Qian Yi @ 4 yrs 6 mo

Sometimes by looking at her, I kept on wondering how fast time had goes by over the 4 yrs plus, and how quickly she has transformed from a newborn to a small adult she is today.

At this stage,

- She definitely love her only sister, she always wanted to help mommy to feed, bath and carry QT.

- She loves singing and dancing. Her latest new favourite song is the MAMA MIA. She can sing and memorise the sequence of almost all the songs in the CD.

- She started to learn Spelling, ejaan and chinese spelling at her kindy. Among all, she has special interest to read and write in Chinese. Mommy has just enrolled a nearby Chinese primary school for her last week.

Morning Snacks

When QT just turned 6 mths old, I am as excited as all new mother to introduce solid food to my baby. Look at those photo above and u will be able to tell and know how much she enjoy her food. Anyway, I have yet to introduce porriadge to her. Will definitely spare some time to cook a yummy porriadge by next few weeks.

On another note, last week - 9th of March marked the day I ended my breastfeeding day to QT. Felt loss but still happy to be managed to bf her for 6 mths and 1 week. Hope with this persistent hard work for the past 6 mths, she will be a healthy person throughout her entire life. On the other hand, I also felt 'guity' and 'regret' towards QY for not been able to bf her during her baby times. Sorry, my big baby!!!

Qian Thung @ 6 mo

Half a year has just passed by ever since QT was here in Sept'08. Time has just passed by freaking fast....

At the age of 6 months old,

- Just like any other first time mother out there, mommy was happy and still eager to introduce solid food to the 6 mths old baby. Bought a tin of organic baby cereal and she definitely like to 'eat' and taste it. Mommy also started to home-made some sweet potato mash for her during weekend.
- Her weight is at 8.4kg. Body length at 69 cm. Wondering whether she has overgrown as she is able to fit into the 12-18 mths old baby shirt and pants.
- She protest loudly whenever we try to put her into sleep
- Her overall sleeping time has reduce

- She can 'walk' and move very fast when she is in her walker

- She was down with flu one week ago but recover fast after taking medicine.

- She can drinks 5 oz milk every 2 or 3 hours. Since CNY, mommy could only produce 1 bottle of 4oz breastmilk per day but still happy that mommy managed to keep up my promise to breastfeed till 6 mths old.

- She is getting 'naughtier' and cheeky day after day.

Daddy's little girl

When Qian Thung was few days old, we all have no idea of whom she resemblance to till we found this old photo.





By the way, the above old photo is not mommy's baby time, it was daddy when he was few months old.... She has his signature ear and lips and mommy's eyes..

2 + 2 = 4 girls

Few weeks ago, mommy's best friend - aunt Phaik Nie brought over her 2 daughters to meet up with Qian Yi and Qian Thung. 2 big jie jie - Carine and QY was having endless fun to play with each other for hours. While their little sisters 'joining' mommy's chit chat session.



Though we have 2 girls, coincidently we have same mindset that we just feel happy and contended to have only 2 kids. We know and hear 'voices' out there - 'Why not try for a boy?", "Without a son, your will have a lonely CNY reunion dinner as the girls will have to be back to their in-law house...." and bla bla bla... Still, nothing is shaking and changing our mind at this point of time. Back to the concern of 'lonely CNY reunion dinner', we managed to come up with a solution, i.e when the day comes (both girls also marry), we will organise a trip - just few days before CNY till 3rd of 4th day of CNY, a CNY gateway for us who do not have son. :)

Welcome those who want to register and join us for this trip, but term and condition apply - only girls parent. hehehe

Farewell lunch @ Kampachi

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Screen through the picasa folder and found some nice photos taken by daddy's friend Kong during a farewell lunch organised for TC , who flied off to Shanghai to pursue his dream in life...

My little pleasant and sweet angel...



Daddy adoring his girl

Weekend outing

Both hubby and myself are those parent whom seldom bring baby out, especially when they are below 12 months old. We have tonnes of reasons for not doing so, like do not want the baby to exposure to the polluted air in the shopping mall, baby needs to have a good and quality sleep at their own cradle, and so on so forth. Actually the main reason is - it's too troublesome to prepare, pack and bring the baby stuff.

During QY's baby time, I don't really have much memory about the outing activities until she reached 2 yrs old.

For QT, we also practise the same until last week, we started to bring her out to expose to the outside world. She looks so happy and excited to the big crowd in the mall on Sat night ...

While we enjoying our chicken drumstick at Nandos, she enjoys mommy's hand drumstick too...

QY and ah Ku. Funny conversation between 2 of them :-

QY : "Ah ku, u like baby or not?"

Ah Ku : "Yes. why?"

QY : "If u like baby, then u ask your mommy to 'sheng' baby for you lar..." LOL

Mommy has a group of good friends since schooling time. We always has our occasional gathering from time to time. Last Sunday, we had our dinner at Chok Dee Thai restaurant for a table. Food was yummy and delicous. Besides baby Qian Thung, another new members to our group - Jia You who has just turned 1 yrs old in Jan'09.

Really looking forward to have more new juniors to join this group ...

Miss Botak head

New botak head in town this week. Qian Thung was just had her 1st hair cut at the salon near ah mah's place. During her full moon in Oct'08, we only managed to cut some of her little hair.

Qian Thung new hairstyle... her eyes looks even bigger without hairs.



