Surprise from Sweden

Just yesterday when i opened my letter box to collect mails, i saw this brown color thick envelope & recognised the familiar hand writting... yes is from Sylvia all the way from Sweden. still wondering what is this for then i realised oh... is for my birthday gift ;)

So happy (^o^) to receive this pretty pouch with my name & a key chain. Thank you so much Sylvia for this suprise. Evan wanted to put the key chain on his bag as he said the present was for him .. haha... but still i keep it with the pouch for myself.

Evan's Surprise - HortPark

Evan is always not keen in writing & coloring. Even his teacher told us that he always dreaming, slow & last to finish his work in class. Guess is because of this reason, the teacher make a THICK booklet, five lines per page with "EVAN CHING" for him to practise at home.

This really drive me crazy and i think also making him even more hated homework because everytime get him to write will ended up me screaming & him crying. Think my grey hair getting more liao.

So to encourage him i printed a reward sheets forwarded to me from my sis. Do 1 homework, color 1 star. Will get a surprise if he completed 5 stars. So his surprise was HortPark playground. Is a very big park with lots of flowers, plants, trees, big open space, playground & a mini butterfly cage.

Teachers Day Gift

This is the 2nd time Evan celebrate Teachers Day. Really don't know what to get for the teachers so i bake chocolate cupcakes for them pack with a peaches.

As i was busy baking the cupcakes, Evan came & want to eat the peach. I told him later i will take the balance ones from the fridge & cut for him. After a while he ran away to play on his own. While packing the fruits which i had sorted out the nice ones, i suddely saw 1 with a "bite" :( Evan actually bit one the peache & left it there quietly. Luckily i saw it else will be so embarrassed if given to the teacher.

I am so happy with the cupcakes. This was the first time i got nice sharp cupcakes with soft & mosit texture. I realised whenever i added yogurt into my cake batter, it will turn out to be so mosit & yummy. I use the recipe from http://smallsmallbaker.blogspot.com/2008/09/devils-cupcakes-and-surprise-reward.html replacing half of the water with Meiji fruits yogurt. I will definitely bake more of this cupcakes for any gathering next time.

Shamin Princess Birthday

We had celebrated Shamin be-lated birthday on 29 Aug as the kids are sick & also lots of food from the 7th mth's prayer the week before.

As usually, she brought her dress, fairy wings & make up pouch for the birthday girl make-over. This year i did not bake the cake for her... too lazy & time consuming. So she got her favourite Princesses Ice-cream cake from Swensen comes in 3 flavours - Strawberry, Vanilla & Chocolate. Yummy...

I ask my prince whether he want a ice-cream cake for his birthday, he doesn't want untill he ate the ice-cream cake (he ate chocolate only) & after i told him got "Toy Story" picture. So you will expect to see me posting that for his birhtday celebration.. hehe

Evan's Baby Rocker

2 weeks back, hubby happened to clear out some stuffs from the store room & evan happily bring this baby rocker to the bedroom. He love it so much that he uses it everyday to drink his neinei while watching his favourite shows. I am thinking how to keep it back to the store room!!

Niece's Poem on her Little Cousin - Evan

我有一个小表弟
个子小小身体壮
好动调皮好可爱
喜爱歌唱打锣鼓
他有一个坏习惯
喜欢甜食不刷牙
满嘴蛀牙真逗笑

hmmm... how appropirate on how she described her favourite little cousin.

Chocolate Cream Cheese Marble cake

Finally got time & mood to bake a cake last fri 25 Jun after so many months. Only the i notice my cake flour already expired, no self-rising flour, no caster sugar & used up the last bit of the coco podwer for this cake. I tink is time to stock up again for my next bake.

I was on leave for 3 days last week for Evan dental treatment & i wouldn't want him to go through again. I was heartbroken to see him going through the 2 hrs process of putting him to sleep for treatment, woke up crying, groggy, lips swollen, mouth feeling numb & hand adminstered with needle.... he so scared with all these & struggling to get the needle off, dun want plaster, kept wiping his mouth etc.

finally he calm down after the numbness & groggyness subsided, he was back to normal except for slight fever & can't eat much with 1 front tooth extraction & all other fillings, nerves treatment & crowning.

I thought he would be fine for next 2 days but his mouth develops ulcers which could be due to some broken tissues during the treatment. He doesn't want to brush teeth or eat because of the pain and that last for about 3 days.

Now, he is feeling much better, more cheerful & able to eat more since ysterday. Hope the cavities won't come visit him again.

Brownie Cheese cake for Daniel Birthday

Last sat we had steamboat at my Papa hse & also to celebrate my nephew birthday. I baked him a brownie cheese cake with simply decoration using icing sugar & strawberry.

