4 yo birthday gift

Finally mommy has time to play with this girl to complete this set of Lego (meant for 5-12 years old). Mommy find it interesting to play too.

Happily pose with her 1st set of Lego game. More to come

芊彤四岁了！

记得不是很久前才把这个娃娃拼了命挤出来，然后不久前才庆祝一岁、二岁和三岁生日，今天她已正式满四岁了。这四年怎么过得那么快呢！四年前的那一幕幕好像影片一一跳出来。于是妈咪总爱告诉她俩 : "四年前呀。。。。。＂

妈咪祝你永远都开心快乐！想要从心底告诉你的是 - 虽然你是老二，妈咪真的很开心拥有像你这样的女儿。很珍惜咱今生的母女缘分。將来妈咪要看着你慢慢长大成人，读书，出社会作工，拍拖结婚生子，和变老。嘻！


拿着妈咪为她精选的四岁生日礼物。

姐姐总是很热情帮妹妹折开妈咪送的礼物，而妹妹也愿意让她姐帮手。

出外吃晚歺庆生前和她们那八十七岁老祖母合照一张

姐姐为妹妹作的hairdo，好看吗？下午她看到姐姐为自己挷头发，她忍不住讲："姐姐，你的头发挷得很美哦！我想要挷啰！＂于是晚上姐姐就帮她弄一弄，还画一画眼睛呢！

好开心的birthday girl

二个相差准准一年的birthday girls同时庆祝生日，切蛋糕许愿。



近来她迷上Hello kitty, 不论是床单，衣服内裤都是 Hello Kitty。于是为她订作一个绿茶蛋糕的 Hello Kitty。

妹妹上学记 ~ full day care

妈咪一定要把这段上学记记录下来以供她日后的回忆。

话说从七月初开始，决定把姐姐换去另一家安亲班的同时也就一起把妹妹换去同一个地方点的幼儿所。一切发生得有点快，她俩在七月九曰第一天在新地方上课了。一开始，妹妹很是期待全天制在幼儿所，她什至兴致勃勃地告知她奶奶她将不会在下午过去她家睡午觉了。过了二个星期的朝九晚五的学校生活后，我还很开心地以为我家的乖女儿这么快也这么容易就适应新环境了。正乐得不需每天两趟载上载下的曰子时，我才知我的恶夢在第三个星期才正式开始。。。每天早上，她一睁开眼睛的那刻一看到新学校的校服就开始哭闹不要去上课，一直苦苦要求我下午一点来接她回奶奶家。好不容易把校服又哄又骗又打又骂穿上后，车子开到学校又是另一场精天动地的哭闹。她这一哭闹，令我儍眼了，差点不认识眼前这个爱哭闹的小鬼。原来这个从小就很乖巧的宝贝也会来一场惊天动地的哭闹剧。

后来的后来，决定半天后接她回奶奶家但奶奶家实在有太多小朋友了。于是又决定换去我们新家隔二间的幼儿所。在这家，她哭闹的时间明显减少了。过了二个星期，她终于回复一个正常，爱玩爱笑的可人儿了。谢天谢地！

这个周末

好久没写关于这对姐妹花了。她俩呀还是老样子，天天在一起时少不了吵吵嚷嚷不管是在车上，家里什至在冲凉房里。当妈咪处罚她们后，她俩才会抱在一起道歉，和好如初。不知她们到底还要吵多久才会不吵呢？

其实她们在一起空当的时刻不多，每天都重复着早晨七点半睡醒趕去学校，放学后趕回家吃饭冲凉作功课然后上床睡觉。这样忙的曰子从星期一重复到星期五。

今天周末，难得她俩得空了，于是关在房里玩爱美的玩意 - 扮美美。

姐姐还是一样当起 hairstylist, 替爱美的妹妹疏头。

露出胜利的手势。

大功告成了，妹妹笑得见牙不见眼。

姐妹俩合照。

Cooking Journal ~ Roast Chicken

I do not have talent in cooking nor baking, so I always envy and salute to those who could cook and bake. Moreover, I am not willing to spend my limited spare time in the kitchen to learn and cook a decent meal. How I wish I have 36 hours per day so that I can do this and that....

I constantly read food blog and I absolutely adore the food photo and drool over.... As such, after moving to the new house 2 months ago and had my dream kitchen built-in completely, I determined and tempted to try to cook .



















