My girl is growing up fast!

Qi Yu turns 17 months two days ago. This little girl of mine is growing up so fast and brings so much joy to us. She is speaking so much nowadays and can speak a simple three or four words sentences. She just absorb everything she hears like a sponge and imitate what she hears. She loves to sing and can sing these songs "baa baa black sheep" "haleluya praise the Lord" Happy birthday" “我要依靠神” by herself.
Her favourite book at the moment is the "big bird" book. Everyday she would bring the book and ask me to read to her.
She is jie jie Qi Ning big time follower. Whatever the jie jie is doing she would follow suits and wnat to have what Qi Ning is having or doing. When Qi Ning sit on my laps, she would come around and push Qi Ning away or she would say "ecuse (excuse) me jie jie", fighting for mummy.
She still struggle with sitting on her car seat despite the fact that we put her on car seat since birth. She will try wiggle out of her car seat by requesting to nurse. Last week, when hubby was out of the country, I told her mummy have to drive the car and she has to sit in her car seat. She protest at first then subsquently she comply, murmuring to her self, "mummy drive car". So the few day when hubby was away, she sit in her car seat without a fuss. Now with hubby around, she starts protesting again, wanting to sit with mummy.
She is half way down the road of being toilet train. She goes diaperless during the day time. Sometime she would tell when she wants to pee but sometime she just forgot. She will definitely tells us when she want to poo. Only night time, she is still on diaper.
Not sure why her teeth has holes in some of them. took her to see dentist, dentist say nothing to be of concerm! Mummy reckon she lack cqalcium as she doesn't drink much milk during day time. She nurse through the night though.
Day by day my girl is growing and much joy she brings!

I need a wheel chair

Yesterday was not a good day for Qi Ning. Not sure whether is because she is tired or what, she seems to lose her balance easily and had a few fall within one hour. Her lip was badly bruised. In the evening, we went out for dinner with some church friends. Upon reaching home after dinner , she showed us a cut on her right foot! another mishap for the day. It was quite a bit cut, I don't know how she substain that. She said it happened when we first arrived at the restaurant but she didn't mention anything to us while at the restraurant.
I apply some iodine for her and she requested to be carried to her bed as the cut was on the sole of her foot and is painful. So we obliged. After we changed her, we were lying down on the bed for a chat before we sleep, she was telling me how painful it was. And she told me she need a wheelchair now because it is too painful to walk. I had a good laugh with her request!

Hide and seek

Hide N Seek, this is one game that kids never get tired of. Even my Qi Yu is catching on with it lately. She would tell me to hide and her favourite hide-out is behind the door. Each time when she meant to hide, you will find her behind the door and she would try to find other people behind the door as well.
Another of her favourite hide-out is the big sofa. She just get so much kick out of this simple hide and seek game. Mummy loves to play with her and the jie jie also like to join in the fun.
I guess is the "wow" effect that is contagious!

Qi Yu's development

Qi Yu is picking real quick with words. Lately she has been saying simple rhyme. I was surprise that she could say it on her own, of course missing a line /words here and there. One of her favourite is "rain rain go away, Qi Yu want play!" She could also sing burung kakak tua and say some of the Indonesian rhyme such as "Cicak cicak di dinding"; "pelangi song" courtesy of my Indonesian maid.
She is not a chatter box type. Many people comment that she looks more like a thinker as she often appear to be thinking hard on things that people say to her. I guess she is absorbing all that is happening around her and when she is ready only will she reveal it! Just like when she was learning to walk, she didn't attempt to walk very much till she is fairly confident of herself then she took all the bold step. Now that she can walk quite steadyly, she is attempting to run!

Clever girls

Really, I am often very amaze by my two girls. Below are some incidents that took place two night ago.
It was drizzling outside and Qi Yu was at the door wanting to go out and take umbrella. Then I remembered we had a small umbrella tuck away somewhere. Since I only had one of those, so I told both girl to share. (Had to clear this or else two girls will end up fighting for it). Each is to take turn playing with it. After while Qi Yu refused to share. when she was supposed to pass the little umbrella to her Qi Ning, she went and took the toy train instead and give to her sister! I have a good laugh, so young oledi know how to get her way!

Last sunday, we were having dinner with my brother's family. Qi Ning was dressed in pink and had a pink hair band. My sister in law was teasing her.
SIL: Qi Ning, your hair band is so beautiful, can I borrow it for a while.
QN: Not matching (SIL was wearing blue T Shirt), see I wear pink, pink and pink only matching!
SIL: never mind, I just want to try.
QN: cannot, not matching not nice!
What a clever way of saying no!

Sixteen months old!

My little missy (Qi YU) is turning 16 mths old today. She is one checcky little girl that brings much joy to my life! She is so muc fun now as she can response quite well to our instruction and can hold a simple conversation with her. What I like best is when I ask a question related to her she would answer me with her sweetest voice and sometime couple with a cheecky smile.
Me: Who is a good girl? or Who is mummy's precious girl? Who wanna go playground?
QY: Qi Yu......!
When she wants something from you, she would stretch out her hand towards you and say "may I, may I " till you fulfill her request. She likes to imitate her jiejie.
She went on a milk stike after CNY, fortunately she is slowly going off the strike last two days. Beginning to drink her milk when I am not at home by using her jiejie's bottle. She shows the maid Qi Ning's bottle and in her own way communicated to the maid that she wants her jiejie's bottle. So for the past two days, my maid has been giving her milk in Qi ning's bottle and she finish it! She is getting quite good in communicating her desire and we can understand most of her requests.
When she wanna do big business, she will say "poo poo" since two weeks ago but still don't know how to tell us when she want to pee. Often only tell us after she wet her pants then she would tell us "Qi Yu wet wet"
She can walk quite steadily now and wanna walk everywhere by herself, refused to be hold. Soemtime it seem like she is trying to run then walk. I have to remind her to walk slowly and take one step at a time.
She hasn't put on weight for quite sometime, still remain at 9kg plus, grow slightly taller at 76cm now. She is one active girl.

To stop or not to !

Qi Yu is 15mths plus, going to be 16mths soon. Lately, since the CNY holidays, she has been refusing to drink her milk during the day time. The whole day when I am away she absolute drink no milk. She is also not a good eater hence not gaining weight much. She only want me to nurse her at night especially just before she sleep. Maybe because she is getting very mobile these day and are more keen to move around then to eat.
Since she is not drinking any milk during the day time, I am thinking to stop expressing milk at work and just let her nurse directly after work. Anyway my production is very low nowadays. But on the other hand, I worry she don't take enuf milk as she totally reject milk powder. If I stop expressing at work and she starts to want to drink milk during day time then I have no spare for her. The milk inventory at home is quite low now as I have reduce the pumping session at work to only one time. And now this lazy mummy is thinking of totally no pumping at work!

Breastfed will breastfeed!

I saw these wording in one of the lactation consultant clinic "breast fed will breast feed". It was with a picture of a little girl imitating her mother who was breastfeeding a baby. I saw this in my two girls. I breastfed Qi Ning till she was about 18mths and is still breastfeeding my Qi Yu who is 15mths old.
When Qi Yu was still a baby, each time when I am breastfeeding Qi Yu, Qi Ning (about 2 year plus) would also take a dolly and sat beside me and breastfeed her baby. Now is my Qi Yu's turn, two days ago, after I nurse her, she stood up and hold up a soft toy saying 'rabbit want nen nen". She then proceed to pull up her shirt and pretend like she is breastfeeding the soft toy! I was having a good laugh seeing the scene. Only 15 mths and she is imitating mummy! I must try to capture one of this moment on camera one day. Is really amazing to see how little one imitate the action of the parents. I hope when they have their own baby, they would breastfeed them too!

Do you love me?

