A Happy, Noisy Sunday

We usually spend our Sundays at home, especially after a crazy morning-to-night mall outing on Saturdays. And whenever we are at home, there is never a dull or quiet moment. With blaring music, chatters and laughters, we sometimes feel that our home is the noisiest on the block!

Recently, Tai Koo-ma gave us some CDs and books from the Yamaha JMC music program. I love the songs and music very much and I listen to them almost everyday. I also like to gather some of my musical instruments and dance to the music. Just look at my happy face...

I was exceptionally cheerful today... dunno why

Dancing, shaking and tapping to the music with my percussion instruments... castanet, shaker (maracas) and tambourine

Here's a video of the very gleeful, ever-smiling musician...

A Book Frenzy And A Book Blunder

After reading so much about this BookXcess from Smallkucing, we finally went there today. Boy! We nearly drowned in the sea of cheap books! If you have read about my "Bribery" earlier, you would have noticed how much daddy and mummy loved buying books for me.

Well, this time, since we had a very limited time to spare (we only went there at 7pm, after spending nearly 10 hours in MidValley earlier), the stash that we managed to grab were rather limited too...

Books for everyone in the family (the most expensive was only RM19.90!)

Mummy nearly went berserk when she saw two big shelves filled with the Little Miss books! Being a great fan of these books, she tried hard to control her compulsive shopping, and grabbed only 6 of the 12 available titles...

Little Miss books and a Care Bears activity book for me

When she browsed the books at home, uh oh... she found the stories too familiar. Big mistake! She should have browsed the books at the bookstore and not at home!!! Luckily they were only RM2.90 each. She realized that the stories from the 6 books were actually "extracted" from this book...

The Little Miss Story Treasury bought by Kau-foo

This much-treasured book actually has a compilation of 15 stories (so mummy can forget about the rest of the titles on the shelves of BookXcess haha). Well, what shall we do with the redundant books now? We will be giving them away. Let's see who the lucky kid(s) is ;-)

The free Playboy bunny book thong

For our RM122 purchase today, we were rewarded with a free 3-year BookXcess membership (we can foresee more frequent trips there hehe) and a book thong. Of the many cute designs that they had, I just had to choose this "Playboy" rabbit haha!

Oh what a day! We've been out shopping the whole day, for nearly 12 hours (9.45am to 9:15pm). Finally, I went to bed with a new bedtime story...

Daddy reading the penguin story to me... Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter

The Sandwich Girl

A couple of days ago, mummy received a circular from my kindy...

She then spent days cracking her head to come up with ideas to dress me in. The theme for our previous (the 1st) Theme Day was Animals. Mummy felt really guilty for not preparing anything for me, esp when she saw my classmates dressed in cute bee and bunny costumes, tiger suits, butterfly wings etc. and all I had was just a giraffe soft toy as prop.

This time, the theme was even more difficult. Food. Mummy can't sew and can't cook... so how? Well, later, while slicing a loaf of homemade bread, an idea popped up in her mind. She told me she was going to make me a sandwich. We gathered some cardboards, scissors, paper, crayons, glue and started working on our little project. I helped to colour the "sandwich fillings" with crayons.

Tadaaa! Wholemeal sandwich with lettuce & cheese (front) and ham & tomato (back) made from recycled materials... used paper and cardboards

Err... it looked rather lousy but... better than nothing lah hahaha!

A very happy me donning my sandwich attire

And here are some of the interesting costumes that my friends wore at school today...

K (the girl behind ) wore a very pretty Disney Princesses multi-tiered cake

N was a little chef and YW was a fish! Cute, eh?

One for the album... with some of my classmates (2 were absent)

All the photos in school were taken by Miss E, my teacher.

At the end of the day, the poor lettuce had become "ham choy" (salted and preserved vege) haha!

Hello Kitty Lunch

Mummy bought some Hello Kitty instant noodles from our recent Hong Kong trip (she's one crazy mum alright). Decided to give me a surprise "nice-nice" lunch today...

HK noodles from HK...

Of course, she discarded the sachet of MSG-laden soup mix and substituted it with the soup that she boiled - chicken, beetroot, carrot, potato and onion soup.

She then took out my never-used-before HK lunch box...

And arranged everything nicely in it...

Simple bento-style noodles

Noodles with chicken beetroot soup and blanched organic lettuce (the three small cute pieces of HK are some dehydrated dunno-what that came together with the dehydrated vegetable bits)

Side dishes (left): Free-range chicken egg and homemade fish cake

Dessert (right) : Apple

Slurrrrrrrrrrp! Sedap. I loved it :-)

I AM Allowed to Eat Chocolates...

Waaaaaah! Chocolate!!

This is even better than holding a block of gold bar!

What's so special about me eating a KitKat, one might wonder. Well, this is no ordinary chocolate. Firstly, it was specially delivered to our home...

