekend of Celebrations Part 2

I was wondering what time you'd wake up on Saturday since you had missed your nap and slept so late on Friday night. Hhm.. you woke up at 8am! We left your sleeping daddy and Yvonne Kor-kor in the room and went down for breakfast. Managed to give you a bath before everyone else woke up. They all had to get ready, especially daddy who was going with the groom to pick up his bride.

Snappily snap daddy was taking pictures the whole day. They went off for a long time to the hotel and so at 11am we all had our lunch first. And halfway through lunch we heard the cars honking, indicating that the bridal entourage was arriving! What to do? You were supposed to open the door for the bride, so I had to put your lunch and drink under the food cover and rush off to put your shoes on for you before the car drove into the driveway.

We had to wait a while as daddy parked his car and rushed out to take pictures of you opening the door and getting your ang pow. After all the excitement, we went back to finish off your lunch and then shortly after that it was time for you to collect ang pow again from the bride.

The day ceremony was finished with a family photograph. And that was not an easy task with so many people involved. Everyone had to get a place and try to be as visible as possible.

After that we went upstairs to take a look at the pictures that daddy had taken then we all took a nap. I had to tell you that if you didn't take a nap, you'll get to stay at home all alone while we go out for dinner! Hehe.. I didn't a grumpy boy for dinner. And soon, the 3 of us KO-ed.

A Weekend of Celebrations Part 1

The weekend started earlier for us. On Friday, we took the last day of leave that we needed to clear for for month of June. We planned to leave for Ipoh after breakfast but in the end, we had to delay our trip because we were expecting the plumber and Ah Ma could not be home to wait for him. So after breakfast we lazed around and then daddy gave you a shower while I cooked lunch. Er.. it's more like popped 2 ready made pies into the oven and made a simple pasta dish (which was supposed to be mac n cheese) which also went into the oven after it was cooked. Thankfully you liked lunch and so did daddy. Later on Ah Kong came back followed by Ah Ma.

Finally we got to start our journey and it was already 2.00p.m.. But of course before we got the the Penang bridge we had to feed daddy's car and off we went. We thought that leaving around your nap time would be good, but you had other things in mind. You wanted a sweet, you wanted to drink milk (because you spotted the small box of milk that Ah Ma had packed for you) then you kept quiet and watched the scenery go by. Then.. you needed to wee wee.. and we'd just passed a stop. Daddy had to step on it and the next stop soon arrived.. and it was CLOSED! So daddy had to continue and we reached the Alor Pongsu rest area. Luckily you managed to hold your wee wee till we reached there. I was still hoping that you'd take a nap, but you stayed awake enjoying the tunnel and asking MANY questions until we arrived in the Ipoh house.

With so many people already in the house, you were very excited but needed time to warm up. You refused to call anyone and when Hailey came, you refused to play with her. Later on you sat outside and let your many kor-kor's keep you entertained while I helped Su Kor-kor. Here you are playing on the swing:

Hailey

Dinner was a wonderful variety of dished prepared by your Kor Pohs and Chim Pohs and I don't know who else. There were so many people around to celebrate the wedding eve with your Ah Pek and soon-to-be Ah Mm:

All the flowers for the day were prepared by Kor Poh and Joanne Kor-kor. Look at the bridal car:

Ok, I'm getting bad at predicting what will happen. I kept thinking you'd go to sleep early. At 10pm you said that you wanted to go to sleep. At 11.55pm, you were still awake, insisting (and sobbing) that you wanted to kiss/hug/play with everyone downstairs. At 12midnight you were dead asleep!

And soon the whole house was quiet in anticipation of this:

A Day for Celebrations

It's Father's day tomorrow and we headed back to BM today to celebrate Father's day with Grampy. On top of that, we have another celebration. It's 4th Ee-Poh's birthday too. Want to know how old she is? Take a guess...

Of course by the time we woke up, lazed around and got ready to leave it was past 11.00am. We had to stop by Sunflower Cake House (which is next door) to pick up Ee-Poh's favourite chocolate mud cake before heading to BM. Ee-ee was waiting for us and although she lives in BM, we somehow arrived in Nanna's house before she did (actually, she got sidetracked playing some game!). Nanna was not home as she'd gone out with 4th Ee-Poh to order the food we were having for dinner. So in the end we headed out to have the famous BM yam rice.
Whew.. what a wait, but it was worth it! It was soooo yummy. You finished almost half a bowl of rice and ate some meat balls and of course drank quite a lot of soup! In the end Nanna didn't join us as she was caught in a traffic jam. After lunch, daddy dropped the 3 of us (you, ee-ee and mummy) at Ah Chor's house. You had a good time playing with Jayden and 2nd Ee-Poh even gave you ice-cream.

