Kimi at 4 Months' Old

Date: 2nd January 2010

This day marked baby Kimi Fourth Month’s old (on Chinese Calendar). Parents-in-law and grandma came to KL to visit us one day earlier so that they can help Kimi to do a small ceremony at home. A day before this, in the morning, parents-in-law had some prayers back at Taiping house to make known to the God that our baby Kimi is 4 months’ old already. So they brought us some of the prayers’ food to eat when they travelled to KL in the evening.

Normally Kimi will sleep until 11am. Hehe... But on Saturday, we woke up Kimi slightly earlier to do a little ceremony for him at home. MIL bathed him and we put on a new shirt for Kimi. Hubby needs to put Kimi in a baby walker as part of the ceremony. This is the first time Kimi sits on the baby walker. He seems to be very curious over it. After that, grandma performed the ceremony for us to see and followed. Hehe... This is the first time I saw, so I was very curious and excited over it. We tied up 12 pieces of biscuits with a red string and put it on Kimi’s neck and then fed Kimi with some of the food that we had prepared. Each of the food has its meaning for itself. But of course, grandma just touched the food a bit on his lips coz Kimi is still too small to eat those foods yet. Haha :)

A short video clip on the ceremony to share ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUhaPYzTLdw

~ Our family photo ~

~ Some other photos took on that day ~

~ We missed out this step in the morning. Hehe... So at night only did it for Kimi ~

Wish Kimi always be a happy and healthy boy!!

~ F@rewell 2009 and Welcome 2010 ~

~ HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 TO EVERYONE !! ~

~ My wishes for Year 2010:
Hope Kimi can grow up to be a healthy boy;
Hope Hubby can always be happy on his job and earn more money;
Hope Me can always be a good wife, a good mummy, a good daugther and a good daugther-in-law;
Hope my parents and parents-in-law can stay strong and healthy;
Hope everyone surrounding us can always be blessed with happiness! ~

Today is the final day in Year 2009... Last night didn't have good night as Kimi fell sick. He was ok in the day, can play and smile. But donno why during night time, around 8pm onwards, he seemed like having some minor flu and a few sounds of coughing. Hubby came back from work seemed like blaming me why didn't take good care of Kimi. Well, I don't really know how to answer him as it also hurts me as much when I see Kimi does not feeling well :( Anyway, for now, the most important is Kimi can get well very soon ~

Pity him, cried from 9 something till 11 something, carried him also cry, sat down also cry, walked him around also cry. We almost drove to Pantai Hospital after called them up since Kimi non-stop of crying. But finally found a position which he is comfortable with, so I stood up to lean him against me and put him to sleep on my chest. After that, hubby helped to feed him with some water and milk. Perhaps he was too tired after a long cry, he fall asleep when drinking his milk. So we decided to let him sleep and see how it goes on today. Luckily, he was ok when we put him to sleep on bed. He slept through the night until this morning woke up at 7am for his milk time.

This morning woke up, Kimi still has a bit stuffy nose and can hear a few sounds of coughing, but he no longer cries like last night. Maybe today he feels better after a good night sleep. He still can play and can finish up his milk. Just that can see from his face, he is a bit tired. But thank God, he is alright now!! Hope he can recover faster and be a healthy boy ~~

~ A few of Kimi photos when he was in KL staying with us. This coming weekend, Kimi is going to be Fourth Month's old ~

Ken & Janice Wedding

On Christmas day, hubby and I flew back to Pontian to attend my cousin's wedding. Ten years of relationship, finally they tied their knot on 26th December 2009. Everyone is so happy for them!! Congratulations to Ken and Janice!! You have all our best wishes ~~

I like family gatherings all the time. Whenever there is any big occasions, we will definitely gather all together and have a big gathering. This round also... All of us, no matter where are we, all gathered back at Pontian for this cousin's wedding occasion. We woke up as early as 5.30am, get ready to reach our 'Fourth Auntie' house by 6.30am. The bridegroom will leave his house at 7.30am to pick up his beautiful wife. As his 'heng tai' teams were made up from our own cousins, made this event even livelier, coz we made jokes and talk non-stop all the time. Hehe :) Ken only engaged a videographer for his wedding, no photographer. So all of us are his photographers of the day. Even the 'Tai Kum Chei' is also our fifth auntie, we call her as 'Wu Yi', my mum younger sister. Everyone has a role to play. During the wedding dinner, all of us helped out on the stage decorations, putting up the seats numbers, arranging for wedding favours on the tables, guests book signature and also acted as usher as well... Really enjoyed for the whole day!

I heard my brother told me before, some of his friends don't even know who are their cousins... don't even know what are their names or don't even bother about family gatherings. This make us treasure our family relationship even more. We really feel so blessed to be in this family where everyone is so close to each other ^_^

Looking forward for the next big gathering again!!


~ Congratulations to Ken and Janice once again ~ Wish both of you happily ever after!! Hope you enjoy your honeymoon at Bali ~

~ Merry Christmas To Everyone ~

Few days ago, I was so surprised to receive an email from The Picture Company. They told me they that came across my blog the other day and was delightfully surprised to see their company being mentioned in my blog! To show their appreciation to me, they emailed me 3 web photos of my session with Kimi and a Christmas e-card. So sweet and thoughtful of them!! Thanks ya ~~ Hubby and I like the photos very much!!

~ Today is Christmas Eve ~~ Wishing all my friends and families, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays !! ~

Winter Solstice Festival

Today is the Winter Solstice Festival or The Extreme of Winter and in Chinese we name it as '冬至'. This festival can consider as one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Chinese besides Chinese New Year. When I was at my younger years till now, my grandma and parents will always tell us, after we eat the 'Tangyuan' (湯圓), we will grow one year older... This day is also a day for Chinese family to get together and make 'Tangyuan'. Then of course, after cook it, we will eat together. My grandma used to tell us, these 'Tangyuan' or balls of glutinous rice symbolize reunion. That is why today is very important to us as well.

So, last night, hubby and I made some 'Tangyuan' at home. Hubby only likes to eat the simpliest type which is cooked with sugar water. So I cooked the way which hubby likes it and eats together with him. Hubby helped me to roll the 'Tangyuan' into balls. So nice of him... Feel so warm when we eat it together. This morning woke up earlier to cook another batch again as today is the actual day of eating 'Tangyuan'. Hehe :)

~ The 'Tangyuan' we made at home ~

'HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL' to everyone !!