Celebrating The 2nd Anniversary of My 29th Birthday!

~ Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM ~

Phewwww what a day I had yesterday!!!

Just in case you don't know, I have just celebrated my 2nd anniversary of my 29th birthday! Hehehehe.... alright, alright.. I've just turned 31 years old, I get it, I accept it! So anyway, what a great day it was!

To wake up at the sound of heavy rain pouring outside my house (I love, love, love rain!), and then seeing my precious boy still asleep in his toddler dream land and thanking God for a wonderful start for my special day!

And then hubby calling me on my mobile (he was out early to do his banking stuff) asking me what I would like to have for my birthday breakfast and my mind went blank for a moment... I told him I'd pretty much like to have McDonald's breakfast set if I can hehehehe...

Alright, not a healthy choice for a preggy mum with a nursing toddler but hey, it's my birthday!

And then hubby took over the task of feeding Ben his breakfast, leaving me to enjoy my breakfast slowly while checking my Facebook and being greeted and wished by many many many friends and family members on my happy day!

Not fair! Ben never opened his mouth THIS wide when I feed him!
MIL came over and passed my red packet through Ben...

And after breakfast, we watched Ben's favorite movie at the moment (Disney's Cars) and we stopped halfway and I changed Ben into his swimsuit and let him play in his water pool as we've not been doing that for the past few days. Halfway playing, I heard Ben saying 'cooking' and 'boil boil' and then I realised, oh boy... my precious boy is imagining cooking play now! How cute!

Boiling water for mummy...

After sometime playing, Ben helped me cleared the toys and drained the water in the pool. Then I bathed him and it's almost 1pm by then. I got ready his lunch and he happily sat on his pink walker (which we bade farewell sometime ago but ended up still using it as his eating chair in our room hahahah)

Ben munching on biscuits, banana and 2 slices of cheese

And then he insisted in feeding himself the yummy yogurt... just look at his face... yikes!

After a while, it's time for his daytime nap and to my surprise, my precious boy gave me a hug....! Awwww.... sweetness!!

Awww... what a nice birthday gift from my boy!

Ben woke up around 5pm and I gave him some snacks for his tea time break. He had 4 small bananas and happily poked the banana slices and fed himself while watching a Doraemon movie.

Then hubby got home from his errands and we got ready to go out for dinner. We already booked a table at this Japanese buffet restaurant, they were having this promo where customers who are having birthday on the day gets to eat for free! Woohooo! We walked around for abit before heading to the restaurant... need to prep up our stomaches for the big feast! Hahahaharr...

I like the paper placemat! An inspiring story I have read before...

A: Potato salad for Ben. It's very delicious!
B: 2 prawn tempura & 2 pieces of fried sweet potatoes for me!
C: A mixture of tempura, fish, wantons for hubby
D: Udon, Japanese tofu and fried rice for Ben

E: Japanese tofu, a prawn tempura, a crabstick, some fried vermicelli (yummy!) & some spaghetti for me...
F: Some papaya slices, a piece of green tea cake & strawberry cheese cake and 2 Konyaku jelly (check out Ben's finger!)
G: 4 scoops of ice cream~strawbery, corn, chocolate & yam flavors!
H: Soft porridge and some fries for me...

There are other dishes which I did not get to take photos of cos' I was away getting my 2nd, 3rd, 4th helpings hehehe... I didn't get to snap photos of hubby's double helpings of lamb shanks, the yummy Miso soup, the delicious Chawan Mushi and the few more scoops of ice creams and some few more pieces of cakes for me hehehehe...

Ben lost count of the number of jelly he had...

All in all, it was a great day and I truly enjoyed every moment of it! Again, to those wonderful people who take their time to wish me birthday, be it via SMS or Facebook messages, thank you again, and may God bless you & your family! I leave you all with this beautiful phrase to start your day with...

“The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”

Read: Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV)

24 Awesome, Awesome Months!

~ Posted on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 8:30 AM ~

Yeap, today is the day my precious Benjamin turns 24 months old... aka, the TERRIFIC 2 stage! I choose not to even think of the commonly used 'terrible twos' terms as I like to think positive and I believe we as parents should think the best of our child!

