the RED cheeks

Ah, this RED cheeks look familiar…mummy daddy can recognise that easily….

No no no…daddy mummy didn’t slap my face!

…something is POPPING OUT!!!

TA DA!!!

Can you see my 1st little teeth?
Soon I am going to catch up with ‘jie jie’ with my eating skill!

6 months and growing

I am 6 months going to 7!! I am a cheerful baby as usual. Smiling is my trade mark now!
I love to stand up even though I still cannot crawl or sit by myself. I love standing since I was 2 months old! I have very strong legs. I will be very happy when daddy or mummy let me stand up on my feet!

I just started to flip over myself. Mummy managed to captured my 1st turn!

I am a pretty lay back baby you see. Despite of mummy trying to attract me with some toys, I still lay down on my back comfortably, look at mummy and smile instead of trying to reach out to the toys. Even I can flip over now, I will not flip over straight when daddy mummy put me down on the floor. When I flip over, on my tummy, I will stay on the same position for quite some times instead of flipping around like ‘jie jie’ used to do. Daddy said that’s his gene – lay back!


Daddy mummy think that I am a very quiet baby. I can stay there quietly observing everyone without making much noise. However when I start crying, nobody can stand my loud voice! I will not only cry, but scream my lung out so that everyone can hear me. Often this will wake “jie jie” (sister) up in the morning when I woke up at 5-6am crying.



I have a very different characters and temperament from ‘jie jie’. I want to have accompany all the time. When I see daddy or mummy or jie jie not around me I will start whining and even crying! I love them to cuddle or carry me most of the time. Mummy says I need to learn to play by myself instead.

I still want mummy to give me dream feed at 9ish every night, if not I will wake up very early the next day crying out of hungry! Even with the dream feed, most of the time I still wake up at 6ish instead of waking up after 7am (12 hours sleep). On and off I even wake up crying at 4-5am and refused to sleep back!! That makes daddy mummy very tired. Sorry daddy mummy, I am just a hungry little girl who always wants cuddle!

Despite all these, I am still their sweet little princess that never fail to capture their heart with my sweet smile!

My best friend oh my best friend!!!

This is yet another out-dated post.

I have 2 best friends whom I love to mention to daddy mummy especially after family care. Yes, they are my friends from family care. Their name is Harrison and Mayah! Mummy think they are just my self declared best friends instead.

Last month after picked me up from family care, mummy saw an invitation card inside my food container’s bag. It was addressed to “Dezerene”. Mummy opened the envelope and realised that it’s the birthday party invitation from Mayah! My best friend invited me to her birthday party!!! See mummy, Mayah is not my self-declared best friend, we are really best friend!! Mummy quickly RSVP Mayah’s mum and brought me to get a pressie for Mayah.

On that Saturday after lunch, we headed to one of the McDonald nearby for Mayah’s birthday party! I was so excited when I see Mayah. I gave her the birthday present and joined her and the rest of the kids at the playground. Daddy mummy get to know that it’s Mayah’s 5 year old birthday party!!! My best friend is double my age!!!! They even noticed that I was the youngest in the party and the only Asian kid there!!!! How special I am!!!

We have a lot of fun during the party. We played like crazy at the playground. Mayah is a very nice friend. She always there besides me or behind me, takes care of me when we were at the playground playing.We also  have some party games (which most of the time I was out what the game master was trying to tell me), yummy food – daddy mummy said these are unhealthy food, , yummy cake, last but not least party pack to bring home!!!

Due to the privacy, daddy mummy are not allowed to post up the photos of any kid without permission. Thus they have to do some “amendment” to these photos.

Happy birthday Mayah! Thank you so much for inviting me to your birthday party! I haven’t see you for a while at the family care, miss you a lot!

Daddy’s Birthday

This is an out-dated post. Mummy has been very very busy with lots of back to back cake orders and her work during the September month, that’s why no time to update the blog.

Daddy’s birthday was 2 weeks ago. Mummy guided me to draw a nice big happy birthday drawing for daddy, and I gave to daddy on his birthday. He was very happy to receive from me. Too bad mummy forgot to take the photo of my drawing so cannot show to you here. But the drawing is full of orange colour and with lots of stickers, including my favourite Eeyore sticker on it!

