QT is 1 today

At last, we decided on the venue to celebrate Qian Thung 1 year old birthday at the Sarkies Corner E&O hotel. Just want to leave her a memorable memory of her 1st birthday, just like how we celebrated QY 1st birthday at Shangrila hotel 5 yrs ago.

The ambiance of the restaurant is cosy. Food theme for the night was Japanese and Chinese cuisine.

Birthday girl of the night, with her brand new dress... I can hardly believe she has turned 1 today.

Mommy didn't buy any birthday cake for her on that night, as I think we will not be able to consumer any more cake after the buffet. I just decorate the cake and put a candle for her and the kids to sing birthday song... Anyway, we are planning to customise a cake for her for the coming chinese lunar calendar birthday.

This is the only photo mommy managed to take with my 2 girls for the night, as QY was too busy to play around with her cousin, Alicia and Jia Hong.



The combined immediate family members photo, except for the 3 portrait hanging on the wall..

Everyone of us leaving the place with a satisfied stomach and good feeling.

The cloud is moving...

"Mommy, come and see... the cloud is moving..." That's exactly what QY told me last week. She was lying on the sofa in our living hall while enjoying her milk... Suddenly she discovered something new and run fast to get me and told me about this while I was in the kitchen. And of course, I have to act as surprise and excited as her to look upon the high sky and the moving white cloud.

I am happy that she has good and close observation on the things surround her. I can't really remember when did I realise that cloud can be moved in the sky, but one thing for sure is it is definitely not happened at the age of 5.

Aug'09 update on them

Qian Yi

- I send her to the junior muzik class every Sunday. Just want to give her an opportunity to learn and expose to the muzik world.
- The volumn of her school homework is quite heavy. Just hope she can cope well and enjoy the learning process instead of the scoring.


Qian Thung

- Didn't take her weight and height recently, but she has grown well after last month July fever.
- I try to spend few min a night to flash the mandarin card to her. One of the word is MA (horse in mandarin).
- She starts to mumble few words like 'ma ma'... not too sure she refer to food, me or the horse.
- She can understand and link things together... she will comb her hair when seeing comb, dig her ear when seeing the cotton bud.

Genting Highland trip

Finally we are back from Genting Highland yesterday. Just realised that it has been over 2 years since our last visit at mid-2007. Time really flies.. QY was only 3 that year but in her mind and memory, Genting highland or rather the little car riding at the Genting tower is her fantasy dream world.... Unfortunately, she didn't get to ride on it as now, she has exceeded the max height allowed (110cm). Even only 2 cm exceeded, she was still not allowed no matter how desperate I beg the person in charged.

Instead, she tried out other games such as bumper car, the 3D Monster show, Gondola boat, and many many more. 3 of us was having endless fun in the indoor theme park throughout the night. It's really tiring and exhausted for me but I was kind of happy to spend time with them. The next day, ah mah also accompany QY to play all over the ride again before we are heading back home.

Me and my 2 girls...

QT and gong gong ah mah. She is too young to play the game/ride but she is still excited to this kid's dream world.

Nowadays she likes to day-dreaming, even during the queue up to the ticket counter.

QT sleep soundly in her stroller. Both her cheeck has turned pinkish due to the frostbite.

Sick

By the time I posted this, QT had been recovered from the Roseola for a week plus. This sudden illness has make us cancelled our planned trip to KL & Genting highland for the long weekend.

This is the 2nd time she has suffered from fever since born but this round, her fever was really bad. Her body temperature has been sustained consistenly at level above 38 celcius - 39.7 celcius for 3 consecutive days. Numerous suppository medicine has been used and multiples attempt has been make to reduce her body heat. Finally we found out that cold bath has proved to be one of the effective and immediate remedy.

She is such a good and darling girl. Even with the uncomfortable body heat for days, there was no whine and no cranky and more importantly, she still drinking her milk regularly. With the great help and special care from my in law / her grandparent, we did not admit her into hospital and this has also saved her from all the needles and injection at the hospital. At day 4, her temperature finally subsided completely and doctor confirmed that it was roseola infection when the red rashes developed all over her body.

Qian Thung @ 10 mo

Some update on QT at 10 mths old,

- her weight is at 9.85 kg. Both of our hands were in pain terribly by carring her more than 30 min. I dare not imagine how heavy will she before she can walk by herself in 2 or 3 months time.

- I fetch her back everynite after work no matter how late or how tired I am. Just kind of enjoy her short stay at our own place before she doze off around 10.30pm. We drop her at my mum's place the next morning, and they will help to 'transfer' her to my in law place. Same thing we did for QY before we sent her for full day care 2 years ago.

- her appetite is very good. She wants to eat everything we eat. Every weekend, I make sure I cook the nutrition porriadge for her and QY.

- she is very playful and always laugh out loudly when we play with her.

In 2 months time, she will turn 1 yr old. We are now started to plan for her 1st birthday in Sept. She is definitely our precious child even though she is our 2nd girl / daughter.

Girl's photo

QY always looking forward to meet up with Celest and Celine from KL. Last weekend, her dream came true when they were backed in penang.

QY was so happy to see them again...

Durian farm outing

As I mentioned in my earlier post, we seldom arrange any outdoor outing for the 2 girls. Thanks to the hot weather and the laziness of mommy and daddy.