My 1st assignment given by hubby - roast chicken. I called my friend - Pei Sze for her secret recipe and I managed to squeeze a weekend afternoon to start this task. It taste not bad but I am not going to roast the 2nd chicken so soon as it is very time consuming to clean the kitchen and oven itself.



















Next food assignment ~ cupcake. Bought the ingredient few weeks back but yet to find a timeslot to start baking. Stay tune for the update...

童年教育

Read an article lately and found it very useful...

習慣11 不要讓壞習慣坐大

孩子的壞習慣很難改過來是有道理的。大腦資源地圖不時因經驗而修正改變，好習慣和壞習慣的神經迴路在其中互相爭奪地盤，想站穩腳步。
《改變是大腦的天性》指出，大腦有個特性叫「神經可塑性」，每一次做不同的活動，大腦會改變結構與神經迴路，使它更適合手邊的作業，假使某個零件壞了，其他部位還可以接手這項工作。大腦有彈性、知變通，卻也使我們某方面變得更食古不化，我們一些最頑固不能改變的毛病其實也是神經可塑性的產物。
假如我們停止使用某種心智技術，不但會忘記如何運用，連它在大腦的空間也會被其他常用的技術搶走。當我們學會一個壞習慣，它佔據了大腦地圖的空間，每重複一次壞習慣，它又佔多一點地盤，讓好習慣更難立足，這也是為什麼戒掉一個壞習慣比學它時難上十倍，也是為何童年教育這麼重要，很多事情最好一開始就教對，不要讓壞習慣坐大，有競爭優勢了再去拔除它。
若是壞習慣已經養成，光是禁止於事無補，必須用另一個正確的行為來取代壞習慣，因此當你大聲喝止孩子說「不能做A」之後，切記補充說「應該做B」，並重複讓孩子練習。

朵朵小妖怪

By a chance, I managed to have 3 free ticket for this show - duo duo, the little monster. Thanks to Chin Teo.

I was a drama big fan during schooling time, till now I still not putting a miss even it just a drama show for kids. So off, we went on 27 July 2012, the 1st show on Friday evening at Strait Quay.

The 2 girls took photos with them before the show start.

A big thumb up and support to the great actors, good storyline, muzik and songs. We enjoyed the show so much and i am sure everyone in the hall as well. I also bought a CD for them and now, they almost singing their song everyday.

Big Move

Many may wonder what did we do for the past 2 months… Well, all in all, we were pretty busy, busy and still busy due to moving house which we’d longed for the longest period. We finally moved in on 18 May 2012, and till now we are settling well in the new nest.

Love the wording of this board that we bought ~ Love Grows A Family, displayed on the console table in our living hall. Indeed, love is an important ingredient in a happy family recipe.

墨尔本之旅 - Day 9

Date ~ 24.04.12

We joined another day trip with Candy Tour to Philip Island. Started the journey at 8.30am and back to city at 9.30pm. It was freezing cold on this 2 days.

Train station

Puffing Billing - Australia favourite steam train. Click here for detail

 

Board the Puffing Billy

Tour leader - Johnny taken video for us. Click here for the video

Pie in the Sky at Mt Dandenong. Must go restaurant for its award winning pie.



Kangaroo :" What is this man doing?"



Lovely kangaroo, but he just looks sad.

 

My plain pie with garden salad



Burgundy pie ~ award winning pie for years



Me with the penguin photos. 

 

A group of 100 years old white parrot

Visited wine factory, operated by a retired Melbourne professor

Grape trees. Once ripe, to be turned to wine

 That's all for the traveloudge for this trip from day 1 till day 9. Thanks for your visit....
   


墨尔本之旅 - Day 8

Today we joined local tour - Candy tour to Great Ocean road. Started the tour at 7.30am and end the tour at 8.30pm same day.  We paid A$120 for this trip but it worthwhile as the tour

History of Great Ocean Road

Entrance to the Great Ocean Road

Koala bear home ~ Eucalyptus tree

Can you spot the koala bear?

View taken from the helipcopter




Happily got my pass to board a helipcopter. A$80 per person for 7 min. Damn expensive but worth the money.

 

First time in the helipcopter

London bridge is falling down

Closer view