I HAVE A SWEEEEET TOOTH TODAY

I wake up a little bit later than usual and realise it is a public holiday today! Yay, no more Monday blues! And I decide to go back to sleep for another hour or so :)

It seems like happiness fills the home sweet home, everyone wakes up in a happy mood, especially hubby and GGC. One dances and one sings. Guess who does which! Lol~~~

To boost up my energy for today's play, I make myself a sweeter than usual coffee to start my day. I am awake!

Going out for hubby's belated birthday brunch @ Pavilion. Yay, another makan day!

Now waiting for school mates to come over for swimming!

RAYA LONG HOLIDAY

It has been quite some time since I last enjoyed such a long holiday. I guess the only thing to be happy of being a FTWM (or being a working mad cow in the corporate world, to be precise) is a long holiday for free!!!

4 days off in a row, what are lining up in the plan? Well, nothing much actually... besides a little celebration for my big baby boy's 33rd birthday! We have not claimed for candlelit dinner, movie date, shopping date, tea time since we have our small baby girl. Yeah, for as long as 2 years now...

The first thing that comes in my mind is - what's for my girl for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner? I have to ask myself the same old cracking head questions on every Friday or the eve of holiday. Hahahahaha... Preparing food for a kiddo is just too not me :)

Let's gao dim our Saturday first before we head for more exciting days after. Hmm...

Breakfast: Cheese stick that I bought from cake sense, KLCC this afternoon + milk

Lunch: Hub suggests broth from anchovies, baby carrots, tomato and onion for soupy baby pasta. I am gonna add in some cubed potato, maybe stir fry the cubed potato a little bit.

Tea: Milk and cheerios

Dinner: Broth from lunch to cook porridge, served with fried egg and green beans (kacang buncis/鬼豆).

Done deal! Planning for Sunday and I am sure the menu will be more appetizing since we will be going to the wet market in the morning. Yay!

Goodbye Friday and we are welcoming a beautiful Saturday in 25 minutes :)

The little baby is sleeping soundly now though she had been crying to sleep. Her crying to sleep behaviour has been happening for 2 nights consecutively. Hope that she is well, hope that she is just being cranky and not tummy flu or whatever. Pray...

Good night folks!

ANOTHER PERFECTO DAY - A CLOUDY SUNDAY HERE

I get to enjoy me time again and do some stuff here and there at my prefered momentum... :)

No laundry, very light cooking and dish washing this morning. Yay!

I am done now and enjoying my day starter - coffee!


I love this cuppa a lot! It comes in a set of 2 for gentleman and lady.
Bought from McCafe, Bangkok a few years back :)

P/S: *Finger crossed* Big & Small Baby, please wake up at 9am, at least...

SCONE ALIKE PANCAKE WITH KIWI YOGURT DIP

Scone alike Pancake :)

Kiwi Yogurt Dip

Ingredients for Scone Alike Pancake (Serve: 4)
100g self raising flour
100ml full cream milk
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
Pinch of salt
1 tbs caster sugar
1 tbsp olive oil

Methods:
1. Mix self raising flour, baking powder and salt (A).
2. Lightly beat egg in full cream milk with caster sugar.
3. Add the beaten egg mixture to (A). Lightly whisk till smooth.
4. Fridge the mixture for 30 minutes.
5. Heat frying pan. Grease the frying pan with olive oil with a brush.
6. Coat pancake mould with olive oil with a brush and place the mould on the frying pan.
7. Put in batter into the mould. Remove mould when bubbles are seen on the surface of the pancake.

Tips:
1. The pancake here is rather thick and scone alike as my plan is to serve the pancake in yogurt dip. How to ensure the pancake is cooked since it is so thick? The method is exactly
the same as u test a cake in the oven. Poke in a toothpick and it is cooked if the toothpick is clean when you pull it out.
2. How to avoid burnt surface on uncooked pancake? Low heat all the way.
3. How to successfully detach the pancake from the mould? Grease the pancake mould with olive oil before putting in batter.


Ingredients for Kiwi Yogurt Dip (Serve: 1)
1/4 Kiwi
2 tbsp natural yogurt

Methods:
1. Cut kiwi into cube.
2. Mix in natural yogurt.

I AM A HAPPIER PERSON TODAY

I am extremely happy today! Today's timing is just too perfect to start off my Saturday!

6.00am
Wake up.

6.15am
Do up myself.
Load in laundry.
Start preparing breakfast - this morning we are going to have pancake in fruit yogurt.

In between
Finish with the dishes washing while waiting for the pancake on the fry pan to ready.
Finish preparing fruit yogurt.

7.30am
Pancake is ready for photo shoot :)
Finish the remaining dishes washing.
Finish cleaning up the kitchen.

8.00am
Laundry is ready.

8.20am
Load in another batch of laundry.
Relaxing while waiting for the big and small baby to wake up and head to the wet market.

This may happen everyday to some of you but it does not happen to me at all time. Some time I feel frustrated on weekends, where things are not ready and the small baby is up and clings to me like a koala and tree. Some time I blame it on myself too for not planning ahead for the weekends since I have already knew that days will be busier. Just too tired to wake up earlier.

Again a little enlightenment from the Above, if I live my days in content (充實), possibly happiness and satisfaction overcome tiredness and frustration. Today, I live the testimony! I thank Lord for the direction for me to move forward in hope and courage.

P/S: What is more to add onto my happiness today? My mini oven is here and ready for collection at my in-law's! Yay!!!

Today is just too PERFECT!

IS IT GOOD TO TIE A TODDLER'S HAIR?