However this morning, we decided to join the gang to go up to the durian plantation farm cum the house of a mommy's friend located at the Sungai Ara hill.

Some scenic view of the place and the surrounding. It's like back to the most nature life, and it's so soothing by looking up to the blue sky, white cloud and the green leaves.

Durian - king of this season.

Qian Yi & Ying Xin, both of them are also 5 this year. PINK are the favourite colour of all girls.

Small host of the place, acted like a experienced tour guide showed us the way to her durian tree plantation.

While we were enjoying the fruit, QT enjoy her chu chu. She is too small to enjoy all this but still, she behaved well even though it's already over her morning napping time. Just look at her sleepy eyes...

It was a totally good exposure and experience for QY as today, she got to breath-in the fresh and unpolluted air, chased after the hen and chicken and the cat, and play freely in the durian tree plantation. These are all those nature things that we have missed out in our daily busy city life.

Sibling times

As the times passes by, QT has grown up so much that she likes to mix and mingle with her only jie jie. Looking at them, I just felt so thankful and blessed to have them as my girls.

2 of them poses for the camera.



My big girl - Nowadays she likes to imitate QT and she always request to wear the same shirt same colour with mei mei.

My small girl - I felt so surprised that she can understand our conversation well. Last nite, she started to cry and crawl towards me when I talked to QY :"Let's go home now." She wants to go home with us to our own place.

Enjoying herself so much in the water.

Qian Thung @ 9 mo

At age of 9 mths old, my small girl is now :-

- weighted at 9kg.
- 4 teeths at the upper gum & 2 teeths at the bottom gum
- crawling fast around the house
- love to eat sweet corn with her little teeths
- she is still very generous with her smile. But whenever she is not smile, she looks like in her deep thought look.
- she loves water and enjoy her bathing time everyday. I let her play with the water at our swimming pool last weekend and she enjoyed herself so much. Plan to bring her for a swim this coming weekend.
- she had a great fall from her babycot last weekend. All thanks to her dearest daddy...

May month birthday

Every year, we don't really celebrate Mother's day on the 2nd Sunday of May because both my mother and mother in law's birthday are fall in the month of May too.

Tonight we just celebrated my mother in law 63th years old birthday at Victoria station. Some story of her can be found here .



After dinner, it was the cake cutting session with a bouquet of pink roses at our place.

QY was in angry face... When she get angry, she choose to be in silent...

Monthly update on the 2 girls

At this stage - 8 months old,

- her weight is at 9kg. Height is at 72cm. According to her paedratric, her current height is above average as 75cm is the average height for an one year old chinese baby. Wonder whether her height will be arond 165cm after her puberty time???
- she learn how to crawl but the way she crawl make us think of the soldiers during the war time. Her whole body crawling without lifting her backside.
- she is now as active as a worm nowadays. I felt so tired and muscle-ache after carrying her for more than 1/2 hour.

- she has 2 teeths at her lower gum and 4 more teeths are to be coming out from her upper gum.

My big eye girl.

On the other hand, back to update on jie jie - Qian Yi...

- she is getting easily jealous over her little sister. I guess she just want to seek attention from me who used to give her 101% attention before QT was born. I have to try to be very fair when dealing with 2 of them. It's really not an easy task to manage 2 kids at one time.
- At one night during the pre-sleeping chatting session with daddy, she told him that she wanted to become Qian Thung instead as mommy always scold Qian Yi nowadays. I overheard this conversation from another room, felt so sorry and guilty towards her. Blaming myself for not being able to handle the 2 kids well..
- She still loves to sing and dance very much. Planning to send her to dancing class or piano class soon.

2 sisters

This is the latest photo of my 2 girls.

At this stage, QY is 4 yrs and 7 mths old while QT is 7 mths old. However, QY like to copy QT in term of the way mommy dress QT. If QT wear shirt with jeans, QY will definitely request to wear the same style and etc... Looks like mommy have to buy same dress for both of them in time to comes.

Some monthly development for QT,
- she wave her right hands if we say bye bye.. Looks so amusing to all of us.
- she just recover from flu, cough and running nose.
- she will fight with others with food.
- she started to take porridge on daily basis

For QY,
- she still loves the MAMA MIA soundtrack. We are so bored to listen to it but she still request to have it play whenever she is in the car.

Matthew 1 yr old birthday

We attended Matthew's 1 yr old birthday bash at his house last Saturday though he will turn to 1 yr old on 9 Apr only.
















Some cute photos taken during the night.
QT : 'Are u ok? tired?'
Matt : 'I am fine' .....
QT : 'Let me 'yang' you'







Feeding her 3 ku gong biscuit.

Our Saturday

I realised that my 2 kids don't really have much time spend on the outdoor activities. As such, we decided to get them one new bicyles and tricycle over the weekend. With the new toys, they will have opportunity to go out and expose to fresh air, and enjoy sigh seeing within our apartment compound. It's a new type of exercise for QY too and new way of bonding time spend with my 2 angels.

Smiling Baby

This week, I was so tied up and stressed over my work due to some tight timeline to meet.. However, this is the smiling + cute little face that rejuvenate me when seeing her after work. Just loves her sweet smile, and I am thankful that I have a smiling baby at home.

Side note, her little 1st teeth also just came up from the bottom gum last week.