In the mood for the Jubilee weekend!

Red, blue and white on the Union Jack!
Iggle Piggle has the matching colours, and not forgetting his red blanket!

My mum's birthday...

Today is my mum's birthday. Unfortunately, she is in the hospital. She has undergone a minor knee surgery, and according to the doctor, she is fit to go home tomorrow.

Not an ideal way to spend her birthday this year, anyway, happy birthday to you, ma! Love you and wish you best of health!

Olympic Torch Relay 2012

The 2012 London Olympic Torch Relay is held from 19th May to 27th of July. Torchbearers will carry the Flame through more than 1000 cities, towns and villages across the UK.

The torch relay arrived in Worcester yesterday, and Sugar's boss, Mr Frankie Tsang was one of the 8000 torchbearers. What a proud moment for him , to have this once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I have also just found out that LeeHom Wang (王力宏）is one of the torchbearers too. He is the only Chinese/Asian star chosen. He will be carrying the flame through Manchester on 23rd June 2012. Click below to see his torchbearer's nomination story:

LeeHom Wang

Now, just cannot wait to see its opening ceremony on 27th of July!

The twelve-month vaccinations

At the GP surgery waiting for her turn...

Took Lily-May to her twelve-month vaccination this afternoon. Oh my, she was given three jabs:

• Hib/Men C booster. Given as a single jab containing meningitis C, third dose and Hib, fourth dose.
• MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), given as a single jab
• Pneumococcal infection, third dose

She was so brave, she started to cry when the third jab was given, and then I comforted her and showed her some toys to distract her. She stopped and back to her old self again when we got back to the car.

Well, at least now there will be no more jabs until she starts pre-school.

At home, and still my happy baby!

Bouncy castle

Bought a bouncy castle to put in our garden so that Jinc and Lily May get to play outside more. Not sure how long the hot weather is going to last, and let's be hopeful!

The bouncy castle is bought from Tesco costs £79.99. It is very easy to inflate, and it comes with a handy storage bag too, which means we can bring it to nanny's house to set it up in her garden too!

Some bouncing fun!!

Blogger on the go!

Just downloaded this blogger app for Iphone. Hope this will encourage me to post more frequently.

One milk

This scene of having two different tins (types) of baby formula milk has come to a stop. Nowadays, there is only one tin of the same type on the kitchen table top.

Both Jinc and Lily-May are having the same type of formula milk, the toddler milk. Babies grow up really quickly, or rather the time passes so quickly and I hardly ever notice. From the newborn infant milk powder to follow-on milk, and now, both of my children are having toddler milk.

I still breastfeed Lily-May, only in the night....and I am still not sure when I will stop breast feeding. I feel that this is happening too fast, and soon, there will be no more shopping at the baby department! Will I get used to all these, or there will be another baby coming along?

Pictures, pictures...

I am taking so much pictures of my two little ones, every week.

They grow up so quickly and I really enjoy taking their pictures. I love looking back at those picture a few weeks later, or sometimes a few months later. Yes, those are precious pictures, as time passes so quickly and we can never turn back time. I feel truly grateful and privileged that I am a stay-at-home mom, I am always with them during every stage of their development milestones.

Motherhood, is simply wonderful.

Sugar can cook!

It is wonderful to have a husband who can cook better than I do.. For the past few days, Sugar has been the chef of the house and I am one very full-tummy mummy!

How I wish he could cook more regularly and make me put on weight!

Here is one very yummy steam seabass pic...Impress?

It's Instagram Sunday again!

Sunny Sunday, like!

FInally, I can hang my washing outside

Ah, sunshine!

I love to hang my washing outside. We have a tumble dryer at home, and it is such a great help during the cold weather seasons. Been using it so much, but as much as I would prefer, I would always love to hang my washing outside.

Today, it is my very first time in 2012 that I could hang my washing on the washing line in our garden.

Hope to have more days like this...

Jinc's ticker says....

I like Lilypie tickers. I have just updated it.

