An elderly woman knitted this cuddly toy!

Very lovely... Nanny gave Lily May this teddy as one of the Christmas presents. Love the colours and love how it feels when I hold her.

This teddy looks very 'homely' and I instantly fell in love with it. Just the other day, I was flipping it around trying to find where it was made, hoping to find her name too, but could not find any labels. So I asked nanny where she got it from. To my surprise, it was hand knitted by an elderly woman, whom she looks after on her day-care job. The woman is in her eighties and I she loves knitting on her free time!

It is good to know that someone made this with love, and we are loving it as much as the woman who knitted it!

Rock N Rolla Cow!

During the day, refuse to get down after a few rounds...

Still think it is a lot of fun!

Ride on it for a few more rounds before going to bed!! (..and he thought he looked cool with a cap on but in his pajamas, oh dear! He put the cap on himself and wanted me to take a picture, how cheeky!)

Jinc's favourite ride-on toy for the moment, the Rock N' Rolla cow. It is a Christmas present for Lily May from Sugar's colleagues. But Lily May is still too young to play with it. Its wheels can be taken off, and the cow will become a rocking cow instead.

Jinc prefers it with the wheelie way, and he could just wheel around our lounge in the 'fast n' furious' style!! It looks quite funny when he is speeding by just holding the tiny cow's ears!

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Lily-May is eight months old!

Not a good week, Lily May has got a temperature, due to teething. Therefore, she could not sleep well during the night, and neither do I.

Dreadful to see her feeling uncomfortable,my poor baby. She also has some rashes around her cheeks, neck, chest and a little bit at her back. It is teething rash as well. Been giving her Calpol and hope she feels better soon.

Just can't wait to see her first tooth cutting through...

My girl...

Lily May is such a happy baby. Too cute!

Lily May, my sweet heart,you make me happy every day.
Words just cannot describe my love for you.Your very existence is a dream come true. I love you unconditionally!

Home, faraway

We are going home to Malaysian in March, to celebrate my brother's wedding!

Also, one good reason for a holiday abroad. It is going to be our very first family holiday with two young children. Very looking forward to it.

It will take us at least fourteen hours to reach home by an aeroplane. Too far, and I wish, one day I could live closer to my family, and closer to home, fourteen-minutes-drive will sound ideal!

Looks like I am having a bad week!

The washing machine in the house decided to stop working, and it is no way for me to do a hand wash!

Can you imagine how bad it is going to be for a house with two young children to survive without a washing machine, and it is winter!

Thank God I have got nanny's help, and we are doing the 'washing-run' on the weekend. Will take the washing to hers and collect it the next day!

Hope the new machine won't take long to arrive!

North Face

The winter sale is on, just can't resist hunting for bargains.

Sugar browsed some websites the other day and bought ourselves a North Face body warmer from their official site.

Sugar got the black one, and I chose to have the brown one. We received the parcel today. Very comfy and practical, just what we wanted. I think it looks very nice on me too! The best part is, it is 20% off the normal retail price. What a bargain!

Amazon has some really good bargain for North Face too! Check it out!

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Jinc is a winner!

Got an email from Petit Filous. It is a winning notification. Jinc has won in the Little Rascal Competion by Petit Filous for the month of November 2011. The prize is a £50 Boots gift card. What a nice little surprise!

I have totally forgotten that I have entered this competition. As always, Petit Filous is Jinc's favourite. Now, we have another good reason to love Petit Filous. Have blogged about Petit Filous previously too and did not expect to win anything. Just enter for fun.

To see Jinc's winning pic, click into the Little Rascal winners page!

Very good start for the new year, and hope that in this new year, we get to win many more things! 2012 is going to be a winning year for us!

Happy New Year!!!

It's 2012, Happy New Year Everyone!!

Love 'HomeSense'

Simply love HomeSense. We have a HomeSense in our town, and we love to shop there for little things to add to our home.

Been getting some good finds every time we go there. Until today, I still love the Missoni throw that we got from there in 2009.

These days, I love HomeSense Blog, it is very inspiring, it is my 'feel good' blog at the moment!

Diarrhea

Jinc has diarrhea. My poor baby! Wondering whether it is the orange. He had just had half of the navel orange, which is quite big for a toddler boy!

Been getting him to the toilet three times now. It is good though as he is using the toilet seat trainer, save me cleaning his bum with all the dirty nappies. But I will expect some dirty nappies to come along soon.

Well, this is my very first time dealing with a child with diarrhea. I do not want to feel panic, it is very common in small children. I have just read some good advice on the web, one of them is to have some yogurt. So, I am giving him some yogurt, and I will stop giving him his bottle of milk for the moment.

Hope he gets well soon. I will have a very busy next-few-days, I reckon! A not-very-good ending for year 2011 huh?!

