2012 CNY Seventh Day

The seventh day, traditionally known as Rénrì (人日, the common man's birthday), the day when everyone grows one year older. It is also the day when tossed raw fish salad - yusheng, is eaten for continued wealth and prosperity. Together with my mom, sis & bf, bro & wife we tossed for wealth, prosperity and good health.

On this day, mama requested us (all children) to get her a small pc of gold due to leap year. I have no idea what's the rational behind this, since she requested, we just do it for her. She says they used to do it for her mom.. so maybe is for longevity since my granny lives till 90+. :) Pop brought home a pot of $788 Buddha Jump Over the Wall, gathered together trying to finish that pot of BJOtW, but about 10 of us can only finish 1/3 of the pot.. with J a huge eater and A, we still have a balance of 1/2 pot for my dad and bro as supper... Guess, mama family are going to continue with that pot BJOtW the next few days...

Of cos, it's CNY, where can we missed our game... we started"ban luck", while we are into our game, we never forget about the kids... I brought over my Wii for the kids... at least with some exercise rather than in front of computer playing maple and facebook. This year no luck for me... i have contributed $50 to my family members..

CNY 2012

We received our big fat angbao on CNY eve from pop. Since ah gong past away, pop took over the practice to give out 压岁钱 on the eve.







Our reunion dinner was home cooked simple dinner with a pot of Buddha jump over the wall.

On day 1, our usual practice, we are at my mom in law early in the morning, and started our day with mac breakfast.

In the afternoon, we were at my parent place.. Without any communication btw mei and sisters in law, we appeared in white qi pao for the 1st day of CNY.. First time, is this call telepathy?? Lol












Ended our day at BIL place with our first yu sheng for 2012. This pack is from PinSi which come together with Buddha jump over the wall. yummy yummy.












This is also janelle first lou hei..






Day 2, hus pulled me out of the sofa and brought us to Paris ris. And janelle took her first pony ride.
































And during these few days, we completed the HK drama..






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Janelle and the lion dance

This year is the first year janelle watched a lion dance. Initially I was afraid that the loud noise or the lion will scared her off just like sj. I carried her tight and far away. But I'm wrong.. Janelle love it... She started to giggler when she heard the drum sound up. We need to keep pulling her back as she likes to move to the very front to watch the performance.




My bro was telling her, sayang the lion.. But She pulled the lion ear when she saw the ears keep moving.

The last "aiyo" you heard was my sis voice, my guess is that she was hit by the oranges. Lol.

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5th Wedding Anniversary

This year is our 5th year wedding anniversary and it falls on the 1st of Chinese new year.. Time flies.. 5 yrs ago, hand in hand we walked down the elsie.





Hus: "what u like to have for our wedding anniversary gift.."
Me: "something simple.. A bouquet of roses"
Hus: "where to find roses on Chinese new year??"

On the eve, he dropped us at my mom place while he went out to get the car washed and polish. he came back with a BUNCH of roses.. Yes, bunch not bouquet.. So not sincere. He says no one is available to wrap it nicely.






Anyway, he paid for my chanel bag, this is something extra, so am not going to argue with him :)

With CNY eve reunion dinner and Chu 1 dinner was to with family, he make up a simple "candle light" dinner on Chu 2 with janelle and our new helper.


















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Art and Craft

Done in Discovery Garden - Door Sign



Done in Rainbow - a lantern with luminous stick

School CNY Celebration

Had an early CNY celebration with Janelle at Discovery Garden.

See, my lovely sweetie in school:

"Gong Xi, Gong Xi"









Watching lion dance with Mummy






She decided to join in the dance...



Follows the lion



Team work from all classmates.


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Another milestone

With helper around, their idea is to get the child has their meals as fast as they can without much mess. So ended they are feeding the children and they loss the chances to learn feeding themselves in the early stage.

Days without helper, I'm teaching janelle to be more independent. :) so indeed of me feeding her breakfast, I want her to feed herself. We started with her taking fork to feed herself (good job) but she would throw it to the floor... :( day1, mummy morning exercise was picking up fork for her. Slowing telling her that she need to put the fork on the plate/table after each mouth and it's comes with encouragement and rewards with "yeah!!!" in a super high tone every time she did it. Day 2, yes, she managed to do it, she would put fork on the table :)

Next step, mommy is training her how to pick up the food herself. According to PT, That's not a easy job for them as it's required fine motor skill and need her to focus and concentrate. Really hope in the near future I have another clip to share.

But this is a good start of 2012, am looking forward for more.

Giveaway - baby items

Yesterday was clearing my storeroom, and saw some baby items which are brand new and I will never need it again. So decided to giveaway to my readers.

1. Cover for strollers




2. Pureen nappy liners




3. Toddler polo tshirt set size 4. This is a detect set with a small hole near the logo. Letting go at $6 include postage for those interested.

