End of 1st term, begin of new term

Xi has started her 2nd term of Nursery 1. The followings are some of her artwork made during her 1st term:





She has her cries and woes during her 1st term. She would want us to carry her to her classroom, then hang on us tightly refuse to get down. When finally the teachers took over her from us, she would cry badly when we left. However, according to the teachers, she settled down fine shortly after we left and engaged in class activities happily. However, when hubby and I both had to travel for overseas trips, she will take school bus to school happily. Carry her school bag and shoes herself to her classroom and never cry. She has also made new friends and can tell us all her friends' names. She learns lots of songs and rhymes and loves to sing for us in the car, at home even at public places like shopping centre. We are delighted by the improvement in her spoken English. Her Mandarin teacher told me at the beginning Xi only speaks Mandarin in the class, but now she speaks to her even in English as well.

This term she adapts much better in the school. Will walk into her classroom by herself, hug us then say bye bye to us and start doing her artwork. We are happy that she loves everything about her school: Her friends, her teachers, her classroom, and above all her school uniforms!

Her first day before going to school. Look at her smile:


Engaging in school activities with her friends. Photos taken by her teacher:

Happy 3rd Birthday to our 大宝贝！

Our 大宝贝 is finally 3 years old on 28 February 2010!!!

We brought some fruit tarts and goodie bags to her school last Friday and the teachers and her classmates sang birthday song for her during the snack time. The teachers asked her to distriute the goodie bags one by one to her classmates. As tying up by work, hubby and I did not manage to go back her school during the snack time to celebrate with her.

Next day in JB, we bought a fruit cake and some local delights such as satay, chicken wing, qing tang and wu xiang and brought to her paternal grandparents' house to celebrate with her gorgor and jiejie.

Unlike last year, this time Xi did not shy away but sat in front of the cake smiling and enjoy the whole process of birthday singing by her gorgor jiejie, the blowing of candles, cutting of cake and of course, the taste of the cake.

Mummy wishes that now you are one year older, you will be more sensible, more independent, more willing to share and continue to be a doting jiejie to your meimei. Happy Birthday our little princess! Papa and mummy love you very very much!

虎年行大运

Wish everyone 大吉大利！



The gals had a feastful chinese new year and lots of cny goodies and food which are forbidden in normal day. We spent most of our cny with our immediate family and on the road to rural areas. Lots of firework around our neighbourhood and I am already looking forward to our next cny, with a new addition to our expanding family. :)

When she is happy...

When she is happy...

she loves to sing and dance...


she can sit down quietly and do some colouring...


and ride on the pooh tricycle which is too small for her now.


When she is happy, we are happy. :)

2nd Photoshoot by Tomato.sg

This is our second time engaging tomato.com for family photoshoot. The 1st was taken in April 2008 when Xi was 13 months. And now when Ru is 1 year old, in fact, coincidentally, we only managed to book the date of photoshoot to be on 20 January 2010, the actual 1 year birthday of Ru. So I bought a small cake and have a 2nd celebration for her in a much smaller scale, and photos taken by the super patient Hart Tan of tomato.sg, at the comfort of our home and the surrounding. The gals warmed up with Hart very quickly, especially Xi who was exceptionally cooperative, despite her tiredness after her school. Ru as usual move non-stop but Hart managed to capture them all, her cuteness and laughter! :) Overall, we enjoyed the photoshooting and are happy with the result of the photoshoots.

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.