... albeit Dijamin Sampai 4 Hari Kemudian (Yes, it arrived 4 days later!)

Secondly, look at the special ingredients...

So special one, how not to eat it?

The chocolate is part of the birth announcement gifts sent by Auntie Ivy...

It came with a fridge magnet as well. Very creative indeed.

Auntie Ivy seemed a bit concerned that mummy would confiscate the KitKat from me. Therefore, here's the evidence that the chocolate didn't end up entirely in mummy's tummy...

Mummy might be quite a health-freak, but I AM allowed to eat chocolates :-)

Thank you for the lovely gifts, Auntie Ivy! Happy Fullmoon to baby Iyson today!

The Picnic

I had my very first picnic experience today. From Seremban, we headed straight to the Bukit Jalil Park to join two families for a lovely picnic in the evening. The highlight of the picnic was not the food but the very fun bubble-blowing activity that kept us kids happily occupied...

Let's play together... sharing a bottle of bubble solution with Yan Yan

This is how you do it... trying to show off, while little Heng Heng looked intently

Blow it, catch it, pop it!

Then, Krystal brought along a bubble gun... MORE bubbles!

Do Re Mi... the three little angels

Soon it was chow time... we had fried vermicelli, char siew bao, dai bao (big bao), fruits (watermelon and grapes) and homemade cincau (grass-jelly) drink *BURP*

Our cosy little picnic area

Yum-yum... we enjoyed our dinner very much

After dinner, we still haven't had enough of those bubbles so... more bubbles....

Soon, the sky turned dark and mozzies were starting to feast on us. We finally packed up and bade farewell to each other. Thank you again to Auntie Irene and Auntie Moon and their families for this wonderful outing!

Mouldy Bread

The homemade bread that mummy bakes can barely remain fresh beyond 3 days. On the fourth day, the chances of it becoming mouldy is very high.

This particular wholemeal loaf turned mouldy prematurely because mummy suspected that it wasn't properly cooled before storage. Not willing to see it (nearly half a loaf!) go to waste, she scraped off the fungi, sealed it in a bag and tossed it into the freezer.

Poor bread...

We brought the frozen bread all the way back to Seremban today. In the evening, we made a trip to City Park to feed the fishes....

Let's go feed the fish...

Here you go fishies... enjoy your meal. Hope you will not get tummy-aches, or worse, DIE *gasp*

After feeding the fishes, we went to an open area to play frisbee. I didn't quite know how how to play it and kept tossing it upwards haha!

Playing frisbee with Gung-gung... can you spot the frisbee?

Do You Floss Your Teeth?

Mummy is quite fussy over my oral and dental hygiene. To introduce me to proper dental care (besides brushing my teeth), she bought me a pack of cute kiddie floss.

Children's Flossers from Tesco

Four different colours and designs to choose from

Mummy is hopelessly terrified of dental visits herself so naturally, she just wants to spare me the agony of going under the dentist's drill or worse, "pliers". So this is what I do (and expected to do from now on) every night before bed...

Say aaaaah!

Mummy will help me with the first round of thorough flossing. I am then allowed to do it on my own and practice doing it in whatever way I like...

I like to do it while lying down so that my saliva won't drip out haha!

While we are on the topic of dental floss, here's something naughty that I did quite some time ago *giggles*

Of Savings and Onions

Finally, the stack of angpau, which has been sitting on mummy's dressing table since CNY, has been cleared away.

Let's count the money now. Oh before that, must take some photos of my collection first.

I insisted on squatting in the middle like this... nice meh? *mummy shakes head*

When told to pick my favourite, I chose these...

... simply because they were the cutest!

I had quite a number of RM50, thanks to my many generous relatives, followed by RM10, a handful of RM2 and a few RM5...

We went to the "camel bank" (that's what I called it) to deposit the cash into my savings account. On our way to the bank...

Mummy: What would you like to buy with all this money?

Me: *very confidently* Veggie, of course! ("Of course" hahaha!)

Mummy: Some more?

Me: Banana...

Mummy: Some more?

Me: Onions...

Onions? Hahaha! Funny or not? Onions. What a joker I am!

Mummy asked me the same question last year and my answer was just as boring. Well, that's me.... sensible, practical and realistic... and maybe, frugal like daddy and mummy haha!

An "Ah Choo" Story

What do you do when you are about to sneeze and your mouth is full? Here's what happened while I was having my dinner a few days ago:

With a mouth full of rice, I had a sudden urge to sneeze. *Ah choo... ah choo..... ah choo* I sneezed, three times in a row. After that, I smiled and looked very impressed, as if I had just performed a great feat. I then asked mummy "Do you know why my rice didn't fly out? Because I kept them here *pointing to my cheeks*

Daddy and mummy burst into laughter after hearing my explanation. In just that split second, I managed to quickly "evacuate" my food to a "safer" place haha!

Full of antics, even during mealtimes