Evelyn Goes Swimming

As we were going to stay in the condo over the weekend and Ko-ko is finally cleared to go swimming,  we decided to let you try out the pool too.
As daddy was very afraid that you might.. er... have an 'accident' in the pool, we went to Mothercare to pick up some swimwear along with some swim diapers. And also some swimming trunks for Ko-ko as his were too tight. Then we bought you a float too.
Did a little shopping and it was time to head to the condo. Ah Kong and Ah Ma has arrived earlier and had already cleaned up the place.
Shortly after that we all got ready to go swimming.  Floats were inflated and ready. Went to the pool and realised that I forgot Ko-ko's mew water gun. So I headed back to pick it up.  Went back to the pool to find Ko-ko's new float was too small. Had to make another trip back to pick up the giant turtle float.
By the time I reached the pool for the 3rd time. Daddy had already put you in the pool and you weren't too happy about it. You didn't like the float and quickly cling to me the moment I got into the water.
After a while you did not stick so closely to me and even happily splashed water. You even kicked a little as I held you. Daddy blowed bubbles under you, but you didn't seem impressed.
Soon it was time for you to go back. While Ko-ko continued and even had fun in the jacuzzi you had your bath then took a nap.
Here's a picture of you all dressed for your swimming session:

Evelyn's First Birthday Party

After all that planning, the day of your birthday party has finally arrived. Too bad the Ipoh and KL folks could not make it. But it was still fun. We'd ordered all the food for the party. So daddy and I were quite free through the day.

In the afternoon, mummy took out the pictures I had prepared as decorations and put them up.

Here you are taking a peek at me as I put up the pictures and decorative items:

Needed to enlist daddy's help to put up the birthday buntings.

You seemed to know there was something exciting coming up. You refused to sleep. At long last, you took your nap just as it was time for us to go pick up the food. We left you at home with Ah Ma while we went to pick up the food we had pre-ordered.

We reached home just before 7, but surprisingly no one had arrived yet! Usually Ee-ee and all would have arrived. For a moment, I thought that I had put the incorrect date on the invitation card!

Anyhow, soon our guests arrived and it was time to makan. Before that, we took some pictures with the birthday girl:

The food served was yummy... We had laksa, choon peah (fried pohpiah), fried rice, roast pork, belachan chicken and also salmon sashimi.

We even had a surprise visitor. It was the Poh Poh which took care of us when I was in confinement. She came bearing gifts.. for us to makan *grin*. She brought a big container of kuih and also acar.

After a relaxing meal, it was time for the birthday cake. Everyone was so excited. Before the song, we tried to take a picture of you with the cake. Since the cake was too big, I removed you from your highchair and sat you on the table. Before daddy could take a nice shot of you, you gave the cake a kick. Tried to kill the Piglet!!

Next was the birthday song. Sweet... you were so happy smiling and dancing as we sang:

We had to chase away your cousins to finally get a family picture taken:

As everyone was so full from dinner, the giant cake was barely touched! Thank goodness some guests took most of the cake home. Else it would have been a waste to throw it away.

Soon the party came to an end. It was really late and we were too tired to open the presents. After you were changed, you KO-ed. End of your birthday party. Muaksss...

Evelyn's Birthday Cake

We're now in the shop waiting to pick up your birthday cake.  Unfortunately they had made it in blue, following the original design.  So they tried to make the pattern more 'girly'.
It looks ok. They added more flowers.  Will take some pictures later on.

Evelyn's 1st Birthday Party Invitation

Party Time Tomorrow

I cannot believe it. Tomorrow, we'll be celebrating your 1st birthday.  We've planned a simple party in the house to celebrate with family.  Too bad some relatives cannot make it, but I'm sure we'll still have a great time.
Food has been ordered.  We'll just have to pick up when the time comes.  Cake was selected quite a while back.
We almost forgot the all important thing: the birthday present, but has been settled today.  We took the afternoon off to pick a present. Ko-ko came along as he also wanted to pick one for you too.
Looks like we're all set. Hope everything goes as planned tomorrow.

The Rain.... According to Evan

It was raining heavily one evening when you came to my room after finishing you homework.  You looked out the window and said:
Mummy,the rain is the cloud wee wee. Then the thunder is the cloud's poo poo.
The lighting is the cloud's pang pui!

Hahaha... love your creativity.  Hugs.. don't grow up so soon.

