Emily has grown so much and she has learned lots of words. I cannot remember when she started speaking in sentences. Now she can hardly keep quiet. She will go bla bla bla bla bla non stop. Worst, Tim and her go bla bla bla, trying to out beat one another with louder voice. I am seeing a lot of competition between the both of them.

Sometimes it gives me a headache. On top of that, they want me to participate in their conversation, asking me this and that. It is hard to get peace and quiet. I think I can achieve that when all of them are asleep. This is why I love the night time because it is so peaceful.

Emily can sing very well too, here are some video that I promised a long time ago. She was in a good mood today and sang all 3 songs for me to record.

Durian is in season and my hubby bought a few back. Tim loves durian and he can wallops a lot. Emily, it depends on her mood. If she likes it, she will take 1 biji. To sums it all up, all of us have the durian gens.

When I was young, I try to avoid taking because I couldn’t stand the smell of my hands after eating. However I love eating it especially when it is from the fridge. There was a point in time when I use plastic gloves to eat. My parents are a great fan of durian and they are sure to get a bunch when it is in season. We will have a durian party. My hubby side his mom and brother dislike durian.

As you know Penang is a place to get good durians and even expensive ones too. Imagine now durian have different grade and types. I prefer the sweet ones than the bitter ones. There are a couple of places here where they have “eat all you can durian buffet”. I am serious. It cost between $15-$20 per person. When my children grow up, we will sure go for the durian buffet. Yum Yum…

I could not remember when I start making choices in life. Maybe it was before kindy when I told my mom, I don’t want to go to school. I believed it was my grandma who influenced me because she wanted to take care of me. Sad to say, it didn’t go my way.

Emily started making choices now. Every time, I take out her clothes, she will tell me I don’t want to wear this. She will go to her cupboard to choose her own. Believe me, it is difficult to force her to wear things she doesn’t want. She will yell and cry until the house come tumbling down.

Jess who is great in sewing, gave her a dress for her birthday. It was a lovely dress. Buzy mummy didn’t take it out for her to wear because Emily chooses her clothes and she didn’t see that dress. Last week, as I was packing to go to KL, I asked her which dress she wants to bring to KL. She pointed at Jess’s lovely dress. Cool, now I can take a picture for Jess to see.

If any of you have daughters, go to her for dresses. She sews and sells pretty dresses. I am waiting for her collection to do a e-biz website for her.

I was traveling with mummy on Air Asia flights which she got for 30 sens. Dirt cheap but need to pay fuel and tax. It wasn’t that cheap after all. I had fun on the flight eating mummy mamee. I never imagine I can sit on an airplane and fly across the sea.

After I alight from the plane, I help two men direct the people traffic, you go here and don’t cross the yellow line. No taking pictures here. When I reached the so called LCCT airport, it took a long while for my baggage to appear.

I got on the sky bus to KL Sentral. I was wonder why sky bus, not that it can fly. It took another hour plus to reach my grandmother’s place. Now if my dad were to drive, it takes the same amount of time. Haha…but I get to ride on the airplane.

As I was returning home to Penang, the CEO of AA approached me with camera. He thanked me for helping him direct traffic, i guess or maybe he want to recruit me for good. He asked my brother to become a pilot because there is shortage of Malaysian pilot. Give us a scholarship, maybe we can consider. :giggles:

Lastly, I must say that AA needs to reconsider and allow the priority boarding for parents with children and senior citizen. Pity they take that off.

*a portion of the above story is a figment of my imagination*

Tim & Em have given me quite a bit of speechless moments. It is amazing to see how they advance in their speech, learning and how fast their little brain works. They have been growing up so fast and I cannot keep up with the memories of all the speechless moments. I will journal some of them here.

SM #1

It is that time of the year when Timothy has to take his class photo. I dress him up smartly. He rarely wears socks but he put it on that day. Emily woken up in her sleepy eyes and came down.

Emily: Wah what a handsome boy. *I didn’t know she learn the word handsome.*

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SM #2

Timothy came back from school and I was clearing the junk mails from the post box. He saw the McD leaflets and was interested in the toys section. He took it from me and flip, flip, flip.

Timothy: Mummy, you haven’t got this toy for me yet. *What a way to ask mummy to get the toy for him. I didn’t know how to answer him*

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SM #3

Emily saw a little bruise on my leg and she can recognize a blue black bruise.

Emily: Mummy what happen to your leg?
Mummy: Mummy knocked my leg on the chair.
Emily: Pain or not?
Mummy: Pain lor *pretending*
Emily: You stay here. I get cream for you to put on your leg. *She went to get mopiko cream that I used to apply on her mosquito bites*

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SM #4

Emily was picking up all her toys in the toy box and I had to help her close the toy box lid. As I was doing that, I knocked down a set of jigsaw puzzles. She looked concern.