Our best ever Valentine day gift - my 2 lovely girls.



Nowadays, QT starts to 'mix' and 'play' with QY jie jie.

PhotoFunia

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U can try this out too..

Qian Thung @ 5 mo

At 5 months old,

- her weight is at 7.9kg, increased 0.4kg within a month.
- she laugh out loudly when we play with her.
- drink 5 oz of milk in every 3 hourly
- she can sit unsupported for a while. But I still bought her the green bumboo seat, as shown in the photo above.
- she behave as a very good girl in ah mah house. Sleep well for few hours and no whine and no cranky. But back home on weekend, she behave differently... always cry for mommy carry and I can hardly have my own time for more than 1 hour.
- she love to smile... love her angelic smiling face..

CNY Gathering(s)

This year, one of the reunion that I enjoyed most was the gathering dinner at Azuma Japanese restaurant.. Get to catch up with lots of high school's friends... we eat, we chat, and of course we laugh as if we are still 16 yrs old... Missed those days terribly, those were the days.



My dear friends surprised me with the birthday cake, an one day belated birthday cake cutting session.. Sooo happy and so touch to blow birthday candle with all of them... Again, I felt like I am back to those day when we were 16... oh my oh, my sweet 16!!!



Our next generation... there are about 9 kids around but some of them not in the photos as it's not an easy task to get all of them to post for a shoot.

Another annual big event from daddy's side gathering... Qian Thung was the youngest among all.

Can't really recall the reason of my absence for the 2008 dinner. Hmm... look back to the photos taken in 2007 dinner, there are some changes to this group of people. Some have just married, some just become parent and some with new addition member to their family. This is life!

Another gathering of only 3 of us - QY, daddy and mommy on day 4 of CNY which is also mommy's birthday. Left QT with in law as she needs her afternoon nap. We had lunch at Chillis and dinner at the Xuan Sheng restaurant at Gurney Plaza. Though no grand celebration, I just love it the way I spend my big day of the year!

Now, if I were to visualise one year from now, hmm.... I can see my 2 daughters singing birthday song for me and competing to blow the candles in the cake... Really can't wait to see it real...

My CNY celebration officially end when I started work on day 5 - 30 Jan 2009.

Happy Niu Year 2009

Our Chinese Lunar New Year officially started off with a praying session at 12 pm on the eve of CNY. May the year of OX brings us excellent health, prosperity and happiness...



1st day of CNY - visiting paternal grandparent. Today, maternal gong gong, ah mah and ah ku flying off to China for a leisure holiday in the early morning.



Qian Yi in her favourite cheong sam. She has grown up so much that she has developed and choosing her own taste of fashion. This is her 5th CNY celebration.



Qian Thung taking photos with gong gong's flowers. This is her very 1st CNY celebration.





2nd day of CNY - all families member drove back to Taiping. QY get some new experience on motorbike. More photos can be seen from my sis in law blog.

3rd day of CNY - continuing the 'pai nia' activities to places like mommy's grandmother and aunt's house.

Photo shooting outing (part II)

For viewing pleasure. Here is the link to a series of nice photos taken by daddy's friend - TC on last Saturday outing.

Photo shooting outing

Saturday morning, daddy's friends organised a photo shooting session at Youth Park. It was a fun day for the kids (little models) and the photographers as well...

Below photographs are those captured by daddy but selected and shortlisted by mommy. There are over 300 shoot but I can only post few over there for sharing.

I will let the photos do the talking....

Qian Yi @ 4.3 yrs old

Time surely flies fast, I just realised I didn't pen down any monthly development for QY in this blog even though I started blogging when she was 18 months old. Because of this, I just don't have a clear memory of when she started her 1st roller over, her 1st teething, 1st smile and every new milestone she has developed from a baby to a toddler today. Knowing that the clock can't be turned back, I got to start recording her current development from time to time ...

At this stage, she is :-

1) a talkactive girl but she knows when to keep quite (when mommy get angry or when mommy attending to her crying sister).
2) Her weight is at 20kg. Her appetite is so good that her mouth is busy with food most of the time.
3) She is a best pal to mommy during shopping time and daddy's good buddy for movie time.
4) She loves her sister, but sometimes she get jeoulous too when I attended or focus on baby QT.
5) She has her own taste or preference on her dress and shoes. She choose the cheong sam that she is wearing in the photos posted below by herself.

She is my cheeky and cute angel.

Qian Thung @ 4 mo

Qian Thung turned 4 months old at 2nd Jan, she is now

- drinking 5 oz milk but every 3 hourly
- her weight is at 7.4kg
- she took the 1st dose of pneumococal vaccination at Adventist. She is really a brave girl as she only cried for a very short while only.
- she can recognise faces and places. She will smile to everyone even to a stranger but strange enough, she cry whenever seeing her maternal grandparent.
- she started to roll over but not 100% successful yet.
- had the 4 months old celebration on 1st Jan 2009. Started with a simple praying session and later grandmum hang the biscuit around her neck and we also let her 'taste' the chicken drumstick.

Same face or not (# 3)

When QY was at 4 months old, I started to dress her up just like I used to dress up my doll when I was young.

QY, photo taken at 4 months old in Jan'05. This is one of my favourite photo that has been enlarged in 8R size and had it displayed in both grandmother's house.



Another baby doll - QT, who has just turned 4 months old.



Now, I have 2 dolls. My big and small real baby dolls ...