Qi Ning is gonna be 3 years 5 months old tomorrow. She is going thru a very sensitive stage at the moment where she would querry our love for her. Whenever I say to Qi Yu "I love you Qi Yu" she would immediately ask "why you don't love me." I have to assure her that I love her just as much.
During the recent CNY, she was quite a teary case when at my SIL place. She somehow is fearful of my SIL's husband, to the extend that she refused to come out of the guest room and if we make her come out of the room she would cry. Even her favourite treat of "longan/lychee" cannot draw her out of the room. She rather not eat then to have to meet with her "da gu zhan". Each time when I manage to lure her out of the room, when she see him she will be tearing and immediately goes upstair. This is the first time my girl is behaving as such and she rather end her holidays sooner than staying extra day at her "da gu" home. I guess maybe he scared her earlier on when he was in KL. He wanted to hold her and Qi Ning was telling him" I am four year old" . Her way of telling people please don't carry me but he miss the message and proceed to hold her up. Immediately she burst into tears.
Generally she is quite an independent girl except being emotional lately. She can dress and undress herself. Feed herself and do many self care thing by herself but form time to time, she would want mummy to do for her. Sometime she still want me to carry her like baby especially just before bed time.
Heven't sent her to Kindy yet but daddy is teaching her some alphabet. She is doing quite well. Overall I am happy with her development. She is a good girl and I do love her dearly.

Fun Stage

Qi Yu is now at one of the most fun stage to play with. She is rsponsive and would mimic after you. She turns 15mths on the first day of CNY. The other day when I was at my sis-in-law place, I was calling out for hubby asking him if he is ready for dinner and Qi Yu also follow me and shout out her daddy's name. Everybody who heard it was laughing as she speaks so loud and clear her daddy's name!
Qi Yu is on the slimmer side. Everybody comment that she is gonna be slim and tall when she grows up. I don't know how they predict but maybe by looking at her built. Qi Yu is not as good a eater as her jiejie. She only eat a few mouthful then she would shake her head and stop eating liao. Still don't drink much milk, whole day is still 150-180ml. Still fully on breast milk. I am trying to introduce milk powder to her but she don't like it.
Height wise she is 76Cm, weigth wise still at 9kg.
Language wise she is speaking a lot more and it seem like Malay is becoming her predominant language as kakak is spending more time with her than mummy (mummy is feeling guilty about this). Whenever I ask her if she want anything, she ould answer "mau" (meaning yes in Malay). Sometime I would hear her pointing to her body part and name them in Malay. Her favourite body part is kaki (leg). I often see her point to her leg and say "kaki". Her vacabulary has definitely blossom lately and she loves to repeat after us.
Emotionwise, she is showing more variety of emotion such as fear, jealousy, anger, cheecky faces. At such a young age, when she sees someone crying, she would move forward trying to comfort people and tell the person "don't cry". When reading one of her favourite book, she would point to the crying monkey and tell me, "monkey cry". She is still stranger shy.
Dunno whether is just mummy or really she is beginning to knows one and two. Yesterday, on the way back from hometown, I was asking her how many teddy bear she is holding and she answered "two", which is the correct no. The maid was laughing away. I tried testing it agian, took away one of the bear and ask her immediately but she was distracted by other things so I can't confirm.
Oh yes, what mummy loves is nowadays is her massage. When I lie down on my stomach, I ask her to massage for me she would pat my back, really nice to feel her little hand on my back, so gentle and relaxing! She learns the massage from Qi Ning. Mummy now can enjoy free massage at home!

Gong Xi Gong Xi

Two more days to go and is going to be chinese New Year! I am excited, waiting to balik kampung so is Qi Ning. She has been telling people that we going to Ah Ma house. Will be going back to my mum's house tomorrow and then to my in-law on the eve after we had our reunion lunch at my mum.
I just love to be around family members, be it my own family or hubby side of family. I always said if I am any younger I would love to have four kids but due to age constraint, I am contented with two.
This is to wish evryone a very happy and blessed new year!

GONG XI GONG XI

Handbags collection

As I mentioned 2008, hubby is venturing into some business. He had chosen to be a wholesaller of ladies fashion. These are some of the handbags design that he had in his collection. Anyone want one for CNY? :)

I can feed myself!

Hey everyone, see I am a big girl now, I can feed myself.

Sickly

The germs are flying round, finding preys to attack. My two girls took turn to fall sick last week. First it was Qi Ning, down with fever and vomit. Fortunately, fever and vomit subside after one day. Is easier with Qi ning as she would take her medication without any fuss and she would co-operate with us when we need to take her temperature or feed her medication.
On Saturday, Qi Yu started to have fever. Oh boy, is hard to feed Qi Yu medication. She fight with us when come to time for medication, we had no choice but to force thru the paracertamol. Obviously, she would cries so pitifully. She even refuse for us to take her temperature. She is very clingy and at time crancky for the whole weekend. Refusing to eat, drink and even sleep! She just want to be carried by mummy! When the medication take effect, the fever subside, she would play for a while. Other time she just want to be held. The fever comes and goes, yesterday evening, she also vomitted, fever subside after that. So far so good, her fever has not return. Hubby theory is that all the germs are out with the vomit so she is on her road to recovery. With the germs all out, may my two girls continue to grow healthily. Kesian to see them fall sick!

She calls me Mummy!

Qi Yu has been calling papa, jiejie, porpor and all other people for the longest time. Occasionally I have hear her saying mum but wasn't sure if she was refering to me. But lately, I have heard her calling me mummy but still not very often. Yesterday, upon reaching home from work, my maid brought her to the gate to meet me and I heard her calling me "mummy"! What a joy, now I know she is calling me for sure. My maid also heard and commented that "QI Yu sudah tahu panggil mummy ya! "
Qi Yu is at the stage of learning to speak and she is picking up more and more words each day and she is very keen to learn. She would repeat words after us. She can even say bubbles now as she loves to play with bubbles during bath time!
Is a real joy to see her grow each day, every little milestone brings much joy to my heart. Oh how I loves to see my little girl develop each day. Such is the joy of parenthood!

Eeeehh

I can't believe it but I saw it with my own eyes! Is not a pleasant sight and I was shocked to see it. I wonder how did she get it. What is it that I saw? Any guess? ......... eeerk, is a big worm that I saw two days ago when I was cleaning up for QI Ning after her poo poo. I quickly call my Pead and she said is quite rare for kids in urban area to have worm morever we don't keep any animals as pet, only gold fish. She ask about my maid's hygiene and sadly I have to say that her hygiene is not something we are not proud of. So the Pead told me to give the de-worm medication to the maid as well. Sigh, I guess I need to monitor her hygiene more closely now. My sis-in-law just told me on the weekend before not to let my maid prepare any meals for my kids as she also notice that my maid hygiene is not up to the mark.
Hopefully after the de worm medication no more worm. I really hope QI yu is not infested by the worm as well.

Qi Yu is 14 months old

My baby is 14 months old today. So how is this precious girl of my doing. Here are some of her vital statistic.
Weight: 9 kg
Height: 76 cm
Mobility: crawl really fast and started to walk, few step at a time since last week. She loves to push a chair and walk around
Dextirity: She can feed herself with a spoon now, of course craeting a mess as well! :) She loves to copy her jiejie when she see Qi Ning drawing or coloring. She would also ask for a pencil and start scibble on paper.
Speechwise, she definitely understand more than she speaks. New words that I am hearing her are porpor (grandma), car, cold cold, cat, gorgor (elder bro), somemore can't remmeber.
Now that she is beginning to walk, she also starts to "dance". she would stand up on her two feet and start swaying her body as if doing a dance. When asked if she is dancing, she will say "uhm, uhm" her way of saying yes.
Foodwise, she is taking three meals a day. When she doesn't like certain food she would not open her mouth and even if she had taken a bite she would still spit it out! Whenever we are eating, she will demand that we feed her too!
She is still fully on breastmilk. I am trying to introduce milk powder to her but she does not like it. In fact she refuse to drink it, so would drink one or two mouth full then pass the bottle to her sister. Sigh, that mean mummy cannot stop expressing mik. Mummy is getting lazy in expressing milk at work and is thinking of weaning her off the breast. With her refusing powder milk, mummy will still have to continue to be a moo. Hopefully she would take on the milk powdersoon!
She is observing everything that Qi Ning is doing. Nowadays, she knows that sweet can be eaten as she had seen Qi Ning unwrapping the sweet and put it in her mouth. So if we give her a sweet nowadays, she would make demand for us to unwrap it for her. Getting harder to trick her oledi, she is getting smarter!
She still loves her bath time and still dislike her carseat. Often will have to find ways to get her sit in her carseat without making a fuss. So far, we have use cornflakes, raisins & biscuit to keep her in her carseat.
Qi Yu is a loving girl, she would give hugs and kisses freely. Is such joy to see her grow each day. I do loves her dearly.

