Happy 6th Birthday Evan

Happy birthday to my darling. Had a wonderful day with you today. First we dropped you off at school, then picked up the cake and went back to school by 10.30am as requested by Mrs. Shanti. We waited a while as the children in your class finished up their work and got ready for the little party in school.

After the party we headed home and as I took the whole day off, I headed out again with Ah Ma later on to pick you up. After lunch, we headed out to Queensbay. We had a hot date, just you at me to watch the movie Seefood. You didn't seem to like the movie much, preferring to be interested in the uncle who sat "up behind" who was waving to you (the man who turned on the movie). Before we headed home, you had a few more rides (you already had some before starting the movie).

It was overall a fun day.

Muakksss to our darling little boy. Happy 6th Birthday!

Lost and Found

Another tooth is lost and the one which was lost earlier (taken by the tooth fairy) has been replaced. I could see those tiny whites peeking at me as we checked your gums after the right incisor fell off. And what timing it was for the tooth to fall off. You were halfway eating when it fell off. Thank goodness you didn't swallow the tooth *grin*

Looks like Mr Boh Geh will possible have only 1.5 teeth missing for his birthday.

Banana Cake

Don't know why but you have been bugging me for a while to make you a banana cake. I've tried offering you in the form of cupcake but you insisted that it had to be ONE big cake. So after reminding Ah Ma to buy bananas that was what we made early this morning. The bananas were bought quite a few days ago and the skin was turning brown already. I was too lazy to search for a new recipe so I decided to use old faithful.

Since you wanted to have the banana cake, you had to do most of the work. Cutting the banana:

Putting them into a bowl:
Mashing the bananas:

While you were mashing, mummy measured the dry ingredients and mixed them up. Then you helped me to add the mashed bananas, butter and mixed the eggs:

Then the eggs were added to the mixture:

Back it went to the mixer and then we both poured the batter into the lined cake tin and as mummy popped the tin into the pre-heated oven, you helped me to clean up:

Yup.. by licking clean my beater and mixing bowl!!
Off we went for a shower then waited a while until the cake was ready then it was time to eat your banana cake.

Missing

I was only half paying attention to Lau Shi and playing with my shaking tooth when suddenly my tooth landed on my tongue! Yay! It had finally dropped. I could not eat a lot of things because of this naughty shaky tooth. I suddenly left Lau Shi, running to the landing and calling "Ah Kong my tooth fell off!!!" then I ran down to show Ah Kong and daddy my tooth. Daddy said that I was a brave boy as I did not shed a tear when I saw all that blood as I rinsed my mouth as he instructed me.

Next, I had to look for mummy. She was in her room asleep. But she was also excited when I shouted at her that my tooth had fallen off. Then she took my tooth and chased me back to my room to continue with my lesson. Darn.. I was hoping to end class with all that excitement. Too bad!!

Later after classes I found daddy in the room with his camera busy taking pictures of my tooth. I've never seen anyone so excited over one baby tooth! Then daddy also got me to pose with my tooth:

The next day the first thing I told anyone whom I met (Ah Ma, Mrs Shanti Lee) was about my missing tooth and showed them the hole in my tooth too! That night, mummy gave me a pouch to put my tooth into and daddy told me to put it under my pillow for the tooth fairy. And guess what? When I woke up the next morning I found RM2 inside the pouch. My tooth is missing, but who cares.. I'M RICH!! Woohooo!!

The Value of Money

When we got back home after Chinese New Year, daddy offered to download 2 more games to the iPad for you. But on one condition, you had to pay him RM1 for each game. It was certainly a difficult decision which you had to make to pull out RRM2 from your wallet (which has quite a bit of money actually). I guess you were torn between saving money to buy your Ferarri/Porsche/Lamborghine (you keep changing your mind) versus having 2 new games to play on the iPad.

In the end, you pulled out 2 RM1 notes to give to daddy. Daddy took the money and downloaded the games for you (of course, he replaced the RM2 into your wallet when you weren't looking). Happiness for you. And we thought that we'd at least taught you the value of money and to show you that you do not get everything you want just by asking.

A few days later (daddy was off in KL) and you were struggling to finish your Mandarin homework then you came to my room and took out your wallet:

Evan: Mummy.. I give you money.

Mummy: Why?

Evan: I pay you, then I don't need to do my homework

Mummy: *too stunned to answer*

I guess our "value of money" lesson backfired!!

Valentine's Day

I called mummy yesterday when she was at work. Told her that I have a Valentine's Day surprise for her. She was so excited. I told her to come back at 5 or 6, but she only got back home at 6.30. But good enough, we still had time before dinner time to play treasure hunt.