We went home and I was hoping that you'd take a nap, but with all the excitement, you claimed not to be tired. We left for dinner after everyone was all dressed up. On the way to Juru Auto City, you were starting to doze off and I had to quickly talk to you and give you something to eat so that you'd stay awake. Otherwise, you might sleep right through like what you did last week (slept for 12 hours straight without eating dinner!).

Everyone else arrived as soon as we seated and that was when all the cameras were whipped out and we started taking pictures. Dinner was served shortly after that and after we'd finished out came the cameras again until it was cake and song time. For dinner we have 2 cakes: to celebrate 4th Ee-Poh's birthday and to celebrate Father's Day for Ah Chor. Here are some of the pictures from daddy's camera...

In front: 2 Ah Chors with Evan

Back: Ee-ee, 2nd Ee-Poh, Nanna, 4th Ee-Poh, Julian Ku-ku and Mummy

4th Ee-Poh, 4th Teo Kong and Julian Ku-ku

The 2 cakes

All excited with the cake that you even willingly sat on Ee-Poh's lap!

Ee-Poh giving you the best part of the cake.

And after that, we went home to Penang directly. Knowing that you were already so drowsy, I changed you into your PJs first. Of course you protested and in the end after changing, you sat chatting away in your carseat before there was no sound from you. You'd already gone to lala-land! And I guess you'll sleep till tomorrow morning.. not too early, I hope.

Wake up call

I was sleeping on daddy's side of the bed as he'd decided to sleep on your "Princess & the Pea bed". I diligently make that bed for you every night in hopes that you'll sleep there, but no go. You'll usually end up on my bed later in the night.

Well, it was rather warm last night, so daddy slept on your bed and I slept on his side which is cooler. Then in the morning, I felt you rolling your head on my body non-stop, rubbing here and there. Tried to ignore you and hope you'd go back to sleep, but you kept moving. I finally reached out to grab the clock to look at the time (it was only 6am). The moment you realised that I was awake, you looked at me and gave me the biggest grin ever. Told you to go back to sleep you you refused. In the end, I asked if you wanted to wee wee and you said that you did.

So off we went and to the toilet and you seemed to cheerful and alert when you were done with your business. You even said "I'm a good boy" as you ran to the bed. I kept thinking to myself how tired I'll be at work, since it was only 6am. But thank goodness, after a while you went back to sleep and I managed to sleep a little while more before going to work.

Goodbye...

It's been 5 days and I still miss him. Yup, our little Furbie has left us and gone to the "Rainbow Bridge". I read somewhere before that this is what "doggy heaven" is called. He was 3 months short of 8 years. Rather short for a little dog, but he wasn't feeling too well and the heat probably didn't help either.

We had friends staying with us and were out for dinner when Kakak Wati called Ah Kong's number to tell him the bad news. Honestly had no appetite to eat, but since we were out with friends (Ah Kong & Ah Ma's friends) around and stuck around until dinner was over. Lucky thing a friend was a vet with the horses in the race course and he offered to help us make the arrangements for Furbie to be taken away that very night and buried. According to Aunty Lynn, Furbie will be buried in the grounds of an Indian temple near the waterfall.

How did you take it? Daddy said that he tried to tell your that "Furbie was dead", but you didn't know. But Ah Ma said that you'd asked her where Furbie was when you realised that he wasn't in the kitchen. So this is what you know and what you'll tell anyone who asks you:

Mummy: Where's Furbie?

Evan: He's not feeling too good. So doctor took him away.

Mummy : So is he coming back? (with tears in my eyes...)

Evan: No

I guess you may not understand the concept of "death" but by telling you this, you understand that Furbie is no longer with us, although you seen nonchalant to the fact that you'll never see him again. I guess that's the difference when you're so little and life seems so simple to you.. for now.

For our Special Furbie

You may have gone,

But look what you've done.

Left us all an imprint,

During your little stint.

