Brothers love

Vernon & Gerald now play every night non stop when both of them meet together. The little boy love to lie on his brother.

Vernon's ART class collection

24-Sept-2010 - I have been sending Vernon to Da Vinci Art program since last month (Aug'10). This is his 3rd lesson and his teacher have given a good commend on his talent. I can see he is getting good & improving in his drawing and coloring. At least it proof that I did not make a wrong choice of sending him to this program. Becoz initially I have some conflict with James that I insisted want to send Vernon to another Art class in a local school. However, James comment that that Art class location is not so strategic for us to send and pick him and furthermore the lightning of the class is not enough, it will damage the kids eye for long term.

Every week, he look forward asking me when he is going to his Art Class again. I always reminded him that he will go to Art class only on every Friday evening.

how lucky am i is Nai Nai is helping us to drive him to the class @ 7pm. I or James will pick him after the class.

E-Gate New Cafe "PappaRich"

5-Sept-2010 - We love this cafe after 1st try due to it is very near and price reasonable.

I no longer cook for dinner since after kakak wati home for raya holidays. I knew taking care of 2 kids & house caos is more than enough to make me busy.

Vernon has grown a lot and he want to order his food by himself, i noticed that if we ordered on behalf and what he don't like. He will not eat it and end up I have to eat the food. so I let him make his own choice by showing the menu to him. He then told me that he wanted to take bread with cream milk and a cup of soy milk. When the food serve, he enjoyed eating the bread very much, even the Gerald also want to try on it.

one thing I noticed on our 2nd visit is the customer is getting more and service is drop. Asking the waiter/waitress to clean up the table for us also take 10-15mins. I almost give up & go to other restaurant. as Vernon already hungry.

**highly recommend the Nan + curry chicken.

Mc D for Dinner

See how Gerald expression after tasting the french fries..........

4-Sept-2010 - Saturday
We tried to take the opportunity to bring the kids to McDonald's for dinner since they are having "BUKA PUASA" promotion. Where we can get value meals during dinner time as well.
When we are in the green lane McD, the 1st thing Vernon ask :

Vernon : Mommy, can I go upstairs & play?
Mommy : No, we better find a place down stair will do since Kakak not around and I have to look after both of u & di-di while papa buying the meals for us.

He obey what I told him and wait for his favorite cheese burger + fries. So I quickly fed Gerald with my home cook porridge. and I was having hard time to fed him as he is turning his head right & left looking surrounding and KPC with the auntie and uncle sitting right behind us.

oh....not long papa brought over our dinner and u can see how enjoy my Vernon boy eating the burger by himself. While the little Gerald also seeing the fries on the table. he also tempted to try on it and keep pointed at the fries. and I gave him some.

We all have a lovely evening and dinner time there.

Gerald's development

30 Jul-2010 - I have long did not update Gerald's development. Hope this is still not too late to update it..........haa

He is now 14 months and able to walk very steady and even run around the house now.

Language - say papa, dark-dark (when I off the light in the room).

Teeth - 4 central incisor (2 up, 2 bottom), 2 lateral incisor.

Motor Skills - able to pick up anything very well. climb up stairs case, sometime he even intend to climb up on the table. this is what his koko never did.

Food - his daily main dish is porridge (potato, beans, broccoli, carrot & fish, etc) for lunch + dinner, cereal + EBM for morning.

Fruits - kiwi, dragon fruits is his favorite. orange & Apply when mommy did not buy his favorite's fruit.

Vernon almost donw with Hand foot mouth disease

26-Jul-2010 - about 4:30am early in the morning Vernon suddenly vomit non stop, I knew something wrong with him. I gave him some stomach aid and paracetamol to relief his pain. but he have no appetite to eat & drink anything. I plan to bring him to consult Dr. Sim in the morning, Confirm by Dr. he is down with some virus attack, so Dr. Sim have him a jab which to stop him from vomiting. we have to take care of his diet ( no oily) food at all, include milk as well. So we stop giving him milk 1 whole day. he just took the 100 plus & bread bread.
In the evening, he finally able to sit up and eat. He felt tire and just want to sleep the whole day, on Tuesday morning. the virus finally go away and I thought everything going fine with him. Never know that it came back on the 3rd day when I came back from work. Nai nai told me that Vernon look tire and no active like normal. something really wrong with him and his fever came back immediate that night. I called up Dr. Sim, he ask me to gave medicine and monitor a night. The next day due to I can't on leave so I asked Nai nai to bring him to consult Dr. Sim again. This time Dr.Sim saw his throat got something similar to hand foot mouth disease. but he said is very initial stage, just need to give medicine and rest at home will do but make sure we watch out our cleanliness and don't let him mix with his brother Gerald.
I decide to take a day off to take good care of him, but only one night. He looks ok and very active the next day (Friday morning). So I finally relief a bit and not so tense and worried, and with his 2nd follow. Dr. Sim confirm he recovered, just to continue giving him the probiotix will do.

