FollowMy little princess wannabe has been one very happy girl for the past 2 days. That’s because she has finally received the personalized name necklace with her name on the necklace, thousands of miles flown in to her! I had told her early this month that she would be receiving a necklace with her name…
All posts in May 2010
Of Veggie, Fruits And Sweet Corns
Baby who used to love eating veggie when she was younger has now turned her back on the greens. She only eats selected veggie and even this, I have to cut the greens up into real tiny pieces and conceal them with her food so that she doesn’t see anything green amongst the rice or…
I Only Share My Chair With You
Baby has always been closer to Alycia than with Sherilyn. Ever since Alycia started attending primary school, she has lesser time to play with Baby. She’s in school most of the time. Even when she’s at home, she is always busy with her homework and will be in bed by 9pm. In fact, Alycia hardly…
How To Unwrap?
My mil bought some California rolls (aka hand rolls) from Jaya Jusco for the girls for lunch the other day. But when we wanted to eat the rolls, we were stumped. The plastic sheet that was wrapped round the California roll was wrapped in such a complicated way that none of us could solve the ‘puzzle’…
Homecooked Dishes
Here I go again, flaunting some of my mil’s sau sai (culinary skills). When she goes to Hong Kong again very soon, I will be left with the daunting task of planning the meals, 2x a day, 6/7, boohoo hoo hoo hoo ….. Steamed chicken with wood ear fungus, dried golden needle mushrooms, dried mushrooms,…
Of Homework And Seven Year Olds
Alycia had forgotten to bring her school’s message book home one day and this spelt TROUBLE coz she wasn’t able to check the homework she had to do. Her school’s teachers are pretty strict and punishment will be imposed if students forget to do their homework or forget to bring a book. Alycia had forgotten to complete her…
Alycia’s Typical Afternoon
These days, the weather has been freaking sweltering. Poor Alycia, when she comes home from school in the afternoon, both her cheeks will be as red as a lobster. On most days, both her white shirt and blue pinafore will be soaked with her sweat. I tell yer, Alycia comes home from school looking like…
Sleeping Child
Baby was so sleepy that she dozed off on her potty while watching Barney. It was way past 10pm and I had just finished spoon-feeding her with formula milk. Notice the little pail on the floor? I sometimes have to put this ‘vomit pail’ on standby coz this fler has a tendency to spew out the regurgitated milk half…
Healthy Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese And Pistachios
Here’s another of my mil’s creations: Carrot cake with cream cheese, lemon and roasted pistachios for the health conscious. It is almost oil-free (with no butter or oil used) except for the low-fat Philadelphia cream cheese as topping and is flour-reduced and sugar-reduced. Mil chopping the pistachios, ready to srpinkle them over the cake which…
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to all you great ladies out there who are mothers. Today is OUR day, we really deserve a big pat on our back and we deserve to have this day to ourselves doing nothing but to let our hair down, chill out, go shopping, go to our favorite restaurant, watch our favorite…
Alycia Swims
After about 9 months of once weekly swimmng lessons (which were held very irregularly with a several months hiatus in between), Alycia can finally swim breast stroke on her own from one end of the pool to the other. This girl just loves swimming and she has been telling me that she wants to be…
Why Do Boys Have Tail??
Sherilyn caught me by surprise one day when she threw me this question “mummy, why do boys have tail?” . I asked her whose ‘tail’ she had seen, was it daddy’s and she said no. Upon probing further, she told me that she saw the boys at her kindy wee wee with their ‘tail’ MUAHAHAHAHA!!…
First Anniversary Of Cassandra’s Surgeries
Today marks the first anniversary of my sweetie-pie’s first surgery, a complicated 5-hour Ureteral Reimplantation surgery. For the past 1 week, I really cannot help but keep reminiscing the days leading to her first ever surgery exactly a year ago. As I browsed through my picture folder this morning and viewed the pix of Baby…
Homecooked Dishes… And My Bone-Loving Girls
These are some dishes that my mil cooked for dinner: Braised chicken with potatoes. And stir-fried red and yellow bell peppers, french beans and ‘kai paye koo’ (chicken drumstick fresh mushrooms). It’s called ‘kai paye koo’ as the huge mushroom stems resemble chicken drumsticks! I love them and so do #2 and #3 but not #1…
Alycia’s Wholesome Lunch
Alycia comes back from school at around 4pm twice a week. On days when she comes home late, she will be served a light lunch as dinner will be served early on those days. In school, she will grab a quick bite (nuggets, cakes, buns, biscuits) before she hurries off to her enrichment class. This…