Baby C Crawling Up The Stairs

When we were back in Ipoh, Baby C had the opportunity to crawl up the stairs. She was just like her 2 cheh chehs when they were about her age but she still can't beat her Alycia cheh cheh. When Alycia was a baby, she was very, very active and agile. She could crawl up the stairs boldly, swiftly and confidently within minutes. She was so active and bursting with energy that I was even worried that she had ADD.


Baby C having a good exercise crawling up the stairs.

We Are Back

We were back from our hometown yesterday evening. My gals had a whale of a time at their grandparents’ and it was a respite for me as I had great help from my parents with my 3 kids. I have been eating lots of good food in Ipoh and thankfully I did not put on any weight as I’ve been working out extra hard. I still believe in exercising and don’t really fancy using fat burners. I was quite worried that the red needle would move to the right when I stepped on my scale this morning but luckily it remained at where it used to be before I went to my hometown.

Baby C Likes Her Cheh Cheh's Milk

Yesterday after fixing a bottle of milk for Sherilyn, I left it on the floor for her as she was too engrossed playing and didn't drink the milk immediately. Baby C who was playing on the floor saw the bottle, quickly crawled towards the bottle and snatched the bottle. She sucked the teat and ho ho ho.... she discovered milk..... and she liked it. My mum then let her suckled the teat for a few seconds and she was obsessed with it. She likes her cheh cheh's Dutch Lady 456 milk! She bawled big time when I took the bottle away from her. I then took her to my room and gave her my teats instead. Mummy's not weaning you off the teat teat just yet dear..... mummy's milkie is still better than moo moo's milkie!

Baby C Understands What I Am Saying

I think Baby C actually understands what I am telling her. Just now, I had left Baby C in her crib and I was in the bathroom having my shower, with the door ajar. When she started to fuss, I tried to distract her and I said this to her :

Cassandra, where is koong koong? Where is Alycia cheh cheh and Sherilyn cheh cheh? Where is granny and kakak? Where? Where are they?

Baby C then stopped fussing and looked at me with her eyes wide opened, as if she understood me. She then turned her head towards the door, put her left arm up and said "aaaaaa"! When I asked her the same question again, she looked at the door again. I was really very amazed that she actually understood me. Aren't babies amazing?

Sherilyn My Clumsy-Pot

Not a day goes by without Sherilyn spilling her drinks or soup or dropping food on the floor. Meal times will be stressful times for me for I will be yelling at her. She will surely walk up and down the house and climb up and down her chair and spilling her soup, water and dropping food everywhere in the house. I have been telling her at every meal that mummy's blood pressure will shoot up and mummy will die faster because of her but she just couldn't be bothered. Sometimes, this manipulative monkey will bawl loudly the minute she spills her soup or drop food on the floor, in the hope of getting my sympathy, so that I won't scold her.

Last week over breakfast, Sherilyn dropped her hard boiled egg on the floor whilst she was watching TV. I was fuming mad coz I was really busy at that time. Morning times are the busiest for me as I will be feeding Baby C all her supplements and fixing breakfast for my 2 older gals. I hardly ever have the time to sit and eat my breakfast in peace during the school holidays.

The hardboiled egg that Sherilyn the Menace dropped on the floor.




... which eventually went to the bin and she had nothing to eat for breakfast afterward.....



Minutes later, she spilled her cup of sticky loh hon koa herbal drink on the floor! You tell me, would you be angry if you were me?

My Dad's Homecooked Dishes

At home, my dad is always the cook whilst my mum would be the baker. My dad will always kau tim cooking the dinner and my mum would bake bread, pau, cakes, muffins, cookies, pies, kuihs, jam and much more. That's one of the reasons why I love to go back to my hometown. Yesterday my dad cooked my favorite turmeric or kunyit chicken and braised pork ribs. Though Sherilyn had eaten one whole load of junk food when we went shopping at Giant, she couldn't resist the delicious dishes that koong koong cooked and ate 1 bowl of rice and lots of chicken.


The turmeric chicken that my dad cooked.


Sherilyn enjoying the chicken. She prefers to eat the chicken with the bone and doesn't like me to debone it for her.

My 3 Gals

This picture was taken this morning. Baby C wanted to join her cheh chehs reading story books but as expected, the book ended up in her mouth.





