catching up…

Wow look back at our last blog post just realised that we haven’t been updating our blog for 1 month!! Well with 2 kids, work and housework, life have been hectic and most of the moms with 2 little kids and above will agree with that.

Time to catch up with some updates…well more like backdated post, here’s one, our 2011 trip to Singapore & Malaysia.

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We had another opportunity to travel back to Penang again for our Christmas!! Thanks to Yea Yea for the generous sponsor. This is my 3rd trip to Penang but is Mei Mei’s 1st trip. I was so excited to be in the plane (actually I could not remember much of my previous plane ride). This time I have my own seat, my own TV and my big meal!! I am spoilt!

I was so excited that I could not stop touching everything and refused to sit down properly even during take off and landing time. I refused to sleep as well, until I was so exhausted that I fell asleep when we touched down in Singapore!! Daddy had to carry me down the plane with the hand luggage as I refused to wake up! Mei Mei was behaving very well. She had her good nap after mummy put the ear muffs on her (to stop the noise in the plane that will wake her up).

We arrived in Singapore close to midnight Australia time. Uncle Eu Jin (daddy mummy’s friend) picked us up in the airport to our hotel. I continued to doze off in the car until I arrived hotel. I was wide awake after that with the new environment and new room. Both Mei Mei and I had jetlack on the first 2 days, we woke up at 4-5am which was 8am Australia time. However, we had a great time in Singapore walking around enjoying the beautiful Christmas decoration, lights and meeting a lot of aunties, uncles and new friends.

“Jie Jie” refused to walk, want “bao bao” so daddy had to backpack her most of time!

We spent our next one week in Penang visiting family and being spoilt by Yea Yea, Ma Ma, Po Po, aunties and uncles! I also get to enjoy yummy nice food in Penang this time while “mei mei” get to meet up a lot of relatives that haven’t see her before. Thank you everyone for making the time to meet up with us!!

We also want to thank God for the safe journey, enjoyable trip and keep all of us healthy during the trip.

 

Christmas 2011

Another dated post!! The year end was hectic and crazy for us, having to rush for some cake orders and to prepare for year end trip.

This year is Esrene’s 3rd Christmas but little Rennice’s 1st Christmas.

As Esrene slowly grows up, she gets more exciting with the celebration, seeing Christmas decoration ups everywhere and big Christmas tree set up in our house 1 month ago. In order to make sure she know the real meaning of Christmas, her night time bible story reading for this month is “The birth of Jesus”. Even the teaching in Children church this month is about the birth of Jesus. So now when we ask her, what is Christmas, she will sing “happy you you…Jesus” (Esrene cannot pronounce “birthday” so she will say “you you” instead of “birthday”).

This year, I have the opportunity to bake some Christmas cookies with Esrene but I have to do most of the decoration as she ended up more interested to finish eating the cookies than decorate them!

Esrene in charge to put the star on top of the cookie tree

Esrene helped to pack the cookies in the zip bag. 2 cookies per bag for her friends.

I wrapped them up in the printed candle wrappers and let Esrene gave the cookies she made to her church friends. She was so happy distributing them! Maybe this is a good way of teaching her what is “giving” and to learn the “joy of giving”

Proudly show her cookies. These are the remaining cookies for her snack!

We set up the Christmas at home since November. Both the girls are so amazed with the lighting on the tree. Pressies that we received from friends around were all placed under the tree. We told Esrene that she is not allow to open the present until we have our Christmas celebration at home.  She was quite good, didn’t disturb the presents until the day we  told her its time to open her pressies.

see how blessed they were overflow with the presents from everywhere from friends around including Esrene’s carer.

I did some cupcakes for Esrene to bring to her family care for her friends as well. She was so happy “distributing gifts” to friends around.

And she got the most valuable gift from her carer – the calendar made of her photo with her best friends!

These are our little Christmas celebration in Melbourne before heading to Malaysia. Will update more of our trips if we have time.

Esrene’s Life in Family Care

Esrene loves going to family care. She can’t wait for Friday to come so that she can go to “auntie Vicki’s place”. Maybe she is too bored at home just facing mummy, mei mei and tv. As the year close to the end, Esrene’s carer Vicki passed us some CDs of Esrene’s photos she had taken over the year. We can see how much this little girl has grown throughout the year in these photos and we can also see how much she enjoyed her self there meeting good friends. While busy with handling 2 kids, Esrene seems just to "pass by us" without us realising how much she has grown...oh...if only we can stop the time!!!

The Raspberry Blowing Girl!

I love to blow raspberry, anytime, anywhere.
As a result, “Jie jie” also learned from me and starts to blow raspberry together. This annoys daddy mummy sometimes. But daddy mummy, we are just forming a raspberry blowing choir!!

