What do you do for the weekend? Before having children, my hubby and I love to go look at new houses, condos or apartments. We go looking at the interior designing. We do that almost every other weekend. We still do that once in a while. My children love running around the rooms.

We also love to go hiking after work. There is a very nice hiking place near Hotel EQ. It is very satisfying when we reach the top. It has a great view of Penang up there. Lots of people would go up, some even help to carry liters of water up. They make lovely ginger tea too. I cannot take the children up because there is some steep path that it is not safe for them to climb.

With children, we either go shopping or go to parks. Once is a while, we drive up to the beach. When the children were toddlers, we pretty much are tight up with house chores. Now they are manageable, I must do something more exciting. What should I do? Too bad there is no IKEA here!

Emily is a very detailed person and I must record this down. Here is what I told her to do.

Mummy: Please tell kor kor to do his homework, ok.
Emily: *shouted* Kor Kor, faster eats rice. After eat rice, go “choong leong” (take a bath). Then go do your homework, ok.

As compare to Timothy, he cannot even remember things he did in school. I am training him to do that and exercise his brain a little. Yesterday, I asked him to remember what color chair he sits on in school. Today, I am amazed he came back from school telling me he sat on a green chair. The next step, I will add more things for him to remember. It is a fun way to increase his memory power.

Have you played with paper dolls before? Drawing cute dolls and making clothes for the paper dolls, mixing and matching. I have and I enjoyed playing with it. I came from a poor family where by my parents could not afford any Barbie dolls. I have to make do with paper and color pencils.

Guess what, I bought 2 paper dolls books for Emily in year 2007. She was too young to play then. Now she is having fun with it. She matches the paper/cardboard dolls with all the pretty wonderful dresses. The book has many collections of costumes, dresses, pajamas, shirts and pants. It is certainly a cheaper version of Barbie dolls. If you have a gal of age 3 and above, you should get a copy of this book. It only cost me around RM16.90. I got mine from MPH.

Tim always humors me without fail. He really got a good sense of humor. I bought a Mexican bun for both him and Emily. Tim is not a bread person but he will eat a Mexican bun or a sausage bun. As we were eating the bun, look what he did.

He makes his own face bun with it. Talk about creativity. By the way, I am sending Tim & Em to a trial Yamaha Music Kids class. Let’s see if they can be creative in the music world. I hope they have my father’s talent who can play music by ear without any music lessons. I will blog more about the class after I attended it with them. Yes, a parent needs to accompany the children in the class.

The objective of the music class is to develop fundamental musical ability by singing and playing keyboard instruments. Learning by listening. It will be a 2 year course. Let’s hope they can foster some musical interest in them. It cost around RM180 for per term (3 months), per child. It excludes material costs.

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    Transformers
    More than meets the eye
    Transformers
    Robots in Disguise
    Transformers

Ku Ku Chu Chu Cit Cit

That’s the sound when Tim’s transformer transforms. Yes, he will use his transformer robots to fight against one another. He can play by himself for hours battling the robots. Taking Optimus Prime and Bumblebee to fight with other robots.

I am not allowed to transform any of his robots. He liked it the way it is. What does Emily do to disturb him? Walk right up and steal one of his transformers. It will end up two of them battling with one another with noise, not so much physical. Sometimes I let them fight their own battle but when it gets too noisy, I will have to step in. And that’s how it goes.

One morning, I had an early morning meeting and my hubby had to fetch the children to school. Yes, we only have 1 car for the family. Save cost and environmental friendly family.

I asked my hubby to drop me first. My children were pretty excited to drop me at the office.

Mummy: Papa is going to drop mummy to the office and fetch you both to school.
Tim: Drop? What is drop? *he giggled, must be thinking of carrying mummy and throwing it down*
Emily: Drop?!!
Mummy: Papa will go to mummy’s office and I go to work there.

Both excited and making lots of noise. When hubby reached my company’s guard house, Emily started to cry. She didn’t want me to go to work and holding my hand. Hrm..her emotions can change very quickly. Twice and the same thing happens. As for Tim, he waved goodbye and as usual asking me to buy his favorite green soya bean.