Exciting year ahead

So fast, another year coming to an end. Tomorrow is a beginning of new year and there are new challenges awaiting me in 2008.
Hubby is venturing into his own business in 2008, lots of uncertainty ahead, as a wife, I must and I want to give him all the support that he need. I pray that all will go well.
Hubby also has been encouraging me to further my study so I may apply to do my PhD in 2008. A decision that I had been delaying for so many years. I have filled in the application form, buy the bank draft, write my proposal, now only left submitting the application form only. ANd I am still half hearted, should I or should I not go for it.
Whatever it is , is gonna be an exciting year ahead, with God by my side, what is there to fear? Here is to wish everyone a very blessed year ahead. May the love, joy & peace of God abound richly with each of everyone. Happy 2008!

Caroling

Carolling is part of our church Christmas event. Few nights before Christmas day, we will be going round to houses that are open for us to sing carol. Last year Qi Yu was still a new born (1 mth plus) when we took her along with us for her first Christmas carol. This year she is 13mths oledi. Qi Ning enjoy carolling because she get lots of sweet or candy! We the carollers get to feast on all the yummies food that the host prepare for us after the carol!
Last night one of the host cook spagheti for us. On the way home, we were yakking away. Then I ask Qi Ning if she enjoy her spagheti just now (she loves spagheti). Her answer melt my heart hehehe. She says "Mummy, your spagheti is better." See, so young oledi know how to "ambil hati"!
Saturday was "tong zhi" but I didn't make any "tang yuan" I only mentioned to Qi Ning about the festival so she ask me what is "tang yuan". This lazy mummy tell her will make "tang yuan" for her when she grow up a little bit more! :) Luckily she didn't have to wait for long as the host last night also have "tang yuan"as dessert!
I am so much in a holidays mood since last friday, here is to wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

I want to be like you

It is a big responsiblity to be parents. The litttle one is watching what you are doing and following every bit of what parents are doing. My Qi Ning has been imitating me quite a fair bit and she doesn't hestitate to tell me that she wanna be like me! I often has to remind myself to try to be a good role model in every aspect for the sake of the kids who want to be like me and is real hard at time. I guess being a parent is a life long learning process!
I can see clearly how Qi Ning is following some of my way of teaching her. Qi Ning has been playing with stickers for quite sometime now and she has many book of stickers. some Winnie the Pooh, mickey mouse, snow white, and all the walt disney cartoon stickers. She loves to dish out to people and stick it all over the room's door, the dressing mirror etc. Can't remeber since when, she begins to use it as a reward. If you will to follow her instruction she would give you sticker. Sometime she will tell me, "Mummy, you listen to me and I will give you sticker, if you don't listen, I don't give you sticker!" (sound so familiar ya!) Whatever things that I have told her, she would use it on us as well.
Just last night, when we were all getting ready to sleep, hubby n I were chatting away softly on the bed. This little girl of mine start to give us instruction "Is time to sleep, sleep lah, don't talk." So really need to be careful what one say to the little one, you never know when they will use it on you! :) Such joy to be able to experience parenthood!

Thirteen Months

My baby is growing up fast. Qi Yu is now 13mths & 3 days old. This little girl of mine is a very determine girl. Once she set her mind on something, she would find her way to get it even at such a young age. She is very clingy at this stage, whenever I am around, she only wants me. If I go out of her sight she would make a fuss.
Foodwise, I am allowing her to eat some of what we are eating especailly when we are out holidaying, otherwise she is still having her home cook porridge. She doesn't like to eat egg nowadays. When she doesn't like certain food she would push it out with her tongue. She loves to feed herself. So we let her practise self feeding using finger food. We give her biscuit, sliced fruits to feed herself etc. Sometime, she would feed the food to her toys as well! :) She has seven teeth now.
She loves to follow whatever her jie jie is doing. When her jie jie is coloring , she would also gesture for us to give her paper and color pancil. even those she can't speak, she would gesture for us to give her what she wants. She use her finger to point to whatever she want and when we give her the right item she would answer "ehm,ehm,ehm". If is not something that she wnats, she would shake her head.
Qi Yu is not taking many bold step yet, she is still cruising a lot and prefer to crawl. I have seen her take one step then quickly sit down for few time oledi. She could stand on her own for quite a long time.
Her favourite game for the past two months have been "peek a boo". Whoever play that with her, she would laugh so heartily and excitedly. She is such a joy to have, I really loves her dearly.

Good ole time

It has been quite some time since I last blog and go blog hopping. Have been rather busy and was away for training and holidayings as well. Went back to my hometown for about a week. Wow, is rambutan season there, I wallop so much of rambutans. every morning, first thing after I wake up is going to backyard for my rambutans feast! This brought back so much childhood memory. Too bad I didn't have my camera as hubby took with him to China. My two girls were thrill with being able to just pluck the rambutans off the tree. My mum have two rambutans tree at home, one in front of the house and one at the backyard.
They both love going round to see the chickens, ducks..etc that are running around the neighbourhood. Show my girls durian tree, pineapple plant, went to Teluk batik etc. Of course also enjoyed eating the local delicacies.
Was good to meet up with one of my childhood friend who is also my neighbor in hometown. Usually during school holidays she would have brought her children to Singapore but this time round she was home. So we had good time together and our children were playing together quite a bit.
My sis and her family was also home during those time. So all the kids were having fun with each other. Qi Ning keep referring to my sis three sons as her prince! :) My little niece prefer to stick with us rather than her parents so my sis and her hubby is able to enjoy 2 people's world! This is the first time that I am able to spent such a long time in hometown (23-29Nov). Enjoyed every bit of it just like the good ole time. My two girls also enjoyed themselves very much, we may be heading back again this weekend, hurray!

Happy birthday to Me

Yea, I turn one year old on Wednesday. Actully my birthday is very easy to remember wan, 7 Eleven, easy or not. And daddy & mummy wedding anniversary is only one day after my birthday. So this year they decide to take me on holidays for my birthday. I got a feeling they may mark these days as a yearly holidyas for the family! My jie jie sing birthday song for me on stage in one of the cafe. And we also had cakes at Secret Recipe. I still dunno how to blow the candles but I really enjoyed eating the cakes.
I am happy to be one year old because I am no longer a baby and mummy will allow me to eat more variety of the adult food which I have been dying to try. All this while I can only watch jie jie eat and mummy will say I am still a baby cannot eat. SO now that I am no longer a baby I hope she will be more relax with me when it come to food.
At one year old, I can understand a lot more but I still can't speak yet, except the few words. I can stand but I am still not brave enuf to start my baby step by myself. I have six strong teeth that can even chew the nut that was hidden in the cake that auntie nelly fed me on my birthday without realising it till mummy saw me chewing away!
I am beginning to fight with my jie jie for toys and am jealous when she is close to mummy. I sometime will push her away from mummy and mummy will tell me not to be so selfish as she loves both me and jie jie. When I can't win the battle with jie jie, I will cry so loud then, mummy or daddy will intervene! hehehe this is my secret strategy but sometime it don't work.
I am quite a determined person and people often comment that I have a cheecky smile. I love to play & love bath time. whenever I see water, I just wanna jump down and swim but mummy will hold me so tight!
I will ask mummy to post you some of my birthday photo ya.

Beautiful Me!

My hair is growing longer each day and Mummy bought me lots of hairclip. The above is just part of my beautiful collection and I loves each of them. Each morning I have such hard time to choose which hairclip to wear so I decide that I should wear as many as I can on my head. Don't you think they are so beautiful? :) But to my dismay, many people tells me that is not nice to wear so many hairclip at one time. Initially, mummy also says the same but later she tells me is also quite nice, it looks like a crown on my head. I have been wearing my "crown" for the past few weeks but often got mixed comments from people who see me with my special crown. I am undecided now whether I should follow the crowd's advise to only wear one or two piece or follow my own sense of fashion, to wear all my beautiful hairclip at one time. Sigh, why people can't leave me to do as I please? Mummy say I can choose to wear all or wear one or two, is beautiful anyway, you think she is bias or not? Can someone pls give me your comments? :)

Desktop tag

Jo-n wanna know what's on my desktop. Very typical I know but I loves to see their pictures as often as I could so couldn't help myself thus allowing myself to be one of the typical mummy! :)
What's on your desktop ZZM and Blinka?

