Ah Mah's birthday

Last Sunday was Ah Mah's birthday, so we had two celebrations - one on Saturday night and another on Sunday itself. I wore a pretty new dress which Mummy's boss bought for me. So before we left the house, I had a short "modelling" session :)









The dinner on Saturday night was at Everyday Supreme Restaurant at Red Rock Hotel. See how I am enjoying my noodles:



Daddy and I:



On Sunday we had lunch at Tianyi Restaurant (opposite Loh Guan Lye Hospital). We had never tried this restaurant before. As usual, at Chinese restaurants, I love the boiled/steamed peanuts which they serve as appertisers. In this picture my mouth is full of them :)



I also had a good time looking at all the fish in the aquariums. One of the fish almost jumped out of the aquarium, so it was quite exciting.



Family picture:



I was very interested in the cake - look how pretty it is!

Swimming time...or maybe not

This is what it normally is - a pool filled with balls:



...until the day Daddy had the brilliant idea of doing this! I think he was too lazy to bring me down to the swimming pool :p



So I "swam" here and thoroughly enjoyed it! I brought some balls, my baby tortoises, some toys and had a jolly good time splashing around.



I even "washed" my hair with the water from the tap - I could pretend that it was a waterfall I suppose :)



How fun!

A Piggy Story

Yesterday Hannah had her afternoon nap together with Hubby. She woke up first and went to play in her own room. I was outside in the living room. After a short while she came running to tell me something:

Hannah: Mummy, Daddy do like pig (makes a snorting sound)

Me: (??) Huh? What do you mean, Hannah?

Hannah: Daddy like pig! (makes the snorting sound again)

Suddenly I saw the light...

Me: Oh...come show Mummy how Daddy do like pig (chuckling to myself)

Hannah gestures me to follow her.

Inside the room, we listened intently. I then had this conversation with Hannah:

Me: Hannah, Daddy is snoring, not doing like a pig (but come to think about it, she was not really that wrong either - sorry Hubby! :P)

Hannah: (giving me a puzzled look)

After a slight pause:

Hannah: Daddy is "snowing"?

Me: No, Hannah, not snowing, "snoring".

Hannah: Daddy is snoring.

Me: Correcto! (Hannah learnt this from Dora :p)

So she learnt a new word yesterday and the snorting/snoring sound really put us into stitches when I told Hubby about it later on.

Cheeky little girl :)

Room improvement

Last weekend, Daddy did some redecorating to my room. Since I was small, Mummy carefully kept these foam alphabets and numbers so I that I could use it to learn when I am bigger. If I had been allowed to play with them earlier on, there wouldn't have been many pieces left!

So Daddy stuck them high up on the wall (I definitely can't reach them) for me to learn my alphabets. I know certain letters but not all, so hopefully by looking at them everyday, I can learn all the alphabets soon. Daddy also hung up my gigantic Christmas stocking, since Christmas is coming soon!



Another angle of the alphabets:



As for the numbers, Daddy stuck them below my wall clock, so it looks like a big balloon :) I know almost all the numbers by now.



My colourful foam mat has also been shifted near my bookself, so I like to sit there and look at my books. Next to it is the musical playmat which I can also sit on. It doesn't make music if I don't switch it on.



Daddy also bought this for me from Toys R Us with a gift voucher which we got. I chose it myself and I call it "Ball Ball can stick!" :)



We also got this and Mummy stuck on the letters for me. It's hanging on my room door. "L. Hannah" because "Lim Hannah" was too long and just "Hannah" was a bit lopsided :p



My Angry Birds bedroom slippers - I like them very much!

Gifts for Hannah

Hannah received a lot of nice gifts lately. Here is what she got from our friends Szu Fu and Hooi Lee, all the way from the UK.



Pretty hair-pins:



She insisted on sticking the "tattoo" stickers on her face, one on each cheek :)



Like this:



Our cheeky, happy little girl:





Oh, we got this from them too - Scottish shortbread, my hubby's favourite :)



Hannah has some more presents coming to her next month. My sister in Adelaide bought her some dresses and my parents will bring them back to Penang when they come in November. Aren't they nice? Hannah says thank you to Ee Ee!

Little Translator

In my previous post, I mentioned that Hannah can converse in both English and Mandarin and she knows how to segregate to whom she speaks both languages to. Recently, she has also become my "translator". I don't speak Mandarin fluently, but I am able to understand everyday conversations in Mandarin. However, now with Hannah, she can tell me what people are saying :)

Example 1:

At New World Park for lunch the other day, she was eating her chicken rice and listening to the conversation on the other table (not kaypo, okay, she is observant :p). The old lady was scolding a little boy (probably her grandson) in Mandarin because he was climbing up and down. Hannah turned to me and said "The aunty scold the boy bu yao pa - she said cannot climb".

Example 2:

We were in our apartment lift and it stopped. A little boy and his mother got into the lift and they were conversing in Mandarin. He was asking his mother about an umbrella. When they got off the lift, Hannah asked me "Mummy, where is kor-kor's (big brother's) umbrella?"

Example 3:

We went to have dinner together with my in-laws at a coffee shop and there was a pile of sand nearby. She excitedly went to step in the sand when I came back from ordering the food, she was happily telling her grandparents "wo wan sa!". When she saw me, she told me "Mummy, I play sand!"

English and Mandarin aside, she has recently taken a liking to the childrens' programme "Dora the Explorer", and I think the show teaches the kids some Spanish words too. So the other day, she asked me, "Mummy I want to watch Dora say (some random Spanish word which I have no idea what it means)". Looks like I am going to have a little senorita on my hands :)

We once went to a restaurant and the waitress said that Hannah looks like Dora. Can you see the resemblance??

My two-piece percussion band

Since Sarah and I live very close to each other, we sometimes go to each other's house to play. Some time ago, she came over to play with me and we had a lot of fun making "music" together (Mummy calls it "melodious noise :p). Daddy was playing the guitar but as he told Mummy not to take his picture, you can't really see him in this video. It was still quite early and I just woke up, so I was still in my pyjamas.




Now that I am 2 years and 4 months old, I am much more independent and vocal. I can now wear my own shoes, but still need help with my socks. I can communicate and verbalise very well, both in English and Mandarin. I speak English to Daddy and Mummy and Mandarin to Ah Mah and Ah Gong. With everybody else, it's a mixture of both, so Mummy says I can talk "rojak" very well too! :)

Sometimes I am naughty, so Daddy and Mummy discipline me, but I somehow cry harder when Daddy disciplines me compared to Mummy cos Mummy says I am "Daddy's girl". But they always "sayang" me again after that, so I will promise to be good, even though very often I forget and am naughty again! Mummy says it is a phase of the "terrible twos", so hopefully it will pass soon!