I think mummy is not very good at treasure hunts. I gave her a clue but she didn't seem to remember the clue "it's in a box". She still wanted to search the drawers.. as if I can't tell the difference between a drawer and a box!

In the end, I had to give mummy another clue before she finally found it. She was so happy, she immediately asked daddy to take a picture of us with the present which I made in school for her.

As for daddy.. er.. he didn't get anything from me. But I did give him a hug. I'm sure he's happy with that. Daddy, maybe I'll give you a Valentine's Day present when I make it in school next year.

Chinese New Year Dinner

Preparation for dinner began very early. Lots of chopping, cutting, slicing, frying and so forth was done in the kitchen for us to feast on for dinner. Here are your kor-kor's busy cutting the ingredients for that night's lou sang:
So what was on the menu for the first day of Chinese New Year's dinner? Ah Ma's specialty Hainanese Chicken rice. Yummy... and of course it wasn't just plain old steamed chicken and rice (of course, there's nothing wrong with just that..), there was lobak, soup, veggies and another specialty dish from Ah Ma, char siew:

Look at the beautifully prepared Wu-Sou Kai:

And dinner began with another round of lou sang:

And for you the day ended with more sparklers and pop-pops:

So many pop-pops. You were throwing them by the handfuls!

Chinese New Year Lunch

After the lion dance we went into the house to take more pictures in air-conditioned comfort:

Posting with the dragon which was left in the fruit basket. Sue Kor-kor poked two sticks so that you could hold up the dragon easily.

Here's our family picture. Seems like everyone was in red/orange this year:

Then I sneaked to the back to take pictures of our lunch being prepared. Here's the soup cooking in the giant wok:

Lots of chillies:

Fried eggs (lots of them):

If you haven't already guessed, it's our usual first-day-of-CNY lunch, Mee Suah Soup:

Welcoming The Year of The Dragon

I woke up earlier, showered and went downstairs for breakfast. Halfway through breakfast, I was greeted by a groggy you. Groggy but not teary (thank goodness!). Fed you breakfast then it was time for your shower. Got you all dressed and you went down to greet everyone, all dressed in the red dragon motif "Chinese Costume":

Here's the things all ready for the things ready for the lion dance which was to arrive at 10am:

Fruit basket and the ang pow with veggies :

While waiting for the lion dance to come, we were all busy posing and taking pictures with everyone. Here's a picture of my little boy and his uncle both dressed in Chinese Costume making a "kung fu" pose for the photographers:

At last the lion dance arrives. It has been 2 years since we last had the lion dance:

And of course the music was to loud for you:

.. there was also fire crackers this year. The lion dance lasted for quite a while. One of the highlights was the "transformation" of the fruit basket. Notice any difference?

The finale was the lion dance climbing up the table and benches to get to the ang pow and veggies which were hung by daddy from Kor Poh's window:

... and the lion leaving with a wonderful message:

This was what happened on the first half of the first day of our Chinese New Year.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon

Keong Hee Huat Chai!

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner

Look at what the "chefs" of the house are mixing for dinner:

Can you guess what it is? The chefs had to prepare the whole day (actually days ahead) for tonight's "simple" dinner. Popiah and yee sang:


Here you are with the little "crown" given to you by Yvonne Kor-kor:

And the final picture before we started on the feast:

Stirring the yee sang thoroughly.

This is the first time I've had popiah for Chinese New Year reunion dinner. Apparently popiah is a traditional Hokkien dish for Chinese New Year reunion dinner. In fact we had to wake up at 5.30 this morning to buy the popiah skin to be brought back to Ipoh.

Geong Hee Fat Cai! Have a wonderful Chinese New Year.

Getting Ready for CNY

We tried to get daddy's car washed today. But there were 25 cars ahead of us!! So in the end, we just had lunch, bought some groceries then headed back home. Daddy decided to wash his car himself. So now you and him are busy downstairs washing his car.

Playing with Fire Crackers

.. yup and with our permission too. Only thing is this fire cracker would not explode or do anything *grin*. We just made our fire cracker out of ang pows and then used them to decorate the house with it. Learnt how to make them from this website.
It's very simple and at long last I have found more uses for the toilet paper rolls which I have hoarded kept and which is also driving daddy nuts (collecting dust).

Halfway through you decided to decorate your own instead of using old ang pow. This is what you drew:

There is you throwing a snowball at a snowman, a house and mummy and daddy also throwing snowball at each other. It is also snowing (snowballs??) in the picture.

Pictures In the Plane

Here are the pictures taken on the flight back. Jaclyn che-che sent them to me and I've finally found time to upload them. They are pictures of you with Jaclyn che-che, Janice che-che and also Randy Ko-ko: