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..