When we go back home during lunch time, we cannot let Emily see us. She will not let us go easily without a fuss. One minute she can be very excited and cheerful, next minute she can be a “bin chui ngap” (about-to-cry-look). I must always remind myself that she is only 3 years old and just acting her age. Although she always tells me that she is a big gal and wants a big cake for her birthday.

I am not sure I am the only one who is getting these side effects or you are getting it too. I am also wondering whether it is due to age, maybe it is and I am not accepting it. Ha! I am still young at heart ma. So what are the post pregnancies site effects I am getting?

First will be hair shredding. If you see my bathroom after I combed my hair, you will be frightened. Fortunately for me my hair grows back fairly quickly. My mom has lots of hair so I guess I have her gens.

Secondly I get bad menstrual cramp which I never had before I become a mom. It is really bad, it is like contraction. Maybe not because I don’t actually know how a contraction feels like. It usually comes on the first day.

Thirdly I get tired easily. Sometimes after coming home from work, I just want to snooze. I am glad I have a capable hubby that he can take care of the children while I go to bed early.

Do you mothers have the same issues like me?

Where did we go? Hawaii? Nah, it was like Hawaii but we were at Penang Golden Sands Hotel. First it had a great view from our room. I booked a sea view room. Look what my 2 monkeys did when they check in to the room?

My children were too excited, at least for Tim, he didn’t nap. He was anxious to swim and play water at the pool. Both of them had a great time in the pool with dad, while I relaxed at the sun bathing bench, catching up with some reading. It has wifi in the hotel.

Emily was brave, she tried out horse riding on her own. The horseman was clever, he carried Emily to sit on the horse although we didn’t agree on the price of the ride. It was RM50. 😯 I was clever too and made a bargain for it, brought it down. Most of the activities on the beach were RM50. No wonder they had so many Jet Skies lined up. Of coz, sand play was FREE. By the way, there is also an Adventurous Zone for kids, just like kidsport in 1 Utama.

At night, my hubby decided to take us to SPICE MARKET in Rasa Sayang Shangri-la for buffet. We only had to pay for 2 adults. It was a great buffet with lots of fresh oyster, clams, big prawns, lobsters, Japanese food, satay, Indian Tandoori, sharkfin soup, local desserts, cakes, ice-cream, waffles, fruit juices and lots of food. I was so full when I finished. Oooh, there was a chocolate fountain with strawberries, marshmallows and dried peaches. Yummy! The price was RM120++ per adult. On special day, it may differ.

Oh well, it was worth the vacation for just 1 night. Who sez we have to go to Bali to enjoy?!! Guess what cartoon cake we got for Timothy? His gift is on the way, when it reaches Penang next week, I will tell you what it is. My gift too…hehehehe.

The other day I was cooking eggs and I left some egg shells for my children. It is definitely not to eat but for them to paint. It is the first time that they are painting egg shell. Try it! Your children would have lots of fun. Look!

Here are some of Timothy’s latest art pieces. He can sit quietly and draws for hours. I hope Emily can follow him one day.

Hanging Chinese Characters, please help me to figure it out. Yeah I am a banana.

Tim fishing with papa:

Cod Liver Oil Bottles Design.

Emily & I, I don’t even use SKII. He asked mummy how to spell SKII???!!!

Papa & Tim.

Yes, me. I am so outdated. What am I talking about? I took my children to the toys store. I was strolling down the aisle, saw a toy and picked it up. I saw a little hole and looked through it. My son came around.

Tim: Mummy, this is not how you do it. Let me show you.

He took it and pump air out of it. Oh, that’s how you do it. Sigh.

On another note, Emily came to me and wanted me to buy a water bug (From the BeeMovie) that can transform. I think this is the last I am going to ask them what toys they want me to buy.

Both my children favorite phrase when I asked them this:

Mummy: Who taught you that?
Tim/Emily: I learned it by myself.