Time to Clean Evan's Pearly Whites

It was our usual half yearly appointment with the dentist. So we headed to Dr. Goh's clinic at 3p.m.After a short wait, it was our turn. Daddy started first. He had his teeth inspected and cleaned. Then you said you'd go next.

We asked if the gap between your top incissor was something to worry about. He said we'll need to see how it goes after the rest of your permanent teeth grew then only decide if braces were necessary. Then as you had some plaque in the back of your teeth, he also did some scaling and cleaning of your teeth. Nothing to worry about. You were a good boy.

After mummy had my teeth all checked and cleaned, it was time to go off. Good thing we didn't have to wait long this time.

Evelyn's Pearly Whites

Suddenly we realised that there was one tooth peeking at us on the way home today. Funnily it wasn't the bottom incisor, instead it was your top left incisor.
In fact, it looks like the top right incisor is also on the way. After a long wait, our little boh geh is going to be oo geh soon. *grin*

A Proud Moment with Evan

You came into the car after school and told us this on Tuesday:

Evan: The bookshop is selling Minions notebook. It costs 60 sen so can I use my money to buy.?

Daddy: Ok.

Evan: I want to buy 2; one for me and one for mei-mei.

Daddy and I *feeling so proud*

Daddy: You are such a good boy. I will give you the money to buy mei-mei's portion.

Evan: Ok. Thank you daddy.

Daddy: Actually.. you're such a good boy, I will give you the money to buy both, ok?

Evan: Yay! Thank you daddy.

You did not have enough time to buy on Wednesday before school. So on Thursday, you came into the car, you proudly showed us your purchases.

The moment we reached home, you raced up into the house and proudly showed Evelyn her Minion notebook. Then you told her that she could only touch the book gently and that she could use the book when she's "at least 3 years old" *grin*

Up up to Penang Hill

We decided to make a trip up to Penang Hill on Tuesday. It was the last day we had off for the Hari Raya holidays. And feeling ratehr guilty that we did not do anything this holidays, we headed up the hill. Ah Kong dropped us off at the foot of the hill as we worried there may not be many parking slots.

There were a large group of people just sitting around and we got worried that we may not be able to go up. But, we decided to try our luck and queued up for the train tickets.

After that we quickly went to join the queue to get onto the train. Waited around 15 minutes or so then it was our turn to get onto the train. It was a rather tight squeeze but you and mei-mei were ok. One kind lady even asked her granddaughter to sit on her lap so that you could have a seat.

Very shortly we reached the top of the hill. Everyone stood around enjoying the view of the tracks and of Penang. Too bad it was a little hazy. 

After daddy had finished taking pictures of the view and of us, we took a stroll and saw David Brown's restaurant which we had planned to eat at. Since it was already 11.30 and after a debate we opted to have lunch first before walking around. 

Lunch was nice. We had packed Mei-mei's lunch along. While waiting for our orders, daddy took more pictures. You also had some fun taking pictures using my camera until your lunch arrived. After we were all fed, we took more pictures before leaving the little restaurant.

We walked around a little more. Then we saw the little bird park, but you did not want to go in. So we just wandered around enjoying the cool weather and then poor Mei-Mei who did not have her morning nap fell asleep. 

As there was nothing more to do, we headed to the train station to go home. Just a short trip, but fun for us all.  

 

Hello Alan Ku-ku

It was your first time meeting Alan Ku-ku while Ko-ko last met ku-ku almost two years ago when he got back for Alex ku-ku's wedding.
It was just for the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, we headed to BM. Ku-ku had gone out with Ee-ee and Nanna. So we waited at home (good thing Chelsea and Grampy were home to open the door for us). You were fine with Ku-ku, thank goodness you let him carry you. Yay! Mummy got to rest *grin*

It was soon time to go home after dinner. On Sunday, everyone came over to our house for dinner. This time we even had 4th Ee-Poh and Teo-Kong too. Nanna and Ku-Ku stayed the night because he had an early flight to Hong Kong before heading back to NY.

Bye-bye Ku-ku. Please come back more often. See you soon.

Hurricane Evelyn

This is what we find the moment you are left alone in the baby cot. Even leaving you for a few minutes will result in "Hurricane Evelyn".