Picnic at Botanical Garden Putrajaya

During Hari Raya break we didn't balik kampung, we took the girls to Putrajaya Botanical Garden for a picnic. Qi Ning have read many books on picnic and have been talking about going to picnic with me many time. I have been telling her I will take here picnic till now. So here is just a lazy mummy style of picnic. Sandwiches, potato chip (Qi Ning's favourite) , hotwater and all the three in one drink, milo, coffee and also campbell instant soup mix! hehehe. To be healthy, I included some celery and carrot stick! Daddy prefer to have maggi mee on the cup so we brought that for picnic as well. I purposely bring along the red table cloth for picnic as well. See Qi Ning and Qi Yu looking on as my friends lay out the picnic goodie!

Since is a garden, with plenty of space to run about, a beach ball for Qi ning to run with is a must. We did lots of walking round and eating as well. We went there quite early and went home about eleven just before the hot sun at noon. When we were first there there were hardly anyone but as we leave, we saw more people around.

Such easy and yet enjoyable trip for kids to enjoy their day. We all went back for a good snooze that afternoon after all the walking and running! :)

Three classic of Phuket

We went to Phuket for a holidays early this month (1-4 October). It was Qi Yu first trip on the plane and she seems to like it. Nowadays when we ask her how the aeroplane fly, she would stretch out her hand and make the "ogu..." sound. This time round, Qi Ning was a bit frightened as she saw the buildings and things on the ground become smaller as the flight takes off. I guess her imagination just run wild. So for the whole flight journey, she was not able to rest well. On the way from the airport to the hotel, she had car sickness when the car starts going round and round up the hill. So first day in Phuket we didn't do much just stay in the hotel. Qi Ning had fever that night and was vommiting. Second morning she was ok so we went for city tour but half way through, she is not well again so we went back to the hotel and get her to sleep. On the third morning, she wakes up well and we went to the beach. Both of them had so much fun. The evening we booked to go for the Fantasea dinner and show. We only spent an hour or so at the ebach and went back hotel for the kids to sleep so that they will be well rested for the night events.

While they slept in the afternoon, we all take turn to go for our traditional thai message. It was good. Took the girls for a swim at the hotel's swimming pool. They both enjoyed the swim.

The Fantasea show is grand and the place is kinda of like funfair. Too bad our camera run of memory so didn't take many photo at the Fantasea. Saw baby tiger drinking milk from bottle while tourist take photo with them . This of course has to pay lah. I kesian the baby tiger because the keeper would shove the milk bottle into the baby tiger's mouth and let the tourist hold it n take photo. Elephant rides are also available there.

If you miss the Fantasea you miss Phuket so the saying goes. So I am only posing the momento photo, one on the aeroplane, one on the beach and one while at the Fantasea!

Sendimental

I guess Qi Ning is quite a sendimental girl. Whenever she come across a sad song or story she would tear easily. Few night ago, as we were getting ready to bed, she was singing the "小燕子”song. As she was singing I notice that her eyes suddenly turn red and I see tears flowing down her check. Hubby quickly hug her and she said she so sad。
The song is about a little swallow who seem to be homeless and not was not sure where is the papa & mama swallow and the little swallow was crying.
I think this little girl of mine begin to think of herself as the little swallow. So hubby has to quickly comfort her and tell her that we both loves her and her home is in Bukit Puchong. Such sendimental girl she is.

Over due- 11mth old

Well, Qi Yu is 11month 1 week plus old now. Mummy wanted to post a belated milestone and a recent photo of her and mummy when we were at Phuket for holidays. The photo was taken on oct 3, four day before her 11 month. We were having buffet dinner at the Fantasea show compounds in Phuket. More story of that later.

At 11mths, these are some new happening with my darling Qi Yu

- two more teeth on the upper jaw

-can pull herself up and stand without support

-will follow simple instruction such as clap hand, give the book to Mummy etc

Emotion wise, she is not so stanger shy nowadays. At least she don't cry when she see stranger now. But is still reluctant to let people hold her. Only those who are close to her is allowed to touch her but at least she don't cry now, she just hide her face from people that she don't want to "see". She knows who is who by name. When we call out a name, she would sometime point to the person or at time just turn her eye towars the person. She is beginning to be a copy cat, copying what her jiejie is doing. She seem to be able to judge if people are angry with her by people's tonation. Whenever I rise my voice when she bite me during nursing, she would cry. Sometime I was not even scolding her, was just telling her in a firm tone. She would starts tearing pitifully!

She seem to be very aware of her surrounding. She knows when we were on holidays and try to wiggle out of her routine nap during our recent trip to Phuket.

Food wise, she is still fully on breast milk. Her milk in take during day time has increased to 7 ounce a day. And is still nursing throughtout the night. She loves solid and like to eat whatever we are eating. When she sees us eat, her mouth will start moving and will pull my hand that is holding food towards her. She will be saying "mum mum". Weight wise she is still around 8.5kg and height wise she looks taller but I have not measure her.

Her bowel movement is regular nowaday. During the day time, I am starting to toilet train her for 2-3 hours a day but putting her to the potty on a regular interval and she seem to be doing ok. So sometime, if I am taking her to do grocery shopping or to the church or 1-2 hours trip, I will not put her on daiper and she is doing fine thus far. Of course got accident lah one or two time but I am quite happy with the success rate thus far.

She is quite a happy baby and I love her smile but she can also scream so loud. That's my baby Qi Yu, whom love dearly!

Qi Ning Birthday Photo

Mummy has been busy lately so hasn't been up to date in posting. Here are some picture of Qi Ning 3 year old birthday photo and brief up date of my girl's development. The first photo was on sunday before her birthday. Uncle Yap bought her the cake to celebrate with all the September baby in the church. The other two was on the actual day, a simple celebration at home. She got what she want, a cake with strawberry decro!

At three, she is more conversant and really exert her independent. She is picking up more on her Mandarin and speaking more Mandarin nowadays.

She could color within the line now and she loves to sings and dance. She could sit down and read books on her own and tell story. She is learning to make up story line. Getting naughty as well. Hsd to be firm in discipline. She is showing the traits of human falleness and she knows. So somethime, she would pray that Jesus would grant her self-control.

Her favoutites things now are hair-clips. She wanna tie her hair in different ways and clip her hair with different types of hair clip. She would notice how other people tie thier hair and wanted to follow suite. She is really into wanting to be beautiful all the time and will feel jealous when other looks beautiful. Girl will always be girl I guess! May she grows more beautifully each day not only in appearance but in her character!

Holiday soon

Yeah, we will be going to Phuket for a short holidays on Monday. Mummy is looking forward for it. Qi Ning is excited and this will be the first time going on board the plane for Qi Yu. Not sure how she gonna take it, hopefully she will enjoy the trip as much as Qi Ning.
Haven't been to anywhere ever since Qi Yu was born and dare not go when she was a baby, now that she is older, going to be 11mth soon, we dedided to venture out again as a family. Yippie!!

Birthday Coming

It will be Qi Ning birthday in two days time. this little girl of mine has been waiting for her birthday. She wanted a cake with strawberry as decro. Luckily didn't demand for a party but we are going to have a simple celebration for her anyway.
Is funny that when we the adult wanna remain young while the little one wanna be a grown up quicker. When ask how old she is now, she wanna tell people she is four instaed of three just because she wanna be a grown up!

