Gong Xi Gong Xi!

Happy Chinese New Year to all our friends and family, near and far! May this year bring much health, wealth, joy and happiness!

Funny Hannah

Hannah was scrolling through Hubby's phone when one of his contacts' profile picture caught her eye. Instantly she said, "Wah Daddy, Hello Kitty is your friend ah??"

Also, some time ago, we were having dinner at an Indian restaurant in town. Who knew that paper thosai could make such a good toy?

Funny lil' Hannah!

A morning at Gurney Drive

Besides taking Heidi to the beach for the first time, we also took her to Gurney Drive for the first time to have a stroll. Look at her happy face :)

She tried hard to keep up with her sister though.

 

As always, they are Daddy's girls:

Enjoying nature and the nice breeze:

Heidi always wants to be like her jie jie so she wanted to walk up as well after some time.

Free entertainment is always good - will definitely be back! :)

Fun at the beach!

We realised that in so many months, we had never taken Heidi to the beach before, even though we live in Penang! So during the long break that we had, we took one of the days to have a morning at the beach. In fact this was her second time, as during her first visit to the beach just a few days prior to that, we did not plan it and so were totally unprepared for it! She still had a ton of fun though, and so did Hannah.

The second time we were more prepared so armed with extra clothes, towels, beach toys etc. we headed for the beach again. Both kids were super excited, and this time, they even dipped their feet in the water.

Once Heidi had a chance to feel the water, she no longer wanted to play in the sand! I managed to get a nice picture of Daddy and his girls (after having buried Hannah's feet in the sand lol).

Hannah also brought along her bubble contraptions so after building sandcastles, they had fun blowing bubbles.

As expected, they did not want to leave, but as it was time for lunch and it was getting hot, we had to go. But we will certainly be back! 

Happy January!

It is now the 3rd day of 2014, and we enjoyed a good long break from work after Christmas. We didn't go anywhere, but just took the kids around Penang and stayed home and rested :)

On Christmas eve, we had dinner at our friends' Kok Hsiang and Chia Yin's place and our kids had a fun time playing and running around with their kids. Believe it or not, all the kids managed to stay up until 1 am plus when everyone finally left! I changed Heidi into her pyjamas earlier and as expected, not even 5 minutes in the car, she was fast asleep.

Heidi and Sean posing next to the Christmas tree in their Santa hats.

On Christmas day, the kids woke up past 11 am (not surprising considering the time which they slept) and the first agenda of the day was to open their presents! Just look at the happy faces :)

Later in the day, we had potluck at MIL's place and the kids had a gift exchange. I haven't had time to transfer the photos from our Nikon DSLR, so no pictures for now!

Will blog more about what we did during our long break in another post.

5 days to Christmas!

It's just another 5 days to Christmas and I haven't even bought all my Christmas presents yet! The kids must be wondering where are all their presents under the tree heheh ;)

Speaking of the tree, my parents helped the girls put up and decorate the tree when they were here in November and now it's Heidi's favourite point of attraction when taking photos.

Lil girl with her cheeky grin :)

Christmas festivities are everywhere, but we should always remember the real reason for the season.

From our family to yours, have a blessed Christmas and happy 2014!

My little sister's engagement

My little sister Adeline recently got engaged, and this was her fiance Robert's first trip to Penang. They had an engagement party in Australia early last month, so my parents thought it would be nice if they could have a small party here as well with our families. As expected, lots of photos were taken :)

Family portrait before leaving the house:

And here is our family. Heidi seemed more interested in the food. The theme was "Batik" so most of the gentlemen were decked in their colourful shirts.

Heidi being the youngest one there was made a fuss of by both sides of grandparents. Here is my dad with his youngest daughter and youngest granddaughter :)

Heidi with both sides of grandparents:

And she had fun playing with her little cousin too!

Hannah found some friends to play with too!

We ordered an engagement cake from Jan's, the same person who made Hannah and Heidi's birthday cakes this year. It was not a beautiful cake, but it was certainly delicious!

And we had the mandatory whole family photo before the night ended. Both girls were getting tired and cranky by then, hence Hannah not wanting to look at the camera.

Congratulations to my little sister Adeline and Robert! Looking forward to the wedding ;)

It's December again!

I realised I haven't blogged much this year, due to the busyness that is life :) And believe it or not, it's December again, how time flies.

Over the weekend, we took the girls to Queensbay Mall to have a look at the Christmas deco, and I must say that the mall has certainly stepped up this year in comparison to past years. The Christmas display at the centre court was enough to set the kids off with "oohs" and "aahs", or like Heidi would say, "wow!" And what would be the use of admiring the pretty decorations without some pictures?

Later on, we had a drink and something to eat at Coffee Bean (Citibank platinum cards 20% off - good deal). The girls love their cake and hot chocolate, so they were competing as to who could be the biggest "dinosaur". Hannah is bigger, so definitely her mouth can open wider, but Heidi is not too far behind!

We also took the girls to watch Disney's new animated movie "Frozen" and this was Heidi's first time in a cinema. We were contemplating whether or not to bring her as we were not sure if she would cry or make a fuss when inside.  After all, Hannah was almost 3 years old during her first time at a cinema. Surprisingly, Heidi sat still on her Daddy's lap without making a fuss and ate her bread (which I smuggled in lol) and some of her sister's popcorn. Also I suppose Disney princess movies appeal to girls of all ages (myself included :p) so all 3 of us enjoyed it (not too sure about Hubby though haha).

You can check out the trailer here.