April 30, 2012

P&J Sport Carnival 2012 - Hula Hula Bash

22nd April 2012 - Peter & Jane's Sport Carnival @ Sunway Lagoon
Hula Hula Bash

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On that event day, we got up around 6.45am and got ourself ready into Hula Hula Theme Clothes, ready for the carnival. We were so looking forwards to the event - our very FIRST Sport Carnival with our children. 

We arrived at the Sunway Lagoon before 8am and joined the crowd towards the beach area. 


Wo Wo Wo~ Look at my Hula-Hula Family. All ready to go!


We got ourself a shaded spot for a good sand play for the girls. 
 Clarisse said, "Dirty! MaMa! Dirty" as she had her feet on the sand for the first time, but looking at Chloe Jie Jie enjoying the sand play, she couldn't resist anymore to carry on with the Sand play. Nevertheless, the Clever Clarisse always made sure she is not out of the towel to stay away from "DIRTY" that she was playing with. Confusing??!  :P

PaPa got himself a Nasi Lemak for breakfast from the Lagoon's stall. While Clarisse and Chloe had Nuggets and Fries, MaMa had little of everything from everyone.


Time for Team Games! MaMa & Chloe were in the PINK Team under the SUPER HOT SUN. Couldn't even open our eyes wide. 


But, it was all worthwhile. 
Look at the Sign of VICTORY from the Team Game. 
Bravo! First Medal for Chloe. 


Clarisse is too young for any games so her BEST PRIZE is the icy cold ice-cream. The best thing to have on a hot sunny day. Slurp!!!! 


The ice-cream melted into my girls' mouth so quickly that they finished up their sticks of ice-cream in less than a minute.


PaPa accompanied Chloe for a slide. Weeeee~~~~
But she got really frightened. 
*sigh* No Warning again! Straight to the slides and down they went!
~~ SCARED ~~ 


Face Painting Fun. Unfortunately, Clarisse did not manage to catch the last flight. Chloe was their last client of the day :"(


However, Clarisse was not disappointed at all because she already got a beautiful tiger face naturally. :P Roar!


In addition, we got a consolation prize from the BEST DRESSED HULA FAMILY AWARD! Not bad, huh? Just for a sport. PaPa was shy at first when I told him that I wanted all us to be up on the stage to participate for it. It was fun! 


Family Photo at the Carnival


KFC Lunch on the beach.


MaMa & the girls @ the Sport Carnival


Hm? Something alike? LoL. Chloe spotted the Lagoon's statue and she insisted to take a picture with it UNDER the hot sun. 


"Clarisse, Come Come! Take photo with JieJie and Ducky!" said Chloe
"No No, I want to go home! Mr. Sun is too hot!" said Clarisse

We had so much fun at the bash which was well-organized. Thanks to the great effort of Peter & Jane's teachers and staffs. It was such wonderful experience for my family. Thankyou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HIP HIP HOORAY! HIP HIP HORRAY! HIP HIP HORRAY!

Swimming Lesson with Swim Teacher

Thanks to Mike's cousin, she reminded me that I can actually send my girls for swimming lesson to expose them for more outdoor activities. No doubt that we have full access to the swimming pool at my MIL's place, but due to our laziness (mostly PaPa) we hardly send our girls to the pool. PaPa always come out with a dozen of excuses of not going to the pool, and MaMa slacked along. *NOTTI!*

With no further delay, MaMa goggled online with "INFANT SWIMMING LESSON IN MALAYSIA", surprisingly it has quite a number of useful results which MaMa ended up taking a course with Swim Teacher. These lessons don't come cheap especially for baby/toddler swimming lessons. Well, I thought why not give it a go and try out a term to check out how is it like. Hopefully, PaPa and MaMa can accustomed to the swimming schedule and let our girls swim in the pool without FEES' COMMITMENT. My princesses love to PLAY by the pool, but not SWIM in the pool. Whenever I tried to put them into the pool with a sitting float, sometimes, they will yell for "HELP" to get out of the pool. Honestly, PaPa and MaMa did not put a 100% effort in bringing them to the pool, I would be scared if I was placed in the middle of the ocean without knowing how to swim. RIGHT?

Anyway, now our schedule is fixed for one term (5 saturdays). 

