Just the 4 of us!

Finally....

2011-09-30T20:41:00.002+08:00

Finally, my 5 years old conquered her fear of going into the water. Of course, if you can't put your head in you can't learn to swim, can you? Well, to avoid my daughter to be a non-swimmer like me, I have to force/bribe her into the water. and she did it!

Mummy is very pleased.......

Leah's photobook...

2011-08-28T00:09:00.004+08:00

When Naomi was 1 year old, I took her to De One studio to take her baby album. I made an appointment with them again when Leah turned 1 but their service was terrible. I went there on time and the photographer was late for 30 mins, no apology and no one was even there to inform me anything, so I walked out. When their customer service called, it was even worse, she said "oh you should wait another minute as our photographer arrived right after you left. "　and still, no apology. Ban them forever. and YES, I am going to bad mouth them whenever i have the chance to.

So, Leah's baby album dragged till now, at 22months old already. So I decided to give photobook a try with those photo taken by my lousy skill. Turn out I like it a lot, I love it! Cheaper, more photo and the meaning behind the book would be better! Will do another book for Leah when she turns 2 and Naomi when she turns 5.

So, I really need to brush up my photography skill, fully utilized the money that has invested on the lens and flash but heck I know nut about them.

Leah

Naomi

Kids and idol

2011-08-22T00:47:00.003+08:00

Naomi is 4+, and she likes Justin Bieber, and of course, she likes taylor swift, Selina Gomez etc... I think it is ok for her to like them but not crazy about them. Some of you might tell me it's too early, but it's just like we adult like Jacky Cheung(ok lar, a bit old but he is coming for concert end of the year mah...), we like westlife, beyonce, we like Akon etc, we don't find ourselves to have any problem with it.

I always taught her to remember Jesus comes first, then family, then other things that she likes. She is a bit more mature probably because I do not pamper her too much. She needs to share housework because she is part of the family and she won't get any reward from there; she sleeps on her own; she likes to keep up with her older cousin whom she think she's cool; and all in all she is just a natural adult. She is sharp, she is observant and she is very detail when it comes to things around her ( not academic learning though). She sees things that i always missed, she could just catch my hint and my tone from the way I talk. She is loving, she is kind, she always give in to her sister that sometimes I feel bad and heartache to see her "sacrifices".

So since she is still doing great and behaving well, I don't see her liking idols would be that big a deal. Parents guidance is important too! She totally understand that those singers are for us to like, not to love, she even told me this "mummy, they are not our family. so we like them, we don't have to love them. " :)

DO it!

2011-08-08T09:57:00.003+08:00

Saw them on one of the blog, and on pinterest. How true....

THEY are talking to ME!

some updates....

2011-07-28T23:38:00.003+08:00

Oh the lazy spirit creep up on me again...

Well, i have been partly lazy, partly free in front of the pc doing something else except blogging.

Oh I fell in love with Pinterest, so many things to see, to learn and they are beautiful stuff. let me know if you want an invitation email.

Leah grew up well, from a food reject-er to now a tong sampah. She basically eat most of the food we eat and she eats on her own at 21m. But she absolutely hate toufu. Other than changing in her eating habits, she learns to speak a lot, and sing some nursery rhymes, missed out a few words but still pretty clear. Still a very shy girl.

Naomi is able to pick up a few words on her own when reading. She tries very hard, I know. I love her when she tries even though she still can't read much. Her effort is worth my praise. At some point I was seriously suspecting Dyslexia but she is only 4+, I don't wanna put too much pressure on her, yet(:P).

Both the girls are enjoying their sisterhood. Naomi is an amazing big sister. They do fight over things but Naomi is always the one that give in to Leah. Naomi cares for her sister a lot, and very protective. I took them to some play-land and Naomi would take care of her sister most of the time rather than just having fun with her friends. She does make me a proud mama!

Kids....

2011-03-31T21:28:00.002+08:00

my blog is always about the kids. My life is basically just revolving around my 2 princesses and nothing much left to talk about... sad huh?

And so, Naomi is settling very very well at her kindy. I wasn't very pleased with the teacher's attitude sometimes but she refused to change class or even school, so I just let her stay on, as long as she is comfortable about it.

At 4 years and 3 months old, Naomi finally sleeping on her own bed in her own room. Well, I have gotten back half of my bed and it is very very very good I tell you. I was sandwiched between this 2 gals for more than 15 months and I could hardly sleep at night! For the first week, I was checking her out N times in and out the bedroom, it was the mother who is feeling the lost. However, Bravo , my girl. Secretly wish that my little one can move to her own bed real sooooooon.

As of Leah, she is 17+ months now. Weighing 8KG and height at 76CM . A pretty petite size to our family as none of us is small.....

She,

refuses to eat a proper meal.

chooses her own clothes and shoes.

loves shopping.

loves peanuts.

very much in love with Mickey Mouse.

starts talking, responds with words when asked.

hates being potty trained.

hates going to bed at night, gotta wait till she is super tired.

laughs very loud whenever Jie Jie comes back from school.

is very hard head.

Leah and her collection...

2011-03-03T13:42:00.003+08:00

Leah only love Mickey Mouse. Not Minnie Mouse, not Daisy, but only Mickey.

We are slowly increasing her Mouse Collection.....

Leah @ 15 months...

2011-01-17T12:09:00.003+08:00

Leah finally start talking last 2 weeks, and suddenly lots of words came out from her everyday. First she got dad, pohpoh , gong(gong gong), jiie (jie jie) and finally mummy, and the mummy is so clear! Before that, it was only Bye that she knows.

Just few days ago she starts saying buyao(don't want), meiyou(don't have), nen nen(milk),na(take), gei(give) etc. She surprised me with all the single words she learned everyday. This morning she saw the picture of dog and said "Dog, woo woo(woof woof)" Cute!

She is one very mischievous little darling. She refuses to sleep early nowadays, even she is tired and keep rubbing her eyes. She refuses to eat her baby porridge instead she wants our adult food. She will pick her shoes and make sure you out on for her, then she will walk to the door and "bye" to everyone.

Being a stay at home mum is so rewarding, really, better than the year end bonus! I get to see every single bit of my kids' growing up, this is something I didn't know I want so much before I have them.

Update...

2011-01-13T22:39:00.002+08:00

OOh, i have abandoned my blog for months! Geesh, that's when u have another kid to watch, and also i blame it on facebook too! hehehe

Naomi has started going to kindy, and she loves it! I thought I could have a peaceful time with the little one for that few hours but actually no. It's even busier! Rush out in the morning with a not-enough-sleep baby and come home with houseworks waiting, no fun! I barely sit down and rest then have to rush out and pick the kiddo. Didn't expect that! bahhhh

Leah starts talking, she calls everyone is the family especially mummy clearly. She is never an easy baby since birth and now it seems worse than before after we move back from China. Sigh...

So my new year resolution will be as usual, lose weight. and i guess it will never happened to a lazy bum like me. So i should have another one instead, spend less! Naomi's extra curricular activities fees are really freaking me out! Gosh! I must spend less or we will eat grass lor...

Naomi's pre-birthday celebration

2010-11-30T20:18:00.005+08:00

Back back back dated post.

Naomi had been begging me for a birthday party, and she chose Kizsport & Gym in 1 Utama. After a few nights of deep thought and discussion, we decided to throw her a party way before her real birthday, at the place she'd chosen. And I invited my breastfeeding group mothers and kids.

She was the happiest one that day! Mummy and daddy on the other hand are much broke after that lar... sigh... no more next time. muahahahaha

Leah @ 1 year old

2010-11-30T17:02:00.002+08:00

Well, my little girl Leah turned 1 last month, but this busy(lazy) mama always miss to jod down her milestone.

on Oct 28, Leah finally stood up and walked. Now I am having trouble keeping her still, she is moving non stop, climbing up and down the sofa, stools, walking around the whole house, to the bathrooms, balcony, aiyor, so much work just to watch this little one. Hence I have no time to blog............ =_=

Leah still not talking much, unlike her sister, her sister already shown signs of little miss chatterbox at this age already. She does understand 90% of what we said to her. She always try to express her need by action. i.e. bringing us to washroom after she made no.1; pulling her stroller when she wishes to go out; taking us to kitchen when she needs food; pull up my shirt when she needs to be fed... etc.

She loves nursery rhymes, the song she love most is Old Mcdonald had a Farm and This Old Man. And the DVD she loves most is "wow! that's what I call Nursery Rhymes".

Got her an Ice cream cake from Papagallo. Coastal City ShenZhen.

It was almost 8pm, she was so tired as it had passed her normal sleeping time, 7.30pm. Hence we only got a cranky birthday girl lar.

Leah @ 11 months old...

2010-10-01T00:08:00.005+08:00

from the previous post, it's more than a month... Having a 2nd kid in my life feels like having triplets. Both are so .... just so.... kids!

To be fair, I should jod down bits about Leah...

Leah was sick for the past 3 days, high fever, green stool, vomit... was worried sick about her, didn't sleep as she has been really cranky. She wasn't an easy baby, with fever and all, she was even more difficult to handle. Leah, read this in another 20 years time. I need to ROCK you in my arms to sleep every night!

@ 11 months old, Leah is pretty cheerful. Still very very very manja, especially to gong-gong. She is very close to my father, at some point I think he is her favorite person. I am just a milk bottle to her..... :(

She starts to fight with Naomi for things she wants, if she didn't win, cry out loud. Very loud.

She kiss good bye properly now. She can say Kai-kai so clear, and Bye bye very clear, the rest, still babbling. Got to guess a few sometimes...

She is 7.8kg and 74cm. 2 kg lighter compare to Naomi at the same age.

accepting more solid food but very fussy eater, got this from mummy I guess.

Time flies, she is turning one in few weeks time. I still remember the day I went into hospital, imaging her look.... and now, she is 11 months old... Love you baby!

Leah @ 10 months old....

2010-08-22T21:24:00.007+08:00

Leah was 10 months old few days ago. And this forgetful mama keep forgetting to update bits about her development. So this is the difference between 1st baby and 2nd. Not that I love Leah lesser, I love her to the max but it's just the time management isn't that well anymore. I could sleep as early as 8.30pm nowadays when I used to sleep around 2am! Those were once upon a time......

Leah is as cheeky as her sister was but obviously more brave one. Naomi used to be scared of weird sounds like washing machine, vacuum cleaner (now still the same), but Leah would not be afraid of any of these. She even tried to touch the vacuum cleaner while I was operating it.

Leah could mumble a few words like mum-mum(eat), Buh-buh(bye bye with hands waving), boh(ball), kah-kah (Kai kai, going out).... not too clear yet but at least she is trying.

She walks well with push walker, and a circular walker that I got her. It goes round and round so I don't have to chase behind her back. hahahahaha And she walks really well, turning round and round.

When she wants to be breastfed, she will crawl to the bed, lay down there and starting "ah-ah ing" for me.

Leah is now weight at 7.9kg (didn't gain weight), height at 70cm. She is always smaller compare to same age babies in china, she is at 10 months and normally smaller than a 8 months old china babies. hmmm....

Little Miss Vain

2010-08-17T13:18:00.002+08:00

My soon to be 4-year-old girl is very into putting on color on herself. :D

Got this lip gloss palette for her from Sephora. The lip gloss quality seems fine and the design is absolutely cute for girls! She loves it so so much. :) mummy gets to share too! hehe

little miss messy....

2010-08-11T20:39:00.003+08:00

Leah has discovered her new "playground". She would come here at least once a day, mess it up and then sayonara. sigh...

And look, she is trying to reach a bottle of Gerber puff which is not quite her height. Did you notice her pointy toe trying to reach as high as possible....

And did she succeed? Yes she did, and then ran away lor....

Naomi's pretend play...

2010-08-02T20:28:00.002+08:00

Naomi loves role playing games and pretend play.

Yesterday, she was "cooking" at her "kitchen" for quite long... She then took 2 empty plates towards me and said, "here you go, mum". Then i pretended to take it up and straight away "put" into my mouth. She started shouting ,"no mum, that's mine, this one is yours!!!!"

I quickly "spit" out and said," phew, luckily I didn't swallow yet..." She started crying," mum you ruined my cake! "

I went to her "kitchen", pretending to cook her another cake and then passed the plate to her and said, "here, i made u the same one."

Naomi took a look and said," no it's not the same, you didn't put cherry on top." Ok, i pretended to put cherry on top. "no mum, u need to put cream on then only the cherry will stay..... " I then pretended to squeezed the cream. and then she started again," oh mum it's not the yellow cream, it's the pink one!" I said "IT IS PINK!" she argued," it's not this pink, it's light pink!"

Arghhhh, my girl and her imagination!!!

Leah is 9 months old!

2010-07-17T16:42:00.003+08:00

This cheeky little monster is 9 months old. She has learned so many things in 1 months.

She is able to drink from straw.
She eats more amount of solid food and drink lesser breastmilk compared to Naomi.
She babbles a lot, a lot...
She can recognized everyone of us when she was told to look for the person.
She waves bye bye when she reach the main door... (love love love going out)
She shakes her body when she hear her toy's music.
She is able to climb down from the bed on her own by coming down using her legs first.
.....

However, her mood swing is terrible. She can be a cheerful little sunshine this minute and a crying monster the next. Worse than her mother. :P

Leah is 8 months old.

2010-06-29T20:41:00.002+08:00

Leah @ 8 months old. Getting more cheeky, more demanding, and more adorable too. :)

to train or not to train...

2010-06-12T22:56:00.002+08:00

Naomi has been sleeping on her own for sometimes. However, it's not out of her willingness, she understand that she is a big girl and she needs to show me that she is one. So she didn't really complain about not sleeping with me anymore... (Well, of course I need her to sleep on her own because Leah is sleeping on the other side and I wish to have half of my bed... )

Few days ago, Naomi came to me and asked, " mummy, do I have to sleep on my own forever?"

I said, "well yes darling, you are a big girl now..." then she said,"mummy, sometimes I wish that I could be a baby again, so I can sleep with you again.... " with that pitiful look, I really don't have the heart to tell her to go back to her bed, instead I said," ok, just for tonight, go grab your pillow..."

Looking at her happy face, grabbing her pillow, ran to my bed and fell asleep within seconds, I didn't feel wrong to ask her to sleep with me. I think they were only kid once, I don't think they will want to sleep with me anymore in another 10 years time even if I beg them to... hehehehe

So, do u think to kids need to be trained to be independence?

updates updates....

2010-05-28T20:13:00.004+08:00

So, I have lots and lots to update.... feel so sorry for Leah, she has reached so many of her milestone and this lazy mama didn't even note down any.

Flip over : 3 months +
Sitting up unaided :5 months
Crawling on 4 : 6 months 3 weeks
Sit up from crawling : 7 months

First tooth : mummy has got no idea when did that happened, when I checked, I saw 2 lower teeth already there, super blur. Should be around 6 months 3 weeks+

As of today, I saw another front tooth on top is sprouting, no wonder she's been really difficult to handle these few days and diarrhea as well. But she is still very active.

She is getting more cheerful. However, still not very friendly to strangers, unlike Naomi. Naomi was a very easy going baby that would smile at ANYONE. Yes, almost anyone, black brown white yellow, she will just smile, easily gets people's heart. Leah is a total opposite, she would cry if stranger tries to get a bit closer.

Food, she accepts solid way much better than Naomi. She could finished about 20ml of puree each meal while her sister at this age, didn't accept solid at all.

She is very much attached to me. She will be jealous if she see Naomi sitting on my lap, will starts screaming as if she is scolding her sister and quickly crawl towards me.

:)

My little fairy...

2010-03-26T19:37:00.005+08:00

Naomi has a wonderful time in Melbourne and she knows her favorite show(nowadays) The Fairies, is from Australia. Well, being a 3+, she still believe in all these lar.

So, this mummy went all out to look for these Fairies' merchandise pulak. And I got her favorite character in Fairies, Harmony, the purple fairy. And this costume keeps her all day in front of the tv dancing with them. mummy can go online when little one is asleep. Muahahahaha

Aussie...

2010-03-20T09:59:00.002+08:00

Leah and Naomi have no problem adapt to the new environment, and their biological clock just adjusted in 1 day. Me, until today still couldn't sleep at night and can't get up in the morning. Australia is 3 hour ahead of Malaysia. I was a night owl back in Malaysia, so... very teruk for me. We will be here for another 2 months, hopefully by the time we got back to Malaysia, these kids will adjust back. :)

Melbourne is a very nice place to stay, no doubt. However, if people like me, not earning Australian and spending here in Australia make me think 3 times because everything x 3. That make shopping a bit "no kick"... But then I had to get Naomi a new pair of shoes because she said her shoes made her feet sore. My biggest mistake was letting her choose her own shoes because she picked the light up shoes which cost me AUD80! Naomi is not a girl that would cry when I say no to what she wants. But she wanted it so much that she almost want to cry when I asked her to pick others. So I gave in. Soft hearted mummy....

Leah is 5 months old!!

2010-03-16T15:55:00.002+08:00

Leah is 5 months old today!

First time on aeroplane!

2010-03-15T20:33:00.004+08:00

Leah experienced her first flight when she was 4.5 months to Melbourne, Australia. Having 2 kids with me, I decided to go for MAS, direct to destination. I do not want to transit anywhere with so many things on my hands!

Leah was pretty cooperative through the 8 hours flight. Didn't cry a bit surprisingly. Probably because of the low pressure in the cabin, she slept pretty long in the bassinet. Thank God for that. I was really nervous the night before thinking how Leah would behave badly in the aircraft. So seems like she is another "angel outside, devil at home" daughter of mine. Naomi really enjoy flying with MAS, with her own tv and unlimited juice, she actually pressed the bell and asked for juice herself... pengsan.

If MAS does fly to ShenZhen, I guess I would opt for it too. The service is so much better than AA.

Leah is 4 months old...

2010-02-23T22:51:00.003+08:00

Time flies, she is 4 months old.

Weight about 5.8kg， and 61cm in length.

She is a super glue to mummy, short sleeper, easy awakened, super duper attention seeker.

She doesn't like to be put down alone on anything, be it bed, swing, bouncer, bumbo seat, exersaucer, etc, nothing. Nothing could hold her more than 10mins. :(

However, when she laughs, it just chase away all the tiredness in me. And she only laugh when she sees me. :)

Leah flipped!

2010-02-08T23:15:00.003+08:00

Leah flipped over by herself on 6/2/2010, she was 3 months and 3 weeks old.

I put her on the bed after feeding. I wasn't prepare for her to turn over so soon as it happened on Naomi only when she was 5 months old! Leah was trying and trying and trying, this cruel mama was sitting beside laughing at the tiny cutie, then suddenly "whoops" she turned over and lifted her head up high and look at me, smiling... My heart almost melted with that winning smile. :)

after 2 days of practices, she is very fast now. Once I put her down on her back, she will try to turn over. However, she can't manage to flip over from tummy to back, so every time she's on her tummy long enough, she will start calling out loud for help..... and it actually become more work to do when she could just lay on the cot and looking at the mobile.... T_T

Belated Xmas gift...

2010-01-29T22:59:00.006+08:00

Well, naomi told Santa her 3 wishes last Christmas, and only one granted because the other 2 were late.....

She specifically asked for a pink teddy bear, a dora kitchen set, and a dora dresser. So this mummy actually went all out to get these for her. However, the dora sets could only be found in US, so I got my friend to send them over for me (thanks dear! ) kind of last minute. The shipment was delayed due to the busy month and it finally arrived today.

Naomi got her pink teddy bear on Xmas day but she was quite disappointed about the sets. So I made up a story saying that Santa accidentally broke the Dora sets and has to send them back for the elves to repair. She believed everything mama said ok? hehhehe She has never forgotten about the sets, always asking me when would Santa send them to her...

So when she opened up the the Dora Kitchen, she was so happy and was playing with it the whole afternoon! Of course mummy is the happiest person to see her girl being so delighted. :) and for the dresser, open tomorrow... hehehe

Leah's laugh...

2010-01-26T21:08:00.003+08:00

Her laugh really made my day!

The first person that made Naomi laugh wasn't me. It was my hubby. Now, I was the first person to make Leah laugh out loud, SO SO CUTE!

It's a waste I didn't have my video camera beside me to record this wonderful moment.

Leah's hair is always something that people will spot first! Her punk hair style. Her hair starts coming down a little, not so "spiky" anymore. And now I need to give her a good hair cut for Chinese New Year, her hair dropped down and seems to be a bit too long.

And she looks very girly now, with her smile. :)

She is 5.55kg and 62cm as of today. :)

Me and my buggies....

2010-01-21T21:48:00.004+08:00

Yes, I am thinking about more strollers.

These few days going out with 2 kids myself is getting tougher as Naomi demands to sit on stroller. I have only 2 hands, pushing a pram with Leah in it, how to push another one??? And having 2 strollers in my trunk is really space consuming. So, here I am, looking for something light and easy...

At first I was thinking about a buggy board, to be attached on the travel system that I am using right now, so Naomi could just hop on whenever she feels tired of walking. When I went to the shop to try out the installation, I just realised it cannot be fixed on Peg perego Aria OH. And when I come to think of it, this idea is still not good enough if we need to go for long hour outing. So I decided to look for double stroller and the front-back type.

First thing that come to my mine is this, Phil & Ted Vibe with double kit. This thing is light, only 22 pounds. which is almost the same as my Mclaren Techno XT. And best of all, the double kit can be folded together!! how wonderful. However, it's really expensive and the wheels are air pumped, every few days you will have to check if you have a flat-wheeled stroller. If the wheels punctured, sorry lor, you can't find any replacement in Malaysia. But the look is really yummy.....

After reading lots of negative comments on P&T, I hesitate.... and went on to check on others. I found one Sit and Stand double stroller which is called Joovy Caboose Ultra Light. It has to be the perfect stroller for a baby and a toddler. Toddler can either choose to sit on a small padded seat or stand. And the wonderful thing about it is, it can fit most of the major brand baby car seat! However, the look is a bit not-so-chic lar. Not available in Malaysia though....

And lastly, I found this on TaoBao China.... good idea? Not much of info and it is not that cheap though. It is about RM500++

Which one will you go for?

Leah is 3 months old...

2010-01-16T23:09:00.002+08:00

Happy new year everyone....

2010-01-05T23:45:00.006+08:00

It's only one additional baby, and my schedule is totally messed up because I cannot plan anything ahead. Breastfeeding, diaper changing, napping... argh!!! Leah's napping time is only 45 minutes max and awaken time is about 1 hr... so the routine goes on and on everyday.....

However, my lil baby is still a cutie pie. hehehehe. Leah is 2 months plus, weight about 5.2kg and about 56cm tall... she is much smaller compare to Naomi at this age. She smile a lot nowadays.

We were busy since before Xmas.... family all came back from everywhere and it was wonderful celebrating with love one. It is sad to send them off, Naomi was the most upset one... poor thing.

Instead of blog diarrhea, I will have photo diarrhea, easier lar.

xmas 2009 @KLCC

Posing....

Leah at 2 months old...

sisters...

She just love to smile... :)

TV during meal time?

2009-12-12T18:31:00.006+08:00

I am not a mother who against TV, in fact, I am a lousy mum who always let my kid watch TV until my kid know almost all the animation characters....

However, I will never allowed my kid to watch TV, at the same time, eating. This is definitely a NO NO to me. No matter how Naomi refused to take the solid food last time, I didn't give in by letting her eat in front of the TV.

Until today, Naomi only eats on dining table, and she always turn off TV whenever I say meal time which I think is a very good practice, kid gets to see what she is putting into her mouth instead of some mouse and duck and dog's faces on TV.

However, today at Ikano Power Centre, I saw a parents with a maid and a about 3 years old boy were eating at one of the food place. And to my horror, the maid was feeding the boy with a portable DVD player ON!!!!! Is it necessary??? He won't die skipping one meal if he doesn't want to eat! I was so shocked!

Do parents need to go to that extend to spoil a child? Bringing a portable player everywhere you go? I can understand if the player is only for parents to get some peaceful time to get to have a gathering session with relatives or friends which normally last longer. But this is only a lunch!!! I think this is nut. I am sorry if you are one of the parents like this reading this post, yes, I think you are nut.

Xmas Xmas Xmas....

2009-12-08T23:00:00.003+08:00

It's the happiest month of the year! DECEMBER! It means Christmas is near and presents presents presents. Well, it's not as excited anymore because nowadays I have to buy lots of presents instead of receiving lots of presents. However, I still love Christmas atmosphere. So peaceful.

I brought Naomi to a few malls to see the Christmas decoration and of course, to meet Santa. So far we have seen Sunway Pyramid, Pavilion, Ikano, The Curve.

The Santa from Pavilion looks a lot like those from the hallmark card. hehehe. more real. And Naomi actually told "Santa" her wish for Christmas Presents... faint, and I have to start looking for them now. Barbie and room sets and Dora talking kitchen (this one die liao, have to order from US). Sigh... everything for my girls now.

Let me upload some pictures from Pavilion.

At Pavilion, you need to pay RM10 in order to take picture with Santa, but the RM10 will go into Charity, and you get a free 4R picture. :)

Leah @ 6 weeks old...

2009-12-02T12:38:00.002+08:00

Leah is 6 weeks old, still not a deep sleeper at night. In fact, a night owl. She just refuse to fall asleep, not by nursing, rocking, patting on the back, nothing! Normally she will make lots of fuss from 12am to about 4am until all of us are really really tired, then only she will sleep soundly. This is going on for 6 weeks... tired.

Other than sleeping problem, she is still an angel. She loves to be carried (I am sure all babies do), and smiles a lot too.

She is born on a smaller size, 2.82kg, and at 6 weeks, she's 4.58kg, definitely catching up!

Naomi's 3rd birthday...

2009-11-28T18:49:00.001+08:00

Naomi was 3 on 14/11/2009!

This year's celebration was quite simple. We were glad that Papa Sze gets to come home to celebrate both Naomi's birthday and Leah's full moon on the next day.

Since we'd be eating so much on Leah's full moon, we made a very simple celebration with just our close family. I ordered the princesses and Dora's cupcakes from Tracey and they were really really delicious. We find that cupcake is much more economical for small celebration. And no wastage. Last year we spent RM300 on a Pooh bear & friends' design cake which naomi chose, and we couldn't even finish half of it. There were still cupcakes left this year but it was still very nice to let our guests tarpao home, at least the cupcakes were still untouched and looked good. :)

Less presents this year as I didn't know what to get for my little one anymore. She's at the phase of too small for games and too big for baby toys, and she has most of the things she wants. So we got her books and clothes and costumes.

Next year, we will have to celebrate birthday for Leah on October and Naomi on November... gonna be so broke... hehehe

Leah's full moon...

2009-11-27T14:56:00.003+08:00

Full moon hair cut.

I should really update my blog more often. It's only fair to the little one, hor?

We had Leah's full moon party on 15/11/2009. We had about 80 guests and they are only relatives, family from Papa Sze and my side. Huge family.

Lots of food, lots of laughter and lots of angpao, hehehehe.

Welcome Leah....

2009-11-25T23:30:00.003+08:00

We have a new member in our family!

Name: Leah Ng Xuen-Yee (黄萱颐）
D.O.B ： 16/10/2009
weight : 2.82kg
height : 46.5cm
Head circumstance : 33cm

I had to go for a C-sec due to umbilical cord around baby's neck. Doctor advised I should not wait. I felt very peaceful though Papa Sze couldn't make it home on time to be with me at the operation theater. Papa Sze only make it back 8 hour after Leah was born and he went through so much trouble to get a flight home.

It was a very fast recovery too! I didn't feel any pain after about 8 days. I went out shopping again at 3 weeks and had no problem driving and moving around.

Breastfeeding is a breeze, didn't experience too much problem. Leah latch on well and definitely love being breastfed.

However, Leah doesn't like sleeping. She is awake more than a usual new born and she probably sleeps for only 1 hour each time. She likes to be awake at night from 12am to 4am. My dad and I will have to take turn to carry her, trying to put her to sleep. ARGH! This is still going on and on and on.... when will it end my angel?

Naomi's first school experience....

2009-09-05T21:54:00.004+08:00

I feel so warm with all the welcome back wishes. :) so touched. Thanks for visiting leh.

Naomi will be 2 years and 10 months old in another few days time. She is quite a fast learner but a bit over attach to me. I　have tried to send her to pre-school and it really really traumatized her. The pre school teacher kept saying I should leave her and just go away. It broke my heart to see her screaming and crying at the gate when I returned 1 hour later. She even woke up in the middle of the night and asked if she need to be in school alone again. Poor baby, I have no heart to continue her in the school, so I withdraw her from school after 3 days trial. I seriously think pre-school shouldn't be so stressful. It should be a place she looks forward to be everyday. A lot of people said I wasn't tough enough, a lot of them think I should let her continue for at least a week or two, but it's not a must for her to go to school right? I really couldn't bear her midnight cry saying she doesn't want to be in school alone. So be it lar, sigh....

I was talking to my friend who runs a kindy, she told me I shouldn't have left her and go all of sudden. I should be there with her for at least 1 week, to let her get use to the environment and to look for the sense of security... BUT it was the school PRINCIPAL that told me to leave her!!!! I picked the wrong school after doing all the visiting to a few of them! :(

Now, whenever I told her that "look, that jie jie is going to school... it is so much fun going to school..." and she will answer "but I like to stay home with mummy.... I don't have to go to school...." sigh...

So, We shall try again soon or next year, and definitely another school....

a lil update.

2009-08-31T13:20:00.003+08:00

Last post on march.... my my my...

Ok, I blamed it on China, because they block the direct access to blogspot, and proxies aren't working all the time... so on and so on... and now back in Malaysia, no excuse for me to not updating about my little ones....

I　am now at my 33 weeks, yeah， another 7 weeks to go. This pregnancy is definitely more tiring than the previous one. Maybe I have a going-to-be-3 toddler to take care of and no maid. I　am lucky to have my mum around, or else, I will probably go insane already. I really salute those SAHM with 2-3 kids and no helper, you are really super mum!

I am very much enjoying the baby shopping though. All the the tiny clothes, mittens, booties, beanies, toys.... it's nice to shop and it's even nicer when i can shop with valid reason. hehehehe...

ok, Happy Merdeka Day everyone. Time for me to go kaikai somemore. will update again later. MUAKS for those who still come visiting me. I　really appreciate it.

Naomi is 28 months old...

2009-03-17T11:54:00.002+08:00

It's an back dated post. Naomi is 28 months old on 14/3/2009. She's been a very good girl since the morning sickness started. Before I found out I am pregnant, she's been just clingy and annoyed. After the morning sickness kicked in, I realized that she could be so understanding and so sweet. Every time, after I threw up in the bath room, she will quickly call my mum or hubby to get me a glass of warm water. Every night, she reminds me to take my folic acid. I'm so pleased to see her being such a sweet little girl.

She is pretty much ok with the baby news. She actually showed excitement to be a "jie jie" soon. She is a big girl now. She does her stuff most of the time, she put on/off her clothes by herself, she eats with us on the table on her own. She is 100% diaper free. Never wet once on the bed! I　am very very proud of my little girl!

An unexpected gift from above...

2009-03-14T17:23:00.002+08:00

We received this pleasant surprise from God... :)

I am now about 9 weeks pregnant and I am having bad nausea. Praying hard that it will go off real soon.

Sorry for not visiting your blogs so often anymore. I hardly visit my own too....

Naomi's Painting...

2009-03-01T21:26:00.008+08:00

One of Naomi's favorite activity is the art time with Daddy.... yeah, it had to be daddy, because mummy can't draw. Normally, daddy would outline a picture and Naomi do the painting. And yesterday, Naomi's tremendous improvement seriously gave us a shock! She painted so carefully, tried so hard not to paint outside the line... Well, all the blue color parts was helped by daddy... pink, definitely her's.

She asked her daddy to cut out the painting and stick them on the wall. It's been 3 days, she refused to let us take them down, she is absolutely proud of her works!

Naomi is 27 months...

2009-02-15T00:27:00.007+08:00

Happy valentine's day to all....

And it's my girl 27 months old today too...

She is hyper active, talkative, sing well, talk well, fuzzy eater, picky on clothes and so... sigh...

It's been 5 days in a row that she did not wet her night diaper at all. And she would wake me up in the middle of the night to bring her to the toilet, then back to the bed, sleep again... Very very soon I am sure, my girl will be 100% diaper free. So happy, can't wait for the day to come.

She is quite independent nowadays too, she will pick her own clothes to wear, she even put them on and take them off herself. She eats on her own, she refused to be fed now. She will tell you, "mummy, I am a big girl, let me eat on my own!" What's next?

Travel between KL and ShenZhen are doing good for us. Naomi enjoys traveling as she enjoyed herself very much on the plane. She has no problem sitting by herself while the plane take off or landing. She misses daddy in ShenZhen and she misses her grandparents and uncles back in MY too. So she loves traveling! I thank God she is one good girl who is eaily settling down at one place. :)

Naomi's 3rd CNY...

2009-02-02T16:27:00.007+08:00

This year is Naomi's 3rd celebration of Chinese New Year. The first time was when she was 3 months old, 2nd was 1 year and 2 months old. And this year, she is 2 years and 2 months old... time flies...

I bought her Chinese Qi-Pao, I was very worried at first that she will not put them on. She dislike most of the dresses I got her. Surprisingly, she was very very co-operative the whole CNY. Whatever dress that I want her to put on, she was ok with that. Of course, I did tell lie lar! I told her those dresses are from her beloved Trinity Jie Jie, or Angelina Jie Jie, or those princesses. Well, her favorite is Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty. Yes, she is very much into princesses now.

It was all usual CNY, food and more food.... I think I gained at least 3kgs...Damn. Need to go on diet again!!!!

Some updates...

2009-02-01T16:41:00.002+08:00

It's been really long since I really sit myself down to blog, yeap, since I was back from China. We are very busy in MY. hmmm... i wonder why?

Naomi is finally diaper free in the day time before the CNY. She could hole her pee all the way from KL to Taiping. Actually I believe she could go diaper free at night if I could wake her up once in the midnight to go to the toilet, her diaper through out the night is very very light. However, this mama is just too lazy. So she'll be still on diaper at night lar!
Naomi speaks Chinese more than English, though she could understand English but she will still answer in Chinese. And she speaks fluently. Well structured sentences and she created her own stories in correct sequence.
She is behaving very very very bad lately. She doesn't listen to me or daddy. Not willing to apologize. She is very rebellious!

she is very into jigsaw puzzle nowadays... saved me a lot to buy her expensive toys. I just need to buy her those cheapo big piece jigsaw puzzles and that could entertain her for few days! So good! And I have to say she's quite good at solving them. I just need to show her twice and she can do them by herself.

And of course, she grew a lot taller. A lot of clothes are smaller and shorter now.... sigh... time for shopping...

tired.....

2009-01-20T23:47:00.003+08:00

It's been a long time since my last post.... lazy... very lazy. And busy too, plus all the sickness. It was chaotic.

Sister and Trinity came back from Aussie for visit. And we were busy traveling to visit our relatives and "sight-seeing". And just 1 day before they left, Naomi was having stomach virus. On and off till now. Poor baby. And after 2 days, me got the same problem but I was fine in just 2 days and now, my right neck and shoulder are killing me. Went to see a Chinese Sensei and got myself some very very very horrible medicine. Argh!

Back in MY....

2009-01-01T23:29:00.010+08:00

It's been really busy back home.... lots of cleaning up, and thanks to my parents who came back to MY earlier, they helped to clean up a lot! And lots of kai kai to go.... yeah, we are free like a bird, we can go anywhere we want now! So I basically take Naomi out everyday!

Naomi is so happy to be in her car seat and listen to her children hymn in the car. She can sing lots of children hymn in full. Sometime I am very impressed, she just sang them to me only I realized she's able to do so.

I am pretty lazy to write... and this is my girl having her favorite ice cream.

Merry Christmas! :)

2008-12-25T22:38:00.006+08:00

It was a very quiet Christmas this year for us. However, Naomi was still happy because "Santa" came over....

On the Christmas Eve, we prepared a glass of milk and a piece of cookie for Santa. Naomi put the cookie at the spot she wanted Santa to drop the presents. We did that about 8:30pm... and from then until before she slept, she kept checking out the cookie and the milk. Until I told her that Santa will only come when you are sleeping... haiyor. Then of course when the lil girl had gone to sleep, mummy will have to drink the milk and eat the cookie lar!

Then the next day when she woke up, she actually forgotten about the cookie and the milk until I reminded her today is Christmas, Santa should have come last night... Then only she quickly ran out to the living room and she was so happy to see presents! She actually screamed :" Santa finished my cookie and milk milk!" and "Thank you Santa for the presents!"

There were 3 presents, I told her Santa gave her 1, daddy and mummy gave her one each... I wonder if she will think how come all the wrapper were the same... muahahahahaha

Christmas, Yeah!....

2008-12-22T23:48:00.004+08:00

I just went and dig my last year post... I just realized that I didn't blog about our Christmas last year!!!

This year will only be 3 of us here in a foreign country. I have been celebrating with my whole family on Christmas for the past 2 years, and frankly, I miss it a lot! It's good to have family nearby. It's good to feel taken care of. :) Well, Papa Sze does a very good job in taking care of me and Naomi too!

Last year Naomi was just started walking for a month, was still walking like a "drunken master". And she couldn't speak in sentence, only a few words. Couldn't sing out one whole song... Look at her now, so much different in just 1 year. She speaks fluently in well formed sentences. She sings lots and lots of nursery rhymes, English and Chinese, 1 hakka and 1 hokkien, a few cantonese children songs too! And she can run so fast that I sometimes I couldn't keep up (yeah, this mama needs exercise more...)

Last year we have loads of presents from uncle Ray and Aunty Nicole and other relatives... this year, sorry lor Naomi. Only 2 ,ok?

And last year she still have very curly hair.... now it has become so much straighter!

I am Bored....

2008-12-16T23:18:00.002+08:00

I couldn't cook.
I couldn't chat (or 8) on msn....
I couldn't watch drama....
I couldn't go kai kai....
because Naomi is so clingy.... sian...

Oh I miss my mum so much.....

Naomi at 25 months old...

2008-12-13T15:12:00.007+08:00

Oh my Oh my... it's been long since my last update... It's not easy to juggle a few blogs... how do you wonderful mummies out there manage to do so???

Here's some update:

Poh poh has gone home to Malaysia today. Yesterday while she was packing, Naomi thought we are going back together. She got so excited that she went to pull out her clothes from the wardrobe and start packing too (like she knows lar!) Poor thing, I just have to be cruel and tell her the truth,

"Naomi, only poh poh is going back to KL. We stay in China, ok?"
"Nooooo mummy, I want to go too...we all go together"
"Baby, you have to stay here with mummy and daddy... poh poh needs to go back to see gong gong..."
"Noooo poh poh cannot go...I want poh poh...." then she started crying, hugging poh poh and keep asking poh poh not to leave....

I tell you, it broke both me and my mum's heart to see her cry like that... I seriously wanted to buy another tickets and we all go home together... but I was rational enough, luckily.

Anyhow... we sent poh poh off this morning. She was ok, but sad for a while I guess... I wrote it here in my shopaholic blog.

Naomi is 2 years and 1 month old (or 25 months old....) She's grown a lot and she is able to speak so well, I can basically sembang with her now... and she picked up some cantonese songs too, so cute! hehehehehe :)

Hong Kong trip Day 2.... Disneyland!

2008-12-03T09:23:00.012+08:00

Our day 2 and last day were at Disneyland. Disneyland hotels are having promotion now, which you stay one night at the hotel, bought 1 day ticket and play for 2 days. It's quite worth it. Though Hong Kong Disneyland is pretty small, it should be done in just 1 day, but having a toddler who would need to nap in the afternoon and all the queuing for those character photography sessions... 2 days will spare us more time to play and more relax.

We purposely took a cab from Shatin to TsingYi MTR station, and we took MTR to Sunny Bay and changed to the Disneyland resort line in order for Naomi to experience the Disneyland train. She was very very excited to see the train with Mickey's head window!

As we entered the park, she saw Goofy and on my, she was so happy that she kept screaming for goofy like those little fans. Muahahahaha . When she saw Belle, oh my oh my, she really adored Belle. After that she told me "mummy, I want to be like Belle, I want a dress like hers...." See lar, she's only 2, ok?

Disneyland were having some Christmas Celebration with extra stage shows in front of the castle. And the Christmas Parade, I have to say it wasn't impressive. It was quite short and simple..... The fireworks at night was very short too! It wasn't great too... I remembered it shouldn't be this short.... Hmmm....

Naomi's favorite was Buzz Lightyear ride. I think we took about 5-6 rounds of Buzz Lighyear ride. And she knows her mission, is to shoot the naughty Zurg.... And we went for Golden Mickey and Lion King stage shows as well. At first I was pretty worried that she would be making a scene inside but to my surprise, she actually loved them. She was watching so quietly and so concentrating. I guess it's not long for our movie days! Hehehehe

Overall, it was a lot of fun, it's good enough for Naomi to really enjoy herself. However, both mummy and daddy were very very tired carrying her queuing up...

Isn't she a lady? Her Aunty Nicole said, she's a natural.

Disney train....

Castle...

Ok, this cheapo mum didn't buy this for her, only let her took picture. It's HKD90 and I don't think she will really want it after 5 mins.

She's angry at her daddy.... because she couldn't queue up quietly.

I asked her to put up a happy face, this was what she gave me.

She wasn't scared of any of this character, she actually ran towards them and hug them without me.

Her idol.....

Hong Kong trip Day 1....

2008-11-30T16:00:00.009+08:00

Papa Sze needed to go Hong Kong to run some errands. Since it was on Thursday and Friday, we planned a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland as well.

We stayed in Royal Park Hotel at Shatin area as so Papa Sze could do his stuff at that area. I have to say it is a very nice hotel. The whole place was newly renovated as the hotel was chosen to be the official Olympic Village of the Equestrian Game. The room is very spacious that you hardly get this room size in town hotel, hahaha , yeah, Hong Kong hotel rooms are normally not too big. It is connected to New Town Plaza, a very big shopping place with lots of food choices. And some very good brands are here too, Next, Marks & Spencer, Zara etc... nice!

Papa Sze had to go out in the afternoon, so I took Naomi to Snoopy World in New Town Plaza. It is just a theme playground but good enough to keep Naomi occupied for hours.

After that we went to toys'r'us and spend another few hours at that place, so I don't have to buy her any toys, cheapo mum hahahahaha....

And that night, we met up with a very very long lost friend and her family. We had a wonderful dinner, you know who you are, thanks a lot!

And the next day, we adjourned to Disneyland Hong Kong, and that will be day 2's story....

Naomi's school day...

2008-11-25T22:50:00.004+08:00

No no no, not the monday to friday, 9am-4pm school. It is just some activity classes.

Naomi has been very bored here in China as we couldn't move around and go out as and when we like. Taking public transportation is pretty tough to go out with a kiddo.

So this school is called RYB (红黄蓝亲子班), we enrolled Naomi in music class and sensory integration class. The place is very very clean and still quite new.

Naomi was the youngest in both classes. As the result, she couldn't really follow all the instructions but she blended in very well. The instructors did mention that we need to give her time to adapt and she was doing fine when it comes to change of environment. She was very brave to introduce herself with her very Malaysian chinese slang mixed with a bit of English. And I bet most of the class didn't understand what she said.....

Overall, it was a fantastic experience for us! But, mummy was very very tired after the classes because I was doing all the activities together....

No more spending..

2008-11-22T18:33:00.005+08:00

As Huisia said.... it's time to save up.

Papa Sze has been telling me the company has to cut down all the costs, probably salary too. He is very stressed out, though he tries very hard not to show us. Salary cut will impact us a lot, as we are single income family, we have a lot of commitments! And without any backup, i cannot imagine if Papa Sze got retrenched (choi !). And I pray very very hard each night.

Now,
we can't go out dining more than twice a week.
we can't buy anything extra, no more toys for naomi, no more pretty outfit for her, no more fun dazzle/kidsport and gym (poor baby...)
we can't go out more than twice a week (to save on cab cost)
we can't buy too much of imported food(those are expensive!)

As a foreign worker, we were given a very cosy place to stay, everything is paid off. So, stay home more, will definitely save some money.

And internet, will be my closer friend.... books and DVDs, will be Naomi best friends too... :P

Thai food in China...

2008-11-21T15:37:00.005+08:00

After a few months in China, we've tried out a few Thai restaurant and so far, this one is the best... it is called Yam Thai 鑫泰. Not too expensive, 3 adults and 1 child, the bill came up to be RMB300 with about 5 dishes. The ambience is very cosy too. We have been there for few times...

I have to say their food is pretty authentic, and quite delicious. Too bad they don't have the clear tom yum soup, it has to come with the coconut milk in it which I don't really fancy. It's too lemak. However, the taste is wonderful...

What I find the best is their claypot brinjal tang-hun.... It is very very tasty. :)

Naomi is 2!!!!

2008-11-14T13:02:00.004+08:00

My girl officially stepping into the "terrific 2" phase.... :P

We have a wonderful dinner with a few of hubby colleagues and Hui Sia's family... Being too excited of Naomi's birthday, both mummy and daddy forgot to bring the camera.... :(

Naomi loves Jo and Eli's company so much. She keep asking to go Aunty Hui Sia's house everyday, pengsan. And thanks for all the lovely presents too! Naomi loves them so much.

My girl....

2008-11-11T15:36:00.009+08:00

Says who that girl is supposed to be more quiet, less active and more obedient? Definitely not my girl....

Look at her stunts...

"Let me get my chair to the back of the sofa..."

"I am ready..."

"iiiiah..."

"iiiaahhh " somemore...

"Ta-da!"

Again!!!!!!

A lot of fun, heh? She could do this for a long long time... climbed over the sofa and slided down....

My vain pot....

2008-11-08T19:49:00.012+08:00

Look at my little vain pot... after she put on everything, she stood up and screamed "Look mummy, I am soooo beeeautiful...."

Putting on my nail polish

Putting on my bracelet

Now, a good hair setting will be perfect...

Now, what else....

oh yeah, my very pretty rings...

Anniversary celebration....

2008-11-07T13:16:00.002+08:00

2 days ago was our 3rd wedding anniversary.

This was our first time celebrating together on the date. Normally Papa Sze will be somewhere in another corner of the world.....

And we went to have Pizza Hut nearby... muahahaha ... no candle light dinner, no flower, no romantic music, but it was a fantastic dinner with Papa Sze and Naomi.

It's good to be together....

A family day out....

2008-11-02T21:36:00.015+08:00

Finally, we didn't go to shopping mall. We went to "Window of the world" in ShenZhen. The weather at this time is very good for outdoor activities, it's not too hot, windy yet not cold.

More details on this place, please visit this page. It has very good description of this fantastic place. It has about 130 reproduction of world famous attraction. It is indeed pretty amazing.

Naomi didn't know all the places yet but she did enjoy the monorail ride and the train ride. We were supposed to go on the horse carriage but too bad Naomi fell asleep half way and when she woke up, the horses ride was over. You have to pay for all the rides and it counts by head. Not cheap.

It is a very nice outting and here are some of the pictures we took. :)

The entrance(left) & The exit (right)

She was immitating some Chinese guy....

I don't really remember this one...

Versille Palace, remember this because I'd been there

We didn't get in the "ice and snow world" because Naomi said she is scared...

She absolutely loved the camel ride, and it cost RMB15 for 15sec.

Piazza dei Miracoli

I can't remember this one too, is it The Duomo in Milan?

Ok, the Eiffel towel...

There's halloween celebration at night but we didn't stay. Naomi will be afraid.

She will stand still now when I ask her to take pictures. :)

Behind Papa Sze, is Holiday Plaza, pretty new and nice. With the first Toy'r'us in ShenZhen in there. We always do our groceries shopping in there.

Naomi pre-birthday celebration!

2008-10-26T11:55:00.014+08:00

Another 2 weeks plus to go, Naomi will be 2 years old.... during Naomi's birthday, we will be in ShenZhen China, therefore before we leave, we have a small birthday party for her with our own relatives in KL. So happened grandma(naomi's great grandma is in town), she was absolutely happy to see so many people. Too bad, relatives of Papa Sze have to go back to hometown, else it would be merrier. We couldn't postpone our date as the cake that Naomi chose, she couldn't accomodate with other date except for today, so, that left us no choice.

Papa Sze couldn't join us physically but through skype... It was a great birthday party but without a maid... I think I should really consider throwing a party in McDonald's next time....

"I'm all set to have my 2nd birthday!"

"Mummy, can I touch...."

"This is my ah-tai(great grandma)

"This is my poh poh (grandma)and I miss gong gong"

"My one and only mummy dearest...."

This is my ah mah (grandma) and ah gong (grand-dad)

"and yay! These are MYYYY presents...."

"Yeah.... unwrap the presents! And we having the same pyjamas mummy..."

"Thank you gong gong, poh poh, ah gong, ah mah, uncle su zhuan, uncle su yu , aunty winnie, aunty nicole, uncle rn, uncle raymond, aunty yee nan, trinity, angelina and magdelina for all the lovely presents"

"thank you uncles and aunties for your generous ang pow...."

"oh, and thank you mummy and daddy too for everything!"

Naomi is sick, again!!!!!

2008-10-23T19:30:00.001+08:00

What happened baby??? You were sick 3 weeks ago and you are having fever again last night??? Mummy is really really worried about you!!!!

Thanks mummy dearest!

2008-10-23T19:26:00.002+08:00

I've been too pampered!

My maid has gone home from KL to Indo...and I am so helpless... Mum, thanks for being around. I am very grateful for my mum to sacrifice herself, her husband(my dad is alone in Ozland with my sis) to help me out when everything is so chaotic especially when Naomi is having fever now, again! Oh mum you have to come with me to ShenZhen. It is so good to have someone around when sh*ts happened!

So no maid, I have to do the house chores, ok -lar, my mum helps half of them... hehehe, thanks mummy dearest, you are the best!

I am not sure if I will do the same to Naomi though.....

Naomi is 23 months old....

2008-10-14T20:57:00.004+08:00

Ah... time flies, another months to go, she will be 2 years old....

Naomi at 22 months++....

2008-10-09T23:15:00.006+08:00

Afew days more to be 23 months old. She speaks very well... a lot of people who have met her would comment about she speaks a lot for her age. So another word for it, a chatter box.

She is more towards left hander, I guess she is more of an artistic person, Muahahahaa... She recognised most of the colors, red, black, blue, yellow, white, green, pink, purple, grey, orange, brown, silver, beige... and her favorite is Pink, and she assigned colours to each of us... she is very good with colours.

She knows 1-10, but she doesn't really like to learn ABC, she can speak out A-Z but she can only memorise very few of them, O, A, U,Y.... but she is very good with story telling. The books that I used for story telling, she can pick the book and know exactly what the story is. Sometime she will tell me the stories in broken pieces, but still good, for her age.

She sings lots of songs. A lot, from nursery rhymes to children christian songs, from english to chinese, a lot of them. Her favorite should be "wee willie winkee" , "twinkle twinkle little star" and "jesus loves me"... because she always sings them...

She gives excuses. When I asked her to come down to walk by herself, or I don't want to carry her, she'll say :" mummy, I am sick, I can't walk...." when she's perfectly healthy. When I asked her to go to sleep, she'll say :" No mummy, I need to say good night to po po first...." when po po is not in the house. Then I'll have to call po po and she will not want to put down the phone... lots of excuses...

She speak Chinese more than English, because I speak Chinese to her more. However, it seems easier for her to pick up English than Chinese.....

My cheeky girl.... very cheeky

Naomi was sick again...

2008-10-03T17:03:00.004+08:00

Naomi was down with fever again 3 days ago due to viral infection, could be viral gastroenteritis. Her fever was so high at 38.5c and doesn't really come down.... I was worried sick!

Yesterday was her 3rd day of fever, afternoon around 6pm, her body was shivering, the whole body was so hot and she kept sleeping, Papa Sze, poh poh and I rushed her to hospital emergency immediately and found out her temperature was at 40c at that time! I did blame myself for being so careless, I forgot to take her temperature at home, with this high fever, she could get seizure! The MO immediately admitted her, and this was Naomi's first time introduced to tylenol sepositories (the medicine that insert through bum bum) The Paed came around 9, wanted to put her on drip but I refused to as her temperature started to come down. I seriously don't want my girl to be traumatised! Blood test was scarry enough for her! Naomi was crying so much asking to go home, we decided to be "on leave" from the hospital. We had the doctor to sign the paper and we went home to sleep. And by that time, it was 11pm....

Her fever came back slightly around 4am, I fed her paracetamol and continued to monitor her. Thank god, the fever didn't come back anymore after that.

The next morning, we rushed back to hospital, met the paed, and we were allowed to discharge. Naomi is all cheerful and active and very loud again today!

And in just 1 day, we spent over RM1k for all these... the Paed consultation fee and ward visit was totaled at RM740! My goodness, DSH is supposed to be this expensive????

Mummy got a hair cut

2008-09-30T17:03:00.003+08:00

I am very very very sick of all the hair on the floor, on the bed, sofa.... basically anywhere I was. Yeah, those are my hair, long and not-too-black. After keeping long hair for a year, I decide to have my hair cut short yesterday and, "ta-da", me with short hair again.

And it feels so good... I am thinking of cutting it shorter...

my new thing...

2008-09-28T14:01:00.005+08:00

Here, Papa Sze bought mummy something to play with....

And I am still trying to figure out how not to take this thing as a normal compact camera... hmmm.....

These are what i've got...

Sick baby.....

2008-09-26T23:02:00.001+08:00

Naomi is sick... fever, viral infection... and parents moving house.... Argh!!

I am thankful that Papa Sze is coming home today... so he can help out, ngek ngek ngek..... :P

Jolly good time with Trinity Jie Jie...

2008-09-22T08:48:00.010+08:00

Trinny came to Malaysia with my dad, and for the passed week. We have been so busy "playing". In 10 days time, we went to National Zoo, 2 days 1 night in Genting Highland, 3 times of Kidsport and Gym..... I am about to pass out soooooooon.

We went to National Zoo, with my uncle and his 2 sons (Yeah, the age gap of my uncle and my mum is pretty big....) Both boys are good friends to Trinity, Naomi loves them very much and they "sayang" her a lot too!

Zoo Malaysia, I hate to say this, but, it is pretty boring compare to the Singapore's. Of couse the price is also a big difference lar. So for a half day outting for family, it's still good. Oh, do bring your own lunch. The food in there are lousy! The KFC closed down dont-know-when.

Another Genting trip requested by Trinity. Her last trip to Genting was 2-3 years ago.... because when she was in Malaysia, we were pretty tied up with other programs. So, this time round, Genting is in our agenda. Probably a 2nd trip when Papa Sze is back..... We had a fantastic trip in Genting!!!

Naomi is 22 months old...

2008-09-16T16:41:00.007+08:00

Naomi is 22 months old, another 2 months to reach her ter*bble two.... well, now her behavior isn't totally good, can't imagine if the T-2 is coming...

And, we are back in Malaysia for a short while. Naomi is so so so happy. Not quite 1 week we are back, we've been to Kidsport & Gym for 3 times.... -_-

And when we asked if she wanna go back to China again? She said "NO NO NO!"

This is 3 days ago when we were in KLIA waiting for my dad and Trinny coming back from Australia. Isn't she a tall girl, she is 93cm!

Swimming is one of her favourite activities.

Cinderella....

2008-09-08T22:22:00.004+08:00

Modern Cinderella.... but she asked for it.

I told her not to play with her water bottle and she still did. So this was what she get. Wipe the floor dry or no lunch for her....

Naomi is 21 months ++...

2008-09-05T23:35:00.002+08:00

Ooohh, I've forgotten to update about Naomi being 21 months old...

She talks so much that sometimes I wish she could just be quiet for 5 minutes...

She can sing a lot a lot of songs, she can even memorise a Hakka poem and a hokkien one. To be fair, mum's a hakka and dad's a hokkien.

She is getting more demanding as she knows more and more. And of course smarter too. It's harder to "cheat" her nowadays....

She is sometimes a monster being too sticky, too grumpy, asking too much attention, from me only lar.

But overall, she is still cute, adorable and cheeky. :)

She is my angel.

Japanese food...

2008-08-30T16:21:00.013+08:00

It's weekend again. We went to return our safety gate in Ikea as it needed to be drilled. Ah, too much trouble, I got another one from a very nice online seller. Here, I wrote about it.

After that, we went to this Japanese Restaurant in Coastal City. It is the biggest Japanese restaurant in Asia, it claims. Indeed, it is huge! The ambience is great, we got a tatami room upstair. It has a huge variety of selection too, and kids friendly as well! They have cute sushi for the little one!

We waited not too long for the food as it wasn't that packed. The food... not fantastic. I expected the food to be as great as the place... and I expected too high I guess.I didn't bring along my camera, so I took the pictures with my 2.0 mega pixel handphone, hence, the pictures are not so clear....

Kai kai ...

2008-08-24T18:20:00.003+08:00

So we went kai kai in Nan Shan Coastal City yesterday. It is a very nice mall to walk around, but too bad they don't have a place like Kidsport & Gym there. Or else, I will go there very very very often. There's a jusco there as well, quite a good selection of imported food from Japan. However, I couldn't find safety gate here, saw it in Ikea but it needs to be drilled which I am not sure the landlord will be comfortable about it. So I will need to find something like Safety 1st which only use pressure.

And today, we went out again. We went to Central Walk in Futian. And here, I found a playland here which Naomi likes to go. Though this mall is not as great as Coastal City (my opinion), but at least it has a place where Naomi enjoy herself very much.

@ ShenZhen Part II

2008-08-22T21:01:00.005+08:00

1 week in ShenZhen, everything seems better. The first 2 days of arrival was all chaotic. The house was still messy (although hubby had done a very good job in cleaning up), and other than furnitures, there's nothing else. Not even a spoon.... so we went Ikea for a big shopping!

Ikea in ShenZhen is not as big in KL, the pricing is almost the same after conversion. Well, there're certain things which are cheaper than KL! My coffee cup is only RMB2.50. Which is about RM1.30. Good deal, hor?

Then Naomi was sick for 3 days.... the weather is really really hot here. Then today typhoon pulak....

My shipments from KL is stucked in the custom as I didn't know I have to declare on another form that I have seperate shipments of personal goods. ah... it was all hassle, I have to say this DHL China is so not helpful and the custom... sigh.... usual for government officers lar.

So, shopping is not done yet, hopefully tomorrow there will not be any thunder storm, or else, there goes our shopping trip!

@ ShenZhen......

2008-08-17T09:44:00.003+08:00

Here we are in ShenZhen, be with Papa Sze who is working here now for a while...

will update more once we are settled. With the little monkey Naomi around, it makes cleaning job so much tougher!

New toy...

2008-08-11T23:40:00.004+08:00

It is seriously a new toy, a new toy for Naomi. I can't resist when she said, "mummy, buy this for Naomi please...." with the look on her face, I just can't say NO. Can't be so cruel, can I?

So this is her new favourite now. I don't mind buying her toys if she would play with it. She's so in love with "ice-cream". Anything that has got "ice-cream" or being an "ice-cream", she loves it. She has got 5 t-shirts with ice-cream pictures on them....

The toy does look adorable, and because it is using velcro, the "ice-cream" wont fall from the "cup" or the "cone" easily. Unlike last time what I used to get her was using a tny magnet. She got so frustrated because the ice-cream kept falling off the cone. This one, Perfect!

First time to Genting...

2008-08-05T22:04:00.009+08:00

It was Naomi's first trip to Genting... I know, she is so sua ku, she's been to Singapore, China, Thailand.... but never been to Genting which is only 1 and half hour away....

Needless to say, she loved the place very much. However, she preferred the indoor rides more than those outdoors. She is still too young to appreciate them I guess. We were staying in First world hotel which is closer to the indoor theme park. First World Hotel always give me an impression of small and narrow but the World Club Room is really big, with 2 queen size beds in it, and still got a huge space to put sofa and so.... I guess I will still go there for the room next time. It does come with 2 complimentary breakfast but you can really forget about it, so lousy.

We planned for this many many times, and finally before Papa Sze left the country for work and so happened Gong Gong was in town, we went there for a 2 days 1 night vacation. It was a lovely trip! We will definitely do it again when Papa Sze is back next time!

view from the room

on this choo choo train rides for about 5 times.(non-stop)

very 8.

hyperactive Naomi

with gong gong and poh poh on the ultra super slow, walk-is-faster outdoor choo choo train

slides... everywhere, slides...

Naomi is 20+ months.....

2008-07-21T22:12:00.004+08:00

I cannot believe how well my girl can speak. She can sing the whole song of "Do Re Mi" from "The sound of music", though some of the pronunciation isn't correct. She now talk in a whole sentence, e.g "Mummy, please let me go into the room to play with you.." while knocing at the room door outside.

She is very polite too, if someone given her things or the the waiter gotten her high chair, she will say "Thank you" without me prompting her.

She says "Excuse me" when she couldn't get pass her way. She share toys with her cousins and little friends when they come over to our place.

When I asked her to put back something she would want to buy in a shop, she won't make a scene. If she is holding something that she really like, she will ask me to "pay first".

And when we say grace or pray before sleep, she will close her eyes until we say "Amen", and she will say "Amen" together after we say "in the name of Jesus". It is so good to see how well she developes. Of course, she can be very difficult sometimes.

I thank God for this wonderful child of mine.

Blah-ing

2008-07-07T22:11:00.003+08:00

My lil princess is going to be 20 months soon.

She is a chatter box now, talk non stop, it's getting a bit annoying sometimes that I wish she could keep quite for a while... But she is still adorable most of the time.

During my grandma's funeral for 3 days, she's been very cooperative, not too much of noise, sleep well at night and has no problem with all the relatives... She knows that "ah tai"(great grandma) is with Jesus now....

Sometimes, I still miss my gandma, though we were not totally that close as I don't speak very good Hakka when she only knew hakka , but knowing that she's not around anymore, it's kind of sad...

In loving memory....

2008-06-27T16:16:00.003+08:00

Grandma passes away this morning. And it is my birthday today. How should I feel? And tomorrow is dad's 60th birthday. Dad is very very very sad.

This is the only picture I have. Grandma, you will always be in our heart.....

Happy Birthday, Papa Sze!

2008-06-21T22:43:00.005+08:00

It is Papa Sze's 31st birthday today. We bought a chocolate amer from Bakerzine and had a small party for our self. The happiest person is Naomi. She just love birthday. She could sing the whole Birthday song and she kissed her daddy and wished him "happy birthday" this morning after I told her it's daddy's birthday today. She blew the candles with her daddy and cut the cake together. I know, I was left out, but no worry, mine will be next week! And we will have another cake just to cheer Naomi up! :P

And evening, Papa Sze and I are blessed to have my mum to help us with Naomi for few hours, so we could go out for a romantic dinner at Vincenzo One Bangsar. The food was ok... not impressive but the ambience was nice, it was casual and cozy, very nice for a relaxing night.

Hapy birthday, honey!

Naomi is 19 months...

2008-06-14T01:10:00.007+08:00

Naomi is 19 months old. She is off my breast for a week now, I miss breastfeeding her so much. She still asked once a while but she will just switch to ask me to make her milk immediately. She did not cry anymore. She accept formula milk with a lil bit of low sugar chocolate powder. At least she is taking some milk. So I don't mind that tiny bit of choc.

She is very active, very talkative and very cheeky still! I just found out that she knows Papa Sze's chinese name which really surprise me! I've never taught her about our name, she just pick it up because my mum always call Papa Sze by his chinese name. And if you ask her how mummy calls daddy, she will answer "Haaaa niiii!" really loud! hehehehe

My little precious

2008-06-13T00:15:00.005+08:00

Naomi is quite tall now. Took her for her routine injection today and she was such a wonderful girl. She only ngek for 2 seconds and that's it. She was all active again, She even waved bye bye and blew a kiss for the doctor, not bad!

She is 84cm and 10.9kg today.

Naomi can say out "A for apple" "B for boy" "C for car" "D for doughnut" "E for egg" "F for fish" until "I for ice cream" and a few more like O and U and Y... She counts 1-10 too and that was 2 weeks ago that she picked that up.

Good girl, Naomi. Mummy is very proud of you.

My shopaholic brat...

2008-06-09T23:34:00.005+08:00

Naomi is very picky on clothes, food, everything....

