Little Darlings

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Boy is always taking Princess’s hair bands, clips and scrunchies to wear on his own head. His hair is so little, its almost impossible for him to use her scrunchies, so normally he would stick to her hair bands. He would wear it on his head and tell me “Mommy see I pretty” and he would have his cheeky laugh. I would go “Shame shame boys don’t use hair bands”. He would go “No Mommy I girl”. Then I would go on about him not being a girl .. blah blah blah. I know he’s just playing a fool but hopefully this wouldn’t become a habit in the future. Maybe should get him more guns and swords. He likes playing with his toy cars, transformers and superheroes but he plays his sister’s girly toys, too like barbie, princesses and polly pockets. I don’t mind that he plays girl toys actually. Since he’s so rough, so I think that would make him softer in nature.

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When I asked Princess something, she would put her pointer on her chin and said ‘lemme think think think’ - like a little busybody. Sometimes, when she’s in a really ‘busybody’ mood, she would even roll her eyes up. I would laugh at her gestures and she would laugh along with me.

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This is one of the kids favourite snack. Its like pancake but crispy and a bit sweet. The kids can take 4 each at one go. Normally, if I go pasar malam I would get some for them since they are always asking for snacks and supper every night before their milk. Everyday when I pick them up from daycare, especially Darien would ask me what food I bought for them. When I said I didn’t buy anything, he would be so disappointed. Occasionally when the whether is better, I would get them McD’s but weather like this normally I would ask them to take biscuits or I would buy them steam stuff like pau or timsum. No doubt they love food but they will only take things that they enjoy.

He used to play this Fisher Price Pull Up Ball Blast toy when he was a baby.
Now, he has an even newer way of playing it!

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Princess feeding her ‘baby’. She’s a natural at holding and feeding it.
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16th Feb - 17th Feb 2008

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This will be my last posting for CNY 2008. I’ve done many scraps but have been slacking these days. Excuse … too tired … energy drained from caring for the two kids. Happy to be back again. During the last weekend of CNY, our family - all 15 of us went for a trip to Malacca. We rented a 6-room bungalow. We spent most of our time eating and walking the Malacca Jonker Street. The kids enjoyed the food and shopping with us. We visited the crocodile farm on the last day. Boy was so tired he slept. Weighing 16kg now and Daddy carried him while he’s sleeping. When we were almost leaving, he woke up and had a round looking at the crocs … really small and boring farm if you ask me. Haha .. one round you see them all. I’d rather go to the zoo. We didn’t visit the zoo though ‘cos everyone was tired. We had lunch and headed back home to my mom’s for mahjong. Had seafood dinner again near my mom’s and headed straight home.

14th Feb 2008 - Day 8 Valentine’s Day

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On Valentine’s Day, we had BKT brunch at a shop nearby our place and spent the rest of the day at Jusco Bukit Tinggi. We had karoake with the kids, movie, did some shopping, some fun at the kiddy rides and dinner at Dragon-I. The kids loved their fried rice and noodles. Being out the whole day worn them out. We reached home at about 10pm, bathe and slept. They were so tired, they dozed off instantly. Nothing special for the Valentine’s - we don’t celebrate anyway.

The kids performing their singing skills.

I’ve been slacking in my blog posts again. Have been feeling really tired and lazy lately. Have piled up MANY backdated posts since February. So, I’m going to try posting everything soon. I really salute blogger parents who have that kind of energy to blog everyday. For me, I’m still looking for that energy. Anyway … here goes.

11th Feb - 13th Feb 2008 - Day 5 - 7

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We were invited to Genting by my cousins cos they were celebrating their daughter’s 1st birthday. Arrived at Genting at noon and we had lunch at Gohtong Jaya (braised yee mee and durian for dessert). When we arrived at the peak was almost 2pm. We walked around the place a bit and played some rides indoors. With no nap .. the kids were sure tired. We had an early dinner, rest in the room and the kids slept early. The following day, we had fun at Snow World and some kiddy rides. We checked out the next day at noon and had lunch at Gohtong Jaya. We wanted to go home after lunch but ended up at my cousin’s place for mahjong session.

9th Feb 2008 - Day 3

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When we woke up, it was almost 10am. Lunch at Andrew’s house was at 1pm. We were all hungry so we went to a nearby ‘mamak’ shop to have ‘roti canai’ (malaysian flatbread). It was Boy’s 1st time taking ‘roti canai’ and he’s eating like an expert - wrapping the bread around his fingers and thumb, dipping into the sugar and putting it into his mouth. I had a video of him doing that but stupid of me to take it the other way round. Arg! And when I played it in Quicktime, the video was sideways. Frus man! Princess was quite good at it too but she was eating it more lady-like - taking bit by bit, dipping into the sugar and popping it into her mouth. They love this stuff and asked for a second piece but I stopped them cos it’s close to lunchtime!

10th Feb 2008 - Day 4

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Today is Sunday and its dinner at my mom’s. In the afternoon, we had ‘bakkutteh’ (meat with herbs and spices soup) at a nearby shop before heading to Jusco Bukit Tinggi. We had ice-cream and donuts. Took snapshots of the kids sharing their ice-creams. They love chocolate ice-cream .. don’t all kids love chocolate! You ask them what ice-cream they want … its always chocolate!!

7th Feb 2008 - Day 1

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Like last year and the all the rests of the years before that, we would visit my in-laws first, then to hubs uncle’s place, our friend TM’s house for lunch and lion dance, to my mom’s place and finally to my Aunty’s house in Cheras. Everyone would gather there for dinner and after dinner, mahjong and gambling session would start and end at midnight. Princess and Boy were dressed in a new pair of chinese costume every CNY. Princess wanted a toy lion head to play with. So, my mom actually bought one for her and when she finally got it, she doesn’t want anyone to put it on. She’s afraid. Sigh! Hopefully next year she’s ok.

8th Feb 2008 - Day 2

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When we woke up in the morning it was close to noon. We decided to have brunch at Sushi King - the kids favourite eatery! Princess and Boy had their usual chawanmushi (steam egg) and ebikko sushi. Goodness! They can really eat when they get their hands on Japanese food. After our brunch, we headed to the temple in Kajang to visit Hubs Godfather (routine for 2nd day CNY). We left a little while later to take-away satays to my Aunty’s place in Cheras for another session of mahjong. The kids were so tired. I bathed them and we all slept while Daddy played mahjong. We went home again after midnight.

6th Feb 2008

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We had the usual CNY eve lunch at my in-laws. Normally during the CNY eve, I would go home and do some cleaning but this time round, I was a bit lazy plus hubs have to go to a Kajang temple to visit his Godfather. Every year before CNY, he would go to the temple to visit his Godfather, its a routine thing. And at night we have reunion dinner at my mom’s.

The kids did some prayers in the temple and had a fun time running about ‘cos its really huge! By the time we reached my mom’s its almost dinner time. And we ate and ate .. its food fit for a whole village. My mom usually cook quite a lot during CNY eve ‘cos the whole family are gluttons and her cooking is absolutely yummy!