Emily: Mummy, you made the puzzles all fall down. Faster pick it up, later papa will scold you. Let me help you to pick it up. *She picked up every single piece and put it back into the box.*

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SM #5

Emily and Timothy were playing Lego together.

Emily: Kor kor, can you help me to open this.
Timothy: You cannot open, let me help you. *He used his macho strength to pull it apart*
Emily: Can a not?
Timothy: Open already.
Emily: Thank you.

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SM #6

Emily was playing her toys and she picked up a little toy boy.

Emily: *kiss the toy boy* Now you go to sleep. Faster close your eyes and sleep. If not, mummy will scold you.

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SM #7

Emily was coloring in the room and I snuggle up to her, wanting to tickle her to make her laugh.

Emily: Mummy, don’t disturb me. *I snuggle back to my bolster*

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I had a name for a gal even before I conceived her. When I found out I am having a gal, it was one of my happiest moments. I was fond of the name Emily and it is a pretty name. Hubby likes the name too. Emily means “To Strive or Excel”. It is also a very popular and common name. By the way, a lot of parents love to name the children beginning with a letter. I know parents who has children begin with “Z”, “I”, “T”, “B” and “J”. If you notice, my children’s first name ends with “Y”.

As for the Chinese name, my hubby and I decided to let my mom name her. This way both grandparents have these special gifts for my children. My mom came up with 4 Chinese names, hoy yi, weng yi, kar yi and mun yi. She wrote them in Chinese names and sent to me. She was teasing me as I didn’t know how to read it. I had to ask my friend for help. I kind of like hoy yi but it doesn’t have any meaning at all. I picked meaning smart little dragon. Mun Yi also sounds like money. :giggles:

I bought back a Scottish music magnet from Scotland. When press, it play Scottish music. I put it on my fridge. My children love to press it and dance to the tune. After they press it, they will dance around the kitchen. It is kind of funny to see them. One day, my hubby recorded Emily doing the “really” cool Scottish dance with the China cap. She even got her mouth to dance with the music.

How will you rate this dance? 1-5 stars.

P/S Sorry my comment box was out of order, now it is fixed. My naughty hands did some change of codes.

Emily was down with fever for 5 days and yet she is not recovering. First 2 days was on the high temperature but thank goodness, no fit. She got the bug from her babysitter, I suppose. The first visit to the doc, the doc refrained from giving her antibiotic. It will be good for her own system to fight the bug. Peculiar thing is she is very active even when she is having fever. Somehow her body gets heated up when she is asleep. During the day time, she is her normal self.

Today, she was really out. She didn’t want to get out of bed. Anything I asked her to do, she said no. She didn’t want her milk, her bath, didn’t want to get out of bed and she just want to sleep. Boy she can sleep. I took her to the doc, the doc gave her the antibiotic since it has been 5 days of fever. She didn’t want to see the doc too.

Oooh, she passed the bug to the brother and me. Tim started having fever yesterday. He was happy because he didn’t have to go to school. As for me, I didn’t have the fever. It is really difficult for me to get fever. I am not sure why. However my body feels lethargic and I had a bad throat. I will be on MC tomorrow. Sorry if you have ping me today and I didn’t response.

Thanks to Aunty Jess, she gave Emily jigsaw puzzles as birthday present. When she was 2, she started playing with 5-10 pieces of jigsaw on her own. I bought some Mickey’s and Pooh’s collection for her to play. She loves playing jigsaw. Soon she will be helping me to put up 1000 pieces, I hope.

The one Jess got for her has nursery rhymes on it. She loves the 3 blind mice and Jack & Jill. Timothy too.

Emily: Come come, let me show you how to put a 40 piece jigsaw together. *with mummy’s help*

Emily and I celebrated our birthday at a Christian Camp. It is one of the reasons why I rushed back from UK. Before I went, I asked my hubby to order the cake. I reminded him a few times, afraid he will forget. I knew something funny will happen. Guess what?

Since we are celebrating Emily birthday with a crowd of 90 people, he ordered a 3kg cake. The cake was huge. My jaw dropped when the bakery man carried the cake out. It is about 3 feet by 1 foot. The first thing that came to my mind was how we are going to transport it over to the camp in Taiping. Fortunately, we manage to get some space in the car boot. We were also afraid that it will melt, but it didn’t. Look at the picture below.

Emily were all excited, keep asking me about the “Thomas Train” cake. I guess she never seen such a huge cake before. Through out the entire camp, she has been asking me about the cake. Sad to say, we could only finish half of the cake.

Thank you all for your birthday wishes.

Emily: Come Come, let me show you how I eat fish. (Her favourite words: “come come”)