Wearing hats/caps

Kaden弟弟 demonstrating the various ways to wear hats/caps....

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Mood: Playful Milestone: 9 months old

Grandparents' 38th Wedding Anniversary

It will be PIL's 38th wedding anniversary tomorrow (28 Feb 09). As they will be going back to Labis to celebrate their anniversary over the weekend, we decided to get a cake and have a little celebration for them at home =)

Father, mother, happy anniversary to you both!

With the grandchildren....next year there will be 3 hehe!

As there isnt any wedding anniversary song, we replaced with the birthday song. Quite comical actually =p Well, that's the song the kids are farmilar with mah keke....

Kaden Turns One!

We celebrated Kaden's birthday last Sunday. Just a simple gathering with some of my close relatives. Luckily I got my mom to help prepare the curry chicken and sis for the fried chicken wings otherwise I really duno how to handle the cooking alone LOL There wasnt really alot of dishes leh but its enough to make this preggy so wore out! Cooking the 6 packets of beehoon is a killer! My legs ached the entire day after the cooking. My advice to preggy moms, pls dont attempt cooking that many packets of beehoon yah or you will regret =p

Anyway, am very thankful that everything went smoothly and bet the kids are the ones who have a great time messing up my place with all the toys scattering around hahaha. Thank you everyone for coming to the birthday party, and your angbaos and presents! Xiexie!

The Sesame Street Scene Setter (Yay, I finally gotten my Sesame Street partyware! Couldnt find a mickey mouse theme birthday cake and so decided to settle for sesame street theme. We also notice that Kaden prefers elmo over mickey. Sorry mickey, next time maybe when I have the energy to look for mickey figurines to put on the cake =p)

Birthday boy smiling happily

Birthday boy with jiejie & mummy dearest

Birthday boy with his fav grandma

Liked this two-tier birthday cake from pg. First tier is the popular black forest flavor (meant for children) and 2nd tier is their famous lychee martini flavor (meant for adult). I personally prefer the black forest flavor and so is hubby.

The complete sesame street setting

Family picture

Birthday boy posing with his birthday cake

Family pic with the grandparents

Kaden with the kids. Cheeky Kaden not forgetting to kachiao people even on his birthday.

Singing the birthday song...

Cutting the birthday cake... Mood: Joyful Milestone: one year old

Kaden is walking!

Victory (more like cheeky;)) smile! Glad that he finally make it to the hall from the study room on his own hehehehe ;p

Yay Kaden is finally walking! We noticed he waddles alot recently from table/chair to table/chair. Though he is only making small little steps now but its a significant milestone of his life. Just 2 days before his birthday, he actually walks on his own for quite a distance, that is without any support....he can practically walk from the daybed (our so-called sofa) to our study room, at times he could even manage to walk to the grandparents' bedroom! Wow! Boy, mummy is very proud of you leh! Well, managed to capture a few videos of these significant milestones of his!

This video shows that he is able to stand up by himself without any help or support.

These videos show him walking on his own....and manage to conquer longer distance as each day passes!

Mood: Exciting Milestone: one year old

The Hassle of Moving House

Hubby and myself are planning to move to a slightly bigger house, hopefully within these two years as the family members have expanded beyond our expectations. We have started our search since Dec08 and till now we havent seen one that we really like and felt that its worth the purchase. Most importantly, we are unsure whether moving house now is timely as Im due to deliver in June which is in 4 mths' time and Im seriously in no condition to pack and unpack the stuff now. My gynae has advised me against carrying heavy stuff and walking too much as the baby is rather low. From the last scan at the clinic, my gynae had pointed to me that the baby's head is very close to the cervix and a possible premature delivery so better be safe than be sorry. He even prescribed some med for me to prevent the premature birth. There are other factors we need to consider as well like how are we going to manage the moving with the kids around plus we really got lots of things in the house mainly the kids' stuff!

Seriously, if we managed to find an ideal house now...we probably will engage a house mover company to assist us. The problem is where to find the movers, whether they are good and if their charges are reasonable etc...These are the questions that will pop in these situations. In times of these, I probably will turn to websites like Moveme for help. The fantastic part about this site is that they are able to provide free removal quotes from several removal companies for your comparison! Interestingly, these removal companies are being rated by their competitors hence we can be well assured of their service quality! How wonderful can that be huh! (Typical kiasu Sporean hehe)

A snapshot of the website

The other thing I am pretty impressed is that they are not all out to 'con' you by giving you the most expensive service. Why did I say so because they even thought of services like hiring a van only if you have very little things to shift around or hiring a man and van should you require an extra pair of hands to assist you in shifting. Cool eh.

If you are in UK or if you ever get a chance to move overseas, do consider their services!

Mdm received paid review request!

I am thrilled to receive an email asking me to write about their website on yours truly mothering blog. To many who have written paid posts, it must be the exact same feeling when u first received such an invitation! Not sure if its a prank but am willing to give it a try...anyway no harm trying and best if I can earn some quick bucks from these adhoc assignments. Didnt expect myself to receive such an invitation since my blogging activity is so low hahaha! Hope I can receive more of such request in future kekeke.........

