RM43 Show....

After the exposure of Toy Story 1 to Eeanne, now eventually we are ready to bring Eeanne for Toy Story 3 in the CINEMA!!


Eeanne was very excited about the idea of going to the cinema which basically she has no idea what is it...Mummy kept telling Eeanne about the cinema's big screen, dark environment, loud sound system, 3D where the Woody and Buzz Light Year will come out from the screen and move around infront of her.


When we went into the cinema room and settled down ourselves, Eeanne put on her glasses and her eyes never left the screen...she was too intrigued by the big screen! It was just another undescrible feeling looking at Eeanne one hand reaching for the popcorn, mouth munching popcorn while eye kept staring on the screen...wau..she really know how to "enjoy" life...


During the whole movie, mummy and daddy kept switching our seats just wanted to sit beside Eeanne. (we booked 2 couple seats, initially Eeanne sat with daddy & mummy sat with kakak, then after a while we moved Eeanne to sit with kakak in order for her to have a clear view as no one sitting infront with head blocking her). Eeanne had forgotten that she was in the cinema, at one time she called out loud and asked "Where is the Buzz Light Year?" and immediately mummy daddy gestured our fingers on the lips and whispered shhhhh....(luckily we sat at the last row which will not get any complaint from other audience:-P)

So...who is watching whose show? What mommy knows is Eeanne's eyes never left the screen while mommy and daddy's eye kept turning to watch Eeanne. So Eeanne watched the Toy Story while mommy daddy watched the show of Eeanne watching the show...haha..and Eeanne's show is worth RM43!!!

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Movie comment:

-overall it is a good movie that expose kids to the reality of world where there were good and bad guys out there. Unlike most of the princess movies that Eeanne always watched that left her in the fantasy world

- it is quite touching especially till the end. The bring home moral value is "detachment". Toys are part of kids growing process companion and no matter how loved the toys are, life moves on and they need to grow further without these toys

- good teaching on taking care of own toys and belongings for all kids. Especially on nowadays kids are bombarded with too many toys, they learn to value each toys and how to pass on to those most needed instead of discarding them.

Mom-Daughter Talk

Eeanne likes the "siau niang re"(the nyonya lady in S'pore movie) character very much, since that movie, almost every night mommy is requested to tell story to Eeanne about "siau niang re". So mommy will instill all the good virtue such as filial piety, good manner, kind, gentle etc into the story, and this has make "siau niang re" as a role model for Eeanne.

So this morning, mommy asked for Eeanne's favor to call for kakak, but Eeanne was so lazy lying on her bed reluctant to move. Mommy called for several times and said:
Mommy: ok, you are not helpful as "siau niang re", mommy will sayang "siau niang re" and not you anymore.
Eeanne: No...."siau niang re" is only the movie character...you cannot sayang her one..."
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Mommy: Do you want mommy to have a son?
Eeanne: No...
Mommy: Why?
Eeanne: Then mommy will not sayang me anymore...

First exposure to Poster Color

Eeanne likes coloring very much and mommy is considering whether to start back Eeanne on the Da Vinci drawing class. Undoubtfully after the 4 classes in Da Vinci, Eeanne's drawing skill has shows some improvement. Due to Eeanne was too young during that time(just touched 2yo), so mommy thought of stopping the class and let Eeanne do her own home practice, then now think it is time to reconsider whether to resume.

At the initial stage, Eeanne was introduced to crayon, then only slowly expose to color pencils. Mommy always see Eeanne as a impatience toddler but when it comes to drawing, she is really attentive and serious and could really patiently colored the whole picture even though her hands were tired.(Eeanne will shake her hand to relax and then continue her coloring)

Recently mommy has the idea to let Eeanne try on either poster or water color and planning to do a Father's Day card together with Eeanne. So finally mommy bought the poster color.

First mommy prepared the table covered with newspaper to protect it, cut a potato into half to make a face and a star, then get ready the pallette, a cloth and a bottle of water.

To start out the feel on poster color, first mommy gave Eeanne a picture to color, and she likes it!! In fact, Eeanne is more expert than mommy when come to color mix, Mommy only thought of introducing individual color for Eeanne while Eeanne is more creative to mix around the colors and so fascinated by looking on the color change. After the picture coloring, then we started our card creation...

Eeanne's work...Mommy just thought of pink but Eeanne mixed the pink and blue to have the purple for the sea plant, then mix plain brown and black to come out more real rock color!

Eeanne was so intrigued on the color mixing

Am I look like an artist?

Wau...she looks serious....


My first Father's Day card for Daddy....

The flower petals are made from Eeanne's finger pointer while the leaves are from her thumb print

Mommy cut out the color papers for Eeanne to paste as the bodies and Eeanne used the color pencils to draw the lower part of the bodies and legs and hands

The front page: written by Eeanne.

Daddy....are you proud of me???

The Power of Memory...

It is always thought by mommy that a small toddler has quite short memory and that is why parents like to use "bluffing" trick to comfort the child.

