christmas lighting (22 dec 10)

Some photo taken during xmas season.

(all pic taken with my iphone)

different personality (27 dec 10)

Da yi yi came back from Japan trip and bought each kid some stationeries. On the spot, Charlie removed the plastic wrapper for each highlighter and started using them at Po Po's house. As for yy, the wrappers are still intact and he even bundled them up with an elastic band (photo taken a couple of days later. yy's highlighter on the left and charlie's on the right).
Another scenario, I was attending a birthday party with the kids. YY was holding onto my iphone playing game while Charlie was siting next to him. Very soon, another 2 kids crowded around, attracted by the game. Charlie started to talk to the older girl of abt 7 years old and shortly after came to me and asked if can allow her "friend" to play with the iphone. Oh gosh ! that is exactly my first reaction. My girl is so "generous" to the extreme that I am worried. Of course, I told her NO. (you dont befriend with others at my expense)

Side track abit, levin and myself are always joking among ourselves with her outgoing personality how will Charlie likely to behave when she is in her teens.

Malacca Trip (17 ~ 19 dec)

Went Malacca with nai nai, ye ye and gu gu's family.

Day 1 - reached malacca around noontime. Had chicken ball lunch. There was always a queue outside the eatery house but the chicken dont taste that nice.

Walked around Jonker Street and famous san shu gong store after the meal and headed back to hotel Renaissance for check in and rest.
Had dinner at "Bei Zhen" a local chinese restaurant. Rather high class restaurant with mostly office guests.

After dinner, drove up to Portugese Settlement Area for some xmas lighting. Nothing too fancy actually and pa pa's car tire went flat. Very fortunately for us, a group of locals there offered to help us change tire after noticing we really need help desperately.

Next morning, we had breakfast at the hotel which offered a great range of varieties. I stayed in the hotel with the kids where pa pa went out to get his tire fixed.

This is the kids' favourite part of the trip.

Went for some shopping and Jonker night street.

We left on the third day after late breakfast.

my new pose (18 dec 10)

no one can distract her from making her pose for the pic
ps : Herewith, the mummy would like to declare she did nothing that could have in any way inspire her new pose.

Charlie 4th Birthday (7 nov 10)

Charlie celebrated her birthday in school with a cake this year. So I wanted to do something different for the mini celebration at home. Instead we bought famous amos cookies and put candles at the plate for her birthday.

Charlie & yy busy squeezing as many cookies on the plate as possible. Do u notice the dora table cloth ? Charlie beaming from ear to ear with plate full of cookies. Parents have to put on the Dora hat too.

having fun at breakfast (7 nov 10)

Just decided to do something different for breakfast this morning. Got the kids to help out in making sandwiches with some cutter I got yearssss ago.

The shapes did not turn out well but we sure had fun.

first attempt on bicycle (5 -6 nov 10)

The bicycle was siting at home collecting dust for months. It did not occurs to me that charlie can ride on it till I saw a young boy riding one the other day. To our surprise, she managed to do it quite smoothly.

yy's school has been providing inline skate lesson (have to pay for it) for abt 1.5 mths. At the beginning, I asked frequently on his progress and realised that it was mainly safety rules like how to fall safely and nothing much was taught. Not realising that he managed to learn a trick or two and has gained more confident when he put on the pair of roller skate.

charlie's birthday celebration in school (2 nov 10)

Charlie's 4th birthday coming and we decorated the wall with her photo on it.

This is the first year Charlie attended school and her very first time to celebrate her birthday in school too. Bought a cake, goodies bags, party hats and plates for the celebration.

Her class of 20 kids but only 14 on that day. Luckily as this gp of 4 yrs old children sure can eat. The 1.5 kg cake was left with only 1/4 with some kids taking 3 servings.

Charlie was very fickle minded with the celebration in school. Up till the exact day morning, she was still changing her mind telling me that she dont want the hello kitty cake. However once her friends saw the Dora party plates, all the kids got so excited including herself. She sure enjoyed being the central of attraction for that 45 mins.

halloween party at Woodgrove (31 oct 10)

We attended the Halloween Street Out Party at Woodgrove private estate this year. It was simply crazy. Even before we reached, the road leading to it was already jam from far. It was quite a grand event when most of the houses decorated themselves and opened their door for all the little "witches" and "monsters" to drop in for treats or tricks. You can to see all sorts of weird costumes esp the older kids.

A family of cute little devils

bought the witch costumes from Daiso. Cheap and good.

Janice made her own tin-man helmet. Too bad, she still having exam next week so not enough time to make the body suit. While Charlie insisted on wearing her Cinderella dress despite I got her a witch wear too. Did u manage to see yy's horsey (paper horsey). The kids sure enjoyed themselves. Walking from house to house getting treats. As for the adults, we are always worried what if the little ones need to go toilet :P