It didn't surprise me at all that Chloe screamed throughout the one-hour lesson, and the brave Clarisse was adapting to the pool in every way, kicking all the way with only pool noodle/log under her arms. Patrina, the instructor, praised Clarisse of her fearless in the pool (considering she is not exposed to the pool much before) and posses a good athletics future. Errr..., not so agreed with the latter part as in I don't think kicking in the pool shows how athletic she is, rather I would say she is a little more brave than Chloe, that's all. Not that I don't like the idea of Clarisse being athletic, just that I don't see how athletic she is at this point. I guess Caucasians are generally more encouraging in words in order to build up one's confidence in achieving an event. I am trying to adopt this concept too, that's why I always praise my girls for every GOOD BEHAVIOR or ACCOMPLISHMENT. I can see how my girls enjoy compliments! Who doesn't? I DO! 

Gosh, this MaMa always got carried away from the subject, that's why I always got 2/5 for my composition's CONTENT portion - lengthy and out of topic! Hahahaha...

The first lesson passed really fast cause MaMa was busy dealing with two girls' demand, " I want MaMa" said Clarisse then "I want MaMa also" said Chloe. As for PaPa, he was a little lost because no matter who he accompanied, the girls would complained! PaPa is a little forceful and impatience, he always think that everyone in this world should be exactly HIM, fearless. He dropped my girls into the pool without any warning, before they can adapt to the pool, they were both frightened by the DEEP pool. Silly PaPa. Thus, the girls feel more comfortable with MaMa. Kakakaka (another round of shiok sendiri moment).

Second lesson gets slightly better because everyone was in a tiptop mood, plus our instructor put her 100% effort in designing different games with her daughter's MASAK-MASAK toys to encourage them to move from one point to another. THUMBS UP for her effort. Clarisse was on her own with just the pool noodle and she could kick and move WITHOUT anyone's support (of course with the noodle). BRAVO, Darling Clarisse. BRAVO!

As for Chloe, there was a great improvement too. FIRST OF ALL, we were all very pleased that the lesson commenced with no screaming. GOOD SIGN! GOOD JOB! We were also pleased that she actually agreed to come back for another lesson next week in comparing to last week's comment " I don't want to swim anymore!" Thanks to the instructor for her good effort in designing rescuing games, masak-masak games etc. 

This is the very rare occasion that PaPa is actually convinced; that the Swimming Lesson is worth every penny. Even though Chloe is still clinging to MaMa alot while in the pool, there were a few occasions that I told her to release her strong grips as it was making my hands painful, and she did for 5 seconds, then quickly seized whichever part of me that she could reach. I trust that after a few more lessons, she would be more confident to move about on her own just like our BRAVE Clarisse. 

The lesson ended with lots of fun and laughters. Certainly, PaPa & MaMa were both contented with the girls' reponses "I want to go swimming again!" :P

Clarisse and PaPa

Darling Clarisse, my this little princess has a lot of similarity with her PaPa in terms of their character & temper. And therefore I assumed that they will have a natural Papa-daughter bonding as they SUPPOSED to know each others' temper well. Well, perhaps Clarisse is still really young, and she is not able to connect to PaPa yet. Hahahahaha.... 

Especially in the night, PaPa will not be the favorite amongst the girls. Grrrr....This is no good! Well, I love the fact that the girls prefer MAMA over PAPA. Hahaha VICTORY! However, it is not a really good thing especially when Chloe refuses to sleep in the night, and drag the whole night LONG (AND TRUST ME! IT SEEMS FOREVER) doing all sort of funny acts in the room with MAMA while PaPa is out there enjoy his TV time and munching all the way for however long he wants. Grrr... by the time Chloe falls asleep, MaMa would be too exhausted to be out of the room for any shows! Darling Clarisse is much easier to handle in terms of sleeping habit. As the clock strikes 9.30pm, TANG!, she would go to bed with no fuss at all. *PHEW* Imagine, if I am so lucky to have two CHLOES.... Geeezzz.... Darling Clarisse has made MaMa's life much easier. :P

Anyway, back to Clarisse and Papa. Hahaha...What happened?

We found out that Darling Clarisse is not very fond of PaPa during her bedtime. There was once, MaMa and PaPa walked into the room in the night and took a look at Darling Clarisse who was already asleep. We both lay in between Darling Clarisse, taking the greatest pleasure to gaze at our beautiful sleeping daughter. Darling Clarisse looked so calm, so relaxed and so peaceful WHEN SHE IS ASLEEP! (:P, during the day, she turns into a little devil! UNCONTROLLABLE!). We both enjoyed it so much that PaPa couldn't help to put his hand on Clarisse's back and started stroking on her back. Then, PaPa moved his head towards Clarisse and pecked her on the cheek. Instantly, Clarisse jiggled her body left and right, feeling rather uncomfortable. Then, Papa said "I LOVE YOU, BABY!" , Clarrise burst out crying all of a sudden. PaPa picked up Clarisse spontaneously, trying all he could to comfort our crying Baby. Unfortunately, it did not work. So, MaMa took over Clarisse, cuddled her with my both arms wrapped around her body and whispered gently "MaMa's here. Guai (good girl in chinese), Guai, Guai ~ "

FUYOOOOHHHH, I am so proud to say that IT WORKS 100%, and Clarisse stopped crying right away and went back to her slumberland. Kekekekeke... (Please let me have the "shiok sendiri" time!)