Singing Chinese Song

Jul-2010 : I just realized that Vernon pick up Chinese Song though he not really know every single words of the song. But when u see the Karaoke, he really follow the timing and words by words sing.

Year 2010 Mother's day

May -2010 - This is the 2nd year I got a hand made craft from Vernon. He made a pretty paper doll for me. When I reach Nai nai house that day, he wish me Happy mother;s day and hand over this pretty paper doll to me. He told me this mommy and "I LOVE U".

Time flies pretty fast, I just aware that this is the 2nd year Vernon in Nursery (Little light house). Beside the Paper foll, he also make a green turtles where they are doing something green to environment where he told me we need to protect the turtles. haa.aaaa

Mommy & Vernon happily posted together their dinner.

Papre Hot pot - 1st time taste it though use to see the TV recommend it.

This year we (brothers & sisters) decided to celebrate our mother's day @ Miraku Japanese Restaurant in G Hotel Penang. A very nice restaurant, the food presentations was great and the portion is just nice. But the price is a bit expensive compare to other Japanese restaurant out there. But we do enjoy as we tried few new things that can't find in other Japanese restaurant like the Paper hot pot. The paper really heating the food and keep it hot.

May Baby

May -2010 - On Mar I decided to send in Gerald's Photo to enter his birthday photo contest in

媽媽 & 寶貝 magazine. I was so excited to know the result, when I received my May magazine. The 1st thing I want to see is the birthday contest page. Finally i saw Gerald's face on the page. I show it to Papa & Vernon. Vernon ask me why my photo is not in there. I reply and told him I will enter his photo next year. I knew I have miss so many years for him.

this is something that I have been wishing to do though the rewards is small. I also promise Vernon that I will enter his photo into Disney channel birthday book as well.

I called up the sponsor to get the voucher of "Mom's Care" RM50.

2 days later we got the voucher and we spend it by buying Gerald as nice baby gear's attire.

Drink by himself

It has been few weeks back ever since he started able to drink by himself when we gave him his milk or water bottle. after finishing, he will hand over the bottle to his caregiver. On top of this, he also able to walk 3 to 4 steps without holding hand. When we ask him where is the Fan he will look up the ceiling at the fan and if we ask Baby tire? He will pretend himself very tire and lying down on his chair or pillow. I think his understanding and motor skill is faster than compare to his koko. till now, Gerald only able to call "papa" the only person and ask "apa" whenever he saw something new to him.

Learning Spelling, Chinese & Math

May -2010 : Vernon starting to learn spelling. Let me tell u how he learn spelling, Chinese & math , he learn the words by asking us and watching the Astro learning channel. No doubt after Gerald born, the time I spend with him is lesser than before. Every evening when I gave him bath, he usually will ask me a words or 2, and he want me to spell the words for him. After he had his bath, he will ask for a paper and repeat writing out the words his knew.
and arrange the words out by using his magnet alphabet. sometime he will ask me why his magnet alphabet have only 1 "C". Not enough to put up a word - Chocolate.
like just now, he ask me how to spell BOUNCE. usually I will ask him back what is that means? he then will show me with his ball. he told me when u drop the ball, the ball will bounce loh.
This proof to me that he is learning the words & understand the meaning as well.
Every Sunday, he love to watch the TVIQ where they will have a simple math (+/-) for the kids to learn. so he learn lots of simple 1+1 = 2, 2+3 = 5 and 5 -1 = 4 from there. Starting he use to count by his finger. now he is getting better with his brain.

Dining @ Northam Cafe

18-Apr-2010 - It has been some time we never go to Northam Cafe. When we reach there, the sky is about to rain. We found a table under the shaded area as James & I were afraid of rain coming soon. Very soon after we make our order, the rain started. we start seeing people moving in, and we unable to imagine that the rain is heavy till we also get wet. The kids were uncomfortable, we tried very best to move in our table a bit, close to the cashier counter. But the rain is too heavy till we can't even sit and enjoy our food. Vernon especially start holding my hand and shivering. while the maid is holding the small Gerald boy. So we quickly asking help from the waiter to move our food to upstairs. Finally, we can ate our dinner. unfortunately all the food was cold and not tasty anymore.

Remembered, never go there if raining day..................unless the cafe have done something to protect their customer from this kind of bad weather.

Before we headed home, we took some photos while waiting for papa to get car.

"Botak" Boy hair cut day

27 Mar-2010 - Today I brought my boys to barber shop, Gerald started scratching his hair when his hair getting longer. I am sure Vernon want to follow, though he always tell me that he want to keep his hair.

Conversation earlier :

Vernon : No short short hair...mommy. ya.

Mommy : ok

When we at the barber shop

Barber : Boy, what number you want? the number represent how short the hair you want to be.

Vernon : he quickly tell the barber that he want #1.

Mommy : I reconfirm with him, are you sure?

Vernon : Yes.

Happy little botak boy..........he looks more "round" isn;t it with short hair.

