Colours

MS woke up earlier than LS during her after noon nap today. She found some of these tags in one of the drawers.

There are red, blue and white tags that mixed together.

She finds it fun to sort out the tags by colours. And she did it for a few rounds before LS wake up.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Last weekend, ES was busy preparing valentine's cards for her classmates and teacher. She asked me to give her some red and yellow papers and she created the card by herself. It is a heart shape, that fold into half.

I baked some vanilla cupcakes with blueberry mousse frosting ( the original recipe is using raspberry )yesterday night after the girls slept. As I was rushing, I used the wrong tip for the frosting ( I used Wilton 32 ). But still, the girls love the cupcake. They loves anything in cupcake.

ES drew this for Daddy:

Dear Daddy, It is almost Valentine's day. You are fun.

 She also wrote a note to Mummy:

Dear mom, I love you. Love, Christine

For valentine's day, we also make a heart shape on top of out daily veggie and fruit juice ( just for fun ! ).

In the evening, when ES back from school, she brought back a paper bag ( she told me it was made by her ). The bag was filled with a lot of goodies, chocolates, sweets...

MSLS were so excited when they saw these, but they are just allowed to "see" and not to "touch".

She was so happy with her valentine's gifts!

Happy Valentine's to our family and friends!

MSLS at 27 months

MS

LS

• MS is 13.5kg, while LS is 13.2kg.
• LS is diaperless now. Wheareas MS just wear it during night time.
• During daytime, they will pee or poo in their potty o toilet without asking our assitance. Quite independent on this. They will say " shh shh..." or "xiao bian " for pee, and "da bian" or " chou chou"  for poo.                                                                               
• Have their milk 3 - 4 times per day ( after afternoon nap, before sleep, during midnight, sometimes early in the morning ). Lately LS always ask for milk for twice before bedtime ( after we went into bedroom, and after our reading time ), maybe it is due to we gave her milk frequently when she was having fever recently.
• Daily diet consists of bread/ oat with sliced bananas or raisin, fruit juice for breakfast, porridge or rice before afternoon nap, fruits/ bread/ yogurt/ bean during tea time, and rice or noodles for dinner. They requested for rice during dinner and does not want to have porridge anymore. LS is more picky while MS will eat most of the food that we offered.
• They know how to wear their shoes, pants, learning how to wear their shirts, and put on the buttons. Especially LS, she tols me she is a big girl now, she wanted to try and wear her shirt by herself.
• They loves to brush their teeth, morning and night.
• Will demand for what to wear, for examples wanted to wear skirt instead of pants.
• Sometimes they will be fighting, when this happened, mummy will asked them to " share share". Most of the time, it works. They will immediately change into " sharing" mode.
• They are friendly to people most of the times, by saying " hello".
• They can spoon-feed themselves.
• Start talking in sentence now. Always like to echo what we are saying. Start having decent conversation and will reply what we asked.
• Like to draw on blank paper, with circle or straight line. When I asked them what are they drawing, they will reply back " snake... big house... ship...etc"
• Like to play " masak masak" and start enjoy playing lego.
• When you asked them questions, sometimes they will say " hmmmm...", like they are thinking of a perfect answer to reply.
• When they are reading, they will point at the pictures and mumble some words, as if they are telling the stories.

Apple butter cake

The girls wanted a cake for their breakfast as I had not been baking cakes for awhile. Just bake a simple butter cake add in with apple cubes for a different flavour. As usual, they like it and request for more...

What you need:
190g butter
140g sugar
3 eggs
190g all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder ( sifted )
3 tablespoons fresh milk
1 green apple ( cut into 1cm X 1cm cube )

What you do:
(1) Add sugar into butter and mix with low speed till smooth and light yellowish.
(2) Add in egg, one at a time, and mix well after each addtion.
(3) Add in flour in three addition.
(4) Mix fresh milk with the batter.
(5) Add in apples.
(6) Pour the batter into a 9 inche baking tray.

(7) Put the tray into the preheated oven ( 180 C or 356 F ) for about 35 minutes or till the surface turned brownish.

An outing to the library

MSLS went to library this afternoon. They love to go to this machine, to scan for books that they are borrowing.

Before fetching ES, we WENT for a walk at the park next to the library. The weather was not so cold this afternoon, around 9 degree C.

Watching ducks swimming in the pond... Chasing for ducks and screaming loudly as too excited.

It was only 5pm, and the day started to turn dark.

Natural yeast smokehaus blue cheese bread

Bought a blue cheese during my grocery shopping, thought of using it to add into salad. However, after trying it once, think it is not a good idea as the smell is too strong. What to do with the remaining? I tried putting some into our daily bread, and it gave a great aroma to the bread after baking.

Coated the bread with roasted rolled oat with honey.

Chinese New Year 2012

We are away from home for CNY this year. We just had a simple celebration with friends. Two days before Chinese New Year, we brought the girls to Umajimaya for the lion dance presentation, to get the "feel" of cny. ES & LS enjoyed it but MS....

She called for help when the lion came to her.

We bought a live dungeness crab for our pre reunion dinner.

The girls were excited to see the live dungeness crab is still moving.

On CNY eve, we attended ES's friend, YJ's party. The girls enjoyed themselve as it is party time again!

At night, we went for a steamboat reunion dinner with daddy's friends.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

 Happy dragon year from MS! She is getting ready for a dim sum lunch on the first day of cny.

We cooked some simple dishes for dinner during first day of cny.

There was not much of cny atmosphere here. To make it more like cny, I prepared some fried nian gao on the second day. Using low protein flour, baking powder, salad oil and water as the batter, it makes the fried nian gao more crispier than the one that I prepared previously.

 

We continue our adventure on dim sum lunch with JY's family at WK restaurant on day 2. The dim sum  taste much more better than yesterday's and more choices.

恭祝大家新年快乐，万事如意，身体健康！