Recently this perception has proof mommy wrong, Eeanne has frequently reminded mommy on promises that mommy didn't fulfilled and this really makes mommy wonder and surprise on Eeanne's memory power(really can't underestimate it and no more trick can be applied:o)

Last few days, Eeanne kept complaining itch on her anus, this suddenly alert mommy that it is past due for the deworming. And many times infront of Eeanne mommy said that "ok mommy will buy the deworm medicine for you" but it was always been slipped out of mommy's mind.
And one morning before leaving to work, mommy reminded myself by saying again aloud that mommy will get the deworm medicine that day after work. In the evening, when mommy came home, the first thing Eeanne said was "mommy where is the deworm?' OH.....mommy forgot again!!! and so surprise Eeanne has been putting this in her little brain for the whole day. So mommy apologised and asked for Eeanne's help to call mommy the next day at work to remind mommy.

Off track to last 2 months, Mommy had been teaching Eeanne to memorize mommy's handphone # and gave her the training on emergency lost and alert action, who to get for help and so on. During that time, Eeanne was not totally paying full attention on mommy's number and when tested her, sometimes bingo but sometimes she just simply murmured a number.

So come back to that next working day, mommy got a miss call from home...it was from Eeanne!! (found out from mama). Eeanne can remember well on mommy's no. and even made her own call to mommy!! Amazing for a 3 y.o girl!!!
And later on finally mommy picked up the call, and Eeanne was calling to remind mommy to buy deworm medicine and poster color (which mommy has promised to buy few days ago)!!

Age is catching up, mommy's memory is deteriorating and tends to be very forgetful on things on work, home or even on Eeanne. Now mommy is having a little cute mobile "reminder" to put mommy back on track ;-)

Kids' memory can be really boosted and powerful!! Thanks for DHA..haha...

Happy Father's Day!!!

Time flies....it is another year of Father's Day. This year Daddy is in Taiwan for a business trip, so we celebrated at home with yeye and suk suk.

Just a merely one year, there is so much different on Eeanne...

Last year, Eeanne was still can't catch the meaning of what is Father's Day, this year Eeanne knows what actually it means and keep greeting yeye, kong kong and made a distance call to Daddy to say "Happy Father's Day"!!

Last year Eeanne only enjoyed the eating, but this year Eeanne was anticipating for the party to play with her cousins.

Last year Eeanne just looked at us blowing the cake, but this year Eeanne was participating in singing the song(for kids when come to cake blowing ceremony, birthday song is the only thing appear in their mind), so Eeanne and cousins sang the birthday song for yeye instead. The best part was Eeanne blew the candle as like her birthday!!

Top: 2010 Father's day cake

Left: 2009 Father's day cake

Eeanne and Chloe waiting for the cake...yummy yummy

Hey...this cake is meant for who actually??

Last year-->why here has a cake ar?

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL GREAT FATHERS!!!!

慈母多败儿

慈母多败儿
It is always said and heard of a over kind and give in parents will yield the rebellious and disappointed child.

People always say that 3y.o. is the monster year, now mommy really experience it now...

Eeanne was recently recovered from her 9 days viral gastroenteritis, 1st experience with such a long duration suffering, she had everyone's 100% attention and so...."manja". Eeanne has been so used to her "manja" skill after her recovery and ridiculously uncontrollable. She has becomes extremely stubborn, rude, no manners (even raised up her hand attempted to beat mommy when get scolded) and ignorance, she can really makes mommy's temper boiling up to the maximum.

"Rotan" still will be the best solution to put Eeanne unwillingly under control, sometimes no choice mommy has to use threatening words (it is bad although), Eeanne will obey with reluctant facial expression with her own mumbo jumbo words.

Sometimes mommy will threaten Eeanne that mommy will no longer love her (this threat is Eeanne's #1 fear), she will cry, drag and hug mommy for love, sometimes very kesian to see her reacted like this and mommy will give in finally, after a few advice, hopefully that she will understand her fault, then immediately she will cause mommy's another wave of volcano eruption!!

One morning, mommy used the same threat and said:
Mommy: if you still behave this way, mommy will not sayang you anymore
Eeanne(acting very cool): never mind, I go back Indonesia with kakak"

Mommy almost fainted with Eeanne's reply, can't believe this came out from a 3y.o. girl...

Oh no....help....
Mommy really has to be stern and not to pamper Eeanne too much, mommy is so worry that Eeanne will turn into a rebellious and unguidable girl in her teenage years. I believe this is the #1 fear for all the mummies.

So mommy's new added resolution for this year is ....to seriously look into and train Eeanne's discipline.

May Eeanne be a filial piety and well-mannered girl...sadhu, sadhu, sadhu....

Post weekend syndrome

Recently don't understand why mommy frequently has the Monday Blue feeling. Whenever comes to Sunday night, mommy feels so hard to leave Eeanne to work on the next morning, 2 off days seems like never been enough to spend time with Eeanne.