Today the gals had good old Ipoh food that koong koong bought from the market. After lunch, we went to Giant shopping as koong koong promised them that he would buy them Kit Kat....again. We wanted to go to Jaya Jusco but the traffic leading to the car park was total madness and we made a detour to Giant. At Giant, Sherilyn was a pro food taster. She took food and drink samples from all the food promoters at the supermarket. Lately, this brat has been a very poor eater when it comes to her proper meals and would take 2-3 hours to finish her lunch or dinner. But at Giant, her appetite suddenly took for the better and she wolfed down :

1) 3 cups of chocolate flavored corn flakes (dunno what that cereal was called but it looked a tad like Koko Crunch)
2) 2 cups of raspberry and strawberry flavored yoghurt drink
3) 2 cups of hot Milo
4) 1 cup of fried meehoon
5) 1 cup of Wong Lo Kat herbal drink
6) 2 cups of Cappucino

My dad, mum and I were laughing at her as she went from stall to stall to get the free samples. She even managed to use her charm to get 2 free gift watches from the woman who was promoting Kellogs corn flakes!

I Am Going Nuts

My brother's dial-up Jaring is driving me nuts. Connection is sooooo darn slow and I am taking ages to connect to a few advertisers' websites and taking forever to upload pix from my camera to my blog.

I was so fuming mad with Sherilyn just now. I had spent almost 40 minutes to upload a few pix into my blog and this brat turned off the switch to my laptop despite me yelling out to her not to. Consequently, I lost those pix that I had uploaded in my blog and a post that I had finished typing but didn't save. This is the second time she did that. The darn battery of my digital camera has now gone flat and I can't upload the pix into my laptop. My darn camera charger is left behind in KL. I now have to use my mum's digital camera to snap pix. But I have many pix in my camera which I want to upload in my blogs and I can't do it now. Oh yeah, I also left my darn handphone charger in KL thinking that I could use my dad's Nokia charger but darn it, his Nokia charger can't fit into my new handphone. Today my dad had to bring my handphone to his office and get his friend's help to charge my handphone. Haiz....

Sherilyn is terribly naughty and disobedient and she has even pissed my parents off with her disobedience. She is a hardcore cili padi.... she is bossy, fierce, vocal, speaks her own mind and not easily swayed by what people tell her, stubborn, bold, daring and is not afraid of anyone. When I reprimand her, she would say "keeeeeep quiiiiiettt" or "don't talk to me, I am drinking my milk" in a pissed off tone. Today when my mum chided her for being naughty, she said "I don't friend you. This is NOT your house, this is my house!" Sometimes she would scold my maid "shhhhhuut UP, don't talk to me". She is really driving everyone nuts. I hope she won't turn into a rebellious teenager and kek sei ngor.

Healthy Chickpeas Dip And Organic Crackers

Do check out my health blog to find out about these healthy dip and organic crackers.

Having Fun In Ipoh

Alycia and Sherilyn have been having lots of fun in Ipoh. They have been playing, eating and shopping from dawn till dusk and don't even have to take their afternoon bath or afternoon nap. And I am having a breather here with my mum and dad helping me.

Yesterday we went shopping at Tesco. Later Alycia and Sherilyn helped my mum make kaya (coconut milk and egg bread spread). Today we were out the whole morning. We went to the bank and later to Pantai Putri Ipoh Medical Center to collect Baby C's antibiotics. When we came home, the gals helped granny make bread. My mum made a loaf of apple bread for Baby C as she simply loves bread.

Alycia and Sherilyn helping granning stir the kaya.

Alycia and Sherilyn watching Granny intently as she squeezed out coconut milk.

My Dad

I feel so relaxed that I don't have to worry about what to cook for lunch and dinner as my parents will kau tim them for me. Whenever I am back in Ipoh, my parents will pamper the kids and me. It feels good sometimes to be treated like a little girl again by my parents. My dad even paid some of my groceries when we went shopping at Tesco today. Not that I want him to pay but he fought to pay them coz he loves us. He also insisted on buying Kit Kat, Loakers wafers and some other goodies for Alycia and Sherilyn. My 2 brats were so happy that they can eat Kit Kat as I don't normally allow them to eat candies and chocolates. With Koong Koong, everything is 'can can can, no problem wan', just like daddy, everything also 'ok, ok, ok'.... Guess men are mostly like that eh?

New Pink Playpen For Baby C

After having a crib in our living room for 8 months, we have finally bought a new playpen for Baby C for our new home coz the crib looked so awful and out of place in the living room. When daddy was setting up the playpen, he accidentally tore the base of the playpen and my maid had to sew it up. Finally the living room looks more like a living room without a large Safe n Sound crib... which was quite an eye sore haha...

Simple And Nutritious Homecooked Dishes

Several days ago, I cooked these simple and nutritious dishes for dinner :

Stir-fried leek flowers with homemade fish paste. I am surprised that both my gals love leek flowers, though they are a tad hard and have quite a strong smell/taste, which is similar to spring onions and garlic.

