Inspiring Orchid: Women Empowerment Conference 2016

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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! :)