10 months old

Time flies, my baby Qi Yu is oledi 10 months old. Qi Yu is a playful baby and she has quite a strong mind of her own. At such young age, she oledi show her strong will. If she wants something, she will find her way to get it and if you take it away from her she would cry.
Qi Yu does not like to sit down very much. Is always a struggles to put her in her carseat, high chair and stroller. So each time before we want to put her to her seat, we will need to tell her way in advance that she needs to sit down nicely. At time she still struggles but after the intial struggle she would settle down if we prepare her in advance.
She is still having the four teeth, two up and two lower jaw. She is an expert in crawling now and is cruising when holding on to something. She loves to climb from the floor up to sofa and also from our bed to QI ning's bed. She is pro in climbing. She trying to stand without holding on to things and I have seen her doing that a few time. She could stand on her own without holding on to anything for about 5 seconds.
Language wise, she is able to understand simple intruction. Eg, when daddy ask her to pick up the mickey mouse toy and give to mummy verbally, she will do as instruct. Since she like to climb up and down the bed and sofa, I have been teaching her the safe way to come down beds and sofa. I told her and at the same time help her to put her leg down first. Lately, I notice that when she wanna climb down form the bed or sofa. she is put her leg down first. She seems to be able to understand simple instruction quite well. She loves the song "if you happy and you know it clap your hand." Whenever I sing this song to her she would clap her hand excitedly.
She enjoys going to playground more nowaday. Every evening when we take her and Qi Ning to playground, she would start to kick his legs when she saw the swing. She loves sitting on the swing and will laugh and scream so happily whenever she is in it.
She is quite a talkative baby, babbling away in her own language. the only three words that we can make out of it often enough is "baba, mama, baobao". she seem to understand that conversation with other means that each take turn to talk. She would babble in her ugh ah ugh ah for a while then stop, waiting for any of us to response and then she would reply again. So cute.
Like mummy, she like to eat. Whenever she see us eat, her mouth will be moving as if she is eating and her hand will be pulling my hand for foods. Every morning she will have breakfast with us. Sometime I will let her have some bread dip in breat milk but most day is an eggyolk with breast milk. In between she may have a fruit sometime is half a kiwi, orange, banana, apple, papaya, dragon fruit, mango depending what is available during the time. Her milk intake during the day is still very low, only 5ounce in a day. but at night she keeps wanting me to nurse her. She will have her afternoon porridge or cereal when she wakes up from her nap. Dinner she will heve porridge while we have our dinner.
She take 2 or 3 nap during the day depending on the length that she sleep during the nap. Each nap is between 30mins to 2 hours. She would ratehr play than sleep anytime! At night she would play at least half an hour after light off before she is willing to doze off. She would roll here and there, do her free fall stunt, ugh ah ugh ah til she is happy then only will she lie down and sleep.
What else could I say about my precious Qi Yu but that I am thankful to have her, a playful and cheeky baby!

Competition

My baby girl now know how to compete with her sister Qi ning for mummy's attention. Each time when she see me holding Qi ning, she would definitely crawl towards me and wnat me to hold her as well. Every now and then Qi Ning would complain "mummy why you carry Qi Yu and don't carry me?" And sometime she will tell me "I am angry already you don't carry me!" Sometime she would tell me she want to be carry like how I carry Qi Yu and she would act like a baby. I try to give her as much attention as I can but I guess it is not the same as when she was the only child at home!
Qi Yu is very clingy nowadays, whenever I am around, she would clingy to me and not want any other people to carry her. Qi Yu is able to understanding a fair bit of our conversation. For example, when I told my maid to look after Qi Yu while to go to do something, she would quitely turn around and grab hold of me tightly! They are learning so fast.

Phuket

We are planning to go to Phuket in October for a short family holiday, anyone know of a good place to stay that is suitable for family with two little girls? Any suggestion of things to do, food to try and places to visit will be welcome as well. Thanks in advance.

Cinderella

One month from today shall be Qi ning three year old birthday. And she has been waiting for her birthday since DH's birthday in April. Each time when we celebrate someone's birthday, she will be asking "is my birthday coming soon?"
Today, she is 2 year 11 mths and very soon she will be three. She has grown so much in the last few month and pick up so many things. She can hold a decent conversation with people now and her imagination is real good. Here is one classic that brings smile to my face.

She was running around and I saw her with only one shoe on:

Me: Qi Ning where is your other shoe?
QN: I am Cinderella (Show me a big grin)!

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For a girl her age, I consider Qi Ning very understanding. She don't make unreasonable demand and most time, we can reason with her and she don't resort to crying or throwing a tantrum to get her way. Sometime I fear I am "forcing" her to grow up too quickly!
She is learning her math without being told that that's math. Everyday she will ask for her sweet treat so we took the opportunity to teach her simple addition and subtraction. She could add and subtract with one hand.
She is a very sweet girl.

Rides

The merry-go-round ride is one of Qi Ning favourites ride. We ask her recently if she would like to see the Royal London Circus or go for the Merry-go-round, she chose the merry-go-round! She said she only wanna see elephant so we decided to take her to the Zoo rather than the circus.

See my baby Qi Yu is also enjoying her ride! Though she doesn't know to request for it yet, unlike the jie jie who would ask to go for the rides every now and then!

This little girl of me is growing real fast and asking lots of "WHY" nowadays. Everything she will has a "WHY?" So mummy has to be patient answering all her why.
Such joy to see them grow.

Genting Trip

Last month we went to Genting for a trip. Qi Ning really enjoy the cool weather and the indoor rides. She was very happy to have an opportunity to wear her "winter" clothes! Qi Yu is also happy to join in the fun.

My baby girl

Haven't being updating my blog, was lazy & kinda of busy as well. Qi Ning & Qi Yu are growing up so fast. Next month, Qi ning will turn three and Qi Yu is oledi 9 mths old now. I have been wanting to post photo of them for a long time but always didn't get round doing it. Mainly also because I don't know how to convert the big file to a smaller byte so I can upload easily. Sorry ya for not responding to fellow bloggers request for photo of my two girls sooner. I promise I will do it by this week.
Qi Yu can crawl very well now and is now looking for every opportunity to stand whenever she find a chance. Of course not standing on her own yet but holding on to something, she can stand and walk along. She loves climbing up to the sofa in our sitting room and she is an expert now in climbing up the sofa on her own.
I think her liquid intake is too little and she is having constipation. So "kesian" her when she has to push through the hard stool. She has been passing hard stool for the past two week and she only poo every three days. I am working hard to help her to move her bowel more regularly. Has been feeding her kiwi, papaya, green and the dragan fruit. Ask the maid to give her more water as well during the day.
I think more teeth is going to sprout soon as she is drooling and bitting more nowadays. Mummy is one of the victim of her sore gum. She bite me when I was nursing so mummy has got a sore nipple now. So every time I have to remind her not to bite mummy! She still doesn't like to drink milk very much.
This little girl of mine is a playful girl, she would rather play then sleep. Every night, after light off she would still try to crawl here and there and will take another half an hour before she sleep even when it is well past her bed time.
She is a sweet little girl.

8 month old

Each time when I look at my girls, I am always amaze by God's wonderful creation and am thankful for the two little angels that He has given to me.
Qi Yu turning 8mth old tomorrow. this little baby of me is growing bigger each day. I used to worry for her weight gain, now I am quite sure that she is growing well and not to be alarm by her lack of milk intake during day time. She now weigh about 8 kg, length wise, didn't do any measurement lately. She now has four pearly white, 2 upper and 2 lower. Her milk intake during the day is still not very much, about 180ml but she has started to enjoy her porridge or fruits quite a bit. Every morning, she will have an egg yolk for breakfast. Lunch and dinner time she will have porridge, in between she will have her milk and fruits. She likes fruits more than porridge! Whenever she see us eating, she would reach out her hands, wanting to grap a bite as well.
Qi Yu is quite ambitious, not yet pro in crawling, she wanna learn how to stand pledi. Now whenever she had opportunity, she would pull herself up in a standing position. If she is successful, she would smile to herself. She can crawl and then sit down nicely.
She starts to say baba, not sure if she is actually calling baba or just part of the sounds that she made. She is quite talkative and laugh easily when you play with her. She has a loud voice and will make sure you hear her especially if she dislike the situition. Yes, she won't hesitate to scream at the top of her lung till you take her out of the situation, eg when being strapped down in her haigh chair or car seat.
She loves to play and would sacrifice sleep for play. Mummy is having a hard time to lure her to sleep for the past few nights. Usually by 9.30pm she oledi in her dreamland, now 10.30pm still rolling all over the bed, pulling herself to a standing position , making yeeyaya sounds. Weekends even worst, when mummy is around sleep even less. I hope this is just a passing phase.
Watching her grow is a pleasure and she is such a joy to have!

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!

