My children favorite character is Mr. Bean. Someone send this to my hubby and I thought I will share it with you.

Credits: Mr Bean

Believe me, my children just love looking at him. We even got 3 cartoon series on Mr Bean, the red, green and yellow. I guess he is love by the adult and children too. If you are sleepy after a heavy lunch, just look at the gif to wake you up. It is more healthier than coffee.

Every time Tim and Emily got back from the babysitter, Tim will help mummy to take the dirty laundry up to the laundry basket. Yeap, my babysitter no longer wants to wash their laundry. It is alright because we have a thing call washing machine.

However Emily seeing his brother does that, she wants to help. She does that all the time, whenever she sees the brother do something, she wants to fight over it. I asked Tim to let her do take the dirty laundry up. Tim was not happy but mummy told him that he can help mummy do other things.

After Emily does it a few times, she stopped. I saw the dirty laundry on the floor.

Mummy: Emily, how come the laundry is on the floor? Please can you take it up to the basket?

Emily: It is kor kor’s turn. I did it already just now yesterday.

Mummy: You said you wanted to do it.

Emily: It is kor kor’s turn. *she changed subject*

Now it ends up no one doing it. First they fight for it, later end up no one does it. Sounds familiar?

Last Sunday, I brought my family to the Lantern Expo in Autocity in the mainland Penang.

One thing I was frustrated was this which I think most of you would misinterpret like me. Here are the admission fees written in their leaflet:

Adult: RM15
Children below 12: RM10

First thought come to your mind?? Do they consider children above 12 as an adult? By the way, when I got there, they told me that children below 3 AND below a marker is free.

1. What does the height got to do with looking at lanterns? If you want to charge a child, do it upfront, no need to use height as an excuse. Are you discriminating tall children??!!

2. I ask them where is the marker, the staff pointed at the railing that was the divider to the queue. No proper marker, just any railing the staff point to and they pointed to the lower bar. I like WHAT? :shoot:

That’s it, I will boycott Autocity for any future event!! Most of the lanterns were of Kitty Cat and Dinosaurs.

Hubby went for a hair cut today. Emily came home from babysitter and saw his daddy. Immediately she said “Wow, Handsome Man”. Hey she stole my lines. She made daddy so happy.

Later she told me that she wanted a hair cut with me. I was wanted to cut my hair because it is really long. I always postponed it because every time I want to go cut, something pops up. Emily wants to cut hair with me. She wants to sit next to me.

I am glad that both my children can go to the saloon and cut hair without any problem. Timothy goes to the barber and it only cost RM5. Emily didn’t have a hair cut for a long time in the saloon. Most of the time, my babysitter or I cut for her. I will bring her to cut next week. Keeping my finger crossed.

Tim adores MoonCake. Every time we passed by a moon cake, he will want me to buy for him. Funny he eats everything except the egg. Today is the day (Thanks Annie Q for reminding me) that we Chinese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Fest aka The Lantern Fest aka The Moon Cake Fest. There is a very interesting legendary if you have read the Chinese History.

Why MoonCake? During the Chinese war, the ministers used moon cake to pass secret messages. The messages were hidden in the moon cake. It all happens during the Mid Autumn Festival. There are other stories about the rabbit and the lady on the moon which is legendary.

Today the tradition especially for children is to carry their lighted lantern and walk around the neighborhood or park or swimming pool. That’s what we did. There is just one glitch because I forgot that today was the day and I ran out of candles. I could only get birthday candles which burned out very fast.

Why no MoonCake pictures on this post? That’s because Tim wallops all of it before I can take any pictures.

Happy Moon Cake Festival to all my readers!!!!

I took Emily to get the Ultraman gift for Timothy for his reward. Timothy was attending art class and could not go with us. I asked Emily to pick a nice Ultraman for her brother. It was not very successful because she was looking for one for herself.

I know Timothy like the blue Ultraman but there was only one left, it was a small one but with a huge plane. Emily picked a huge red one for herself.

After I picked Tim from class, he was not happy as his blue Ultraman is smaller. However I told him that there isn’t a big blue Ultraman. Anyway he was ok with it.

Tim: Ultraman is for boys.
Emily: No, I want to play Ultraman.
Mummy: Girls should play dolls. *trying to tease her*
Tim: Ultraman for boys. Dolls for girls.
Emily: Ultraman for Emily. I want to play Ultraman. *kissing her Ultraman*

I don’t know about you but I am not afraid of Emily playing Ultraman. I am more afraid if Tim likes Barbie dolls.

Yes, Disney is coming here again on Nov 3 & 4. Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald will be coming to PISA Penang to perform their own magic show spectacular. They will be in Bukit Jalil too. It is called Disney Mickey Magic Show.

The program will be:

• Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck and Goofy
• Cinderella and Fairy Godmother
• The Seven Dwarves and the Wicked Queen
• Beast and Belle
• Jasmine and Magic Carpet Dancers
• Ariel, Ursula and Sebastian

They are giving my company a 25% discount. Let me know if any of you wants to get the tickets. Offers end on 29th Sept.

My family will be there! Tim and Emily were so excited when I told them Mickey is coming to town. By the way, the tickets were sponsored by PPP, if you know what I mean. See ya there!

Emily has improved her coloring. Often she can hardly complete her coloring piece. She will color bits and pieces here and there but never complete a single piece. Today she finally did complete the picture of the hippo without help.

I find that oil pastel crayons are better for teaching a child how to color. With color pencil, the child has difficulty learning to color the entire picture without seeing any uncolored spots. I guess it is the way they hold their color pencils. Often before finishing the area, the pencil gets blunt. With pastel crayon, the crayon covers a wider area.

Oh well, not sure where Emily got the idea that the Hippo head is pink. :giggles:

Today I am so happy. First my son told me to put a new “Peter And Jane” book in his bag. I asked him why. He kept quiet. I ask him whether he read to his teacher. He said he did softly.

I took out the “Peter And Jane” book. He read it to me. Actually I had been doing the reading with him once or twice each week. He can recognize some words but not all of them. Today he can read the whole book. :clap: I am so proud of him.

His reward to encourage him: Two Ultraman Model. If you notice, he read to the teacher too. I guess he some how conquer his fear and anxiety. Thank God and the teachers for having so much patience with him.

Parents, do be careful when picking out a nursery or kindy for your child and I wouldn’t advice you to send your child too young (below 3) to nursery. Some timid children like my son may bury the fear inside if face with tough situation like fierce teachers.

People kept telling me that Emily looks like my hubby and Tim looks like me. There was a small percentage saying she looks like me. For those who seen me and my hubby, who do you think she looks like?

As I was blog hopping, I saw in HuiSia and Julian post the look alike meter in the blog. In my mind, I can put Tim and Emily to the test and see where their good looks come from. The software does a scan on each picture: mother, father and child. After that, the result will show whether the child has the father or mother looks in percentage.

By now you are all anxious about whom Tim and Emily look like right? I was too. Anyway it is just a face recognition technology and it may not be 100% accurate. Before I show you the result, leave a comment to tell me whether Tim and Emily look like.

Result: Tim & Emily.