It was Sunday. So after church we headed to Tokar Estate restaurant (chosen by daddy) at the winery to have a nice lunch for celebration.

Excited when reaching the Estate

‘Mei mei’ in her pram getting ready to zzzz….

a photo with daddy before the meal. We love you daddy!

As usual I get to enjoy my favourite pasta.

Don’t take my messy face daddy!

After the meal, is cake cutting time!!! When mummy told me we got to sing birthday song for daddy, I was so excited that I started to sing out loud “Happy you you….happy you you” until everyone in the restaurant looking at us. But when the waitress brought out the cake, I was so shy to sing until daddy barely can hear my singing!

Mummy made a red velvet cake for daddy. She was busy with her cake order so didn’t manage to do a nice cake, just a simple buttercream coated design with dark chocolate ganache. However, daddy still loves it!

Can you see the heart shape inside the cake? This is the 1st time mummy trying out curving a heart shape inside the cake, but she said it didn’t turn out nice.

However, daddy & I still enjoy the cake. Yum yum!

Happy birthday daddy. Thank you for being the most wonderful daddy in the world!!! Hope you enjoy your day and may the good God bless you always. 

Ever first…(mummy’s sharing)

Nowadays I see a lot of giveaway prize in the popular blogs but didn’t really bother to enter any since as far as I recalled I never win any giveaway or lucky draw. A month ago I saw another few giveaway prize at a facebook page by my favourite kids illustrator Rachelle Anne Miller. Her giveaway prizes are so cute just like her arts! I was quite hesitated to put in any entry (even it’s just a comment in her wall) knowing most likely I won’t get it anyway. But at the last day of the opening, I finally put in one short comment for the entry. The next day I saw my name appeared in her new blog entry! I won the giveaway prize!! I was very excited & thrilled! I won 2 handmade stuffed toys that cost USD67!

 

 

Within an hour, I received an email from the donor of these cute toys, Wilmarie Viljoen  requesting for my postal address for the gifts to send over. I received these cuties after 1 week all the way from South Africa!

Esrene was very excited to see the parcel delivered to our front door. She was even more excited to “drag” out these two stuff toys from the box. Since there’s two, I told her the big hedgehog is for her and the small little owl is for “mei mei”. These two cuties came with the name tags too! Hedgehog was name “Holly” and the little owl was called “Orli”.

 

See how excited she was cuddling her new toy!

And “mei mei” too!

 

Now Holly added to her sleep pals list together with her forever favourite Eeyore and her sea lion that daddy won at seaworld for her (she called it “fish”).

God must have known that I need a little cheer from the hectic and tiring days, gave me this sweet blessing to cheer me up! Oh wait, these gifts all go to my kids instead of me, how how come I’m still so happy?! I guess the best gift to a mom is to see the happy faces of her kids?

 

 

Family Trip 2011

 

Yea Yea, Ma Ma & Pak Pak came over to visit us during their Raya holiday. The 2nd day after they arrived Melbourne, we flew over to Gold Coast for family trip. I was very excited as I get to sit on the plane!

Mei mei’s first time on the plane. She slept through most of the journey

I have my own seat now but I felt so bored and restless. Make a lot of fuss!

However, it wasn’t a good start of the holiday when our plane was delayed for 2 hours, after that was diverted to Brisbane due to the weather in Gold Coast! We took the train from the airport down to Gold Coast and only arrived at our Gold Coast apartment by 5ish!!! (we supposed to arrive at Gold Coast before noon!) It was a very tiring day for all of us. We had delivery food for dinner than call off our day. Daddy mummy, mei mei and I had to share a room together. As it was a new bed and room for me, I struggled to sleep and only fell asleep by 10pm! The next morning I woke up at 6.30am right after ‘mei mei’!!!!! However, God blessed us with sunny day for the next 2 days!