8 years seem too short,

We'll all miss you a lot.

To our dear little Furbie,

You'll always be in our memory.

Today We Celebrate Our 5th

Sneaky daddy bought an anniversary card and left it on my dressing table for me to see it when I woke up this morning. Of course, I never noticed it until I had taken my bath and was dressing up in the semi-darkness. Obviously I'd forgotten to get him a card, so in return we will be going out for dinner tonight (on daddy *grin*).

Work of Art

You love playing on my computer. You call it "working on the com-ti-ter". You love to play the games and activities at the Thomas & Friends website as well as click to the Bob The Builder website which is linked to Thomas. One of the activities that is found on the Bob website is to build your own house.

You start by choosing the shape of the house, then the roof, the door, the chimney and voila.. Your house is almost done. What is missing is the colour. You can colour the house and the surroundings with whatever colour you like. These are a few of what you created:

This black house is Ah Ma's house...

I think your houses look lovely...

Oh Me, Oh My...

4th CHeck Kong is coming to stay today. So we had to make our trip to BM a quick one. What a surprise we got instead. Nanna was in Penang! So we didn't get to see Nanna today. Grampy was home and we sat around chatting before we left to come back to Penang. Also daddy wanted to fix up the ceiling which cracked a little when he tried to remove the light yesterday. Instead.. the crack became this:

Yup, a big hole. So we had to call in for help and the lady who did our ID will be coming some time this week to have a look and get someone to fix up the light for us. Yup, daddy I able to fix up a lot of electrical things, but the plaster ceiling is one thing that he needed to call for backup!

If you will excuse me, I think I hear our guests arriving. Bye..

I Spy...

Daddy didn't join us swimming. I thought that he was asleep. So only mummy and I went down to the pool with my arm floats and turtle. Instead when we looked up to the condo from the pool, I saw daddy spying on us. He was standing there with his BIG (telescopic) lens, taking pictures of us swimming. Mummy tried to hide from the camera, but daddy got a few pictures of her in her bathers *he he he*. She didn't like the last picture of me waving at daddy, so she cropped it before it was posted.

Wet

How is it that on days when you're wearing the diaper to sleep the diaper is dry when you wake up the next day. And so I thought that you were ready to go diaperless. Daddy was sceptical as he's worried that you will wet our bed (since you still join us in our bed in the middle of the night..). Anyhow, daddy let me have my way and it went well for 2 days. On the 3rd day, Ah Ma said that you wet the bed just before you woke up. And you continued to wet the bed the next day too.

After that, I had to abandon my plan and it was back to the diaper. And what happens? You wake up with a dry diaper! Arrrghhhhh.... So I tried to be brave and let you sleep without diapers, and I'd have to check on and off to see if you'd wet my bed. I realised that you'd continue to sleep even though you'd weed! Sometimes I'd bring you to the toilet and you'd wee. But some days I'll just let you sleep with diapers. That way, we can ALL sleep in peace!

One night you wet the bed (again!) and I had to change you and what did you decide? That it was time to wake up. And it was only 5.30am. After a lot of persuasion you went back to bed. Luckily your wee wee did not soak through. Thank goodness for mattress protectors!

Last night you said that you didn't want to wear diapers to bed. So you went to bed diaperless. I checked if you'd wet the bed and I think I felt daddy touching the bed too. Looks like we're sub-consciously checking the bed in our sleep! I brought you to the toilet and you refused to wee-wee. Nope, the bed was not wet and neither did you need to wee wee until after you'd finished your breakfast. Now.. do I let you sleep diaperless tonight?

Can you buy it?

This happened a while back. I've been too behind in my blogging. Ah Kong took the day off to send his car to be serviced. So with Ah Ma they brought you out in Ah Ma's car. What happened next? Ah Ma's car decided that it didn't want to unlock and so the three of you were stranded in Prima Tanjung after they'd gone to the bank! Ah Kong tried to open the car door and it could not work.

Luckily since Ah Kong's car was still in the service center, they came over to pick the three of you to wait for his car to be ready. In the meantime, you wandered about the sales center and told Ah Kong that you'd buy him "All the cars". Ah Kong asked if you had money to buy. Of course the answer was "Yes. My 钱缸 (money box in Cantonese) has enough money". Aawww... that's so sweet. I'm sure you melted Ah Kong's heart!

