Sundae on a Saturday

Dessert after lunch... McDonald's sundae.

Evelyn's First Ballet Lesson

As you have been requesting to attend ballet lessons for so long, we finally decided to stop by the school recommended by my friend for a trial on our way back from dropping Ko-ko to school for Wushu. To our surprise, there was classes to be held in the next 1 hour. So we happily agreed to try and went home to pick up stockings for you. And here you are.. I got to snap a few pictures as they allowed me to enter the class as it was your trial class. 

Yup.. we signed up immediately after the trial classes. Wanted to buy the ballet shoes for you, but they did not have your size. So have to wait. 

Happy Birthday, Grampy

As it was a holiday, we headed back to celebrate Grampy's birthday on a weekday. Nanna had booked a table from a nearby restaurant. Here's some of the food we ordered. The fish was a "pak sou kong" which Grampy had caught:

Went back home to blow off the candle on the cake. We had bought an "Uncle Tetsu's Cheesecake" before heading over. Here you both are posing with Grampy and Nanna:

And of course, both of you not giving Grampy a chance to blow out HIS birthday candle. 

We had to light the candle again as you beat Mei-mei to blowing the candle the first time!!

Both of you trying to take picture with a terrified Chelsea

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRAMPY. 

Beautiful Lights at Kek Lok Si Temple

We decided to go for a drive to have a look at the lights at Kek Lok Si Temple. This year the lights were put up for a shorter period. Ko-ko didn't want to go, preferring to stay at home in front of the tv. Could not even entice him with promises of supper from McDonald's.
Traffic headed to the temple was heavy but thankfully moving. There was a long queue going up so we just stopped at the road to have a look and take a quick photo.
You enjoyed them, but you were more keen to know when we'll be going to McDonald's as daddy had mentioned! Need to be careful of what we say around little ears!!

CNY Feast with the Phuah's

As usual, Ah Ma cooked up a storm. What a feast.. so many dishes:

You and your cousins are all old enough to sit by yourselves. Missing Audrey in this picture:

We also had a box of fireworks which was set off in the park across the road. Beautiful...

CNY Day 2

Nothing much to do on Day 2. We just had a relaxing day around the house. Hayley visited so there are extra people around to play. 

That evening, most had already left Ipoh house. So dinner was a simple and yummy meal of dumplings. We all had a part in helping to make the dumplings:

CNY Day 1

As usual, dinner was a feast. It's always nice to have dinner with so many people. Look at the size of the "Yee Sang". Proud to say it was mainly prepared by Evan and I:

Time to toss:

After dinner, the kids had fun with all the fireworks bought by daddy and Jack Min Chek Chek. Here's Martin stacking up his "pop pop" into a mountain before stepping on them all at a go:

Finale for the night was the fireworks daddy brought.. beautiful:

Ang Pow Time

2017 Chinese New Year - Lion Dance

As usual we have to wake up on time to ensure that we are all ready before the lion dance comes at 10am. We all quickly had breakfast and a shower and waited.

Here's daddy doing his annual task of setting up the fire crackers and the angpow + lettuce:

Some of the aunties started to distribute ang pow while waiting. Here's Evelyn all happy with her collection:

And here they come:

Kids enjoying the lion dance. They are very nice as they even interact with us:

Wefie with Evan:

And it's time to say goodbye to the troop:

This is what they left behind for us:

We had our family portraits taken. But I don't have them on my computer. Will put them up when I've copied from daddy's camera.

Triple Jump

You came back yesterday and told us that your teacher selected you to participate in the triple jump in school.
This morning you added: I'm so short and heavy and yet teacher picked me...
You know what? As long as you try your best and have fun. Winning is not everything. Good luck in the competition.

Chinese New Year in School

You picked something to wear (Hello Kitty shirt.. no surprise there) to school yesterday. Thinking that since it was the last day before the Chinese New Year, I asked to confirm that you did not need to wear Chinese costume. Oops you had forgotten.
So here you are in your cheongsam:

Weigh in Day for Evan

Today is weigh in day. So you have been thinking of ways to ensure that you are not too heavy when your teachers ways you.
This morning you did not finish your Nutella bread (although you clearly wanted to). Milk was drank 80% and then you told me you'd go upstairs for a quick exercise before taking a bath. You've weighed yourself so many times this morning: once after breakfast, after shower and after clearing your system (the last one made you happiest).
On top of that , you plan to empty your pockets to ensure minimal excess weight *laugh

Good luck in your weigh in. Kiss kiss

*You ended up with one last weigh in just before leaving for school. Snd you even did some push up before that too

Sayonara, Hokkaido

 The flight back to Malaysia was fun. Here's the food we were served:

Mei-mei had such a cute meal. And it was clearly labelled as "no peanut":

Just before the clock stroke midnight, we were serviced drinks to usher in the new year:

Such a nice holiday and sweet timing that we got to celebrate the new year on the plane!

We arrived in KLIA all bleary eyed. 

We were so worried that we would get taxed for the large souvenir we bought from Otaru, but it seems that the customs officers did not really check. Some random bags were requested to be scanned, but all went well.

After clearing immigration, we were about to sit down at McDonald's for breakfast when daddy realised that his headphones were missing. Oh no!

We headed back and inquired but had little hope of getting it back. But luck was with us. One of the tour guides had seen it on their way out and daddy got back his Bose headphones.

Back in Penang, the immigration officer wanted to scan our bags, but we said that we were flying in from KL and had already cleared immigration. So no hassle there and we were soon home.

Hokkaido Day6: Shopping before heading home

It is our last day in Hokkaido. We woke up, got ready and headed downstairs to have breakfast. 

She needed to take a picture with the decorations!

We hopped on the bus and they brought us to look at the former Hokkaido Government building. The snow was everywhere!

The tour guide was helping the tourists take pictures. And so Mei-mei also insisted that he took pictures for her: 

Playing with snow

We saw them taking bridal photos too. Brrr.. look at the bride. She must feel so cold.

On our way back to the bus, poor Ko-ko had a tumble, right on his belly. He took it well. My brave little guy!

Final stop for the trip was the Chitose Outlet Mall Rera. We didn't plan to buy anything. But lucky mummy got a new handbag *grin*

We had lunch in the foodcourt. It was quite costly.. but yummy:

Such a big bowl!

And Mei-mei of course was happy with her fried chicken fingers:

While daddy took Ko-ko to play a slot racing game, we headed to the indor playground for kids. It was paid for a short 30 minute session. Mei-mei sure had fun. 

After we were done (she wasn't too willing to leave!) we walked around and took more pictures. 

While waiting for daddy and I to claim our refund, Ah Kong and Ah Ma allowed the both of you to play this dispensing machine and got something each:

Finally we are at the airport. As this was a chartered flight, there wasn't really a weight limit on baggage. To our amazement, the other tourists bought boxes and boxes of many things!

It took us a while to get checked in also as we needed to sign off on Evelyn's peanut allergy. 

Our tour guide gave her this fan which she got all excited over. She even pretended to be a tour guide: