Father and daughter bonding time

Ever since Qian Thung was born 4 months ago, daddy has helped and one of the major task he has taken over from me is to look after Qian Yi when baby QT is back to our house during weekend.

Last Sunday morning, for the 1st time in the history, daddy brought QY for a swim at our apartment.

Merry X'mas 2008

Christmas is here and there's merriment everywhere. We just love the Christmas season with no reasons though we are not christian. It's just a joyous festival and holiday for all of us.



Parent in law prepared and cook up storm for the Christmas feast.



Not forgetting the pressie for the kids...



Qian Thung showed us how nice and yummy her finger/s is !!! She is a real finger sucker.



Qian Yi with her up-close portrait. This is her 5th Christmas.



Qian Thung in her 'flowery look' for her 1st Christmas

Lovely Sunday morning

Both of them enjoy the company with each others. My living hall is filled with fun and laughters on this lovely Sunday morning.I am a very happy and satisfied mum this morning to see this lovingly scene in my house.

Short Trip to KL

** This is a back-dated post **

We used to travel to KL several times a year for short holiday. But it has been a year since we last visited KL due to the pregnany. Last weekend, daddy drove us down to KL as parent in law got to attend a relative wedding, and 3 of us also took the opportunity to tour around KL. We didn't bring QT along as this was a 2 days 1 night short trip.

On the way from Penang to KL, QY with her new sun-glasses.

Meeting her KL cousin sister - Natalie Chin who is same age with Alicia. She is a very polite and graceful young lady.

QY showing her drawing, a house. I am surprised to see that she starts her drawing from an empty white paper and after 15 mins, the paper is filled with colours.



Meeting with Celine and both of them enjoy the New Zealand ice cream at KLCC.



Later that night, we proceeded to a Korean restaurant for dinner at Jalan Ampang. QY make friend with Sophie who has mixed parentage of Korean and American.



Enjoying the dinner

Same Face or not (# 2)

Photos taken at almost the same day same month but in different year, in the same house and sitting on the same chair and wearing the same piece of romper. There is none but only one word can describe my feeling ~ Life is so amazing ...

Qian Yi, my 1st baby at 3 months old in Dec 2004



4 years later, Qian Thung, my 2nd baby who is currently at 3 months old.



1 + 1 = 2, My 2 lovely angels in my life with treasured moment's.

Qian Thung @ 3 mo

Qian Thung turn to 3 months old at 2nd Dec.

At 3 months old,

- She is very generouos with her smile, she will smile whenever we talk or approach her. Love her charming smile.

- She also greet us with her most innocent smile in the early morning when she wake up from her sleep. Looking at her smiling face really make me forgot all the tireness resulted from the midnight milk feeding time.

- She likes to 'talk' to us with full facial expressions. She will talk even longer when I respond to her by saying :'ohh... like this ah... ok.. mommy knows already...'

- Her weight is 6.7kg, almost hit the line of overweight.

- She took her 2nd dose injection on 5th Dec at the govenment clinic. According to mother in law, she only cried when the needle is injected into her leg but smile immediately when the nurse and ah mah called her. She then forgot about the pain and start to 'chat' with the nurse. Ah Mah praised that she is such a brave girl as all other babies, back from Alicia, Qian Yi and Matthew all cried and scream loudly during the injection.

- She drinks 5oz every 4 hourly. I can only produce 4 bottles a day but I am still happy that I managed to breastfeed her up to now. Will try more harder for another 3 months, and hopefully can catch up with her demand.

- She start to drool.

Finger licking good

At this stage, 2 months and 3 weeks, QT knows how to lick her own fingers. Yummy, yummy, it's so delicious!

About Qian Yi

Vetted through the photos taken by daddy over the weekend, and found some of the beautiful photos of Qian Yi.

She has such a long eye lashes, guess this is inherited from mommy...

















As well as a pair of bright eyes and nice nose ...

















And a good combination of the face feature ...

















Playing her favourite game - comb hair for the doll, bath and wash hair for the doll in the washroom and etc. She did all those things that I did for her daily.

Just photo

Upon request from Pei Sze on more photo of QT, here are the latest and ovenly-fresh photo taken few hours ago for viewing pleasure.

My adorable baby doll... By seeing her daily development really help me to recall those memory of Qian Yi when she was few months old. Sometimes I just feel that they are just growing too fast that I could hardly catch up with their speed....


























Creative model + creative photographer = creative photo

Qian Thung @ 2 mo

My baby doll is 2 months old as at 2 Nov.

Her weight is 6.1kg, increase significantly over the 2 months.

- She is a very good baby. Sleep well and drink well.
- She drink milk every 3 hourly for 4 oz. However, I could only produce or contribute 4 bottle of breastmilk a day.
- She smile when we call her or talk to her.
- She also smile when she wake up in the morning. I love this so much as I don't like baby wake up with a cry.

Sunday Outing

It was a beautiful Sunday and daddy planned a dim sum breakfast at Northam hotel. We reached the hotel around 9am, just to avoid the long wait and also to start the day earlier.

Paternal gong gong and ah mah, and Alicia.

















Gong gong with 3 of his grandchildren. Qian Thung is too small to join the crowd.

















Me and my 2 lovely angel. This is the 1st shooting for 3 of us. Love it.

We were then proceeded to Youth park after the breakfast as it was only 10.30am, too early to call it a day. We are actually a very lazy parent, we seldom bring QY out to park or playground during weekend. With 2 kids, I guess we must bring them out to park or beach more often.

QY enjoyed herself so much in the park.

We had a lazy, slow but wonderful Sunday morning in the park

My 2 Months Maternity

I felt like just carrying the 'ball' with me not long ago, but in reality my baby is 2 months old now and that also indicate that my 2 months maternity leave is going to end soon. Time really flies FAST.

Looking back the 2 months time, my life was like divided into 3 phases and as such, I would like to jot down every bits and pieces of it :-

Phase 1 : Week 1 - week 4
Gave birth to my 2nd beautiful princess on 2 Sept and we only having hospital stay for less than 3 full days. I admitted at 6pm on 2 Sept and baby popped out at 9pm. This has been counted as 1 day. Baby and I discharged on 4 Sept noon after lunch. I really thank god that it was a very smooth delivery and I never ever thought I could make it without epidural but I finally make it.

Back home, I was like having and experiencing a PIG lifestyle. Eat, sleep, eat, sleep every now and then.

And of course, operate my 'milk factory' as this time, I've decided and determined to breastfeed my little cutie. Though I m not able to 100% breastfeed her, I am still very happy and satisfied to be able to produce almost 50- 60% breastmilk to her daily consumption. Thanks to all the awareness and encouragement given by my dearest mommy friend. U know who u are....

I know some of the mother do not like or hate the confinement life but for me, I enjoy being confined at home for 30 days. That is the only time I get to stay at home 24 hours * 7 days a week for 4 consecutive weeks in my own nest, and eat and sleep a lot without having any sense of guilt. LIFE IS GOOD.

Phase 2 : Week 5 - week 6




















After my confinement lady left at beginning of Oct, my role turn into a stay at home mother. Daily duty are taking care of baby, prepare lunch and dinner, clean the house, and doing most of the household chores by myself. Life is really busy as a housewife, waking up at 7am and getting busy and busy all day long as got to compete with time to get the job done. Life is busy round the clock.

Again, so happy to be able to experience a full time mother's life for 2 weeks. Somehow, deep inside my heart, I know this is not my dream lifestyle in long run. Anyhow, LIFE IS GREAT at this stage.

Phase 3 : Week 7 - week 8
From week 7 onwards, I 'deposit' my baby at MIL's place day and night. Every morning after sending QY to school, I proceeded to MIL's place to send over my fresh breastmilk for QT, then follow by attending the daily morning meeting at the insurance agency office. 2nd half of the day is depending on my own schedule and timetable - some days lunch with colleague, friends or customers and sometimes, back to in laws place for lunch. Activities and appointments started again after lunch like meeting people, hair cut, facial appointment and etc.

I am so happy to be able to enjoy this phase of life as a Flexi hour working mother. Love it. LIFE IS INDEED WONDERFUL.

Now, 2 months free time is going to over, and I shall resume back to my normal working life next week. Terms that filled and occupied my 9am - 6pm life will be revenue, margin, profit, sales, P&L, forecasting, actual and etc. Ohh.... no but this is so called a dry Work Life.

Same face or not (#1)

Qian Yi always like to get closer to Qian Thung and asked us :"Mommy, same face or not?" She will be very happy when we answered her :"Yes, same".

Both of them looks quiet alike but not 100% same. I actually do not like to compare my 2 angels as I respect and understand the individuality that is in them. After all, they are not twin sister!!! Having said that, I wish they will looks very alike.

Anyway, below are the photo I took for them with the same yellow dress. Can u guess and tell who is who? I will continue and try my best to dress up QT with the same dress that wore by QY.