What a Boxing day we had!!

It all with started with attending mass and children's christmas party!!


ES taking group photo with Father Martin and the rest of the children. The twins, mummy and grandma has already gone home. Kinda of hard with the twins around to attend the party, they were already restless after mass.


ES first musical chair game. She was the first one out :( , almost in tears. Her friend Emilia was the second out.

Later grandma's youngest sis, came to visit from KL. ES favourite person, her little aunty was here. We brought them to the organic and goat farm in balik pulau. Penang's very own U-Pick, pick your own vege, chai sing, kai-lan and etc.


ES with her favourite fren aka little aunty enjoying the swing at the farm.



The twins with mummy on the swing.


The girls paying the goat a visit. Where is the milk?




We did not let the twins in as we could hear the goat meeek-sneezing away... just a pre-cautions.



After the visit we went for thai dinner at Genting. Magnificient view, although the drive up the hill was pretty scary. Another thing to note is the place was swarm by mosquito. Mental note to bring mosquito coil along next time.


Magnificient view from where we sat!!

MSLS at 14 months old

May Shuen @ 14 months old

Li Shuen @ 14 months old

• MS likes to eat....she likes to eat everything - fruits, porridge, bread, biscuits. Wheareas LS will tend to be more choosy than MS. LS likes to eat bread rather than fruits during breakfast time
• MS had been waking 2 to 3 times for the last few nights
• They will sleep at around 8pm and wake up at 6am
• They can say " na" ( take ), " ng ng" ( pass motion ), papa, mama, ah ma, jie jie ( sister ), " mam mam" ( food ), popo
• They will wave their hands when we are leaving our house to work & say " ah......." ( means bye bye )
• They will wake you up early in the morning, as early as 5 something when they want to pass motion
• They can sit on the pots to pass motion
• LS can walk steadily, but still will fall dowm sometimes... MS still trying to learn how to walk
• When they wanted to climb up the staircase, they will turn to us, see if they are allowed to climb out.

Christmas Eve

Baby Jesus homemade birthday cake by Mummy and ES helped in the decoration!



The three angels with all the presents...


ES opening her present, by Lerk family.



Yippy! playing with the new toy! Comb and hair dryer, supposed for the doll.






HIn Yuan with his present...

Happy Birthday dear Jesus and have a blessed Christmas everyone

Biscuits or bread?

Every morning, Mummy will asked ES if she wants to bring biscuits or bread to school...

If there are biscuits, she will definitely preferred biscuits than bread.

There was one day, i brought her Bananas bread and cookies. She changed the label for " morning tea break" ( supposingly i brought banana bread ) to "afternoon tea break" as she wanted to eat cookies first during her morning tea break.

Teacher had feedback to me of not to bring bananas bread for ES during afternoon tea break, as the bananas will turned to black colour. Then I only noticed that she had changes the label herself!

Getting ready to go out!

Getting ready to go out!
And getting ready to wear shoes!
They can walk now, but need to hold their hands...

Varieties of Muffins

Baked some Apple Muffins & Chocolate raisin muffins yesterday night for the little friends at Bagan Ajam orphanage Bagan Ajam



Banana & almond muffins

Straits Quay

Went to Straits Quay on last Tuesday. This is the second attempt we plan to go there. We wanted to bring ESMSLS to see the huge Christmas tree last weekend. However, we was stucked in the jam at balik pulau and payu terubong, and we are still at payu terubong at about 6pm. We decided to turn back and go there another day.

okonomiyaki

Had tried this more than 12 years back in Hiroshima. Had also made this for ah yi n grandparents in ipoh previously. With the busy schedule everyday, had almost forgotten about this oishii japanese pizza.

Had searched the recipe online and made it for Sunday dinner. Everybody especially Ee Shuen loves it.

Kaya puff

This is the homemade kaya puff by popo. She gave some to the coffee shop's tauke when she was having breakfast in one of the coffee shops. After tasted this, the tauke asked her to open a stall in her shop.... Haha, this is the traditional type of kaya puff ( the shape is slightly different from what we usually have, must be from Popo's father's time - who is a coffee shop's owner, and selling all the home made pau , kaya and etc )

Daily bread

sandwich loaf ( without eggs and butter )


Every morning, MSLS will sit with us on their highchair and have their fruits. at first, they were satisfied with just a slice of apple, after they tasted fruits which are softer like papaya, oranges, they start to reject apple in the morning. Especially LS, she will shake her head, or throw the apple.

Now, if they saw some breads on the table, they will even reject oranges or papaya, they will go for bread and ask for more. During the recent trip back to Ipoh, in order to made them stay quiet, i feed them with homemade buns and ESMSLS were so happy and enjoy it!

Too much attention to MSLS?

This morning, ES hold Ah Ma's hand and ask her to stay with her in her bedroom, and do not attend to mei mei.