                                  Surfers Paradise from the view behind our apartment

                    Broadbech behind our apartment

Our apartment is about 15min to Surfers Paradise. We spent our next day at Surfers Paradise, walking around & enjoying the beautiful beach.

 

After lunch, I had my nap in the pram while daddy mummy they all walked down to Broadbeach Mall (which is 10min from our apartment) to get some groceries. I also get to play at the playground in the mall for a while and sit on the carousel!!

We had our dinner at one of the restaurant there before heading home. I get to eat my favourite pasta while Yea Yea, Ma Ma, Pak Pak, Daddy & mummy enjoyed their monster seafood platter!

Family photo together while ‘mei mei’ resting in the pram

‘Mei Mei’ wasn’t feeling good, so right after dinner, daddy mummy had to bring her to see doctor while I follow Pak Pak, Yea Yea & Ma Ma back to the apartment. They  had to wait very long in the clinic but I was a very good girl, even let Pak Pak feed me milk and put me down to the cot to sleep. ‘Mei Mei’ was down with conjunctivitis virus!! She had swollen and teary eyes, and very bad cough. She was recovering very well after using the pharmaceutical drops from the doctor.

The next day, we went to Sea World. I got to see a lot of nice animal shows there, but the best show is my Sesames Street show. I get to see my ELMO!!!!! I also get to take some rides with daddy before I had my nap in the pram.

                        Shopping for my Elmo merchandise

When we went back to the apartment about 4ish, daddy, Yea Yea and Pak Pak brought me to the beach just right behind the apartment for a stroll, while mummy feeding ‘mei mei’ in the apartment. I still scared of the wave. When the wave came I will run away as quickly as possible.

The Surfer’s girl

Photo with my favourite Pak Pak. Pak Pak, I miss you!!

After the stroll, we met Ma Ma, mummy and ‘mei mei’

at the apartment pool for a nice swim.

The next morning we had to leave the apartment early to fly back to Melbourne. This concluded our 3 nights short holiday Gold Coast. I enjoyed my holiday very much being spoilt by Yea Yea, Ma Ma & Pak Pak!!!! Daddy & mummy was quite tired during the holiday having to wake up constantly at night to attend to ‘mei mei’ and we woke up very early every morning during the trip too! However, they still enjoy the time spent together with the family during the trip. Daddy mummy, can we have more of the family trip please??

My Room

I just moved into my room 1.5 months ago. Daddy mummy only managed to set up my room by then as po po was staying in there when she was here. They supposed to move me into my room much earlier but they have been very laid back! They only get the work done recently when they realised that I already outgrown my bassinet in their room.

Majority of the furniture in my nursery passed down by ‘jie jie’ except for the chest of drawers.

I wasn’t used to the new room and bed for the first few days when mummy put me in my baby cot for the nap. I cried and cried non stop refused to sleep!! Daddy mummy said they should have moved me into my room when I was just 2 months old like “jie jie”. That time I was younger, easier to adjust to the new environment. However, I get used to my new room within 2 days.

Remember this mobile? Mummy DIY for ‘jie jie’ and now passed to me. Too bad one of the hanging toy already torn by ‘jie jie’. However, it’s still good enough to entertain me!

My room is just opposite “jie jie” room and next to the main door entrance of our house. To filter the noise outside the room, daddy mummy had to play some classical music in my room when I sleep and have my nap. The music helped me to sleep through especially when ‘jie jie’ cried middle of the night coz of nightmare.

Winter weather wasn’t treating me well. I was down with infection from the cold when I was 10 weeks old. And one month ago, I was down with chicken pox!!! Daddy mummy very thankful that it was just a mild one. I didn’t have any fever and the blisters are just around my body, not even the face, hands or legs. It took 2 weeks for the blisters to disappear.

Right after recovering from the chicken pox, I was down with bronchitis! The phlegm irritates me a lot that I have been coughing so much until I often throw out the milk I just drink. Thus, I have been losing a lot of weight just within 1-2 weeks. Daddy mummy pray that I will be over with all these sickness as the spring arrives.

No matter what, I always brighten the day up with my smile. Daddy and mummy said that the smile always melt their heart. Yes, they are now under my spell