playing together

I love seeing my two children play together when they are both in a good mood. Joseph can be such a good brother at times.

Fun at the Pyramid

We made a trip to Sunway Pyramid last night, with the main purpose of treating the kids to a ferris wheel ride.

Met up with the singapore clan for dinner first, and then we found out that the ferris wheel is not yet functioning. So the men and boys made their way to the adjacent area where we found this bumper car thingy. Joe was only too excited to have a go.
Of course it was so much more fun to have Joshua, Daniel and Sean there to bump into each other.

They had 2 rounds of fun.

I think the boys quite enjoyed themselves too. RM5 per ride.

Joe said it was cool. He was not at all afraid.

Joy-Anne didn't ask to ride the bumper cars. Thank God. After a while, she warmed up to Tua Um and let Tua Um carry her.

After Pyramid, we went to Ah Ku's new house at about 10pm. Yeah I know it was late. But the kids both napped for more than 3 hours in the afternoon so I figured they should be ok.

Ah Ku has a nice new big tv in a newly-repainted and renovated house.

This is the computer and probably storage room. It's still messy with boxes here and there.

Joe checked out the new washing machine. He can't do this with our top-loading one at home.

The kids were quite comfortable there and didn't want to go home.

When I told Joy we were going to Ah Ku's house, she said, "See my kim kim".

Ah Ku's and Kim Kim's brand new bed.

Joe had lots of fun running around and mopping Ah Ku's floor with his socks.

I forgot to take pictures of the very nice ceiling. Now Ah Ku's house looks nicer than ours.

me and my hair

I had been itching (again!) about whether or not to cut my hair, or let it grow out and perhaps get a perm.

Finally, I decided that I like my naturally-very-healthy (according to the previous hair stylist) hair that I'm blessed with, and all I need is a good cut.

I tried out Chezz Technique (Jalan Gasing) back in July, out of sheer convenience. Popped over during my lunch break for a cut. A senior stylist, Katherine Loo cut a bob for me - shorter at the back, longer in the front. But I only really liked it in September when it grew slightly longer.

Then at the end of October, I found this new salon near my home which had a promo-RM20-cut and I gave it a try. Bad mistake.

The so-called-senior stylist was not as good as Katherine and it looked all wrong.

Now 2 months later, it's grown out again and I decided to pay Katherine a visit again. I asked her to cut it not-so-short this time so that I could still clip it at the back when I'm working.

One hour and RM62 later, I'm absolutely loving the results.

The cleaner in my clinic asked if I had my hair straightened. The answer is "NO!"

So I'm finally convinced - you get what you pay for. No more inexperienced stylist for me. Plus I really liked the massage that came with the hair wash.

Look Who's Talking Like a Grown-up

I rolled over onto Joy-Anne's babycot last night, stared into her pretty eyes and said, "Can mama sleep here?"

She said, "No. You go to your bed!"

Stunned, I said, "Say that again?"

Joy-Anne : You go to your bed!

Now where did she learn to talk like that? She's not yet 2 years old!

1Utama on a public holiday.

We went to 1 Utama last night with the intention of catching a glimpse of Dora and Kai Lan at the Nickelodeon roadshow. It was all quite disappointing because Dora only appeared at 1pm and Kai lan at 3pm so this was all we saw...

So we went to look for dinner. I thought we would go back to Zuup. But it no longer exists. Chap lap already!

Barney car next to Zuup has also been changed

Daalin thought of going to Chili's. But the wait was too long. So we walked over to the old wing for Joe's regular yummy porridge at I Love Yoo!

After dinner, popped over to Waffle World for desserts.

The blueberry waffle was quite nice although the strawberry one was more crispy. Joy-Anne fed herself ice-cream with a butter knife.

We walked around the crowded place a while before making our way home.

We passed by a Ogawa display and this is the Booby Monster at work.... (Yee Yee, this picture is for your laughing pleasure.)

Note to self : avoid malls on a public holiday. Only go on 1 Jan to Chili's and make sure we get there before 6.30pm to get a table.

more hair, more cheeky!

Just out of the blue, for the fun of it, I tied Joy's hair into 2 ponytails. To my surprise, she did not yank it out immediately. I thought she looked pretty cute, especially with the monkey face.
I absolutely love this cheeky face of hers.

She's now 2 days from turning 23 months old - the age when Joseph ditched diapers. Looks like she's not going to emulate her brother in this aspect.

When I grow up, a doctor I will be

Joy-Anne first encountered a toy stethescope at our cell leader's house. She seemed to know what it was for. Putting it to her ear, she would say, "I'm a doctor" even at about 19-20 months old.

Back home, she would find some paper or string and pretend it's a stethescope. So since Ah Chor gave me money and told me to me to get her a christmas present, I bought a Doctor Playset for her. She was so happy. Here she is giving Matthew a check-up.

She will talk to Matthew, tell him to "say ahh..." and pretend to put a supp up Matthew's butt.


Joseph was even more happy. The 2 of them will check each other, playing doctor and nurse.







Last night my conversation with Joe went something like this :


J : Mama, what can money do?

M : Buy things. (I was driving...had to concentrate. So short answers.)

J : What else can money do?

M : Buy food.

J : And what else can money do? Buy toys?

M : Yes, can buy toys.

J : How do you get money?

M : You work. (Then I explained to him various jobs, and how you get paid for work done.)

J : So when I grow up, what can I do?

M : I don't know now. We'll see what you like to do when you grow up. That's why you have to go to school now, study hard so that when you grow up you can get a good job.

J : I know....I can be a gardener!

M : Hmm..... err... Joe.... different jobs require different skills and you get different amount of money. Some jobs like gardener and road sweeper don't get earn a lot of money.

J : Ok mama...I change my mind. I want to be a doctor.

M : We'll see....

Happy Belated Birthday Yee Yee! (12 Dec)

Happy Birthday Yee Yee! Here's your request. Sorry it's late coz we were busy and out all weekend.

TwoPixels Photography Anniversary Giveaway!

I'm always a sucker for anything that's free!

And I love taking photos of my cute cheeky kids. Put that together and I absolutely couldn't resisit this photo session giveaway!

TwoPixels Photography is giving away a free photo session to 3 lucky bloggers, each worth RM450!

Sue & Jasmine at TwoPixel Photography are moms themselves so they sure know how to get great shots of kids, having experimented on their own. I particularly like their work with newborns, which they so cutely term as Pixel Out Of The Oven.

Sure makes me almost wanted to have another baby just to have a Pixel Out Of The Oven photoshoot.

Anyway, it's been almost a year since our last photo session and I've got good reasons to want another one.

Firstly, Joy-Anne is no longer bald. And she loves taking photos in pretty dresses!

I like my hair better now.

The kids smile more cheekily now.

I forgot to give both daalin and Joe haircuts before the last photo session hence they looked messy.

So the bottom line is that we all have better-looking hair and smiles now and it'll be a great time to have another photo session.

I sure hope I'm one of the 3 lucky ones!