She told Ah Ma," Ah Ma, why you all always take care of mei mei? nobody take care of me..."
I think she needs more attention...

MSLS at 13 months old

(1) sometimes they will fight with each other, and even bite each other when fighting.

(2) MS had three teeth on top, and two from the bottom. Whereas LS had one tooth on top, and top from bottom.

(3) they still drink milk during middle of the night, and another time near to wake up time ( thier usual wake up time is about 5-6pm )

(4) LS usually wakes up earlier than MS. Not later than 6 sth in the morning.

(5) They can say words like cat, papa, jeje, ah ma, mama, aunty, mum mum, ng, drop ( in mandarin) now

(6) when they are given a piece of biscuit, MS will finished up first, whereas LS will b slowly munching her biscuits, and enjoying by having small bite.

(7) They like to go playground... We just let them explore recently

(8) When they does not want something, they will shake their head. when they want something, they will knock their head.

(9) They just like to eat - porridge, fruits, biscuits, oats... Especially MS, she can eat non stop, and end up can't sleep well at night!

Apple muffins

ES loves to eat muffins rather than oat raisin cookies. These are for ES's tea break during school day. Recipe is from happy home baking.

Dinner at Hai Boey

MSLS at one year old

(1) MS likes to knock her head whereas LS likes to shake her head

(2) They will say 'ng, ng' when they want to pass motion. Sometime LS will do that
also when she wants urination.

(3) When one of them wants mummy to hug, another one will crawl quickly to mummy,
ask mummy to hug also. And they will push each other, giving signal to mummy
that she can only hug one of them.

(4) when mummy wanted to read for them, they will grab for the same book

(5) LS will turn her face away when daddy scold her

(6) They like to go out with their stroller and see if there are any cats and dogs
around

(7) They have two teeth on the middle bottom, and LS has one teeth on top ( middle).
MS has two teeth on top ( middle )

(8) MS wil eat any food given to her, while LS only likes to eat oranges, fruits
which is soft, she does not like apple, she rather eats bread than apple in the
morning

We are one year old now!

MSLS are one year old now! Both Daddy & Mummy took leave to accompany them on their birthday on Thursday. At first, we plan to go jalan jalan. However, ES had fever since Wed evening, so we just stayed at home.


When MSLS woke up in the morning, they were amazed by the decoration done by Daddy the night before, especially all the balloons in the living room.





We had a simple breakfast - banana, macadamia nuts & blueberries yoghurt pancake.



What are the kids looking at?




Mummy had made a birthday cake for MSLS. As requested by Daddy, he wanted a peach cake. We had a cake cutting ceremony at night.



Our family photo!

High fever

ES was having fever since Wednesday evening, after she came back from school. This is the 2nd time she is having fever in Oct.

On Thursday night, her fever went up to 40 C. On friday morning, daddy broguht her to see doctor. Doctor advised if her temperature shoot up to 40 C again, better bring her to the hospital. As she is having high fever, dr advised to do blood test to check if it is dengue fever.

On Friday night, her fever shoot up to even 41 C. We sponged her with ice but seems like fever still maintain at 39 C. We decided to bring her to hospital and her temperature was reduced due to taking paracetamol 4 hourly.

On Saturday morning, doctor took her blood sample and sent to the laboratory to test on dengue and other bacteria infection. Thanks god all results came out negative...
It should be due to viral fever.

However, doctor would like to observe her for another day before discharge. Hope Mummy & ES can go home tomorrow...

Milk loaf & fruit pastry cake

ES was having fever since yesterday. Decided to make her some bread. Had made her this milk loaf with raisin. Think i need to start learning another recipe on bread without using milk. As she is complaining on stomachache recently. Doctor commented maybe it is due to lactose intolerance.



Had made this fruit pastry cake on Saturday night as we were having steamboat party...

Baking is fun as it also helps to release stress...

Sunday dinner

We had simple food during Sunday dinner...
Sausage, Eggs prepared by Daddy... Salad and scones ( with blueberries yoghurt ) prepared by Mummy...






What did both babies doing while Mummy baking scones?
They were out in the garden, busy helping Ah Ma to collect the vegetables for tomorrow's cooking

Happy Birthday!

Popo, Gong gong & Ah yi came over to Penang on Mummy's birthday this year. They drove all the way from Ipoh to have lunch ( just some home cooked dishes ) on this special day as Ah yi can't take any leave and Su Yan auntie needs to be back to her uni also as it is a weekday.

Daddy can't joined us for lunch as he needs to work on that day... ( That's why when he saw the photos, he can't remember when he had eaten all these dishes.. He was thinking over and over again, how come he had forgotten about he is having such dishes during one of his meals )

As everybody was quite busy, we just have a quick celebration during lunch time.... Thanks for coming all the way from Ipoh...