As usual, PaPa was not convinced with the outcome at all. So, he went forward to pick up Clarisse and copied what MaMa did to comfort our little princess. Sadly to confirm that PaPa was the cause of her cry. As PaPa picked up Clarisse, our little girl once again burst into loud cries and pushed her hands against PaPa's chest and said "I want MaMa! I want MaMa!" Of course, MaMa was laughing at a corner over my VICTORY! :P But, I didn't snatched Clarisse over directly as I wanted PaPa to try his best to calm our little girl down. However, after a while, Papa handed Clarisse to MaMa as Clarisse was totally awoken, looking at Mama at all times in her pleading cries "MaMa! MaMa! MaMa!" 

MaMa hugged Clarisse really tight, and again whispered to her,"MaMa's here. MaMa's here. Don't worry. Guai!" The moment that Clarisse stopped crying, I lay her down onto her Bear pillow, and then PaPa & MaMa lay in between her again. But, the moment, PaPa lay next to Clarisse, Clarisse would open her eyes and cried out loud to display her "dissatisfaction". 

It was such a cute scene because the moment PaPa moved away from Clarisse and got back to his own sleeping place, Clarisse stopped crying immediately. When PaPa moved an inch forward to Clarisse's direction, Clarisse would start to yell again. We both find it quite amusing so PaPa repeated a few times, moving forwards and backwards UNTIL Clarisse was absolutely annoyed that she stood up from her sleeping position, then she picked up her bean bags and her Bear pillow then and there SHIFTED herself and her belongings onto my BODY and slept "uninterrupted". Hahahaha... 

April 26, 2012

Mommy Darling Song

In view of the upcoming Mother's Day Celebration @ P&J, Chloe is taught to sing  "MOMMY DARLING" and it goes like this :-

Mommy Darling, Mommy Darling, Mommy Darling
I Love You
You're my Precious, You're my Sweet HEART
Mommy Darling, I love you.

Of course, MaMa was exhilarated to hear Chloe sang such a beautiful song SPECIALLY DEDICATED FOR MaMa. :P However, PaPa got really jealous and he asked, "How about PaPa?" My girl improvised a "PAPA DARLING" Song from the "MOMMY DARLING", and it goes like this :-

PaPa Darling, PaPa Darling, PaPa Darling
I Love You
You're my Precious, You're my Sweet RECTANGLE
PaPa Darling, I Love You.

Everyone laughed one's head off.................. Hahahahahahha............ 

April 20, 2012

Bento #13 - It's the Fruitful Friday again


I was trying to imitate one of the blogger, hers was really like a blossom.
Mine.... Flower-Wannabe...The Orange is very sweet though. :P At least the sweetness compliments the Not-So Beautiful looking flower-wannabe. :P 

April 12, 2012

Shicida Class

Chloe and Clarisse started their very first Shichida Class on last Sunday. PaPa & MaMa came out from different class but the same thought - it is more like WE, the parent, attending the lesson and learn! Hahaha...it is such a disgrace that two fellas aged 30+ learning baby stuffs. :P

PaPa accompanied Chloe and MaMa accompanied Clarisse to the class respectively since they are at different age group. Clarisse's class is still acceptable since she is 2 years younger. At her age, she is learning lots of things related to colors, numbers and animals. In between, they will add in some songs with different languages, especially in NIHONGO - Japanese - since Shichida is originated from NIHON (Japan). Flashcards with different subjects like "world famous cartoonist" "fountains around the world". Initially, I thought it is all about Flashcard and it is a fast-moving class, and that our children will need to adapt to it whether you understand it or not. This is not the case at all, Flashcards was part of the program, but they also have many many games to train their memory like the matching games, sequence, story using linking memory method. Other than that, they also have mini bowling game to train their fingers and hands movements. Due to the limited 1 hour class duration, every section was done swiftly. Not one that last more than 5 mins, that's why it was kind of amazing to complete different genre in just one hour. Whether or not any particular child can accomplish the task, the program goes on, and the uncompleted tasks have be remained uncompleted and proceed with the new program. No comment about whether is this good or bad? Perhaps, what we really need is WE, the parents, bring home what we learned and let our children have the however long duration they need to practice it at home. 