You picked up the word "ching-ngang" from Ah Ma I never knew what 钱缸 meant nor what language it was. Until one day 5th Chim Poh heard you mention the word and she repeated it clearly only did I have a (very vague) idea of what it meant.

Your first ching-ngang was inherited from daddy. Yup.. it is that old and so are the coins inside! It's this Donald Duck coin box from Standard Chartered Bank:

After that you got these other two. One is a Christmas gift another was given to me by a colleague. So it's now yours too. You don't have to shake your (very full) Donald Duck everytime you ahve a coin to keep anymore.

Milo Muffins

Ok, my muffins sure look yucky as compared to the ones that was baked by this nice lady. But daddy ate them and said that they tasted quite nice. I thought if baking the muffins while you napped, but halfway through, daddy called for help. You'd woken and refused to sleep without me by your side on Sunday. So in the end, we left daddy in the room to continue with his nap (which he couldn't after you kicking a big fuss) while you helped me mix my ingredients.

I didn't have enough chocolate chips so I added some of the chocolate rice leftover from the biscuits we made earlier. Then I recall buying hundreds and thousands for I-dunno-what-reason-anymore so we added some of that to the muffin too. You told me that you'd help me sprinkle, but instead of sprinkling them, you ate all of the hundreds and thousands that I'd put into your hand. Hhmm.. my little assistant even taxed on my chocolate chips too!

This Morning...

When I woke up at 7am this morning, it had just started to rain. As usual, you were already asleep on my bed. And by the time I got out of the shower, you'd already "hijacked" my side of the bed and poor daddy was squeezed to the very far end of his side of the bed!

I thought that you'd continue sleeping, especially since the weather was so nice and cool. Made me wish it was a weekend or a public holiday, so that I could cuddle with you in bed.. But.. no such chance. Nope, I could not go back to bed nor did you continue sleeping.

As daddy was getting ready you woke up. And daddy said when he asked if you wanted to get up and look for mummy, he got this reply "5 more minutes...". Hhmm, sure sounds familiar. That's what I get from daddy every morning! Now where did you pick that up from?

Anyhow, with you awake means I won't get to leave for work on time and without you kicking a fuss. And I was right. You wanted milk and multi-grain for breakfast. Worst still daddy had a 9am meeting and it was already 8am! Ok, so needed to negotiate. In the end we came to an agreement that I got to leave after you finished your multi-grain. Good thing you kept your side of the deal.

Before I left, you so kindly helped me open the door, gave me a kiss (wiping away residue multi-grain from your mouth before that ~ so sweet of you) and closed and locked the door behind me.

Phew.. what a morning. Makes me miss you more when I get to see you awake in the mornings....

Watching Cartoons

It all started on Monday when we were watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD in our room. As we started the movie quiet late, we only finished at past 11.00pm. And yet, you said that it was your DVD next. Of course, we couldn't allow that and you kicked a big fuss over that.

So on Tuesday after I got back from yoga, bathed and all we watched your cartoon. You'd picked a DVD with daddy and the selection was Little Mermaid. Ok, by then it was already 9.30pm. Anyhow you don't sleep too early nowadays so we went ahead with the movie. But shortly after the movie started you asked daddy to turn off the DVD player. You said that you didn't want to watch anymore. Anyhow daddy fast forward to the song "Les Poissons" which you know from the CD which we listen (over and over and over and over again) in daddy's car. And you were fine. But later when this character appeared...

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"Daddy, turn off the DVD! I dowan to watch anymore". Aiii... then we realised why you didn't want to watch anymore. You little chicken! You were afraid of the witch! Worst still yesterday night when daddy wanted to watch Hercules.

You went "Turn it OOOooooOOOoooFFFFFF!!!!!". And refused to go near the bed as you'd get a full view of the TV. You found the Hades character even scarier than the Sea Witch!

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Now that I think about it, you were even afraid to watch Kung Fu Panda. Was there a scary character in that cartoon? I wonder how can we cure you of this fear?

The End of the Terrible Twos

I forgot to mention how you took to the dinner that daddy cooked for us on Thursday. You loved the soup and mashed potatoes, but took one look at the chipolatas and insisted that you wanted your "normal" sausages (i.e. Ayamas sausages??). I tried to entice you with your favourite tomato sauce but the moment I got one small piece of the chipolatas into your mouth, you screamed and insisted that you didn't want it and wanted to spit it our. Everyone at the table ignored you and you continued to cry and cry and finally swallowed that piece but didn't want any more.

