Emily has her moments and sometimes she can be a pain in the neck. I take the family out to shopping and sometimes she will act up. She will say her legs are tired so that either my hubby or I would carry her. She stopped by every other shop to see what she wants to see. If she doesn’t get what she wants, she will be whinny.

Yesterday, I was trying to get a pair of shoes for them. However we could only get a pair for Emily and I was still looking around for Tim’s one. Emily started her round of fuss. We decided to leave the mall. I scolded Emily in the car and of coz she cried.

Later, I asked daddy to stop by another shop so that I can go with Tim to get his pair of shoes. As a punishment for Emily, she stayed in the car with daddy. I managed to do what I wanted with Tim and bought 2 sweaters for them too.

Next morning this was what Emily said:

Emily: Mummy I am 4 years old and going to 5. I am a big gal now. I don’t want to cry, show my tummy and I will not be lazy to walk.

Mummy: Good girl

Let’s hope she remembers that. This is crucial for her to enjoy the next event that is coming up. Hehehe…I will tell you when we come back!

Her new dress and Her new shoes.

Every morning my FIL will come to my place and he has started a new small vegetable garden outside my house. He is good and he can plant anything with just a small piece of soil. Look what he did just less than a month. We are going to have lady fingers and long beans.

Yesterday while I went back home during my lunch break, I was fuming mad. I saw MPPP came and was maintaining the trees along our streets. They were chopping down branches. That tree outside my house is giving me problems, no doubt it gives me a little shade from the hot sun. I need to sweep the fallen leaves and there are lots of pest up that tree. The leaves are filled with holes. Not a very nice tree too. I don’t mind if they planted a mango tree there.

Anyway, I was fuming mad because when they cut the branches, they never bothered about my vegetable garden underneath. I saw a huge branch on top of my plants. There goes my long bean plant!!

I wonder if I park my car outside and the branches fall on my car, will they pay for damages. The way MPPP does things, it is really sad. They don’t bother about other people’s property! You tell me mad or not?

Funny kids do funny things. Guess what advertisement they are portraying? Or are they just fooling around like spiders?

Finally my boy Tim has graduated from kindy and moving on to primary school next year. Six years just whoosh pass so fast. I still remembered the day when I delivered him and struggled with lots of sleepless night. Now he is standing tall. Doesn’t he look like a Chinese Scholar like from the Ching Dynasty or something?

Today is his graduation and also my children’s concert. Both of them had a great time. A big thank you to the teachers, who put almost a year effort into this concert. Yeap I heard the children started practicing first half the year.

The tadika had strict rules about photography because some parents can be inconsiderate. They will stand in front of everyone to take pictures of their child. This year, no camera allowed. The tadika hired 1 professional video man and 1 camera man to do the shots, which is fair. Everyone gets to relax and enjoy the show.

I liked the concert because the teachers incorporated two stories telling and the children acted fantastically. They have snow white and the good Samaritan stories. My children did great too. Anyway that’s not what I wanted to write about but the funnies things that the children did at some parts of the concert.

Here are the funnies:
• Emily was yawning during the middle of the singing.

• Someone dig his nose during the singing although the parents signal him not to do that.

• One boy was arguing with his friend about his toys on the stage during the start of his performance.

• There was a prop technical issue. In one of the scene there were 2 robbers attacking a boy where the 2 robbers were suppose to snatch the boy’s belongings. However the 2 robbers couldn’t get the bag away from him. It took them a long while to get it off him.

• Snow White couldn’t bite the apple, she had a few attempts.

• During one of the prize giving ceremony, one of the children forgot that she was suppose to be on stage to receive the prize.

Here are the videos that made me proud of my children.

I heard this from a friend of mine and it is a true funny story.

Sometimes when you buy children cereal like honey stars or coco crunch, you get free toy or free stuff. It is written outside the box. If you get milk powder, you also sometimes get free tumbler, lunch box or free children stuff. I can tell you my children look forward to all these free stuffs to.

This child like any other children always looks for these free stuffs. One day, his mum brought some chips that have the word “FREE” in front of the packet. He was looking and looking inside the pack of chips.

