Snow Skin Mooncake Making!

We had so much fun last weekend making our own DIY snow skin mooncake. Special thanks to Atria Shopping Gallery for organising this workshop for parents and kids.

Instructor showed clear step-by-step instructions on how to complete the mooncake before we start making our own.

Each of us get to make and take home 1x big + 2x small snow skin mooncakes. I'm the one who's more ecxited than my gal! 😂 Though the steps are pretty straight forward but it takes time and some skills to perfect the shapes.

We were rushing through the process so that we can get back in time to her next session which is her swimming lesson. Too rush that i forgot to note down the ingredients portions so that we could make at home again. 😭

Anyway we love it totally and enjoyed he whole time of making it. Looking at the mooncake we completed it's so satisfying. Once again bog thank yoi for having us! 💗

Best Western Hotel: A Scrumptious Christmas Feast

SkyZ Pizza

Traditional Slow Roasted Whole Turkey

Red Velvet Cake and Ginger Bread

Prawn Skewers with Tomatoes

Marmite Chicken Boxing

Cocktail Chicken Satay

Chef Sabil

We had a chance to spend a special night out at Best Western Hotel: A Scrumptious Christmas Feast. Blend yourself in the festive spirit through the mouth-watering spread prepared by Chef Sabil and team. 

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Oven Roasted Seabass with Olive

Christmas Eve Buffet Dinner
6.30pm - 10.30pm

RM88nett for Adult
RM44nett for Children (Aged 5-12 years old)

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RM2 from every purchase of christmas Eve Buffet Dinner will be donated to a charity organization.

Activities through the night:
Santa Clause
Stroller Band
Attractive Lucky Draw

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Inspiring Orchid: Women Empowerment Conference 2016

Here to be inspired!

Herbaline Spa Party

Like a sparkling hidden gem in Puchong, Herbaline alongside with its Mama Kim, bring you affordable quality service and delicious healthy treat. 

"It's our vision to bring these quality in a very affordable price range to the middle class consumers," said the co-founder, Mr Liu, as his wife and him, strongly believe that it shouldn't just available for the rich. 

Much needed spa fix! 

Surround yourself in zen in the Sea salt spa room, detoxifying and truly relaxing. Apparently it helps cleanse away radiation from our body too. 

Rinse off after the salt spa. 

As you can see here, the fishes are pretty hungry! Strongly recommeded. 

Passion fruit tea served right after the spa treat! @herbalinemy where you could also fix your daily hunger treat with their signature healthy meal 🍵🌿 

Love the combination of this starter. 80% raw salad with 20% chicken, just enough to satisfy the meat eaters but they get to eat more vege too! How brilliant is that!

https://youtu.be/OI5c6mMR8H8

The must-try signature Sauna Mee from Mama Kim. Best to go with their homemade chilli paste!

And I won a voucher of Sauna Mee for 2 pax! Thank you Mr Liu, thank you Herbaline! 

Pure lemongrass tea served warm after the appetiser. Love this!

The dessert? Black glutinous rice soup with an option of coconut milk topping. Just nice for the happy ending. 

My summary, definitely coming back for the sauna Mee and the spa treats! Best to enjoy with besties or your another half. Not to mention that Mama Kim is so family oriented too. 

Grown Up Princess

* changed out of her pjs into her dress 

* brushed her teeth 

* filled her cup of water

* fetch the jam from fridge and made her  strawberry toast 

Did all these in the morning while she's alone and i was busy in the toilet. 

The little gal has grown. 🌈👧🏻

Katznsuch Beauty & Nail Spa

A babe friend of mine recently back to KL for good with her mom, and good news for us, because they opened a nail spa in town!

After so much of busy schedule, I finally popped by to check it out and get my nails done.

And the service? Superb.

Do check out their facebook page here: Katznsuch Beauty & Nail Spa

Baby Foods: Organic Yogurt & Cheese

When it comes to baby foods, mothers are always particular, myself included.

So much of reveal on the cow farms these days and how they feed, hormones and stuff. I wouldn't want my baby gal to consume any of those things into her tiny little body.

Hence, organic range is sort of my choice but it's not easy to find them locally.

Lucky enough, I stumbled upon a distributor in a farmers market. Check out the address below, if you'd like to order for yourself. Best thing is, they provide local delivery too :)

Greek Yogurt

Greek Yogurt

Feta Cheese

Feta Cheese

Work. Work. Work.

Today my gal asked me a question that left me stunned and immediately felt my heart wrenching. 

