Daryl, 宝贝长大和懂事了!

Recently, it is really obvious that Daryl have grow up and is more sensible in those little actions and things he did.

Some of the little cute, funny and sensible things/action he did :-

Monday - 28th Sept 2009 :
when he saw his daddy switching on his nursery song DVD for him to watch, he just automatically rush to the sofa to sit down and wait for the song to be play.

Sunday - 27th Sept 2009 :

Daryl keep me busy the whole morning by making me to take out all his toys from the study room to the living room, while his daddy is out for his weekly soccer game.

It come to a point where I was so tired and fed up with his 'nonesense', that I ignore him and refused to look in his direction when he was trying to ask me to get something for him on the dinning table. Then suddenly, he was all quiet and from the corner of my eyes, I saw him freezed his position, with his right hand finger pointing to the dinning table, right feet slightly lift up, and head slanted to his left and look at me. And when I turned to look at him, immediately, he give me a big smile and started making noise to ask me take the things for him.

He looked so cute and funny that till today his freezed position is still running through my mind and it alway bring a smile on my face.


Tuesday - 15th Sept 2009 :

These days, Daryl will ask us to switch on his Nursery CD when we are in the car, so we will on it for him when we pick him from his nanny's place. However, today I thought of listening to some radio so I switch to the radio after Shawn parked by the side and he went to buy his dinner.

Instantly, Daryl make some noise indiciating his unhappiness. I thought he just do not like this station as the host are chatting away and no song are being play, so I switch to another station and ask him if this is ok. Who know, he shaked his head. Then, I tried another station and ask him again and he shaked his head again. In the end, I tried all station and he shaked his head for all. Pissed off, I on his CD and ask him if it is ok, and guess what he NODDED his head.

My god, my little terror know how to choose what songs he want to listen to liao!!!


Sunday - 13th Sept 2009 :

as usual Shawn went for his weekly soccer game, leaving Daryl and me at home. We have to rush over for Isaiah's 1st Birthday Party once Shawn is back from his game.

Initially I was trying to coax Daryl to sleep so I can then cook his porridge and get ready for the party later. However, he refused to sleep. So no choice, I on his nursery CD for him to listen then I try asking if he could wait for me in his playpen while I go cook his porridge. Surprisingly, he nodded his head. So I quickly put him in the playpen and went out to cook his porridge, where throughout, he did not make any noise and was kuai kuai playing by himself in the playpen.

I was still not convinced that he actually understand what I have asked him. Thus, I tried again. This time, I ask him if mummy can go bath, again he nodded his head. But then he refused to let me put him in his playpen, so I say "You say ok for mummy to go bath, then you don't let mummy put you down. Mummy is smelly leh, can mummy go bath?" This time he let me put him down in the playpen after nodding his head again. While I was bathing, I noticed that again he did not fuss or make any noise.

Thus, I am convinced that he really understand what I am saying. Best of all is that if he did 'agreed', he will not fuss or make any noise at all. So now I can say bye bye to army style of bathing.

Saturday - 12th Sept 2009 :

as I need to go to Geok Peng's house to learn mooncake making, so I get my mum to come over to help take care of Daryl. As Shawn is getting mee hoon mee as breakfast, so he also buy my mum share too. When both of them are eating and feeding some to Daryl at the same time, they will ask him if he wanted before they feed.
Mum to Daryl : Do you want mee hoon? Daryl nodded his head and open his mouth to eat.
Mum to Daryl : Do you want mee? Daryl shaked his head and when my mum continued to feed him with the mee, he spitted it out.
Shawn to Daryl : Do you want egg? Daryl shaked his head and same he spitted out when Shawn feed him.
Mum tried mee hoon again, and Daryl will nodded his head and open his mouth to eat.

Conclusion is that Daryl understand and he love mee hoon!

Gathering cum house warming at June's house

With Serena, while the boys are on the gaming table, trying their luck.

Daryl keep uncle Jeremy busy!

Daryl wearing the Princess Bride veil.....hahahaha...

Shawn and Jeremy keep cool in the pool from the HOT weather.

June's girl have to hold Daryl down to take photo coz he keep wanting to cheong to the swimming pool.

Daryl playing with all the soft toys on June's bed.

kung fu Daryl?

The night before, our little Daryl suddenly start making sound similar to those kung fu master in the movies with hand action like practising kung fu. But we fail to capture in....then this morning, after he wake up, he start doing a 'mini demonstration' again and we quickly video it down.