4. Coupons of SGD 30 instead of SGD 103 for Full Classic Manicure+10 Creative Customized 3D Nail Art with Unlimited Crystals by Celebrity Nail Artist Deniz Lee from shiokdeal

http://www.thelittlethingsyjdo.blogspot.com/2011/12/giveaway-full-classic-manicure10.html

- The previous taker returned it to me as they dont do gelish.
- Expiry on De2011, but they have extended to Feb 2012.


Anyone interested can drop me an email ahevon@yahoo.com or leave a comments on this post.

Can either do self collect at Punggol or I will post it to u.

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Chinese New Year is one of my favorite holidays. It’s time to forget about on diet with bak kwa, pineapple tarts, mandarin oranges and Buddha Jump Over the Wall. Although we are about less than 2 weeks away from Chinese New Year, many of the Chinese restaurants in Singapore are already fully booked for Chinese New Year’s Eve Reunion Dinner. For those of you who are currently planning for the Reunion Dinner, don’t forget to make your reservations as soon as possible to avoid any disappointment.



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Days without a helper

We received a called a call from our maid agency a couple of days before our maid returned saying that our selected maid is down with a lump on her neck aka 猪头皮. They asked if I'm ok to take her in. Of cos no, I don't want a maid to come in and spear viruses to janelle. If to wait for her to recover, it may takes weeks even up to a month. So we decided to dropped her and reselect a maid. The fastest we can get will be a transfer maid which I don't really like. So I choose the next option which choosing those maid already has passport which will takes another 2 weeks for work permit application. Our maid refused to extend further of her contact for 2 more weeks as she wants to spent the new year with her family and friends. So no choice, we are down with helper. Kogan took 2 weeks leave... And I took 2 weeks of half day leave.

New maid will be coming in this sat. 1st week went past, feel loved and feel as a family. He cooked, I washed, I do laundry and he do vacuum. Things went tough, as we are not familiar where things kept, how to do things fast and clear and we discovered many hidden things like there are cockroaches home in our room, 4 days we killed abt 50 cockroaches, there are ants in those under surface area, there are spiders web in those corners. While trying to clear up the mess, we did our spring clearing too. Everyday we have like endless of chores to complete. By the end of first week, cockroaches and ants no more but janelle fall sick.. She had a viral inflection, she vomited 5x on friday and pooed for more than 20x second day on sat. I afraid that she had food poison before of the ants and roaches poison. Does this happen? At the end of 2nd, daddy washed her backside and listen to janelle cries.. And daddy one not careful, janelle had a fall and had a lump on her head. Daddy was so angry on himself to let this happened after so many shit, he lost his patience and he took his time off before he throw his temper. :( I have to take take care of crying janelle on one hand,and another hand prepare medicine, water and milk. After prolong crying, janelle vomited. I'm in fear, afraid something's will happen + no one else there to help + non stop crying of janelle.. Mummy too, breakdown and cry with her and still need to keep talking to her telling her she will be ok and clearing the mess up. Hus heard me crying, he dashed in and took Janelle out to watch hi5 - her fav DVD, she would stop crying when she heard the music.what a useless mummy I am.

Wasn't able to sleep well in the night, had been waking up after 2-3 hrs of sleep.. feeling not well, so I brought janelle back to my mom place on sunday while giving him more time off from janelle. At mama place, a place where I can don't need to think of chores, don't need to entertain janelle, still get help from them :) finally managed to get more sleep. But reached home, I still need to face the reality.. The endless laundry to do, the room that filled with clothes, the sticky floor and basin.. It will be a long day tmr.

can't wait for my new helper to be in. Going to bring in mummy maid to help up for the next couple of days.

See this is the amount of clothes that need to be ironed, folded and keep every 3 days..




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3rd day in nursary

She is doing well without caretaker in school. Whether I'm with her, she would stick stick to me and refused to play or listen to teacher. So, what I did on the 3rd day was dropped her in school, send her to the classroom, gets her settled down and I went off. Came back just before bath time, but it was bad. Once she saw me she cries, refused to do everything.. Don't want to bath, don't want to eat...

Auntie says "before u come, she was alright, went up and down without sound. Once I saw you, next moment I hear her cry... 撒娇. "
Mummy |||

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First day in Nursery

As we know, janelle having slow development and she started the Childcare with Playgroup which is 2 years below her age. After trial for 2 months, Janelle had teaches the Playgroup classmate with all bad habit like mouthing of things, walking around the classroom not paying attention as they are in the stage of imitating. So this year, tr suggested that janelle goes to the class that is at her age group (Nursery) where the classmates are more stable and able to understand better. Would give janelle a better example than the PG.

As a requirement, one caretaker will follows as janelle needs lots of hand over hand help which tr is not able to provide.

First day in Nursery, helper not yet in and mummy need to report to work to make necessary arrangement for the next 2 weeks, so daddy kick start the journey with janelle. However, Daddy hide himself in another room and she is doing very well without daddy and mummy. Good job, Sweetie!!! Tr Kelly saw me hiding at one corner checking on janelle during lunch, she says "Don't need to worry, today she has her eyes on the new teacher".