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It’s the Year of the Monkey – reason enough to monkey around? Well, definitely reason enough to eat loads of yummy yummy food (not just bananas) and have lots of great fun!
Traditional Reunion Dinner and 1st Day Chinese Lunar New Year in Ah Mah and Ah Kong’s house in Ipoh:
A simple dinner gathering back home in Penang:
Wishing everyone a happy, blessed and prosperous year ahead full of health and love in abundance!
This is how I like to hone the creativity in my kids. Not by telling them what to do and how to do it, but letting them explore and find out for themselves.
In art especially, it is important not to be TOLD what to do but to explore and more often than not, surprise yourself with your creations.
Here are Hannah and Ethan’s cartoon fight scenes! Can you tell which is whose? 🙂
They watched a simple tutorial on the telly and decided that they wanted to do it themselves, and there ya go… I absolutely love it.
Scrap Credits
“It’s the Little Things” QP Freebie from Sweet Shoppe Designs
Weight
10.2-10.3 kilos
Height/Length
Not measured.
Teeth
Full set of 20 milk teeth now. 🙂
Developmental Milestones
Food and Feeding
Emma is eating well, and will take almost anything we serve her. She asks for pink porridge (porridge with beetroot), broccoli, carrots often, and that makes me a happy mommy. She also likes to snack on chips though, so we have to limit that.
Toilet Training
I did tell her that if she manages to keep her diaper dry and clean, I will let her wear some cute panties, so she tells me that all the time. Hopefully soon she will be ready for toilet training.
Has it already been 10 years since I became a mother? I really just can’t believe it, but it’s true!
Ethan turned 10 on January 31st and it’s such a heartwarming feeling to see how much he has grown…especially since Facebook “reminds” us of our memories from years ago on such and such a date.
This year, we had initially planned to have a simple football themed party at home but earlier in January, he attended a laser tag birthday party and got hooked. So we decided to have a small gathering at Laser Warzone in Gurney Plaza instead (otherwise he would be playing pretend laser tag all around the house and I can’t have that!)
I incorporated the original football theme into this laser tag venue celebration. Obviously Ethan’s favorite soccer team played a huge role in the theme, food and party pack decor.
The kids just could not wait to get down to laser tag business.
They had 4 laser tag games in total and we played 2 solo games and 2 team games. Of course the cake cutting and food was done right before the last game, so that the kids could “refuel”.
Laser Tag parties = good workout for the kids with good clean fun (read: they sleep better at night); Also, minimal preparation for the party and the following day Ethan said his friends commented that it was the best birthday party ever! Guess it was a resounding success! 🙂
After the party, we did some Chinese New Year shopping and ended up having dinner at Chili’s. They still gave a free dessert for the birthday boy, so Ethan got his song and dessert too! 🙂
