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.

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.

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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.