Malacca

Over the long weekend, we were at Malacca together with my extended family. We were there basically to shop. During hubby's last trip to Malacca, he tried some very nice food and he is determine to bring us to try them. And there we were at Malacca! We tried Cendol, Carnation milk crab, kong ba bao, chicken rice balls. Yum Yum the food is definitely worth the trip there.

Hubby has not been into shopping ever since we got married. He would rather stay in the hotel room with the girls or his PSP. There isn't much shopping for me on this trip. I had like only 2.5 hours to shop. So basically we only eat and stay in the hotel room for this trip. However the girls had great fun in the hotel. As we had adjoining room, they had 2 rooms to play with. They ran around, played with the bathroom blind, hid wardrobe and pretend play with the safe, and watched plenty of cartoon.

Nicole feeding herself as the chicken rice ball restaurant as she just can't wait to be fed


View from our room. My cousins in the pool.

Daddy & Natalie bonding over TV


Daddy & Natalie bonding in the wardrobe



Natalie & Nicole just woke up & watching cartoon

Heroic Rendezvous

Aren't this cute. They seems to look like our girls.

This picture makes me want to draw.

Moments from Kelyn & Mavis's Blog

Their yi-yis have been taking quite a bit of the girls' photos and posting on their blogs. Lately I have not been taking their pictures and hence "kop" some from their yi-yis' blogs.

Nicole performing

I love this picture!

Kelyn yi-yi & Nicole

So-called Fabulous Mavis yi-yi & Nicole

Mummy tries to bake

Kelyn & Brandon are coming to our place to celebrate their birthdays. Instead of getting a cake for them, i wanted to try baking cuppies for them.

Hubby is telling me that I should not try on someone's birthday celebration, what if it doesn't turn out right? I was thinking the worst case scenario would be to rush out to get a cake.

Anyhow, i tried and with some help whipping out the icing. The cuppies turn out okie. They tasted nice and more importantly the cuppies are especially made for my dear cousins and they are happy!

While Nicole is busy entertaining our guests, Natalie help me to put on the rainbow rice and flower. She is good at it. I shall bake more often with my girls.

Pictures courtesy of Kelyn's blog

Sharing

Natalie's definitation of sharing it let Nicole touch the item and then ask it back. Nevertheless she allows her mei-mei to touch. And when asked to she will let her mei-mei play or eat the thing. Sometimes she is will get something else to divert her mei-mei's attention.

When we are shopping she won't forget to get an item for her mei-mei. For instance, on her weekly visit to 7-11, she will pick up 2 Hello Panda and says 1 for Natalie and 1 for mei-mei. Without fail she will definitely get something for Nicole whenever anyone want to buy her something. I'm glad that she is taking care of her mei-mei.

Nicole on the other hand defines sharing as giving to her jie-jie. It may be since young she has been giving in to her jie-jie. Lately she starts to aware that she has to fight for her rights too thus she sometimes resist in giving in. But there are times that she is more than happy to give in to her jie-jie. She must love her jie-jie to bits.

Our 2nd Zoo trip

This is our 2nd trip to the zoo and I must say we covered so much more than on our 1st trip which is daddy's company's family day.

Arrggghhh, the weather isn't good today. It rained the moment we stepped on the zoo's ground. We took refudge in KFC, having our lunch while waiting for the rain to stop. The rain never really stopped. It rained intermittenly and make walking around the zoo difficult. We have to get poncho to get around. Natalie doesn't want the poncho went around with her hat and umbrella.

Because of the rain, we are unable to watch the Sealion, Manatee and penguin show. Natalie is all excited about penguins, and it is something that I remembered waiting when I was at the zoo when I was a little girl. Lucky we managed to catch the zoo's latest show before the rain starts again. The girls are excited to see the primates and birds climbing / flying above their heads.

Most of the time we are going around on the tram, I lost count the number of times that we went around the zoo. The first round, the girls are excited to see the lions, kangaroo, zebra and giraffes. From the 2nd round, it is more about the tram ride than the animals. Highlight of the day is when Natalie saw 2 bats hanging on top of her while we changed her. She is so frightened and can't wait to jump off.

Daddy mentioned that it is so cumbersome to take the camera in and out with is poncho on, so there isn't many pictures for this trip.

She knows how to spell her name

I was looking through her homework and saw that she can actually wrote her name. I am so proud and amazed that she can spell and write her name when we did not even teach her.

Lately she is learning how to surf websites. We will on the PC for her and load Disney playhouse website. She is able to navigate and play the games on the website. Nicole will watch as her sister click through the site for her. It's time to get her a cutie mouse that fits her hand.

A simple piece of fun

Last night, Natalie came up with a creative idea of playing with her blankey. She got everyone to hold on to her blankey and flip it up and down. It's similar to what she had played with the parachutes during her tumbletots lesson. Amazingly she remembers.

Everyone has to hold on the blankey. Her simply tired papa did not want to participate, but Natalie went on to tickle him and get him involved. Both the girls can't stop laughing when they sit below the blankey and their papa flipped the blankey violently up and down.

It's only a simply piece of blankey but our girls have such fun playing with it. I totally agree with what their papa said this morning, our girls don't need expensive toys, all they want is our time and love.

Bird Park

Papa managed to get a pass to the Bird Park today and off we go to the Bird Park. Grandpa and Grandma were we us too.

The bird show broke the ice for Natalie, she was insisting to go home the moment she stepped into the park, but after hearing the parrot sang Rasa-Sayang, she changed her mind. Nicole on the other hand can't wait to get into the Park.

Papa with his 2 princesses in tow

Nicole looking sexy in her Pumpkin Patch top

Yakult break at the cafe

Argghhh lories on my head

Grandpa feeding the lories

Up close and personal with the lories.

Doesn't she look cute with her hat?