JWT Free Trial Lesson

Big Thanks to Cheri for reserving a free JWT free trial ticket for Daryl which enable Daryl to have so much fun during the trial even though he is the oldest kids among all the others.

Daryl roll off the bed for the 1st time

Sometimes we will let Daryl sleep with us. That is between me and Shawn on our queen size bed. Especially when he is sick coz we need to monitor him mah. There are also times when he cried in the middle of the night and refused to sleep in his playpen then we will let him sleep with us.

Last night, as usually, he cried at about 12 plus 1am. Then he refused to sleep in his playpen, so I ask if he want to sleep with us on the bed and he nodded his head. So I put him on our bed. Initially was thinking of putting him back on his playpen when he fall asleep. However, I also fell asleep thus did not carry him back to his playpen. Then later in the night, Daryl started to cry, and Shawn wake me up asking if I put Daryl back to his playpen as he was not on our bed. I say no and we start to look for him in the dark. Guess where we found him??? He was at the foot of our bed stuck on the bed platform coz his playpen was right at the foot of our bed thus prevented him from rolling onto the floor. The reason why it took us sometime to find him is that he was wearing white and somehow blend in with our white colour quilt cover.

This is the first time he roll off the bed. Although he sleep like a little clock, he have never really roll off the bed, except for the other time when he sleep on the bed with me alone (think Shawn was away on in camp training) when he was on the edge top of those pillows used to block him from falling off the bed. We was both shocked and we do find it abit funny for him to be stuck over there. Then I started to wonder and ask Shawn did he actually roll off or did either of us actually kick him off there.

Anyway, after that, he was awake and he tried to keep me awake by keep on tapping me. Good thing is that he was blocked by his playpen thus did not roll onto the floor thus did not knock his head. Also, when we tried asking him in the night and in the morning again if he feel pain anywhere, he only point to his left feet. But he did not cried in pain when I check on his feet by squeezing it. Thus we assumed that he was not hurt by this little 'accident'.

1st attempt of making snow skin mooncakes

The pink colour is the strawberry favour while the yellow is the mango favour.


The interior of the strawberry and mango mooncake, showing the dried strawberry and dried mango.


Pandan favour with lots of melon seeds and double yolks.

3 favours of mooncake

We tried the snow skin mooncake Geok Peng made last year, so this year, Celeste and me ask her to 'teach' us , thus we arrange to go her house today to learn mooncake making. Together, we jio Erica and Karen along. We started making about 11am, and we are done about 1 pm plus I think. The whole process was fun and frankly speaking, it was not tough to make snow skin mooncake at all, just that mixing the ingredients and doughing the skin can really make one arms ache.

We make 3 favours in total. 2 favour of small mooncakes without yolk : (1) Strawberry favour with lots dried strawberry and (2) Mango favour with lots dried mango. 1 favour of big mooncake with yolk : Pandan with lots of melon seeds (I mixed the ingredients and dough the Pandan skin)

Geok Peng comment is that our mooncakes overall look ok and presentable, which is consider good for first timers. Heehee

The taste are also good. Most of the people who I did give them to try comment that it taste good and the lian rong is nice, not too sweet. Like me, most of them prefer Strawberry favour as guess it is because the dried strawberry add abit of sour taste to the sweet lian rong ba.

1st attempt of muffin baking

It done! Don't they just look delicious!


Hurray, the muffin are raising! And I am excited and happy!



This is my 1st attempt to bake muffins after getting the receipes from my colleague and also after I spent $120 to repair my oven which I have never used before, as think the heating part will get moist and will malfunction if never used for long time. Then the man who repair my oven told me that oven need to run at least once a month even we are not using.

I decided to bake today as my close freinds, Wee Nah, Grace, Lynn and her husband to be are coming over for lunch to have a small belated birthday celebration for me. No cake as it is belated and chinese belief is no belated celebration mah....muahahaa....

The result is that, the muffins look delicious however comments is that it is slightly too sweet. So next time I will cut sugar leh since I do add chocolate chips and rasin into my muffins.

Daryl's 1st Kiddy ride

Previously, we only let Daryl sat on the ride for fun, that is we did not put in any coin. Merely let him sit for sitting only. Today, on my Birthday, we decided to let him tried the 'moving' ride, and he really did enjoy his ride.