My hub and I once read an online article on tying toddler's hair. It says that, tying up toddler's hair (I guess should be on a long term basis and tight enough) will affect the development of the scalp and hair quality. The studies further elaborated to - the pulling effect when tying hair adds stress to the hair to holding on to the scalp and the tightness of the hair band spoils the strand of hair. There is no reference made in the article, I am wondering if this is true...

Nanny has to tie her hair because of the hot weather that makes her sweat a lot and her hair sticks to her face and neck and makes her uncomfortable. I am okay with nanny tying her hair, so long not everyday and not so tight :)

She looks cute with her tails up :)

MEMORY CARD

 

I guess GGC has started building her memory card in her little brain. When she sees this photo, she smiles and says, 'nen nen'. It has been almost 7 months since her last direct latch on. I am not sure if she misses breastfeeding but I definitely miss the bonding time we have.

GGC started weaning off when she was 10 months old. I am not too sure it was a feeding strike or weaning off, she just refused direct latch and drank lesser than usual. Whenever I offered her direct latch, she would shake her head and turn away. It happened naturally, lesser direct latch, lesser pump and eventually stopped pump and weaned off entirely.

This photo was taken on her 1st birthday celebration at The Nook's Cafe, The Loft, KL Sentral. I posted it up on The Breastfeeding Advocates Network (TBAN) as a little encouragement to other breastfeeding mothers out there. Being a breastfeeding mother is never an easy job. Being a breastfeeding advocate on top on daily work task is even more challenging. Home visits and replying messages on Whatsapp are killing me! At the moment, I only do for my friends, not expanding to the public yet. I really cannot imagine how I could cope with the loads once I do it publicly. No regrets thou... I still enjoy being a breastfeeding advocate. 大愛精神萬歲！

WEFIE OVERLOAD

THE SKY IS NOT ALWAYS BRIGHT

Cranky GGC

GGC is crying for no reason :(

This weekend is the longest ever (Friday to Sunday), nanny was on annual leave last Friday.

Taking care of GGC is equivalent to cardio exercise for hours/day. Heart beat fastened by x times, watching her out climbing on sofa, standing on bed, jumping and running all around and stuff like that...

Nanny is always telling me that she is a good girl, always an obedient girl, always a cheeky girl. Most of the time I cannot visualise and feel what nanny describes, GGC is a super manja baby when she is at home with us. She cries over little things and sometimes with no reason, she goes 'ngek ngek ngek'.

This weekend is even worse, she is down with flu on Friday and cough packaged in on Sat. She is even more manja and cries a lot, a lot... I guess more than 50x a day! Myself is down with sore throat, flu, cough and heaty body since last Tuesday and still going... GGC must have got her sickness from me! Sorry, babe... And I am finally down with fever, I am off today, on sick leave... :(

GGC has constipation issue since she started solid at 6m1w old. Apple and sweet potato are the BIG NO NO in her diet! Her constipation issue is still an on-off headache for me. And she constipates this weekend. Argh... Everything comes at a go! Luckily, later in the evening, she releases one big hard stool after we feed her some dragon fruits (She cries out loud as if being slaughtered. LOL~~~). She is so so happy after her bath, running around doing monkey jumps and laughs out loud. I guess she feels less bloated and more comfortable after the release. Hubby says her tummy goes down by a size after the release. LOL~~~

No milk before sleep for her, she has her late dinner at 8pm! Blame it on the evening nap after the swim. Good night, GGC...

P/S: Yet, I say thanks to God for His protection over GGC. If I recall, this is the second time she falls sick. The first was during 2014 Chinese New Year, when we were away for HKG trip and left her with my in-law. She was +/- 12m3w old. She grows healthily :)

GGC IN MY FAVOURITE OUTFIT

GGC at almost 18 months old

 

I know size 80 no longer fit GGC. I buy this sport suit at size 90, hope that it can last her till she reaches 2 years old. Hmm... it is so tight fitting, especially at her tummy area. Gosh... I love this sport suit very much too and I do not wish to sell it off so fast on Preloved :(

 

GGC grows up so rapidly that I have lost monitoring her size. My dad says she has grown taller by at least a foot since he last met her a few weeks ago. Wow! That's a lot!

 

I wish I could have more time spent with her, to watch her grows cheeky and naughty. And this is cheeky her :)

I AM BACK AFTER ~ 19 MONTHS

I have been hoping so much to be back to a life of blogger. I miss those days when I wrote almost everyday, wrote about almost everything that I saw and experienced, wrote about every incident that happened on me and so on... Indeed, the most valueable topic that I missed out in the entire 2012 was my pregnancy journey and 2013 was my rocking days coping with my newborn, breastfeeding, her growth, her development...

It has been 19 months since my last update and that marks the age of my beautiful daughter, who is coming to 19 months old this coming 14th. Motherhood is never easy, what makes it more difficult - stressful days in working life. Hallelujah, I survived it! Praise the Lord!

I have been reminding myself all the while, to give thanks everyday, to at least one thing that happens to me, be it good or bad. Today's thanksgiving would definitely go to the bunch of ex-colleagues that made their precious time for the dinner cum gathering. I cherish every moment spent as we do not get to gather as and when we like to. We used to gather once or twice a year during Chinese New Year or Christmas and once a while we planned for a short getaway trip. I miss the happy times we had in our Hatyai trip. For that, we have decided to meet up more frequently and we have just set up a mission to plan for a short getawat trip again, within this year, maybe to Port Dickson. Yay!

Guess what... My daughter was still awake when I got home at 10pm+. Her usual sleep time is around 9pm to 930pm. She needs me to sleep. Hmmm... *sweet*