So in the end, you drank up the soup mixed with mash potatoes and finished off the balance mashed potatoes too. I thought that it was the end of your terrible twos. But looks like the beginning of the horrible threes!

No More Tempurung Head?

Your hair seems to look like "tempurung head" when it grows longer. And your hair seems to grow long very quickly. You'd just had a cut before we went back to Ipoh last month. Now you need another one. So since Monday was a replacement holiday, we headed to Uncle Austin's place for a cut. Daddy also needed one.

We had to wait a while until it was your turn. I changed you into your "haircut t-shirt and shorts", then daddy had to help me hold you while you had your hair cut. You didn't make too much of a fuss throughout the process and soon you were done. We sat around until daddy's cut was done then off we went to pick up Ah Ma who was waiting for us in Annabelle Che-che's house. We went to Gurney Plaza for a quick kai-kai before heading home.

Phew.. we have another month before you need another haircut.

A Day Off

We took the day off because Ah Ma wanted to be in the hospital when Tou-tou had his teeth extracted. So we had a lazy morning (daddy had to work for an hour) then showered and headed out for lunch. Daddy wanted to try giving you a new dish to try. So we headed to the coffee shop on Penang Road and ordered Char Koey Tiau (without cockles, chillies, bean sprouts and "ku chai"). And you loved it. Okie.. another thing that we can feed you when we're out for lunch.

Our days are always filled with food, huh? Nowhere to go after that, so we headed home. Watched TV a little and I checked to see what we had in the pantry that I could use to bake. We had everything we needed for Chocolate Brownies, so with your help we mixed and got everything done in less than 30 minutes. The baking time took a little longer probably because I dumped the batter into one baking pan instead of little cups.

My little assistant chef. Helping to mix the ingredients.

Tried to get you to sleep while it was baking, but you were so full of energy. In the end, we read some books while the brownies were cooling down the you and daddy ate the brownies with nice cold milk while Ah Ma ate hers with ice-cream. I taxed a little of the brownies from you and daddy.

Took a picture of the brownie later in the evening. Instead of keeping it back in the container, daddy ate it up! Hehe..

We went for a swim later in the evening then went back to shower and waited while daddy cooked dinner. Ah Kong had a dinner so we ate "Western" food. We'd gone to Cold Storage teh evening before and bought the things we wanted to eat for dinner (it was originally planned for lunch, but we changed plans when we found out Ah Kong was eating out). What did we have?

Mashed potatoes, pork chipolatas with cream of mushroom soup (canned). Yummy...

Taking De-Worming Medicine

Gave you the deworming medicine today and you were all so excited to eat medicine! But it's a lot, 10 mls and after a few mouthfuls, you were starting to lose interest and luckily after a little coaxing, you finished all of it. No more until another 6 months.

What is in the Oven?

We were alone on Sunday morning. Ah Kong and daddy were off for their golf game, Ah Ma had left early in the morning to bring your two Tou-tou and Bo-bo Poh for their doctor's appointment. We'd had breakfast and Ah Ma called to say that she'd buy us lunch. So we sat around the house (didn't take a bath yet) when I asked if you wanted to help me make cookies.

I had planned on baking in the afternoon, but Ah Ma needed the oven in the evening for her roast beef. So since you were also game to help me bake and we had nowhere to go, we started baking the Milo Doggies Cookies. I got the recipe from this nice lady's website. And we'd actually bought the ingredients the week before but didn't have time to make them. You helped me pour the weighed ingredients into a bowl, turn on the mixer, stir the ingredients and later on roll the dough. Only problem is you could not really roll them properly. Also, you kept taxing everything: the chocolate chips, chocolate rice, koko krunch and even the dough!

Anyhow we managed to get about 20 doggies before you jumped ship. You left me to finish making doggies out of the remaining dough by myself, coming into the kitchen occasionally to ask if I was done. Finished everything, gave you a bath and took a shower myself while the cookies were baking in the oven. We had Uncle Sin Tien, Aunty Ean Na, Uncle Sin Chuan, Aunty Amy and Abby join us later on and they all also tried out our cookies. Here's the pictures taken by Uncle Sin Tien:

Can they pass as doggies?