Daddy mummy realised that I have a very cute reaction whenever I blow raspberry.

Did you notice what I did when I blow raspberry?

1st baking session

One fine day, mummy decided to have a baking session together with Esrene. Mummy prepared all the ingredients needed first, then Esrene put the ingredients in the mixer

first of all, put all the butter, sugar and vanilla essence in mixer to beat

Then add in the egg until combined

Next combined the cake flour and stir with the wooden spoon

Mummy, this is so hard to stir, help!

After that mummy kneed the dough, roll it on the bench top, then it is time to cut the dough out! This is my favourite part!!

I love star and flower, so I choose star and flower cookie

This is so fun!! See how well I cut the dough with mummy’s guidance?

After that mummy put the dough into the oven to bake for 15min then it’s time to EAT!!!!!!

See how many cookies I’ve made? Mummy and daddy said they are so yummy!! I am so happy that I can do baking together with mummy and get to eat my own baking too!!

Mummy can you bake more with me please??!!

 

On the sunny Saturday

On the sunny Saturday two weeks ago, daddy mummy brought me to the Dentist for check up. Actually it is the family dentist check up, daddy mummy also did theirs. This was the first time I visiting dentist!! Mummy told me that it’s like Caillou’ dentist visit (Caillou is my favourite kids show).

Mummy did her check up first before me. So I had the opportunity to see what’s all about. After 40min of waiting while playing toys and colouring outside the waiting room, finally it was my turn!!

waited patiently on the chair

 

Dentist Anna is a very friendly and nice dentist. She carried me into a unique black chair and let me wear a very cool sunnies.

After that she let me take a ride on this special chair. The chair can go up and down, and the back and forward too!  After that Dentist Anna asked me to open my mouth very very wide to let her have a look at my teeth. She counted for me that I have 9 teeth now!

After that she spread a tiny air on my teeth with a special tool and even let me feel the tiny air on my palm. It was so fun and make me giggle! This concluded my check up and I was given a tooth brush and a nice sticker before head home.

Dentist Anna told mummy that I need to come back for the clean up coz my teeth has a lot of tarture. Since this is my 1st visit to the dentist she wanted me to have a nice and pleasant experience instead of doing the clean up straight away for me.

After my afternoon nap, I had another treat from daddy mummy. They brought me for a swim with ‘mei mei’!!

This is the 1st time ‘mei mei’ went swimming. She seems to enjoy herself at the pool with us.

As for me, I definitely enjoy myself. I swim here and there with mummy’s help and played with the water until I refused to go back. We spent close to 1 hour at the pool. By the time I get myself dry up and dress up, ‘mei mei’ was so exhausted that she felt asleep on mummy’s arm!

Overall I had a great and fruitful Saturday!!!

Outdated Post: Mummy’s birthday

Life is busy for daddy mummy having to take care 2 of us and to work. So you always find outdated post nowsaday, sorry!

We celebrated mummy’s birthday one month ago, 2 weeks after daddy’s birthday. Daddy took a day off as it was Thursday. In the morning daddy brought me out to get birthday cake and flower for mummy, while we let mummy have a sleep in that morning after feeding ‘mei mei’.

After mummy woke up I gave mummy her birthday flowers! NICE!!!!!!!!

Then daddy brought all of us out to have a nice lunch at a Japanese restaurant in the city. ‘Mei mei’ was having her nap in the pram when we were waiting for the food.

 

have a nice photo with mummy

having fun with daddy while waiting for our food

The food in that restaurant was yummy. Look at how expert I eat my Edamame (Japanese sweet bean).

I even get a treat from daddy mummy - yummy green tea ice cream with cornflake for dessert!!

Looks more like my birthday treat then mummy’s one!

At night we went out for dinner with Auntie Sue for the final celebration.

After the dinner we have a little cake cutting celebration.

Mummy’s favourite fresh cream fruit salad cake

A family photo together. I requested daddy to bring party hats before we headed to the restaurant because it is a birthday party!!!

Candle blowing time

and the cut cutting time before we proceed to eat the yummy cake.

Mummy was so happy and thankful for the wonderful celebration and a sleep in day on her birthday!

On the Saturday we had a picnic at the park with Auntie Suz, Uncle Derrick, Auntie Kai, Uncle Clarence, Amie and Elias for another round of celebration. We had a nice bbq picnic there.

have my lunch with Amie on the picnic mat

Auntie Suz even baked some yummy raspberry cupcakes for mummy! We all kids got the chance to sing birthday song and blow the candles with mummy!

I had a lot of fun running around the nice big playground with Amie and Elias.

And ‘mei mei’ happily sitting in the pram looking at us having fun!