That's for Clarisse's class. I can't write much about Chloe since I was not the one who attended the class with Chloe. However, PaPa told me something interesting, a girl of the same age as Chloe can actually write. Well, maybe is no biggie to many parents, to me, Chloe still can't draw straight lines and circle properly, and she can't color like her peers in school. Writing is not a biggie, but knowing to write and knowing how to ADD up 4 + 4, the little one actually wrote the answer on a piece of paper. The little girl actually answered all correctly. According to PaPa, the little girls's mommy just sat behind quietly observing how her baby did all the excellence work. Kids in the same class can ALMOST complete the Maze, except for Chloe and the little girl. Unquestionably, the girl COMPLETED the Maze not ALMOST, and my Chloe was scribbling and scribbling as usual. 

I am not trying to turn my girls into geniuses, I just want to give them the opportunity to expose themselves into different learning methods. Both girls seem to enjoy Shichida a lot as they told me that they want to go back to the class again. I guess the music, pictures and games attracted them back to the class. 

By the way, We have officially ended Gymboree Classes even though my children adores Gymboree classes. Their classes are repetitive and I find I can bring my girls the same kind of fun at some other places like Kidz Sport or similar. It is sad to leave Gymboree as I always see happy faces from my girls after the classes. Hopefully, Shichida can also bring them the same happiness with some learning skills. GREEDYYYY~~~!!!




April 10, 2012

Ribena Jelly


I made these for Chloe to bring to school to share with her friends and teachers today. :P It looks nicer when the Jelly stands alone. When it is piled up together, they look less attractive. Hahaha...That's why Chloe told MaMa that She doesn't want my Jelly but she wants Jelly. :P 

Ingredient :-
Konyaku/Kanten Powder 10g - 1 packet
Sugar - 150g
850ml - water
100ml - Ribena
Strawberry and Longan

New Activity At Home


MaMa always complained about GrandMaMa brought a lot of TOYS for my girls. I always say to her : Please don't buying toys for them, Don't spoil them!
However, when it comes to....errr...hehehe...I can't resist to click click and click and purchase this cute little slide for my girls. :P Well, give them more HEALTHY activity is a good thing right? I am thinking to place this slide OUTDOOR so that they can stay out of the house sometimes to get some FRESH AIR. Will see how.



Look at this! Immediately after we assembled the Slides, Clarrise already up the stair and can't wait to be first one to SLIDE! WEEEEEE~~~~~~ How can MaMa resists seeing these happy faces everyday, plus it comes with an affordable price. Why not?

bento #12 - Heart Shape


We are Happy Heart Shape Peanut Butter Sandwiches.

Everyone must be thinking this MaMa has been slacking with making Cute Bento for Chloe and Clarisse. Yes. I am! But not in making these cute Bento, just that I am lacking some imagination and time to actually make a variety of cute food. I was just repeating the same thing over and over again with different fillings. Also, it is always a rush in the morning, so usually after MaMa made these Bento, we will ZOOOM out of the house and no chance for photo shooting. :P

I am a SuperStar!


I am a Super Star! :P

April 5, 2012

New Study Setup


My Babies' New Study Setup assembled by MaMa. :P

We have a lot of little tables and stools for Chloe and Clarisse, they are all Plastic which is very light. Whenever they exert their little tiny strength, the tables and chairs move all over the place. Therefore, MaMa thought I should setup a sturdy tables and chairs for my babies, especially Chloe, so that Chloe can learns to write with a good posture. They were drawing, coloring, or writing ON THE FLOOR every day as the Plastic tables and chairs are not so comfortable. I hope this setup will encourage them to write and eat with a good posture. This Setup Cost:-
Rug - RM 78.00
Chairs - RM 49 x 2
Tables - RM 99.00 x 2
Assemble Fee - Price Less (:P)

April 3, 2012

Lost Track MaMa

It's almost a month since I last updated this MaMa Blog. MaMa is feeling kinda irresponsible for not being discipline enough to blog down every single moment of my princesses' growing up progress. The simplest thing like printing out every single blog and bind them up as a remembrance, regretfully, MaMa has yet to execute such simple task till date. 

Anyway, it's time to clean up the cobwebbed blog and start my blogging routine once again. Daily? weekly? Blekkk... *keep my fingers crossed* 

Let's starts with my darling Chloe. 

