Josh @ 10.5 months

This is one of the typical night whereby Josh would still be active and crawling around at 10pm (Kids here sleep at 730pm!).

Enjoying a good cuddle. . . while Papa takes a break from studying.

Countdown: 1.5 weeks more to go

Anna's ballet

Last week we had a glimpse of the dance routine put up by the girls. It is meant for the year-end performance for the Pre-primary class.

Anna is the third girl from the right, probably the youngest in the class. Its lovely to see that she is enjoying ballet and learning the jargons eg. plie, pirouette, arabesque, mermiad dance, pointe work etc etc.

Our Kids

On the wall in the lounge:-

A live-size cut-out of Anna (done at school), flying a kite (made for mid-term break 3).

Baby Josh crawling (not sure if its the right size but Frank drew it while Josh was crawling). Anna has the privilege of drawing in his eyes, mouth and hairs.

What will he be next time?

Well, my prediction for Josh is that either he will be a vegetable-seller or an environmentalist (cos he always play and mess up the bag containing the plastic bags).

As I spend quite a fair bit of time in the kitchen, Josh has discovered some fun things to do at the same time:

1. The box of ginger, garlic & onions - he would take and toss the items out of the box, sometimes he will have a taste especially the onion skin, which he don't quite fancy.

2.The paper bag holding the plastic bags for trash.

3. He would dig his finger into the gap of the oven. Once, the finger came out bloody. So we had to tape it up. Still, he never give up, been trying to dig through the masking tape.

4. The box containing flour ie. rice flour, tapoica flour, sweet potato flour (all for making my Kueh) - again toss them like toys and the other night, he managed to bite through and had flour all over his face and clothes and onto the floor. I think we took a pic of it (will blog later).

5. The box containing Frank's exam burnt mid-night oil supper/snack ie. Indo-mee, Korean noodles, instant pasta, Vita-Wheat.

Well, you think all these can keep him occupy?

New Paintings

Anna is proud to be the artist of the 3 paintings that she did with Papa. They had some inspiration from a painting book that I borrowed from the library.

She actually wanted to do a forth painting but Frank was too tired and asked to take a break!

Do we look alike?

The Threesome whom I cook, feed, clean, wash.

Most importantly, whom I love.

Lanterns!

What is Mid-Autumn Festival celebration without lanterns! These lanterns were brought back all the way form Kuching.

The kids thorougly enjoyed themselves. At some point, they were setting up fire. . .

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

We had a celebration of mooncake and pot-bless at one of our cell member's new house.

After a very yummy dinner, mooncakes and tea, we had a wonderful time of worship. Notice that our cell's children consists mostly of girls. Nonetheless, they always enjoy each other's company.

Found!

As I was looking through the pics, I stumbled upon this folder that Frank created. Apparently, it contains pics from his camera. This picture was probably taken in Jul/Aug, when it was still cold.

That was the last time we had a picnic at King's Park. Have not been there for a while. I wonder what have we been doing?

Josh @ 9.5 months

It was about this time that Josh started to stand without support. Initially for a few seconds, but now he is much better at it.

He has yet to take his first steps. He will always stand in front of us, pause - will he take his first step?? - NO - and start crawling towards us.

He is quite into crawling. . . when he sets his eyes on something, he will crawl with very much determination ie. with head down (as tho' running in a race). Its quite a sight!

Dinner. . .

What do we do during dinner? Dinner is usually at half past five and often we would be at the table for a good one hour.

1. Frank will feed Josh while I get Anna's food ready ie. cut the meat and vegetables into smaller pieces.

2. I will start having dinner first with Anna.

3. Once Josh is done, Frank will join.

During this time, Josh will remain in the highchair and he would be munching away some cereal/biscuit/anything that he sets his eyes on.

4. I will finish dinner and start cutting up fruits for Anna and Josh.

5. Anna and Josh will be enjoying the cut fruits. They both love pear and kiwi at the moment.

6. Frank will finish dinner.
We used to have dessert after dinner, but trying to cut that down. I also used to have a cup of tea after dinner, especially good during the colder months.

The next thing that usually happen is Josh will poo-poo and Frank will wash him up. Often, Josh will return to his chair and I will give him yoghurt to finish up his meal.

So you see, by the time we clear that table and get everything wash up, its almost 1.5hr!

Hair-cut No. 2

Josh's hair was getting long and Mr Tay-Barber can't wait to practise his skills, afterall its his second boy's cut.

Its a pity I did not take any photos of the first hair-cut. F just did it while bathing Josh. Apparently Josh was moving quite a fair bit and got his ear cut! Poor baby. . . altho' he did not cry, I was rather taken back by the amount of blood produced by the small cut.

This second try was much better and the barber was also a lot more careful! HA!