In order to gv him a surpirse, i did'nt tell him or the parents about making cake so they also bought him a Peach & Longan cake from Prima Deli.. haha. the more the merrier, he gets to blow & cut 2 cakes with Evan.... it looks like Evan's Bithday... haha he always sat infront of the cake even it is not his birthday!!

Kent Bridge Park - Cannon

This is one of Evan's favorite place because there are a few cannon along the way & this big one at the top of the park.

See the pictures... he enjoyed himself on top of the cannon & say want to be a "Army soldier"

There is a old cable car but i didn't take a nice pic of it.

Korea Trip 24 ~ 31 Dec 2009

here are some pic from my korea trip... only few from my mobile. mainly bulk still in hubby hard-disk, no time to get him to help me upload.

Busy busy & lazy lazy to blog!!!

i have not been blogging for the last 2 mths. simply too busy, tired & lazy to do it.

Mom's health is not good, has been in & out of the hospital since last Oct & now in ICU at CGH due to low BP & heart attack due to depression & weak heart. I pray & hope that she can get well & everything stable down so that she can be discharge before the CNY.

She has been cranky & wanting to go hm but really impossible for her to be off those drips & facilities to monitor her closely. Yesterday she even threaten my sis that if we don't let her go hm, she will roll out from the bed...

Even if she is out, we need to be extra carefull, make her happy & try out best to make her comfortable as she don't have any strength got even flip side or get up on the bed.

Hope everything turns out fine.

Carrie Birthday Party

This was the 1st interesting & fun birthday party that Evan ever attended. Though he does not know the birthday gal (DH huddy daughter) & other kids, he still enjoy himself very much.

The first thing that attracted him was the Fondant Strawberry Shortcake & cupcakes. Infact, all kids are so tempted to lay their little fingers on this cake as it look so pretty & yummy.

The interesting & fun part of the party was the artwork paintingt with teachers guidance. All the childrens get to choose either a wooden box, Halloween Latern or a Face mask. They all sat down for McDonalds Kiddy meals followed by the painting & pull string for the Sunflower pinata ... all kids are jumping ard for the sweets that dropped down from the pinata.

Little prince behaved very well thoughout these activities & he constantly keep a lookout for us while eating & painting..... scare that we left him there alone. We are considering to bring him for such artclass during weekend as he like it so much.

Marinated Guava

I came across a recipe using orange peels to marinate the guava ..... can imagine how refreshing & tastely it will be for these 2 combination.

This is really easy to make with just 2 simple ingredients: 2 Guava & 10 pieces Orange peels.

Method:

- Peel off the Guava skin & remove the seeds.

- Cut into slices abt 0.2cm thick.

- Cut the orange peels into thin strips (advise to soak for a while as i find it too sweet even i wash & rinse the orange peels)

- Mix the guava & orange peels & chilled it in freidge for few hours.

Simple & yummy.

Sept Bbs Birthday Celebration

Finally, the 3rd birthday celebration for Evan together with his Ah Gong, Jek Jek & Kor Kor. They are all Sep babies... so is really fun to get them celebrate together... hehehe.. and this was also the Ah Gong, Jek Jek & Kor Kor 1st & the last AEROPLANE Birthday cake (from eCreative).

We had lots of BBQ foods catered from BBQ wholesaler - chicken wings, kebarb, satays, sting rays, lamb & other dishes like porridge, beehoon, roast duck, siewmai, cream puffs.. etc.

Everyone was happy & busy eating & giving ang baos to all the birthday boys & gal....

Prince 3 yrs old Birthday celebration - 2

15 Sep - actual Birthdate for Evan. I had long prepared to celebrate for him in the child care centre with his friends.

This round, i ordered the Bob the Builder cake from Polar & prepared the gift pack for his to distribute to his friends.

When i reached the centre, he just woke up from this afternoon nap. He was delighted when I showed him the cake & all the gifts. The teachers are busy arranging the tables & chairs after all kids woke up & tidy up their mattress, pillows, towels etc... except for 1 little boy still sleeping soundly .... & he actually slept throughout the whole celebration ;D

While all other kids were sitting at other 2 tables together, the birthday boy sat by himself at the other table... hmm.. he must be so happy & feeling so special that is his turn to sit on that "Emperor Seat"... haha.

After all the birthday songs, he kept blowing & blowing the candles but they just won't go off.... all the kids & teachers were laughing. Everyone was happy with the gift Evan distributed out & they happily eat their cake for the tea break except for 2 twin classmates because they are allergy to eggs... so i must take note to order eggless cake for his next yr Birthday.

Thereafter, we brought him to Downtown East Kids Explorer, Mini bowls, Mini Ferris Wheel ride, Train ride & he was so excited when we bumped into a Dinosaur & Elephant giving out ballons. We are happy that he enjoyed hisself on his birthday.