Yes, this post is about a great fall that Qi Yu had recently! It is mummy fault for being careless. Last Saturday, someone came and repair the curtain rail in the living room area where Qi Yu would normally have her nap. So that afternoon, we let her sleep in the guess room's bed. She can crawl now so we are quite weary about putting her on bed if no one is around. Hubby told me to check on her periodically and to listen carefully to any sound that Qi Yu may make when she wakes up. He was the one checking onnher while I was having lunch with Qi Ning. He told me to do that after lunch. I say ok but didn't do it immediately, a few minute later, I hear a "bom" then a loud cry. Rush upstair and saw Qi Yu on the floor. Pick her up and the poor baby sobbing away in her sleepy stage. Bad mummy for not taking the necessary step to ensure baby's safety. Thank God that there is no major injury. Sorry baby for causing you to fall!

33 months

When I look at Qi Ning, I am so amaze by the way she has grown. She is 33 months old today. I have lost track of her development but I just notice that she is growing by the day. She can hold a decent conversation with people now and she will ask you for the meaning of words if she doesn't understand it. Before we starts her with the Sunday School, she speak mainly in English but now, she can speak Mandarin pretty well. And she loves to look for Malay children and practice her Malay with them. She still is very freindly to other children but no longer hug them by suprise.
Like Mummy, Qi Ning loves to eat. Everything is tasty to her and she is not very picky eater. Her favourite is lolli pop/sweets. Every evening when I reached home after addressing me, her first request is "mummy, I want lolli pop! " :) She weigh 15kg now, height I didn't measure I think is about 94cm.
She likes to imitake what we do. She saw us eating noddles with chopstick and wanted to do the same. We let her tried and now she is an expert, she can eat a bowl of noddles with chopstick without help from us. Nowadays, she refuse to use the kiddie fork, she want chopstick!
She could recognise some alphabet and numeral. Mummy bought the "Spell to Write and Read" core materail, wanting to teach her but not yet had the time.
Ever since she tasted the glama of dancing on the stage, she often mentions that she want to dance on stage. She can sing many songs, I lost count of the songs oledi. Songs in Manadarin, English and Malay.
She is very much into pretend play nowaday, one minute she would the pregnant lady, next minute she would be the Doctor and then she would be the pilot. She is also into the building business, she will be bulding house using pillows, bolster and blanket! She would also change her identity, sometime she is a Malay, sometime would be an Indian.
She is quite mature for her age, understanding and generally well behaved. Sometime with her maturity, we forget that she is not even three yet. I am pleased with her overall development. I pray that she would grow into a balance adult, in favor of God and man.

"I am 欣柔 (XinRou)"

In the past, there are occasion when Qi Ning would say that her name is Xin Rou (Xin Rou is my brother's youngest daughter). And she would follow my nieces and nephews calling us "姑姑` 姑 丈 instaed of mummy and papa. But lately, she has been saying that she is Xin Rou all the time. When I call her Qi Ning, she would tell me "no, I am Xin Rou!" She is really into this pretend game. I usually just play along with her. Hubby was saying I shouldn't encourage it. I take it as part of her growing up phase where she pretend to be somebody else which is quite harmless but he think otherwise!

Blackout adventure

Two days ago, my area had a major blackout. The moment I reached home from work, hubby had the kids all ready just waiting for me so that we can go out for dinner. I was told that the eletricity was out since 5.00pm. We thought it might not be too long before the electricity would be back but we were very wrong!
We had dinner near by where there was current. After dinner we went home and still there is no electricity. So we decide we would bring the kids to shopping centre. We went to Jaya Jusco at Equine park. We walk around and have ice-kacang at the food court. We leave there at about 8 plus thinking that the current should be back by now. When we were near to home, we saw neighbouring flat have light so we thought it would be the same for our area but alas, when we reach our area still no electricity. So we had car ride around he neighbourhood and Qi Ning ask" Why we go round and round like a merry-go-round?" :) We round for 15 mins then decide we would head off to Tesco instaed of rounding in the neighbourhood. Then hubby decide that we should go look at our new church building instaed. So off we went again for our venture.
By then, I was quite tire and thirsty, so we stop at a mamak place for a drink. Oh, the coconut juice was wonderful and Qi Ning had her favourite roti tissue. By the time we had our supper and go home, still no elctricity. Went round the neighborhood again then off to Tesco. We were at Tesco till 10.30pm, we were all tired so decided to go home irregardless whether if there is elcetricity or not.
Hurray, when we reached home, we saw the light! By the time I showered and get kids ready for bed, it is well pass eleven. I thought they would be very tired and would doze off immediately but I guess they were over excited and didn't settle down after quite a while.
For the whole period of the blackout, I was so worried that all my milk stock will be melted. I counted the blackout lasted about 6 hours. I was so relieves when I checked on my milk stoke and found that they were not melted. Really thankful for it. Or else, seeing all the epressed breast milk thawing, I would cry!

7 Months

I dunno know where my time has gone for the past 7 months but I definitely see my baby growing by the day. Yap, my Qi yu is 7 months old now.
Her vital statistic didn't change much, her weight as of yesterday is 7.5kg and length is 68cm. For the past four month, she only put on 500g as she don't drink much for the time that I am at work. I am not very worry now with her slow weight gain because she is meeting her developmental milestone.
She has got a pearly white on her lower jaw. Still only only. Started her on solid last month. So now, every morning, when we are having our breakfast, Qi Yu is joining in. I will give her half of the egg york mixed with breast milk. She seem to like it. Afternoon, she either have prorridge (only with carrot or pumpkin) blended till smooth. She only have one to two spoonful of it. Fruits are also introduce to her diet oledi. She loves fruit and when we said "finished" and walk away she will be crying! So far, we have let her eat apple, mango, papaya and banana. Yesterday, mummy let her have a taste of durian, she seem to like it as well! Milk intake wise she still don't drink very much, ranging from 80ml -160ml for the duration that I am away.
She haven't sleep thru the night yet as she is still on reverse nursing. So at night mummy still need to nurse her.
She can sit unsupported now, quite stable oledi. She is starting to crawl from one end of the bed to the other end. I dare not let her crawl on the floor yet for fear she may hit her head on the floor. When I put a toy in front of her, she will crawl to reach for it.
OverallQi Yu is a cheerful baby. She is also becoming a sticky tape, sticking closely to mummy liao!
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Separation Anxiety

Every morning, before I leave for work, I would hugs and kiss the girls then say my bye-bye. Qi Yu is at the stage where she knows that bye-bye means mummy is going off to work. And when she hear me saying bye-bye to her, she would starts to cry and upon seeing me walking out the door, the wail is even louder. That would make my feet very heavy upon leaving the house. :( I guess she is at the stage of separation anxiety.
Every morning, I would have to carry her first until she is satisfy then I can pass her to the maid without her making a fuss. But if I don't carry her and the maid pick her up directly from the bed, she would be wailing away! This is my Qi Yu, wanting to have her share of mama! :)
Qi Ning is quite ok with me going off as long as I give her a hug and a kiss. But sometime she would still ask that I don't to office or making request to follow me to office. I promise her I would bring her to my office one of this day. So next Staurday, when I am having the family week event, I will bring her to my office.

Flu bugs

During labor day holiday, we took Qi Ning and Qi Yu for a morning swim with my brother's kids. I think Qi Ning is not used to the cold water in the morning, she got a running nose after that and then follow by cough. She has been having a cough and running nose since then!
Good thing is that there is no fever and she is still very active. When give her medication, she would co-operate and take her medication without a fuss. At time she would request for medication herself! She would ask me to pray for her to get well soon.
The flu bugs seem to be active in my home now, hubby is down as well and I can hear Qi Yu coughing every now and then. And mummy seem to be getting it as well. Hopefully, we will all get well soon!

Six Month Old

Is amazing to see how a child develop each day. My Qi Yu is already 6 months old two days ago. I was too busy to blog about her development. Her weight is about 7.3kg and length about 67cm. Still not drinking very much for the time that I am away but since she is putting on weight and is on reverse nursing, I am not too worried now.
Supposed to start her on solid but I have not teach the maid how to yet so I am putting it on hold. Her first pearly white is noticeable now. And she is able to sit by herself without support but still not very stable yet.
Emotionally, she is able to show her "jealousy". What I mean by that is she would cry if she see me carry her jie jie and not her when I return home from work or early in the morning when we first wake up. If the maid will to take her from me, she would also protest by crying. She knows how to stretch out her hand toward me when she want me to carry her.
She don't really like to sit in her carseat and would often protest when we put her in her carseat. She would protest so loud when we insist that she stay in her carseat. The minute we take her off carseat, she will be smiling. So is going to be a battles to make her sit in her carseat because she sort of know if she scream loud enuf she will be off the hook. So daddy & I really need to learn to put a deaf ear to her screaming in order to train her.
She is an alert baby, don't like to sleep very much. She brings us lots of joy as well just like Qi Ning. I really thank God for the two precious girls!