Work from home...

I am a stay-at-home mom. I have got two young children, and just because of the high childcare costs, I am left with no other choice but to take a career pause. For me, I think it is such a big change to give up my full time job and stay at home to look after my two young children.

I am looking around for some online jobs that I could do just to make myself feel like I can be a work-from-home mom! I have just enrolled myself to Amazon Associate programmes. I hope this will help to generate some 'pocket money' online through my blog. This is a trial and also a first step for me to feel 'work' other than housework!

So, if you think you kinda like browsing Amazon, or regularly make purchase through Amazon, feel free to click on the Amazon banners, or use the Amazon search engine, or to buy things by clicking through to the Amazon page.

Still feeling festive....

Christmas is over, but I am still feeling festive! Too much of Christmas puddings, perhaps?

Love festive seasons and celebrations!...and now I am so looking forward to Chinese New Year!! It is another year in a foreign country where most of the people here do not celebrate the Chinese New Year. Does not matter, as we are having our own celebrations and enjoy the differences just because we are in the United Kingdom!

Just in time for Christmas...

All the parcels arrived this morning!
Impressed with the speed of delivery through online shopping!

Big thank you to the postman too!

Jinc's first quad bike, a gift from Uncle Kim

Bits n' bobs

What a lovely ride, complete with safety gears!

Jinc's favourite uncle, Uncle Kim bought Jinc a quad bike for Christmas!

It is a red battery powered quad bike. Jinc is delighted and he just cannot wait to ride it. He did help Uncle Kim to set up the quad bike. It took them about half an hour to set it all up. Uncle Kim made sure the battery was fully charged a night before, so that Jinc could ride on it on the day that he brought the quad bike to our house.

Big thank you to Uncle Kim!

Want some Christmas pudding?

I am having this festive mood, so happy!

Sugar will have three days off for Christmas, not a lot, but we are looking forward to it.

We will be over to nanny's on Christmas day, so, lots of food, wine and presents!

Christmassy

Christmas is only a few days away...

We bought more things for Christmas, it is online Christmas shopping, hassle free! Hope all the items will arrive on the 24th!

Sugar bought a pair of Tateossian cufflink for himself. This is his second gift to himself, he bought an EA scarf from House of Fraser last week. He bought a Mango winter jacket for me, it is a blue belted coat with hood. I saw this in House of Fraser but they had nothing in my size, so he got it online for me. He also bought a Dorma duvet cover set for our bed.

As for the kids, we got Lily-May a Recaro carseat in girly pink. Lily-May has moved a size up and cannot fit in her infant car seat anymore... we bought Jinc a transporter set (toy), and it comes with eight little cars as well.

Can't wait until Christmas!!

All ready for Christmas, this year, we are going to spend our Christmas Day at nanny's, just like last year's. She is our English family, and I just can't wait to see them all.

Little friends....

It is always nice to have friends coming over for coffee and a chat. It is even nicer if they have got young children. I love to see Jinc plays with other young children and make friends.

I would think Jinc is very sociable at his age, and he can get along well with children around his age. They can play really well together although Jinc is still at the learn-to-talk stage. They tend to communicate well with each other. I wonder how, but it seemed so natural for them. It is wonderful to see him interacting with other children and have lots of fun.

Just the other day, Helen came over to our house with her two little ones, Ed and Annie. Jinc was happy to play his toys with Ed and copied funny actions that Ed did to him. He laughed so much and it was really great to see Jinc playing with his little friends!

Lily-May is still too young to play with the boys, but she did interact well with baby Annie. Smiled a lot and responded to us when we called her name.

I simply love having friends around!

Tastebuds

Will be gone in seconds!!

Lily-May has started solids for about a couple of weeks. Oh, this girl is a real foodie! She loves her food and would try every new taste that I offered to her.

She is so easy and I am happily making pureed baby food. Pic shown a bowl of pureed carrot and Lily-May loves it!

It is a new stage for Lily-May, to acquire tastes. I am, again, preparing batches of pureed food and freeze them. I love doing this... I also love seeing Lily-May clearing the plate on each meal! All the hard work of preparing baby food is well worth it!

A pink pushchair for Lily-May

Wanted to post this when we bought this buggy for Lily-May about eight months ago! I keep forgetting!

Well, it is Maclaren Techno XLR, in girly pink, how wonderful! Bought it from Mothercare and it was on sale.

This pink pushchair is specifically bought for Lily-May. I dismissed the idea of getting another pushchair for Lily-May as we have already got one and a Quinny pushchair as well. I am more than happy to let her use whatever Jinc used before. But, Sugar insisted we get a brand new one for our daughter, and this Maclaren is simply perfect, and I really like it as it comes with a foot muff, just perfect for cold weather.