Since there are some brinjals left in the fridge that my mil had bought before she left for Hong Kong, I stir-fried them with some tau cheong or fermented soy bean paste and garlic. Alycia and Sherilyn don't really fancy brinjals, so do I but rather than give them away or let them rot in the fridge, I cooked them. My maid and I polished off the whole plate.

Steamed fish.

Food For Thought :

The leek is a vegetable belonging with the onion and garlic. Leeks are low in saturated fat, sodium and cholesterol. Leeks are high in vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, folate, manganese, dietary fiber, vitamin B6, iron and magnesium. The nutritional value of leek makes it ideal for maintaining optimum health and weight loss. Easier to digest than standard onions, leeks have laxative, antiseptic, diuretic, and anti-arthritic properties.

Video Of Baby C Laughing Loudly

I took this video of Baby C last night. I was singing Jingle Bells to her, tickling her and blowing raspberry on her little tummy and she was laughing away loudly.


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Alycia's Birth Pix

Check out the story at my other blog.

Lollipop Craze

Find out what Alycia and Sherilyn were doing here.

Can't Wait For The School Holidays To End

... coz my 2 older gals are bored to death at home.... and they are driving me nuts everyday. I find that they are more well behaved when they have to attend school. Not only is Sherilyn throwing temper tantrums everyday, Alycia too. Whilst I have to deal with 2 toddlers throwing tantrums everyday, I have to attend to a high-need, high-maintenance 8-month old baby who is super clingy to me. I have been telling my mum everyday that I am going to turn cuckoo soon and have to be admitted to Tg. Rambutan LOL! Can't wait to go back to Ipoh or for my mum to come to my rescue. I want to stop yelling the whole day coz it's really bad for me and for the kids. I am really drowning here! Just tell me how you mothers with 3 kids and no maid handle so well.

Alycia's Birthday Lunch

Yesterday daddy asked Alycia to pick her choice of venue for lunch to celebrate her birthday. Of all the places, this brat chosed a venue which is one of the most expensive and so we all had buffet lunch at Lemon Garden @ Shangri-La Hotel KL. Luckily daddy is a preferred member of the Shangri-La Hotel and we got a 50% discount off the total bill.

Alycia and Sherilyn were high on sugar as they stuffed themselves full with nothing but desserts, lots of them, bright colorful ones too, my goodness! That's why they were so hyper-active after their sugar laden lunch!

Baby C was chewing on a bread stick from the buffet counter here.

As we had our meals, my maid fed Baby C her lunch consisting of Nutrifresh and Heinz teething rusk.
After our lunch, I bought my maid a chicken curry curry puff from the bakery of the hotel. The curry puff cost a whopping RM9 but it was huge.



2 very happy girls after a sugar laden and chocolate laden lunch.

Check out my other blog to see Alycia's Mickey & Friends birthday cake.

High On Sugar and Chocolate The Whole Day

Alycia and Sherilyn had a time of their lives and stuffed themselves full with sweet desserts ranging from ultra sweet white chocolate with bright blue and green food coloring on it, cakes, pastries, marshmallows, dips on chocolate fondue, ice creams, crackers, lollipops and finally a chocolate birthday cake at night with lots of coloring! Yikes! I was too busy with Baby C to stop them from going wild with their sweet indulgence. Moreover, daddy the 'everything ok' guy did not forbid them and kept acceding to their demands at the coffee house of the hotel. Oh boy, I just hope they would not develop a cough or a sore throat tomorrow coz they are just not used to stuffing themselves with such junk food. They did not even have a proper meal today, save for a hard boiled egg and a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice for breakfast. Shall post pictures of them tomorrow.

My Precious Baby Turns 5 Years Old Today

Alycia will always be my 'precious baby' - a term used by doctors on hard-to-conceive babies. My precious baby is 5 years old today. From morning through evening, I can't help but reminisce what I went through 5 years ago.... the sheer anxiety and excitement of giving birth to my very first child via a planned c-section.

We had spent the whole afternoon outside - first to Shangri La Hotel for a buffet lunch, then went to collect her Mickey Mouse birthday cake. Later she went for her ballet class without getting a nap. After ballet, we had a very simple and small party at home consisting of pasar malam food (LOL!!) and a cake-cutting ceremony. By 11ish pm, my 3 babies were all super cranky and crying at the same time coz they all did not get enough sleep this afternoon... which drove me nuts. The sound of my kids and baby crying always drives me insane. I was tired myself but I tried so hard to control my anger and not shouting at them. Alycia was so tired and crabby that she did not even allow me to bathe her and she went to bed without a proper bath or hair wash. Her crying and whining woke Baby C up from her sleep 3 times... which drove me nuts again! My 3 monkeys are finally asleep now. Bliss and peace now. Will post pix taken today tomorrow! Nite nite....