Pearly white

My Qi Yu's first pearly white has finally emerged thru' the sore gum on the lower jaw! Can't see very clearly yet but can see only the tiny bit on top if you are observant but if you feel it with finger, it is quite sharp. I think a few more is on it's way. Some said so early got teeth oledi ya, some said so late only got teeth ya. I also dunno whether is early or late, for me as long as is healthy, can oledi. I can't remember when did Qi Ning cut her firth tooth.
Is really amazing to see the little one grows. My Qi Yu now can really show her preference. Whenever I pass her to the maid she would complaint so loudly. If the maid is carrying her, not for long she would be making noise. If hubby or myself take over, her noise will subside immediately. She obviously knows her parents. I just loves her as I loves Qi Ning! :)

Friendly girl

My Qi Ning has always been quite friendly but lately I think she is being over friendly with children whom are stanger. No matter where we are, be it in a shopping mall, restraurant, park or anywhere, when she see other children, irregardless of race and age, she would run towards them, sometime trying to hug them, hold their hands, and wanting to strike a conversation. Some of the children that she approach would make friend with her and some would not know how to react. I think some parents were taken aback by her action and I have to apology on her behalf.
I have to teach her how to be friendly without being intrusive and also not to be over friendly. Good thing she is only extra friendly to children. If she also so over friendly with adult, I would be very worried!

Going on strike?

I am not sure what is the cause but my Qi Yu's milk intake is of concern to me for the past few weeks. She has never really like to drink from the bottle but no choice because I am a working mum. One month before I go back to work I oledi training her to drink EBM (expressed breast milk) from the bottle but she would cries and drink, only 20-30ml. Slowly, she is getting used to the bottle and not protesting as much. But she milk intake is still quite low ranging from 160ml- 240ml for the time that I am at work. But for the past two weeks, her milk intake has dropped to 100ml, yesterday was the lowest thus far, 80ml only for the whole duration that I am away!
Her last feed before I leave to office is about 7.00am then she will wait for me to nurse her gaain at about 6.0pm. For the whole time that I am away, I think she just drink the minimal to keep her from getting real hungry. And her mininal is getting less and less by the day. I am not sure if it because she is just not interested in the milk or she is protesting that Mummy is going away and she is on a hunger strike or she may be teething! I remember when Qi ning is her age, she drank about 350-400ml for the same duration that I am away. I always worried that my supply will not be enough for her. Now my fridge is full of EBM, some is going to be expire soon! Hopefully her appetite will come back soon so mummy does not have to worry about her growth!

"I want to be so beautiful"

My Qi Ning is at the stage where she wants to look beautiful everyday. For the past few weeks, every morning she would go to her wordrobe to look for pretty dress. She would not wear her usual casual dress or T-shirt. She epsecially like those dress that when you turn around, it will flair up to make a beautiful circle like a dancer. She would tell me " I want to dance with the prince you know or not?" (She is into her Cindrella story!) And guess who is her prince? Her beloved papa!
Last night, I was playing with her and she was pretending to paint her nail with those colourful play dough. And she wanted to "paint" for me, telling me it would looks so beautiful if I paint me finger nail and toe nail. She saw my sister and sister-in-law had their finger nail and toe nail painted and now she wanted to paint her finger nail and toe nail as well. I don't use much of the make-up so she doesn't ask me for the lipstick and thing yet.
One of my niece who is two year her senior keep long hair and my Qi Ning has been wanting to keep long hair like her as well. She would envy my niece whenever she saw her hair all tied up with all the nice hair accesseries. Whenever she refuse to eat her green, I will just ask if she would like her hair to grow long like Rou Rou jie jie, she would nod her head and happily eat her green!
I guess girl would always be girl, wanting to be beautiful!:)

Five months old

Not so long ago, she was only a new born baby and now she has turn five month old. I guess when you have a little one around, you can't help but be reminded that time flies!
My Qi Yu turn five month old on Saturday. This little girl of mine is getting more and more plaful by the day. She will laugh so loud when I hold her and dance with her jie jie. She just loves to have people play with her especailly children.
Have not weigh her recently, but don't think she put on much recently because she don't drink much milk when I am away at work, someday as little as 140ml for the eleven hours that I am away. She has grown taller. I think she is in her teething stage as she starts to bite when she nurse. I have to repeatedly remind her not to bite. She loves to put everything into her mouth. She especially like to put her second finger i.e the pointer into her mouth. She can aim so accurately!
This girl of mine don't like to be in lying down position, she loves siting up. When put her in lying down position, she will try her best to lift up her body as if doing sit up! I think she will be sitting up on her own quite soon.
If she doesn't like anything she will make sure that you know of her dislike first by her mild protest. If you ignore her protest, it will proceed to loud protest! Overall she is a cheerful baby. I just loves my baby!

Adoring gaze

I have been enjoying this special moment with Qi Yu for the past few weeks. I usually put her in my sling when I go grocery shopping. I hold her on the sling, facing me so I can see her. One time, I notice that she was tilting back her head and gazing on me adoringly. I gaze back at her and we have our sweetest moment of exchanging adoring gaze. From then onward, every time I put her on the sling, we will have our special moment of gazing at each other. I really enjoy this special moment. I can't describe the kind of feelings that I have when we gaze into each other's eyes. It is so peaceful and feel like the world is revolving around only us, so much jo as well.

Qi Ning was on the lime light during my brother’s company products launching at Merriort Putrajaya on 26th March. It was a not a planned thing for Qi Ning to be on stage just a spontenous call by the EMcee. There were fashion shows and also a Malay singer cum emcee hosting the whole events. Qi Ning saw people walking on the stage and heard the music, she wanted to join in the fun. She kept telling me "mummy, let’s dance." So I just let her dance on the floor. Who knows, in between the program, the emcee was looking to see if there were any children around. He already gotten two Malay boys on stage and was looking for girls. Hehehe, he pick Qi Ning to go on stage with him. He asked if Qi Ning wanted to dance and Qi Ning say yes. At first I thought Qi Ning might not follow him to the stage but she did!
The emcee was a bit "cheong hee" did a lots of talking before he actually show the kids the dance that he wanted them to do. He don’t know how to speak to Qi ning and was just making some gibberish sound. My brave Qi Ning just shake and dance away in her own style when the music starts. Upon seeing her movement, the crowd just clapped and cheer her on. I guess when she suddenly realised that the spot light was on her , she became self-conscious, got scared and wanted to come down from the stage immediately. Didn’t even want to stand on the stage for another minute to collect the present!

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30 months old

Speak softly OK

God's Protection

This incident happened quite sometime back about two three months ago. I didn't get a chance to write it down and today it came to mind to blog about it as I am thankful to God for His protection over Qi Ning.
It happened on the wee hour one morning when I was up nursing Qi Yu. I can hear the sound of Qi Ning rolling in the bed. I turn to her direction and saw the bolster falling down the bed and next I saw Qi Ning rolling down from the bed! My heart sank seeing what take place and I was hoping the odd against odd that she would land on the bolster but the chance is really slim.
God must have heard my silence cry and yes she landed on the bolster "beautifully" as if she was just rolling down to hold on to the bolster. She was not even awaken by the fall, hubby heard my cry, woke up to see Qi Ning on the bolster down on the floor and he just carried bolster and her to the bed. And my girl just continue on sleeping! :)
At that moment my heart filled with thanksgiving, if not because of God's protecting hands, I can foresee a big "bangolow" in Qi Ning's forehead. The next day I told her of the incident she just smile, I wonder if she was aware of the fall or not!
So nowadays when I am up nursing Qi Yu middle of the night, I am always on the alert, listening to Qi Ning's movement just in case she roll down the bed again. I am trying to get her to move to her own bed as she is still squeeze in the middle of hubby and me. She is not willing to leave our bed and mummy isn't insisting as well. I dunno whether I should insisit that she move to her own bed now or wait till she ready then move her. If I insisit, I foresee some battle and teary nights.
Actually after the incident, I have been sweet talking to her and tell her to sleep in her own bed. This how the conversation goes during the night time before chinese new year:

Mummy: Qi Ning, you jie jie oledi, must sleep in your own bed, Qi Yu also sleep in her own baby cot.
Qi Ning: Wait, Chinese new year ok
Mummy: After CNY you must sleep on your own bed ok?
Qi Ning: ok mummy

During CNY, when were at my mum's and in-law, she did keep to her word, sleep on her own on and not squeeze between us. Even when I offer her to hop on the bed to sleep with us for a while early in the morning she would refuse telling me that CNY oledi she must sleep on her own. So i thought she would keep to her words and do the same when we returned home.
Alas, the first night at home after CNY is back to the usual, she wanna sleep on mummy's bed! And now when I ask her to sleep in her own bed, she tells me wait till her three year old birthday. See, how clever my girl is at bargaining!