I wonder when Penang Toy'R Us will have a kids Barber shop in there where the kids can play while having hair cut. I saw it in S'pore during my visit on 2008 x'mas.

9 months Old Gerald

Feb 2010 - This Picture taken during the Feb month where Gerald is about 9 months old at the time. I did not keep track of his development, i remembered clearly he already able to sit up by him self.

Rewards from Teacher

25-Mar-2010 - Thurseday.
Now Vernon is in N2 class and I can see the homework and skills of learning is much different and tougher than last year N1 class. Everyday, the teacher Grace will give them at least 2 pages of home work. They will either ask to write alphabet or letter 1,2, or 3 & so on.
I told my MIL that make sure Vernon done his homework right after school & before he went for afternoon nap. I want to train him to be more proactive in completing his homework.
he is getting lazy & lazy when he got TV, he will totally forget about his homework so every evening when I get home, i have to make sure he finish his homework.
Today, when I arrived at MIL house. MIL told me that Vernon got a chocolate bar & a jelly rewards from Teacher Grace. Vernon gave a very good answer when Teacher ask to spell the words - Zero, one & two. The whole class of 20 unable to spell it out, but he did it.
I am so proud of him. and this definitely will help him on his continue learning.
He is now interested to learn on the vocabulary/spelling of the words that he came across everyday. So every time when we talk a word or he saw something that new to him, he will ask how to spell that word. I think this is where he start learn the words/spelling.

Papa's brithday

Mar-2010 - We celebrated papa birthday with a very simple dinner at a small Nyonya Restaurant @ "Abu Siti Lane." Nai Nai bought a home made cake for papa, while Mommy & his 2 boys gave him a walnut chocolate cake from Secrete Recipe.
The food were mostly hot & spicy though very nice, luckily they do have a dark soy source meat which suitable for Vernon. We enjoy very much of the food and family gatherings. :)


Vernon love to take the lead on blowing candles, i think most of the kids at this age will do so........

My Cute little Gerald, I think he still yet know what is the special occasion of tonight dinner. But he enjoy sitting on his high chair finishing his home cook dinner.

Gerald now is the apple in the eye of the auties, they love to hold him and bring him around.

Chap Goh Mei

27-Feb-2010 Sunday - Chap goh mei is the 15th day of CNY and it is also the last day in our lunar calendar. Same like last year, we will never miss the celebrations in PSC where there's lion dance performances. The celebrations started around 5pm which is a bit earlier than last year. We were a bit late as I don't think it will start sharp, by the time we reach there about 6pm. The performance yet start, so we were sit ted in front of the sea front cafe.
The weather was so warm till we have to use the baby battery operate fan to cool us off.
The kids were so delighted with the lion dance performance as they miss the opportunity of lion dance perform at ah mah house during the 1st day of CNY .
about 8:30pm we headed home as they all very tire due to the warm weather so we did not manage to stay till the following games.

Upon reached home, I purposely get both them change into the same Pyjamas.
Vernon not so like this pyjamas as it got collar where he felt not comfortable. But I love to them wear, they look cute isn't it. ???

Gerald's 1st Word

18-Jan-2010 - Monday mark the week that Gerald start to speak his 1st word.
No body really able to guess his 1st word as his 1st word is not papa, not mommy nor nen nen or mum mum. His 1st word = "APA" probably this is the word that he pick up from his kakak. So everyday he woke up and will say "apa" to me, and hopefully sooner he will able to say papa and other word.

2 brothers

I love to take picture both of them, but it is very hard to get them together.
that night I asked Vernon to sit beside Gerald for mommy to take a nice picture both of them.
He is so coorperation and finally I able to get these 3 nice shot.



What a lively brotherhood pic. looks like both of them are talking

What a happy brothers.

Vernon's 4th Birthday

14-Jan-2010 Fridays - James & I decided to let Vernon celebrate his 4th birthday at his nursery school. This is his 1st time he celebrate with so many friends and in his school. I planned 2 weeks ahead go to ordered him a sponge bob cake and buy some of the party pack for him & his friends. I called up his principle - Mrs Ang to see how many classmate he have this year as now Vernon is in N2 (nursery 2nd year). and I was surprising hear that he have 20 friends. really a big class this year compare to last year 2009. James & I take off day on that day and we went together with him to school.

Mrs Ang ask all his friends gather in their dining place, some of his friend were having their breakfast. Just in time to fill their tummy with cake. .....Joshua Koko was also joining

After having our family photos, the friends sing birthday song to him and we had cake cutting. his friends can't wait to taste his sponge bob cake. some of them request to eat which part of the cake. Luckily teacher grace help me to cut, she knew the pupils wants & preferences.

I did prepared some small pack of Party pack for all of them include his N1 girlfriend (Megan) & all the teachers. (In side the party pack - So ya drink, Peanut biscuit, small piece chocolate, jelly, crackers) I make sure all of the food are healthily food for the kids.