As my Claire Organics is catching up with the expansion plan, I have loads of meeting filling up my weekends lately. As well as today, which I have to rush off for 4 meetings right after her morning music school. 

So while saying goodbye to her before leaving the house, she asked:"Mommy, why do you always go to work?"

Stunned, speechless, heart-wrenching, and all sorts of emotions rushed in. What a good question which I asked myself too, sometimes. 

And I noticed how much she's grown. She longed for my companion and my absence has been affecting her a lot. That wrench my heart so badly.

She's never fail telling me that she misses me. It's now for me to have a better arrangement so to make sure that she's not neglected by this careless mother.  

I love you, baby. 

I alway will. 

XOXO

Weaning: Bottle to Cup

I'd say it's been sooooo long since my last post about my little baby's milstone.
Now that she's grown so much, and started school (OMG!))

Anyway, today marked another milestone.
We've successfully wean her ff bottle, well, at least for morning.

Well done, baby!

Making Friends!

Darling is now having so much fun in her music class with her fellow mates whom she meets every weekend. That's after only a few classes of getting-used-to and a bit of crying when she wasn't used to the sudden switch from having us as her companion in the class, to a solely independent class. I'm proud that she's adapting really fast and now a little chatter with her friends!  Even feedback from her instructor Ms Jenny was pretty positive. I also encouraged her to sing a song to Ms Jenny after each class which she only did it when she's in really good mood. Though Ms Jenny was really impressed :)

Lots of credit goes to Ms Jenny and her assistant Ms Ee Von. They encourage and guide her with lots of attention which I'm really thankful for. And of course or Kindermuzik, I'm strongly recommending it to all parents :)

Happy 31-month-old to my Darling!

I'm so guilty that I've been too busy and missed joltin down her milestone which happening in lightning speed. 

The next thing I know is that Darling turns 31-month-old already! The newborn that I've cradled and woke up each night to breastfeed is now a young little girl. I'm so glad that her nature is very cheerful, outspoken, talkative and creative as I do not want her to take after me who's quite the opposite!

Potty Training

Darling's totally an expert now handling both pee and poo very well. Before doing the business, she will raise alert to the people around, then get her potty ready, pull down her pants and sit down on it. One of the great milestone of learning self-care skills. But I'm struggling to shift her poo routine from bedtime to daytime. It's really inconvenient to poo upstairs as she doesn't have towel after washing. And it disrupt her bedtime too. Anyway, I'm glad that she will inform me,"Oh, oshi! Oshi!" Then she will get her potty ready, remove her pants and nappy, sit down and get her business done. I'm proud. 

Speech

Darling can pretty much say anything she wanna express quite accurately. She observes and learn to speak like us so well by picking words up immediately. Sometimes when we will say it with a different word or misheard her word, she will repeat the word by saying,"See my mouth, beautiful!" That's exactly what we did when we teach her pronunciation. So cute and hilarious! 

Singing

We've exposing Darling to piano at home just to see how much she likes it. And her music class is going pretty well even sometimes can be quite boring for her. We will be upgrading her to the 3yr-old class for next semester. Gotta prepare her to be independent soon!

Manner

As much as we can, we remind her by showing her how to request for things with manners. Magic words like please, no thank you etc. She learned to say when Grandma cooked her chicken drumstick,"Thank you PoPo for the drumstick!" She practice it very well without us asking! 

Just last weekend at the park, she's happily popping bubbles as a family is blowing huge bubbles. Kids ran towards the same huge bubble so accidentally she and a toddler sort of knocked at each other. Then she ran back to me and I told her nevermind it's ok. To my surprise, she walked to the gal and say sorry! That's really great and I hold myself from telling her there's no need to apologize for the accident cuz I didn't wanna stopped her good manners practice. Eventually she will be able to judge what's right and what's wrong :)

Tantrum

Tantrum is the major challenge now in her terrible-two stage. She will grab forbidden things and refuse to release, even by exchanging or persuades are hard! She will wail and scream at my parents and just ignore anyone who tries to console her. 

I'm against body discipline but when other babysits, it's out of my control. And I rather try time-our method. But so far there's no opportunity to try it as she's listening well and calm down each time we explain to her and divert her attention to something she likes. 

Meal

Darling is no longer using her high chair for meals. Reasons are she's kinda hard to be fit into the high chair and Mom is no longer able to carry her up. 

So I implemented the manual seat belt for her on the adult's chair. As much as we can, we try not to let her walking around during mealtime. Otherwise our effort of training her from young will be down the drain!