Mum: What are you looking for?
Child: Free stuff.
Mum: What free stuff?
Child: In the front of the chips packet, it is labeled FREE. *He didn’t know how to read the other word.*
Mum: *She read aloud* Cholesterol FREE. :giggles:

The child was a little disappointed when the mum explained to him.

I had the last Häagen Dazs voucher left and I decided to take my children for an ice-cream treat. Boy, were they excited.

They took the menu. They picked a choice together and went for banana split. Timothy wanted raspberry, Emily wanted Mango and mummy go for Belgian chocolate. Yummy!! However both of them, like my choice better, sapu (wipe out) my chocolate and theirs. They told me that I can have the banana. :roll eyes:

Well the pictures paint a thousand words:

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I would want to remember today because it is one of the joyous occasions of my life. My mother accepted Christ. I have been praying for her for a long time since I was in secondary school. Praise God for accepting her. Now I have to continue praying for my dad.

Do you know what it means? It means that she can be in heaven with us. It means she will have life after death. So many people are so troubled at one point in their life and many are afraid to die. If you know where you are going after death, maybe you will not be afraid. Yes, it may mean separation with your love ones. However the separation will not be forever.

I remembered my mom used to scold my sister and I, when we refused to put joss stick on the altar. She was a staunch believer of Taoism and Buddhism. She will celebrate every Chinese festival and prayed to many idols. After a while, she gave us our freedom to believe anyone we wanted. I am glad that everything she did is the past and now she has a new journey with God. God will prepare her for that, the creator of the Universe, isn’t that great?

Aside from this, my hubby celebrated my blood result by taking me and the family to TGIF. Although the meal is not that great but the evening was fun!

Both Timothy and my hubby is a morning person. However Emily and I are not. Emily has a hard time waking up in the morning, no matter how early she sleeps. Lately she been acting up and telling me she doesn’t want to go school. However when she is in school, she will tell a different story. She doesn’t dislike school but I think she prefers to sleep in.

Previously she didn’t give me much trouble and I suspect only after she recovered from her fever she started acting up. She wanted to stay home with mummy. Every day I been talking to her and hope that she will be a good gal in the morning. The funny thing is she will tell me she won’t cry tomorrow but when morning come she just cry! Let’s hope she can break her crying cycle.

Anyone has any tricks to make this gal of mine wake up automatically and go to school without any fuss?

Last Raya Holidays, I was down in KL with my family. We had to get a white pair of shoe for Emily’s concert. We shopped in Mid Valley and she was so excited because we were shopping for her white shoes. There were a few pairs but some were too small and some were too big. Finally found 1 that she like and had the right size.

I also got a pretty orange cloth for Jess to sew a dress for her. I cannot wait for Jess to send that to me.

Papa always complained that Emily has messy hair. We wanted to get her a hair band. We went to this shop called Sinma. I saw a few nice hair bands for Emily. She loved it. She also wanted a necklace and a ring to go with it. Fortunately for my pocket, they have a set with hair band, ring, clips and necklace. Here is what makes a gal pretty…

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Why oh why, I had my first fever of 2008 and it has to be on a Friday night. Don’t worry I am all recovered now after a day of sleep. You know that I haven’t used any of my 22 days of MC. How sad. In US at least for my company, their leave consist of both MC and day off together. You can even utilize the MC when your child is sick. Here, you cannot really do that but to take your own day off for that. However I have a nice manager who allows me to work from home to take care of them.

Anyway how the fever started? Both my children had high fever during the weekdays. Both of them had higher than 39°C. They had bad throat infection and the antibiotic really works from them. After 2 courses, they are recovered and gave it to me. Both were dancing on the sofa on Friday night. Maybe both of them had drained my energy out.

On Thursday night, Tim had 39.5°C and I inserted a suppository for fever. I put him to sleep, I saw the suppository pill on the door of the bedroom. Sigh, I am not sure if it fell off while I carried him to his bedroom or what. What if it wasn’t the one I inserted in? I hate when this thing happen. I decided to wait for 30 minutes and kept sponging him. I realized that it was the suppository I inserted in that fallen out because his fever didn’t go down. I inserted a fresh one and waited for another 30 minutes. Finally his fever came down and I was relieved.