She sometimes choose her own clothes, her shoes to wear, her book to read, her DVD to watch.... And today we went to Ikano and mum thought Croc's shoes are pretty comfy, so we went in to get her a pair.

Naomi saw a pair of Dora shoes on the shelve and insisted to put them on. And so I did, oh, that was a wrong move. She didn't want to take it off anymore!!! So I ended up paying for the expensive Croc shoes for her. And she was so happy with the shoes and refused to take it off after we got home.

Gosh, what a daughter have I gotten myself?

Naomi is finally weaned....

2008-06-08T18:35:00.002+08:00

It was a tough decision to wean Naomi off breastfeeding. It just happened, because I have to, both my nipples are sore and cracked and they are just too painful to be Naomi's pacifier.

So, I was frustrated of Naomi constant waking up to look for "nen nen" in the middle of the night. I just ignored her out of frustration and soreness. After 10 minutes of whining and whirling, she stopped. And surprisingly, she slept through till morning. And the next day she woke up, she didn't ask either. So I just went with the flow, kept distracting her on other things, and the whole day she wasn't breastfed once.

At night was a bit tough, when it's bed time, she used to latch on to sleep. I went cold turkey on her, she was crying very bad, for 20 minutes, slept of tiredness. And woke up a few times a night whining but she wasn't crying. I can't describe my heartache... it was painful to see her cry like that.

The next day again, she asked a few times for "nen nen" but I managed to distract her to something else.

And that night on the bed, she asked me "mummy, nen nen?"
"no darling...." I answered.
"mummy pain pain......" She said it herself, and hugged me.
Then she asked me to sing her "baa baa black sheep, before I finished the song, she already closed her eyes and sleep. And that's it, she was weaned and didn't wake up in the middle of the night....

I was so touch by her understanding behavior. What a sweet little angel. I thought the whole weaning process will be very tough, it took me by surprise that it was only one night! Well, she still ask, to try her luck, but she won't cry anymore after I say no.

So, Naomi was last breastfed on 5/6/2008, 1.08am. And it has become a history.

I seriously miss breastfeeding my baby girl, so much...

Naomi...

2008-06-08T16:50:00.005+08:00

Pictures say a thousand words....

Yes, yes, I am lazy to write.

This is my little brat....

Naomi is 18 months +....

2008-05-27T20:56:00.009+08:00

Naomi loves her new sun glasses very much, she chose it herself. *Faint*. She can speak really well now, she learns new words everyday and sometimes I was so surprise to hear those new words that came out from her mouth. And cute too! Even people other than mummy can understand her now.

And I brought her to 1 Utama today, didn't know there was this "meet and greet" session with Pooh and Friends, but Naomi was so so so excited to see them. She must be thinking they are real, right in front of her, not on TV anymore!

She asked me to take her up to give pooh bear a hug, so I had to spend RM50 in order to get an entry ticket, just to let her "fulfiled" her dream of giving pooh bear hug and kiss... And I seriously thought I met this beautiful mama and her 2 lovely daughters, but I was too shy to say hi.... and oh my, the lil one is so so so so so beautiful. :)

Pretty little cupcakes....

2008-05-23T23:57:00.008+08:00

If you read this and here, you'd have guessed it's me. I took the opportunity to try out her cupcakes and oh my goodness, they were so pretty that I didn't feel like eating them. They were so adorable! This lovely lady was nice enough to squeeze me in for 2 dozens and they were so so so yummy!!! Penang folks, go go, go kacau her and ask for more.

Go and read the entire post here.

They are just so pretty!

Vacation @ Penang Part II....

2008-05-19T10:15:00.006+08:00

2nd Day in Penang....

It was the same, breaskfast, beach, swimming... we kept trying to put naomi on the sand but she just couldn't accept the sand on her feet. She kept asking to wipe off the sand on her sole....

So daddy let her sit on his lap, and mummy starts playing with the sand then only she started to have a go to play with the sand. But still she doesn't want to sit on the sand, or to stand on her own on the sand.

It was the same on the 3rd and 4th day.... so... Just same....

Vacation @ Penang...

2008-05-18T10:33:00.009+08:00

We finally had a short vacation at the beach in Penang. Papa Sze and I planned to take Naomi to Bali end of this year, so we had a trial run in Penang to see if Naomi likes it. And the outcome is, we might need to change our holiday venue, she didn't like the sand at all... Sigh...

1st day in Penang:
We checked into Park Royal Beach Hotel at Batu Ferringhi. We were put in a deluxe room with a King size bed but I realised that there was renovation going on opposite our room. And that, I cannot tolerate, I went down to the reception and made some complaints with lots and lots of excuses, we got a free upgrade to their sea facing family suite.

We went to the beach straight away....

So we ended up here....

More update later, well, though everyday were doing the same things....

Happy belated mother's day!

2008-05-17T20:39:00.003+08:00

This is belated one from Mummy in Vain. So sorry, I was away on a short trip to Penang, and that will be updated later.

So what have I done on Mother's Day itself..... Three of us, my sis, my bro and I, we bought our dearest mother a Coach handbag, a Coach wristlet and a Coach mini skinny.... Ok, don't ask about the price.

Then that night, we have some really yummy Greenview Restaurant Salty Egg Crab, ooooh, soooooo yummy. Oh any present for me...er... hmm... nope, but I still had a great one! :)

Papa Sze is back!

2008-05-05T21:10:00.002+08:00

Papa Sze is back from Columbia today... or should I said 2 days ago? He started her flying journey from Cali to Bogota, Columbia's Capital, then to Paris, then there was some aircraft technical problems, he was put to transit to Amsterdam then only KL. And his Paris to Amsterdam flight was delayed because of no gate to park(?!) and he was almost late to catch the flight to KL... too bad, the luggage couldn't make it. Now, we'll see how long MAS is going to take to send back the luggage.... The total time including transit was more than 40hr, I can't imagine if it was me and Naomi... Oh, kill me.

"Mummy, where's daddy?"

After 10 mins, "daddy leh? I am bored....."

"Poh poh, let's take Banana in Pyjamas for a walk, shall we......" And of course, "no" is not the answer....

"Mummy! There's daddy!!!!!"

"Daddy, daddy, daddy...... " run run run

Finally in daddy's arms again.... Naomi was so happy....

He will be back....

2008-05-04T21:28:00.002+08:00

Papa Sze will be back tomorrow.... so happy!!!!! :)

Naomi has been asking for daddy everyday. Just can't to see Naomi's expression when she sees daddy walking out from the arrival gate....

Back from north...

2008-05-03T08:43:00.004+08:00

We came back from north.... was there to help babysit my brother's 2 daughters, plus mine, 3 of them in total! That made me consider more if I want to have 2nd baby so soon.... But Naomi was enjoying herself very much with her cousins' company, especially Angelina.

Naomi is 17 months old....

2008-04-14T20:42:00.002+08:00

She is 17 months old, still breastfed.

A lot of nice people has been giving me good intention comment to wean her off. Well, first of all, WABA says it is good to breastfeed baby till 2 years old... and 2nd, it's not that I DON'T want to weat her off, I COULDN'T. She just won't stop crying if I do not offer her my breast. She is still rejecting all kind of feeding method, or she is just rejecting all kind of milk. I have even try to give her whole milk from the box. Nope, no luck still....

So, I can only wait for her to wear herself off..... it shouldn't be long... right?

Trinity's visit....

2008-04-12T20:09:00.007+08:00

Trin was here with Gong Gong for 2 weeks during her school break. Since they moved back to Melbourne from Singapore, we can hardly see each other. I miss them so much, so does Naomi. Naomi asked about Trinny Jie Jie, Gong gong, Da Yi(aunty), almost everyday. Sigh... why are they staying so far away????

During her visit, we went to Aquaria in KLCC, not bad, a bit expensive though.

Then we went to Disney on Ice as well. It was pretty simple for the setup. But kids are surely enjoying it.

Then of course we won't miss the regular Kizsports and Gym in 1 Utama. Trinny and Naomi love there so so much! That's my usual hang out place with Naomi when we have got nothing better to do. :)

Then we have some relatives coming over with 2 other boys... my goodness, my house was in a mess! And the noise... I surrendered.

But I miss them a lot... I miss having my dad and trin, and Naomi is very excited to play with Jie Jie everyday...

Sigh... it's so quiet without them.

Oh, my girl is approaching 17th month, she is so talkative and can sing HALF of the "bah bah black sheep" :P

Spoiled... temptation....

2008-03-21T21:42:00.004+08:00

I had to pay for an ugly bracelet that cost RM12.90 just because Naomi didn't want to put it back to the rack. And she gave it to another girl who's on the swing after 15 mins to trade for the swing.... *faint*

My parents totally, completely indulged me when I was little. My dad would buy me most of the things I want(not need) with no question asked. And now, I find myself doing the same thing for Naomi as well! And truly I knew she doesn't need them, like those toys, clothes, or whatever she picked up in a toy shop.

I was spoiled, and I am repeating the process of spoiling my own. We went shopping for another kid's present and we normally ended up with something else for my lil one. I am started to worry that in the future, my girl won't take no for an answer. I seriously don't want her to grow up thinking the whole world owe her a living..... I do really worry.

Now, let me learn; learn to stay away from temtation. I, as a parent have to change the thinking, change the behavior. I'm sure Naomi will adapt faster than me, it is "me", the problem.... Let's pray for Vivian, Amen.