Graduation cum Concert

I signed up QY to participate in one of the performance few months back for her school Graduation cum Concert. She still has one more year to go with this kindy before she is officially entering primary school in 2011.

My little girl waited patiently despate there was almost an hour delayed...



All the little graduates were waiting to receive their scroll from the principal Ms Christy. It may be one of the precious day to remember in their life as they growing up. Once upon a time, I was one of them ...

1st performance - Welcoming dance, Melody Musical

Disney character show ~ Snow white and the Price, Princess, little mermaid, Aladdin and all those characters in the fairy tale came live today on the stage...



At last, it was my girl's turn in 70s costume, performing the dancing - 庾澄庆 的 愛你的只有一個我. Superb!!!



That's my girl, 1st one on the right hand side... My eyeball moves to her direction only for this 10 min dance.. kekeke



Managed to shot a closer view on her ...

Her whole classmate... She is the one sitting on the floor

Little supporter blowing the whistle....

Another impressive performance ~ Belly-wave dance by K2 children...



Followed by a KungFu Fan dance... Amazed at the gorgeous backdrop done by the school teachers.

I am truly impressed by the children performance tonight. Believe it must be under good guidance/patient from the teachers over the past few weeks/months...

Kudos to all the children and teachers...

New member

Introducing newbies in my family...

Qian Yi and Qian Thung's new cousin sister - Thung Yuan, born exactly one year after QT. Both of them can celebrate birthday on the same day from next year onwards.

Birthday celebration (Part 2)

Annual birthday celebration is not a tradition in my family culture when I was young, the only birthday celebration that I remembered was my 21st birthday buffet party. haha..

Having said that, we still make it a point to celebrate the kids birthday... not once, but twice a year.

Combine birthday cake for my 2 girls.



The 4 kids in the house...



QT blowing the candle, witnessed by her only jie jie and cousins.

Peeling off the red skin egg. EGG is QY no. 1 favourite food in the list.

Lazy weekend evening

What did my 2 girls doing on this weekend evening?

Check this out...

Milk are their all season favourite drink. Both of them are milk lover.



QY help out with some gardening work in our small balcony.

QT play in her little 'cage' while we are busy with our own activity.

Best Girl Award

I remembered during our schooling times, there were awards such as Best Student of the year being given to those student with good academic performance and good behaviour.

Last nite, QT has won a special award ~ Best girl in the house, given by paternal ah mah. :)



My in-law has a total of 4 granddaughters, aged from 7 mths old to 7 years old as well as a 17 months old grandson. QT is the second youngest in the family. The house is either full of laughter after laughter or fighting noise, and followed by crying by either one of the kid .... QT is the only one making least noise among this group of children, as such ah mah decided to crown her as Best Girl in the house award.

Congratulation, QT!!! Keep up the good work.

QY is 5 today

My big girl is 5 today. No longer a small girl like past 4 years, she express her thought to me that she would like to celebrate her big day of the year with her dearest classmate and teacher.

A simple cake with 5 candles excite her the whole night.

From her smile, i know how happy she is today at that moment.



With her best friend, Taguchi Haruka

Her class of K1 Kindess. I spend some time with her to shop for the party goodies, and engage her into the packing process. Barbie bag are for girls, and Bob the builders bad are for boys...

Looking back the past 5 years, I am so glad and thankful that I have her as my girl... Mommy wish u happy birthday and may you have a good life ahead.

QT @ 12 mo

She has just officially turned to a toddler on 2 Sept... I can't really accept the fact that she is 1 yr old now. Time flies... Recalled back the past 1 yr, every bits and pieces was just like yesterday only... the very 1st moment we saw and met each other on the hospital bed, those mid-night milk pumping session, her 1st smile, her 1st teething, and many 1st milestones was so remarkable even though she is our second girl.

At 1 yr old,

- She can stand up by herself but she still can't walk. Looking forward for her 1st step soon.

- She started to talk few words, like mama, jie jie, owl, mum mum, and e e ah ah..

- I bought her her 1st shoe. She love it so much that she always wanted to wear by herself whenever she see that shoe

- She laughs loudly when we play with her

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.