So yeah, here's a glimpse to the 24 awesome, awesome months we went through with our dear boy. Mind you, I have a very, very large collection of pictures taken almost daily since Ben was born and so to choose only 1 to depict each month is quite a difficult task. There are of course many many more I would love to share with you guys but these will do for now... heheheh...

Some of the pictures are linked to some of my blog posts, so feel free to click on it to read more (and see more pictures!). Here goes:

Ben looking around...
Terrific Two!
Ben started gurgling and making cute sounds...
Terrific Two!

Ben started giving us cute faces...
Terrific Two!
 
Ben's 1st visit to his pediatrician...
Terrific Two!
 
Ben pondering about his future?
Terrific Two!
 
One in a million shot of Ben's 1st sit on his own!
Terrific Two!
 
Ben pulled me over and gave me a kiss!
Terrific Two!
 
Ben's surprise look as I snapped this shot!
Terrific Two!

 Ben enjoying live music...
Terrific Two!

 Ben signalling to daddy 'no, no, no'!
Terrific Two!

Ben showing mummy how he brushes his teeth...
Terrific Two!

Ben showing us how old he is...
Terrific Two!

 Ben with his cute teeth!
Terrific Two!

Ben, careful not to reveal too much...
Terrific Two!

 Ben enjoying his float...
Terrific Two!

Ben's 1st solo walk in the park...
Terrific Two!

 Ben having fun weighing himself...
Terrific Two!

Ben started his Sunday school!
Terrific Two!
 
Ben gazing up at me as I breastfed him...
Terrific Two!

Ben tasting the oil pastels...
Terrific Two!

Ben's 1st banana leaf rice meal!
Terrific Two!

Ben loves stickers!
Terrific Two!

Ben's 1st tantrum at Toys'R Us...
Terrific Two!

Bubble Head? Ben playing with his bubble gun!
Terrific Two!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and I pray for many many many more awesome months and years to come that we can spend with our cute little guy! What an exciting phase for him (and us) to be entering the terrific two stage!

Happy 2nd birthday to you sweetie!

Mummy and daddy loves you awfully so so so much!

Read: Psalm 112:1-2 (NIV), Psalm 127:3 (NIV), Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)

Weekend Family Outing at National Science Center

~ Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 9:41 AM ~

Hubby found out from one of his friends that there is currently a dinosaur expo going on at the National Science Center and we decided to check out the expo after having our lunch at home. Tickets for adults cost RM10 each while children under age of 4 goes in free of charge.

Now a bit info about the dinosaur expo:

"The Dinos Alive World Tour will be here in Kuala Lumpur from 1st December 2010 till 31st May 2011 everyday from 9.00am to 5.00pm. The tour will see 32 ‘life-sized’ dinosaurs including the ever famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, towering above you at a height of 16 feet. There is also an Apatosaurus measuring a whopping 23 feet! Other dinosaurs like the Stegosaurus, the Megalosaurus and the sly Velociraptor can also be found here at the exhibition."

National Science Center

"Oh my goodness, that T-Rex is trying to eat my son!!"

National Science Center

Daddy and Ben at a safer distance away from the menacing looking T-Rex...

National Science Center

Ben strolling happily by himself once he's away from the dinosaur exhibits...

National Science Center

Ben looking up, very intrigued at some aeroplane toys that moves using solar energy...

National Science Center

Ben helping daddy by pressing the button to release the 'rocket'

National Science Center

Who says it's an easy job pressing buttons?!

National Science Center

"I'm seeing double Ben, no, triples, no wait... how many of Ben are there?!!

My eyes! What's wrong with my eyes??!!"

National Science Center

Ben climbed up the tree house and played with some balls in it...

National Science Center

He also tried to lift up this dragonfly...

National Science Center

Ben managed to score some goals!

National Science Center

I love this shot! This is the roof of the National Science Center.

Ben was quite scared with some of the dinosaur exhibits though there are some that he doesn't mind touching and patting and he even said 'Hi' to some of the cuter looking dinos.

I think he enjoyed himself very much at the kiddy playground area and those non-dinosaur science exhibits, especially the one with the mirror tunnel which reflects multiple images of yourself when you looked through the mirror tunnel.

All in all, it was a fun family outing, though there are other spots which we have missed out at the center (those located outdoors especially) as we only reached the center about 3pm. We will consider revisiting the place again, more to check out what we have left out in this round.