Dancing

Last Sunday was Darling's very first Ballet class. I bought the groupon voucher without checking it's actually for 4yr old and above. So we let her try anyway. Starting well with the friendly instructor. Norra seen that it's kinda fun thing to do with the bigger sisters and enjoying quite a bit. It doesn't last long till the loud music started. She turned to me and wanted to cry, walked to me and never wanna go back to the group. Half way when the music stopped, I managed to convince her and she's actually walking towards the instructor again. When the loud music started playing, she turned back immediately. Oh well, I guess she just has to give it a few more classes to warm up. Though, she's still the cutest ballet dancer ever! :D

Mommy love you more each day!

xoxoxo

Playdough Day!

It was intended as a practice before putting her hands on the real thing :)

I'm glad that it came out well, Darling showed quite a bit of interest in making cuppa cakes! Especially when I showed her how she can explore on decorating them :)

Masterchef presented her creation of the day! :)

Preloved - to let go

Tommee Tippee: Closer to Nature Baby Food & Bottle Warmer

Preloved Tommee Tippee Electric Breast Pump

Used only less than 3 months

Let go price: RM200

(Inclusive of shipping within Peninsular Malaysia)

Tommee Tippee: Closer to Nature Baby Food & Bottle Warmer

Preloved Tommee Tippee: Closer to Nature Baby Food & Bottle Warmer

Used only less than 5 times

Let go price: RM90

(Inclusive of shipping within Peninsular Malaysia)

- Warms food and bottles within minutes 

- Designed especially for food jars and the Closer to Nature bottle 

- Thermostatically controlled for safety 

- Suitable to use from birth

Reason to let go?
we're only discovered to use cups to manually warm up breastmilk as we only bought it before baby is born. Whichever is more convenience for you 

Damansara Utama House To Let

Damansara Utama, 2-Storey Terrace House To Let

[ HOUSE TO LET ]

Damansara Utama, 2-Storey Terrace House
Partially furnished, 4 Rooms & 3 Bathrooms
Rental: RM2,000/month negotiable

Interested to view, kindly contact us at:
Kitt 012-315 8002
Louise 012-657 0337

Darling is 28-months old today!

Happy 28-months old, my Darling!

My then little baby is now a beautiful young girl. You've grown so much beyond my expectation. 

One of the most obvious area is speech development. We can no longer talk secretly with a foreign language in front of you. Oh wait, we can still use Malay as of now. Even that, I suspect you can actually understand too! 

Bedtime routine, we're still struggling. For the pass month. You've done pretty well in self-soothing to sleep a few times. I let you tire yourself to bed so it's late by the time you dozed off. About 11pm to 12am. But most of the time, you cried and insisted for nen nen till I couldn't bare the heartache and nurse you, even though there's nothing left in my boobs. But we're figured that when you have some milk before bed, you will doze off much easier and sleep through the night. 

Tantrum. You've developed something really awful of late. Each time you cry, you will scream. That shocked me the first time I saw it. Couldn't help but wonder how or when did you pick this bad habit up? Undoubtedly, it's for attention. But it's too much to ignore it when you use the tactic. I can just constantly reminding you on how horrible and misbehave it is to scream. Or, should I try any other punishment method like wall-facing or guarantine? Till then, nothing works yet. 

Emotion. I never knew my Darling can be such a sentimental little gal as such a tender age. It all started from your music class few weeks ago. It was a bonding session, light dimmed, soft music was playing. And I hugged you in my arm, we cuddled. Then you started sobbing, I wasn't sure why was it but to soothe you at the very moment as all your classmates were enjoying bonding time with their parents, it wouldn't be nice to interrupt them with your cry. So I was telling you, "It's ok, Darling. There's no need to cry, Mommy's here. Mommy sayang." Then you're crying even louder. But when we quickly went into the next story session with the light on, you're fine again :)

So now, each time you're about to cry in front of me, you will look at me in my eyes, pout your little lips with teary eyes. You know how to make use of it now! 

Mommy's so proud of you, despite all the handfulness, it's just means that you're smart and what's more to ask for, right? 

Luv ya,

Muah 

World Breastfeeding Week

Breastfeeding Week Sharing Session:

Nurse in Public (NIP) : 
- how was your first time nursing in public? where was it? were u nervous or confident? 
- how to overcome the clumsiness of trying to do so many things at once i.e. unbutton your nursing bra, take put the nipple, lift up your shirt etc? 
- words of advice for new mums to make NIP a breeze?