Well, I need to earn some diaper & milk powder money for my forthcoming baby leh ;p

Its mdm's birthday!

Well, the pictures speak for itself...Nothing special on my birthday, just home-cooked mee suan by my mil and a birthday cake from hubby (but its yummy! ;)).

I will have 3 little ones to celebrate for me next year hehehe....

Sourcing for birthday cakes...

In another 1.5hrs time, it will be my 32nd birthday. Last time this year, I was already on leave at home waiting for Kaden's arrival and this year I am at home sourcing for my son's birthday cake haha....Kaden will turn one year old in 2 weeks' time. OMG. How time flies.

Hubby and myself have finally settled on the idea to celebrate his birthday at home with just some close relatives. I probably will whip up a few dishes like fried beehoon, curry chicken, fried chicken wings etc.....drooling already hehe...Anyway, the more headache thing is what cake to get for him really. As I have less than 20 guests, getting an enormous cake that is more than 2kg is very wasteful but all nice designs are 2 kg and above leh...howhow??? Diedie must make a decision by next week otherwise scared Im too late and my order will be rejected.

Got a few recommendations from the motherhood forum. Though I didnt participate but learnt alot of things there from the mothers hehe...Sent a few emails today to enquire on the cake designs & prices, guess in terms of price, my choice tentatively is in this ranking as some of them have not replied me yet:

1. Pine Garden
I like this design but instead of sesame street figurines, I would prefer Mickey Mouse or Clifford the red dog.



2. eCreative
I quite like this design, simple and nice but I hope to get a 'theme' cake for Kaden pehaps a Mickey Mouse or something as he's borned in the year of rat.


3. Cupcake Divinity
This boy has the same name as my boy but with a different spelling guess he must be borned in the year of piggies ;p Still waiting for their reply, hopefully they can transform the piglets to Mickey, cross my fingers =p Oh, she does very beautiful cupcakes too. hmm, maybe an alternative to giving out for baby full month treats! =)



4. Cherylshuen
Finally found a Mickey Mouse theme birthday but judging from the cake design, it must be a pretty huge cake of at least 3kg I think. I like her hello kitty design, very nice hor...can get for trenyce or meimei next time hehe =p



5. Simply Irresistible by myssaliana
Like her 3-tier Pooh bear cake design but dun think I will be getting such a big one. Anyway, just ask first and see her pricing.


All pictures extracted from the respective owner's website.

Kaden & His 1st Birthday Present

Yes its not Kaden's birthday yet and his ah ma is already very anxious in getting his birthday present for him. His ah ma got his 'harley davidson' last Saturday from Kiddy Palace keke...

In any case, since the present had already purchased...we decided to unwrap and let him play around at home. So currently its still out of bounds for outdoor kaikai. Today he already know how to negotiate with the grandparents...babbling away and kept pointing at the tricycle when the grandparents are taking him downstairs for their usual evening stroll. Boy, you learnt fast eh!

Mood: Playful Milestone: one year old

Kaden first CNY (26 Jan 09)

Kaden holding his first angbaos from daddy & mummy.

Kaden checking out the red packets from daddy & mummy, and gonggong & ah ma.

Kaden attracted by the designs on the red packets and started to murmur to himself.

Mood: Curious Milestone: 11 months old

Reunion Dinner at Popo's house (24 Jan 09)

Our reunion dinner at my mother's place this year was on the eve of CNY eve as we have to rush back to Labis and have the reunion dinner with hubby's extended family. This was Kaden first reunion dinner. Look at the little boy's expressions. There must be plenty of question marks flying around when he was observing us, the adults going thru all the cny procedures haha. Boy, sorry you cant take all these food yet but I hope you had fun watching us walloping them. Mummy so mean hor =p Well, mummy took some pictures as remembrance so you can remember your first cny reunion dinner ok.


We had very special Lohei this year, instead of the usual white/red/green carrots combinations, we had the fruits Lohei made up mainly of the rock melon/mango/apple/pear. (Clockwise from left) The Lohei, the steamboat ingredients and some other raw combinations and cooked dishes.


The kids looking in awe at my sister spreading the ingredients over the Lohei.Its usually the first dish to begin with before we start digging at the main dish.

Jacob Ballas Children's Garden (18 Jan 09)

Have a fun-filled day at Jacob Ballas Children's Garden. Trenyce enjoyed herself while Kaden snoozed through the entire afternoon when we were there. I guess he was totally clueless of whats happening around him heh!

On the way to the children's garden....

Hubby, Trenyce and my snoozing boy.....

Finally after a long walk, we reached the garden!

The map of the garden.

Things we will learn at the garden....

Fantastic Forest..

One funny-looking giant trunk....

The treehouse...

The upside-down tree

The "rubber" tree haha...

A-Mazeing Play

And finally we ended the fun at the Waterplay Area. Trenyce got herself really drenched!









Mood: Relax