Happy Birthday to Our Little Darling Ru!!!

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to Xiao Ru
Happy birthday to you

Mummy, daddy and jiejie have been singing birthday song to you days before your birthday, and each time we sang, you would smile broadly and clapped your hands as if you knew we were singing song for you.

Our active, lively, babyish little angel is 1 year old today! How time flies! Last year today, Mummy was in hospital holding the tiny you. You are an angel, did not let mummy suffer long, yet waiting patiently inside mummy's tummy until mummy and daddy went back to JB and reached hospital only you came out. We were blessed the very moment a beautiful little miracle called YOU came into our world.

You looked just like your jiejie when you were born but as time goes, you develop your own look and character. Everyone said you look just like your daddy but of course, you are much prettier! :)

My angel, you are such an active, curious and impatient gal that changing your diapers, feeding you and even carrying you while mummy or daddy was eating become a chore. Your hands will always be dirtied with food, or you will have snatched the cutlery or thrown away stuff before we have time to react. Because of your activeness, mummy dare not leave you alone on the bed for even a second (lesson learned from jiejie). As opposed to your sister, you love to crawl, under the table, under the chair, sofa, everywhere and countless times knocked your head to the floor, chair, table... And everytime mummy was busy in the kitchen, you will quietly crawl to the kitchen, opening up the drawers, and digging out stuff from the drawers. You love to "taste" everything falls to your hands. The most scary event which happened not long ago was you almost swallowed a tiny ear stud. Mummy do not know what other rubbish which has gone into your stomach. :(

My baby, you always melt mummy's heart when you flash your brightest smile when seeing mummy in the evening picking you up from Yi po or Aunty Agnes's house; when during bed time you will always crawl to mummy's side and lie your small body onto mummy; when mummy taking shower you will always linger outside bathroom trying to push open the door; when mummy was away for more than a week for work and back, the smile in your face upon seeing mummy and your clinginess to mummy refuse to let mummy go is enough to make mummy cry.

At 1 year old, your are learning to walk though still prefer crawling most of the time. You can speak "pa pa" which is your favourite, "ma ma" when you cry for mummy to carry, "oh-oh" when you drop something, and "je je" for your jiejie. Sometimes you will cry out "mama baobao" when you want me to carry you badly. You are always calling "pa pa" "pa pa" and the lovely sound comes from you are heavenly! You also like to crawl the staircase nowadays and can crawl all the way up very quickly.

Mummy is always grateful to the god for giving me your jiejie and again, give you as my daughter. Everytime mummy carry you, mummy cannot stop kissing your chubby cheeks and smell you and no words can describe how much mummy love you and jiejie.

On this special day, mummy, daddy and jiejie want to give you the biggest hug in the world and telling you that we love you very very much. Mummy wish that you will grow up to be a happy, confident and kind person with strong character.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SWEET DARLING!!!

Post Xmas Family Outing

Every year, my diligent elder sister will arrange a year end family gathering in Singapore and my parents, our brothers and their wives, nephews and nieces will come over here for a short stay.

This year, our family came over in the afternoon on 26 December and my elder sister organised a barbecue in her estate. She ordered some cooked food like mee siam, curry chicken, fish ball and prepared salad herself, and also satay, otah, sweet potato, mashmallow for bbq. One big thumb up for you, my dear sister!

We have a lovely evening enjoying the food and chitchatting while the kids were running around the clubhouse and the bbq pit. To everyone's delight especially Xi, my sis has invited my aunt and family to the bbq as well and Xi happily hanging around my aunt and uncle while I was free with the food though still have to carry the clingy Ru.

Next morning, our big family had a simple breakfast at the Bukit Timah hawker centre before heading to Orchard for shopping! Imagine a big group of 17 adults and kids shopping in the crowded shopping centre on a Sunday afternoon, haha... So we split into a few group and fixed a time and place for everyone to gather later. Perfect!
I was slinging Ru and she slept halfway thru the shopping whilst Xi followed my sisters, dancing and singing happily while they were selecting shoes.

Lunch was taken at Crystal Jade Ginseng Chicken & BBQ in the Centrepoint. My elder sis again bought me a birthday cake (yes, that day was my birthday :) ) and everyone sang birthday song for me in the restaurant. *blush* Thanks thanks again to you, my lovely sister! We also took the opportunity to take a family photo.


The day ended with the kids and adults swimming and dipping in the pool. Xi enjoyed her "swim" (which more like playing with water to me) so much that she was one of the last to get out of the pool. I did not let Ru to get into the pool because of the prior experience. Need to get her the thermal swimwear first before letting her to try again.