The ticker says, Jinc is 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks & 2 days old (today). Wow!!

9pm, and all to bed!

This is heaven, both babies are in bed! It is 9.00pm!

It's been a long day, so glad that I can have some quiet time, yet I am feeling sleepy now. Just don't think I can do much.

To all the tired mothers out there, good night and sleep tight...

Instagram Craze!

Been using Instagram a lot these days, to randomly upload pictures of my two babies and my home cooking meals pictures.

Fun, in a way, and it is also my biggest procrastinator during the day!

Fantastic Birthday Celebration!

We had a lovely birthday meal last night at a Thai restaurant called the Thai Rama, at Colwall. Food was average, perhaps we have got high expectations. The service was very good, very baby-friendly.

Anyway, a fantastic night with the 'grand parents', and Uncle Kim. A good 1st birthday celebration for Lily-May, her first birthday cake experience!

If you fancy some Thai food, please check this out:
Thai Rama
Walwyn Road
Colwall
Malvern WR13 6QX

First shoes experience

Took Lily-May to Clarks to have her very first shoe-fitting. Got her her very first pair of proper walking shoes, although she cannot walk just yet. This is an important milestone for her. I hope she will grow up like most girls do, loving shoes and shares her interest in shoes shopping just like her mommy!

When it comes to shoes, you are spoilt for choice (mommy's quote)!

The shoe-fitter measuring Lily-May's foot

Which one?

Looking stylish in her new shoes

We received the keepsake photo of Lily-May in her first shoes, a fit check reminder card, a first shoes book and a height chart. All will go into Lily-May's treasure box!

Later, we went to M&S and got her a cute little cardigan and a dress for her birthday too!

Will be going to have a birthday meal with Lily-May's English nan and grand dad at a Thai restaurant later this evening.We have got the birthday cake ready, and let's just hope the food is good!

Lily May is one today

I just cannot believe how time flies.

It is already one year since I hold my wriggly new born...Lily-May turns one today! Happy birthday to you, my angel. I love you! I just want you to grow up happily and healthily, forever my baby!

Instagram Sunday..

Simply love Instagram. It is such a brilliant invention!
Here's one for today:

Missing every one at home....

It's been two weeks since we come back here to the UK. Missing every one back home in Malaysia. Even Jinc and Lily-May miss their grand parents, aunties & uncles and cousins!

Me Time!

It's 10pm, totally exhausted when my two babies have finally gone to bed!

Now, some time to myself, whether to do some reading, browsing the net or tidying up our dining-cum-study table, it is ever so precious. Hard to get quiet time like this when I have two demanding young children.

I guess it is time for me to sort out those pictures taken during our five weeks holiday in Malaysia.We took close to 3000 pictures during our five weeks stay in Malaysia, including those from my Iphone.

Love taking pictures, and sharing pictures. We used to print out photos and keep it in a photo album. With digital age now, photo taking has become so common and unlimited. I wonder how many people do actually print out photos to keep in an album. I do, honestly. I will choose those photos that speak and print them out to be kept in my ever so precious photo albums!

Here is a pic, mom and I, taken some 34 years ago, in the seventies! Glad that it is a coloured photo. I think I look so much like my mom, and Lily-May looks so much like me too! Wonder whether Lily-May will have a daughter who looks alike her in the future?

Happy Mother's Day, to you, my mom! and to self too!

Food Navigator

Yes, this is very interesting.

Food Navigator
for things you need to know about ingredients, nutrition values and food science. Click on the Asian edition for equally interesting information about food.

More rain...

Sneaked out to town to get some jogger pants for myself while Sugar looked after the two little ones. Parked at the river side car park as it was the nearest to the high street. I only had one hour so I got to be clever with my time.

Saw that the high water level at the river, due to a lot of rain for the whole week. We used to walk along the river side, admiring the swans and the good weather. Now, it is flooded, literally. But I could see the swans were enjoying themselves!

Oh, I also love sneaking out for a quick shopping all by myself!