The attachment feeling grow substantially stronger recently, of course consciously mommy realises this is unhealthy.

Too many worries, dilemmas, future plannings, fears etc, undescribable confuse feelings that clouded mommy's mind, but mommy is still aware and 100% be present whenever with Eeanne.

Eeanne's laughter, chicky facial expression, adult gesture pretendence, her own self-talk conversation and many many more tiny little simple actions really sweetened mommy's heart way down to the bottom. By just looking on all her actions is sufficient for mommy to spend the day without doing anything. Her energised charism will sometimes vividly bring back the childhood memories of mommy's, and makes mommy sometimes suddenly miss the bonding mommy have with bo bo, the feelings is so difficult to be described by words. And sometimes makes mommy so eagerly wanted to tell bo bo how much I love her....

Will Eeanne experience the same bonding feelings towards mommy when she grows up?

The Making of Eeanne's Birthday Party Part III (post-event)

Eventually the happy moment was over, leaving a cherished memory for a lifetime.....

The immediate next morning was the gifts opening activity, it seemed mommy and daddy were more excited about it than Eeanne was...:-)

Flash back on all the efforts, mommy loves the scrapboard the most especially with all the big letters kids' signatures on it, it really makes it a memorable art craft. So mommy decided to blend it with a Thank You note and sent out as an e-card to all the guests.


e-Thank You card with the kids' signatures on the left


All the birthday presents...

Gift from daddy...an innovative educational shopping list bought from S'pore

Gift from mommy...a 3D puzzle on Cinderella castle


Gift from kong kong & bobo, bought from recent Taiwan trip

Educational activity books from aunt Mei Ping

Play-Doh from Shin Ying che che

Barbie Doll from Jean che che

A thoughtful gift from sam sam...a picnic tent

Bear toy from Sean koko

A Poney dress from 3rd suk bo

A mini garden slide puzzle from Euhern koko & Euche di-di

Multi-size saving containers and Play-Doh from Ryenne

Drawing board and Swans 24pc coloured pencils from ku che

A doll music box from Jia Ern che che

Besides the above, before the party, Eeanne had a pyjamas gift from mama, angpow from yeye and ku boh.

Now after the party, mommy is cracking the head to think about how to store sorting all the toys on top of what Eeanne already has. So mommy bought another bigger container to put all the new toys, spent a one whole Sunday to sort out & tidy up the old toys. Then only mommy realises Eeanne has too many toys and some are already long in hibernation, it is time to bring out and plan for each weekend activity!!.

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That night before going to sleep:

Eeanne: I'm grateful for what I have...

The Making of Eeanne's Birthday Party Part II (at the party)

On the party day...
Mommy's initial plan was to get Eeanne a princess costume, mommy searched around few websites on this and got to know 2 costume rental shops with reasonable price, one is in Puchong Kinrara and the other is in Sea Park. Mommy and Eeanne rushed all the way from work to Sea Park one day planning to try on the costume, the shop assistant was so kind to wait for us even though she had been late for her class in Kepong, we would like to send our gratitude to her.

There were only 2 costumes available for Eeanne's size, Cinderella and Snow White. It is too simple design on Cinderella costume, comparatively Snow White costume is more attractive but it is a bit out from our party theme of Cinderella, furthermore mommy doesn't quite like the polyesther material which is not sweat proof and warm to wear, thinking Eeanne will not enjoy the party with this costume on the night. So mommy gave up to check out the other shop too in Puchong Kelana.

Finally we decided to wear this Osh Kosh dress which ku che bought for Eeanne from U.S. Mmm...mommy still think that it was a wise choice as the material is so...comfortable to wear, look simple and nice.


My birthday girl with Chloe...


Bobo and kong kong can't wait to take a pic with the princess...

The kid guests putting their signatures on the scrapboard


The Cinderella theme fruity garden cake from Cake Sense


Eeanne couldn't wait to cut the cake. Once the birthday song was sang over, Eeanne licked the side of the cake infront of all her friends!!!..The cake taste so irresistable....

My loving family...

See how sweaty Eeanne was, look like just having her hair washed

To entertain all the kids, mommy had arranged a few games to play on the party day. It was really not easy to handle kids especially to get their attention, instructions were not followed and the most difficult part is the ice-breaking between the kids:-). Anyhow, we managed to finish some of the simple and short games, the kids were happy with the simple gifts too I hope, kids are so easy to get contented, haha.

These are that days programmes:

6-7pm: Arrivals of the guests

7-8pm: Buffet dinner

8-8.45pm: Games for kids

9pm: Cake cutting

9-10pm: Lets the kids miggle!

Games Activity:

- Animal In the Farm

- Monkey See, monkey So

- Cinderella says...

- Magic show by daddy

The only games that didn't manage to play is the Animal Reunion...mommy prepared the own printed parents and baby animals pic, pasted in on the manila card to make own mini flash cards, thinking to give to the kids to match the baby animals with the parent animals, now this have to reserve for Eeanne's own weekend activity.