Evelyn and Fish

The next week after you jab your blood test was Ko-ko's turn to see Dr. Mary for a follow up. As Ah Ma was busy that night, we brought you along.
When you realised we were in the hospital you weren't too happy. But then... maybe you were just tired so being a little cranky.
It was a rather long wait that night for our turn. When it was finally Ko-ko's turn, you had already fallen asleep in daddy's arms. After Dr. Mary had finished checking Ko-ko,  she asked if you were doing OK.
We mentioned that you were not sleeping long hours at night.  She asked what you were eating. When she found out that you were still on rice cereal, she advised that we put you on moi-moi as rice cereal digests very quickly which was why you woke up so often. OoooooOoo...
So that weekend we decided to start you on porridge with just veggies. You did not like it. Tried again on Sunday but did not work. Could not convince you to like it.
We then decided to give you fish as Dr. Mary said you could start with fish at 10 months. So at 1 day shy of your 10th month birthday Ah Ma introduced fish to you.
While you love Ah Kong's fishes which swim in the pond, you did not like them in you porridge!!
We continued to try to feed you. I even asked Dr. Mary on what could be done
She had suggested we give you soft rice, but we still wanted to try with the porridge.  And yesterday we finally convinced you that it was yummy to eat fish moi-moi. You started to take more and more and today I am proud to say you almost finished all that kakak cooked for you.
Good job, our little girl. I hope you'll love eating fish as much as your Ko-ko.  Muakkss.

Evelyn's Supplements

The result from the blood test indicated that your iron levels were a little low. So Dr. Mary prescribed some iron supplement for you to take for 2 months.
It was difficult every time we had to give you the 2.5 ml of iron. Some days you'd take it willingly, some days we had to fight with you to make you eat it.
A few days after you started to eat the iron we noticed of your poo was dark and it was getting  difficult for you to poo. Had to call Dr. Mary and she advised me to give you some prune juice mixed with water (1spoon + 1 oz water). Worst case was to stop the supplements. 
But before we did anything you seem to be ok with doing a poo. Still hard but at least you poo daily.
We are ensuring that you take fruots daily. Hope that helps. *Keep our fingers crossed*

Evan Eats Dinner with Chopsticks

We were about to faint when you asked why the waitress had removed your chopsticks and gave you fork and spoon instead.
You insisted that you could eat with them. So daddy asked for a bowl with chopsticks.  When the food came, daddy had to mix up the dishes then put it into the bowl for you to eat. It wasn't easy but you patiently fed yourself and finished the whole bowl of rice.
Bravo my little man. Good job!

Evelyn's Owie..

It's me. Mummy and daddy brought me to Adventist Hospital yesterday. Ko-ko also wanted to come along. 

When we reached and the nurse has taken my weight, height and head circumference she told mummy to bring me to the second floor.
There mummy gave them a piece of paper.  Then they told us to go into a room. Mummy passed me to daddy. That was when I realised some bad was going to happen. So I let out the louded scream. But that didn't work.  The lady still wanted my finger.  I tried to curl my middle finger but daddy and mummy managed to force open my finger. 

Then she poked me. I screamed even louder. After she had taken my blood, I decidid to make it more difficult for her to put on the plaster. That's for poking me!

Then we went up again to wait to see Dr. Mary.
While waiting mummy and daddy wanted me to show them my middle finger.. to take a picture but I made a lot of fuss.

Since they tricked me to have a blod test, I decided to be naughty and cry a lot: when Dr. Mary was checking me and even when mummy tried to change me into my pyjamas.  Ha!

When we finally got home, I was my cheerful self again. Enough naughty girl for one night.  *grin*

Evan the Entertainer

Here you are entertaining a rather bewildered Evelyn *grin*

So Appreciative

Woke up yesterday morning and saw that you were already awake.  So I told you about our plan to have pizza for lunch since daddy was off for golf and Ah Kong and Ah Ma were still in Ipoh.
Your face lighted up and you gave me a big kiss, hug and said thank you. A simple thing for me to do but I love how appreciative you were.
Muakkss.. mummy would bake anytime you wanted darling.   

Go Away You, Haze

Even before the haze is actually visible, you are both showing symptoms caused by the haze.  Ko-ko started coughing and some mornings woke up with a bad sore throat. Mei-mei started with watery eyes and now runny nose too.
Hope the haze goes away soon and you'll both quickly recover. Muakkss.

Chatterbox Evelyn

Left you home with daddy while I went for replacement music classes with Ko-ko. Daddy said you decided to have a lengthy conversation with him:

This is the first time we hear you talking like that. I'm telling daddy that you are trying to call him. Right? So make sure when you wake up in the middle of the night or when you do a poo poo call da-da-da-da-da, ok?