Xmas Day

We spent our Xmas day lazying around in our JB home because hubby was working from home.

In the evening, I dressed the gals up to attend their cousin, Crystal's 7th birthday celebration in a McDonald. Crystal is the daughter of my husband's elder sister. She is a sensible and smart girl who enjoys drawing and dressing up Barbie dolls. :)

All the cousins were there and we have a sinful feast of chicken, burgers, cold drinks and fries. The restaurant organised some games for the kids with prizes giving to the winners. Xi and Ru were both too young to participate, but Xi enjoyed playing the slides inside the restaurant whilst Ru clinging tightly to me most of the time.

Good thing about celebrating birthday in a restaurant. No hassle in cooking and cleaning up the house afterwards. Just sit down and relax. :)

Happy Birthday Crystal! May your days be filled with sunshine and smiles, laughter and love.

Merry Xmas!

Hubby and I took leave on Xmas eve. In the morning, we brought the gals to M1 shop at Change Alley as we reserved a Blackberry Bold 9700 for hubby whose old Nokia N61 was barely functioning. The queue was long and slow, we waited for about 1 hour before done. Thereafter we drove back to JB with the gals sleeping tiredly in their car seats.

We had dinner at our in-law's place and my MIL followed us back to our JB house for the night. We always feel how lucky those couples who have the help of their parents to take care of their kids. They can have some couple time going out for dinner, shopping and movies. However, we are fortunate to have the help of our aunty in Singapore who takes care of Xi so well, and Agnes, the nanny who helps us to take care of Ru. We are glad my younger sis is staying with us too. At least when hubby is not around, I can have my dinner, take my shower, do the laundry while she helps to keep a watch of the gals.

That night after the gals fell asleep, hubby jio me out for supper, 1st time since we have kids. We drove to a cafe at our estate and was surprised to see so many people with young kids still hanging around at the cafe at such late hours. Tomorrow was the public holiday afterall and guess the festive mood was filling everyone up. After the quick supper, we drove around our estate and enjoy seeing those beautiful lightings on the trees outside our neighbours' houses and many parties around.

We had an ordinary yet delightful day. Hope you had yours too. Merry Xmas everyone! :)

Introducing future dancing queen

The following video clip was taken by my elder sis when she brought Xi to shop at Vivo two weekends ago when hubby and I were in China for business trip. We were marveled at her dancing skill which she learns from Hi-5 show, but most importantly, her courage to dance in the public, as oppose to her shy character all along. My sister joked it was the new jacket which gave her the power to dance! Haha... Enjoy!

爱撒娇的小宝贝

Ru is going to be 10 months old come 20th of this month. However, she is still like a little baby to me, maybe because she is the younger one? My little baby is another sticky baby. Sigh... She will yell for me to carry her and search for me whenever she knows that I am around. When scolded by us, she will sob and bury her face to my chest. She is also a stubborn girl. When she is angry, her scream can tear a house and drive us crazy. When she does not feel like to sit in her car seat, she will straighten her body and make us difficult to buckle her.

However, she appears to be more adventurous than her sister. She loves to crawl and her favourite toy is the basket which I use to put some diapers, diaper cream, Ruyi oil etc. Everytime when we left her on the floor, she will quickly crawl to her room where the basket is, sit beside the basket and pour out everything and start to explore and "taste" the items.

She also likes to cruise around the house by holding on to sofa, cabinet, dining table and chairs, bed... Taking her photos becomes a challenge as there is not a moment she can sit still and let us take photos, especially most of the time I am using my super sensitive iphone as the camera, and slight movement will cause the photos to turn out blur.

Anyway, I managed to capture the following photos of my baby when she busied exploring our TV cabinet.



Enjoy your babyhood my little baobei. You and jiejie are always mummy's 心肝宝贝。

My Little Supermodel

Like all girls, nowadays Xi loves to dress herself up, chooses her own clothes and shoes (and helps us to choose our clothes as well), and wears accessories. Here's some photos of my little gal modelling and posing at home.




She has also grown up to be a more sensible girl. For example, when she woke up middle of the night, instead of crying loudly on her bed waiting for us, she will on the portable mickey lamp (her magic lamp)which every night she places beside her, open the door of her room, then open the door of our room and climbs up to our bed to sleep with us. Everytime when we come home from outside, she will go to the bathroom herself to wash her hands and feet. This morning after she finished her milk, she brought the milk bottle and put on the dining table (instead of shouting for me to get for her) then went back to her mattress to lie beside her sister and talked to her.

My little girl is also a good helper when come to gardening. See how helpful she was helping her daddy to water the plant in our garden. :)



I hope she will remain this pretty and happy. My darling girl!