Honestly, MaMa is losing the patience and totally lost when I am dealing with Chloe's tantrum. Her wild outburst of cry is driving me crazy, and she always let out a wail whenever she wants ANYTHING. God, MaMa tried to talk to her, let her know that if she wanted or needed something, all she needs to do is to "ASK", and definitely "CRY" will not work. Unfortunately, grandparents and my "soft-hearted MaMa ability" are my ultimate obstacles against my "teaching". Even now, it is rather uncomfortable for me to use the word "teaching" as I am totally failing my duty as a mother. I am not able to stop my girl from crying, all I did was letting her overpowered my patience and test my limit to the max which I ended up roaring at her in PUBLIC. I am not qualified to use the word "teach" or "guidance". It is torturing for me to hear her cry her lungs out and roll herself on the floor in order to fight for what she wants. Oh dear, sometimes, we have no choice and we just have to let her cry all she wants and disregard her uncontrollable outburst of her terrible tantrum. My mum said I was WORSE. Geezz... this is the most unwelcome COMMENT especially when I am trying to stop Chloe from crying. Imagine, if she understands it ALL that we converse, she would definitely not stop crying because she thinks that she can definitely outbeat her MaMa and gain control of me to get what she wants!!! Scary~~~!! It is definitely one of the biggest challenge in my life. 

The initial part of schooling was kind of fun and interesting to Chloe. Gradually, she finds waking up in the morning is such a challenge that she cries almost every morning. The drama episodes carry on days after days, which my sis is starting to find Chloe a little annoying. Only when she is in a perfect mood with enough sleep, she would wake up willingly with a smiley face, declaring her pleasures of attending school. Her mood is like a lottery, MaMa can never guess it right! Fortunately, times have given me the power of learning, and MaMa is learning everyday on how to tame this wild little fella. I must upgrade my Patience "HP" to another level to gain more power to remain calm and wise. 

Well, other than that, Chloe is still my darling. She is still such a loving and adorable child. She is learning a lot more songs from schools, Mrs. Zue complimented about her tiptop energy during the music class, she sings and she dances. I can't help to also check on her weakness which I could clearly notice from her drawings. Her peers are already coloring and able to fill up the blanks with colors, but Chloe is still not able to fill all the blanks up. She scribbled and scribbled with no motive to complete the coloring assignment. MaMa's bad again, because MaMa had never spent time with her putting pen on paper. What I need now is a set of good table and chairs that fit Chloe just right, so that she can write and draw with a good sitting posture. WHEN? Soon! IN NO TIME! NOW!

Okay, Let's take a look at my baby Clarisse.

MaMa feels ashamed as I am not dedicated enough in taking more pictures (or rather GOOD PICTURES) of my girls especially Clarisse. I must admitted it becomes a little inconvenient to carry along a DSLR when we go out as a family. FIRST, PAPA refuses to use my DSLR, and always nags at me for bringing such a BIG CHUNK out as he needs to be responsible for the DLSR. SECONDLY, I've got my hands full looking after two girls, I don't think I can handle the DSLR anymore. That's why, PaPa bought me a Lumix-5, but still we are always very occupied when we are with our demanding/spoilt girls. Eventually, our only camera is my pathetic iphone which 99% of the images are blurred. Sob Sob Sob... But better than nothing. 

Clarisse is a tough girls. We hardly hear her cry like her Jie Jie (TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH WOOOOOOOD!!) Well, she cries sometimes just like all other babies when she wants to seek for more attention from us. MaMa used a lot of "COOL" to describe Clarisse previously, back then it was not easy to make her laugh or even smile. Now, MaMa can no longer use such word to describe her anymore. I have to use the word "SUNSHINE" "CHEERY" to describe her. She would grin cheerfully or laugh out loud with out little gesture. MaMa gives a smile to Clarisse whenever I got back from work, guess what?, she actually returns with a cheerful and cheeky little grin, running/hiding away from me to tempt to chase after her. Her big SMILE is always my BEST relaxation against my long day at work. She is SUNSHINE and like Chloe always says MAMA LIKES SUNSHINE! Love it!

I am not sure whether I mentioned this in my previous blog. Clarisse is picking up lots of words and she understands instruction very well. At times, she would act like an adult and tell Jie Jie not to cry! Hahaha... Ya... She is like Jie Jie, she loves to sing especially the ABC songs. She can counts one to ten. She is now in the self-service mode during our mealtime, she can handle all by herself. She is able to get up and down the stair all on her own (still, we have to be less than an inch away from her). 

We never have any sleeping issues with Clarisse. She would start yawning at 9pm ON THE DOT, and Novi would get her ready for bed. By 9.30pm - 10pm, she should be sleeping soundly. Unlike JieJie, we have to fight to wake her up for school, and naturally we have to fight to make her sleep early. This is a cause and effect, sleeping late = lack of sleep = grumpy morning. Hahaha.... 

Shall continue tomorrow...