Kayley is 3!

I haven't blogged for some time. December is my favourite month of the year. There are the birthdays of my favourite girls and mom's and lisa's and Christmas. I thought I wanted to blog about December at a shot but I overestimated myself. My memory is really short. I can't recall much of December except that it was busy and fun. So I better blog about the birthday yesterday before I forget. One last post before the year ends.

 

I'm on medical leave because of wisdom tooth extraction and daddy took leave. Chloe woke up all excited because it was her meimei's birthday and she drew a card the night before. Chloe loves birthdays and Chloe loves her little sister (although they fight very often for toys).

 

I wish I have the memory to record the cutest conversations with the girls but I don't. My mind is in a blank now. Let's move on.

 

So we started the day with lunch at Bakerzin at United Square. We ordered a strawberry shortcake because Kayley eats strawberries. Chloe doesn't eat fruits. Kayley eats apples oranges strawberries raspberries but not blueberries blackberries pear watermelon papaya or mango. We know Kayley is happy because she will smile sweetly. But that smile doesn't last long enough for a photo. Chloe is getting better at posing so she has that 'fake' yet lovely enough for mummy smile. 

At United Square there's a lot of rides and Kayley kept asking for rides so we put them on the chuggington train for $2. I think it's the first time Chloe sat on a moving ride. She usually prefers a stationery ride. In terms of bravery and garangness, Kayley is better than Chloe. We also had unused zoomoov coupons so we went for rides, 4 times I think.
 

At night, all the Chia family members came for the party. We bought popeye chicken and ichiban boshi sushi and an olaf cake from bengawan solo. Kayley chose the olaf cake because olaf is happy!

Kayley received many presents. Beautiful dress from Godmama. Book from auntie corinne. Hello kitty sticker toy from Cabby gugu. Elsa and olaf from Tiffany gugu. Barbie megabloks from siti. But her favourite presents are peppa figurines and computer from mummy and daddy.

We played sparklers but the girls were scared, except for the brave 2yo Mikaela.

Daddy bought a new toy for himself, a remote helicopter, and chloe liked the toy too, but not kayley.

Chloe's art pieces

They were drawn in December 2014. She just turned 5 years old.

Tooth fairy again!

In less than a month, 26 days to be exact, the neighboring front lower tooth dropped! Siti was buying dinner takeaway with her when it happened and Chloe passed her the tooth. When they came back siti placed the tooth for her in a tiny takeaway transparent box. When daddy returned we asked Chloe to show her tooth, siti said the box was on the dining table, and it was not there anymore, so we thought I threw it away while clearing the table. I felt guilty and daddy said I should just use her first tooth and tell her to keep that tooth under the pillow. So when it was sleeping time I did what daddy suggested. I said 'chloe go put the tooth under the pillow' and she replied 'it's there' and took the box out under the pillow to show me. Wahaha. So chloe put it straight away under her pillow when siti put it in a box for her and mummy didn't throw it away accidentally!

Big hero 6

The first time the girls watched a movie was when we were in Kuala Lumpur and the movie was cloudy with a chance of meatballs. There were probably less than 2 and 4 years old. They didn't complete the movie and we were walking up and down the corridors for a break and went back to the movie when they felt better and came out again when they start to make noise.

This time the girls were a month away from their 3 and 5 year old birthdays and we decided to watch big hero 6. The girls were prepped for the big day. They were watching trailers on YouTube, mummy bought the book and read the story to chloe, and we printed the movie poster and pasted it on the wall in the living room. 

Above: For probably consecutive 4 Saturdays when mummy brought Chloe to her eduplus chinese enrichment at bishan we passed the statue of baymax and each time chloe posed a photo with him. 

Today was the day. Kayley had her shichida class at 845am and Chloe had her mindchamp class at 1015am. So they were a little tired with the early start. We had lunch at Pizza Hut, Aloysius kor kor and Jaden kor kor and Winnie yi yi joined us. Then we took the train to bishan. We bought popcorn. 

The result - chloe was very engaged during the movie and thoroughly enjoyed and Kayley fell asleep after an hour of the movie. 

Above: Faces of the kids at Pizza Hut

Above: Before the movie 

Siti is 24!

Happy birthday Siti! 

The night before, I asked chloe to make a birthday card and she wrote siti I love you and a portrait of siti with a party hat and a dress with a heart shape. She was so excited about presenting it to siti, the next morning, she opened her eyes from sleep, and she wanted to give the card, but I stopped her, siti was still asleep. Chloe laid on her bed but after a short while she went out of the bedroom with the card. Siti was in her shower and chloe knocked the bathroom door and said happy birthday.

We got her a cheesecake from Flor Patisserie. Both girls excitedly put candles on the cake and posed with the cake. Chloe asked siti to come out of the kitchen to the living room for the cake and made siti close her eyes and then shout surprise. Siti good naturedly played along.

We love you siti!

Aunty Chinting

Aunty Chinting bought an organic nail polish for the girls. Chloe is super excited, she loves makeup and painting her nails.

Aunty Chinting has been so nice to us over the past few months. She comes over to play with the girls, and buy them stickers, chocolates.. she brought her ballet friend to teach the girls basic steps.. she brings mummy and daddy to church.. she tries to heal daddy with her prayers.. and we are very happy for her that she finally got her visa and is starting a new and very exciting chapter in Kentucky. We can't wait for her to be back in 5 years time with her little ones! All my best wishes babe! :)

P.S. mummy is a little drained and so is not able to communicate all her thoughts through this post. Auntie chinting is a very special friend to mummy and the girls loved her. She brings them to playgrounds and plays catching which brings the girls so much laughter. She takes awesome photos of them in their smiles.

Tooth fairy

Milestone unlocked. Chloe lost her first milk teeth at 4 years 10 months. It was loose since a week ago and it detached today. Chloe was very cool about it. No crying. No pain. She was very excited about tooth fairy. We left the tooth under the pillow and the next morning the first thing she did after opening her eyes was flipping her pillow. She giggled happily a few times when she saw the envelope and coin from tooth fairy. She didn't follow her usual routine of drinking milk and wanted to go out the bedroom to show daddy meimei kaka ah ma gong gong her gold coin. She showed off her coin and didn't want to put it in the piggy bank because gong gong is at the market and she wants to show him. Aw my cutie pie..

Dentist day

Chloe's first visit at Hosanna dental was 8 Feb 14. Before that she visited 2 other dentists but she was too afraid to open her mouth for them to check. Her first dentist visit was probably after she turned 3 years old. At Hosanna the dentist couldn't do much when they first met her too, she was crying with fear. But the dentist was very patient and let her play with his tools, and the balloon at the end of the visit was encouraging too. At second visit a week later we successfully filled two holes at the molars. A month later the dentist put mango fluoride for her front teeth to delay the decay. Another 2 months later, we patched her front teeth which chipped at a fall at home when she was younger. Today 5 months later it was a regular check up with strawberry polishing. Her lower front teeth are shaking so they are dropping any time. We finished up with a flower power wrist balloon. The day started with eduplus Chinese enrichment at bishan. We've been attending this class since Jan this year. Then it was lunch at McDonald's before dentist.

While siti was away

Sunday 29 Sep - Siti returned to Indonesia for 2 weeks holiday. The girls had fun at the airport. They enjoyed the sky train and there was an adventure ride for children. 

Thursday 2 Oct - Children's day party in school, and there were photo booths, goodie bags..

Friday 3 Oct - Children's day holiday, we spent the day with winnie and jaden, we had macdonald breakfast, then giggles playground, then japanese lunch, then supermarket shopping, and in the evening chinting visited us at home..

Saturday 4 Oct - winnie jaden me chloe kayley went for u picnic. Chloe said it was an awesome day, because she had cotton candy, popcorn, there was a show with Katy Perry songs, ferris wheel and fireworks. Random note - no more diaper in the night for kayley at 2 years 10 months! 

Sunday 5 Oct - chloe gets a haircut! She doesn't like to blow her hair when it's wet. She doesn't like to tie her hair when it's hot. So its best she gets short hair! Both girls really enjoy haircut at kimage :)

Monday 6 Oct - Kayley swims in her bathtub, check out her meaty buttocks! Chloe says bathtub cheers! Random note - they are into pocoyo now, after wiggles and peppa pig, so they are watching pocoyo youtube videos on their smart tv in the bedroom. Also their favourite phrase - not fair! 

Tuesday 7 Oct - K woke up vomited and went back to sleep immediately. Her vomit was mix of milk and fishball (her favourite food now). I changed her pyjamas and removed the bedsheet. I didn't remove the 'waterproof' cover because I was afraid she will vomit again. Covered the wet parts with towels. 

Earlier I scolded K because she wanted me to carry her around the house and I was tired so I refused and she started crying and she cried for kaka - 'I want kaka.. I want to tell her mummy scold me'.

Daddy had a relapse of his slipped disc / neck pain and he told chloe he was going to die and go to heaven. Chloe started telling people that daddy is going to heaven. I asked her what is heaven. She says it's a hospital for a long long time.. A 100 years.. After you die.. and she closed her eyes stuck her tongue out for a dead man face.

Wednesday 8 Oct - auntie chinting came to babysit! So sweet of her. When she arrive, daddy finished bathing for kayley, so she bathed for chloe. Then they played. From the photos, you will see that she made them so happy. Also she put chloe to nap. We are so going to miss her!

Friday 10 Oct - mummy was on leave again. After school the girls played at the playground. In the evening auntie chinting came again and she brought her ballerina friend who taught chloe basic ballet steps but mummy forgot to take photos. 

Saturday 11 Oct - mummy brought both girls to bishan. Chloe went eduplus while kayley went library. Godmama joined us for lunch and played with girls at home. Random note - mummy bought a cane! The girls need to be disciplined. Mummy loves you and wants you to be good persons when you grow up so she must be strict with her punishments and hopefully you will thank her when you are a grown up!

Sunday 12 Oct - Kayley's first shichida class! She says she enjoyed despite the class is at 845 and she was yawning a few times during the class so let's see! We went to conrad's birthday party but it was too hot so mummy didn't take any photos. At night we went to the airport to fetch siti! I'm so happy she's back to help with the chores, the house is dirty without her! The girls hugged her and especially kayley. She was smiling sweetly airport and said my kaka. But at night she wanted to sleep with mummy and not kaka. Aw sweet. But mummy cannot take 2 girls to bed and wake up 4 times a night, 2 times per girls to hear whining and also make milk. So baby kayley, sorry you will have to go back to siti's arms. But mummy loves you very much. Hopefully when we move to the new house, k is 5 and c is 7, both girls can sleep independently in their shared bedroom. End of this post, siti is back :)