Attension seeking

Nowadays, babies seems to be getting smarter. They seem to reached their developmental milestone quicker. Qi Yu is beginning to know how to demand for me. Each morning, when I say bye bye to her and pass her to the maid, she will protest by letting out a cry. In the evening when I reached home after work usually Qi Ning will be screaming for mummy and want me to do this and that for her. So I usually tend to Qi Ning first but now Qi Yu also is demanding that I attend to her. She will cry if I don't (slap forehead), so young also know how to demand for attention oledi. And she will scream loudly as well when I don't attend to her fast enough! Sometime I feel guilty when I have to leave her with the maid especially on the weekend when she wakes up early and mummy wannna sleep in.
Qi Ning is continuosly wanting mummy's attention. Sometime in her sleep I can hear her saying I want mummy. Lately, quite often she willl wakes up middle of the night to ensure that I am sleeping next to her. If she don't find me she would cry. And if I am in the midst of nursing Qi Yu when she wakes up middle of night, she will fuss a little. I think she is still adjusting to having to share mummy with her meimei even though she loves her meimei heaps. Mummy need to learn to give them both the attention that they need in a fair manner. Thank God that Daddy is very involved in parenting and attending to thier need as well.

Four Months Old

My Qi Yu is four months old today. She has grwon quite a fair bit. From 3.65 kg at birth to 6.8kg as of last Tuesday. Length wise, she is 67cm long now. I am happy to see her grow so well. Even those for the time that I am at work, she don't drink much milk but she make up by nursing frequently at night when I am home. During the 12 hours that I am away, her total milk intake is between 160ml to 240ml on a good day.
Qi Yu is quite a playful girl in that when I am nusring her, she won't nurse properly. She would nurse for a while and pull out and look at me cheeckily sometime with a smile. And the milk will be squiting all over her face. Sometime she will pull off from my breast and hide for a while and then come back to nurse again. She likes to play with my T-shirt while nursing.
Friends have commented that Qi Yu is sociable and cheerful. She would coo and wannna look for people to play with her. She especially like to play with children. Most of the time she is friendly but at time she will fuss when there is unfamiliar faces especially when she is tired. She just enjoys having conversation with people.
Qi Yu loves to suck her finger/hands. Anything she get hold of, she would put into her mouth. She is starting to grab things with her hand. But she doesn't like pacifier!
Is a joy to see the little one growing day by day. Thinking of her brings smile to my face. I just loves my two girls.

"Mummy I likes you"

On Monday morning when I get ready for work after the long CNY break, Qi Ning saw me changing and she came over and hold on to me and refuse to let me change. She was crying and ask me not to go to work, so I hug her and try to reason with her. In the midst of her crying, she say, "Mummy I likes you, don't go to office". I was taken aback by this statement as how my words stay in her little mind. I can't remember exactly when was it but I did say something to the effect that since you don't like mummy, is better for mummy to go to office. I remember only saying this once or twice during the time when I was home with her and she was not complying to my demand of lying down for her afternoon nap.
I felt rather quilty when she blurted out that statement on Monday morning. It got me into reflecting on my parenting style, if I have been using too much of threat in my parenting. I also realise how my words can affect my little girl. So I better be careful of what I say to her especially when I am angry or irritated. I do wannna be a good mum but at time I do make mistake. So my dear Qi Ning, if mummy's words has cause you to feel insecure, I am sorry.
Thank God that kids are very resilient and forgiving. After the monday morning episode, she is ok with me going back to work now. She resume her commando role of comanding mummy to hug and kiss everyone at home before I leave for work.

Piggy Year

Yea, can go back hometown for CNY this afternoon! Somehow, after I got married, I begins to look forward to be able to go home for CNY. We are going to spent a night at my mum's place then proceed to my in law's place tomorrow after lunch. I took leave so for the whole of next week, I am on holidays, yippie!
Qi Ning has been practising her "Gong Xi, Gong Xi, hong pau na lai!" :) And she has been lugging her luggage around since last night. Guess she is also excited and now that she is older she would enjoy the companion of her cousins. I can imagine the fun that she gonna have with all her cousins!
To all my bloggers'freind "Gong Xi Fa Cai" . Have a properous piggy year!

Photos

These are photos of Qi Yu and Qi Ning and also SIL who help out during my confinement time.

First two photos were taken when Qi Yu was about a week old and others were taken when she was about a month old.

Mummy is not good in taking photos, need to learn and brush up the skill of taking good shots!

Hugs

Every morning before I leave for work, I would give my girls a hug and a kiss. Qi Ning will make sure that I also kiss and hug papa after kissing and hugging them. She will actually shout out the order every morning, "mummy, kiss kiss papa and hug hug papa!" Hubby is not those type who will display affection publicly and he is not use to saying "I love you". But now under his daughter's daily "supervision", he is getting use to it hugging me and kissing me in the morning before I leave for work. And I can hear her telling my girls "I love you" more and more. Previously, he will be so conscious that the maid is around lah, there are other people in the house lah...etc He is not comfortable even just holding hands with me in public. I have to tell him I wanna hold hands! :) But now Qi Ning will holds our hands! And he has to respond to Qi Ning's "I love you papa"!
I am just so amaze how God is using our kids to teach us about loving one another and being affectionate towards one another!

Three months old

Qi Yu is three month old today. She is growing very well, already can turn over so mummy no longer has the luxury of lying her anywhere to my convenient unattended. Qi Yu is a very expressive girl. In such a young age, her facial expression is so rich, she will "forewarn" us her next step through her facial expression so by looking at her expression we can kinda of guess what she want and whether she is going to smile or cry.
I don't think she has put on much weight this month because ever since I starts working she isn't drinking much. At birth, she weighs 3.65kg, at one month, she weigh 4.7kg and on two month she weigh 5.9kg. I think now is only slightly more than 6kg. Her milk intake during the day time range between 160ml to 220ml in total. In certain day, she may drink up to 260ml but is a rare occasion. And it takes so many feed for her to finish the amount. Mummy has so much expressed milk stored in the fridge!
Qi Yu does not like us to hold her in a lying down position, she loves the sit up position where she can see things around her. Even when in her car seat or pram, she will attempt to lift up her head from the seat. When I put her on the stomach, she can hold her head so high to look around her environment.
She can respond to people calling her. When heard people calling her name, she will turn her head to the direction. She is especially responsive to her jiejie, Qi Ning. Her eyes will be following Qi Ning when Qi Ning is playing around her. I think she is beginning to discover her own voice as she is starting to scream this few days.
Such joy to see the little one growing day by day!

Feeling Shy

Qi Ning is two year four month old now and she is becoming more aware of her individuality. Every Saturday, people will be coming to my house for bible study. I notice that for the past two Saturday, when there are visitors around, she would not want to use her potty. On the usual day, we put her potty somewhere in the sitting room for her easy access. She has no problem using her own potty, but on Saturday night, she want to go to the adult potty (i.e toilet). I ask her why she doesn't want to use her potty, she told me that people will "liu liu liu" her, she is feeling shy now!
It really dawn on me that my girl is growing up. She could now ride on a kid's bicycle by herself. I let her ride to the playground on Saturday with me walking beside her of course. She was very pleased that she could now ride to the playground, like all the big kids in the playground. Before this, we only let her ride in the house.
She also started attending Sunday school beginning this year. Every Sunday, before we leave for Sunday school she will ask for her handbag as she must bring her handbag. And must make sure that there is a purse in her handbag just like mummy!